AMRWFA -Chapter 410 Running Away from Home

Those words were too harsh—painfully harsh.

Normally, Shi Jinyu would have endured them. But today was different. Today, she had just learned the truth: these parents were not her real parents. She had been stolen.

And so, she snapped.

Following the advice of that plainclothes young woman, she decided that if she couldn’t take it anymore, she should grab her ID and leave. She had hands and feet—she could find work anywhere and support herself.

Most importantly… her real father was waiting for her.

Her real father.

Those two words were like a lifeline hanging above her head—something she could see the moment she looked up.

So Shi Jinyu grabbed her small bag, rushed out through the balcony, and truly ran away.

Her movements were so fast that they completely caught the Shi family off guard. Even Mother Shi, who had been in the middle of scolding her, froze in shock.

By the time she reacted, Shi Jinyu was already gone.

“What’s she doing?”

“Has she gone crazy?”

“Is she sick in the head?”

Mother Shi cursed several times in a row, but no one in the house paid her any attention. Even Shi Qionghua simply kept her head down, playing her game, only muttering a curse when she made a mistake.

With no outlet for her anger, Mother Shi finally turned on Shi Qionghua instead.

“I didn’t provoke you,” Shi Qionghua snapped. “If you’re angry, go yell at my sister. Why are you scolding me?”

“You didn’t provoke me? All you do is play games all day! What else can you even do?”

Shi Qionghua shut off her phone and went back to her room.

That left Mother Shi alone in the living room, grumbling and cursing at everything in sight—windows, doors, even the floor. Looking at the messy house, she didn’t feel like cleaning at all. She just wanted someone to come out and do the work for her.

Knowing Shi Qionghua wouldn’t help, she took out her phone and called Shi Jinyu, intending to scold her back home.

—

After leaving the residential complex, Shi Jinyu spotted the plainclothes young woman passing by outside. She rushed over and declared that she wanted to “run away from home.”

The woman paused. “…Do you want me to book you a hotel?”

“Is it cheap?”

“A few dozen yuan per night.”

“Is there anything cheaper?”

“…You’ll be meeting your real father in a few days. You don’t want him to find out that you can’t even afford a room for a few dozen yuan, do you?”

“…Alright.”

—

Seeing her mother’s call, Shi Jinyu didn’t even pick up—she hung up immediately.

After several calls in a row were all rejected, Mother Shi was nearly furious enough to explode.

What made it worse was that Father Shi came out and asked if dinner was ready, saying he was starving.

“Eat, eat, eat! All you ever think about is eating! You go to work—don’t I go to work too? Why am I the only one cooking every day?”

“Wasn’t Zhaodi the one who usually cooked?”

…

The couple started arguing.

Inside her room, Shi Qionghua felt speechless. They can even argue about this?

Feeling annoyed, she texted her crush, Lou Caijun:

“Sigh… my parents are arguing again!”

Lou Caijun: “What happened?”

Shi Qionghua: “What else? My sister ran away from home.”

Shi Qionghua: “My dad thinks my mom didn’t raise her well. My mom feels wronged—she works and takes care of the house, while my dad only earns money and does nothing else.”

Shi Qionghua: “Sigh… are all men like this?”

Lou Caijun: “Hey, don’t lump everyone together. I’m innocent here.”

He even sent a “begging for mercy” sticker, asking her to spare him.

Shi Qionghua chuckled and sent one back.

Outside, chaos and arguments raged—but inside this room, everything felt warm and tender, like something out of a fairy tale.

Of course, that made sense.

They were the male and female leads of this story. Naturally, everything revolved around them.

As for everyone else…

They were just background characters—appearing only when the plot required it. Their lives didn’t matter.

—

Shi Jinyu truly ran away. She didn’t come back for days. She wouldn’t answer calls, and when her family tried to find her workplace, they realized they didn’t even know where she worked—only that she took odd jobs.

They couldn’t find her at all.

Meanwhile, Ruan Yaoyao took the opportunity to meet the story’s male lead and observe their entire social network.

Shi Qionghua and Lou Caijun’s “love story” was full of emotional entanglements, but aside from the usual melodramatic affection, there wasn’t much worth watching.

What was more interesting… was the background.

One part of it was Shi Qionghua’s parents.

After meeting Father Shi and mother, Ruan Yaoyao finally understood how they had “stolen” Shi Jinyu back then.

—

That year, the car accident was said to be an accident—but not entirely.

At the time, surveillance cameras weren’t widespread. Mother Shi’s brother-in-law had been arguing with his wife while driving and mishandled the steering wheel, frightening an oncoming driver.

That driver, trying to avoid a collision, swerved sharply and crashed into a roadside barrier.

Under normal circumstances, such a minor accident wouldn’t have been fatal.

But under the influence of the plot’s force, Shi Jinyu’s mother was thrown violently inside the car. Realizing the danger, she bent over to protect her abdomen, desperately ensuring the birth of her child.

What she didn’t know was that the “kind nurse” who helped deliver the baby was actually the other driver’s wife—Mother Shi’s younger sister.

Knowing that her sister and brother-in-law had been unable to have children, she had long intended to adopt one. Seeing the newborn twins—driver unconscious, mother dead—she seized the opportunity.

She took one of the babies.

No one would ever know.

—

When Luo Yingwei arrived, he saw only his deceased wife and a baby who had died shortly after birth.

He was devastated.

He didn’t blame the nurse. He knew she had done her best under such circumstances. She was a nurse, not a miracle worker.

He was grateful to her.

What he didn’t know… was that his wife had given birth to twins.

The surviving child had already been stolen.

—

That child was given to Shi’s parents and named “Shi Zhaodi.”

Yes—before becoming Shi Jinyu, she had been called “Zhaodi.”

It wasn’t until she was about to start school, fearing others would discover their preference for sons, that they changed her name to “Shi Jinyu.” “Zhaodi” became just a nickname.

Why “Jinyu”?

Like praying for rain in spring for a good harvest, they hoped she would “bring” them younger siblings—a son or daughter of their own.

Before Shi Qionghua was born, they didn’t treat Shi Jinyu especially well, but not badly either. After all, without children of their own, she was like a beautiful doll—something new and interesting.

But once their biological daughter was born, everything changed.

With a real child, the “picked-up” one no longer mattered.

Still, since they had always claimed Shi Jinyu was their biological child, they couldn’t abandon her. So they kept raising her—as a kind of live-in maid.

By then, Shi Jinyu was old enough to “take care” of her younger sister.

In fact, it would be more accurate to say that Shi Qionghua was raised by Shi Jinyu.

Feeding her, putting her to sleep, playing with her, washing her diapers—all of it was Shi Jinyu’s responsibility.

When they were young, Shi Qionghua was close to her sister and believed her to be kind and caring.

But over time, influenced by their parents, she gradually began to take it all for granted.

She believed it was only natural that Shi Jinyu should take care of her.

If she didn’t—that would be strange.

Completely justified.

Perfectly natural.

Indifferent.

Unfeeling.

Unaware—

Shi Qionghua had already become the very kind of person she once disliked… without even realizing it.