After rebirth, I rejected the rich yandere lady

But Liu Rushuang was exceptionally excited. As she rubbed Xu Musen's head, she spoke again, "Say it once more!"

"Mom."

"Hehe, say it again, say it again!"

Liu Rushuang was so thrilled by each call of "mom" that the whole person seemed to have had her regret of never having a son remedied.

The glow in her eyes As she looked at Xu Musen, it was as if she saw her most cherished treasure.

That gaze even reminded Xu Musen of the first night he spent with Yao Mingyue, when he first whispered "wife" in her ear.

Yao Mingyue was completely flushed, both shy and excited, throwing herself into his arms and letting Xu Musen call her "wife" over and over again.

Xu Musen was now increasingly convinced that all of Yao Mingyue's traits were learned from Liu Rushuang, only they were a bit skewed.

"Mom, that's enough..."

At this point, Yao Mingyue also stood up. Watching her mother rubbing Xu Musen's head, she felt a bit disappointed in her eyes.

Why did she always feel like the goddaughter in this family?

"Hehe, mom got a bit too excited. Look, from now on, you two are like god-sister and god-brother. You just need to be closer than before, you got it?"

Liu Rushuang took both their hands and firmly placed them together.

Xu Musen's slightly rough palm made Yao Mingyue's hand tremble slightly.

Her fingertips moved gently, softly tracing the lines of Xu Musen's palm.

Love, career, life...

Yao Mingyue traced each of these lines as if to melt into every one of his palm lines.

Xu Musen also looked up at her, feeling that delicate touch in his palm, and he did not immediately withdraw his hand.

When was the first time they held hands?

They couldn't remember anymore, but ever since they could remember, they held hands every day, babbling as they pleaded for food, for play...

And Yao Mingyue would be right behind him, in her baby voice sweetly calling out to her "Brother Musen".

From siblings to childhood sweethearts, and now, they became siblings again.

All this seemed like a cycle.

It was a starting point, and also an endpoint, and yet again a starting point...

Xu Musen remembered the words Yao Mingyue said when she jumped into the river those two times. They all centered on a single theme.

"Let's start over."

Perhaps, fate wasn't fair to Yao Mingyue.

Xu Musen was given a chance to start over. In this rebirth, he could choose his destiny anew.

He could choose to leave Yao Mingyue, or take a different path and transform the sickly cutie...

But Yao Mingyue didn't have that choice. If she wanted to start over, she had to pay a great price.

It was even a question she couldn't answer.

But Yao Mingyue was different from Xu Musen, for her choices were always singular.

All the choices she could make, all the paths she could walk, would eventually point back to Xu Musen.

For her, the sickly cutie, there weren't many things in the world she clung to.

Her family and Xu Musen.

And the only one who could walk through life with her was Xu Musen.

Yao Mingyue slowly, gently tightened her grip on Xu Musen's hand, looking at him with a heart full of mixed emotions.

Liu Rushuang, watching their hands together, felt a slight sigh escape her lips and said, "You two have liked staying together since you were little. Do you remember when Xiao Yue turned one year old? We did the 'grabbing ceremony', laying out so many things.

She looked around for a long time and grabbed nothing, but in the end, she crawled over to the sofa and latched onto Brother Musen, who was just two years old."

As Liu Rushuang spoke, she seemed to see a scene from nearly twenty years ago, when the family prepared the grabbing ceremony for Yao Mingyue.

But the freshly one-year-old Yao Mingyue, who couldn't even call mom and dad clearly, crawled on the floor and reached for Xu Musen sitting on the sofa.

That grasp lasted up to the present.

Perhaps in this lifetime, it would be hard for the two of them to erase this fate that seemed destined.

In the blink of an eye, they had both grown so much. Liu Rushuang thought back to when they were born—she and Xu Musen's parents were also in their twenties.

Now, as the old flowers waned, new ones quietly bloomed, ready to take their place, to continue living happily.

These childhood stories made Xu Musen and Yao Mingyue lock eyes, their gazes growing increasingly sparkling.

"Brother Musen, Sister Mingyue..."

Xu Musen felt her small hand gradually tightening in his palm.

At this moment, Xu Musen's heart was not calm either.

To this day, he harbored no resentment or other emotions towards Yao Mingyue.

However, Xu Musen had already fallen for someone. Nuannuan was a good girl; he couldn't let her down.

But Yao Mingyue... Xu Musen felt, at the very least, he still needed to take good care of her.

After all, she was his sister... his god-sister.

From Xu Musen's standpoint, Yao Mingyue was still too young. He wanted to cure Yao Mingyue.

To transform this sickly cutie, and if there really came a day when she met another person who was right for her...

Xu Musen's mind raced with thoughts, but coming to this point, he abruptly cut off all such ideas.

In an instant, his mind was flooded with images.

The baby-voiced Yao Mingyue, babbling, clinging to Xu Musen's young hand.

The primary school days, with Xiao Mingyue pouting for snacks, bouncing around and sticking her tongue out at him.