After rebirth, I rejected the rich yandere lady

School, library.

Xu Musen arrived carrying milk tea and sat down in front of Yao Mingyue.

Today, he was tasked by Nuannuan to invite Yao Mingyue over to their house for dinner.

However, for some reason, Yao Mingyue, who would normally greet him with a smile, now merely glanced at him indifferently.

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Xu Musen was taken aback. What was the little sickly cutie plotting this time?

"Can't I just sit here if there's nothing wrong?" Xu Musen said, echoing the words Yao Mingyue would usually say.

A phrase like "I'm your god sister, after all~" would typically follow.

When he said this, Xu Musen could feel the grievance usually present in Yao Mingyue's words.

Listening to his statement with its undertone of defeat, Yao Mingyue actually felt a bit better, yet she responded sarcastically, "Boss Xu is busy, right? Always so busy dealing with his little girlfriend at home, when would he have time to sit around in the library?"

Xu Musen shook his head with a smile. That tone of jealousy was just right.

This was the sickly cutie he knew.

"I don't have time to sit around leisurely, I came specifically to invite you over for dinner."

"Your place? Dinner?"

Yao Mingyue twirled her pen, her tone rather deep: "Would your little girlfriend be happy with that?"

"Isn't it normal for me to invite my dear sister over for dinner?"

Xu Musen used her usual words against her.

Yao Mingyue chuckled, and with a light jab of her pen to Xu Musen's chest, she said, "Don't you feel guilty saying that?"

"You and I are innocent, childhood friends, definitely pure friendship."

Xu Musen said earnestly.

"Pure friendship?"

Yao Mingyue fiddled with the pen in her hand slowly, that motion...

Xu Musen subconsciously shifted his legs.

Yao Mingyue slightly curved her lips as if she had vented her anger.

She looked at Xu Musen: "She wouldn't mind me coming over for dinner?"

"I still have some status in the family."

"Heh... spineless mutt."

"??"

Xu Musen, watching Yao Mingyue roll her eyes, seemed to recall the fearful dominance she had over him in his past life.

Indeed, in his past life, he was nothing but a spineless little dog in front of Yao Mingyue.

Xu Musen dropped the act and said, "Alright, actually, Nuannuan found out you sent furniture, so she told me to invite you over for dinner as a thank you."

Yao Mingyue looked at him for a while; although she had guessed it, she was still somewhat angry.

What did that mean? If Nuannuan hadn't mentioned it, would he never have taken the initiative to invite her over for dinner?

And besides, An Nuannuan's invitation for dinner was clearly a show-off trap, likely meant to flaunt her status as the "lady of the house," right?

Biting her lip, Yao Mingyue snatched the milk tea from in front of Xu Musen: "If she hadn't invited me, would you have never actively invited me to your cozy little home for dinner?"

Xu Musen then shook his head and chuckled: "If I don't invite you, would you stop freeloading meals?"

As it happened, the first meal in his new home was shared just between the two of them.

In some sense, that first time was indeed smoothly claimed by Yao Mingyue.

Thinking this, a certain girl, whose heart had been crushed by jealousy, finally felt a bit better, as if she had finally gained a point.

Only then did she insert the straw into the milk tea and take a sip, regaining her aloof demeanor: "Do I have to go just because you invited me?"

"If you don't want to go, forget it, I'll save a pair of chopsticks."

Xu Musen didn't indulge her and stood up to leave.

But the next moment, a tapioca pearl shot out of the straw and landed directly on Xu Musen's face.

It even stuck to his face, and Xu Musen picked it off.

"What are you, a pea shooter?"

Xu Musen was bemused; it was the first time he had encountered such a hidden weapon.

Yao Mingyue giggled: "Serves you right! That's for deliberately angering me."

"Crazy, I invited you, and you're the one who didn't want to go." Xu Musen's eyelid twitched.

Yao Mingyue bit on the straw, squinting her eyes as she spoke.

"What, if your little girlfriend says no, will you really let her decide?"

"..."

What a pointed remark!

Xu Musen was at a loss for words; looking at Yao Mingyue, he realized that if it had been the past, he would have walked away without looking back.

But now, the first thing that came to his mind was to mollify her.

Just like in his previous life.

"Alright, I also bought some chicken wings today, planning to cook some cola chicken wings."

Yao Mingyue had a picky palate but always loved cola chicken wings.

Her fondness for this dish was a secret shared only between their two families.

Sure enough, Yao Mingyue's eyes lit up.

Not because of the cola chicken wings, but because Xu Musen still remembered what she liked to eat.

But thinking of yesterday's events made her heart feel clogged again; forgiving him so quickly was not an option.

She took another gulp of her milk tea.

"It's just cola chicken wings, I could eat that at any roadside stall..."

"But roadside stalls definitely won't have the special recipe that uses one-fourth Pepsi, three-fourths Coca-Cola, plus a little bit of Sprite. I guess I'm the only one in the world who knows how to make it now, right?"

Xu Musen said with a smile as he watched her.

This recipe, after all, was something Yao Mingyue had come up with years ago.

After the car accident, Yao Mingyue had been down for quite a long time, and it took slow coaxing from both families before she began to shift her attention.

Such as playing with Barbie dolls, learning to play the piano, or following Mother Xu in cooking...

And the first dish Yao Mingyue ever concocted on her own was cola chicken wings, which she adored though she had absolutely no talent in cooking.