Rebirth Must Be Happy

"Sisters for life?"

Xie Wanqing found her increasingly strange. Because they were on the highway and traveling at high speeds, she only glanced at her before quickly looking ahead and gently smiling, "Okay, how about we become sworn sisters or something?"

"I'm just asking."

Chen Xingzhu chuckled. "I heard him say that your parents also owned a house in the same neighborhood where he bought his?"

"Yeah, I bought it several years ago, but I still haven't renovated it."

Xie Wanqing didn't know why she had brought up this topic again, "But the neighborhood is quite nice, and it's very close to where his house used to be, so it's very convenient to go to the courier station..."

Chen Xingzhu asked, "Does your sister know where that neighborhood is?"

"I know."

"Then, sister, take me to see it."

"what?"

Xie Wanqing was a little confused, "Go there for what?"

"I bought a house over there."

Chen Xingzhu said with a smile, "I paid a deposit before, and I'm going to sign the contract today."

"what?"

Xie Wanqing was taken aback. "You bought a house in Xiangyun Garden? When?"

“When I bought it from his store, I asked him to put down a deposit for me.”

Chen Xingzhu leaned back in his chair and explained, "It's the 704 next to his house."

"what?"

Xie Wanqing's expression froze instantly. She blinked, her mind filled with only one thought: 'It can be done like this?'

She never even considered that she could do that.

"Ah."

Chen Xingzhu nodded and smiled slightly: "Does my sister blame me?"

"what?"

Xie Wanqing felt completely lost and couldn't keep up with her train of thought, and inexplicably felt a little guilty. "What do you mean?"

"It's alright, we'll talk about it when we get there."

Chen Xingzhu sighed, "Sister, please drive carefully... I went to check out his company, and they've already hired several people..."

The two chatted for a while and returned to Suicheng at noon. Chen Xingzhu called the sales office, and Xie Wanqing drove directly to Xiangyun Yayuan.

"Please keep these documents safe."

After signing the contract and paying the money, Chen Xingzhu took the various documents and the room key and said to Xie Wanqing, "I'll treat you to dinner, sister."

"it is good."

Xie Wanqing had a premonition, and nodded with a smile, "What do you like to eat?"

"Let's take a look first, I don't even know what food is available here."

The two looked around outside the residential area, then each ate a bowl of cold noodles and a bowl of cold rice noodles. After finishing, Chen Xingzhu said, "Sister, can you come with me to look at some houses again?"

"Of course you can."

The two arrived on the 7th floor. Xie Wanqing had been here several times before, but this was Chen Xingzhu's first time. She looked at the room numbers 705 and 704, then took out her key and opened the door.

Xie Wanqing had already seen the house, but hadn't paid much attention to it before. She followed them inside and looked at it more carefully.

Chen Xingzhu also took a closer look, casually mentioned some things about decorating, walked to the balcony to look around, then came back and said, "Sister, there's no one else here, I want to tell you something."

Xie Wanqing had a bad feeling, but she still forced a smile and said, "Go ahead."

Chen Xingzhu looked into her gentle and charming eyes and smiled softly, but there was no joy or sweetness in her expression: "I'm with Xu Jinhuan now."

"..."

Xie Wanqing stood blankly in the unfinished living room of the apartment, her mind momentarily blank and unable to speak.

She had been avoiding topics related to Chen Xingzhu, but she had thought about similar things in her heart, more than once.

She had thought about what was going on between Xu Jinhuan and Chen Xingzhu, and how Xu Jinhuan would choose and handle the situation when it became unavoidable... But she never imagined that Chen Xingzhu would come to her directly and say those words to her.

"Oh……"

After an unknown period of mental blankness, Xie Wanqing barely regained some of her mental capacity and hurriedly forced a smile as she replied, "Then..."

She wanted to congratulate him, but couldn't utter a word. She felt tears welling up uncontrollably, so she quickly turned around, her back to Chen Xingzhu, not wanting her to see her crying.

"That...that..."

Xie Wanqing tried to say those words, but tears kept falling, preventing her from uttering them.

Saying this means making your own choice and decision.

She never intended to compete with Chen Xingzhu for anything; she never even considered it, and they just ended up together without really thinking about it.

Now that Chen Xingzhu is confronting her in a way that she never imagined, and even if she had, she would have had little courage to act on, she has no intention of resisting or fighting back, but is just feeling very uncomfortable and reluctant.

This means she lost two people at the same time.

"Your sister is with him too, right?"

Chen Xingzhu stood behind him, and seemed to laugh, but still showed no joy or happiness.

"No……"

If Xie Wanqing wanted to deny it, she could simply withdraw on her own. There was no need to affect her and Xu Jinhuan. She should just pretend that what had already happened hadn't happened.

It's better for one person to get hurt than for everyone to get hurt...

Before she could finish speaking, through her blurry vision, she saw Chen Xingzhu walk up to her. Her beautiful face still held a smile, but her eyes were filled with tears. She said softly, "I'm telling you this not to argue about right or wrong, or to win or lose, but just to talk to you about this matter."

Xie Wanqing still couldn't control her emotions. Chen Xingzhu took out tissues from her pocket, handed her two, and took one to wipe her tears. She smiled and said, "I've loved reading since I was little, reading all sorts of strange books. I've seen a saying in books and on TV, 'Put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the spot.' When I was little, I thought it made a lot of sense. But when I grew up, I felt it was very unfair. This saying makes it seem like bad people can immediately become Buddhas just by putting down their knives. Later, I learned that it means all beings are equal. Even bad people who repent have the right to become Buddhas. They won't lose the opportunity to correct their mistakes just because they've done wrong."

Xie Wanqing didn't know why she suddenly jumped to this topic, but her curiosity was piqued. She barely stopped crying and looked at her while wiping away her tears.

“After I moved out of my home, I had a new understanding of this sentence and realized why everyone misunderstood its meaning. Everyone thought that this sentence meant that ‘good people have to go through 81 tribulations to become Buddhas, while bad people only need to lay down their butcher knives to become Buddhas.’ This is unfair because the world is indeed unfair, just like the united front value he mentioned.”

Chen Xingzhu smiled as she spoke, “Before my mother married Uncle Li, we met once. Before the meeting, my mother told me to be sensible and that Li Yunxue was younger than me. I am the older sister, so I shouldn’t be petty like her and should be tolerant of my younger sister. I remembered that.”

She let out a soft sigh, a look of reminiscence on her face. "The first time we met, I tried my best to be nice to this little sister. I wanted to be a good older sister and not make things difficult for Mom. Uncle Li liked me a lot, but his daughter didn't like me at all. We were eating at a restaurant, and she threw things at me, getting my dress and face dirty. I wanted to cry, but I held it in. I don't even know how I managed to hold it in, but I didn't want to make things difficult for Mom, and I didn't want Uncle Li to think I was being unreasonable. I wanted to be a good older sister..."

She sniffed, and Xie Wanqing wanted to use a tissue to wipe her tears, but found that she had cried too much and the tissue was soaked. Seeing that Chen Xingzhu was still holding a small pack of tissues, she took it and pulled out a tissue.

Chen Xingzhu's tissue wasn't very wet. Sensing Xie Wanqing's thoughts, she smiled, wiped away her tears with the tissue, took a deep breath, and continued, "After I moved out of my family home, I saw that my mother and Li Yunxue's attitudes had changed. Then I saw Xingruo, my father, and Aunt Shan's situation. I suddenly realized something: my later experiences weren't entirely their fault; I also blamed myself."

“I was wrong from the very first meeting. I shouldn’t have put myself in the position of a victim or a sacrificer. I should have picked up a butcher’s knife, so that I would be worth being persuaded to ‘lay down the butcher’s knife’.”

“I didn’t do that when we first met, and I haven’t done it in the years since. At first, I didn’t want to put my mother in a difficult position, but later… later…”

She was silent for a moment, then chuckled self-deprecatingly, "Later... maybe I just got used to it, used to being treated like this, used to being hurt... I never managed to pick up that knife. Perhaps from the afternoon I first met Li Yunxue, I had already lost the knife that everyone should have to protect themselves, and never found it again..."

"That's how I got through elementary school, middle school, and the first year of high school. Last year, I met Xu Jinhuan,"

She spoke softly, a smile on her face. It was noon, and the lights were off in the simple, unfinished house. The sunlight shone in from outside, making it hot and bright, but it didn't shine on her face or body. Yet, the sight of her smiling face with tears in her eyes, like pear blossoms in the rain, still shocked and amazed Xie Wanqing like never before.

At this moment, Chen Xingzhu was breathtakingly beautiful, yet heartbreakingly so.

"He brought me that knife."

Chen Xingzhu was silent for a few seconds, then sighed softly, and hesitated for a moment, "Perhaps, he himself was that knife... Later, Xingruo followed him back, and Xingruo also became that knife. The two of them rescued me."

“After I moved out of my family home, my mother started to care about me a short time later. She was very attentive to my well-being, and she would observe and pay attention to my expression and mood. Even Li Yunxue became more and more sensible…”

She fell silent again as she spoke, looking at Xie Wanqing. "I was puzzled by this for a long time. At first, I thought I understood the reason, but after thinking about it carefully, I didn't understand anymore. I still don't understand those deeper principles, but I have come to understand one thing."

Chen Xingzhu wiped away the tears on her face with the back of her hand, looked at Xie Wanqing and smiled: "Sister, people like us are easily overlooked and hurt. Good people like us are the ones who should be holding that knife tightly in this world..."

"If I had held that knife earlier, my mother might still be the mother who loves and cares for me, and Li Yunxue might still be the well-behaved and sensible little sister she is now, right?"

"It's possible."

Xie Wanqing nodded and softly agreed, her gaze somewhat blank.

She understood the reasoning Chen Xingzhu was giving, but she didn't understand how it had anything to do with her.

She initially thought Chen Xingzhu wanted to talk about Xu Jinhuan, but after listening for a while, she still couldn't understand what it had to do with Xu Jinhuan.

Does that mean Xu Jinhuan is very important to her? (End of Chapter)