After rebirth, I rejected the rich yandere lady

An Nuannuan spoke slowly, yet her expression was so sweetly cloying that the air seemed to be filled with the sweet and sourness of youthful exuberance.

"So after my leg healed enough to be discharged from the hospital, I transferred to your school."

But before I had the courage to thank him, I saw him standing at the school gate, confessing to you. It must have been his first time, he was so nervous he couldn't say it for the longest time, holding the flowers with anxious anticipation, waiting for your answer…"

Yao Mingyue silently pursed her lips, of course, she remembered the scene of Xu Musen's first confession to her.

That was the first time Xu Musen had confessed to her in front of everyone... In fact, Yao Mingyue had secretly asked the security guard to make a copy of the footage from the school entrance's surveillance camera... Sometimes she would watch it when she had nothing else to do.

Back then, Xu Musen took a good ten seconds or more, shivering as he stammered out the three words "I love you."

At that moment, Yao Mingyue almost couldn't resist agreeing to him, but a lack of security in her heart made her want to test him further.

But precisely because of that, one misstep led to another.

"Although you didn't accept him that time, I could feel that you both liked each other. The courage that I had finally mustered up could only continue to be hidden..."

An Nuannuan continued speaking, perhaps also mocking her own timidity at the time.

Yao Mingyue managed a bitter smile, "If you could have appeared at that time, maybe he would have already shifted his attention to you."

But An Nuannuan shook her head, her eyes clear as she smiled, "He wouldn't have. Back then, he only had eyes for you. In fact, he was the truly naive and foolish one. Even if I had appeared then, as long as you were unhappy, he would have still kept his distance from me voluntarily. That's the kind of person he is, silly, very stubborn, once he's committed to someone, he won't let go easily."

An Nuannuan's words, although speaking of her boyfriend's deep affection for another girl, did not carry anger. Instead, there was a hint of pride.

On the contrary, the bitterness at the corners of Yao Mingyue's mouth grew stronger. Yes, back then, Xu Musen only had eyes for her.

But as superior as she once felt, she now felt an equal measure of bitterness.

Yes, loving someone means automatically keeping a distance from others, without her having to go out of her way to stop other Little Fox Spirits from approaching him.

A stable and trusting relationship is the best Peach Wood Sword for exorcising demons.

Yao Mingyue understood this principle all too well, but her realization came a little too late.

"Actually, at that time, I felt quite sad too. I knew that as long as he still liked you, I wouldn't have the chance to get close to him. The vague fondness I had for him at that time seemed to suffer a blow, as if... I had been through a heartbreak as well," An Nuannuan said with a smile, with love being the strangest thing. Those days when she was recuperating, she kept thinking about the night she met Xu Musen.

A seed had quietly taken root long before.

"I thought, I'll just keep waiting. Maybe when he really needs someone to help him, I'll appear then."

"So, I watched him quietly every day."

"I saw everything he did for you. He'd bring you hot water in every class, he'd always save a seat for you in the cafeteria, and when it rained, he'd offer you the umbrella first, getting half-soaked himself. Every time before your birthday, he would also help his mother sell flowers, earning some pocket money to prepare a gift for you... Even if his life was tough and tiring, in front of you, he was always so gentle, cheerful, and sunny."

These were also the reasons why he gradually touched my heart.

So, I watched him silently, getting to know him slowly, growing to like him bit by bit. My fondness for him wasn't because of that love-at-first-sight piece of cake, but because I had quietly liked him for a very, very long time."

An Nuannuan's lips lifted in an elegant and deep smile as she looked at Yao Mingyue, "My college roommate used to say something about 'Qing Mei cannot rival Tian Jiang,' you are Xu Musen's childhood sweetheart, but I'm not exactly a 'Tian Jiang.' In a sense, I am also his childhood sweetheart, from silently watching over him to finally being able to openly appear before him, and all this, I've waited for a lifetime for."

There was no mockery, no sorrow, no bragging in An Nuannuan's voice, just as she said, she had waited a lifetime for the life she now had.

There's no such thing as 'Tian Jiang' effortlessly defeating 'Qing Mei.' Everything might be another long-planned destiny.

Yao Mingyue watched her for a long time, perhaps if it had been the old her, she would be fuming by now.

But now, she suddenly smiled.

"It's just like you to do this. With you, I've never gotten the upper hand…"

An Nuannuan cut another slice of apple and fed it to her. Yao Mingyue chewed, the sweet aroma of the fruit making her heart feel less complicated.

"Nuannuan, I want to ask you one more question. Actually, a lot of my memories are hazy, and I want to ask you... In the end, what happened to Xu Musen?"

Yao Mingyue looked at An Nuannuan, deeply concerned about this question. In her memory, it seemed that the events after the hospital were blocked deep in her memory, unwilling to be recalled.

An Nuannuan paused her fruit peeling for a moment, "He died."

Two blunt words.

Yao Mingyue trembled, even though she had already guessed this outcome and knew that all these events were from a previous life.