AMRWFA -Chapter 114 The Power of a First Love

Shi Guofan sat uneasily, because he could clearly feel the gaze of his wife and daughter falling on him like knives.

But he was innocent in this matter!

This hadn’t even happened yet—how could he have known what was going on?

Whether it was true or not was still up in the air. If it were true, that brat Shi Wenqin had already turned into a bird spirit—who knew how this would end for him?

【What he doesn’t know, unfortunately, is that this ‘first love’ was sent by Li Tingting. It was meant to tempt him, keeping him from attending court so he wouldn’t compete with Xiao Ai Tongxue for the inheritance.】

【He’s lucky. He fell for a stand-in of his first love. Even if his whole family dies, at least he’ll survive. Unlike his second brother—tsk tsk tsk tsk…】

【Not a single one left. Complete annihilation!】

【Wait a second, the third branch only has him left, the second branch is wiped out, and the first branch just has Xiao Ai Tongxue…】

Ruan Yaoyao did the math and realized Li Tingting’s move was ruthless.

Whether or not it was intentional in a subjective sense, the three branches of the Shi family each had at least three children, and Xiao Ai Tongxue’s branch had four. That meant there were ten children in total in this generation across the three branches.

In the end, only Xiao Ai Tongxue survived. All the elders were gone, which explained why the entire inheritance ended up in her hands.

【Rather than saying it fell into Xiao Ai Tongxue’s hands, it’s more accurate to say it ended up with Li Tingting.】

【So, Li Tingting was after the family fortune?】

【Does she even have that kind of brain?】

For a moment, Ruan Yaoyao couldn’t be sure.

Shi Guofan was about to say: See, wife? I didn’t go after the first love. She schemed against me. I just didn’t defend myself!

But in the next second, he realized that only he and Shi Wenqin remained from the entire family and instantly couldn’t say anything.

He hurriedly grabbed his phone and sent a message in the group chat: “@Da Gui, are you joking? How is it that only Shi Wenqin and I are left? This Xiao Ai Tongxue—is that Shi Wenqin?”

Shi Yanli: “Otherwise, what do you think?”

Shi Yanli: “Do you think I’m calm? The whole family’s about to be wiped out! How could I not be anxious?”

Shi Yanli: “Dad, don’t beat around the bush. Who exactly is your ‘first love’? Tell us quickly, don’t get us killed…”

Shi Guofan: “…”

Shi Guofan: “Your mother knows.”

Ma Wenli: “Since when? I don’t know about this! @Shi Guofan, seriously, at a time like this, are you randomly throwing accusations?”

Shi Guofan: “No! I’m not accusing you. You do know her, you just forgot. Back then your best friend…”

He left it at that, and Ma Wenli froze.

The rest of the group immediately started imagining scenarios, the excitement of gossip palpable.

Her best friend?!

Could it be another classic ‘two girls fighting over one boy’ scenario?

【Oh, it’s a best friend!】 Ruan Yaoyao flipped through the messages. 【Middle school classmates too?】

Shi Yanli: My mom and dad were middle school classmates!

Confirmed—it wasn’t a lie. Her mother did indeed know her father’s first love!

【I thought it was two girls fighting over one boy, but turns out it’s like this!】

Ruan Yaoyao was surprised: 【In this day and age, there are still cases of love letters being delivered to the wrong person?】

Back then, Shi Guofan had indeed sent a love letter by mistake. It was meant for his first love, Xiao Muyu, but since he didn’t write a name on it, it ended up in Ma Wenli’s hands during the handoff.

Shi Guofan had intended to clarify things with Ma Wenli, but when he went to her, she was being mocked by a group of people as a “tomboy” with no prospects.

Angry, Ma Wenli took out the love letter Shi Guofan had written for her to prove she wasn’t unwanted.

“Shi Guofan is here.”

Shi Guofan tried to hide but was pulled out to face everyone, forced to clarify whether the letter was actually written by him or by Ma Wenli herself to bluff others.

At that time, Shi Guofan was thin-skinned, kind, and soft-hearted. Seeing Ma Wenli’s reddened eyes, still stubbornly refusing to admit defeat, insisting she would never write a love letter to herself, he finally nodded: “I wrote it!”

But it wasn’t written for Ma Wenli—it was for Xiao Muyu.

Shi Guofan had thought this could be clarified. He originally wanted to help Ma Wenli get through the immediate embarrassment, then explain the truth later.

But some mistakes, once made, spiral out of control and can never be fixed.

“Even tomboys have suitors! Shi Guofan, are you stupid?”

“Shi Guofan, you didn’t do this on purpose, right? It’s fake, right? I don’t believe it unless you two kiss…”

“Yes, kiss! Only then will I believe it’s real!”

…

Two adolescents, flushed and embarrassed in the yellow afternoon light, were pushed together amidst laughter, “admitting” their feelings, becoming each other’s first love.

Ruan Yaoyao: 【…Wait, this counts as first love?!】

Except for the Shi family involved: ?!

Ma Wenli was equally shocked, looking at Shi Guofan: So that letter wasn’t meant for me?! Was that whole ‘beautiful first encounter’ fake?

Then all their moments from school uniforms to wedding dresses…

Her eyes instantly welled up.

Shi Guofan panicked and quickly grabbed her hand.

But Ma Wenli shook him off, stood up, and walked away, unable to accept it.

“Da Lili…”

Shi Guofan, desperate, chased after her, forgetting about any promises, saying, “After all these years, haven’t we been fine?”

Ruan Yaoyao, half-reading, was confused: “What happened to them?”

Yu Xiangqiao, awkward: Mom, you just shattered their beautiful first love!

Shi Yanli tried to explain: “Mom suddenly remembered something she had forgotten. She was in a hurry to handle it, and Dad followed to make sure she didn’t mess it up…”

Ruan Yaoyao sincerely: “Your parents’ relationship is really good!”

“Indeed… really good!” Not quite—Xiangqiao, you just ruined their first love truth; no need to praise them sarcastically.

Shi Chaowen and Shi Yuwen, the brothers: Sis, are you sure you didn’t call her here to destroy our family?

【It’s so enviable!】

【Such beautiful memories, almost missed, but fate intervened. That letter ended up with Ma Wenli, fulfilling them. Otherwise, if Shi Guofan had gotten together with Xiao Muyu, Ma Wenli probably wouldn’t have accepted him.】

【Who would accept their best friend’s first love? That would be so awkward!】

Shi Yanli, Shi Chaowen, and Shi Yuwen were astonished: Could it be interpreted this way?!

Ruan Yaoyao certainly did. She believed that Shi Guofan and Ma Wenli were fated to be together. Even though Shi Guofan initially liked someone else, he still ended up with Ma Wenli.

What seemed like a twist of fate was also a form of “fulfillment.”

【Unlike me. My first love never had these twists, and we didn’t end up together.】

【If only it had been full of twists and turns, some ‘fate’s mishap,’ maybe it could have worked out.】

…

“Wife, don’t be angry. This happened so many years ago, our kids are already grown…” Shi Guofan caught up with Ma Wenli in the garden, grabbed her, and quickly said, “After all these years, haven’t we been fine?”