The Genius Sweetheart of the Abstinent Goblin Boss

The girl's heart was pounding.

Her face was still flushed with shyness. She hugged the man tightly, feeling not only attraction to him but also heartache for him.

Even if I haven't found my parents, I still have several people in this world who genuinely care about me.

But for Qi Mu, there was only Ji Ran left.

"Qi Mu, I will always be by your side."

The man was stunned, yet his seemingly empty chest surged with emotion once more.

"Good~"

After a long tender moment, the man led the girl back to the original corridor.

"Huh?!"

Unexpectedly, Qin Wenzhou suddenly squatted at the bedroom door in the middle of the night, silently shedding tears.

Both sides were startled by the other.

Qin Wenzhou wiped away her tears, stood up, and looked at Ji Ran wrapped in a blanket, her hair disheveled by the wind, clearly having just returned from outside. She said somewhat nervously,

Where did you go so late at night?

Ji Ran glanced at him twice and replied confidently, "A date."

"How dangerous it is outside so late at night?!" Qin Wenzhou's heart, like that of an old father, suddenly pounded.

Ji Ran was too lazy to respond, but instead heard...

"I haven't even asked you what you're doing squatting here so late at night!"

Upon hearing this, Qin Wenzhou lowered his head again, looking dejected.

"Xiao Ran... I'm such a failure... aren't I?"

Ji Ran was taken aback and looked at Qi Mu with a puzzled expression, only to see that Qi Mu also looked helpless.

Ji Ran really wanted to nod, but she was also afraid that Qin Wenzhou might do something rash.

Don't be so wicked, Mom. If Qin Wenzhou kills himself, won't he be finished?

So, for the first time ever, she started to play dumb.

"Um...sigh~ Everyone fails sometimes."

Qin Wenzhou raised his head, looking at his daughter with some disbelief.

Is she... comforting herself?

But this kind of comfort is worse than no comfort at all.

However, since his steely daughter had finally begun to learn to be gentle with people, Qin Wenzhou naturally wanted to give her positive feedback.

"Xiao Ran is right, Dad will continue to work hard!"

"Huh?" Ji Ran looked puzzled.

So you're already putting in the effort? Are you that easy to persuade?

Could Qin Wenzhou be putting on an act with her here?

Qin Wenzhou didn't understand what Ji Ran meant by "ah," only assuming that she was unhappy with his slip of the tongue referring to himself as "Dad."

"Daddy's going to sleep! Goodnight, Xiaoran; goodnight, Commander Qi!"

Without giving Ji Ran any chance to refute, Qin Wenzhou finished speaking and ran downstairs.

"What?" Ji Ran muttered, "What's going on with him?"

Qi Mu shook his head helplessly, "Or... should we find some outside help?"

Ji Ran turned her head blankly to look at Qi Mu.

Which foreign player?

Qi Mu shrugged. "Do you have experience with... couples who have had conflicts and made up?"

Ji Ran squinted and began to think.

There are quite a few people with experience in getting along with each other; there are plenty of senior professors in the college. Just take Professor Liu and Professor Shen for example, they've both celebrated their golden wedding anniversaries, according to Chi Tao.

But to say they've had a conflict and then made up?

A conflict of this magnitude between Mom and Qin Wenzhou... um...

Never mind, I'll ask them one by one tomorrow.

The next day.

After a night of interrogation, Fu Luanyin, who grew up in a wealthy family, managed to withstand the relentless barrage of questions and did not confess to any of the crimes.

He only insisted on seeing his parents and his own lawyer before cooperating with the police.

As dawn broke and with permission finally granted from above, the police told Fu Luanyin that they could arrange for her to meet her parents.

Fu Luanyin was overjoyed and immediately perked up.

She felt her current state wasn't bad enough, so she pinched her neck until it turned red, messed up her hair, and forced out teary eyes to make herself look pitiful.

Thinking that this would surely win over my parents' sympathy first, visually.

Once you win over your parents, all other problems will fall into place.

But when she was scheduled for an interview and saw her parents, who were also wearing detention uniforms, she was stunned.

"Dad, Mom! What's wrong with you two?"

Fu Luanyin cried out in disbelief.

Upon hearing her voice, Mr. Fu looked up with a gloomy expression, his eyes filled with hatred as if he wanted to devour her.

"...Dad...you...why are you looking at me like that?" Fu Luanyin felt a chill run down her spine from the stare.

Looking at Fu's mother, her hair was tied up messily with a black rubber band, and her eyes were swollen and red, clearly the result of crying for a long time.

She glanced at Fu Luanyin's 'miserable' state, and since she was the child she had raised, she couldn't help but feel a little sorry for her, and began to explain.

"Your dad... he's just a little tired."

Hearing Fu's mother's tone, Fu Luanyin thought to herself,

Sure enough, her mother was just that soft-hearted towards her.

But more than that, she was uneasy about why her parents were sitting there in prison clothes.

"Mom, how did you get in here? What happened?"

Finally, Fu's father couldn't hold back any longer. He stood up and slapped Fu Luanyin across the face, roaring,

"How dare you ask?! If it weren't for you, you bastard, provoking Qin Wenzhou, would he have gone to such lengths to kill our Fu family?! You jinx!!!"

It's understandable that Mr. Fu would think this way. After all, if it were his own daughter, she might not have hung herself on Qin Wenzhou, and thus wouldn't have caused all this trouble.

But his own biological daughter died young because of this bastard in front of him.

Fu Luanyin was completely stunned.

This was the first time her father had hit her. No matter how willful she was before, her father would at most be stricter, but he had never laid a hand on her.

Moreover, those repeated terms like "bastard" and "jinx" pierced Fu Luanyin's heart.

"What does this have to do with me?! I wasn't replaced willingly! I'm a victim too!!"

Fu's mother was used to Fu Luanyin shouting in such a wronged tone, and instinctively spoke up for her.

"Honey... Yinyin was really still young back then..."

"You're still defending that bastard?!" Father Fu roared, interrupting Mother Fu's nonsense. "Her own mother killed our child! And you still treat the daughter of your enemy like a treasure?!"

Fu's mother was also extremely aggrieved. In her opinion, Yinyin was indeed innocent, and she had devoted so many years of effort and energy to raising her daughter, so she hadn't done anything wrong.

Regardless of whether she was her biological daughter or not, Yinyin had been her longing for all these years.

Fu Luanyin gripped her mother's hand tightly, anxiously pressing for an answer.

"But Mom... what did he mean by saying Qin Wenzhou was ruthless towards his servants? Did Qin Wenzhou send you all here?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Fu's father's chest heaved violently. He was so angry that he wanted to slap Fu Luanyin a few more times, but this time the bailiffs behind him restrained his arms in time.

"Behave yourself! Another disturbance and you'll be locked up!"

Fu Luanyin didn't give her father a second glance, but stared intently at her mother, wanting an answer.

Fu's mother nodded in despair.

Fu Luanyin suddenly felt as if the sky had collapsed with a loud 'boom'.

She released her mother's hand, her face turning deathly pale.