After rebirth, I rejected the rich yandere lady-Chapter 666 290: Yao Mingyue: I Owe Him a Baby. _3

"Mom, just rest, I'm not in a hurry to have kids for him... He hasn't even proposed to me yet, I won't let him off so easily."

Yao Mingyue seemed to have reverted to her usually proud demeanor.

Liu Rushuang looked at her daughter and finally could only smile helplessly, "Then eat more meat, so if you do have a child later on, don't starve the baby."

"Mom!"

...

As night fell, some people gathered with their families, while others sat alone in quiet melancholy.

Zhu Yulan admittedly said having a place to live was better than sleeping on the streets, but the school, bustling during the day, turned eerily quiet at night, especially since it was an unfamiliar environment.

The milk tea shop was about to close.

Zhao Lianmai tidied everything up and, before leaving, glanced at the somewhat dazed Zhu Yulan.

Though she had not eavesdropped on the conversation about her and Xu Musen,

surely an eighteen-year-old university student arriving with luggage indicated a serious falling-out with her family.

Zhao Lianmai wasn't good at comforting people.

She silently turned on the microwave again, warmed a cup of milk and a few egg tarts, and walked over to hand them to her.

Zhu Yulan was taken aback, looking at Zhao Lianmai's expressionless cheeks, "Th-thank you…"

"No need for thanks, he said everything in the store is free for employees to eat, so it would be a waste not to."

Zhao Lianmai said as she picked up an egg tart and took a bite.

Zhu Yulan looked at her and managed a wry smile, "I once thought about poaching you to work with me; now we're colleagues. Lucky you didn't come with me, or you might be unemployed now."

Zhu Yulan said self-deprecatingly, life's twists and turns prove unpredictable, and the predicaments she currently faced were all caused by her own family.

"You and I are different,"

Zhao Lianmai shook her head.

"What's so different, we're both working for someone now,"

Zhu Yulan also took an egg tart, the sweet aroma bringing much comfort to her.

"You're here to find a better path, while I'm here so that my family can have a livelihood that fills our bellies,"

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Zhao Lianmai's voice was calm, but the emotion behind her words left Zhu Yulan momentarily speechless.

"Plus, whether you have money or not, I wouldn't go with you. He gave me my first full meal, and as long as he doesn't send me away, I'll remain his little employee."

Zhao Lianmai softly spoke, and when she said "little employee," her lips even curved into a slight smile, the firmness in her tone endearing her even more to Zhu Yulan.

Noticing her plain clothes, Xu Musen probably paid her a handsome wage, yet she chose to save all the money for her family.

"You're really something…"

Zhu Yulan sincerely praised her, and seeing the smile that had just played on her lips, Zhu Yulan smiled too, "Actually, you've become a lot more outgoing than when I first met you, it seems you've found a good boss."

"Yeah, he's a really good person, just a bit..."

Zhao Lianmai started, then fell silent.

"A bit of a jerk, right?"

Zhu Yulan seemed to have found a topic they both related to, smiling as she took a bite of her egg tart, "But his kind of 'jerk' is actually quite pleasant, he's really worth getting close to..."

Zhu Yulan didn't even notice the special gleam in her eyes when she mentioned Xu Musen, which seemed to go beyond just friendship.

Zhao Lianmai silently watched her speak, and at last, she quietly added, "This room used to be where he and Nuannuan lived together."

Zhu Yulan was stunned, having realized today that although the small room had been tidied up, there were still items like hairpins left behind by a girl.

"Hmm, I guessed as much."

"The boss and his wife, they really have a good relationship."

"You can tell. When they're together, nothing can come between them."

"I heard they've already met each other's parents. Maybe they'll get married right after graduation."

"Uh, probably... Why the sudden talk about this?"

Zhu Yulan looked at Zhao Lianmai.

Zhao Lianmai was also looking at her, then somehow her gaze drifted down to Zhu Yulan's chest.

After a two-second silence, she smiled slowly.

"Never mind then, I won't bother you anymore. You should rest early."

"Oh, you too, good night."

Zhu Yulan was a bit puzzled as she watched Zhao Lianmai leave for her bedroom.

She closed the door carefully, double-checking the lock until she was reassured, before returning to her small room.

The room was small, but it was quite cozy, and it even had a bathroom, which pleased Zhu Yulan, who was slightly obsessed with cleanliness.

After bathing, Zhu Yulan realized in her haste she hadn't brought her pajamas.

Wrapped in a towel, she searched through her suitcase, but she was so used to sleeping in pajamas that she couldn't quite settle without them.

She noticed the wardrobe in the room and walked over to open it—immediately seeing that it was empty.

Except, there was a long-sleeved shirt neatly folded in the corner, probably left behind during packing.

Zhu Yulan picked it up and looked at it.

It was so large, definitely Xu Musen's.

But it looked clean and tidy upon inspection.

Zhu Yulan looked at it and a thought flashed through her mind.

The next moment she blushed, feeling a bit guilty, as if she were doing something wrong, and threw the shirt back into the wardrobe. Yet, after pondering alone for a while, she picked it up again.

"It's just that I don't have pajamas, it's just a shirt... Just borrowing it for a bit..."

Muttering to herself, in the end, she slipped into the long-sleeved shirt, wearing it as if it were a sweater.

The length covered her from behind down to her thighs, revealing only Zhu Yulan's freshly washed, fair and straight legs.

No wonder the guy was so tall.

It fit surprisingly well.

Zhu Yulan looked at herself in the mirror, then on a whim, bent down to smell the shirt.

It carried the scent of laundry detergent mixed with a faint, refreshing fragrance of grass and wood, very comforting—it was Xu Musen's scent.

Zhu Yulan's ears went soft, as if... as if she had snuggled into someone's embrace.

Zhu Yulan was a clean freak, to the point where she wouldn't even routinely share an outer garment with her own sister.

But her obsession with cleanliness seemed to have no effect at this moment.

"Anyway, it's just a shirt. I can always compensate him later..."

Zhu Yulan muttered to herself, turning over and burrowing into the bed.

In this unfamiliar environment, she smelled the faint earthy fragrance and felt an unusual sense of security.

The light went out.

Good night.