I am reborn and refuse to be a sickly rich woman

Chapter 390: I'm the best at snatching husbands! (Subscribe~)

Zhao Lianmai's home still looks old and simple.

But it is much better now compared to the dilapidated environment with cracked and crumbling walls when I first saw it.

The house was very clean and the living room was already filled with food.

Zhao Lianmai's mother smiled happily and welcomed their arrival warmly.

"Happy New Year, Auntie. Are you in good health this year?" Xu Musen asked with concern.

"Well, he's getting much better since the surgery two years ago. Come in. We haven't seen each other for a year. My Xiaomai is well, thanks to you for taking care of her."

Zhao Lianmai's mother's enthusiasm was also mixed with respect for Xu Musen, the young boss. After all, if their family had not met him, they wouldn't know whether they would be able to have a good meal on New Year's Eve.

"Auntie, you're too polite. If you want to talk about taking care of me, Xiaomai is capable of taking care of my business. There are many people outside who want to poach her..."

Xu Musen responded with a smile. Zhao Lianmai came in with a big bowl of hot soup. After hearing what Xu Musen said, she didn't say a word of politeness. Instead, there was a hint of pride on her face.

Sit down and eat.

"These are the only home-cooked dishes at home, please don't be disgusted."

Zhao Lianmai's mother smiled embarrassedly at Xu Musen and Yao Mingyue.

In fact, this table of dishes is already very rich, with fish, meat, and seafood such as shrimps and crabs.

Two years ago, they were already very lucky to be able to eat a few bites of fatty meat during the Chinese New Year.

"This is already very good, and we have tasted Xiaomai's cooking skills. No other restaurant can compare to this! Come on, Auntie, you can try some too."

Xu Musen spoke with a smile, picked up the chopsticks and picked up some food and gave it to Zhao Lianmai's mother.

Zhao Lianmai's mother quickly thanked him: "Thank you, thank you. You are a guest, how can you be so embarrassed?"

"Auntie, you're welcome. Look how casual Xiaomai is. She usually doesn't even say hello to me when she sees me."

"Ah? Xiaomai, how could you do this..."

Zhao Lianmai's mother glanced at her daughter, and Zhao Lianmai calmly picked up a shrimp for her sister.

He ignored the boss who came to complain.

"It's okay, Auntie. I'm used to it anyway. Excellent people all have some personality. I just appreciate Xiaomai's temper."

"You are a boss, you know how to talk, but my daughter can't talk..."

The atmosphere at the table was very good.

Yao Mingyue was watching this scene. She didn't know why, but it seemed like the scene where a son-in-law came to his mother-in-law to complain on the second day of the Lunar New Year.
But the next moment, Xu Musen picked up some shrimp and put it on her plate.

I also peeled off the shrimp heads and shells.

Yao Mingyue curled her lips slightly and no longer cared about the details.

"By the way, I met this girl last year, but I never had the chance to ask her how she and you are..." Zhao Lianmai's mother also noticed the little movements of the two people.

I didn't have the nerve to ask when we met last year, but it seems obvious now.

Yao Mingyue's hand holding the chopsticks paused slightly, and Zhao Lianmai also raised his head and looked at Xu Musen calmly.

"Then let me formally introduce myself."

Xu Musen put down his chopsticks and cleared his throat. Even though there was a risk that Zhao Lianmai would complain to "Lady Boss Nuannuan" at any time, he had to give Yao Mingyue the answer she wanted.

"Like Xiaomai, I am also a small employee working for Boss Xu to make a living."

Yao Mingyue's voice spoke first. She gently stepped on Xu Musen's foot under the table to stop him from speaking.

There was a smile on her beautiful face, and her calm eyes carried a meaning that only she and Xu Musen understood.

Zhao Lianmai moved his eyes slightly and looked at Yao Mingyue carefully for several seconds before he let out a sigh.

Xu Musen wanted to say something, but as soon as he opened his mouth, Yao Mingyue directly picked up the peeled shrimp and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Isn't that right, Boss Xu?"

Yao Mingyue spoke with a smile.

Xu Musen chewed the shrimp, looked at her, and finally said, "It's up to you."

"That's it..."

Zhao Lianmai's mother nodded, obviously not believing it at all, but at this moment, seeing their little actions, she did not continue asking and immediately changed the subject.

"Come on, it's so cold, eat more vegetables..."

The dining table became lively again.

However, Yao Mingyue hardly moved her chopsticks. It was not because she complained about the food, but because she really couldn't eat anything.

She was a little too quiet. She didn't want to eat, but she still made time to pick up food for Xu Musen, peel shrimps, and wipe his mouth.

She suddenly realized that this was actually quite good, watching the person she loved chatting with others at the dinner table.

I fed him silently and looked at his profile quietly. I really couldn't help but reveal a faint smile of happiness.

In fact, happiness can be very simple.

It's just too late to understand this truth...

Yao Mingyue felt her hand holding the chopsticks tremble slightly. The village at the foot of the mountain was obviously damper and colder than the residential area. The blood flow in her body seemed to have slowed down, making her feel drowsy again.

"There's a pot of soup stewing in it. I'll go take a look. Mingyue, will you come with me?"

Zhao Lianmai suddenly spoke.

Yao Mingyue raised her head and looked at her, then nodded: "Okay."

Two people came into the kitchen one after the other.

The kitchen in Zhao Lianmai's home still uses a wood-burning stove.

After adding firewood, it is as warm as a campfire.

Zhao Lianmai threw two more pieces of wood into the stove, then wiped the bench next to him and said to Yao Mingyue, "Come sit down and warm yourself by the fire."

Yao Mingyue walked over and sat down, stretching out her pale hands to feel the warmth and fire emanating from the stove, which made her feel a lot more energetic and her whole body was warm.

"Thank you." Yao Mingyue said softly.

Zhao Lianmai glanced at her sideways, and after a moment she spoke: "Are you feeling unwell?"

Yao Mingyue moved her hands as she warmed herself by the fire, revealing a smile: "Not really, just a little cold."

Zhao Lianmai looked at her smiling face and sighed softly: "If you were really okay, you wouldn't be willing to leave him and come here to warm yourself by the fire."

Yao Mingyue was stunned for a moment, and finally laughed at herself and said, "So I'm so easy to guess?"

Zhao Lianmai shook her head: "You're not easy to guess, but once it comes to him, you've never thought of hiding your emotions."

"I didn't expect that you know me so well." Yao Mingyue looked at her.

"He is the one who knows you better."

Zhao Lianmai said, "He just winked at me. He had already seen that you were not feeling well, so he asked me to bring you here to warm up by the fire."

Yao Mingyue's eyes trembled slightly, and her fingers seemed to gradually regain some color under the firelight. She smiled and said, "Yes, we are childhood sweethearts after all..."

"Is your condition...serious?"

Zhao Lianmai hesitated for a moment, but still asked.

Yao Mingyue's eyelashes emitted a warm yellow light under the firelight: "Not bad."

She didn't want to tell anyone about herself.

"I find that you are different from before." Zhao Lianmai did not continue to ask, but suddenly said this.

"What's the difference?" Yao Mingyue asked. Zhao Lianmai added another piece of wood to the stove.

"She is not as aggressive as before, nor as rude and unreasonable as before, and she is not as crazy as before, willing to do anything for him..."

Zhao Lianmai's words were always so blunt, as if he would not leave anyone any face at all.

Yao Mingyue couldn't help laughing when she heard this: "So I have such a bad image in your eyes? It seems like you all like An Nuannuan's personality, right?"

"But this is you."

Zhao Lianmai spoke slowly, "It's the you that he likes the most. Nuannuan has a very good personality, but he likes An Nuannuan with that kind of personality, not you with An Nuannuan's personality. It's the same with you. He likes you who are rude and unreasonable, but you can go crazy and do anything for him."

Yao Mingyue was stunned for a long time. This was a problem that even an outsider could see.

How could Xu Musen not see it during this period of time?

But they are childhood sweethearts, and they both tacitly believe that the other will not interact and expose the matter.

Seeing that she didn't say anything, Zhao Lianmai took out a pair of fire tongs and gently turned the firewood to make the fire a little stronger.

"I don't know what's wrong with your body, but it's a bit like my mother's. When a person has a physical problem, the whole person becomes more gentle and timid, and the things they wanted before seem to be suddenly relieved...

It seemed as if this person had become flawless overnight.

But the only thing is that she is no longer herself, because she is ready to leave..."

There was a hint of sadness in Zhao Lianmai's voice, as she recalled the time when her mother was diagnosed with a serious illness and the family had no money to treat her.

Mom never showed any discomfort or unhappiness. Instead, she was even gentler than before. But Zhao Lianmai was not happy at all.

Because she knows clearly that when a person does not have any "negative" emotions, it proves that she has already made the most negative preparations.

Yao Mingyue was silent, she only felt her heart beating out of rhythm. She tried to take a few breaths of hot air, and then she calmed down a little.

After a long time, she smiled and shook her head gently: "I didn't expect that after so many years, you would tell me all this. Thank you for your concern. I...maybe it's not that bad. It's the New Year, and he has so many happy things this year...I just don't want to make him unhappy because of my affairs."

After all, he is going to get engaged to the most important girl in his life this year, so there is no need to make them worry on such a happy day...

Even though she said this, she couldn't suppress the gloom and bitterness in her eyes.

Zhao Lianmai looked at the dancing flames: "Actually, I don't like you. After I met An Nuannuan, I even disliked you a little bit."

"I know that from your perspective, I am a terrible person... I poached people and acted so confidently, and I was unreasonable and unreasonable."

Yao Mingyue did not refute anything. She could understand that Zhao Lianmai had always stood on An Nuannuan's side.

"But what happened afterwards also made me realize that maybe you really can't tell who came first, and what's right and wrong... or I, as an outsider, am not qualified to comment on anything."

As Zhao Lianmai spoke, she paused for a moment, glanced sideways at Yao Mingyue, whose face looked a little sickly pale, and began to speak.

"After my mother fell ill, my so-called father suddenly disappeared. My mother always said that he might have his own difficulties. After all, he is our father. If she is really gone, this is still your only family. Without her as a burden, maybe he will still want me and my sister, two daughters...

But I don’t know what kind of hardship would make a person abandon his seriously ill wife and two children who are in school. I know my mother said this just because she thought that if she was really gone, she could still leave me and my sister with a thought of living.

But for us, how can a person who can make the choice to give up have the qualifications to talk about hope?

I also thought that even if he could come back on his own initiative in the end, even if he didn't spend a penny, my sister and I would at least have a little hope, but he didn't, until now."

Zhao Lianmai was always frugal with words, but at this moment he took the initiative to reveal the words that he was most reluctant to say.

She looked at Yao Mingyue.

"So, for me, leaving without saying goodbye is the most irresponsible idea. For someone who truly cares about you, even if you know that being together won't change the outcome, as long as you can be together, you will always feel that there is a glimmer of hope.

Isn't it just for this little bit of hope that people live in this life? "

Yao Mingyue breathed slowly. Xu Musen had said similar words to her before.

She coughed and covered her mouth, and could feel a hint of sweetness in her mouth...

Of course she understood all these principles.

However, there are often many things in this world that do not give you the opportunity to reason.

She smiled, a little bitterly, and looked at Zhao Lianmai, the girl who had once been included in her "list of vixens to beware of".

At this moment, she felt that perhaps she could share with her the things that she was most reluctant to tell.

"I... Actually, I have some heart problems. The chance of successful surgery is only 50% at best. It can be said that it is either life or death..."

Yao Mingyue's words made Zhao Lianmai open his mouth slightly when he looked at her, but he didn't know what to say at this moment.

"In fact, at the beginning I was just like you said. I was spoiled, willful, and crazy... Because at that time I always thought that if my operation was successful, then he would definitely be mine.

But later, I suddenly realized, what if I failed... If I left, and he foolishly fell in love with me again, with his stubborn personality, he would probably never get over it, and that would delay the life of that girl who has been secretly in love with him, and I would be committing a great sin.

So, I suddenly thought, I...can't keep being selfish like this, just like Nuan Nuan once said, I like him, but I like seeing him like me more...

Because loving someone is to make the other person feel better because of being with you. If being together only makes the other person suffer, then that is selfish. I have been selfish all my life and have experienced the bitter fruit of selfishness. "

Yao Mingyue said, her eyes slightly hazy, she shook her head and smiled bitterly: "So, in this life, when I woke up, when I saw that this fool finally had a girl who he would do everything he could to get engaged to, I actually felt a little relieved...

At least, without me in this life, he will have someone to spend his life with, and finally someone to accompany him to dye his hair white in the future."

Zhao Lianmai listened silently, she took out a handkerchief and handed it to Yao Mingyue.

Yao Mingyue took it and clenched it gently in her hand.

"I don't want to hide it from him, but I know him. I'm afraid that if my problems affect his relationship with her, I'll never be able to repay the favor in my lifetime...

I am a stubborn, willful, and crazy person. If I owe someone a favor, I will be suffocated to death, right? "

Yao Mingyue smiled at herself in self-mockery, but tears were glistening in the corners of her eyes, which made Zhao Lianmai feel a little upset.

She wanted to comfort him, but she didn't know what to say.

"I think I can't say these words to Xu Musen, that stubborn fool, nor can I say them to An Nuannuan, because as long as Xu Musen asks her, she will definitely betray me."

Yao Mingyue wiped her eyes and smiled with tears in her eyes: "So, in the end I realized that I can only tell you."

"Why?" Zhao Lianmai looked at her.

"Because you like him too, but you can control yourself from loving him."

Yao Mingyue also looked at her and said seriously: "So, you can just keep the secret for me, and you can also help me tell him all these words in the future."

Zhao Lianmai's wheat-colored skin seemed to be even more rosy under the firelight, and the secret hidden in her heart was easily seen through by her.

She took a deep breath.

"Horrible woman..."

"Do I think you are praising me?" Yao Mingyue smiled.

Zhao Lianmai nodded after a moment: "I can promise you."

"Thank you."

Yao Mingyue coughed again.

"But I'll be frank. I hope you can get better, but I will always stand by An Nuannuan. If anyone wrongs my boss in the future, I will quit my job and fight to the end."

This was the first time that Zhao Lianmai said such childish words in a serious tone.

Yao Mingyue smiled, and she also raised her white neck. Her bloodless cheeks were covered with a beautiful luster under the firelight, similar to the sunset glow.

"That's fine. I, Yao Mingyue, am not afraid of any opponent. If I am really well, I will not show mercy."

When it comes to snatching husbands away, she's the best.

"Crackling..."

In the stove, the sound of burning wood is like an invisible contract.

The two girls looked at each other and smiled slowly.

Here it comes, the next chapter is the big plot, please look forward to it. Strive for a big chapter!
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