AMRWFA -Chapter 217 The Life-Stealing Case

“Just because she’s my real grandmother, does that mean she can sacrifice her own granddaughter just to save her life? Did she ever truly treat me as her granddaughter? Or from the very beginning, was I just a tool for borrowing life—waiting for the day she could morally blackmail me into giving up my life for her?”

The grandmother immediately turned her anger toward Li’s mother and cursed loudly.

“Luo Xiujuan! Look at the daughter you raised! She’s actually wishing for my death!”

At this moment, Li Haidong’s mother—Luo Xiujuan—was completely stunned.

Borrowing life?!

She had never even heard of something like that before.

Did something like this really exist in the world?

But that wasn’t even the most important part. The most important thing was that this old woman had actually tried to use her precious daughter’s life?!

Li’s mother completely lost it on the spot and rushed forward to fight Li Haidong’s grandmother.

What happened next didn’t need much description. The in-laws relationship shattered completely. Li’s mother immediately called Li’s father and forced him to choose: his daughter or his mother.

If he chose his mother, then he should pack up and go back to the countryside with her.

The result was obvious—Li’s father chose his wife and child. He knew exactly what kind of person his mother was. If it weren’t for the fact that he and his wife later earned money and improved their situation, his mother would never have treated them well.

To put it bluntly, she was greedy for money.

But she was still his mother, so there was nothing he could do. As long as she didn’t go too far and his wife and daughter didn’t object, he usually turned a blind eye.

Deep down, he knew his wife and daughter tolerated her only because she was his mother.

The family of three thought this way—but only the grandmother didn’t.

After sending her away, Li’s father cried uncontrollably, holding his wife’s hand.

“I don’t have a mother anymore… I don’t have a mother anymore…”

Li’s mother felt a bit uneasy seeing him like that.

She didn’t blame him. No one wanted things to turn out like this, and no one expected that old woman to be such a person. Even she herself had once thought that as long as the old woman changed and treated her daughter well, the past could be let go.

Who would have expected…

Even Ruan Yaoyao didn’t expect there would be more to this case.

At first, it seemed like just a rural “life-borrowing” incident, but after reporting it to the national task force, they discovered a familiar symbol in the grandmother’s sister’s case file.

Yes—exactly the same strange symbol that Ruan Yaoyao had seen on Bai Ling’er, and also on Ma Aotian.

To be safe, the task force asked her to read the woman’s fortune.

Unfortunately, the old woman wasn’t an important figure. All Ruan Yaoyao could see was a very brief profile page.

It only said that one day she met an old ragged man collecting scraps. She happened to have a steamed bun her family’s child had dropped, and she gave it to him.

The old man, claiming to be a dying Daoist priest, gave her a broken ancient manual as thanks.

At first, she didn’t believe it—but she was sick and near death. When she saw a “life-borrowing” method inside the book, she used it on her grandson.

Her illness was cured that very day, but her grandson died a few days later.

She panicked—she never meant to kill him. She only thought borrowing a little from a young child with a long future wouldn’t be fatal. She never expected it would drain his life completely.

Frightened, she searched everywhere for the old beggar, but never found him again. The manual was hidden away.

But human nature cannot withstand gambling. What began as an accident later turned into intention when she fell ill again and used life-borrowing once more.

From then on, it became a choice: either others die, or she dies.

Obviously, she chose others.

At first, she targeted people who had conflicts with her. Later, people she disliked. And eventually…

Over time, she became experienced at it. To extend her life, she learned that it worked best on people with strong “fortune.” Borrowing from unlucky people often killed them quickly.

The longest she ever borrowed from was probably Mrs. Qiao, whom she hated the most. Mrs. Qiao was born lucky—surrounded by protective brothers, cherished as the only daughter in the family.

After marriage, her husband doted on her. She gave birth to twins right after entering the family, which made even her mother-in-law delighted.

Her children were successful and filial, her daughter married well.

Watching Mrs. Qiao live such a blessed life made her eyes red with jealousy.

Unlike herself—married poorly, with an unsuccessful son, a lifetime of poverty, and a daughter-in-law who couldn’t bear a son.

She had completely forgotten that her daughter-in-law had once given birth—but had been killed by her.

During those years of borrowing Mrs. Qiao’s life, she felt the most comfortable she had ever been—energetic, even breathing felt easier.

After that, she set her sights on Li Haidong.

Although she looked down on that “useless girl,” her parents adored her, raising her in the city. A country girl who was treated like a city girl and excelled in school—it was unbearable to look at.

So when her sister Zhou Mei fell ill, she persuaded her to borrow life from Li Haidong.

She told her it was nothing serious—just some bad luck and discomfort. After all, she was her own granddaughter; how could she not wish her grandmother well?

She was already dying—borrowing life was the only way to survive.

After struggling her whole life, shouldn’t she be allowed a few more comfortable days before dying?

……

【Heh.】

【This old thing really is garbage.】

【She killed her own grandson and blamed her daughter-in-law for not being able to give birth, always pushing her son to divorce.】

【And once they did divorce, she borrowed the woman’s life until she died young, then called it her own fault for being “unlucky.”】

Ruan Yaoyao felt sick.

【How can there be such shameless people in the world?!】

【Even if her daughter-in-law was flawed, she was still a human life—she killed her without hesitation.】

【And she could even harm her own grandson—what else wouldn’t she do?】

Ruan Yaoyao recorded the life-borrowing method and also wrote down a way to break it, submitting both.

【Just in case others encounter it, at least there’ll be a solution.】

【I wonder whose method is simpler—mine or theirs… kind of want to learn.】

Ru Anzhi twitched his mouth.

Mom, why do you want to learn this?

You already cultivate—why would you need to borrow life?

He then asked headquarters to give her a small red flower to make her happy.

After receiving it, Ruan Yaoyao was genuinely delighted and even posted it on social media, saying she had been praised by the “national team.”

A flood of likes followed.

She smiled brightly.

Behind her, Ruan Zhihe looked at her with a doting expression.

Sometimes Auntie really is like a child—so easy to satisfy.