Jiang Bo and Li Wenxiu looked at Ji Chen. They were both stunned, unsure of what Ji Chen meant.

Ji Chen swept a glance at the couple with a hint of a polite smile on his face. “Uncle and Aunt, I forgot to tell you, Xiao Wan is at my place. Due to your differential treatment of Xiao Wan before, I think…… it’s better for you not to meet each other.”

Jiang Bo’s complexion instantly turned ugly. Shock mixed with regret and a bit of anger at being offended was written all over his face, making his expression extremely complicated. “……Ji Chen, we don’t care where Xiao Wan is now, we just need to find Xiao Shu and bring him with us.”

Hearing this, Ji Chen’s smile widened a little. “Uncle Jiang, what you said is a bit strange. Why must Jiang Zhishu be with Xiao Wan? You also know that Xiao Wan resents Jiang Zhishu. Even if he came to her, he won’t be able to stay.”

It was reasonable and Jiang Bo suddenly looked embarrassed. However, Li Wenxiu who was sitting on the side didn’t think so much, instead she raised her chin, and despite the smile on her face, there was an uncontrollable arrogance in her words. “Xiao Ji, your Uncle Jiang and I just want to find Xiao Wan to ask a few questions, nothing more. Why don’t you tell us where she is?”

Ji Chen pondered for a while and finally pushed the check towards the two people. “Uncle and Aunt, buying out the parent-child relationship between Jiang Baiwan and the two of you for twenty million isn’t cheap, is it? If you still insist, then I can only deduct the price.”

“Uncle Jiang, with this money, you’ll be able to start another company won’t you?” Ji Chen’s voice was unhurried, and in the middle of the large office, it seemed particularly clear. “Do Jiang Zhishu and Jiang Baiwan really matter?”

Jiang Bo looked at the check on the table and then back at Ji Chen, seeming very conflicted. Ji Chen smiled at Jiang Bo and raised his hand to push the twenty million towards him. “Uncle, think about it carefully.”

“Xiao Ji, this is not a matter of consideration. Jiang Zhishu is the son of our family. We returned in the country to find him……” Li Wenxiu was still talking incessantly, but Jiang Bo on the opposite side had already made up his mind and took the check with one hand. He stood up as he held on to it tightly. “Then…… then we won’t disturb you for now.”

“Uncle, it’s not that you won’t disturb us for now.” Ji Chen stopped Jiang Bo. “Don’t show up in the future. I didn’t spend twenty million for nothing. It’s mainly for the sake of you two being Xiao Wan’s parents.”

Li Wenxiu was dragged towards the door by her husband with a confused expression on her face. “What are you doing? Xiao Shu hasn’t been found yet!”

“Look for who?!” Jiang Bo changed his reticence just now and directly pulled Li Wenxiu towards the door. “We’re not searching!”

Li Wenxiu angrily pinched her husband, her hair a bit messy. “What are you doing!? I don’t care about that stinky girl Jiang Baiwan, but don’t you care about Xiao Shu? That’s your only son!”

Jiang Baiwan, who was hiding in the inner room, listened on to the commotion outside, bored. However, when she heard this sentence, she couldn’t help blinking—— The only son?

Jiang Bo glanced at Ji Chen who was sitting there as if he didn’t hear anything, and whispered to Li Wenxiu, “Look carefully, this is twenty million. With this, we can start a new company. When the company is stable in a year, we can come back to find Xiao Shu, right? A boy, and even staying here in the motherland, nothing will happen to him.”

Li Wenxiu wanted to make trouble again but Jiang Bo dragged her away without a word. Li Wenxiu also had some hesitation in her heart, and Jiang Bo was stronger than her, so she half-heartedly followed him.

The two came and went like the wind as if they had never been there. When Jiang Baiwan came out of the room, those two people had already left the building.

Standing by the floor-to-ceiling window, Jiang Baiwan looked at the two black dot-like figures and wondered, “This is really…… I’ve never seen such parents before. They’ll say they don’t want their children and that’s it?”

“In their eyes, twenty million is much more valuable than you and Jiang Zhishu.” Ji Chen said lightly. “The reason why they were looking for Jiang Zhishu before was because they hadn’t received a suitable price for him yet.”

Jiang Baiwan looked back at Ji Chen and said as if joking, “Say, could I not be their biological child? That’s why they treat me like this?”

Hearing this, Ji Chen was stunned for a moment. He looked up at Jiang Baiwan and beckoned at her. “Come, come here.”

Jiang Baiwan walked over obediently. Ji Chen held her hand and rubbed it, then with a tug, he pulled her hard to sit on his lap. Jiang Baiwan blushed, seemingly unaccustomed with such intimacy. “Hey? Just talk if you want to talk. Don’t even think about office play.”

“Office play? What’s that?” Ji Chen asked with a serious face while the hand holding Jiang Baiwan showed no integrity at all.

Jiang Baiwan: “……”

Ji Chen continued, “Do you think that me giving twenty million is too much?”

Jiang Baiwan stopped talking. She really thought so. Jiang Baiwan felt that giving twenty million to a couple like that wasn’t as good as throwing all the money into the water. At least that way, one could still enjoy the sound it makes.

“It’s fine. My money has never been so easy to get.” Ji Chen chuckled softly. “As long as they want to do business, they will have to go through the connections of the Haochen Group. When can they earn and how much they can make is all up to me.”

Jiang Baiwan looked at Ji Chen with complicated eyes. “……Your heart is really black.”

These words earned her a kiss from Ji Chen. Jiang Baiwan was released only after when she was short of breath.

Jiang Baiwan leaned on Ji Chen’s shoulder, uncommonly quiet and peaceful. “Ji Chen, I really appreciate all the things you’ve done for me.”

“Is that right?” Ji Chen raised his hand and touched the back of Jiang Baiwan’s head. “Then…… repay with your body^[1]pledge to marry?”

Jiang Baiwan froze in an instant. After being silent for a while, she hurriedly stood up straight and took two steps back towards the door. “President Ji, it suddenly occurred to me that there’s something I need to do at the Malatang shop. I’ll take my leave first.”

After saying that, Jiang Baiwan quickly slipped away. Ji Chen didn’t chase after her, but only looked at Jiang Baiwan’s back with his eyes slightly squinted.

When Jiang Baiwan arrived at the Malatang shop, she saw Luo Xiao sitting inside, eating Malatang with his back to her. Jiang Baiwan now knew that Luo Xiao was sent by her younger brother Jiang Zhishu, so she naturally didn’t have a good face when she saw him. “Yo, isn’t this Boss Luo? How come you have time to eat in my small shop?”

Luo Xiao almost choked. He quickly put down the chopsticks in his hand and smiled flatteringly at Jiang Baiwan. “You’re here.”

Jiang Baiwan sat down at the table without speaking, just condemning Luo Xiao silently with her eyes. Luo Xiao glanced at her awkwardly and finally surrendered. “I’m sorry I didn’t tell you about it before. I’ve always thought that it’s better not to tell you about some things.”

And at that time, Jiang Baiwan was too pure and unpretentious, which was completely different from what Jiang Zhishu had described. Luo Xiao cleverly kept these words in his stomach and did not say them out loud.

“I say, how can someone just pop out of nowhere and be so enthusiastic?” When Jiang Baiwan thought about it now, Luo Xiao’s every move was very suspicious since the start. She thought this person was being too familiar. “Poor me, I even gave you so many discounts……”

Luo Xiao’s scalp tingled. “Don’t bother with these things, right, Boss Jiang? Besides, with Master Wei around, what kind of shop can’t you open?”

Jiang Baiwan blinked. Her face was full of vigilance. “Master Wei is the treasure of my shop. Don’t even think of poaching him.”

Luo Xiao rolled his eyes. “Jiang Zhishu called me just now and said that your parents are back?”

When this topic was mentioned, the smile on Jiang Baiwan’s face gradually faded. She nodded with complicated emotions. “Yes……  just now in Ji Chen’s office, Ji Chen gave them twenty million. They took the check and left, not mentioning the matter of looking for Jiang Zhishu anymore.”

Luo Xiao couldn’t help touching his nose. “Jiang Zhishu knows the nature of your parents really well. It seems that he doesn’t need to hide anymore, right? I’ll give him a call.”

With these words, Luo Xiao took out his mobile phone and called Jiang Zhishu directly. Jiang Baiwan sat where she was, with the smell of Malatang hovering on the tip of her nose, and the bitterness in her heart gradually spread.

This was the mood of the other Jiang Baiwan. Even though there wasn’t much left, a wisp of bitterness still reaches the bottom of her heart.

Twenty million could make a pair of parents stop looking for their children and leave with the money. In the past, Jiang Baiwan always thought that money was a good thing, but today she found that…… maybe it’s not that great.

Jiang Baiwan sighed, then slammed the table. “Someone, serve me a set 1 meal!”

Master Wei was in the kitchen. He glanced outside and said coldly, “Eat less.”

Jiang Baiwan puffed out her cheeks and was about to say something, but she saw someone push open the door and walk in.

This person was none other than Jiang Bo, who had just left Ji Chen’s office not long ago. It’s just that Li Wenxiu didn’t follow him and he came alone.

Jiang Baiwan met Jiang Bo’s eyes at a glance. Father and daughter looked at each other for a while, but on the contrary, Jiang Baiwan smiled first.

“Please come in. What would you like to eat?”

Jiang Bo walked into the shop and looked at Jiang Baiwan with a complicated look in his eyes. However, Jiang Baiwan stood there as if she didn’t know the person in front of her. “Sir, there are still available seats here. I think this is your first time here so you probably don’t know what delicious food we have in our shop? Let me introduce them to you.”

“No need.” Jiang Bo frowned, stopping Jiang Baiwan from continuing. “Xiao Wan, haven’t you reflected on yourself in all the time your mother and I have been away from home?”

Jiang Baiwan didn’t expect Jiang Bo to deliver a backhanded remark upon opening his mouth. She gaped at the person in front of her and finally couldn’t help but sneer. “Yes, I’ve reflected, so I am now Ji Chen’s mistress.”

Jiang Bo: “???”