Rebirth: Saving the Lovely Girl from the Start

Chapter 245: Chapter 240: Lin Ruoxi’s Home (3)

Xue Rui frowned, speaking to the screen, "You’re lying. You’re obviously not full."

"Mmm, I’m full," Lin Ruoxi said weakly. The moment the words left her mouth, her stomach suddenly rumbled.

"So you were lying to me," Xue Rui said, deliberately lowering his voice.

The girl hurriedly shook her head, tears welling in her eyes. "I... I didn’t lie to you."

She didn’t know what was wrong with her. She’d just felt full after a few bites and didn’t even want to eat the chocolate pie.

But while she was on the video call with Xue Rui, she suddenly felt so hungry.

The girl picked up the milk tea that Yu Minlan had just bought, pulled a chocolate pie out of her schoolbag, and started eating, alternating sips of tea with bites of the pie.

Xue Rui smiled. ’This girl is really something else,’ he thought. ’She still needs me to supervise her meals.’

Yu Minlan was speechless. She had tried to persuade Lin Ruoxi to eat more earlier, but it had been useless. Now, Lin Ruoxi was proving to Xue Rui through the camera that she was eating properly.

Xue Rui and the girl chatted for a while longer. To be precise, they didn’t really say anything—they just gazed at each other on screen, spaced out, just like when they were together in person.

"You have to eat properly from now on. If you lose weight..." Xue Rui mulled it over for a long moment, but he couldn’t think of anything to threaten her with.

’What kind of threat could he even use?’

’What does she care about?’

Suddenly, a fluffy dog padded past his feet.

He was in Xue Yao’s room at the moment. When he’d come back, he had brought Da Huang home to live with him.

The girl watched the screen nervously, her breathing growing ragged. She didn’t know what Xue Rui was going to say, but she was terrified.

"If you lose weight, it’ll be all Da Huang’s fault." As Xue Rui spoke, he flipped the camera and nudged Da Huang with his foot.

’You’re a real dog, aren’t you?’ Yu Minlan thought. ’How on earth did the actual dog get dragged into this?’

’The poor thing’s catching a stray bullet!’

"WOOF WOOF WOOF!" Da Huang barked at Xue Rui.

Lin Ruoxi’s expression froze, and she subconsciously blurted out, "Da Huang, don’t bark."

Hearing the girl’s voice from the speaker, Da Huang’s tail started wagging furiously...

"I’ll eat properly... Please don’t hit him, okay?" Lin Ruoxi said softly.

Xue Rui chuckled. The threat was just right—not too big, not too small. And since the girl was so soft-hearted, it would definitely be effective.

"Get a digital scale. Weigh yourself every day and show me," Xue Rui said.

"Okay, I’ll show you every day," the girl replied obediently.

Xue Rui smiled. His girl was different from others. She even had him help her pick out underwear, so seeing her weight wasn’t a privacy issue at all.

"Gotta go. Bye-bye," Xue Rui said, waving his hand and hanging up the call.

As he pressed the end call button, he caught a glimpse of the girl’s disappointed expression on the screen...

Damn it. A wave of guilt washed over him!

But if he didn’t hang up, the girl would never press the button herself. How long would the call have gone on?

Just then, Yu Minlan received a call from her mother.

"Mom, I’m working. I’ll be home soon," Yu Minlan said with a smile before hanging up.

Speaking of which, she had been away from home for a month already, and her mom called her every few days.

But she really was getting a little homesick.

After hanging up, she noticed that Lin Ruoxi had been staring in her direction the whole time.

She suddenly remembered that Lin Ruoxi had no parents, and for some reason, she felt a pang of guilt...

"I... don’t have a home," Lin Ruoxi said in a small voice.

A sharp pain pierced Yu Minlan’s heart. ’Is this Lin Ruoxi’s revenge? As expected of someone who’s studied psychology. This hurts more than a slap in the face.’

’How am I supposed to sleep tonight after this?!’

"You will someday..." Yu Minlan comforted her.

Lin Ruoxi looked at Xue Rui on her phone’s wallpaper, her eyes filled with a smile. "I will..."

She thought for a moment, then said earnestly, "I think I already have one. Home is wherever Xue Rui is."

Yu Minlan clutched her chest. As a single woman, she had once again taken a critical hit.

After the call ended, a question suddenly occurred to Lin Ruoxi. Her stomach had indeed rumbled just now, but it had been very quiet, and phone calls have noise cancellation. So how did Xue Rui know so quickly that she hadn’t eaten enough?

It was as if he’d known from the very beginning; his tone had been so certain.

"Sister Yu, did you text Xue Rui and tell him I wasn’t eating properly?" Lin Ruoxi asked meekly.

The muscles around Yu Minlan’s eyes twitched involuntarily. ’Lin Ruoxi... is actually questioning me?’

Before Yu Minlan could answer, Lin Ruoxi muttered to herself, "Oh, I get it now."

"..."

Yu Minlan covered her face. ’If you already knew, why did you even ask?’