AMRWFA -Chapter 395 Using Public Opinion to Force a Marriage

Thinking back on it now, Xiong Shilan finally connected the dots.

After all, no normal person would act so bizarrely. If all those accounts that had added her and done those things belonged to the same person, then yes—it really did seem like something that man would do.

Most importantly, Ruan Yaoyao had identified him.

The onlookers were stunned. Someone even filmed a short video and uploaded it online:

【Damn! A forced proposal scene turned into a full-on showdown—turns out they didn’t even know each other!】

Netizens: 【?????】

【What the hell?】

【He chased her for a whole year and she doesn’t even know his name? Is that real?】

【Didn’t her mom say it already? Her daughter likes girls and is already in a relationship… If he really confessed, he was destined to be rejected.】

【He chased a lesbian for a year and never realized it? Bro, that’s just sad.】

【Sad my ass! He was forcing a marriage! The girl doesn’t even know his name—he never confessed, just suddenly proposed in public. Everyone there thought they were a couple and even encouraged her to accept… My god, imagine a girl shopping with her best friend, suddenly someone proposes to her, and the crowd tells her to say yes. She’s completely confused and doesn’t even recognize the guy. So should she accept or not?】

【That auntie was right—he’s a psycho. He wanted to use public pressure to force her daughter to marry him. With so many witnesses, if she agreed out of embarrassment, that becomes “evidence.” If she refused, she’d be seen as heartless and disrespectful… Because who would expect someone to propose to a stranger? If a man dares to propose in front of so many people, everyone assumes they’re already a couple.】

【Not gonna lie, I thought they were a couple too. So… a love triangle?】

【The girl and her best friend are a couple—they’re both into girls. The guy is just a pursuer who chased her for a year without even knowing her name, then suddenly jumped out to propose publicly.】

…

【Wait, why does this auntie look familiar? Holy—Isn’t she the fan-site admin from my fandom? @RuanYaoyao, is that you?】

【Pfft… hahaha, @RuanYaoyao, sis, you’re amazing. How many daughters do you even have? Did you just pick them up off the street?】

【If she did pick her up off the street, that’s even scarier, okay? Luckily she ran into @RuanYaoyao, otherwise she would’ve been cyberbullied to death. Whether she accepted or refused, it was a trap either way.】

…

Of course, that was all later.

At the time, after driving Pan Weize away, Ruan Yaoyao took Xiong Shilan and her best friend aside and gently comforted them, telling them not to be afraid—it was all over now.

She even apologized, saying she shouldn’t have “lied” about them being a couple. It had been an emergency measure, and she would clarify things later.

With reddened eyes, Xiong Shilan shook her head and thanked her, saying that if it weren’t for her, both she and her best friend would’ve been in serious trouble.

Ruan Yaoyao even treated them to milk tea and stayed with them for a while, until Lu Lingling arrived, following the address.

“Master!”

“I ordered one for you too—extra milk.”

“Thank you, Master!” Lu Lingling said with a smile as she sat beside her. She had already heard what happened over the phone and felt deeply sympathetic toward the two girls.

Running into something like this was just absurd!

That guy surnamed Pan… could he really be mentally ill?

After the two girls left, Lu Lingling voiced exactly that thought.

Ruan Yaoyao nodded. “Yes. He’s a complete psycho! Xiong Shilan doesn’t even know him. He secretly observed her for a whole year, then convinced himself she was his girlfriend and that it was time to confess.”

“Xiong Shilan was also too naive. She thought he’d mistaken her for someone else and kept asking if he got the wrong person. Then she thought it might be a prank. But the crowd kept egging things on, saying they wouldn’t let her leave unless she agreed. In the end, she had no choice but to say, ‘Fine, I agree.’”

“And just like that, Pan Weize had someone record it, calling it their ‘proposal anniversary.’ A few days later, he showed up at her company handing out wedding candies, telling her coworkers to congratulate her on getting married…”

Lu Lingling and Ruan Zhihe were dumbfounded.

Seriously? If their master / Aunt Ruan hadn’t intervened, things would’ve actually gone this way?!

“Xiong Shilan was terrified and immediately said she didn’t know Pan Weize. But he had video ‘evidence,’ plus secretly taken photos of her daily life, even photoshopped images of them together… and so-called love diaries. She couldn’t defend herself at all.”

The situation didn’t just spread through her workplace—it reached her home, her relatives, her friends.

Everyone knew.

Oh, and of course, the internet knew too.

Xiong Shilan was being forced into marriage.

With things spiraling like that, even her best friend became unsure whether Xiong Shilan had secretly been dating him behind her back. After all, they didn’t spend every moment together—only weekends.

At one point, her best friend even envied her for having such a devoted boyfriend.

Because if he didn’t love her deeply, why would he go so far as to force a marriage?

Lu Lingling and Ruan Zhihe: “……”

“So… she married him?” they asked.

“Of course,” Ruan Yaoyao said matter-of-factly. “The entire internet was blessing them. What else could she do? Even calling the police wouldn’t help—this would be treated as a ‘domestic matter.’ If she didn’t marry him, she’d be labeled a heartless woman who abandoned a devoted man. Everyone would turn against her, and she wouldn’t even be able to find work.”

Xiong Shilan needed to survive—she wasn’t some fairy who could live on air.

Even her family urged her to marry him, saying she’d found a devoted man and shouldn’t miss the chance.

After all, she’d have to marry someone eventually—if not him, then someone else.

So in the end, Xiong Shilan nodded.

But what she didn’t know was that her misfortune had only just begun.

A man capable of forcing a marriage like that—what kind of good person could he be?

After the wedding, Xiong Shilan never returned to work, because she became pregnant.

She didn’t understand how—it should’ve been impossible since they used protection.

She didn’t suspect anything, especially with Pan Weize acting so gentle and attentive—washing her socks, serving her fruit, the picture of a perfect husband. Even though she didn’t love him, she began to think that maybe marrying him wasn’t so bad.

But what was “not bad” about it?

All his tenderness was an act. The money he spent came from high-interest loans. After investing so much time, effort, and cost into her, how could the “return” he wanted be small?

Sure enough, right after she gave birth, they ran into a “financial crisis.”

First, Pan Weize’s company went bankrupt and he was “laid off.” Then, as a clumsy man, he couldn’t even take care of the baby—either dropping the infant or letting its head hit the table or wall.

Terrified, Xiong Shilan snatched the child back, her heart aching, and told him to stop and just go wash the baby’s clothes instead.

But he either tore the clothes while washing them or failed to clean them properly.

They used to afford disposable diapers, but after his “layoff,” their income “plummeted,” and they had to cut expenses.

First went the diapers.

Then Xiong Shilan’s postpartum nutrition meals.

Then…

Three meals a day turned into flour pancakes and pickled vegetables with plain rice porridge.

Xiong Shilan urged Pan Weize to find a job, but he always looked dejected, claiming he couldn’t.

Left with no choice, even while breastfeeding, she had to grit her teeth and go back to work.