After rebirth, I rejected the rich yandere lady

Mom beat me up after finding out.

Thinking back on the past, Xu Musen also felt a bit sentimental.

"You could have reminded me too, my hair was almost roasted, and you didn't make a sound."

"I didn't want to damage your confidence. Some people, when they got angry in the past, wouldn't eat for a whole day."

Yao Mingyue thought of the Xu Musen of the past, still a childish ghost.

Xu Musen laughed. The him from before was like most boys, mischievous and naughty, unable to do anything right, always making a mess of things despite trying to help, and yet he had a pretty strong sense of pride.

He'd "fast" in protest or run away from home at the slightest dissatisfaction.

"Those are all things from a long time ago."

Xu Musen spoke softly, his technique of drying Yao Mingyue's hair now far more skilled than some Tony stylists.

In their past life, Yao Mingyue would always nestle in his embrace after a shower, letting Xu Musen dry her hair for her.

Her hair quality, her preferred temperature, the strength he used to smooth her hair, he mastered it all perfectly.

Yao Mingyue hummed in comfort, like a content little kitten getting its fur stroked by its owner.

"Musen, I always feel that no matter what it is, you find the perfect way to make me comfortable. Do you think we might have been husband and wife in our previous life? Otherwise, how could we have such perfect understanding?"

Xu Musen paused slightly with the hairdryer. In their past life, they really were husband and wife.

"Let's focus on getting through this life first. Being childhood sweethearts isn't so bad, and changing roles might not necessarily be as fitting."

Xu Musen said softly, feeling a bit of nostalgia in his heart.

Yao Mingyue didn't respond to that statement.

Her back was to Xu Musen, but she slightly leaned back into his embrace, "Musen, thank you for the porridge you made me today."

"It was no trouble at all."

"But how did you remember the timing of my... that?"

Yao Mingyue felt a little flushed, as such matters were very private for a girl, and she didn't recall ever telling Xu Musen.

Xu Musen couldn't tell her the reason he remembered that date so clearly was that, in their past marriage, those few days of the month were when he could finally take a break from sex.

Before marriage, a hurdle; after marriage, a savior.

"I remembered it back when I was chasing you like a lovesick puppy."

Xu Musen made up an excuse on the spot.

"Pfft..."

Yao Mingyue couldn't help but laugh, finding this way of chatting very enjoyable.

"So now that I'm your little lovesick puppy, should I also remember your..."

Her voice trailed off, her beautiful face blushing slightly, her eyes sly.

Xu Musen put down the hairdryer.

"I'm going to take a shower now."

Xu Musen stood up and headed to the bathroom.

"Oh, you can drink some of the water on the table if you'd like."

Xu Musen added.

On the table, he had casually prepared a cup of brown sugar water.

Yao Mingyue watched his retreating figure, feeling as if today, with the two of them at home, eating together with him making porridge for her, and him drying her hair after a shower,

it felt as if they were married and living together.

Yao Mingyue truly wanted to preserve this moment forever.

She got up, took the cup of brown sugar water, and went to the bathroom door.

If she entered at this moment, turning uncooked rice into cooked rice with him, perhaps it could become reality.

But now, she wasn't afraid of a little pain, but she was slowly discovering more of Xu Musen's qualities that she hadn't had the chance to appreciate before.

Yao Mingyue looked at the bathroom door, touching her soft, fluffy hair that had just been blow-dried.

Forget it, good things should be savored bit by bit.

At the very least, he was no longer rejecting her outright like before.

They could gradually get better.

She took a sip of the brown sugar water, sweet.

...

After his shower,

Xu Musen returned to the bedroom to find a cup of water still on the nightstand, also reddish, with some goji berries soaking in it.

There was also a note underneath the cup.

"Here's your return gift, you should really replenish yourself~૮・ᴥ-ა"

Xu Musen set the note aside, did his robust body really need to drink something that middle-aged people would typically consume?

It was just hateful!

Xu Musen lifted the glass and observed it carefully for a while, it seemed there was nothing else in it, but he still didn't dare to drink it.

Once bitten by a snake, one is scared of a well rope for ten years.

Xu Musen watered the small succulent pot on the bedside table a little, then lay down to rest.

In the middle of the night.

The wind was fierce and the sky vast, the drizzle intensified a bit, wild winds began howling outside the villa, which was good in all respects.

The only downside was that in the vast empty room, if only one or two people lived there, it could really be a bit creepy late at night.

After all, the nearest neighbors were a hundred meters away.

The trees outside the window, whipped by the wind, creaked and shook, slapping against the windows, just like the tiger coming to eat children you were scared of as a kid.

"Squeak, squeak..."

There was a sound of the doorknob being turned, accompanied by some other noises.

Xu Musen, somewhat particular with his sleeping environment, hadn't been sleeping deeply, and the noise at the door woke him up.

He didn't speak but looked towards the door, the rainy weather made the night very dark.

However, he could see the faint light at the doorway, the doorknob was indeed turned.

Xu Musen's brow twitched.

This little malingerer couldn't really be planning to drug and attack me in the night, could she?

He glanced at the goji berry water on the bedside table that he hadn't dared to drink, now seriously suspecting that it was definitely spiked with some peculiar little pill!

The kind that would leave his body limp and asleep, but a certain region exceptionally active and firm.

Is she trying to trick me into giving up my body with these shameless means?

I, Xu Musen, will definitely not fall into the same pit a second time!

Xu Musen slowly sat up, the doorknob at the doorway was still slowly turning, but Xu Musen had already preemptively deadbolted the door.

The door didn't open, but it seemed they still hadn't given up.

Xu Musen picked up a pillow, ready to knock her back to her senses.

Moving slowly to the door, as expected, he heard Yao Mingyue's voice.

"Musen... Are you asleep?"

Her voice was not loud.

Haha, woman, are you here deliberately to check if the drug you gave me was strong enough?

The wind outside, mixed with raindrops, hitting the windows sounded particularly unnerving.

"Musen... will you open the door, please..."

Yao Mingyue's voice came through the crack of the door, wavering and unsteady, like a ghost come to claim lives in the middle of the night.

Xu Musen's hand was on the doorknob, he quickly opened the door, lifting the pillow in his hand intending to hit her.

But at the door, the girl in a pale red nightgown had been leaning against it, and when the door suddenly opened, she stumbled and fell sitting on the ground.

"Yao Mingyue, you really are..."

Xu Musen was about to scold her for playing the old drugging trick on him.

But the next moment, the words in his mouth were swallowed back, and the pillow in his hand also paused.

In the warm light of the corridor, the girl sitting on the ground in a pale red nightie, her hair disheveled, her face pale.

Her pair of phoenix eyes, were now moist at the corners, her clear, defined eyes shimmering with a fragile gleam at this moment.

The wind and rain outside, mixed with falling leaves, battered against the windows with force, in the silent villa, the sound was especially unnerving.

"Musen..."

Yao Mingyue got up from the ground, stumbling and unsteady, then plunged into his embrace, like clutching at the last straw before drowning.

"Musen... I'm scared..."

Yao Mingyue's voice trembled slightly, on every stormy night.

She was no longer the arrogant Yao Mingyue, nor the careless malingerer.

At this moment, she was just the young girl from six years ago, who received news of a loved one's departure amidst a thunderstorm, powerless to help.

Xu Musen's heart was as unsettled as the storm outside, as he looked at Yao Mingyue now curled up in his arms.

He silently sighed.

I really don't know if I still owe you...