Rebirth: My Mother is a Virgin Mary

"Lin, I remember your birthday is coming soon, this year..." Shu Yu said, shaking her little head. She was one of the few people who knew my birthday, and she had always been thinking about celebrating my birthday.

"I've been at home~"

"Hmm?" Shu Yu poked his head out again. "No, if you celebrated it at home, you have to celebrate it here too. I haven't celebrated your birthday since you're a junior. I'll make it up to you this year! I'll say it in the group now!"

"Who celebrates a birthday twice? It's not a big deal. Forget it. They may not agree. Let's just wait until next year." I thought about it and decided to refuse.

"What do you mean you may not be willing? You have never missed their birthdays. You have also received many gifts. It's not like they haven't mentioned celebrating your birthday..." Shu Yu remembered something, "Are you worried about Zhang Xiaowen and Xia Rui?"

"Well, less trouble is worse than more... Think about it yourself, except for the two of them celebrating their own birthdays, there have always been some problems... You and Jinxuan are of course fine, Xiaoya is also okay... You also mentioned that you wanted to celebrate my birthday, who responded positively? You don't need to mention it if you really want to~ Birthdays are for fun, if you have to force yourself to smile because of some people, what's the point of celebrating this birthday..." I scrolled through my phone, checked the second-hand group, and looked for suitable rental houses nearby. "Besides, I won't hide it from you, I have a prejudice against Xia Rui now, to the point that I want to scold her and kick her out when I see her, how can I be happy if you let me celebrate my birthday at this time?"

"I was just about to ask you, what happened between you and Xia Rui? Although Xia Rui has some minor flaws that I can't stand, at least on the surface we are still getting along. Our dormitory is still very harmonious..."

"Yeah, I used to think so too. Everyone has their own plans. It's normal to have disagreements and dislikes occasionally. Who can guarantee that they can please others all the time? There are times when I am annoying. But people have to have a bottom line..." I put away my phone and climbed onto the upper bunk in two "thumps". Shu Yu happily made room for me.

"Remember I asked you about the money you lost last semester?" The two of them lay down side by side. The bed in the dormitory was not wide, and even though we were not afraid, it still felt a bit crowded.

"Ah."

"I suspect Xia Rui stole it." I caught her in the act before. Of course, that happened when she was a senior in my previous life. I'm a junior now, so Shu Yu wouldn't believe it if I told her.

"Huh?!" Shu Yu's already big eyes widened even wider.

"It's not groundless, it's the result of careful consideration. Think about it yourself, who in our dormitory loses money most frequently?"

"Xia Rui, we all know this. Her money has either been lost or stolen as many times as all of ours combined."

"Yes, the frequency is too high, abnormally high... Think about it again, every time her money disappeared, it was not just her alone?" I continued to guide Shu Yu. It would not be enough for me to narrate it verbally alone. I had to make Shu Yu and I resonate in the same frequency in our minds.

"Now that you mention it..." Shu Yu, who was originally lying down, sat up suddenly, bringing with her a "little whirlwind", and the pleasant smell of lavender shampoo rushed into my nose. "She always said something after someone in our dormitory said that their money was stolen, just to agree... Now that I think about it, she has never taken the initiative to mention that she lost money, it's more like looking for recognition. For example, as soon as I said I lost my money, she would immediately say "Oh, I lost my money too"... I didn't think there was anything wrong before, but now that you mentioned it, I find it strange..."

Shu Yu also has a divergent mindset. The more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong: "Did she really lose money? Everyone else in our dormitory has lost money. If she's the only one who hasn't, we'd naturally suspect her. Once she follows our lead, we'd think there's an outsider in the dormitory..."

"Each time, the amount lost wasn't much, at most one or two hundred. I remember Jinxuan's coin purse was stolen! I saw her put a few five-dollar bills and coins in it the night before, and the next morning when we had dinner together, the money in the purse was gone. We were very confused, did the money just run away after a night's sleep? Jinxuan didn't take it seriously for only twenty or thirty yuan. Later, I asked her, and she said that maybe she forgot when she spent it..."

"It would be fine if I didn't mention this. But now it reminds me of a time when I was doing homework in the library and Xia Rui was sitting next to me. At noon, when we went to the cafeteria to eat together, Xia Rui invited me to eat fried chicken legs for the first time. Although I was puzzled at the time, I thought that she might be thanking me for helping her find materials for her thesis. When she paid the bill, I clearly smelled a scent of perfume, a very familiar scent of perfume. Needless to say, you know who it was. I also asked her why it smelled like Xiao Wen's perfume. Was it the money Xiao Wen lent her? She nodded in agreement... Now that I think about it, maybe it wasn't Xiao Wen who lent it to her, but she stole it!"

Oh, it seems that Xia Rui has a precedent of treating people to a meal after stealing money.

What about the money for her two birthday dinners…?

"Eh?! You said that the money for Xia Rui's birthday dinner was not stolen!" Shu Yu slapped his forehead. Okay, they are in sync.

"I wish I had your good memory, so I could remember if anyone in our dormitory had lost money around her birthday. But you have such a strong memory but you are rarely in the dormitory, and everything you know is what Jinxuan and I told you..." Shu Yu turned around and pinched my face, "I really don't know until I think about it. I'm shocked when I think about it. It's really scary when I think about it carefully."

"I remember..." I began.

"Remember what?" Shu Yu asked absentmindedly.

"I don't remember her birthday in her freshman year very well, but I remember that in her sophomore year, she invited Ning Fei and Xixi to her birthday party, as well as two boys she knew from the student union. There were an unprecedented number of people at the birthday party, 16 or 17 people squeezed into a small private room, the food was not good, and there wasn't enough cake to share, so I remember it very clearly." I sighed. I think everyone who attended Xia Rui's birthday party must have a deep impression of it. It's not that Shu Yu can't remember it, but she doesn't want to recall it...

"She... kissed the waiter forcefully?" Shu Yu hesitated for a moment before saying, "Um... why do I mention that? It's so disgusting."

"I have to mention it. Everyone's impression of her birthday party is that she forcefully kissed the waiter, smeared cake all over his face and body, and he cried until he burst into tears... Who would think of other things? Even I just remembered it..." It's true that I just remembered it. For Shuyu, I was thinking about last year, which was not difficult, but in fact, I remembered it eight years ago. Now I feel unreal to be in the same bed with Shuyu and look at the cute and lovely Shuyu, not to mention Xia Rui. I can't even tell what her hairstyle is now. But I remember what happened clearly.

"Do you remember how much she spent on her birthday party that day?" I asked Shu Yu.

"I remember this! She was drunk that day and did some embarrassing things. Jinxuan and Ningfei held her back, and I paid with her wallet. Four hundred and forty-six. I had to persuade the boss to give up the change. The meal cost a lot, but with so many people, four hundred is not too much..."

"Well, spending more than 400 yuan on 16 people is not a lot, but it is still a considerable expense for Xia Rui. The point is not here. In the few days after her birthday, our dormitory did not lack money, but Xixi's dormitory did..."

"What?!" Shu Yu was shocked.