Rebirth: Start to Save the Treasure Girl

During her "escape," Gu Muxue looked nervous, glancing down from time to time, as if she had done something wrong and was afraid that the teacher would catch up with her.

In contrast, Xue Rui acted as if nothing had happened, dragging Gu Muxue straight to the top floor of the library, just one step away from the rooftop.

"Xiao Rui, what are you doing on the rooftop?" Gu Muxue's voice was already very soft, but it still echoed slightly in the empty stairwell.

"I'd like to go up, but it's locked."

Xue Rui chuckled, tossed Gu Muxue's books onto the steps, plopped down on them with a carefree air, then patted his thigh, gesturing for Gu Muxue to sit down as well.

High school students usually avoid smoking and dating, and the stairwell on the top floor is one of the best places to do so.

Unless they make any strange noises, no teacher will voluntarily go to the rooftop.

Gu Muxue looked at him with resentment: "Xiao Rui, how can you be so selfish?"

"My thighs are very selfless."

Xue Rui slapped the paper loudly, but Gu Muxue still pulled out a napkin and placed it on the step.

Xue Rui shifted his position and sat down on it.

"It's warmed up for you, sit down." Xue Rui patted the book, gesturing for Gu Muxue to sit down.

Gu Muxue cautiously peeked out and glanced downstairs, then quickly pulled her head back. After confirming it was safe, she gathered her skirt and sat down quietly.

Xue Rui kept looking at Gu Muxue, and he sighed that a lady from a prominent family was different; even sitting on the steps, she had such a dignified demeanor.

If the teacher finds out, they will definitely assume that he led Gu Muxue astray.

"Xiao Rui, were you this nervous when you were chased by security guards at school? Why am I also a little excited?"

This was the first time Gu Muxue had "rebelled" at school. While she was nervous, she also felt a strange sense of exhilaration. She wanted to know if this feeling was normal.

“Absolutely not normal. When I ran away, I was filled with guilt. I felt terrible.” Xue Rui said with a straight face.

Gu Muxue looked bewildered. She gritted her teeth and pinched Xue Rui: "Speak properly."

"Mu Xue, you've gone astray." Xue Rui grinned and put his arm around Gu Mu Xue's shoulder.

"Stop hugging and cuddling, what kind of behavior is that?" Gu Muxue said with a smile, she was very happy.

She told Xue Rui she was in a bad mood today, and Xue Rui immediately ran to the school to find her, bringing her small cakes and milk tea.

Judging from the quantity, it was probably prepared for her roommate, but she wasn't with her roommate.

That's a huge pile of food, it must be really hard to lift it up, right?
She saw Xue Rui walking towards her from afar, and wondered if his palms hurt.

Gu Muxue casually took Xue Rui's hand and gently squeezed it in his palm.

Hmm, it's a little swollen.

So, Gu Muxue gently massaged Xue Rui's palms, complaining as she did so:

"Oh dear, someone said on WeChat that they would bring me small cakes and candied hawthorns, but I didn't get to eat a single piece of the small cakes, and I didn't see the candied hawthorns either."

Xue Rui was both amused and exasperated. The little girl clearly felt sorry for him, but she still wouldn't let him off the hook with her words.

"Hello, teacher," Xue Rui said to the empty room.

"Huh?" Gu Muxue's pupils widened in shock. She turned around abruptly, only to find the stairs completely empty.

Gu Muxue knew, of course, that Xue Rui was just teasing her, and she blurted out, "You bastard..."

Xue Rui pulled two candied hawthorns from behind his back and, as if performing magic, held them up in front of Gu Muxue: "Ta-da!"

"Hmph!" Gu Muxue snatched the two candied hawthorns with a smirk, not forgetting to glare at Bai Xuerui.

"What are you messing around with?" Xue Rui pressed.

Gu Muxue tore open the paper bag of the candied hawthorn, took a vicious bite, and said weakly, "Egg."

Xue Rui's gaze froze for a moment. When girls say words in reduplicated form, it always seems like they're trying to be cute.

Xue Rui habitually rubbed the little head in front of him, but by the time he realized the feeling was wrong, it was too late.

"broken!"

Xue Rui sensed something was wrong; he brought his habits of interacting with Lin Ruoxi to Gu Muxue.

"Mu Xue, there was something in your hair, I removed it for you." Xue Rui made an excuse before Gu Mu Xue could speak.

"Xiao Rui, are you that afraid of me?" Gu Muxue asked with a smile.

"I dare not say." Xue Rui deliberately shrank further against the wall.

Gu Muxue frowned, angrily tapping Xue Rui on the head twice: "All you do is bully me..."

After slapping Xue Rui a couple of times, Gu Muxue felt much better and then began to talk about the things that had upset her today.

"Xiao Rui, how many semesters are there in a year?" Gu Muxue asked with a disappointed expression, handing a half-eaten candied hawthorn to Xue Rui.

“Even elementary school students know that there are two,” Xue Rui blurted out.

“But there are three in our school.” Gu Muxue looked pitifully into Xue Rui’s eyes.

"Huh?" Xue Rui looked puzzled.

"I was studying in the library today, preparing for my exams, when I suddenly heard a senior student say that there would be a summer mini-semester after the exams. I missed the class meeting and just found out about this now..."

Gu Muxue began to complain incessantly.

Simply put, after the exam month, there is another month of classes, and the holiday time is much later than other schools.

Similarly, the start of the school year will also be later. Although the total length of the holiday will remain basically the same, it will be different from the summer vacation time of other schools.

For Gu Muxue, this was tantamount to disrupting her summer plans.

She was planning to travel with Xue Rui during the summer vacation, but now Xue Rui has been on vacation for more than half a month, while she still has to go to school.

Listening to Gu Muxue's incessant complaining, Xue Rui instinctively wanted to comfort her: "Muxue..."

"Xiao Rui, I'm sorry, I didn't arrange my time well..." Gu Muxue was very downcast.

Xue Rui was stunned for a moment. He was a little confused. Gu Muxue was apologizing to him?

Did Gu Muxue call him over not to be her emotional dumping ground?

After careful consideration, I realized that although Gu Muxue was usually very assertive, she was ultimately a reasonable person.

When things go wrong, they don't blame external factors, but choose to take responsibility.

"It's okay, I'll go to class with you. Learning is a lifelong process," Xue Rui said, blinking.

"Really?" Gu Muxue's eyes lit up. She knew Xue Rui wouldn't blame her, but Xue Rui's answer made her overjoyed.

"What about Auntie's side?" Gu Muxue asked.

She really wanted to ask Lin Ruoxi, but the words that came out were changed to Ren Qunfang.

"Oh, anyway, I wasn't planning on going home." Xue Rui shrugged.

"No, you still have to go back and check on her. Auntie complained to me that you never call her, and I always have to hold the phone up for you to answer," Gu Muxue said, poking Xue Rui's forehead.

"Sigh~" Xue Rui scratched his head. It wasn't that he didn't want to make the call, but every time he made one, his mother would ask where he was.

Xue Rui spends Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at Gu Muxue's place, and Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at Lin Ruoxi's. He changes locations every day, and his mother always scolds him for it...

As time went on, Xue Rui stopped answering.

As the two were chatting, they suddenly heard voices and the sound of cigarettes being lit coming from the stairwell. The voices sounded like they were from staff members on the top floor.

Gu Muxue exchanged a nervous glance with Xue Rui, then quickly covered his mouth to prevent him from making a sound. Xue Rui stuck out his tongue and licked his lips, at which point Gu Muxue immediately frowned in disgust, but dared not show it.

Xue Rui was secretly pleased. As long as there were outsiders present, the little girl was still easy to bully.

Xue Rui reached out and pinched Gu Muxue's cheek. Although Gu Muxue looked unwilling, she couldn't do anything about it.

After a while, Xue Rui heard the sound of a cigarette butt hitting the ground. Based on common sense, he estimated that the two people below were about to leave.

Xue Rui really wanted to throw the Zhonghua cigarettes out of his pocket and light another one for those two.

It's rare to see Gu Muxue so easy to bully, but the time was far too short.

After listening for a while and finding no movement below, Gu Muxue finally relaxed and looked at Xue Rui with a hint of "threat".

You bullied me so much just now, now it's my turn, right?

Xue Rui gently rubbed Gu Muxue's cheek and mouthed silently, "They haven't left yet."

"I don't believe it," Gu Muxue mouthed, then stood up and leaned over to take a look.

In his anxiety, Xue Rui cupped Gu Muxue's face and kissed her.

Gu Muxue's eyes widened, her heart pounding. She had just seen the stairs, but they were empty.

But Xue Rui seems to... really like her fearful look?

Let's just pretend we didn't see it.

Hmph, I'll grant your wish this once.

Gu Muxue slowly closed her eyes, letting Xue Rui "bully" her.

A moment later, Gu Muxue, her face flushed, huddled on the stairs, cupping her face in her hands to cool it down.

We kiss at home all the time, it's just a different environment now, why am I so nervous?

On the other hand, Xue Rui always acts the same way, he's really shameless.

She was furious at the thought and wanted to pinch Xue Rui, but she had no excuse.

Gu Muxue stood up and glanced downstairs, then pinched Xue Rui's cheek:

"Damn it, there was no one there just now, you're still lying to me."

A "click" sound rang out, like the sound of a lighter being lit again.

Gu Muxue was stunned for a moment, then threatened, "Hand over the lighter, are you trying to scare me?"

Xue Rui looked completely innocent: "If I don't smoke, where would the fire come from?"

"Don't think I don't know it's you," Gu Muxue said fiercely.

"Someone's coming," Xue Rui warned. He saw a girl walking up curiously, who seemed to be the girl opposite Gu Muxue in the library study room, with a thin cigarette between her fingers.

The girl's eyes lit up when she saw Xue Rui and Gu Muxue, then she gave a meaningful smile. She winked at Xue Rui, then put her index finger to her lips, making a shushing gesture: "Shh~"

"The boy who cried wolf doesn't work anymore, hand it over now." Gu Muxue didn't believe Xue Rui's explanation.

Helpless, Xue Rui had no choice but to hand over the lighter, which earned him a comment from Gu Muxue: "That's more like it."

"Give me your hand, let me check it."

Gu Muxue confiscated the cigarettes from Xue Rui, then carefully checked his hands to make sure he wasn't smoking. She then patted his head and softly praised him, "Good boy~"

"I usually use chopsticks to pick it up, so of course you can't tell with my fingers," Xue Rui said with a grin.

"You dare?" Gu Muxue threatened, revealing her gleaming fangs.

"Let's go, let's go, the storm should have passed by now."

Xue Rui took Gu Muxue's hand, wondering if he could catch up with the girl who was smoking.

As Xue Rui passed by the library's front door, he turned his clothes inside out, picked up Gu Muxue's book, and pretended to be reading intently as he walked out.

The administrator looked at him several times, feeling that the young man looked familiar, but couldn't quite place where he had seen him before.

Gu Muxue held Xue Rui's arm tightly. She looked at the suspicious-looking administrator, then at Xue Rui, and felt great admiration for him.

Because of his overconfidence, the administrator even began to doubt himself, without suspecting that Xue Rui was the deliveryman.

Xue Rui, the "instigator," walked out nonchalantly as if nothing had happened.

As Xue Rui left the library, he looked around but couldn't find the girl who had been smoking earlier.

"The girl across from you in the study room, the senior you mentioned, does she smoke?" Xue Rui suddenly asked.

Gu Muxue paused for a moment. She remembered that she could occasionally smell a faint smell of smoke, but when she asked, the other party always explained that it was brought back from outside.

Thinking about it now, it really seems a bit strange.

Did Xue Rui figure it out by looking at the other person's fingers?
She didn't even notice.

"You observe so closely?" Gu Muxue narrowed her eyes, her words laced with jealousy.

Xue Rui shook his head, his face serious, and said:

"I really wasn't lying to you. I didn't light the lighter. She was smoking in the stairwell, and when she saw us, she left."

Gu Muxue frowned, thinking that it was still quite rare to see a girl who smoked.

Xue Rui's serious attitude seemed to be reminding her not to make strange friends.

"Don't be so suspicious. It sounds bad for a girl to smoke, so it's normal for her not to admit it, right?" Gu Muxue explained.

"In short, be careful. It's your business to make friends proactively, but it's another matter if someone approaches you. Some people come with an ulterior motive, so the communication goes very smoothly," Xue Rui reminded him.

It's difficult for someone like Gu Muxue to make friends; those who actively approach her are most likely up to no good.

A person with high experience can be compatible with someone with low experience. This may not be because the two people get along well, but because one party is intentionally guiding the conversation.

Xue Rui had some doubts, but that was all.

Gu Muxue rolled her eyes at Xue Rui and said slowly, "And what about you? What do you want by approaching me like this?"

Xue Rui chuckled: "I'm just jealous of your good looks."

"You're such a chatterbox," Gu Muxue scolded, but the smile in her eyes betrayed her true feelings.

Looking back now, her encounter with that senior was not "accidental." She was already a junior, but instead of rushing to complete her internship assignments during the short break, she was always secretly watching TV series on her phone in the library.

Moreover, the other person could respond to every topic she brought up, as if they were always following along with her words.

Is it really necessary to go to such lengths with a complete stranger, a female student?

Compared to her friends, Gu Muxue was more willing to believe Xue Rui, whom she had grown up with.

"Since you have doubts, I'll call her and ask her out for dinner. If she doesn't agree, we'll cut ties, okay?" Gu Muxue asked, holding up her phone.

"You're asking me?" Xue Rui looked surprised; he was startled by Gu Muxue once again.

This girl is decisive and efficient; she never lets things linger overnight.

Just now you said he was paranoid, and now you're saying you're cutting ties with him like that?
Isn't that a bit too cold-hearted?
Xue Rui was somewhat apprehensive, fearing that one day he would be treated the same way by Gu Muxue.

Gu Muxue flipped through her contacts, then glanced up at Xue Rui, as if she could see through his thoughts.

Gu Muxue smiled sweetly:
"Xiao Rui, you're different from outsiders." (End of Chapter)