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After rebirth, I rejected the rich yandere lady-Chapter 958 - 390: Isn’t this Ming Yue’s and my bridal chamber?_2
Yao Mingyue was held by her mother, and she couldn't continue to complain. Flushing, she said, "Alright, there are a lot of people watching, let's go home."
"Okay, let's go home."
...
Going home.
It takes about an hour from the airport to their home.
Yao Mingyue was initially bickering with her mom, but soon she dozed off in Liu Rushuang's arms.
Liu Rushuang gently patted her daughter's back and touched her slightly cold cheeks and her hands that seemed to never warm up, just like when she used to lull her to sleep as a child.
"It's winter, and Mingyue is like a little bear ready to hibernate..."
But the tone filled with distress and affection could not hide from Xu Musen's ears.
"Mom, Mingyue's health..."
"Shh, let her sleep for a while, don't worry, I'll have a good talk with her."
Liu Rushuang gently shushed, patting her daughter's back, not wanting to discuss this topic, and held her daughter in her arms.
Xu Musen could only watch through the rear-view mirror, finally softly sighing, his tone gentle yet firm, "Mom, don't worry, no matter what, I will always be with her."
Liu Rushuang looked up and met Xu Musen's eyes through the rear-view mirror, then lowered her gaze to the sleeping daughter, showing a complex smile: "With you saying that, Mingyue would be very happy."
The car stopped in front of a villa.
What was different this time was that the villa at the Yao Mingyue family's doorstep, which had been vacant for a long time, now had its lights on.
Liu Rushuang rolled down the window, looking at the villa across that finally welcomed back its original owner, she couldn't help but smile.
"We've finally moved back."
"Yeah, my parents have been longing for it, they didn't wait for the movers and started tidying up to move back in themselves."
"Mom, I haven't had the chance to properly thank you yet."
Xu Musen took the initiative to speak, now that his parents had moved back, living in the old house, they were much happier than before.
"It was always yours to begin with, I just guarded it for a few years, originally planning to give it to you and Mingyue as a wedding house, but now it seems..."
Liu Rushuang spoke, shaking her head with a smile: "It seems our Xiao Sen is more accomplished than I thought; he doesn't have to wait until that day."
Liu Rushuang's words inevitably had a hint of tease, she shook her head with a smile, ruffled Xu Musen's head, "I'll take Mingyue home to rest for a bit, we'll join you for New Year's reunion dinner this evening, we might not have many more chances like this."
"Without you guys, can our meal still be considered a reunion dinner?"
Xu Musen jokingly asked.
Liu Rushuang was momentarily stunned, then replied with a pleased smile, "You smooth talker, in the future, if you marry that girl named Nuannuan, will your words still count?"
"Of course, whether or not I marry Nuannuan, we are already family."
"What if Mingyue gets married in the future too?"
Liu Rushuang touched her daughter's cheek, looking up into Xu Musen's eyes, and suddenly asked again.
"Getting married?"
Xu Musen, however, looked very surprised, "Aren't you already transferring the marriage house to me?"
Liu Rushuang was speechless for a long time, finally chuckled with a bit of tease: "You're a greedy one… being too greedy can get you choked, never mind, just make sure to cook some of my favorite dishes later."
"Yes, sir!"
After Xu Musen tucked Yao Mingyue into bed to sleep, he rushed back home to report the situation to his parents.
Meanwhile, Liu Rushuang sat by the bedside, reached out and poked her daughter's cheek: "Still pretending to sleep?"
Yao Mingyue slowly opened her eyes, meeting her mother's half-smiling expression, and rubbed her eyes.
"Just now, you heard everything he said, didn't you?"
"Um..."
Yao Mingyue nodded, her pale cheeks flushing a bit.
"I didn't expect this, that kid has become so daring, now he can say such things in front of me without blushing or skipping a beat."
Liu Rushuang looked at her daughter's flushed face, slightly frustrated: "You, after he says such things, you still aren't angry?"
Yao Mingyue pursed her lips, touching her chest: "What anger can I have now, I don't even know how many breaths I can still take."
"It's the New Year, don't talk about such unlucky things, quick, spit it out!"
Liu Rushuang immediately covered her daughter's mouth.
"Mom, you're so childish."
"You think you're that mature?" Liu Rushuang rolled her eyes at her daughter, but seeing her daughter's frail appearance, she couldn't bear to scold further: "Have you been feeling very sleepy these days?"
"Yeah... I just feel like I can't muster any energy, Mom, I think this winter... I might..."
Yao Mingyue didn't finish her words, seeing her mother's pained look, she smiled and shook her head: "Forget it, it's the New Year, no need to speak of unlucky things, I'm used to it by now, maybe it will be much better come spring."
"Actually, you could opt for conservative treatment, at least for the next twenty or thirty years there wouldn't be a problem." Liu Rushuang couldn't help but persuade, she clearly knew the risks her daughter was facing.
If it's conservative treatment, at least there could be twenty or thirty more normal years to live, but if she chooses the path she's considering, maybe this New Year really is the last one...
"But choosing conservative treatment means losing the chance of a complete cure forever, the surgery has the highest chance of success in the next year or two, once missed, it might never be an opportunity again..."
Yao Mingyue looked around the familiar room, the walls adorned with many photos of both families, in the photos, that figure she hadn't seen in many years still looked so young.
"Mom, don't you feel any regrets, not being able to walk to the end with dad, nor could I share any more moments with him…"
Yao Mingyue's voice trailed off slowly, every word seemed to weigh heavily on Liu Rushuang's heart.
She looked up too at the photos in the room, staring at that figure forever captured in the photos from years ago.
She bit her lip, struggling to maintain her usual cheerful grace.
Yes, the two people in the world who truly loved each other, they met even though the world is so vast. There's no reason they couldn't grow old together.
But they lost each other during the best years of their lives.
"It's like these photos here, we started out together, as if we were meant to be a family from birth, meant to always live together…"
Yao Mingyue picked up a family portrait of six from the bedside.
"I used to think a lot, wanted a lot too, I wanted him to always love only me, I wanted him to always revolve around me, I wanted him to always stay by my side.
I was also afraid, afraid he would stop liking me, afraid that there would be someone else in his world, afraid that he wouldn't always be with me.
But I later realized, the person who really failed to keep the promise was actually me…"
Yao Mingyue touched the photo, tears glistening in her eyes, she clutched her chest, emotional fluctuations and quickened breathing made her feel slightly suffocated: "Even if I do not say it, he will always love me, always keeping a place for me in his world, always staying with me, but, it's just that my body is the most unreliable, if I couldn't hang on, wouldn't I be the one who left him first, left him alone, left his world first...
If separation is the destined end, the more I gain now, the deeper the pain inflicted, it was the same for dad, and for him too…"
Tears ran down Yao Mingyue's cheek, she hugged the photo to her chest, Liu Rushuang held her gently but her tears also fell uncontrollably.
Oh God, why such a good child, why at birth she was given all the happiness, but then also so cruelly taken away, bit by bit.
Outside, fireworks blossomed brightly, the scene was spectacular.
Seemingly drowning out all sounds in their blazing splendor…