Rebirth: Saving the Lovely Girl from the Start

That was what Lin Ruoxi thought. A sudden panic seized her heart, as if Xue Rui wasn’t ever coming back.

Yu Minlan was on the sofa listening to music and intensely browsing the internet. She noticed Lin Ruoxi seemed completely out of it today and figured the girl was still far too dependent on Xue Rui.

’But this seems different from her usual pining, doesn’t it?’

She paused the music on her laptop and asked, "Ruoxi, what’s wrong?"

"Some other girl might steal Xue Rui away," Lin Ruoxi said woodenly, her eyes vacant.

She couldn’t bear to imagine Xue Rui leaving her. Where would she go then?

’Cling to his side?’

In truth, when Xue Rui was with her, Lin Ruoxi never considered this question.

But now that he was gone, the girl’s thoughts were running wild.

’If another girl successfully wins him over, will he kick me out?’

The moment Lin Ruoxi thought this, her vision blurred. Her long lashes trembled, and tears dripped down onto her chest...

Yu Minlan felt a surge of delight. ’Even though she’s crying, Lin Ruoxi is finally getting it!’

She began to console her. "Ruoxi, Xue Rui would never, ever kick you out."

She was completely confident about this. To any man, Lin Ruoxi was practically the perfect creature.

With her stunning looks and her completely submissive personality, no one could possibly refuse a girl like her.

’Well... mainly because she’s basically a freebie you just pick up off the street.’

"Mm," Lin Ruoxi said, taking a few deep breaths and wiping away her tears.

Yu Minlan sighed. ’This is exactly why Xue Rui is so bold as to just leave you hanging like this!’ she thought.

’A girl who will never leave is a girl who will never be treasured.’

With that thought, she tapped the spacebar on her laptop, and the song "The Less I Understand" began to play.

"What you can’t have, you love even more; what comes too easily, you ignore..."

Yu Minlan couldn’t help but marvel. ’Love songs really do hit the nail on the head.’ She set the song to loop, hoping Lin Ruoxi would listen to it a few more times.

Suddenly, Lin Ruoxi looked at her phone and broke into a smile. "Sister Yu, could you turn down your laptop? Xue Rui is video calling me."

Yu Minlan: "..."

When the call connected, the screen showed Da Huang circling a plastic container.

Xue Rui complained, "Da Huang is such a picky eater. I brought this food especially for him. All my effort, wasted."

Lin Ruoxi’s voice hardened slightly. "Da Huang, eat."

Xue Rui laughed. ’The only one this girl can be stern with isn’t even human.’

Sometimes, he felt he was a bit of a masochist, wanting the girl to be stern with him just once.

’But that wish will probably never come true. What on earth would it take to actually make her angry?’

He flipped the camera to face him, meeting the girl’s gaze through the screen. "Did you eat until you were full today?"

"I’m full," Lin Ruoxi murmured.

"How can you prove it?" Xue Rui asked with a laugh.

"Um, hold on," Lin Ruoxi said. She flipped her camera around, then lifted her shirt to show her tummy to Xue Rui.

Xue Rui looked at the girl’s tummy, which was slightly round and looked soft after her meal. ’This girl doesn’t have a single ounce of modesty,’ he thought. ’Even the lace of her panties is peeking out a little...’

’Right, I was the one who picked out that style for her. The one with the black lace trim.’

"Cover up, quick! You’ll catch a cold," Xue Rui laughed.

Lin Ruoxi suddenly noticed a mark on Xue Rui’s neck, but she couldn’t see it clearly through the screen. She asked, "What’s that on your neck?"

Xue Rui subconsciously touched the spot where Gu Muxue had bitten him. "It’s nothing. A mosquito bit me, and it got red from scratching."

The girl eagerly volunteered, "I’ll protect you from now on, so no mosquitoes can bite you."

Xue Rui chuckled. "Oh? Are you going to stare at me all the time?"

"Mm, I will," the girl said earnestly, the corners of her eyes crinkling with a smile.

Then, with a look of anticipation, Lin Ruoxi asked, "So... what’s your relationship with your classmate, Gu Muxue?"

Director Wang had just asked her the same question, so she was now asking Xue Rui.

Xue Rui’s smile froze on his face. ’How could the girl ask such a killer question?’

"You just said it yourself—my classmate, Gu Muxue. So, of course, we’re classmates. And friends," Xue Rui said.

’Girlfriend is a type of friend, after all. Leaving out one little word doesn’t matter.’

"Mm, Director Wang just asked me about it. It seemed like he was trying to hint at something," Lin Ruoxi said quietly.

Xue Rui felt a vague sense of unease. ’The girl seems to be getting savvier about these things. She can actually understand what people are hinting at now. Could my being away have something to do with it?’

’With Lin Ruoxi’s technical skills, if she really wanted to track my movements...’

’In the age of the mobile internet, facing a computer expert of her caliber would make a person completely transparent. Every single move, monitored...’

’I could never stand up to that kind of scrutiny!’

Xue Rui looked up at the darkening sky and felt like the entire world was conspiring against him.

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