AMRWFA -Chapter 407 Qionghua Intoxicates the Soul

Better forget it!

Teaching him cultivation would be like letting a three-year-old carry gold through a busy market—there was no telling what kind of trouble it might bring.

Losing some money or offending the wrong people would be minor issues. What Ruan Yaoyao truly feared was that he might be used—turned into a disposable pawn, destined to be sacrificed.

If it ever came to that, she would rather Xu Hongye remain an ordinary person all his life, never stepping onto the path of cultivation.

So she made an agreement with him: he had to complete his studies seriously and prove to her—prove that he had grown up and could take responsibility for his own future. Otherwise, she would never teach him cultivation.

“If you just want to show off, Mom has plenty of ways to help you—magical artifacts, talismans with special effects. But if you truly want to cultivate, if you want to become a cultivator like your third brother, then you must prove to me that you’re capable of bearing everything that comes with it.”

“Mom, I understand. Don’t worry—I’ll prove it to you.”

…

Before leaving, Ruan Yaoyao still felt uneasy. She called Ru Anzhi and asked him for a few more “retired comrades” to act as Xu Hongye’s bodyguards.

Both openly and secretly—she prepared everything.

Ru Anzhi: “…”

Mom, you want him to be independent, but with this setup, how is he supposed to be?

“Achoo—”

Ruan Yaoyao sneezed, rubbed her nose, and continued flipping through the file on Meng Yichen.

With her son’s matter settled, she could now deal with this at ease.

The higher-ups had already screened the people he had deceived. Most were fine, but one person—Luo Yingwei—raised some concerns. They weren’t certain, so they wanted her to take a look.

Luo Yingwei was an ordinary construction worker. Over a decade ago, his wife died in a car accident—one body, two lives lost.

She had been about to give birth at the time. Despite the doctors’ efforts, they couldn’t save the child.

Since then, Luo Yingwei had been completely alone.

When Meng Yichen met him, Luo Yingwei had just been drinking alone at a night market. Seeing Meng Yichen’s fortune-telling stall, he approached and asked him to divine how his wife and daughter were doing in the underworld—whether they could reunite in the next life.

By coincidence, the photo Luo Yingwei took out looked strangely familiar to Meng Yichen.

Sure enough, after taking a picture of it and checking his past “clients,” he found someone who matched. If not for the mismatch in age, he might have thought they were the same person—or twins.

Meng Yichen spent some effort secretly filming the girl and then contacted Luo Yingwei, telling him that his wife had already reincarnated and was now living happily. If he wanted to see her, it was possible—but it would cost money.

After all, money makes even ghosts turn the mill.

Desperate to see his deceased wife again, Luo Yingwei handed over his life savings, hoping Meng Yichen could bribe the “judge of the underworld” to let him see her next life sooner.

“So… this girl looks exactly like his wife?”

Ruan Yaoyao murmured. The world was full of wonders—she had actually encountered two unrelated people who looked identical.

She had to see for herself what was really going on.

She didn’t need anyone to point him out. Waiting at the place where construction workers usually gathered after work, she recognized Luo Yingwei at a glance.

No help for it—there was a glowing label floating above his head.

【Huh?】

【Another plot-controlled character?】

【No way… Wife dead, child gone… Could this all be the doing of the plot?】

Ruan Yaoyao’s heart skipped a beat. She quickly moved closer and began examining the “label” above his head.

Ruan Zhihe quietly activated the signal, alerting everyone: a new storyline had been discovered.

【This plot…】

【Uh… so he’s just an unnamed extra, whose only contribution was providing a sperm cell?】

Ruan Yaoyao was stunned. Looking at the detail page labeled “twin daughters,” she almost thought she had remembered his background wrong.

There wasn’t much information—just how his wife died, how he “lost” his two daughters…

And how many times, in the future, he would unknowingly pass by his biological daughter at work.

His daughter looked exactly like his late wife. One glance should have been enough to make him suspicious—but he never even got that one glance.

He would be at one end of the street, she at the other. One heading south, the other north.

When he looked up, she would be turned away—either shopping or talking to someone.

So close it seemed he could reach out and touch her—yet every time, they missed each other.

The last time he “saw” his daughter was when he and his coworkers went to demand unpaid wages. She jumped from a building he had personally helped construct.

A crowd gathered. He had planned to go take a look—but the contractor appeared, and he and his coworkers rushed to chase him down, missing it once again.

Ruan Zhihe: “…”

How infuriating.

This kind of plot made her want to destroy it.

Ruan Yaoyao took a deep breath, feeling a suffocating heaviness in her chest.

She had always known that plots could be cruel—but she hadn’t expected this level of cruelty.

【Who even designed such a plot?!】

【Ahhh—this is driving me insane!】

【If I ever catch them, I’ll make them experience every bit of this themselves. I won’t let them off.】

…

Finding no further clues from Luo Yingwei, Ruan Yaoyao went to find the girl Meng Yichen had mentioned—Shi Jinyu, the one who looked exactly like Luo Yingwei’s deceased wife.

And the moment she saw her, she knew—

The truth had arrived.

The so-called “reunion with the deceased wife” wasn’t the wife at all, but the lost daughter Luo Yingwei never even knew existed—his twin daughter, Shi Jinyu.

She was a cannon-fodder female character in the novel Qionghua Intoxicates the Soul, the tragic “dutiful elder sister” of the Shi family.

Qionghua Intoxicates the Soul was a romance novel centered on the love story of the heroine, Shi Qionghua.

When Shi Qionghua was born, she was not welcomed by her parents—because there was already an “elder sister” in the family: Shi Jinyu.

Shi Jinyu also had a nickname: “Zhaodi” (literally, “Bring a younger brother”).

And when Shi Qionghua was born—she was another girl.

Because of this, she never received her parents’ affection and grew up unhappy—especially after her younger brother, Shi Lekang, was born.

Then she met the male lead, Lou Caijun, and their love story officially began.

As for their romance, that’s another matter.

On Shi Jinyu’s side, things were completely different.

As an important “supporting character,” she played the role of the tragic, self-sacrificing elder sister—

At first, she was the sensible eldest daughter, hardworking and obedient, unable to understand why her parents loved her younger siblings more.

Day after day of conditioning, she came to believe that it wasn’t that her parents didn’t love her—it was just that her younger siblings were younger and needed more attention.

As the “sensible” eldest daughter, the “well-behaved” big sister, she should help her parents take care of them.

And so, Shi Jinyu accepted this “responsibility.”

Even though she knew her parents were biased, knew she was wronged, she still took up the burden—

Because she wanted to be her parents’ most thoughtful, caring daughter.