After rebirth, I rejected the rich yandere lady

Today was filled with so much, Zhao Lianmai was truly running around helping the whole time and didn't rest for a moment.

Zhao Lianmai didn't say much, only softly said, "Just thank them for me."

As Zhao Lianmai spoke, her gaze shifted toward the figure behind Xu Musen.

That tall figure also appeared at the entrance of the milk tea shop.

Xu Musen turned around, his eyes met those of Yao Mingyue, who walked up to him and examined him carefully.

As if she were afraid he'd lost a piece of flesh or something.

"It's alright now?"

"It's alright now."

Xu Musen lightly laughed, facing this little tsundere, his tone still lacked the deliberate distancing of before.

Yao Mingyue nodded, her gaze moved toward An Nuannuan.

Just now, Bai Xin had already told her that an old professor had stepped in to help Xu Musen out of the predicament.

And that old professor was the reinforcement An Nuannuan had called in.

"I thank you on behalf of Xu Musen."

Yao Mingyue approached An Nuannuan, and the tone of her voice was just like that of a wife thanking someone for helping her husband.

An Nuannuan lifted her head, her clear eyes meeting Yao Mingyue's phoenix eyes.

"It's what I should do, I am the boss's wife after all."

The air between the two women was not exactly explosive.

But it seemed like there were things neither of them could back down from.

"Grrr..."

At that moment, the sound of a stomach rumbling came.

Xu Musen touched his own stomach and looked at the two with a smile, remarking, "We've been busy all day, how about we eat something first?"

After the incident, they hadn't even had lunch.

And now it was already afternoon.

"We have some."

An Nuannuan pulled out the lunch boxes Yao Mingyue had prepared at noon.

Neither had had the chance to eat, so An Nuannuan brought them over to the microwave to heat them up.

A brief silence filled the room.

"You sit first, I'll go check the storage room."

Xu Musen, observing An Nuannuan guarding the microwave, whispered instructions to Yao Mingyue.

"What, afraid I'll bully her?"

Yao Mingyue sat in the chair, and with the dust settled, she regained some of her typically aloof demeanor.

"The two of you are about even."

Xu Musen shook his head, Nuannuan, ah, he felt that the more scheming people were, the less they gained over her.

There was no longer the forceful distancing in Xu Musen's words as there was before.

Though still far from the obedient husband Yao Mingyue desired, the state of things was much better than a few months back.

Indeed, it seemed that even the hardest of men had their moments of softening...

"I'm thirsty."

Yao Mingyue suddenly spoke up, and casually crossed her legs, adopting the air of a boss.

Having lived with her in a previous life for so many years, how could Xu Musen not understand her meaning.

Yet, his face involuntarily broke into an indulgent smile, a smile that held a kind of old-married-couple indulgence.

Perhaps even he hadn't realized it.

He turned around, made a milk tea for her, and prepared one for An Nuannuan as well.

"Satisfied now?"

"Go on, it's fine now."

Yao Mingyue picked up the milk tea; she enjoyed the feeling of him "serving" her.

Although An Nuannuan had one too, it was still better than not having his attention at all before...

Her lips curved slightly as she waved him off.

Xu Musen and Zhao Lianmai went into the storage room to take a look; they had to make some changes over the next two to three days.

The faster the reversal of public opinion, the smaller the losses could be contained.

"Are we doing a discount sale?" Zhao Lianmai couldn't think of a better course of action for a moment.

But a pricing strategy was always useful at any time.

However, Xu Musen shook his head: "We can't lower prices, although it would attract customers, subconsciously it would make others think that we truly have issues, just like that. Not only can we not decrease prices, but we also have to introduce some new items to tell people we're doing great."

"So tonight, let's prepare a tent, push out the refrigerated cabinet, and arrange all these fruits into it..."

Xu Musen was setting tasks for Zhao Lianmai.

At this moment, the milk tea shop had few customers.

"Ding~"

The microwave finished heating.

An Nuannuan carefully took out the lunch boxes, first placing a portion on the table.

She didn't eat but instead pushed it toward Yao Mingyue.

Yao Mingyue was startled; indeed, the lunch was what she had left at the restaurant.

"You haven't eaten either, now you can."

An Nuannuan looked at her, her voice as soft as ever.

Yao Mingyue had been holding back from saying anything to her, but now that she came forward, Yao Mingyue put down her milk tea.

She looked at An Nuannuan; not bullying her was one thing, but there was no harm in having a chat, right?

"An Nuannuan."

This was the first time Yao Mingyue directly called her by name.

Yet in Hu Hai University, actually, the three of them were the earliest acquaintances, old high school classmates.

"Yes?"

An Nuannuan nodded, lifting her head with a serious look of attentiveness.

Yao Mingyue looked at her seemingly harmless face, and lightly parted her lips: "Do you like Xu Musen?"

An Nuannuan's big eyes contracted ever so slightly.

"I mean like in a romantic sense, not the way friends do."

Yao Mingyue continued, her eyes locked on An Nuannuan's the whole time.

An Nuannuan's mind also flashed through many memories at that moment.

Like... such a romantic yet heavy word.

She'd secretly witnessed all of Xu Musen's high school crushes.

The passionate ones, the understated ones, the evocative ones, the complicated ones, and those unreciprocated likes.

An Nuannuan didn't know what counted as liking someone, but she knew liking someone was an incredibly important matter.