The Genius Sweetheart of the Abstinent Goblin Boss

After saying all this, Jingying let out a long sigh of relief, as if she had finally been freed from a shackle.

Zeng Yichen's face was ashen. He hadn't expected that what he thought was the warmest and brightest home was nothing but layers upon layers of false lies.

After peeling away the layers of skin, what was revealed was so ugly and filthy!

An Lian didn't say anything more, but took two steps back with a grim expression.

She was Zeng Yan's mother, so she couldn't comment much, but she really couldn't face it with a calm mind anymore.

"Love!"

Several people surged in from the end of the corridor.

An Lian turned around at the sound, and tears welled up in her eyes the moment she saw who it was.

"Dad! Mom!!"

An's parents rushed over and hugged their daughter.

“Lianlian…” Mother An choked up.

Seeing the red and swollen handprint on An Lian's face and the cut on her forehead, the mother's heart broke.

An's father saw it too, but he didn't even have the courage to ask.

He was the one who arranged the engagement with Zeng Nian back then, and he personally pushed his precious daughter into the scorching fire pit of the Zeng family.

He could only turn his head resentfully to look at Zeng Yichen beside him.

Sensing the hostile gaze, Zeng Yichen raised his head in confusion, but when he met Uncle An's eyes, he immediately understood Uncle An's anger towards the Zeng family, so he tugged at the hem of his clothes somewhat helplessly.

"Uncle An... I'm sorry... It was our Zeng family who failed to take good care of my sister-in-law..."

“Take care of her?!” Father An’s temper flared up instantly: “You’ve ruined my perfectly good daughter like this, and you still have the nerve to talk about taking care of her?!”

“Deputy General An,” Jingying couldn’t help but interject, “The Zeng family has indeed wronged An Lian and the An family, but Yichen is innocent too. You shouldn’t take your anger out on him.”

"Ha...what an innocent one," Mother An retorted, "Your children are children, but my children deserve to be bullied?"

“That’s not what I meant…” Jingying tried to explain.

"That's enough!" Father An didn't want to hear another word.

He looked down at his daughter and said tenderly, "Lianlian, come home with Mom and Dad."

An Lian shook her head: "Mom and Dad, I want to wait for Zeng Yan to come out..."

Upon hearing this, An's parents exchanged a glance, both seeing confusion in each other's eyes.

"It's not Lianlian... it's Zeng Yan..."

“Mom and Dad, Zeng Yan took the bullet for me. If it weren’t for him, I would be the one lying inside. I should stay here for both moral and practical reasons.”

An's parents were somewhat surprised. They hadn't expected Zeng Yan to take a bullet for someone else, which suggested that he wasn't entirely evil by nature.

So the two stopped trying to persuade their daughter, but it was only out of their conscience as the daughter who had been saved, and there was absolutely no other possibility.

An Lian breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that her parents were no longer trying to force her to leave.

However, she also became curious, "Dad, how did you get direct contact with the leader?"

Upon hearing this, Zeng Yichen immediately looked at An's father with gratitude. If the leader's secretary hadn't arrived in time, they might have really died today.

Father An was taken aback. "Contact the leader?"

Seeing her father's bewildered expression, An Lian was also stunned.

"Wasn't it the leader you contacted? That's why he sent people to rescue us in time..."

Otherwise, besides her father, who else would know that she and Zeng Yichen came to Nansha Tower to rescue her mother? And who else would be able to send the leader's secretary to this godforsaken place to rescue her in time?

Moreover, if no one had informed them in advance, how could their parents have found this military branch hospital so quickly?

Zeng Yancai had just been rushed into the emergency room, and Anjia was at least a two-hour drive away.

This means that their parents had already assigned a hospital location and set off even before they left Nanshata.

“No.” Father An shook his head. “It’s because the receptionist couldn’t contact you after you lent out the kayak, so they immediately notified me. I searched everywhere for you without success, and when I was extremely anxious, someone called me and said that you had arrived at this hospital, so we rushed over.”

"Who made the call?" An Lian asked in confusion. Who could know everything so quickly?

Father An shook his head. "I've never heard of that voice before."

As he spoke, he took out his phone, intending to search his call history.

But the next second, something strange happened.

"Huh? That shouldn't be the case, how come the record is gone?" Father An muttered in confusion.

An Lian was even more confused when she saw this.

Who exactly knew about their actions in South Sand Tower today? Who knew in advance that Zeng Nianhui would come to ambush them? Who even persuaded the leader to send people to rescue them in time? Who knew about the branch's arrival even before they did?

This supposed foresight? It doesn't make any sense at all...

Hearing about this strange phenomenon, Zeng Yichen inexplicably thought of a certain person.

Could it be... is it him?

Who else could have done all this besides him?

However, Zeng Yichen did not voice his guess. Even though he believed it was most likely true, the existence of that man was ultimately a secret that he should not reveal.

*

Qin Wenzhou carefully decorated the cake with fruit and then meticulously added caviar.

He was very satisfied with his masterpiece. He was sure Xiao Ran would like it. If Xiao Ran was happy, Ling Yue would be happy. If Ling Yue was happy, he would be happy.

Hey!

After finishing, he carefully picked up the whole cake, intending to take it up to Xiaoran.

But as soon as he turned around, he saw Qiu Lingyue standing behind him with a gloomy look in her eyes.

"Hey!!" He was so startled that he almost dropped the cake.

"Lingyue, what's wrong?" Why didn't you make a sound when you came in?

She didn't learn the good things from her son-in-law, but somehow she learned them all.

"Where exactly did you hide Fu Luanyin?" Qiu Lingyue asked gloomily.

"I didn't hide her!!" Qin Wenzhou immediately explained.

It sounds like he deliberately hid it, and why use the word 'hid'... that's inappropriate.

"Where is she?" Qiu Lingyue asked impatiently again. "You won't let me see her? What? Are you afraid I'll hurt her?"

Upon hearing this, Qin Wenzhou felt a pang of sadness, unable to express his bitterness.

"How could that be! You don't need to see her. I can't let her go! You believe me!"

"Not let her go? You can't even bring yourself to stab her, how can you not let her go?" Qiu Lingyue mocked.

Qin Wenzhou was heartbroken. How could she possibly understand that he didn't want her to get her hands dirty...?

"She's committed so many crimes, she can't escape punishment," Qin Wenzhou said firmly.

"Ha~ She didn't kill me, nor did she kill Meng Hui. It was her father who embezzled. Tell me, which crime could have caused her death?" Qiu Lingyue coldly questioned. "You mean she can't escape, she's protected from wind and rain, she won't suffer any physical pain, and she can just retire in prison?"

Qin Wenzhou was taken aback, and lowered his head in embarrassment.

He originally thought the best way was to let Fu Luanyin receive the punishment she deserved, but when he thought back to the suffering that Lingyue and his daughter had endured, it seemed that legal punishment was indeed not enough to vent his anger.