AMRWFA -Chapter 117 Another One Goes Crazy

【What he didn’t know was that whether he drove that day or not, he and his parents were destined to die.】

【After all, the eldest brother was already dead. If he and his parents didn’t die, how could Shi Wenqin rise to power?】

【Li Tingting was going to marry a domineering CEO, not some pampered second-generation heir.】

Shi Jiucheng froze completely, staring at Shi Yanli in front of him, regretting how easily he had agreed earlier.

What was going on here?

Everything was a complete mess.

Was the matriarch of the Xu family really cursing their entire family?

“Ahem!” Shi Yanli coughed twice, then turned to the two people in the corner. “Um… Aunt Xu, could you and Xiangqiao step aside for a moment so the three of us siblings can have a private conversation?”

“OK, no problem.” Ruan Yaoyao immediately agreed, taking Yu Xiangqiao with her as they left.

She even kept mumbling as she went.

【It’s a shame, Shi Jiucheng will probably never know in this lifetime that the reason his ex-girlfriend broke up with him wasn’t that she didn’t love him—but because she was pregnant.】

Who?

Who was pregnant?!

Shi Jiucheng froze, itching to grab Ruan Yaoyao, but Shi Yanli stopped him.

“What are you doing? Did you forget what you just promised me?”

“She… she just said Zhao Ya is pregnant!”

“Zhao Ya? Who’s that?”

Shi Jiucheng didn’t answer.

Shi Yanli suddenly realized: “You were acting all dramatic a while back… was it because of a breakup? When did you even have a girlfriend? Why didn’t we know? Why have you never brought her home?”

“You know how strict our family is… how could I bring her home? Zhao Ya’s an orphan—my parents would never agree.”

“Uh…” Shi Yanli didn’t dare say anything further.

Her eldest uncle looked serious most of the time, and her eldest aunt wasn’t easy to deal with either. She couldn’t make such promises.

Meanwhile, Xiao Ai couldn’t help herself and blurted out: “Scumbag!”

“How am I a scumbag? I already told her from the start: I would never marry her.”

Xiao Ai frowned: “If that’s not being a scumbag, what is? You were dating her, and you told her you wouldn’t marry her—so why sleep with her? That’s taking advantage!”

“How am I taking advantage? Everything with her was mutual, natural, and consensual…”

As Shi Jiucheng spoke, he suddenly realized something was wrong—why was he talking to a bird?

He turned to Xiao Ai: “Wait… are you the one talking to me?”

Xiao Ai rolled his eyes: “If not me, who else? Don’t you dare say it’s your real brother. There’s no brother like you. You’re a total scumbag. I’m not like you. If I like someone, I’d marry her and take responsibility.”

“See? You got easily fooled”

Xie Xiuming appeared out of nowhere.

Xiao Ai complained: “Why are you everywhere? I didn’t know before, now I know what kind of person she is—I won’t be fooled again…”

“You know what kind of person she is now? Really? Are you sure? Weren’t you obsessed with her before, calling me heartless, saying I change so quickly?”

Xiao Ai: “I just didn’t know the situation back then…”

Whether he truly believed it now, only Xiao Ai himself knew.

Shi Jiucheng was stunned. He looked at the Golden Retriever with a black crow on it, then at Xiao Ai on the perch, and asked his cousin Shi Yanli: “Are they… chatting? Since when can dogs talk to birds?”

“Let me formally introduce them,” Shi Yanli said. “This Golden Retriever is called Xie Xiuming—yes, the Xie Xiuming you know. The black crow is called Ma Xi. You don’t know him—he’s your younger brother’s later form. The three of them are all the same case. If you have questions, ask your brother.”

“Woof! Xiao Ai says hi to you, and Ma Xi too.”

Xiao Ai hesitated but mumbled: “Second brother, they say hi.”

“You’re really my brother? What proof do you have?”

“Don’t ask me, I don’t know either. I don’t have human memories, and I haven’t been a bird for long—just a few months.”

“Woof! I can vouch for it. All three of us really transformed from humans.”

Xiao Ai: “Oh! Xie Xiuming says he can vouch—they all confirm they were humans. He’s smarter than us; he suspected his identity early. Once the national team intervened, he confirmed it immediately.”

Unlike me—a weakling. I still don’t know my identity… why can’t I have more brains?

Shi Yanli patted Shi Jiucheng’s shoulder: “I know you don’t believe it, but don’t rush. Aunt Xu just told you something, right? Go check it. If your ex really broke up with you because she was pregnant… then Aunt Xu really does have special abilities.”

Before breaking up with him, she even made him sign a confidentiality agreement, keeping him in the dark for now.

Anyway, Shi Yanli only learned the truth about her parents’ romance and the ‘first love’ incident through Aunt Xu.

Even though the truth damaged her parents’ relationship, she’d rather their love be ruined than the family fall apart.

“Your parents are divorced—that’s not falling apart?”

“What’s that?” Shi Yanli said. “Besides my dad being with his first love, the rest of our family would have been dead. Compared to that, a divorce is nothing to worry about.”

Well, if that’s the case, a divorce isn’t so bad. Thinking about what Aunt Xu mentioned—death this, death that—Shi Jiucheng shivered: “So what she cursed our family just now…”

“Maybe it wasn’t a curse, but a prophecy.”

Shi Jiucheng wanted to refute, but considering the national team had intervened and he signed the NDA, he lacked the grounds.

“Go check on your ex. You’ve been broken up for over half a year—her belly should be showing, maybe she’s about to give birth.”

…

Shi Yanli wasn’t wrong. When Shi Jiucheng arrived, Zhao Ya’s water had broken.

She was holding a hospital bag, trying to hail a car at the entrance of the complex.

Shi Jiucheng slammed the brakes, stopping right in front of her.

“What are you doing here?!” Zhao Ya was stunned.

Shi Jiucheng stared at her belly, and seeing her plain, bare face, felt a sense of finality.

“I’m taking you to the hospital.”

Zhao Ya panicked: “My husband… he’s working late today. He doesn’t know I’m giving birth. Just go about your business, I already called a car.”

Shi Jiucheng ignored her reasoning, grabbed her hospital bag, tossed it in the car, and opened the door: “Are you getting in or not? I have plenty of time, but can you and your child wait?”

Expressionless, a blunt threat.