Yao Mingyue was truly anxious now. She had long felt that Zhu Yulan harbored unsavory intentions toward her ex-husband!
And her suspicions were confirmed!
Yao Mingyue reached out and twisted his ear, "What is going on between you two!!"
Xu Musen's ear was twisted, but his smile only grew wider, "Didn't you just say that you don't get jealous over me anymore?"
"I'm being jealous on Nuannuan's behalf! Hurry up and tell me, what is the situation!"
Yao Mingyue was twisting his ear, but her strength wasn't much as she threatened him with a grimace.
Xu Musen lightly removed her hand from his ear, "If you want to know what's going on, then you tell me first, what's going on with you."
"What if I don't tell you?"
"Then I won't tell either. Let's see who can hold out longer."
Xu Musen helped warm her hands nonchalantly, and as his palms rubbed them warmer, a young girl's heart itched even more.
To deal with a little Sickly Cutie like her, you have to be even more excessive in return.
Yao Mingyue's face turned a bit red as she watched Xu Musen, realizing that he had been intentionally provoking her step by step from the beginning.
However, feeling the warmth in her palm, and feeling her heart beat slowly one moment and quickly the next, she couldn't keep hiding it...
Tears gradually filled Yao Mingyue's eyes, and biting her lips, one could see the deep bite marks. Without speaking, she just looked at Xu Musen for a long, long time.
She was like a kite in the sky with its string suddenly snapped.
She threw herself into Xu Musen's embrace, holding him tightly as if with all her might, her body trembling as tears slowly rolled down and all soaked into the wool sweater on his chest.
Her mouth only uttered this name, but the strength in her arms was like a silent catharsis.
The girl's voice in the air seemed to mix with the cold, melancholic helplessness.
Xu Musen held her tight and gently stroked her head, "You've always been too stubborn, just like in the past life... You should have cried earlier."
As his words fell, Yao Mingyue's cries finally broke through like a flood, clinging to his warm embrace.
"Musen... I don't want to lie to you, nor do I want to leave you, but... but I can't... I don't want to be in front of you, I don't want to worry you anymore..."
Her voice sobbed like a plea, laden with a deep sense of powerlessness.
For Yao Mingyue, crying was to show her most vulnerable side.
That side of her, on that rainy night that year, she cried hoarsely in Musen's arms, as if she ran out of tears that night.
But still, she couldn't keep her father, couldn't keep her broken family.
Since then, she never cried again, swearing that everything would be under her control, tears were useless, and couldn't hold onto anything. She didn't want to see her mother's haggard face again, the guilt of her aunts and uncles, and Xu Musen's worried expression…
Even in the past life, when she went abroad alone, facing that one-third chance decision where she might never come back, she didn't cry.
Her stubbornness was actually to cover the most vulnerable scar in her heart.
Despite having made up her mind, now there was someone who liked Musen by his side, he had become excellent, and her mother and aunts and uncles could all be well looked after by him.
Even if she was gone, everyone could still live well.
Though still a bit unwilling, she had already made all preparations...
But now, she really couldn't help it anymore.
Yao Mingyue felt was her most cowardly, helpless, and pathetic moment – this was not her. She was supposed to be Xiao Mingyue, who had promised Brother Musen that she would always be proud!
Yao Mingyue's tears dripped down as she cried, not wanting Xu Musen to see her in such a disheveled state.
Looking now, she thought she would disappoint him...
A pair of warm arms held her tight, one hand gently fell onto her head, soothingly comforting.
"Fool, it's right to cry. You will always be yourself in my arms, crying with your Brother Musen, with your childhood sweetheart, with your husband. What's there to be ashamed of?"
The three identities secured Yao Mingyue's trembling body a bit more.
It took her a while to raise her head, her beautiful phoenix eyes now tearful and especially pitiful.
"...We're not married in this life anymore, are we..."
"Until I see the divorce papers, I won't accept it."
Xu Musen gently wiped the corner of her eyes, and seeing her cry, Musen himself smiled even more warmly, "Isn't that what you said? Am I not the husband who was finally tricked by you? You think you can just say you don't want me?"
Yao Mingyue looked at him, so annoying yet so endearing.
But this way, this bastard, wasn't he just making it even harder for her to let go...