"I understand. Please thank Yingying properly for me. Your dad and I will try to go back when we have time. Contact us again if there are any updates on your end."
Her eyes were red and her voice was choked with emotion. Even though Xie Wanying was different from them in many ways, she had never doubted that she was not her child.
Many people had warned them before, but she never took those crazy words to heart. How could a child who had been with her since birth not be her own?
Reality was too cruel; she dared not think about it.
Xie Zhiyan was a little worried. "You and Dad go ahead with your work. I'll handle things here. Xie Wanying probably knew about this earlier than we did, but we haven't told her what she already knows yet."
The paternity test hasn't been done yet, and to avoid any further complications, it's best not to let too many people know about this.
Xie Zhiyan and Shu Ying were both quite cautious, partly to protect Song Zhaodi and partly to avoid alerting the enemy.
Huang Meiling's mind was in turmoil. The thought that the child she had raised with such care for so many years was not her own child caused her a sharp, cutting pain in her heart.
Xie Wenyuan was completely bewildered, not knowing what the mother and son were saying that would make Huang Meiling so agitated.
After explaining everything, Huang Meiling reminded Xie Zhiyan to protect Song Zhaodi before reluctantly hanging up the phone.
Xie Wenyuan was still holding an empty lunchbox. Seeing her absent-minded look, he pulled her down to sit.
"Did something happen at home? Is Wanying causing trouble again?"
He only heard Xie Zhiyan mention something about his daughter, and knew nothing else. Huang Meiling seemed somewhat dazed, and he couldn't help but worry.
"I don't know what's wrong with this child. She was so well-behaved and obedient when she was little, but she's become more and more disobedient in the last two years. After all, Zhiyan is married now and things are different from before. It seems that we have indeed neglected her education."
Huang Meiling met Xie Wenyuan's gaze with red eyes, shook her head helplessly, and burst into tears.
"Zhiyan said that Yingying saved a girl on her way to the capital. The girl looked exactly like me when I was young, and she was He Caixia's daughter. She had escaped because she couldn't stand her husband's domestic violence."
“She is just like us in many ways, even more like our daughter than Wanying.”
Now that things had come to this point, Xie Wenyuan understood perfectly. His hands trembled; he was the one who had sought out He Caixia in the first place.
At that time, they only saw that the other party was an honest person, quick-witted, and pitiful, so they gave her a chance to make money. Who knew that she would repay kindness with enmity and conspire with her mother to pull a switcheroo.
"What should we do if Zhao Di really is our daughter?"
Huang Meiling already had the answer in her heart, but she was unwilling to believe it. How could her parents be so careless?
“That was our first child. She was living an inhuman life in the mountains, but we treated the other party’s daughter as our own. How could they do such a terrible thing?”
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