Rebirth Must Be Happy

Chapter 157 [156] Twins naturally like the same things.
Upon arriving at the upstairs room, Chen Xingruo was holding her sister's hand, preparing to go downstairs. When she saw Xu Jinhuan and Song Zhiyu coming over, she glanced up at them with an arrogant look that showed no regard for the brother and sister.

Xu Jinhuan didn't mind, and weighed the melon in his hand, saying, "Your sister likes to eat this, and I guess you like it too. Do you want to take it with you on the way? It's not heavy."

Chen Xingruo rolled her eyes: "How am I supposed to eat in the car?"

Kong Lingyu said, "Let's cut it up first before bringing it along."

There was a fruit knife at home, so she took the melon, peeled it, and cut it into pieces. Chen Xingruo turned around and looked at her, remaining silent for a while.

Chen Xingzhu patted her sister's hand and said with a smile, "Summer vacation will be here soon."

"OK."

Chen Xingruo nodded, then suddenly asked, "I haven't told Dad. Will he be angry?"

Chen Xingzhu smiled and said, "He won't be angry with you."

"It's okay, we haven't talked about it since, we can talk about it next time."

Chen Xingruo quickly stopped worrying about it. After Kong Lingyu finished cutting the melon and putting it in a bag, she slung her small bag over her shoulder, picked up the melon, and said, "Let's go."

"I'll give you a ride too."

Song Zhiyu followed Xu Jinhuan downstairs, watched the mother and her two daughters get into the car, and waved goodbye, saying, "Bye-bye, come again next time."

Chen Xingruo rolled her eyes at her: "I wouldn't even come to play with you."

"I wasn't being sincere to begin with!"

Song Zhiyu rolled her eyes at her, "Just kidding, you're not really taking this seriously, are you?"

"Humph!"

"Humph!"

The two younger sisters each snorted. Chen Xingruo got into the car, while Chen Xingzhu waved to Xu Jinhuan and Song Zhiyu and said, "You two go back."

"OK Bye Bye."

Xu Jinhuan waved his hand, then turned and went upstairs.

Song Zhiyu caught up from behind and asked him, "Are you very reluctant to part with me?"

Xu Jinhuan asked curiously, "Why would I be reluctant to part with it?"

"Once the younger sister leaves, only the older sister is left."

Song Zhiyu pouted and said, "Aren't you very disappointed?"

"Don't stay up late anymore, it'll make you stupid."

Xu Jinhuan sighed sympathetically, shook his head, and continued upstairs.

"Pooh!"
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"Xingruo,"

Inside the car, Chen Xingzhu and Chen Xingruo were both sitting in the back. After a long silence, Kong Lingyu finally spoke softly during a break in the sisters' conversation, "Can you tell Mom how you've been all these years?"

"Great."

Chen Xingruo looked out the car window and said casually, "My stepmother is young and beautiful, a bit silly, and very obedient to me; my grades aren't good, so my dad paid for me to attend a private school. The management is quite strict, but it's also very free. I'm not afraid of being expelled or punished. When I'm not busy, I travel and get into fights, but I don't have to lift a finger. I'm so pretty, a bunch of idiots surround me waiting to be told what to do..."

As she was speaking, she suddenly remembered something and said to Chen Xingzhu, "Oh right, sis, I still have a car, but I'm not old enough to get a driver's license yet. When I turn eighteen next year, I'll take you for a drive."

Chen Xingzhu chuckled and said, "You can't even drive one, so why are you in such a hurry to buy a car?"

"Wei Yixuan has a car and she's always showing off to me, so I want one too!"

Chen Xingruo hummed twice, "By the way, doesn't Xu Jinhuan know how to drive? Let's invite him next time and have him be the driver, okay?"

Chen Xingzhu retorted, "Why would someone want to be your driver?"

"He'd definitely be willing to be our driver."

Chen Xingruo said with a grin, "If you don't believe me, ask him... Never mind, you're too shy, I'll tell him."

Kong Lingyu asked, "Your dad... has been doing well all these years?"

"Ah."

Chen Xingruo nodded, "After he divorced you, his career flourished and he became very wealthy."

"That's good."

Kong Lingyu smiled and sighed, "That's good..."

There was some traffic near the train station. After a brief silence in the car, Kong Lingyu said again, "Xingruo, Mom knows that from your perspective, Mom was being unreasonable, otherwise..."

At the time of the divorce, Kong Lingyu was certain that she was still a good mother in her daughter's heart, and that even if Chen Guiliang was dissatisfied with her, he wouldn't teach his daughter to hate her mother. Nearly ten years later, when they met for the first time, Xingruo said those things to her, naturally because she had heard about her sister's ordeal from Xu Jinhuan.

Kong Lingyu paused briefly, skipping over these words, and said, "What Mom wants to say next is not to defend Uncle Li or Yunxue, I just want to explain..."

Her voice choked with emotion: "The things Mom didn't do well were because of helplessness and inability to handle them, not because I didn't love you... Yunxue's mother was my roommate, and we used to be very close. Yunxue's mother passed away when she was very young, and her father spoiled her too much and didn't raise her well..."

“When I was with Li Gaoyuan, I thought about how to properly educate her, but first I needed to gain her approval and closeness; otherwise, discipline would only have the opposite effect…”

Chen Xingruo interrupted, "It's been almost ten years, you must have taught her very well, right?"

"..."

Kong Lingyu fell silent again, and said bitterly, "I soon realized that I had made a mistake. Everything has inertia. Once she got used to my pampering, it was very difficult to change her... Including myself, I also got used to being more lenient with her time and time again."

"tolerant?"

Chen Xingruo sneered twice, "Is that how you define it? Bullying me because of my bad grades? You make it sound so easy. Well, it would indeed be a bit rude of me to slap her twice."

Kong Lingyu sighed, "No one is holding you accountable for what happened that night..."

"You can hold it against me."

Chen Xingruo laughed and said, "This is your territory. You can beat me up, lock me up, or even go further. What can two weak women like us do in a foreign land?"

She then turned to look at her sister: "Sister, Xu Jinhuan will come to save us, right?"

She began to fantasize: "If that were really the case, if she could appear before us like a goddess descending from heaven when we were at our most desperate, just like she did for you, I would fall in love with her too..."

Chen Xingzhu pinched her younger sister in an annoyance: "Don't talk nonsense!"

"We're twins."

Chen Xingruo said with a grin, "When I was little, I wanted everything you had, and I wanted everything exactly the same... Do you remember, once Dad bought two very expensive toys, and the seller gave us an extra little gift, a little rooster or something, anyway, a cheap keychain. Then Dad didn't know, and when we got home, we fought over the little rooster, both wanting it. Dad was almost furious and went back to confront the seller, saying they shouldn't have given us the extra gift..."

"And that chubby uncle who runs a company with Dad, every time he and Dad have a fight, he gives us two different gifts or even three. When Dad sees us fighting over them, he gets so angry he wants to beat him up..."

Chen Xingzhu laughed as she listened to her recount funny stories from her childhood.

Kong Lingyu drove the car into the station parking lot, smiling. But after stopping the car, she tilted her head back slightly and quietly wiped the corner of her eye after a while.

"Were Xu Jinhuan's parents divorced and then remarried?"

Chen Xingruo's topic jumped around wildly. Suddenly, she asked her sister, "I wonder if he has a twin brother or sister. Otherwise, we'll start fighting over him again. Does Dad have the ability to find another Xu Jinhuan who looks exactly like him, or tear him in half so we can each have half?"

Seeing her sister's shamelessness, Chen Xingzhu couldn't help but pinch her again, scolding, "Hurry up and go, go back to Jiangning, get your things and go home, don't run around anymore."

"Aren't you coming with me?"

Chen Xingruo tugged at her sister's arm and tried to lure her away, saying, "Come back when we pass through Pengcheng later."

We'll have to part ways sooner or later.

Chen Xingzhu smiled and said, "After the college entrance examination next year, we won't have to be separated anymore."

"Ok."

Chen Xingruo sighed, "I'll study hard when I get back, and I won't be so playful anymore. I'll try not to rely on Dad for too much help and do better on my own..."

"Ah."

Kong Lingyu also got off the bus, holding a small bag of snacks. She handed it to Chen Xingruo at the entrance of the station, saying, "Eat these on the way, so you won't get bored."

Chen Xingruo glanced at the bag containing jelly, cookies, and other snacks, as well as a box of fruit slices. After hesitating for a moment, she reached out and took the bag, turning around gracefully and saying, "Thanks."

"Do you still want this?"

Chen Xingzhu carried the melon that Xu Jinhuan had given her, which had been cut into eight pieces and put into a bag.

"Of course I want to. Maybe this is where my feelings for Xu Jinhuan started."

Chen Xingruo took it with a grin, then slung her bag over her shoulder and waved it off with a less nonchalant air: "I'm off."

As she spoke, she blinked, her eyes welling up with tears, and stared at her sister, saying, "You must study hard and not date too early. You can only be with Xu Jinhuan after I've decided whether or not I want to compete with you for him."

"it is good."

Chen Xingzhu smiled and agreed, waving to her sister, "Let's go."

"I am leaving."

Chen Xingruo nodded, glanced at Kong Lingyu again, said something, and turned to enter the station.

(End of this chapter)