After rebirth, I rejected the rich yandere lady

"This is our story."

An Nuannuan slowly narrated everything. This was also the first time she admitted that she too had memories of the previous life.

Yao Mingyue was lost in thought for a long time. Her hand touched her chest, and each heartbeat seemed to bring two different sounds.

Suddenly, she felt a headache, as if many memories she had kept sealed and refused to recall were starting to surface bit by bit.

An Nuannuan touched her forehead with the back of her hand: "If you can't remember, don't try to."

Memories that one doesn't wish to recall are surely the sharpest swords that hurt oneself the most.

What's sealed away are often the pasts one doesn't want to look back on.

"Hoo..."

Yao Mingyue took a deep breath. What An Nuannuan told her was completely opposite to her speculations, and tears started to stream down her cheeks again.

"I'm her husband; which man in the world doesn't love his wife..."

"Which brother doesn't love his sister..."

That really sounded like something that fool would say.

Clearly, they were already at that point, but he still chose to leave the last hope to her...

"Later... Why, in my memory, did I see two graves..."

Yao Mingyue held her still aching head. This memory had appeared in her mind many times.

Two graves, closely side by side.

Yet, there seemed to be only one tombstone.

"It's a joint tombstone for you and him."

An Nuannuan slowly spoke.

Yao Mingyue's expression froze, a joint... So she still died?

She felt a dull ache in her heart, not because she didn't survive, but because she wasted his intention again.

He gave up the hope of living, left her a chance to survive, but she still didn't seize it...

"No, the surgery was very successful. His heart grew in you as if it was made for you... You survived."

An Nuannuan looked at Yao Mingyue's bewildered expression and could see what she was thinking: "After the surgery, you chose a cemetery on a high mountain to bury him, and you also set up a cenotaph for yourself, buried together with him..."

...

Memory goes far, half a year after the surgery.

Yao Mingyue held a wooden box in her hands.

She came to a high mountain near the sea in Huhai.

This is the highest mountain in Huhai, and beneath the cliff lies the vast ocean.

The sea breeze blew on her face. On a planet that is seventy percent ocean, the sea often represents a symbol of freedom.

She stood there for a long time.

Dressed in a trench coat with her long hair loose and wearing sunglasses, this was the outfit they met for the first time, she and Xu Musen.

Yao Mingyue held the wooden box in her hands, containing the ashes of Xu Musen.

Half a year after the surgery, she recovered well. Xu Musen's heart was like it grew in her, strong and powerful, always making her feel secure.

Blood flowed from the heart throughout her body, as if he was protecting her at every moment.

Today was the day to bury him.

Another figure walked towards her from behind. An Nuannuan, in a plain long dress, walked to her side, her gaze settled on the wooden box Yao Mingyue was holding, then looked out to the ocean beneath the cliff.

Neither of them spoke, allowing the sea breeze to blow on their faces. It was already late autumn, and the sea breeze carried a bit of chill.

After a long while.

An Nuannuan spoke: "Are you sure you want to scatter his last remains into the sea?"

Her gaze fell on the wooden box in Yao Mingyue's arms.

Yao Mingyue took off her sunglasses. Her phoenix eyes regained their usual noble and profound look. She caressed the box in her hands.

"This was his choice. He loved the sea because the ocean is vast and free of obstacles, it symbolizes freedom.

He also loved the mountains because on the mountain tops, only the sky exists, it's where the sun shines first every day."

Yao Mingyue gently placed the wooden box on her chest, over the heart. Her stunning face carried a faint smile: "Moreover, the things he left in the world will always be with me until the end of my life."

An Nuannuan remained silent. Looking at Yao Mingyue at this moment with Xu Musen's heart, she appeared visibly healthier, as if she had become ten years younger...

But at what cost.

"Do you still blame me? Actually, the one who should have died is me."

Yao Mingyue looked at An Nuannuan's silent expression and spoke softly.

An Nuannuan looked at her, her expression unchanged: "I don't wish for anyone to die. If I had to choose, of course, I would hope he could survive, but... this was his choice."

An Nuannuan said as she reached out, wanting to touch the wooden box holding Xu Musen's ashes, but in the end, she bit her lip and couldn't help but speak: "What a... fool!"

"Yes, he was just a fool... And a hen-pecked husband."

Yao Mingyue smiled, gently caressing the wooden box: "He listened to me for his entire life, but in the end, he made such a decision without telling me..."

Yao Mingyue hugged the wooden box tightly, smiling, but her eyes started to redden: "It's so strange, someone who listened to me for a lifetime, in the end, didn't even give me a chance to say goodbye..."

Even stranger, someone who had been capricious for a lifetime, at this moment, decided to follow his arrangements unconditionally.

She hugged the wooden box tightly. The ashes inside, perhaps, were the only things truly belonging to him left in the world, aside from his heart.

If it were the previous her, she definitely wouldn't let go. Even sleeping or eating, she had to keep an eye on it.

But at this moment, she silently wiped away the tears at the corner of her eyes and handed the wooden box to An Nuannuan.

An Nuannuan didn't take it but looked at her, speaking only after a long while: "This is the last proof of his existence, you want to give it to me?"