The Genius Sweetheart of the Abstinent Goblin Boss

Chapter 268 The Only Person I Like

However, her upbringing wouldn't allow her to let her elder's question go unanswered, so she had to muster her courage, turn around, and force a polite smile.

"Uncle and Aunt, Miss Jiang, I am..."

"Oh!!!" Jiang Manxi was shocked as soon as she saw her face.

"You're that reporter from the Qin family's press conference!!"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Sheng and Lian Yuzhu also began to scrutinize Mo Yilan.

They hadn't watched the entire press conference live; they'd only heard the secretary's summary of the events and Manxi's flamboyant description. Therefore, they weren't immediately certain what Mo Yilan's role was.

"Mom and Dad, her name is Mo Yilan, she's my crush..."

Jiang Baishen began to introduce himself, but was interrupted by Jiang Manxi.

"Huh?! I've seen you before."

Jiang Manxi remembered that day when her brother said he was going to deliver a bag to a girl. Still not giving up on making Xiao Leng her sister-in-law, she shamelessly went along.

Isn't that the girl?

Jiang Baishen, seeing that he had been interrupted again, wondered for the second time who had invented this thing for his sister.

Mo Yilan paused for a moment upon hearing Jiang Manxi's words, recalling their last meeting, and then responded somewhat awkwardly.

"Uh, um."

Jiang Baishen spoke again, introducing, "This is my favorite..."

But this time he was interrupted again, this time by Mo Yilan.

“Um…” she turned to look at him, “Your family is here, so I’ll be leaving now. The police station is waiting for me to give my statement.”

“Yi…” Jiang Baishen subconsciously wanted to grab her wrist, but he grasped nothing.

Mo Yilan picked up her things as if fleeing, and strode quickly towards the door. When she passed the Jiang couple, she nodded slightly as a sign of politeness, and then quickly left.

“Eh…” Lian Yuzhu frowned as he looked at the girl’s back.

Then she and her husband exchanged a glance.

Hmm... there's a problem.

Mo Yilan ran downstairs in one breath and hailed a taxi to the police station.

She didn't know why she interrupted Jiang Baishen; perhaps it was the inferiority complex she still couldn't shake off in front of his family.

Putting aside the fact that Jiang Baishen's sister practically has "only Xiao Leng" written all over her face, just the fact that Jiang Baishen was injured and hospitalized today because of her makes her lack the courage to face his family.

Jiang Baishen upstairs was also surrounded.

"What happened? How did you get so badly injured?" Jiang Sheng asked.

"Is it related to that girl from earlier?" Lian Yuzhu asked again.

"Brother... what were you two doing just now?" Jiang Manxi asked for the third time.

Jiang Baishen was holding his forehead, his face full of black lines.

"No, what brings you here?"

All three were taken aback, as it was the first time they had ever heard Jiang Baishen, who was usually so gentle and refined, speak like a resentful husband.

“A girl just called me using your phone and said you were injured and hospitalized, so we came here.”

Lian Yuzhu answered, then thought of the girl from earlier.

"It must be that girl from earlier."

Jiang Baishen was stunned for a moment, not expecting that it was she who notified his family, and then smiled helplessly.

She really did... keep a sufficient distance from him.

"Sigh... I'm fine now, you guys go back." Jiang Baishen irritably pulled the blanket over his head.

The three were even more confused by his behavior.

But seeing that he was unwilling to speak, Jiang Sheng and his wife immediately turned to their daughter.

"Manxi, tell me quickly, how much do you know about that girl?"

Jiang Manxi pursed her lips and then vividly recounted how Mo Yilan had fooled Yuan Yamei and her daughter at the Qin family's press conference, how she had exposed their bad deeds, and how she had restored Xiao Leng's reputation.

"Oh~" Lian Yuzhu nodded in surprise, "I didn't expect that a girl who looks so quiet and gentle could be so fierce when she gets down to business."

"Yes, that's my style!"

Jiang Manxi was speechless at her mother's narcissistic behavior, despite her noble and elegant demeanor.

"Huh? Then what's this about you saying you've seen her before?" Jiang Sheng asked again.

Jiang Manxi felt a little embarrassed when she recalled their last meeting. After all, she had been somewhat hostile towards that reporter Mo for Xiao Leng's sake, but Mo had instead protected Xiao Leng's reputation, even offending the general's wife in the process...

"Oh, that... I think she left her bag in my brother's car, so when he went to return it, I went with him and that's when I saw her..."

"Is that so?" Jiang Sheng stroked his chin thoughtfully.

It seems that the reporter and her son have a complicated relationship.

"Huh?" Lian Yuzhu remembered something else that puzzled her. "Then why did you ask them what they were doing just now?"

"Oh, that..." Jiang Manxi kept recalling the scene, her face inexplicably flushing, "Because I saw them..."

Before he could finish speaking, Jiang Baishen abruptly pulled the blanket off his head, interrupting him.

Jiang Baishen was furious watching the three of them form a triangle and cricket at him right in front of him, so he decided to lay his cards on the table.

"Her name is Mo Yilan! She's the person I love! The only person I love!"

"Alright, alright?!"

The three of them stared at each other.

Although they had a rough idea, it was still amazing to hear Jiang Baishen say it himself.

After all, this brat has lived for 24 years and I've never heard him say so directly that he likes anyone.

"Then... Xiao Leng..." Jiang Manxi still tried to probe, unwilling to give up.

"Tsk!" The three of them simultaneously exchanged a glance.

Jiang Manxi pouted.

Wait... wasn't the whole family supposed to be involved? How come I'm the only one left now?

"Xiao Leng is my family,"

This was the first time Jiang Baishen had spoken to Jiang Manxi so seriously about this matter.

"I have never had any romantic feelings for her, and besides, she already has someone she likes."

Although Jiang Manxi knew that Xiao Leng had someone she liked, she had never seen him in person, so she continued to hold onto hope.

“The only person I like,” Jiang Baishen continued, his tone unusually serious, “is Mo Yilan.”

Upon hearing this, Jiang Manxi fell silent.

Jiang Sheng and Lian Yuzhu exchanged a glance and saw a certain excitement in each other's eyes.

However, they wisely refrained from pressing Mo Yilan about her condition and instead inquired about what had happened that day.

Jiang Bai took a deep breath and recounted the events of the day, as well as what he had heard from his conversation with Yi Lan.

All three were shocked, never expecting the situation to be so dangerous.

Jiang Manxi was indignant. "Those two, mother and daughter, are so vicious. They tried to ruin a girl by spreading those filthy rumors, and her own father even had the nerve to kidnap the reporter who exposed their true colors?!"

Jiang Sheng frowned. Although he had heard that Yuan Yamei and Zeng Qian'er were suspected of being mother and daughter, he did not expect it to be true.

It takes real guts to let Zeng Nian raise your child.

"Is being a reporter this dangerous?" Lian Yuzhu asked with some worry.