Rebirth: Start to Save the Treasure Girl

"It's been eighteen years. It won't be open for a few more years."

Chen Shen muttered to himself as he took out two wine glasses. He poured himself a glass first, drank it all, and said with a carefree smile:

"Try it."

Xue Rui was feeling a little heavy at this moment, as he had already guessed the origin of this bottle of "Xinghua Village" Fenjiu.

This bottle of wine has been stored for eighteen years, and Chen Tingting is exactly eighteen years old this year.

There is a folk custom of storing wine when a daughter is born, waiting to be opened on the day of her marriage...

The wine contains Chen Shen's love for Chen Tingting. Now Chen Shen poured a glass for Xue Rui, and Xue Rui had to sit down reluctantly.

Xue Rui first put the wine in front of his nose and smelled it. The unique fragrance of Fenjiu rushed into his nose, with a hint of light fruity flavor.

Chen Shen felt bitter. He never took the relationship between the two children seriously and always felt that his daughter was still young.

But in half a year, my daughter will go to college...

"Perhaps it's not considered a good wine to you." Chen Shen sighed.

Considering Xue Rui's excellence, it's normal that he doesn't like his daughter.

"Is Xinghua Village not good enough? As long as you can graduate from elementary school, you will remember this name."

Xue Rui held up the wine glass with both hands, pressed the rim of the glass very low, and gently touched it with Chen Shen.

"He only says nice things." Chen Shen joked.

……

As they drank and chatted, the clock on the wall had already reached ten o'clock. Chen Tingting lay at the door of the room, listening to their conversation, with the corners of her mouth drooping slightly.

She learned from their conversation that Xue Rui came back not because of him, but to handle the procedures for a large-scale gathering, which required permission from the public security department. He was looking for her father, and coming to see her was just a matter of convenience.

"Young people nowadays drink whatever they want, and they always like to mix it with other drinks. Even the best wine will be ruined. Xiao Rui, you must not dare to do that."

Chen Shen's cheeks flushed and his voice was louder than usual.

Xue Rui was also a little dazed. This young body had never been tempered by alcohol, so his alcohol tolerance was really poor. Now he was a little stuttering when speaking:
"Uncle Chen...you are absolutely right, but I should leave now."

"Let me take you there." Chen Shen said as he stood up and helped Xue Rui up.

"Drink...don't drink and drive. You are breaking the law knowingly. I'll call a designated driver to go back by myself." Xue Rui took out his mobile phone and flipped through the app, but he couldn't see the words clearly.

Suddenly, Chen Tingting stood up and said, "Dad, isn't Xue Rui going to go through the paperwork tomorrow? Why don't you let him sleep at our house and take him over tomorrow morning?"

"How can this be possible? I'll open a hotel nearby for him." Chen Shen frowned and refused.

"What if he vomits? I can take care of him at home."

Chen Tingting said angrily. She crawled under Xue Rui's other arm and took Xue Rui to her room.

Suddenly, Xue Rui's unclear voice rang in her ears:

"Xixi, charge my phone."

Chen Tingting froze in place. Why was Lin Ruoxi still involved?
She took the phone and saw that Xue Rui's phone wallpaper was actually a photo of Lin Ruoxi.

Is rival number two the winner?

The number one rival didn’t tell her!
Could it be that... Gu Muxue doesn't know about it?

Suddenly, she felt a lightness on her shoulder, and Xue Rui was carried away by Chen Shen.

"Tingting, Xue Rui and I will sleep in the guest room tonight, so you should go to bed early too."

Chen Shen thought what his daughter said made sense. He had encountered a bizarre case before, and the cause of death of the deceased was very strange: vomit blocked the trachea after being drunk, resulting in mechanical asphyxiation.

He has to keep an eye on Xue Rui tonight and not let him sleep lying flat on his back.

"Huh?" Chen Tingting looked at the closed door, feeling empty inside.

Zhang Qian walked out of the room and joked, "He's sleeping at our house tonight, why are you unhappy?"

Chen Tingting pouted: "Humph, mom is also a liar."

"Ah?" Zhang Qian stood there in a daze.

"I heard everything. You supported me on the surface just to encourage me to study hard." Chen Tingting's nose felt sore and tears welled up in her eyes.

Why does everyone only care about her grades and no one cares about what she wants?

Zhang Qian rolled her eyes and said with a smile, "If I didn't support you, why would I let you take him home to see him? I can now confirm that he is a good boy."

"I said that just now to paralyze Xue Rui and make him let down his guard."

"Really?" Chen Tingting's eyes were still alert.

"Really." Zhang Qian looked into Chen Tingting's eyes with a firm tone.

"Then you also said that he has a girlfriend..."

When Chen Tingting learned that her "military advisor" had not betrayed her, she started to throw a tantrum again.

"So what?" Zhang Qian asked back.

"It's... it's..." Chen Tingting hesitated for a long time and whispered, "It's like a mistress who destroys other people's families."

Chen Tingting felt very sad. She wanted to play with Xue Rui, but there was already someone next to Xue Rui.

Zhang Qian was speechless for a moment, she tried to test:
"In this case……"

"But I just like it!" Chen Tingting interrupted unwillingly.

"If you like someone, go after him. Why are you hesitating?"

Zhang Qian said calmly that she knew Chen Tingting was stubborn and she couldn't change anything.

Saying this now is nothing more than asking her for a reason, a reason to pursue Xue Rui.

"Whether you like him is your business, and who he likes is his business. The two are not in conflict."

Chen Tingting's eyes widened. This was the first time she had heard of this statement. She said with admiration, "Mom, you haven't read much, how come you are so smart?"

"How do you curse?"

"I'm complimenting you."

"Before marriage, everyone is fair competition, but if he gets married, you have to give up. At that time, you are destroying other people's families." Zhang Qian said in a low voice.

"So..." Chen Tingting turned on Xue Rui's phone screen and held it in front of Zhang Qian: "This is his girlfriend, what should I do now?"

She was so busy discussing Gu Muxue with her mother that she completely ignored the fact that Lin Ruoxi would become Xue Rui's girlfriend. Now she has to make new plans.

Zhang Qian looked at her for a long time and murmured to herself, "This girl is so beautiful."

"He's half a head taller than me." Chen Tingting pouted. She didn't have confidence in front of Lin Ruoxi.

"Pretty girls usually don't study well, just like your mother, but Tingting, you are a good student..." Zhang Qian comforted.

"She...she was the top scorer in last year's college entrance examination." Chen Tingting became less and less confident as she spoke.

Zhang Qian frowned tightly: "It's obvious that this girl can't cook."

"She has been delivering meals to Xue Rui for two years. I shamelessly tried some and it was delicious." Chen Tingting's voice became lower and lower.

"Pretty girls all have bad tempers..."

"Very gentle. I've never heard her speak loudly."

"No, she has all the advantages?"

Zhang Qian couldn't help but gasp. Chen Tingting's love rival was so powerful.

Seeing her daughter's dejected look, Zhang Qian comforted her: "Tingting, you don't understand men. No matter how beautiful a woman is, there will be a day when you will get tired of her. It's not that you don't have a chance."

"Oh? Old Chen too?" Chen Tingting asked back.

"Your father is not. Your father is the best man in the world." Zhang Qian's eyes were full of smiles.

"Oh." Chen Tingting pouted, feeling dissatisfied.

"You scratched your father's hand just now. Now go make some sobering tea and apologize again." Zhang Qian frowned.

"I didn't. He started it first." Chen Tingting raised her neck. She hadn't deducted points from Lao Chen yet.

"He is your father, why are you siding with an outsider?" Zhang Qian pinched Chen Tingting lightly.

"Isn't my grandpa your father? Aren't you still on Old Chen's side?" Chen Tingting thought her mother was really hypocritical.

"You dare to talk back? I won't help you anymore." Zhang Qian was immediately furious.

"Mom, I was wrong." Chen Tingting immediately lowered her head.

"Go!"

"Oh……"

……

Ten minutes later, Chen Tingting knocked on the door of the guest room with tea in her hand, thinking that Lao Chen was too much for locking the door at home.

"Dad, I made you a pot of tea."

After the door opened, Chen Tingting stood on tiptoe and kept looking into the room without even looking at Chen Shen.

Chen Shen's mouth twitched. Who was he cooking for?

After he took the teapot, he pushed Chen Tingting out.

Chen Tingting's dissatisfied voice came from outside the door: "Old Chen, why are you looking so nervous? I won't take advantage of him."

Chen Shen was so angry that he laughed. Why would his daughter be like this?
He looked at Xue Rui who was sleeping soundly, and was inexplicably reminded of his younger self.

He rested his chin on his hand and fell into deep thought: "Is this considered harassment? The current law has loopholes and is too negligent in respecting the rights of men..."

……

After Chen Tingting returned to the room, she remembered that Xue Rui wanted to charge his mobile phone, so she took out the charger and put it on the charging port. However, she found that the charger was not universal due to different mobile phone models, and she did not have an Apple charging cable at home.

Lin Ruoxi in the wallpaper was smiling brightly. The more Chen Tingting looked at her, the more upset she became. She opened the notification page and looked through the messages, trying to find out what Xue Rui's note to her was.

For example, the notes she gave to Gu Muxue and Lin Ruoxi, [Rival No. 1] and [Rival No. 2].

How would Xue Rui define the girls around him?
She took out her cell phone and found [Mu Xue] and [Xi Xi] among a pile of messages.

Chen Tingting became more and more curious. Why did Xue Rui give her the nickname "Tingting"?
Or "Guoguo"?
She turned on her phone and sent a WeChat message to Xue Rui.

On the lock screen, a [Niupi Tang] popped up...

"Why?" Chen Tingting was stunned.

She tried to calm down, she certainly knew she was clingy.

But is this how Xue Rui sees her?
"Humph, taffy is sweet too."

Chen Tingting comforted herself in her heart, at least it was not psoriasis.

Suddenly, the call interface on Xue Rui's phone lit up, and the word "Mom" appeared on the screen.

Chen Tingting's mind was working rapidly. Xue Rui had fallen asleep drunk. Did she have to wake him up?
No, Xue Rui mistook her for Lin Ruoxi just now. Answering the phone would only make her parents worry.

She hesitated for a long time, and seeing that the call was about to be disconnected, she had no time to think, so she pressed the answer button suddenly, ready to report her safety to Xue Rui's parents.

"mom."

Chen Tingting looked at the word "mother" for a long time, and she made a slip of the tongue out of nervousness. After she came to her senses, her cheeks flushed red.

On the other end of the phone.

Ren Qunfang was confused. She turned on her phone and checked several times to make sure she had not dialed the wrong number.

"Ah...Auntie."

"Who are you?" Ren Qunfang dragged out the question.

"Auntie, I'm Chen Tingting, Xue Rui's classmate." Chen Tingting explained.

Ren Qunfang's mind buzzed. This name looked so familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere before.
No, I've seen it somewhere...

One winter solstice, Xue Rui brought back some dumplings with a love confession note inside. The girl’s name seemed to be Chen Tingting.

"Where is Xue Rui?" Ren Qunfang asked tentatively.

"Auntie, he drank and is now asleep. Don't worry, I will take good care of him."

Chen Tingting encouraged herself and decided to perform well in front of her "future mother-in-law".

However, when these words reached Ren Qunfang's ears, they exploded like thunder.

Two girls are already a headache, why is there a third one?
"Jianfeng, come here and listen!" Ren Qunfang shouted, covering her cell phone.

Xue Jianfeng hurried over when he heard this: "What's wrong with my wife?"

Suddenly, Chen Tingting's playful voice came from the phone: "Hello Uncle Xue, my name is Chen Tingting. I used to work in your store. We have met before."

Ren Qunfang smiled and said, "Hello Tingting, remember to tell Xue Rui to come home when he wakes up tomorrow."

"Well, but I have classes tomorrow, so I can't go over. Goodbye, uncle and aunt." Chen Tingting said with regret in her tone.

"Goodbye, hanging up."

After hanging up the phone, Ren Qunfang rubbed her temples. Her blood pressure was high just now.

"Jianfeng, do you know Chen Tingting?" Ren Qunfang asked with her eyes closed.

"I don't know him." Xue Jianfeng looked confused.

"She said she knew you."

"But I really don't know her!"

"Do you two, father and son, tell me the truth?"

Ren Qunfang cursed coldly, turned around and went upstairs.

Xue Jianfeng clenched his fists tightly. How much trouble did Xue Rui cause him every day?

And in a sense, Xue Rui's image also represents his image.

People who cause trouble never suffer, so why does he have to take the blame every day?
"If a son is not well-educated, it is the fault of his father. I have to discipline him more."

Xue Jianfeng took a deep breath and slowly pulled out his belt.

……

Chen Tingting's room.

"Did I forget to explain the reason just now?" Chen Tingting said to herself.

But she felt that it was not important. The most important thing was to leave an impression on Xue Rui's parents.

My mother once said that the family card is the most useful.

As long as the relatives around Xue Rui keep mentioning Chen Tingting's name every day, Xue Rui will get closer and closer to her.

Suddenly, Xue Rui's phone screen lit up again, and this time it was a video call from Lin Ruoxi.

Chen Tingting's heartbeat quickened, thinking that the real master had arrived...

After what happened just now, Chen Tingting was now very excited. She pressed the answer button without hesitation.

Her ultimate goal is to make Xue Rui her own, and Lin Ruoxi is a huge obstacle that she cannot avoid.

On the screen, Lin Ruoxi had a dazed look on her face.

Chen Tingting thought about it for a long time, but for a moment she didn't know what to say to Lin Ruoxi.

However, seeing the other party's dazed look, Chen Tingting felt secretly delighted, as now the initiative was in her hands.

"Chen Tingting? Where is Xue...Xue Rui?" Lin Ruoxi sounded a little surprised.

Mu Xue told her that Xue Rui went to look for Chen Tingting's father, but it was already 11 o'clock in the evening, why was it Chen Tingting who answered the phone?
"He's asleep. I'll take good care of him."

The smile in Chen Tingting's eyes became more and more intense. (End of this chapter)