After rebirth, I rejected the rich yandere lady

Xu Musen smiled and shook his head.

"No, it's you who has good fortune, how many people wish to take care of a beauty like me but never have the chance."

Yao Mingyue tilted up her gorgeous cheek, quite vain, but she indeed had the qualifications to be vain.

"Xu Musen, since we are so familiar with each other, so in sync, so suitable, won't you consider choosing once more?"

"Yao Mingyue, since we understand each other, you also know that I won't give up the person I like. Nuannuan is very good; she has also waited a long time for me, loving me without reservation, and I will never leave her."

Xu Musen's tone was very calm, but the calmer it was, the more it signified his earnestness.

Yao Mingyue's eyes drooped, those phoenix eyes harboring emotions others couldn't understand. After a moment, she again revealed a smile that was somewhat bitter and wistful.

"Xu Musen, I hate you..."

Xu Musen looked at her, silently scooping up a spoonful of soup to continue feeding her.

Yao Mingyue didn't drink, her gaze fixed on Xu Musen, watching the motion of him feeding her soup.

Still, she opened her mouth and took a sip.

The sweet, warm soup seemed to dispel some of the bitterness in her heart as she looked at Xu Musen, her emotions churning in her eyes.

"But, I'm also growing fonder of you. Do you know that? The reason I liked you to begin with was because of your stubbornness, I like that silly side of you that, once you're committed to someone, you never let go..."

Yao Mingyue's eyes gathered some shining moisture, looking at Xu Musen, her gaze seemed to overlap with that of Brother Musen who once held her in his embrace.

In reality, he was still him, and he had become even better.

"You've also become better and better. I too liked the lively, adorable, mischievous, a bit willful, tsundere but actually very attentive Xiao Mingyue."

Xu Musen slowly began to speak.

He took a tissue, gently wiping the corners of her eyes.

"It's just that the road ahead is long. It seems to me, you should learn to love yourself first, and I also feel that you've already found some clues how to."

As for Yao Mingyue, Xu Musen actually never harbored any resentment toward her; the matters of their past life were also his own choices.

Yao Mingyue had always loved him. Maybe her love was too obsessive, distorted, even turning and hurting Xu Musen.

But from beginning to end, she loved him, and she had changed a lot.

Especially, that moment she unhesitatingly jumped into the cold lake water, it was also the first time she dared to confront her own inner demons.

Thus, Xu Musen still hoped she would lead a better life, or at least, that she would manage to find her true self.

Yao Mingyue gently grasped Xu Musen's hand, her voice calm and serious, "Xu Musen, just like you, when I was most sad, most helpless, it was you by my side, liking me unreservedly, taking care of me for so many years. I can't change the fact that I like you, I will learn to like myself properly, but also, I want to learn to slowly like you...".

Yao Mingyue's mouth curled into a smile.

"I know, speaking like this now seems very shameless, but I don't care, and I'm not in a hurry for your answer. You liked me for so long without receiving an outcome; at the very least, let me give some back to you."

The two of them silently looked at each other for a long time; Xu Musen didn't answer, nor did he try to persuade her like he used to.

"Alright, it's getting late, thank you for taking care of me today, I'm still very happy, and you should go back too."

Yao Mingyue's tone shifted, saying cheerfully to him.

Xu Musen nodded, stood up, and walked towards the door.

At the doorway, he paused his steps, and Yao Mingyue followed closely behind him.

Behind her was the exquisitely decorated, yet lonely and cold room, and she was like a little cat curled up in the vast villa.

She could only wait every day for someone to come and see her.

Loneliness had always surrounded her, and perhaps it was for this very reason that she felt such an acute lack of security.

Yao Mingyue had just now smiled and told him to go back, but Xu Musen could tell by the careful steps she took that her heart was not at peace at this moment.

"What's wrong?"

Yao Mingyue saw him stop, and her lips drew back into a smile, "Don't want to leave? Then beg me, maybe I'll be merciful and let you stay..."

She didn't finish her sentence.

Xu Musen stretched out his hand and gently flicked her forehead.

"Get some good rest. Come to my place for breakfast tomorrow morning. I'm planning to make some red date glutinous rice cakes. If you come late, there won't be any left."

Xu Musen also revealed a smile.

The forced smile on Yao Mingyue's face paused, and as she looked at Xu Musen, those deep emotions at the bottom of her eyes seemed to sweeten with the words "red date glutinous rice cakes," becoming sticky and gooey at the bottom of her heart.

"If you dare not leave any for me, you're dead meat! I'll have Auntie spank you!"

She huffed, just as capricious and unreasonable as when she was a child.

Yet her smile at this moment was exceptionally soothing to behold.

Their eyes met, and they smiled at each other.

"Good night."

Xu Musen walked out of the villa's gate and was just about to turn the corner to head home when a voice suddenly came from behind him.

"Xu Musen!"

Xu Musen stopped in his tracks and turned around.
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The night wind was cold, but the bright moonlight gave a touch of warmth to the skin.

Yao Mingyue leaned on the low wall at the entrance of the villa, her upper body sloping over the edge of the wall, her hair flowing with the wind. The moonlight on her fair cheeks made her look even more pure and flawless.

"It's so cold, hurry back inside."

Xu Musen saw that she was only wearing a thin dress.

Yet Yao Mingyue was holding her cheeks, her face blooming with a … somewhat girlish, shy, expectant, and nervous smile.

"Xu Musen, do you remember you once said you owed me a favor?"

Of course, Xu Musen remembered. From that last time at the milk tea shop, he had promised Yao Mingyue he would repay her well, and she had stored it up as a condition.

"I've made up my mind, will you accompany me on a trip in the next couple of days? You have to listen to what I say."

Xu Musen looked at her. Those carefully prepared words of hers could actually be summed up in just two words.

Xu Musen looked at her, under the moonlight, her body shivering slightly with cold, but her smile remained. Only the hand lightly holding the fence revealed her anticipation and nervousness.

"Okay."

Xu Musen turned and left.

The curve on Yao Mingyue's face grew slightly, and only after Xu Musen's figure disappeared did she whisper with a smile.

The moon was hazy and the night no longer seemed so cold.

"Good night..."