Rebirth: Start to Save the Treasure Girl

"Say it again, say it properly."

Gu Muxue stomped her feet in anger.

"I can't live without you~"

"You bastard, if you keep doing this I...I..."

Gu Muxue really wanted to say, "I'm not going to talk to you anymore," but she swallowed the words back.

Does this threat work?
I've always done it this way, and in the end, I just end up sulking with myself, and I'm always the one who gives in...

"What do you mean?" Xue Rui chuckled as he pinched Gu Muxue's cheek.

"I'm not going to bother with you anymore. You and her can do whatever you want."

Gu Muxue spread her hands, indicating that she wanted to be a hands-off manager.

Xue Rui imagined his future: if it weren't for Gu Muxue, he would have drowned in Lin Ruoxi's gentle embrace...

No, no, he's almost out of control.

“I cannot live without you, just as the West cannot live without Jerusalem.” Xue Rui said very seriously.

"I didn't hear you clearly. You can't live without anyone?"

With her peach blossom eyes curving upwards, Gu Muxue's eyes gleamed with smugness as she secretly turned on her phone to record.

After Xue Rui repeated her name, Gu Muxue no longer suppressed her emotions. She held up her phone and played the recording again and again, afraid that Xue Rui would snatch it away. She walked lightly away, keeping her distance from Xue Rui, her smugness tinged with wariness.

Xue Rui stood frozen in place, the sound of her melodious laughter ringing in his ears. Gu Muxue hopped around like a little rabbit, her shallow dimples revealing her inner joy.

Custom-made fireworks, rose jewelry... nothing compares to the little things in life.

What Gu Muxue wanted was the simplest kind of happiness.

"Xiao Rui?" Seeing that Xue Rui remained unmoved, Gu Muxue's smile gradually faded, and a faint sense of disappointment welled up in her heart.

Could it be... that I'm past the age of roughhousing?
I still want to tease you for the rest of my life...

Seeing that his dimples were about to be smoothed out, Xue Rui chased after him in a flash, shouting, "Don't run away!"

Gu Muxue turned and ran away. Xue Rui looked up and saw ripples of emotion on her fair and snow-white face once again.

……

After a brief chase, the two were standing at the village entrance again within minutes.

The two walked side by side, and Gu Muxue would occasionally look up at Xue Rui, a joyful smile on her face.

She still prefers the time she spends alone with Xue Rui.

Along the way, Gu Muxue felt that something was missing, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it.

She didn't realize that Big Yellow hadn't returned until she saw a dog at the village entrance.

“Xiao Rui…” Gu Muxue’s voice trembled.

"What's wrong?" Xue Rui asked softly.

"Big Yellow is lost."

Gu Muxue looked anxious, as if she didn't know how to explain it to Lin Ruoxi.

Xue Rui's lips curled up slightly. Gu Muxue clearly had never lived in the village. Aren't the dogs in the village all free-range?

If Da Huang can't catch up with Lin Ruoxi's car, it will come back on its own; it might already be home by now.

But Xue Rui didn't tell Gu Muxue the truth. He said anxiously, "What should we do? I promised to take good care of Dahuang."

Gu Muxue suppressed her fear. If Xue Rui was anxious, she couldn't be anxious either; one of them had to remain calm.

"Let's go back and look for it." Gu Muxue pulled Xue Rui around, her eyes scanning the surroundings.

Xue Rui looked quite surprised. He was just teasing Gu Muxue, but Gu Muxue took it too seriously.

He looked up at the sky; it was getting dark. Xue Rui pulled Gu Muxue and hurried home.

"What do you mean?" Gu Muxue murmured.

"Forget it, it's gone. We can just buy her a new one," Xue Rui joked.

How could you say such cold-blooded things?

Gu Muxue kicked Xue Rui.

Xue Rui, rubbing his butt, said, "Just kidding. Big Yellow knows the way. Let's go home and check first."

"Okay, let's go back and take a look first," Gu Muxue muttered dissatisfaction.

When the two arrived at their doorstep, they found many people standing in the yard. Xue Rui immediately recognized them as their neighbors.

In the very center of the crowd, an old woman held a bowl, her aged eyelids drooping, muttering to herself, seemingly muttering something to herself.

Most of the people around him looked solemn, but Qiu Mengze had the worst expression.

"Mengze, why did my family hire a master?" Xue Rui's expression was somewhat amused and exasperated.

"I'm telling you, this afternoon I saw something in your room..."

Since things had already blown up, Qiu Mengze didn't try to hide anything anymore.

Qiu Mengze recounted his discovery to Xue Rui, his expression still showing lingering fear.

Xue Rui's lips twitched; it turned out to be a misunderstanding.

He didn't explain to Qiu Mengze, after all, Qiu Mengze meant well.

Gu Muxue looked down at her feet, unsure what to do. She tugged at Xue Rui's clothes:

"Xiao Rui, let me go apologize so that Grandpa and Grandma won't worry."

"No need, I'll find someone to take the blame." Xue Rui waved his hand, indicating that Gu Muxue didn't need to worry.

Xue Rui leaned closer to listen and heard the old people whispering to each other, as if they were talking about stories from the past.

"Do you think it's your sister who died young? I remember she had quite long hair," Grandma said softly.

"Don't believe these nonsense things."

Although Grandpa said that, the pipe in his hand visibly trembled.

Xue Yao sat with her legs crossed, munching on sunflower seeds with great interest, seemingly unconcerned about anything else.

Xue Rui put his hand on Xue Yao's shoulder and patted her, saying coldly:

"You still have the appetite to eat? Why don't you explain that Qiu Mengze saw you in my room this afternoon?"

"It's not my fault," Xue Yao retorted. She didn't want to be scolded; her brother would handle it anyway.

Xue Rui gritted his teeth and nodded. "That's true, but aren't they your grandparents too?"
"Did you get the lobster skin?" Xue Rui asked softly.

"Brother, you pulled it out? How much did you pull out?" Xue Yao asked with a gossipy look.

"Here's what you're going to do: sneak in and put Xiaobu by the window..." Xue Rui instructed.

Finding a shaman is nothing more than psychological comfort, and all he needs to do is stage a performance and shift the blame onto the animals; the effect is the same.

The ending, similar to that of a horror movie, is always the delusion of a mentally ill person.

"I'll give you a skin after you finish," Xue Rui said with a smile.

"what?"

Xue Yao's eyes widened suddenly. She was giving up her skin and making Xiao Bu take the blame. It sounded like a good deal.

A few minutes later, a pair of large, bright blue eyes appeared from behind the curtains.

Xue Rui shouted, "Mengze, is that a pair of eyes?"

"Holy crap!" Qiu Mengze jumped up in fright.

The people in the courtyard looked up, their eyes gleaming with a faint light.

The old lady's hands began to tremble as she held the bowl; this was the first time she had encountered something like this in all her years in the profession.

"Meow~"

A soft, gentle call rang out, and after exchanging smiles, everyone breathed a long sigh of relief.

Although no one spoke, Xue Rui seemed to hear everyone's thoughts:

Oh, it's a cat.

"I knew it, how could there be ghosts?" Qiu Mengze comforted himself.

But he still couldn't figure out who the long-haired woman was.

"Didn't they say there was a woman with long hair?" the fortune teller asked.

"I guess you must have misread it," Xue Rui said, pinching Qiu Mengze's thigh.

Qiu Mengze instantly understood. He gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, it should still be a cat. I must have mistaken it." "That's true. My Xiaobu is such a big ball. You must have mistaken it," Gu Muxue said with a smile.

Xue Rui said she wanted to find someone to "take the blame," and after guessing for a long time, it turned out she meant to make Xiao Bu take the blame.

"Let's go, let's go. I thought something had come into the Xue family's house."

Everyone left laughing.

Taking advantage of the chaos, Xue Rui secretly slipped a red envelope into the fortune teller's hand and winked at her, saying, "Grandma, I'll give it to you. Don't take money from elderly people; they don't earn money easily."

The old lady immediately beamed with joy, feeling as if she had made a wasted trip.

She grasped Xue Rui's hand and nodded emphatically. She was also a grandchild, and hearing words of filial piety still softened her heart.

"Since there's nothing else, I'll be going."

The sorceress waved her hand and was about to leave.

"Wait a minute, I haven't paid yet," Grandma said as she chased after him.

After a scuffle in the alley, Grandma walked into the yard with a big smile: "She didn't ask for money, saying there was nothing dirty in the house so she wouldn't take money."

The key point is that the fortune teller praised her grandson, saying that he would have a bright future, which made her very happy.

Gu Muxue saw it all clearly from the side; Xue Rui had simply used a little trick to defuse the anxiety into nothingness.

After everyone left, Qiu Mengze pulled Xue Rui aside and whispered, "Xue Rui, I still want to tell you, I'm sure I didn't see wrong, there really is someone with long hair..."

"Was that female ghost pretty?" Xue Rui asked with a grin.

"Holy crap?" Qiu Mengze laughed in exasperation.

It was the female ghost's bad luck to encounter a lecherous ghost like Xue Rui.

"Just kidding, that's Lin Ruoxi hiding in the room."

"Fuck!"

"Alright, alright, let's talk tomorrow." Xue Rui said with a grin, pulling Gu Muxue home.

"Wait, there's something else." Gu Muxue searched around the alley: "Dahuang hasn't come home yet."

“This…” Xue Rui took out his phone, hesitating whether to call Lin Ruoxi.

What if Lin Ruoxi took Dahuang away?
After hesitating for a moment, Xue Rui gave up the idea. If he didn't take her with him, it would only make the little girl worry and unable to sleep.

"You go eat first, I'll go out and look for it," Xue Rui said firmly.

"I'll go with you," Gu Muxue said firmly.

"Okay, let's go home and eat something first, then say we're going for a walk. Don't let Yao Yao worry."

"Ah."

……

After a quick dinner, Xue Rui and Gu Muxue, holding flashlights, searched the fields.

Xue Rui was very unsettled, because if Da Huang was alright, it would definitely come home; if it didn't, it was highly likely that it wouldn't be able to return.

Gu Muxue looked at the woods beside her: "Xiao Rui, we've searched outside. Could Da Huang be in the woods?"

Xue Rui turned his head and thought to himself, "Isn't this a graveyard?"

Most villages have collective cemeteries, but in Hedong, where there is a custom of planting trees on grave mounds, the cemeteries are often a tall forest, with many trees approaching a hundred years old.

"Mu Xue, are you sure you want to go in?" Xue Rui asked uncertainly.

"I...I'm a little afraid of the dark, let's go together." Gu Muxue's voice trembled.

Xue Rui clearly felt that Gu Muxue was tightening her grip on his arm.

"alright."

Xue Rui sighed. Gu Muxue had already said so, so it would seem like he was afraid to go in if he didn't.

To be honest, ever since Lin Ruoxi scared him so much, he's become numb to going into cemeteries and isn't really that afraid anymore.

Moreover, Xue Rui also suspected that Da Huang might have gone in to steal other people's offerings.

After walking a few steps, Gu Muxue's neck stiffened instantly. She had never imagined that it would be a graveyard; she had thought it was just piles of cow dung by the roadside.

She gripped Xue Rui's arm tightly with her small hands, barely daring to breathe, and her eyes dared not wander.

But the more I try not to look, the more I can't help but glance out of the corner of my eye...

The surroundings were eerily silent. With each step, a harsh sound came from beneath her feet—the sound of crushing dry branches—stimulating Gu Muxue's already fragile nerves.

In the end, Gu Muxue simply closed her eyes and clung tightly to Xue Rui's arm.

A loud crash came from behind.

Gu Muxue threw herself into Xue Rui's arms, her body trembling uncontrollably.

Xue Rui subconsciously stroked the head in his arms. He turned around and saw that it looked like a milk powder can that had been burned with paper money had been blown over by the wind.

Strangely, the more nervous Gu Muxue became, the calmer he became, and he even felt a desire to tease Gu Muxue.

Xue Rui never thought he was particularly brave; at least compared to Lin Ruoxi, he was far less so.

But he felt no fear today.

Perhaps this is the power of being relied upon...

"Mu Xue, how about I take you home? I can find my way myself," Xue Rui comforted her.

Gu Muxue shook her head violently, vehemently disagreeing with Xue Rui's suggestion.

"You're so scared, why aren't you leaving?" Xue Rui joked.

"Aren't you scared too?" Gu Muxue hugged her even tighter.

Gu Muxue didn't believe Xue Rui wasn't afraid; perhaps he was just pretending.

She pressed her ear against Xue Rui's chest and could only hear his steady, strong heartbeat.

And what about her own? It was already a complete mess.

Gu Muxue raised her head, forcing back her fear, and curiously looked at Xue Rui.

Where did that usually carefree and shameless boy go?
Whether dealing with the sorceress's affairs at home or searching for Big Yellow in the dark;

It seems that Xue Rui becomes mature and reliable whenever something happens.

This felt unfamiliar to Gu Muxue...

So... this is how Lin Ruoxi sees Xue Rui?

So all you have to do is show weakness to get all this?
Lin Ruoxi, I really envy you.

"I'm really not afraid, I'll take it back." Xue Rui rubbed Gu Muxue's head.

"I'm not going back." Gu Muxue shook her head stubbornly. "I'm afraid I'll lose you too."

"Beep beep beep~" A cell phone rang.

Xue Rui answered the phone and pressed the speakerphone button: "Brother, what were you doing with my sister-in-law in the middle of the night?"

"Yaoyao, has Dahuang come back yet?" Xue Rui no longer hid it from him.

"Dahuang has been at home the whole time."

Xue Rui: ……

After hanging up the phone, Xue Rui had a wry smile on his face: "Mu Xue, let's go home."

"Hmm..." Gu Muxue lowered her head, her heart filled with mixed feelings.

We should be happy that Big Yellow has been found.

But she just couldn't be happy.

When she looked up again, Gu Muxue's eyes were empty, and the sense of loss in her heart suppressed her fear.

What am I feeling lost about?

I remember now... the feeling of putting all my heart and soul into Xue Rui during that moment of fear.

It really puts my mind at ease...

"What's wrong, Mu Xue?" Xue Rui asked, cupping Gu Mu Xue's face in his hands, his tone somewhat worried.

He looked dazed, as if he had been scared out of his wits.

"Are you scared out of your wits?" Xue Rui shook Gu Muxue's nose.

Gu Muxue came to her senses and stammered:
"I can't walk anymore, carry me...carry me." (End of Chapter)