Rebirth: Start to Save the Treasure Girl

Chapter 121: Unfriendly to those who play both sides

"Mu Xue, you have to teach her a lesson." Xue Rui covered his back in pain and shouted at Gu Mu Xue's back.

Of course, the pain is fake.

He had just exposed Gu Muxue's little secret, which would definitely make her angry. The more pain he pretended to be in, the more relief she would feel.

However, this scene made Lin Ruoxi feel distressed.

She thought Gu Muxue was terrible because she beat Xue Rui and dragged Chen Tingting away.

On the way back to Lin Ruoxi's house.

"Does it... hurt?" Lin Ruoxi stretched out her hand to touch Xue Rui's back, but after thinking about it, she retracted her hand.

"It doesn't hurt." Xue Rui said with a smile.

It was winter and he was wearing thicker clothes. Plus the pat was on his back, Xue Rui only felt a tingling sensation but no pain at all.

Xue Rui thought to himself that Lin Ruoxi was actually worried about such a simple common sense question.

"Why did she hit you?" Lin Ruoxi asked in a low voice.

Everyone in the school knows that Xue Rui is pursuing Gu Muxue, but Xue Rui hasn't been pursuing her recently.

And...she remembered that Xue Rui said a few months ago that he would not pursue her anymore.

Does that mean Xue Rui will be beaten if he doesn't pursue Gu Muxue?

Lin Ruoxi couldn't figure it out.

Xue Rui suddenly became nervous when he heard Lin Ruoxi's words.

It was the first time that Lin Ruoxi talked to him about Gu Muxue.

"I made her angry, so she came to retaliate against me. I think this is normal," said Xue Rui.

Lin Ruoxi blinked her big eyes. Is that so?
He changed the subject: "In the future, when someone bullies you, you must fight back."

"Hitting people...is not good." Lin Ruoxi muttered softly.

Xue Rui rubbed Lin Ruoxi's head. He knew it was useless to say anything.

"What if someone chases me and beats me?" Xue Rui asked with a serious face.

Lin Ruoxi bit her lips and clenched her fists tightly.

When she saw Xue Rui being beaten today, she felt very uncomfortable. If someone kept chasing Xue Rui and beating him...

She didn't know why, but she felt scared and angry just thinking about it.

Seeing Lin Ruoxi's body start to tremble slightly, Xue Rui put his arm on Lin Ruoxi's shoulders: "I'm hungry, let's go back and eat."

"Hmm...what do we want to eat today?" Lin Ruoxi said blankly.

“Anything but dumplings.”

Xue Rui has been hurt by dumplings these days and has no appetite when he sees them.

Lin Ruoxi's home.

While eating, Lin Ruoxi always felt that something was strange today, as if something was missing.

"Today is Christmas Eve."

Lin Ruoxi handed over an apple, which she bought herself and chose the biggest and reddest one.

She didn't know what this festival was for, and no one had ever given her an apple.

But today she received a lot of apples, but Xue Rui took them and processed them all.

She checked online and found out that this festival is for giving apples to loved ones.

However, Xue Rui's reaction was indifferent.

Xue Rui's brain was working fast at this time. He didn't feel anything before, but now he was most afraid of holidays!
On one side is Gu Muxue, on the other side is Lin Ruoxi, and there is Chen Tingting messing around in the middle.

He can't split himself, what should he do if both of them want to celebrate the festival with him?
Xue Rui said seriously: "Actually, I don't like Christmas Eve. Why do we celebrate foreign festivals? Don't we have our own festivals?"

"Young people nowadays don't pay attention to traditional festivals, but instead celebrate other people's festivals. I think this is not good."

"Xixi, am I right? We don't celebrate foreign festivals." Xue Rui said sincerely.

With the advent of the mobile Internet era, the capital market needs marketing consumerism.

However, male leeks are not easy to cut.

Then, the sickle turned.

They package any day related to women into a festival that requires gift-giving, creating a bootlicker economy.

Even though the boys knew that this was capital marketing, they still had to bite the bullet and fall into the trap.

Because their girlfriends will only remember that their best friends received gifts, but they didn’t.

Such a comparison creates a gap, which invisibly puts a lot of pressure on boys.

Xue Rui thought that there would be too many damn festivals to celebrate in the future.

Christmas Eve, Christmas Day… Few people know what these festivals are, but girls can receive gifts and boys can find an excuse to get a room.
Xue Rui thought it was a house-opening festival...

There is also Women's Day, which was packaged as Goddess Day;
Xue Rui believes that girls who do not work, never do housework, and only know how to receive gifts are not worthy of celebrating this festival. They belittle the contributions of those great women in history.

There is also the Internet Lovers’ Day on May 5th…

There’s also Children’s Day coming up, after all, who isn’t a baby?

What’s worse is that the first cup of milk tea in the beginning of autumn…

……

It’s a festival all year round!
It is really unfriendly to people like Xue Rui who are playing both sides.

It was okay during high school, as I didn’t have to celebrate many holidays.

But...what about after high school?

How much mental torture would he have to endure if he celebrated all these festivals?
"Xixi?" Xue Rui asked in a questioning tone.

He planned to reduce some of the holidays at Lin Ruoxi's place, and also reduce a few at Gu Muxue's place later, so that he would be able to make it here.

Lin Ruoxi's face flushed red when she heard Xue Rui call her "Xixi". Xue Rui rarely called her this name, only when Xue Rui and grandma chatted, he would say it, usually he would call her by her full name...

She felt very familiar, and Xue Rui said "we".

It's like... we're a family.

"Well... everything is fine." Lin Ruoxi said with her head down.

Xue Rui smiled. He just called Lin Ruoxi by her nickname, but the girl's face turned redder than an apple.

He broke the apple in half and handed half to Lin Ruoxi: "Eat it."

Lin Ruoxi took the apple and took a bite, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but rise.

Although she only received half an apple, it was really sweet...

Xue Rui sighed and thought that if Gu Muxue was so easy to please, he would be so relaxed.

After dinner, the two continued to work on games and developing new software.

With his current status, if he wants to make money while attending high school, the only way he can do is to rely on software.

First, he could make money quickly by leveraging the mobile Internet, and second, he didn't have any other skills.

The game data has clearly started to rise in the past two days. Judging from the previous income, the revenue of Candy Crush this month should be around 50,000 yuan.

After Xue Rui lowered his expectations, he was quite satisfied with this number.

After all, at this point in time, those who can earn 5,000 yuan a month are considered high-income earners. He now earns over 10,000 yuan a month, and the intensity of his work is not that high.

Although most of the burden was given to Lin Ruoxi, Lin Ruoxi had strong skills and it wouldn't take much time...

"Keep enough money for daily use, and I want to invest the rest in Bitcoin," Xue Rui suggested.

He had previously purchased more than 30,000 bitcoins. There was a fluctuation some time ago, and the price increased several times.

However, in Xue Rui's opinion, the price is still too low and not worth selling.

Then the price fell again...Xue Rui felt a little disappointed.

He plans to invest heavily in Bitcoin. He has no chance of losing money since the price will rise to four or five hundred thousand per Bitcoin in the future.

But the game was made by him and Lin Ruoxi together, so naturally Lin Ruoxi would also have a share in the game revenue, so he had to ask Lin Ruoxi's opinion.

As a result, he actually guessed that Lin Ruoxi would most likely support him blindly.

But asking and not asking are two different things.

"Yes, both are fine." Lin Ruoxi nodded decisively without hesitation.

Xue Rui had expected this answer. He smiled and asked, "The virtual currency fluctuates greatly. What if you lose it all? There's still your money in it."

Lin Ruoxi thought about it for a moment and smiled happily: "If you lose, you can earn it again."

Xue Rui was a little surprised. Lin Ruoxi would not lie, and her true feelings were almost written on her face.

Somehow, he seemed to feel that Lin Ruoxi really wanted him to pay compensation.

If you think about it carefully, it doesn't make sense. Why would Lin Ruoxi want to lose money?

What on earth is this girl thinking?
It was the first time that he didn't understand what Lin Ruoxi was thinking.

Lin Ruoxi believed in Xue Rui's choice very much, and she felt that if she lost money, she could continue to make money by making software with Xue Rui.

"Money... as long as it's enough, it's fine." Lin Ruoxi said in a low voice.

In fact, Lin Ruoxi has been surfing the Internet intensively recently and has seen a point of view: men will become bad when they have money.

But Xue Rui warned her not to completely trust everything on the Internet.

So, she asked Xue Rui, will a man become bad if he has money?
Xue Rui was dozing off on the bed at that time. When he heard the question whether men would become bad when they have money, he subconsciously gave an affirmative answer.

Lin Ruoxi doesn't want Xue Rui to become bad...

……

Time flies and it is New Year's Eve.

Xue Rui was very fortunate. He didn't know if it was a problem of the times or because Hedong City was an 18th-tier city and the students here didn't celebrate Christmas.

Therefore, Gu Muxue did not mention this matter to Xue Rui.

Today is the day before New Year’s Day and the school organized a New Year’s Day party.

However, Xue Rui is a sophomore in high school. For the sake of students' studies, the school only arranged performances for freshmen with easy study tasks.

The sophomores and juniors were spectators.

Many students are looking forward to the appearance of the school beauty, whether it is Gu Muxue or Lin Ruoxi.

Unfortunately, the two school beauties are both in the second year of high school.

"What a pity! I still remember Gu Muxue's performance last year. It was really pleasing to the eye." A male student sighed.

"Yeah, it's such a pity." Someone echoed.

"Really? Senior, do you have any video for me to see?" The male students in the first year of high school looked excited. They came a year late and missed out on such a good thing.

"Video? I guess only the school has it. Go ask the principal for it."

Xue Rui smiled and said that when he was having lunch, he saw a lot of photographic equipment in the cafeteria, which were prepared by the school for the annual party.

The junior walked away with a look of regret on his face, muttering, "Actually, Chen Tingting is also very cute."

The New Year's Eve party took up the evening study time. It was already past 6 o'clock in the evening, and it should have been pitch dark.

But today is different. It snowed for a few days after Christmas, and the entire campus was dressed in winter-only attire.

A bright moon painted the snow-covered ground with a layer of silver.

At this time in the campus, the night was as bright as day, and everything around was clearly visible.

The New Year's Day party was held in the cafeteria because the space inside was large enough and warm enough.

The teacher arranged for each class to enter the cafeteria in an orderly manner to watch, but at this point in time it was before the New Year's Day holiday and the winter vacation was about to begin, so the students would not listen to the teacher's arrangements and each went their own way.

Gu Muxue quietly approached Xue Rui and deliberately put her cold little hand into Xue Rui's neck: "Xiao Rui!"

(End of this chapter)