AMRWFA -Chapter 307 I’m Not a Good Person

“I’m not a good person, but I know what I want. What I want is a big house, endless money, and people serving me,” Ruan Yaoyao said. “I’m very vulgar. I’m the kind of gold-digging woman everyone in society shouts at, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it, because this is what I want. First, I’m not breaking any laws. Second, I’m not hurting anyone. Third, I happened to marry a husband who is willing to support me—why shouldn’t I?”

Fang Yixue looked at Yu Xiangqiao, then at Ruan Yaoyao, and for a moment didn’t know what to say.

At a glance, Yu Xiangqiao could tell what Fang Yixue was confused about, and she covered her mouth, stifling a laugh.

Xu Nannan was also speechless. She rubbed her forehead and really wanted to say: Mom, you really dare to say anything. It’s a good thing Dad is already gone—if he heard this, he’d be furious to death.

But maybe it was also helplessness. After all, she already knew exactly what kind of person her mother was.

Her father marrying her mother was partly because he genuinely liked her, and partly because she was easy to handle—she wouldn’t interfere with his affairs outside.

Of course, there were other women outside who had similar ambitions, but their status meant they could never be as carefree as her mother. No matter what, they still had to try to secure the position of “Madam Xu” first.

And clearly, that seat had already been taken by her mother, so they could only compete.

Ruan Yaoyao took a sip of tea and continued slowly to Fang Yixue:

“Don’t look at her. Looking at her won’t help. She just got lucky—she ran straight into my son. She should even thank me. If I hadn’t raised my son well, you’d be the one crying now.”

Yu Xiangqiao immediately climbed up the pole, thanking Ruan Yaoyao, saying that if she hadn’t raised her son well, she would have missed out on her husband.

“Good that you know,” Ruan Yaoyao said, lifting her chin slightly, signaling her to be sensible.

Yu Xiangqiao quickly went along with her, massaging her shoulders and praising her as not only the best “mother” in the world, but also the best mother-in-law. Anyone who married into the Xu family would be living a blessed life.

Fang Yining and Fang Yixue both twitched their mouths.

Was there really a need to flatter your mother-in-law like this?

Unfortunately, Yu Xiangqiao didn’t know what they were thinking. If she did, she would have said: Of course it’s necessary. My mother-in-law saved my life and my entire family. A woman like her deserves to be worshipped—I’d light incense for her three times a day if I could.

“So,” Ruan Yaoyao said to Fang Yixue, “the most important thing for you right now isn’t what you want with Ding Chen. It’s figuring out what kind of life you actually want. If you only want wealth and don’t care about the man himself, then you need to learn to manipulate things back—make the Ding family and Ding Chen feel guilty and compensate you. That way your life in the Ding family will be comfortable, and you can do whatever you want. But if you want love, then you need to figure out how to maximize your benefits in this marriage and then divorce Ding Chen smoothly.”

Ruan Yaoyao didn’t push her to decide, only told her to go back and think it through carefully.

After the Fang sisters left, Xu Nannan quietly asked Ruan Yaoyao, “Mom, what do you think she’ll choose?”

“How would I know? I’m not a worm in her stomach,” Ruan Yaoyao rolled her eyes.

She could see “fate lines,” yes—but once a person made a different choice, their future would change. Since Fang Yixue hadn’t chosen yet, how could she know?

She would know once the choice was made.

A few days later, the result came out.

Fang Yixue chose “divorce.”

She was still very young and couldn’t swallow this humiliation. She had agreed to an “arranged business marriage,” but that didn’t mean she would marry just any man.

If it was just about maintaining wealth, why couldn’t she marry someone as decent as her sister-in-law’s husband?

Why did “maintaining wealth” mean she had to marry a man who couldn’t even perform in bed?

When she said this, she nervously glanced at Ruan Yaoyao, afraid she would be angry.

But Ruan Yaoyao immediately laughed.

“Of course you can. Why not? It’s your life—you should decide for yourself.”

Fang Yixue finally relaxed. “Aunt Xu, can you help me see whether I can successfully get divorced?”

Ruan Yaoyao blinked. “Didn’t your parents already agree? Let them handle it.”

【The Fang family did accept business marriages, but they weren’t completely indifferent to their children’s happiness. When they learned the Ding family had tricked them into marriage, they were furious.】

【In their view, at most this was a couple’s compatibility issue—they never expected the Ding man to be… incapable.】

【Being useless is fine—the Ding family can afford to support him—but being incapable is unacceptable. That would ruin their daughter’s life.】

【From the parents to the siblings, everyone in the Fang family agreed: this marriage won’t work.】

【So as long as Fang Yixue wasn’t a love-struck fool insisting on staying, the divorce was basically guaranteed.】

Hearing Ruan Yaoyao’s inner thoughts, Fang Yixue finally felt completely at ease.

She had been worried her parents wouldn’t agree—but now it seemed they still cared about her.

Even if that love was somewhat limited.

Sometimes it was like that: parents had their own selfishness, yet they were not completely unloving. They would hurt you while also protecting you, leaving you unable to fully approach them, yet unable to completely cut ties either.

Some people spend their entire lives reconciling with their families; some take a long time to adjust; others are shaped into what their families want, quietly and without resistance.

Just like Ruan Yaoyao—she spent her whole life trying to make peace with herself but never truly reconciled with her parents.

A cold voice interrupted her thoughts.

“Anything?” it was Ruan Shizhong on the phone.

“Mom wants you to come back,” he said.

“She’s dying?” Ruan Yaoyao replied.

“What are you talking about? Mom is fine.”

She gave a cold laugh. “Not dead yet? I thought you were calling me for a funeral. Didn’t we already agree years ago? I got married, and my ties with the Ruan family were cut. What, did your brain get replaced after all these years?”

“Ruan Yaoyao, that was so many years ago. Why are you still bringing it up? Besides, Mom and Dad did it for your own good…”

“For my own good? Or for your own good?” she sneered. “Ruan Shizhong, you benefited from it. Of course you’ll speak for them. You weren’t the one forced into marriage.”

“What did I gain? After you married, you made the Xu family withdraw investments and cut all cooperation with the Ruan family. And you still have the nerve to say that?”

“So what if I do? I was unhappy—can’t I retaliate? I only made the Xu family withdraw investments. I didn’t make them destroy you. Isn’t that already giving you face? Or do you want me to ruin the Ruan family completely before you’re satisfied?”

Of course, these were exaggerations.

Back then, the Xu family withdrawing investment had nothing to do with her—it was just a failed business deal between the two families.

Later, however, she did influence some of the continued lack of cooperation.

Her pillow talk had some effect, but limited. She could not control the Xu family’s economic strategy, only influence minor matters.

And she didn’t dare interfere too much. She just wanted to be a wealthy wife living comfortably for life—not a bankrupt one.

So she rarely interfered in her husband’s business.

The only time she truly intervened was in a dream-like scenario—where she tried to drive out a illegitimate child and give the inheritance to her biological child, which ultimately led to total ruin and bankruptcy. And that was how the novel began: she woke up, awakened…