After rebirth, I rejected the rich yandere lady

It was from that day on that Yao Mingyue's personality quietly began to change. After her father passed away, her mother, in order to support the family, had no choice but to leave her behind and run around to different places.

A twelve-year-old child would wait every day in an empty home.

The compensation she received spared her from financial hardship, but the loneliness and pain in her heart were unimaginable to most people.

From that day on, she didn't smile as much. She always felt that everything would leave her...

On the stage, Yao Mingyue's memories of these scenes flashed through her mind, revealing a sorrow hidden for so long in the depths of her eyes, her voice tinged with confusion.

"Earnestly toss the coin that decides fate,

but not knowing where one can go..."

Back then, she was like an abandoned kitten weaned too early, coiling up in her own nest day after day, while the wind and rain lashed outside, meowing softly, hoping to get a response from her mom and dad.

But the only reply she received was the echo of her own meows...

It was as if she stood at a crossroad, uncertain of her path ahead.

That confusion, sadness, and a sense of despair and powerless, all resonated in her singing, spreading to every corner of the playground at this moment.

Many people showed sadness in their eyes, for who hasn't had several grievous stories in their youth?

Like the two sides of a coin, people always hope the coin will give them an answer.

But when the coin is tossed into the air, in truth, you already have the answer in your heart.

It's just that most of us are unwilling to face such an outcome.

Xu Musen watched Yao Mingyue quietly, he too could not forget that night, it was from that night on that the relationship between the two of them started to change unnoticed.

Fathers of both Yao and Xu were being resuscitated in the hospital. During those days, Liu Rushuang and Xu's mother were extremely busy.

They did not have time to calm the emotions of the two children.

Xu Musen and Yao Mingyue sat on the bench in the hospital corridor; Ming Yue's tears had dried.

She hugged herself, curled up on the bench, in the most helpless moment of her life.

The birthday cake that had been prepared was thrown aside, abandoned just like her.

At that moment, it was Xu Musen who gently held her in his arms, soothing her shaking head.

"I'm here for you, I will take care of you on behalf of Uncle Yao, forever..."

Little kids don't understand how far forever is.

But Yao Mingyue took it to heart as forever.

She trembled as she hugged Xu Musen. Tears that had been cried dry started falling uncontrollably again.

For twelve-year-old Xu Musen, his not so broad embrace became her only harbor at that time.

A little seed was planted in her heart.

Afterward, Xu Musen picked up the cake that had fallen to the floor. The adults were too preoccupied to pay them any attention.

Xu Musen, holding Yao Mingyue's hand, proceeded to put twelve candles on the now incomplete cake in the hospital corridor.

"Make a wish"

Xu Musen comforted her softly, although he was only twelve, he had to take care of her as a little man.

Yao Mingyue made two wishes.

One failed, but the other became the courage that supported her to keep living.

She would never forget that in the cold corner of the hospital staircase, Xu Musen cut her a piece of cake,

and held it out in front of her: "Xiaoyue, I know you're very upset, but the future will surely be like this piece of cake, getting sweeter and sweeter, let's pinky swear..."

At that moment, Yao Mingyue branded the person before her into her heart, that phrase "I will always be with you."

Their fingers hooked together, as though it was the most reliable contract in the world.

It was like a beam of light in despair, illuminating the place in her heart, also making her fear losing this only light tremendously.

The seed of fear of gain and loss in Yao Mingyue's heart still started to take root and sprout.

Her fingers lightly touched the piano, the sound emanating like light seeping through cracks in the darkness.

"The promise to grow up together.

It's so clear, the proof is in our pinky swear..."

Her voice carried the strength of the morning sun yet also a sense of gain and loss, her eyes shimmering with a hint of tearful light.

Xu Musen naturally remembered that day as well, when he and Yao Mingyue made wishes over the damaged cake, but neither of them had much of an appetite.

Yao Mingyue was called away by Liu Rushuang; the doctor asked for the family in the intensive care unit.

Xu Musen looked at the remaining cake.

He naively believed that for a birthday wish to come true, one had to finish the birthday cake, and the more people who ate it, the more blessings there would be.

He went around the wards, handing out pieces of cake, encouraging everyone.

Just hoping her wish could truly come true.

They both hoped to become each other's support.

Xu Musen looked down at his little finger,

The promise that had been pinky sworn...

In truth, neither of them had broken their word, it's just that the path they walked had skewed, like choosing the wrong road; the harder they walked, the further they pushed each other away.

Xu Musen didn't notice that An Nuannuan, at that moment, had emotions swirling in her peach-blossom eyes, an expression she rarely showed.

In her mind too, a scene unfolded—the hospital's pale ward filled with the smell of disinfectant, and that figure that suddenly appeared...

She couldn't help but draw closer to him quietly, her gaze also shifting toward the stage.

The voice of Yao Mingyue also carried the vibes of being reinvigorated,

"We agreed to move forward together,

Your present persistence is the only obstinacy..."