After rebirth, I rejected the rich yandere lady

"It's all human nature, there's nothing we can do to completely stop it. Best to separate them early and send them to the borders to continue expanding."

At the same time, he let his parents supervise them. After all, being an only child, Musen didn't have to worry about any potential discarded heir scenarios, so he was completely reassured.

Father Xu and Mother Xu listened to Musen's arrangements and nodded in agreement. The business they were currently in was nothing compared to what Musen was doing now.

Everyone must learn to do the math.

They were happy to be able to help their son with some things.

Walk the talk.

After dinner, the family headed to the flower shop and milk tea store.

Business at the milk tea store was doing well now; Musen made an inspection and found many things could continue to be used, only needing the addition of machines like separate fresh juice extractors and fast ice-blended beverage makers.

Musen had already arranged it in advance; some new machines and signage for the milk tea store would be delivered that afternoon.

As for the manager,

Musen thought of someone.

He pulled out his phone and made a call.

"Speak."

On the other end of the phone was that ever-unchanging, cold voice.

"Lianmai, you...nevermind, are you busy at home these days?"

Musen still wanted to emphasize his authority as the boss, but he had gotten used to being snubbed by his subordinate.

Employee reverse PUA-ing the boss, what a concept.

On the other end of the phone, Lianmai was sitting in the yard, sunning meat, hands greasy, yet her expression remained calm.

"Not too bad, you need something?"

"I am planning to start the main milk tea store in Zheng City. These next few days I may need you to oversee the work."

"It's currently vacation time."

Lianmai's cool voice came through, but on this end, there was a slight smile on her lips.

"I'll give you overtime pay, how about that?"

"I don't want money."

"So what do you want?" Musen got a headache whenever he heard a girl say she didn't want something.

Clearly, they always wanted more!

Ha, women!

Lianmai looked down at the meat she was preparing today, a glint in her eye: "Send me half a pig tomorrow, and I'll help."

"Is that all?"

Musen was taken aback, what was this, just half a pig, that wasn't much money.

"That's all."

"Alright, deal! Wait for me to send the pig!"

Musen then hung up.

Lianmai also looked at her phone.

She smiled, putting the phone aside.

"Sis! Who were you talking to just now?"

Lianmai's little sister came over.

"Just a ruthless boss."

Lianmai shook her head.

"Hehe, you seemed so anxious while taking the call."

The little sister, holding a handkerchief, wiped Lianmai's phone; Musen's call had come, and without wiping the grease from the meat off her hands, Lianmai had promptly answered.

But predictably, she adopted a cool and dismissive tone after picking up.

What's that called again, oh right, tsundere!

Lianmai merely smiled and shook her head as she looked at the prepared cured meat. In the past, buying meat was not easy for their family. They would always buy extra whenever someone butchered a pig or processed meat, not willing to eat it all at once. Whatever was left, they would cure and hang up to dry into cured meats and sausages.

Now, their family was quite well off and didn't have to worry about food, but they still always prepared some cured meat,

"Little sis, go grab some wax paper and pack up all these cured meats and sausages."

"Pack everything? There are half a pig's worth of cured meats here."

"Pack it up. After all, we are expecting a delivery of fresh half a pig in a few days."

Lianmai wiped her hands and then smilingly touched her sister's cheek, turned her head, and looked off into the distance.

...

Having organized the work,

Musen also kept his promise, taking Yao Mingyue out shopping.

Honestly, the best part about Zheng City was being able to go to Zheng City's train station and buy a ticket to anywhere. After all, any place was more fun than this city's tourist spots.

The aquarium isn't far from here.

Xu Musen pushed Yao Mingyue to take a look.

There were quite a few people, and the wonders of nature always felt novel no matter how many times you saw them.

Soon, the two of them arrived at a performance area.

There were young women dressed as mermaids performing underwater.

It must be said, the hired models had great figures, looking especially smooth and fair in the water with their legs enveloped in fish tails, though their legs were not visible.

But this type of costume outlined their buttock curves perfectly.

The upper body was adorned with pearls and seaweed-like materials, with two big seashells covering the chest.

At this moment, they interacted with the tourists as they swam back and forth in the water.

"Daddy, there are mermaids here!"

"There isn't any fish, daddy only sees the beauties!"

"You deadbeat, what are you looking at with our son around..."

Among the spectators here, the "big friends" far outnumbered the little ones.

The dialogues of this family of three caused many people to burst into laughter.

Yao Mingyue couldn't help but snort with laughter, turned her head to look at Xu Musen who was also enjoying the scene, "You men are all the same, what's so good to look at."

"That's not right, admiring beauty is natural, dare you not touch my abs."

Xu Musen retorted seriously.

"Tch, who cares…"

Yao Mingyue kicked him, glanced at the mermaid swimming, and hummed, "Her figure isn't even as good as mine, I would look more like a mermaid than them if I wore that costume."

Yao Mingyue was very confident; she looked more like the legendary heart-stealing mermaids than the ones currently floating in the aquarium tanks when she wore a swimsuit.

Xu Musen looked at her then back at the mermaids in the tank, smiled, and said, "That's true, this costume suits you. Even Nuannuan couldn't compete."

Yao Mingyue's eyes lit up; it was the first time she had heard from this guy that she could outdo Nuannuan!

Finally, he's got it!

She grunted with satisfaction, "Some people just need to realize~"

But before her self-satisfaction ended, Xu Musen chuckled and pointed at the seashells, "Because if it were Nuannuan, those two seashells wouldn't be able to cover anything."

Yao Mingyue silently looked down,

"Xu Musen!!"

A certain aggrieved young woman almost seemed ready to leap from her wheelchair and bite him!

...

The two aimlessly wandered the streets. It was too hot, so they stopped by a dessert shop to rest.

"Xu Musen, I always feel something's off."

Yao Mingyue lay on the table, speaking depressingly.

"What's wrong?"

"Today was supposed to be a date, but why do I feel none of that nervous anticipation that others feel when in love… It just feels the same as usual."

Yao Mingyue was unbearably gloomy.

Xu Musen smiled, "Because we're childhood friends, the so-called shopping, eating, and movie-watching routines have long become tedious for us."

Yao Mingyue opened her mouth, feeling even more gloomy, "I hate being your childhood friend…"

This was the first time Yao Mingyue felt that the identity of childhood friends had become a shackle.

She too wanted to experience the love of an eighteen-year-old!

That sweetly painful, impulsively restrained, naive yet bold kind of love that is unforgettable upon reminiscence.

Xu Musen tapped her on the head, "There's a saying that goes well, it's not about finding novelty with new people but discovering more beauty in life with the old ones."

"Ho ho… nicely put. Then what about you and Nuannuan, isn't that replacing old with new?"

"I find it odd, you know it will upset you yet you keep mentioning it, do you want to experience all the jealousy you didn't get to in your past life in one go?"

Xu Musen spoke while laughing. Sometimes girls are like this, knowing that bringing up their boyfriend's ex or their past crushes will make them angry.

Yet they can't help but have their boyfriends talk about them, then start sulking—a type that's hard to console.

Xu Musen remembered Wu Jing's meme.

Isn't it petty?

"Hmph, yeah, since you've grown tired of it all lifetime, this lifetime I might as well indulge in all the sourness, and save the sweetness for your Nuannuan!"

Yao Mingyue snorted, and Xu Musen smiled, lifting a piece of chocolate biscuit to her lips, "I've said it, liking someone means liking her every day repeatedly, being childhood friends with you, I will never grow weary of it."

Yao Mingyue's heart melted even sweeter than the chocolate biscuit she ate, gazing at Xu Musen's warm smile.

Her heart felt as sweet and smooth as the chocolate melting in her mouth.

Hmph, you've passed for today~