Genius Children: Between Hate and Miss
Press Conference

In a five-star hotel room that has been prepared for a press conference, Ibrahim and the EO chairman supervise the employees who are preparing all the needs for today's event. Today coinciding with the seven days Lidya was detained, Jonathan held a press conference at the request of his wife. As a good husband, of course, he obeyed his wife's request and this event was held to straighten out misunderstandings that lasted for seven years.

Miranda had arrived at the room since an hour ago. He is accompanied by Jonathan sitting together in the waiting room waiting for the arrival of Xander, Tania and Arsenio.

Squeezing the palm violently while staring at the tightly closed door. Seeing how agitated Miranda was, Jonathan inched closer to his wife and gently rubbed her shoulders.

"Just calm down, papa is sure everything will go according to plan. Later, your relationship with Amanda and Abraham will soon improve as usual. No, yes, no more worries! You should now take medicine first so that you get well soon. Didn't you say you wanted to shooping with Tania to Singapore? If you have not healed how you can go alone with our future daughter-in-law. You're just troubling Tania, Ma."

Miranda pouted hearing Jonathan's words. "Tania is a good woman who may feel bothered. Papa doesn't remember, how did he take care of me first? I'm just her ex-mother-in-law, Pa, but she sincerely and patiently looks after me like her own real mother. Imagine if my daughter-in-law was Lidya, I would have been tortured before I was kicked out of the house."

Chuckled softly while stroking Miranda's cheek using the back of her index finger hand. "You're right, our future daughter-in-law is indeed a kind and angelic woman very suitable to be Young Madame Vincent Pramono."

Miranda put her head on her husband's shoulder and rubbed the chest of the field slowly. "When our son gets married, I want to give a special wedding gift to the bride, Pa. Maybe she can't repay all the good she's done to me, but I hope Tania knows that I love her so much."

Jonathan's loving kiss lands on Miranda's forehead. Enjoying every beat of Miranda's heart that beats in rhythm with hers. "Without you telling me, she must have known it, Ma."

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Remaining five minutes before the event began, Miranda and her small family, future daughter-in-law and granddaughter have been sitting in a chair that has been prepared. Miranda was on stage accompanied by Jonathan and Tania, while Xander and Arsenio waited in a special seat for the invited guests.

"Papa. What after this everyone won't say anything bad about Mama anymore? Will my schoolmates and neighbors in Yogyakarta shut their mouths after they find out that I am Papa and Mama's son? They're not gonna say that I'm a bastard anymore, are they?" whispered Arsenio in the ear of the papa.

Like being stabbed by a sharp knife right into the heart when you hear the question. The word bastard reminds Xander of his meeting with Tania and Arsenio. At that time he also said that Arsenio was an illegitimate child, even though the beautiful little boy was his own biological child.

After learning the fact that Arsenio was his son, of course Xander was angry with himself for easily saying bad things about his own flesh and blood. Then now when he heard someone else say something like his heart ached like squeezed by thousands of invisible hands.

Taking a deep breath while closing your eyes, try to control yourself so that the emotions in yourself do not explode. "of course! Even if they're still saying bad things about you and Mama, papa's ready to stand up for you both."

Arsenio is much calmer now believing that Xander will always be by his side and beloved mama.

It is time to start a press conference. The host, who was none other than Xander's secretary, Laura stepped onto the stage. Opening the event, talking about this and that before finally asking Miranda to convey the purpose of the event.

Cold sweat soaks the forehead, back and palms. Miranda took a few breaths, trying to gather courage.

Tania who happened to be sitting next to Miranda glanced over and then clasped the hand of the former mother-in-law, trying to channel a little power to the middle-aged woman.

When Miranda calmed down, she said, "Good morning everyone. Thank you to my fellow reporters for attending today's event."

"You must ask exactly what the purpose of this event is, but all this time I as the great mistress Vincent never once held a similar event in the past. This event is solely held to provide clarification related to the issues circulating there. The issue that says that my relationship with my younger sibling named Amanda is strained due to the seizure of inheritance."

"Here I reiterate, our relationship is problematic not because of the struggle for the Pramono family's inheritance but because ... I have slandered Amanda's eldest son named Abraham."

"I framed Abraham as if he had just had an illicit relationship with a woman who was none other than Tania, my former daughter-in-law."

Rattles sounded in the corner of the room. Flashes of camera lights continue to hit the face of Xander's mother. Even some of them whispered and looked at each other as if asking when the great lord Vincet was married? As far as they know Alexander or commonly called Xander has never been sniffed by the media about his marriage to a woman named Tania.

"Xander was married seven years ago to his former college friend. The marriage was simple because I didn't want everyone to know that my son-in-law was a poor man raised in an orphanage. I felt that our status was unbalanced, so I asked Xander to marry him simply without having a big wedding reception."

Miranda's hands trembled again, as did her lips. Breathing becomes stingy, the chest deflates and the crystal grains fall over the cheeks.

Taking a breath, he braced himself to continue. "Because of Tania's lower social status than ours, I devised a devious plan to remove her from our family. When I had the chance, I carried out the plan. I framed Tania and Abraham as if they were cheating on Xander's back."

"As a result of the incident the names of both Tania and Abraham were tarnished even for seven years both Xander and my sister considered if my former daughter-in-law and nephew were despicable because doing had played fire temporarily they are cousins."

"Because of that, I ask that you come here to correct this misunderstanding. I, Miranda Vincent Pramono would like to apologize profusely to Tania Maharani, as the victim and Abraham Pramono, as well as the victim for framing you. And to Amanda and all of Pramono's extended family, I apologise because my dirty heart made our familial relationship tenuous."

"To all the socialite gang friends and people present at the time I carried out the scheming, I wanted to tell you that Tania was a good woman, never once had an affair with any man. She was a holy woman who was able to keep her honor as a wife when Xander was not home. So did Abraham, my nephew. He's a nice guy, never flirting with his cousin's sister's wife."

"Everything that happened seven years ago is just my fabrication. So, please don't ever insult them because both are victims of my selfishness."

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