AMRWFA -Chapter 145 Xiao Ai Classmate Recovers

After offering her congratulations, Ruan Yaoyao’s first reaction was to head back to her room to check on the bird, confirming the condition of the five-colored macaw.

Sure enough, just like the previous golden retriever, once the bird returned to normal, it became “dumb.” More precisely, without a human soul, it was just an ordinary parrot again.

Beautiful—but not intelligent, and no longer able to converse.

It was as if its previous ability to speak had been nothing more than an illusion.

As for Shi Wenqin, because he had once inhabited the bird, he developed a special attachment to it and wanted to “adopt” it. The national team told him to negotiate directly with the pet’s original owner.

At first, the owner refused. But Shi Wenqin made a generous offer—enough to buy several macaws—so the owner eventually agreed, and the bird ended up in Shi Wenqin’s hands.

From beginning to end, Old Master Shi and the second branch of the family had no idea what had really happened. They only knew that after waking up, Shi Wenqin had suddenly taken a liking to raising birds. Since their family wasn’t short on money, they let him do as he pleased.

Seeing his health improve, everyone was happy for him.

Then there was the matter of how Shi Wenqin had suddenly made so many friends—between the Xu family and the Xie family, he was constantly visiting their homes.

Old Master Shi even scolded him once, telling him not to keep going over to other people’s houses for no reason—it wasn’t appropriate.

Shi Wenqin replied, “No, I’m just visiting friends. They all welcome me.”

And that was indeed true.

Unlike the busy Xie Xiuming, who rarely went back after turning human again, leaving the chameleon and the turtle still thinking about it but without much sense of reality, Shi Wenqin’s appearance made everything feel real—

“Damn! He really turned into a human?!”

“If he can turn human, then what about us…?”

The chameleon and the turtle exchanged a look.

First it was the golden retriever, then Xiao Ai Classmate, then Ma Xi—once Ma Xi was done, wouldn’t it be their turn next?

The two animals made a pact: no matter which one transformed first, they would come back to visit the other.

After all, being an animal and suddenly becoming human… it still felt strange!

Especially when Xiao Ai Classmate emphasized: “Xie Xiuming didn’t lie to us. What he said is true. If you don’t truly want it, even after turning back into a human and gaining human memories, you’ll still feel like an animal that has gained intelligence. It’s like… Transmigration or rebirth, you know? Like suddenly entering another person’s body and inheriting their memories. That’s what it feels like.”

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After leaving the Xie Group, Lu Yuanqing knew that his plan to seize the Xu family’s business and use business leverage to threaten that old woman had failed.

What was the Xie Group?

A military-industrial enterprise with deep cooperation ties to the state. Countless people wanted to latch onto it.

He himself had spent tremendous effort just to establish connections and secure a partnership with them.

And now, because of one woman, that partnership was gone.

“One woman!”

“All because of one woman!”

Lu Yuanqing burned with resentment.

He wondered what kind of charm Jian Lichang possessed to make him pay such a heavy price.

For a fleeting moment, he considered giving up. After all, no woman was more important than the company he had built from scratch.

But when he thought of his prior investments—and the humiliation he had suffered—he couldn’t swallow his anger.

Evening, on set.

Jian Lichang had finally finished her work for the day. Exhausted, she walked out, only to see her manager looking at her with concern.

“What’s wrong, Sister Lu?”

Sister Lu gave her a look, signaling her to glance to the side.

Only then did Jian Lichang notice that her nanny van was blocked by another car. She had ridden in that car several times before, so she recognized it immediately—it belonged to Lu Yuanqing.

Her lips pressed together slightly.

She had long known this day would come. With a man like him, how could he admit defeat so easily?

She reassured Sister Lu and walked toward the car.

The window slowly rolled down, revealing a familiar face.

“Get in.”

The man spoke coldly, just two words.

“Uncle Lu, if there’s something to say, let’s talk here. It’s getting late—it’s not very convenient for me to get in the car.”

“You already have a godmother now, don’t you? What, afraid I’ll eat you?” Lu Yuanqing said. “So many people going in and out here, so many paparazzi. If you’re not afraid of being photographed, I don’t mind. It won’t affect me much anyway. But you… before you’ve even become famous, getting caught associated with a man—won’t that be a problem?”

With a mix of coaxing and provocation, the young Jian Lichang fell for it.

She opened the car door.

What she didn’t know was that as she made this choice, a paparazzo in the distance snapped a photo of her getting into the car.

Once inside, Jian Lichang sat as far away from him as possible.

Before, when she didn’t know his intentions, she could treat him like an elder. But ever since learning of his filthy motives, she could no longer face him the same way.

“Uncle Lu, I know that when I met you, I was at my most difficult time. I’m very grateful for your help back then. I’ve always remembered it, and I was willing to treat you like a real uncle—grateful for a lifetime, even planning to take care of you in your old age…” Jian Lichang said sincerely, explaining what she had originally intended.

She knew Lu Yuanqing was wealthy. Even in his forties, unmarried and without children, he could easily hire professionals to care for him in old age.

But that would be something he paid for.

She, on the other hand, had genuinely wanted to care for him as a junior, giving him emotional warmth.

She had even wanted to persuade him to abandon his previous intentions and truly become her elder.

Lu Yuanqing sneered. “What, am I really that unworthy of you? That you’re so unwilling? I’m not trying to keep you as a mistress—I want to marry you properly, make you my legal wife. Isn’t that far better than being a nobody, an 18th-tier actress who could be traded around as a resource at any time? You don’t seriously think your godmother truly has your best interests at heart, do you? I’ve seen plenty of women like her. She hit a wall with me and couldn’t do anything, so she turned to you. She knows I care about you, and you’re so naïve and easy to manipulate. She can use you to control me—don’t you understand?”

If Jian Lichang hadn’t been able to hear Aunt Xu’s inner thoughts, she might really have been fooled by his words.

The adult world was too complicated—especially the schemes among wealthy families. It wasn’t something a college girl like her could easily grasp.

Jian Lichang said, “I’m very sure Aunt Xu is not that kind of person.”

“If she’s not that kind of person, then what kind of person do you think I am?” Lu Yuanqing retorted. “Do you think I’m someone who treats your beauty as a resource and uses your body for exchanges? I’m simply pursuing you normally, wanting to be in a relationship with you. Is that wrong? Didn’t I tell you before that I thought you were too young and didn’t want to scare you, so I planned to wait until after you graduated? But I didn’t expect you to be so easily swayed—barely entering the industry and already taken away by someone else’s persuasion. You believe whatever others say, but doubt everything I say. I’ve known you longer than she has. I’ve helped you so much—do I look like a bad person? If I were a bad person, I wouldn’t bother going through all this trouble to marry you. I’d just pay for you directly. Do you think with so many beauties in the entertainment industry, if I were only after looks, I wouldn’t be able to buy one?”