At first, Ji Ying and Xu Qinghe were worried when they brought the child home, afraid her real parents would come looking for her. Xu Qinghe even went to the county to ask around, but hadn't heard of anyone missing a child.
Day after day, year after year, watching the child grow up little by little, Xu Nianhua, right there in Shuangzhu Village, slowly grew up under the care of Ji Ying and her husband.
Ji Ying never imagined that her daughter would be twenty-two years old and Nianhua's biological parents would actually show up.
"Twenty-two years ago, September twenty-third, I went back to my parents' home, and started having contractions. I gave birth at Gaoliang County Hospital. The hospital still has my delivery records." Fang Yue had come fully prepared, even photocopying those records and handing them to Ji Ying.
"I still don't know who was so shameless, who stole my child and made me and my daughter separated for a full twenty-two years."
