AMRWFA -Chapter 86 The Butler’s Panic

Putting aside whether Ren Xuelan was pitiful or not, the moment the butler heard Ruan Yaoyao suspect that Ren Xuelan had poisoned her, he immediately realized something was very wrong.

If it were just a simple dismissal, that would be nothing.

But if the person being dismissed had poisoned the employer…

Good heavens!

Then what had he just done?

He had even let Ren Xuelan stay an extra day to work, and had her personally brew tea for Ruan Yaoyao…

The butler hurriedly said, “Could there be some misunderstanding here?”

Wei Puyu and Yu Xiangqiao: No, no, there’s no misunderstanding—we heard it with our own ears!

“Whether there’s a misunderstanding or not, we’ll know when the police arrive,” Ruan Yaoyao said calmly as she sat on the sofa. “I’m only responsible for reporting it. I’m not the one doing the investigation.”

It didn’t take long before the police arrived.

After asking about the situation, they packaged up the teapot set as evidence.

Other items that Ren Xuelan had touched were also temporarily sealed, to be dealt with after the investigation results came out.

The truth was, she was taken away in the morning, and by the afternoon, the police had already come to collect and seal the remaining items.

The butler’s inner voice let out a piercing scream:

Ah—!

What kind of bad karma did I accumulate to run into something like this?!

And it wasn’t just him—every servant in the Xu household was panicking.

“Is she insane? The family was just dismissing her, they didn’t even do anything to her.”

“Could it be that the family had already discovered something wrong with her, which is why they fired her?”

“You mean… they found out she had some kind of problem?”

…

Well, it made sense. If she could poison someone just because she was being fired, then what about all of them who had worked with her for so long?

Who knew if they had ever offended her in passing?

You do a bit more, I do a bit less; you earn a little more, I earn a little less—of course there had been jealousy behind the scenes.

They all looked at each other.

They should count themselves lucky that the family had discovered her—otherwise, the unlucky ones might have been them.

Xu Chengyan: [This Du Huaqing is too dangerous. We have to find a way to deal with him as soon as possible.]

Xu Chengyan: [@Ru Anzhi, are you there? Did you see this?]

Xu Chengyan: [Du Huaqing is too dangerous! If he can bribe a maid this time, next time he could bribe the butler. Good thing Mom discovered it—if she hadn’t, our whole family would’ve been finished…]

Xu Chengyan: [Hey! Where are you?]

Xu Chengyan: [Believe it or not, I’ll have Mom cut off your mother-son relationship! @Ru Anzhi]

…

Xu Lianghan: [@Xu Chengyan, stop tagging him. If he’s not replying, it means he’s not online. Tagging him won’t help.]

Xu Lianghan: [I just asked a friend—Ren Xuelan confessed. The poison was given to her by Du Huaqing. They’ve already gone to arrest him.]

Xu Lianghan: [Looks like Ren Xuelan didn’t even know it was poison. Just one drop could kill a cow.]

Xu Chengyan: [Damn! One drop can kill a cow? No wonder Mom said she had no brain—she really doesn’t. She believed whatever people told her, got sold off and still helped count the money. Good thing she ran into us. If she’d actually killed someone, even multiple lifetimes in prison wouldn’t be enough.]

Yu Xiangqiao: [By the way… has anyone seen Mom?]

Xu Lianghan: [Aren’t you at home? She’s not there?]

Yu Xiangqiao: [I just took Lingxuan to find her, but she’s nowhere to be seen.]

Xu Lianghan: [Don’t scare me!]

Yun Jinxian: [Did Auntie go out by herself?]

Yu Xiangqiao: [Impossible. I’m holding her precious little granddaughter. If she went out, she’d definitely tell Lingxuan.]

Xu Lianghan: [We specifically told Mom to report her whereabouts to Lingxuan anytime she goes out, to help develop Lingxuan’s independence…]

Xu Chengyan: [You guys really use Lingxuan as a shield for everything.]

Xu Lianghan: [No choice. Mom just loves Lingxuan. If you’ve got the ability, go have one yourself.]

…

Ruan Yaoyao fell silent.

She knew the house wasn’t safe—but she hadn’t expected it to be this unsafe.

Just taking a walk in her own backyard, and she could get kidnapped.

At this moment, her hands were tied behind her back, a cloth stuffed into her mouth, her whole body curled up on her side in the trunk of a car.

【Sob… sob… why am I so miserable?】

【Someone, please—save me!】

【Save me!】

【I’ve been kidnapped by a yandere!】

…

When Liang Shishi heard this voice, she froze for a moment, thinking she must be hallucinating.

Otherwise, how could she just be waiting at a traffic light and suddenly hear something so strange?

She looked around, but there was nothing unusual nearby. The only thing was a dark-colored sedan parked beside her, and the driver was a handsome man.

Maybe she had been staring too long—because the man turned to look at her, his gaze unfriendly.

Liang Shishi: “…”

If you weren’t good-looking, who would bother staring at you!

She rolled her eyes and looked away.

Strangely enough, they ran into each other again at the next intersection—another red light.

【Ugh… my head!】

【Damn it! Can’t he drive slower? My head is about to split open.】

【It must be broken—this hurts so much.】

【I’m only in my forties, still young and beautiful, and I’m going to die like this…】

Liang Shishi almost laughed. The voice was quite amusing—someone in their forties still calling themselves “young and beautiful”?

Heh…

But as she laughed, her smile froze.

Because she heard the voice say angrily:

【Ah—this is all that damn Ru Anzhi’s fault!】

【Wait—Ru Anzhi?!】

【Wasn’t that her comrade?!】

Liang Shishi, who was currently on leave, instantly became alert. If this were just ordinary post-war trauma, then rest and recovery would be enough.

But if…

What if this wasn’t hallucination?

What if she had somehow gained a strange ability—to hear other people’s thoughts?

Her gaze drifted again toward the car beside her, meeting the handsome man’s hostile, almost murderous stare once more.

Liang Shishi: “…”

It feels like he wants to kill me.

So… this isn’t paranoia?

She wasn’t sure anymore.

Her therapist had told her her condition wasn’t serious—that she just needed a vacation and to relax.

She had even looked up symptoms of post-war trauma herself for self-reflection. She had been fine earlier, but now—hallucinations, paranoia—it all seemed a bit too much.

Was her condition really not serious?

The light had just turned green when the car beside her sped off like a bullet.

Almost instinctively, Liang Shishi hit the gas and followed.

Wait—why am I following?

Am I really not sick?

Soon, she realized she didn’t need to question her condition anymore.

Because the car was heading into increasingly remote areas, eventually driving into an alley where no one passed by.

Beyond that, it became even more deserted.

If she hadn’t followed him, she would never have known that such a place existed in the middle of a bustling city.

After many twists and turns, she nearly got lost.

Then, at the end of the alley, she saw a familiar car. Checking the license plate—it was the same one.

It was parked there, with a wall at the end.

A dead end?

Liang Shishi stayed still inside her car.

Based on her years of combat experience, something was clearly wrong.

What had been suspicion before was now certainty—

There was definitely a problem.