AMRWFA -Chapter 248 Watching the Drama Together

Xu Nannan nodded.

“Of course she’s not that old. She just graduated from college and has only been working for a year or two—at most she’s around twenty-five or twenty-six.”

“The matchmaker introduced her to someone one or two years younger. As soon as he showed up, he asked her, ‘Can you tutor me for the civil service exam? If I pass, we’ll date. If I don’t, then forget it.’”

Xu Nannan was stunned. “That’s… actually a thing?!”

Yu Xiangqiao wore an indescribable expression. “That’s exactly how it went. They were just meeting on a blind date, not even familiar with each other, and he was already asking her to guarantee he’d pass the civil service exam. Even professional training institutions wouldn’t dare promise something like that. And afterward, he even complained that she was too old—who knows what he was thinking.”

Xu Nannan said, “Good thing it didn’t work out. If it had, and he passed the exam only to dump her afterward, wouldn’t she have suffered a huge loss?”

“What loss?” Ruan Yaoyao had just walked in and overheard her daughter talking about “losses,” thinking she meant being taken advantage of.

Xu Nannan said, “Mom, you’re back? I was chatting with Sister-in-law—she was telling me about a bizarre blind date…”

As soon as Ruan Yaoyao heard this, she said, “You really have to be careful with blind dates. All kinds of strange people are out there. Back then, I almost got matched with some old geezer.”

Xu Nannan blinked. “Mom, weren’t you set up with Dad?”

“That came later.” Ruan Yaoyao sat down on the sofa and asked someone to bring her a glass of juice. “Before your dad, they arranged someone else for me—he was already seventy or eighty, had buried three wives, and his grandson was about to graduate from middle school, yet he still wanted to get married. Who would marry their daughter to someone that old? So their family offered a huge bride price. Besides several million, there were also company shares. They said as soon as the new bride married in, the shares would be transferred to her as part of the dowry. Of course, your grandparents were tempted. They were even preparing to send my photo over for the old man to choose.”

Xu Nannan asked, “And then what happened?”

Ruan Yaoyao said, “Before the photo was even sent, the old man croaked.”

“He was about to die and still wanted to get married? Isn’t that harming someone? Didn’t his son and daughter-in-law object?” Xu Nannan was speechless. How could people like this exist?

“What objection could they have? The old man was already that old—even if he married someone, whether she could bear children was uncertain. And even if she did, their own kids were already about to graduate from middle school. Were they really afraid a newborn would compete for the inheritance?” Ruan Yaoyao rolled her eyes. “Just give her a few million and send her on her way.”

Xu Nannan grew curious. “Who are they? So rich that a few million is just pocket change?”

“Didn’t you once talk about wanting to buy a place in Jin Xiu Wei Yang? That development belongs to their family.”

“Oh! So it’s them. Yeah, they really are rich.”

Compared to them, the Xu family was nothing.

For a moment, Xu Nannan didn’t know whether to regret that her mother hadn’t married into that family or feel relieved that she hadn’t.

If her mom had married in, she’d now be some wealthy heiress—definitely richer than she was now.

But that depended on the old man staying alive and her mom actually giving birth to her.

The photo hadn’t even been sent before the old man died. It was hard for Xu Nannan to imagine she’d still be born under those circumstances. Her father would probably have married someone else by then.

Then she…

Would she even exist?

Fortunately, Ruan Yaoyao had no idea what her daughter was thinking—otherwise she would’ve knocked her on the head.

What nonsense was she thinking?

With her current life, how many people envied her already? Still greedy—wasn’t she afraid of choking on it?

Suddenly, Xu Lingxuan developed a fever. In the middle of the night, Ruan Yaoyao rushed to the hospital with her son and daughter-in-law.

“Mom, you don’t need to come. We can handle it ourselves,” Yu Xiangqiao said.

But Ruan Yaoyao shot her a look of disdain.

“If I don’t go, what if something happens to my precious granddaughter? You almost lost him before!”

“No, we didn’t.”

“How not? Haven’t you read those ‘switched-at-birth’ novels?”

Yu Xiangqiao: Oh… so that’s what Mom meant. Then it’s fine.

Luckily, they acted quickly, and Xu Lingxuan’s fever soon subsided.

Since it was their own hospital and it was already late at night, they didn’t bother going back. Ruan Yaoyao and the others directly had a VIP ward arranged.

Seeing her son and daughter-in-law sitting by Xu Lingxuan’s bed, acting all lovey-dovey, Ruan Yaoyao found it a bit unbearable. She quietly slipped out, planning to have another room arranged—she didn’t want to stay with them.

Ruan Zhihe followed behind, stifling her laughter.

So Aunt Xu is afraid of “public displays of affection” too!

As they walked, Ruan Yaoyao suddenly caught something in the corner of her eye.

【Huh?】

【A label?】

She turned her head and saw a glowing label swaying among the plants in the corridor. She was more than familiar with such things.

【“One man guards a nation”—pfft, no, it’s “one man kills seven people.”】

【…】

【My eyes must be failing to misread that.】

【Wait… one man kills seven people?!】

Ruan Yaoyao’s eyes widened in shock, hardly daring to believe it.

【Did I just… run into a murderer?】

Ruan Zhihe’s heart skipped a beat. She immediately pressed her watch, sending out a signal.

“Aunt Xu, we—”

Before she could finish, Ruan Yaoyao shushed her and pulled her into a corner, signaling her to stay quiet.

Peeking out, Ruan Yaoyao quickly flipped through the person’s “details page” while whispering, “You remember I can read faces, right? My intuition tells me there’s danger over there. Let’s not go.”

“I believe you!” Was that even a question? How could she not believe Aunt Xu?

Ruan Zhihe’s hand had already moved to the gun at her waist, waiting for the man to show himself. “One man kills seven”—how vicious must he be to do something like that?

Could he be a fugitive murderer?

【“One man kills seven people”—a background extra in Super Male.】

Ruan Zhihe: What?! Just a background extra?!

If even a background character is like this, how terrifying must the main characters be?!

【His main deed: in a fit of rage, he injured his wife, who had just given birth to his baby boy. Even after she died, he decapitated and dismembered her…】

【That’s one kill.】

【Then he went on a rampage with a knife, killing six pregnant women in neighboring wards—making up the other six kills.】

【The hospital security team intervened, paying the price of one severely injured and four wounded before subduing him…】

【Later, police investigation revealed that Rong Zhenlong’s motive was that his wife’s delivery didn’t go smoothly. She had been transferred from a public hospital to a private one, and somehow the delivery cost became 8,000 yuan. On top of that, he had been scammed out of another 4,000 yuan. Filled with anger, he vented it on his wife and the hospital…】

【What does getting scammed out of 4,000 yuan have to do with the hospital?!】

【Our hospital only charged 8,000—that’s already cheap, okay? Do you even know what kind of hospital this is? VIP-level service. Charging more is normal—anything under twenty or thirty thousand is already a bargain…】

【But why was his wife transferred from a public hospital to ours?】

【Didn’t he check the prices before transferring?】

Right now, what Ruan Zhihe really wanted to know was—had he already acted?

If he had…

Did that mean somewhere in this hospital, there was already a body—cut into pieces—lying in one of the wards?