AMRWFA -Chapter 119 She Didn’t Want Her Dragged Down with Her

Ruan Yaoyao organized her thoughts for a moment, then said, “This is hard to explain. It’s my first time dealing with something like this too, so I’m not sure just how much influence Li Tingting really has. If you’re worried, then personally, I’d still suggest that you and Zhao Ya hold off on getting married for now. Better to avoid trouble for the time being. Once your younger brother returns to normal, or once Li Tingting loses interest in him, it won’t be too late for you to be with Zhao Ya then.”

Shi Jiucheng asked, “What about my mom? Based on your experience, do you think she’d agree?”

【I’m not your mom, how would I know?!】

【And I’ve never even met your mother, so how am I supposed to know what kind of person she is?】

Ruan Yaoyao was put on the spot.

“That’s hard to say. It mainly depends on your mother. In her heart, what matters more—her pride, or you?”

Shi Jiucheng said, “That depends on the situation. If it’s a matter of life and death, then obviously I matter more. But if all I do is threaten to stop acknowledging her as my mother, she’d directly stop acknowledging me as her son.”

【Well of course! She carried you for ten months and gave birth to you, and now you’d disown your own mother for a woman? That’s not a son—that’s an ungrateful bastard.】

【If it were me, I’d turn against you too.】

【Better to have given birth to a barbecued pork bun than a son like that!】

Ruan Yaoyao felt like there was something wrong with Shi Jiucheng’s head. Otherwise, how could he ask something so ridiculous?

She even began to suspect, 【Could this guy not get along with his mother?】

【If that’s the case, then if I’m sitting here teaching him how to deal with his mom, wouldn’t that be pretty shady of me?】

She told Shi Jiucheng to wait a moment, then called his cousin Shi Yanli to confirm what his relationship with his mother was like.

“Huh? He and his mom actually get along pretty well. It’s just that Auntie is a rather stern person.” Shi Yanli hadn’t made it to the scene because she had other things going on, so when she suddenly got a call from Ruan Yaoyao, she was still a little confused.

What the hell had her cousin done to make someone doubt him like this?!

After receiving Shi Yanli’s message questioning him, Shi Jiucheng’s mouth twitched. Could he really say that he had just asked an idiotically phrased question?

After Ruan Yaoyao came back, she said to Shi Jiucheng, “If you really have no other choice, then tell your mother about your younger brother Shi Wenqin’s condition and see how she reacts. If, to your mother, even your life isn’t as important as her pride, then you and she should just forget it. That girl didn’t have it easy getting to where she is today—at least leave her a path to survive.”

【Your relationship with your mother is already tense. If you add a mother-in-law/daughter-in-law conflict on top of that, it’ll only make things worse.】

【That girl didn’t have it easy growing up to this point either!】

Shi Jiucheng’s lips twitched again. He felt like Aunt Xu was thinking way too much.

One moment she suspected his relationship with his mother, the next she was worried he wouldn’t be able to handle mother-in-law conflict and would drag Zhao Ya down with him.

Did he really look that unreliable?

“How come I never noticed he was that unreliable?”

As soon as Shi Jiucheng left, Ruan Yaoyao couldn’t help complaining to Yu Xiangqiao. This was only her second time meeting him. Her first impression of him had actually been pretty good—so how had his value dropped so much by the second meeting?

“Do you think that if anything happens in the future, they’ll blame me for interfering?”

“Mom, how could they blame you? If you hadn’t interfered, there probably wouldn’t be many people left in their family by then.”

“That’s what I was thinking too, but dragging his ex-girlfriend into this… she was doing perfectly fine before, living her life well, and now because of me, she’s been targeted by the female lead. How unlucky is that?”

Ruan Yaoyao felt a little regretful.

【If I’d known, I never should’ve let my soft heart get the better of me!】

【It’s no good if trying to be kind ends up killing someone!】

Yu Xiangqiao comforted her for quite a while before Ruan Yaoyao finally calmed down a little.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Shi Jiucheng, after leaving Ruan Yaoyao’s place, was also “mocked” by his cousin Shi Yanli.

“When I asked you back then, didn’t you agree too?”

Shi Yanli said, “But I didn’t expect you to be that stupid, talking with so little tact.”

“What else was I supposed to do? I just wanted to know whether Zhao Ya would be in danger. If I didn’t ask it that way, and she didn’t think along those lines, then wouldn’t my trip have been pointless?” His whole purpose in coming here was to confirm Zhao Ya’s safety, okay?

“So, did you confirm it?”

Shi Jiucheng let out a breath and said, “As long as I don’t introduce her to the family before Wenqin returns to normal, she’ll be safe.”

“In other words, for now, you’re not planning to introduce her to your family?”

“Mm…”

Shi Yanli’s expression turned indescribable. She motioned for him to check the group chat—it was already in chaos.

The days ahead for him definitely weren’t going to be easy.

Shi Jiucheng suddenly felt a little regretful. If he’d known it would turn out like this, he never would have impulsively posted about the child’s care in the group chat. Now it was impossible to keep Zhao Ya hidden even if he wanted to.

Shi Jiucheng’s worries soon came true. While he was still trying to hide the matter and play dumb, his mother had already used special means to track them down and directly snatch the child away.

By the time he got there, his mother had already taken the child from the postpartum care center. The moment Zhao Ya saw him, she dropped to her knees, crying as she clutched at his pant leg and begged him to return the child to her.

She swore that all she wanted was the child, and that she and the baby would never disturb him.

Seeing her so utterly broken, Shi Jiucheng’s heart ached terribly.

“Don’t do this…”

“I’m begging you, Shi Jiucheng. We’ve been together for so long, and I’ve never asked you for anything. I’m only asking for this one thing, just this one thing, okay?”

“Yaya…”

…

“So this is why you brought her to me?” Ruan Yaoyao looked at Zhao Ya, who stood beside Shi Jiucheng with a pale face, obviously having cried her heart out and still physically weak, and felt her whole body go bad.

【Wait, what? Your mother took the child, so shouldn’t you be going to your mother? Why did you bring her to me?】

【She didn’t even have a tag over her head before, but now she does.】

That’s right.

When Shi Jiucheng had first brought Zhao Ya over, there had been no tag above her head. But when he introduced her to Ruan Yaoyao by name, saying she was “Zhao Ya,” the tag above her head appeared.

To be exact, her fate line appeared.

【The ex-girlfriend who ran away while pregnant!】

【After being discovered by Mother Shi, the two of them were violently separated, and her child was taken away. In a daze, she accidentally wandered into the middle of the road and got hit by a car…】

【Oh—and she even died right in front of Shi Jiucheng!】

Zhao Ya didn’t react at all, because she couldn’t hear any of this. But Shi Jiucheng could hear it, and his eyes instantly widened in shock.

At that moment, he regretted everything—regretted going to Zhao Ya to confirm the child’s matter, regretted dragging her into this…

Shi Jiucheng said anxiously, “Aunt Xu, please, help me. She and the child can’t be harmed. I know I shouldn’t have dragged her into this, but my mom already took the baby. I called her, but she won’t answer. And Zhao Ya is clinging to me and refusing to let me leave her sight…”

【Of course she won’t let you leave. She thinks this was a setup between you and your mother. She thinks you deliberately told your mother so she could take the baby.】

【If you run off, the child will never be found again.】

【She has to keep an eye on you. As long as she keeps watching you, there’s still a chance the child can be found.】

“How can I possibly take her to look for my mother? She’s still in postpartum confinement right now. I’m afraid her body won’t be able to take it.”

“So you do know she’s still in postpartum confinement?” Ruan Yaoyao was extremely displeased. “Honestly, you really are something… But even bringing her to me is useless, isn’t it? I don’t know your mother, and even if I try to persuade her, she may not listen to me.”

“I’m not asking you to persuade my mother. I want you to call her and trick her into coming here.”

“What?!”