Sheng Xia looked at the woman seated across from her. In this huge living room, the atmosphere started to turn chilly. Sheng Xia dropped her head, tried to look timid and scared. After all, this woman across from her wasn't her biological mother.
She was quite sad when she found out her biological mother had passed away after giving birth to her. Not long after her biological mother passed away, her biological father married this woman in only two months. Amazing. How efficient.
If loyalty were a race, this biological father of hers sprinted straight to the finish line... with another woman in his arms. Applause.
Song Ting Ran frowned when her eyes landed on the timid girl. Her clothes looked so old, and the girl's hair even made her confused. Can the bird nest be called hair?
Her mind drifted to her crying daughter. Poor her beloved daughter. Madam Cheng didn't understand why this girl was even here. Everything was beautiful. Their family is known as a loving family in the wealthy circle. Her husband's business has been soaring these past few years, and her reputation, too, has increased in the circles of the wealthy madams. Everything was perfect.
But suddenly, a month ago, when the country launched a system that could match DNA across the country, their family received a letter. In the letter, there was a girl who matched her husband's DNA. It said about her husband's biological daughter.
Their family turned into chaos. Her daughter started to cry every day, wondering about her origin. Her son blamed his dad and her for making his sister cry. After all, their family put their DNA into the system because they want to find another relative of theirs.
The Cheng Household has only his husband's family in it since her father-in-law and his husband were an only child. They hope they can meet a distant relative with this system, but it turned out to be a disaster for their family. At first, her husband didn't believe it, but after a week of investigation, it turned out to be true.
The switched baby was an orphan in an orphanage. She was adopted into a family that lived in a small city far from the capital. But unfortunately, she was abandoned after only two years of adoption because the foster parent gave birth to their own daughter.
After being abandoned, she lived alone in the neighboring city. She only graduated from elementary school and has started to work early. When her husband found out about this, he was clearly displeased by her biological daughter's lack of achievement.
After a month of discussion, they finally decided to make the lost daughter their adopted daughter without telling the world that their beloved daughter was switched at birth. After all, they can't lie to themselves about how much they loved this beloved daughter of theirs compared to the lost daughter that came out of nowhere.
Madam Cheng looked at her beautiful nails. "As you know, we knew about you just recently. All this time, our only daughter is Cheng An. She has been with me and your father for years. Don't worry. Although I am not your biological mother, I won't mistreat you. Just..."
When Sheng Xia heard this, she started to wonder why she had even come to this house. Was she so curious about her biological family? Oh yeah, she's indeed curious. Even though her adopted family told her that this family won't accept her if she showed up disguised, she just wanted to know. And when her curiosity was satisfied, she would come back.
Let's just make this one month, one of her experiences in life.
"Just... we will said to others that you are our newly adopted daughter. An An will still be the young miss of the Cheng Family." Song Ting Ran ended her explanation. Her face showed arrogance and had nothing to do with excitement. Of course. After all, Sheng Xia wasn't her biological daughter. This woman has been with Cheng An since that girl was a baby; of course, Song Ting Ran couldn't stand it when her beloved daughter got wronged.
Sheng Xia pursed her mouth. She acted like a wronged child.
Guess DNA isn't as strong as his ego, huh.
Song Ting Ran got more displeased by Sheng Xia when she saw her reaction. "You should be grateful that we even accept you into the family. We will put you into the company since you didn't go to college. After all, we won't take care of people who just laze around all day."
A few seconds later, Sheng Xia nodded her head slowly.
Song Ting Ran scoffed and stood up from the sofa. "It's good that you know your worth. The butler will tell you the details later. And, your father... he is still on a business trip. But he will go home next week. When the time comes, you can meet him."
Song Ting Ran started to walk to the second floor when she heard Sheng Xia's voice.
"Umm, where are my siblings? When can I meet them?"
The woman furrowed her eyebrows. "They stayed in the apartment close to their school."
Sheng Xia popped out an 'ooh' timidly.
Song Ting Ran continued her walk to the second floor without looking back anymore.
In the living room, Sheng Xia rolled her eyes. Tsk,what a weak girl. Turned out, she wasn't brave enough to face her. She was so curious about this beloved daughter, but it seemed that she wouldn't be able to meet her so quickly.
Sheng Xia walked to the kitchen. She's thirsty. When she finished her glass of mineral water, her old phone rang. On the phone's screen that has cracks on it, someone with the nickname 'Mom' called. Sheng Xia smiled and went to her room. Her awful feeling started to fade.
It's fine. Sheng Xia thought to herself. She is not alone.