After rebirth, I rejected the rich yandere lady

"Silly child, you..."

Liu Rushuang's eyes turned sour, wanting to say more, but Yao Mingyue gently grasped her hand.

"Mom, let me make this decision just once, at least I won't have any regrets. And besides, if it works out, won't you get a chance to be a grandmother?"

Yao Mingyue said with a smile, the joking tone making it all the more heart-wrenching.

Liu Rushuang knew she couldn't deter her daughter anymore. Clenching her teeth, she eventually also smiled through tears, "Alright, Mom will always be with you."

After dinner.

Liu Rushuang stepped out of the ward, holding her phone for a long time, intending to call Xu Musen. But in the end, she took one more look at her daughter from the doorway and put away her phone.

In this world, no one would feel more heartache for their own daughter than she did.

Yet she chose to respect her daughter's final decision.

She wiped the corners of her eyes and, after putting away her phone, went to find the doctor to handle the discharge procedures.

Yao Mingyue in the ward once again turned her gaze towards the window, lost in thought.

She made her decision just now in a moment of valiant resolve, but when facing life and death, how could she truly be carefree.

But she knew, if she didn't make this decision, she would regret it for the rest of her life.

She picked up her mobile phone, scrolling through the recent conversations with Xu Musen, laughing, though the corners of her eyes grew more and more sour.

What a fool…

The faint scent of a summer's lemon soda drifted in, as a tall shadow cast over her.

Yao Mingyue looked up and saw the person in front of her, her expression one of surprise: "Zhao Lianmai?"

The girl with the wheat-colored skin stood before her, her calm gaze lingering over Mingyue's pale face for a long time.

"How did you know I'm here?" Yao Mingyue was a bit nervous. Zhao Lianmai was an employee of Xu Musen's; her appearance might mean that Xu Musen also knew the news?

Zhao Lianmai slowly withdrew her gaze and said, "My mom also came to the hospital for a checkup, and I happened to see you and your aunt."

"Then..."

"I haven't told him."

Zhao Lianmai knew the question she was worried about and spoke directly.

Yao Mingyue took a sigh of relief, and Zhao Lianmai continued.

"But I accidentally overheard some of what you said just now."

Yao Mingyue froze for a moment, looking up at the composed Zhao Lianmai… Eavesdropping is eavesdropping, what does it mean to 'accidentally overheard'?

And to have such an expressionless face on top of that, it's just... even thicker-faced than she was herself.

After a moment's surprise, Yao Mingyue chuckled again: "With that personality of yours, no wonder he appreciates you so much."

Speaking of it, Yao Mingyue looked at her and continued, "So, will you betray your boss's confidence?"

Zhao Lianmai did not answer immediately, instead looking back at her sickly pale cheeks, nothing like the usual fierceness and aggressiveness.

Zhao Lianmai fell silent for a moment, her eyes gradually becoming complicated: "Are you really decided on giving up like this?"

Yao Mingyue looked at her, now curious, with a hint of a smile: "Aren't you always a staunch supporter of Boss Nuannuan?"

Zhao Lianmai didn't answer right away. At first, she was indeed an ardent supporter of An Nuannuan, but as an onlooker during this period, she had already seen through many things.

She would always be a supporter of Boss Nuannuan, but faced with Yao Mingyue's severe illness, the woman who every day racked her brains to own Xu Musen in her crazed pursuit,

had now made such a choice, and in that moment, Zhao Lianmai really couldn't say who was right and who was wrong.

In the end, she shook her head: "I just think that since you like him so much, you should tell him the truth. You know him; he will get furiously mad if he finds out you deceived him by leaving without a word."

Zhao Lianmai spoke with complexity, understanding somewhat about her own boss. If Yao Mingyue really left without saying goodbye, he would undoubtedly go mad.

Yao Mingyue gave a bitter smile, her helpless resignation tinged with a clarity forged by her brush with mortality: "I've been selfish all my life. If I chose to tell him now, do you think he could still treat his hard-won fiancee well?

Besides, I've lived a life of lies already. It won't hurt to deceive him this one last time."

Yao Mingyue kept smiling, yet tears fell from her eyes, feeling a tightness in her chest. This last time... there might really never be a chance again in the future.

She looked up at the sky outside the window, where the sunlight was just right, but she felt as if she could no longer feel its warmth, her chest tightening in waves.

"What beautiful sunlight, I really hope I can still bask in it in the future..."

The sunlight fell on her cheek, pure as a fallen angel, with tears tracing down her face, beautiful in its heartache: "He will be happy. God bless, may he never encounter someone as bad, as wicked as me again."

Zhao Lianmai, too, now clenched her fists a bit, looking at Yao Mingyue.

This once arrogant and unruly, that bullying and unreasonable, that unscrupulous noble swan.

Her love for Xu Musen was obsessive, perhaps even wrong, but it was also extreme, the only one.

Now, it stirred the heart, trembled with pain. Such words, such choices, what an extreme form of love this was.

"Xiao Mai,"

Yao Mingyue turned her head to look at her.

"Hmm..."

Zhao Lianmai was a bit dazed, quietly looking at her.

"Please keep my secret, will you?"

Yao Mingyue reached out her hand, gently grasping hers, the cold trembling temperature made Zhao Lianmai's heart tremble more intensely.

She opened her mouth, but faced with her gaze, Zhao Lianmai finally nodded in the end.