After rebirth, I rejected the rich yandere lady

"Sister…"

An Nan was moved, her eyes brimming with tears.

Nuannuan handed her a swim ring, "There, you can go play in the sea in a bit, but remember not to go into the deep water and don't leave the swim ring, okay?"

"Okay!"

...

Nuannuan walked over, still holding the sunscreen.

Sunbathing is for health, but ultraviolet rays aren't necessary.

"Could you watch Nannan so she doesn't go into the deep water? I'll apply some sunscreen on her."

Nuannuan said to Musen.

Musen, not wanting to casually offer to help Yao Mingyue with her sunscreen, responded, "Alright! I'll take care of it, darling!"

Musen obediently scampered off.

Yao Mingyue watched his back and couldn't help but chuckle, "One thing overcomes another; he really listens to you now."

"Children who have just done something wrong tend to behave very obediently."

Nuannuan also curved her lips slightly, unsure whether she was referring to Nannan or someone else.

"We didn't really do anything just now, he didn't even dare to apply sunscreen to me."

Yao Mingyue was not secretive, thinking that considering who's naive or cunning didn't matter anymore.

Nuannuan took the sunscreen and started applying it to her. The two synchronized their actions quite well, watching the seaside as she applied it.

Musen and An Nan, each with a swim ring, were frolicking in the seawater.

An Nan had picked up a long piece of hard sponge, brandishing it as if it were a spear, her swim ring transformed into a Qiankun Ring.

"You impish monkey! Watch as I, the Great Ocean God with three heads and six arms, young Nezha, capture you!"

An Nan, holding a sponge stick, charged towards Musen.

Musen too picked up a shell and stuck it on his forehead, "Little lotus root spirit! You're mistaken, I am the revered Erlang of the Jingkou, Guangyuan Mi Dao, the true monarch with three eyes! Black Emperor, bite her!"

He then threw his dog-shaped swim ring towards her.

The two of them caused quite a commotion in the water.

"Pfft… two kiddish ghosts."

Yao Mingyue couldn't help but laugh, but as she laughed, she suddenly felt a bit melancholic, "Musen, he seems to really enjoy playing with children."

"Yes, he is a gentle person, and children love gentle people."

Nuannuan watched this scene, her heart filled with warmth. Since their mother left, Nannan hadn't played this happily and unrestrainedly for a long time.

Yao Mingyue silently nodded.

She thought to herself if they had their own children, whether the outcome in their previous life would have been different.

It's just that she herself...

Yao Mingyue watched silently as Musen and An Nan played, looking very much like a father and daughter, even she couldn't help but feel a certain longing.

She remembered in her last life, Musen had always wanted a child, but until the end, the disappointment, the despair…

Yao Mingyue took a long time to collect herself. She seemed to have made a resolution in her heart.

"Nuannuan."

"Hm?"

"I want to ask you, can you really accept this life in the future?"

Yao Mingyue's words were clear; the three of them looked harmonious now, but everything was because the powder keg hadn't exploded yet.

Nuannuan shook her head, her gaze also moving to Musen and her sister.

Since his arrival, Nuannuan's world had also changed a lot. Dad would often come back, grandparents' smiles increased every day, and her sister could now be truly happy...

"I don't know, I might find it hard to accept a life with you, but I absolutely can't accept a life without him."

Yao Mingyue looked at her, then shook her head with a bittersweet smile, "You really are kinder than I am. If it were me, I definitely couldn't accept it... Thank you, but I think maybe I won't always have the chance to bother you two in the future."

Nuannuan turned to look at her.

At that moment, Yao Mingyue gently pointed at her chest, "Actually, in my last life, another important reason for my emotional breakup with him was that we didn't have a child, because of my heart…"

"It's a heart condition, right?"

Nuannuan seemed to already know, her gaze lingering briefly on Yao Mingyue's heart.

"Did you know about this too?"

Yao Mingyue looked at her expression, which seemed to show that she already knew.

Nuannuan paused for a moment, then nodded.

"It seems that in our past lives, we might really have been good friends."

Yao Mingyue smiled, this was something even Musen didn't know unless she had told Nuannuan herself.

"Yes, my heart is flawed. Daily life isn't a problem, but if I were to have children, it would be very dangerous... It's either while I'm still young or through surgery.

But the risk of surgery is too great, maybe only a one-third chance of success. In my last life, I actually tried once, but during the final step my heart almost stopped suddenly, and we had to stop the surgery… I barely escaped with my life, but I also lost any chance of recovery."

Yao Mingyue spoke slowly, a bitter tone in her voice: "So afterwards, I was always afraid to have children. I feared that I wouldn't be able to be with him properly in the future, and I feared even more that if he found out, he would blame himself for the rest of his life."

Nuannuan listened silently.

"In my previous life, I had no choice, but now... although I'm reluctant, he has you by his side now."

Yao Mingyue showed a bitter smile, looking melancholic at Nuannuan, "In my past life, if something had happened to me, Musen, that stubborn man, probably would never have recovered. So many things, I had no power to decide.

But now, he has you by his side. Some things... I want to try to risk that remaining two-thirds of luck."

Nuannuan opened her lips, already understanding what Yao Mingyue's words meant.

"You don't have to persuade me. This is what I owe him, and also my own obsession."

Yao Mingyue's smile was nervous yet resigned; her gaze softly directed at Musen, who was now playing with Nannan.

"I hope if... if I'm still unlucky and lose the gamble, if I really am not here anymore, then I want to entrust you... to take good care of him."

The sea breeze gently caressed her face, Yao Mingyue's smile radiating in the sunlight that landed on her delicate cheeks. At that moment, she was at the beautiful bloom of youth, around eighteen or nineteen years old.

She gazed softly in the direction of Musen.

This was the small Sickly Cutie, for the first time in her life... no, in two lifetimes, making such a concession.