AMRWFA -Chapter 229 The Highest Realm of Being Love-Brained

“My new secretary.”

“When did you change your secretary? Why didn’t I know?”

“It wasn’t long ago. My previous secretary got sick, so she recommended Linglong to take over temporarily. And honestly, Linglong may look a bit young, but she’s very attentive. Basically, as long as I give her a look, she knows what I want…”

Manager Lin praised his new secretary highly and even planned that once his original secretary recovered, he would let Linglong follow behind her as an assistant to train and eventually take over her position.

After all, his secretary wasn’t young anymore and fell sick every few days. If she hadn’t been his father’s former employee, he would’ve already replaced her.

【Linglong…】

【It looks like I need to find a way to get Jinxian to take me to meet her and see what’s going on. How did she manage to PUA Quan Yuxi into that state?】

Yun Jinxian was also thinking about it, so she directly said that it was hard to explain over the phone and suggested going to the company in person to talk.

After hanging up, she said to Ruan Yaoyao, “Aunt Xu, come with me again. I’m not at ease if this matter with Quan Yuxi isn’t clarified.”

Ruan Yaoyao was more than willing. Her eyes lit up instantly, and she nodded quickly.

“Alright, I’ve got nothing to do anyway. I’ll go with you.”

Ruan Zhihé finally relaxed.

Meeting this Linglong would be good too. Once they saw her, they would understand what was really going on.

——

When they arrived at Manager Lin’s company, he was slightly surprised that Yun Jinxian wasn’t alone—she had brought others.

Yun Jinxian briefly introduced them. As usual, she handled the “small talk,” while Ruan Yaoyao handled the observation.

Without needing any prompting, Linglong, the secretary, came in to pour tea and coffee. Yun Jinxian took the opportunity to praise her a few times and asked about Quan Yuxi.

Completely unaware, Manager Lin allowed Linglong to stay in the room.

“Do you really not know he has a girlfriend?”

Linglong’s expression showed no flaw at all.

“Did he tell you that himself? I didn’t know. He never mentioned it to me.”

【Tsk tsk… claiming not to know when you’re literally the girlfriend herself. Her psychological endurance is pretty strong.】

【No wonder Quan Yuxi is being completely controlled by her—just this mental strength alone, she’s already far above him.】

Ruan Yaoyao flipped through Linglong’s profile page, utterly astonished.

Compared to Quan Yuxi’s profile, Linglong’s was much more detailed.

【She truly loves Quan Yuxi, but because of her ‘past’, she feels extremely inferior and thinks she is dirty.】

【So, in order not to be “disliked” by him and to justify being with him, Linglong came up with an “excellent” plan.】

【That is—to drag him down from the altar and make him as dirty as she is.】

【?!】

【She told Quan Yuxi she was seriously ill and forced him to make money.】

【If normal ways didn’t work, she made him enter the entertainment industry and “sacrifice himself” to a wealthy sponsor.】

【She even deliberately hired someone to kidnap herself, forcing Quan Yuxi to save her and be humiliated by the kidnappers…】

【Wait, what kind of logic is this?!】

Yun Jinxian and Ruan Zhihé: Same question.

What does it mean to “make him as dirty as she is”?

Had she… also experienced something like that before?

Ruan Yaoyao took a sip of tea to calm herself down.

Looking again at the elegant woman on the sofa—beautiful, with refined makeup—there was an overwhelming sense of contradiction.

【What kind of thinking is this?!】

【She clearly knows how terrifying that kind of experience is, so why doesn’t she try to cherish Quan Yuxi and properly be with him? Instead, her way of loving him is to make him experience the same pain?!】

【What kind of life turned her into someone like this?!】

She quickly scrolled down, trying to find more memories.

Fortunately, she found fragments from Linglong’s past.

【When she was very young, her parents divorced. Because she was a girl, her father didn’t want her, so she lived with her mother.】

【Her mother struggled raising her alone and remarried.】

【This man was very kind to her—bought her candy, bought her new dresses.】

【Linglong was very happy and even called him “dad.”】

【But…】

【She was molested.】

【She was too young to understand what was happening, only feeling disgusted and not wanting to be alone with that man.】

【But her mother scolded her, saying she was ungrateful and difficult, and that she should appreciate such a good stepfather instead of thinking about her “deadbeat biological father.”】

【……】

【Sigh…】

Ruan Yaoyao let out a heavy sigh in her heart. She could already guess what came next.

Not just her—Yun Jinxian and Ruan Zhihé could guess too.

And just as expected…

At first, it was only casual touching and hugging. What’s wrong with a father figure kissing a daughter on the cheek?

No one thought anything was wrong.

Everyone even said Linglong was lucky to have such a loving stepfather.

But she couldn’t say anything.

Even if she did, no one would believe her.

And more importantly—no one would stand up for her.

So she could only endure it in silence.

Until adolescence arrived, and the once well-behaved girl “rebelled.”

She didn’t want to study. She didn’t want to go home. She wanted to work outside.

But as a minor, no one would hire her.

Everyone told her:

“Linglong, you must study hard. Only studying will get you somewhere!”

“Linglong, don’t be so unreasonable. Your parents work so hard to support your education—how can you rebel like this?”

“Linglong, don’t hang out with those troublemakers. They’ll ruin you.”

……

At some point, Linglong became the “bad girl” in everyone’s eyes.

Rumors spread everywhere about how many boyfriends she had, what men did to her, how many abortions she supposedly had.

Her youth turned completely gray.

All the men who met her saw her as “damaged goods,” swarming toward her like flies drawn to blood, eager to take advantage.

【This is awful!】

【She felt like the world was completely rotten!】

【At one point, she even wanted to end her life.】

【But when she jumped from a building, a young firefighter saved her—he lost his life at just eighteen, just to save someone like her.】

【She was shaken to her core.】

【At that moment, someone told her: you can’t die. You have to live for him.】

【Carrying the guilt of that firefighter, she returned to school, picked up her books, and studied hard until she was admitted to a mediocre college.】

【She deliberately chose a school far away, escaping the world that disgusted her.】

【And there, she met another salvation—Quan Yuxi, a boy who grew up in the sunlight like a sunflower.】

【……】

【Sigh.】

【I think I understand why she believes she is “dirty.”】

【Her life really was terrible.】

【Anyone living in that kind of environment would struggle to breathe.】

【No wonder after meeting Quan Yuxi, she clung to him like a lifeline and tried every possible way to drag him onto her boat.】

【But understanding is one thing… her methods are another.】