Chapter 140 Please give my daughter back to me.

Gu Zuozuo couldn't understand the thought process of this couple. She couldn't understand it at all.

"What did you say? Say it again?"

Xie Jingyao looked at her with puffy eyes full of anticipation, almost as if she wanted to lean in and hold her hand for a heartfelt confession.

"If you can possess my daughter's body, can't you also bring her back? Please let my little girl come back, okay? Give her back her body, give her back to me!"

Gu Zuozuo was so angry she laughed.

Having been here for so long, this was the first time she had ever been speechless at someone. It seemed that everything she had just said was a waste of time; this woman only listened to what she wanted to hear and forgot everything else without giving it a second thought.

“Ms. Xie, I’ll repeat myself one last time: your daughter was already dead before I arrived! She’s not coming back, she’s never coming back! Do you understand?”

Xie Jingyao gasped for breath, then suddenly stood up abruptly, overturning the teapot and water cups on the table, her voice cracking as she spoke.

"It's all your fault that she can't come back! You're already dead, why are you still occupying someone else's body! Why didn't you die cleanly!... Ugh..."

Gu Tingye covered her mouth and pulled her into his arms, looking at Gu Zuozuo with embarrassment.

"Comrade Gu, I'm sorry, my wife is just a little emotionally overwhelmed. Can you understand a mother who has lost her daughter?"

Gu Zuozuo clapped her hands, her laughter both mocking and meaningful.

"Mr. Gu, that's a good question. Understand? Why should I understand? You don't dare to admit that your daughter died because of your neglect, so you want me to admit that you killed your daughter so you can take your anger out on me and continue your loving and trusting life with a clear conscience. Do you think I look like a sucker?"

Gu Tingye lowered his eyes, and the atmosphere fell silent.

Xie Jingyao's eyes were filled with sorrow and desolation, and she glared at Gu Zuozuo as if she wanted to devour her.

Gu Zuozuo did not flinch at all, but stared straight into her eyes, her gaze calm and her expression so indifferent that it was impossible to discern her emotions.

"Ms. Xie, stop using your grief over losing your daughter as a cover for your guilty conscience. As a mother who loves her daughter, before you knew that she had been replaced by another soul, have you ever thought about going to see her, whether she has enough to eat, and whether she is warm enough to wear?"

You're protected in an ivory tower, surrounded by so many people protecting you, yet you've never even thought to pack a package for her yourself and send it out.

To put it nicely, you're entrusting her to someone else's care; you have your reasons, you have all sorts of unavoidable circumstances.

But all I see is you having no choice but to raise a spoiled adopted daughter by your side, despite your own hardships!

You keep saying you want your daughter to come back?

What happened after she came back?

When she returns, she'll see that her parents, whom she's longed for and missed for ten years, have a girl who can take her place. How will you all feel then?

Putting everything else aside, just look at these past nine years, almost ten years, neither the original owner nor she has ever received anything from them.

"Qianqian is no ordinary person; her father sacrificed himself to save us... and besides, I sent her things..."

Xie Jingyao hesitated for a long time before finally squeezing out a few words through her teeth. Her voice grew softer and softer as she spoke, and even the resentment on her face faded unconsciously.

Gu Zuozuo chuckled.

The original owner never received anything from her parents.

She received items from the army twice after she was sent to the countryside.

The only two times were when Xie Jinyu sent her clothes and snacks after she went to the countryside, and when she sent a package and a certificate for a martyr's child to show to outsiders.

They didn't seem to understand what she meant either. Her focus was never on whether they had sent anything to the original owner of this body.

What saddened her for the original owner was why they could raise a girl with no blood relation to them and pamper her, but never thought of taking their own biological daughter to protect her.