Swapping Daughters

On the day my daughter was one month old, I accidentally saw my best friend sitting on my husband's lap.

"Bryan, your stupid wife didn't notice that I swapped our daughter with her, right?"

"Ehm ... she dotes on our daughter every day. But where's my daughter and hers? Why don't you bring her with you?"

"I've been torturing her for a month and it's getting boring. I'm just going to throw her into the bathtub and drown her. You won't feel bad, right?"

My husband said with disgust, "How is it possible? I married Flora just for her family's property. The bitch she gave birth to will die and when our daughter inherits her assets, I'll kick her out."

I wiped away my tears and pretended not to know.

Dedicated myself to raise their daughter.

Twenty years later, my daughter returned from studying abroad and I transferred all the company's shares and assets to her name.

At the press conference, my best friend took my husband's hand and came to me with the paternity test report.

"Flora, the hospital gave us the wrong baby back then. Briela was actually the biological daughter of me and Bryan. You've been taking care of her for so many years and it's time to give her back to me now."

My husband also took out a divorce agreement and a bank card.

"Sign the divorce agreement as soon as possible, so that our family of three can reunite. Also, there are seven hundred dollars in this card, which is your hard-earned money for taking care of the children and divorce compensation over the years."

I gave a cold smile and replied, "Okay."

***

"Wifey, I noticed that you had a bit of a cough yesterday, so I got up early this morning to make you hot lemongrass tea. Drink it while it's hot."

My husband, Bryan O'Connor, gently and thoughtfully held a cup of hot lemongrass tea and handed it to me.

The look in his eyes when he looked at me was full of love.

"Dad, you are so good to Mommy," said my daughter with a smile while having breakfast.

Yeah ... Everyone could see how good Bryan was to me.

He always noticed my negative emotions at the first moment and gave me comfort and surprises.

He would take good care of me when I was sick.

He would hold me tightly in his arms and say that marrying me was the greatest blessing of his life when he was in love.

If I had not overheard what he said that day, I could not believe that he, who was so thoughtful, could be such a heartless and ungrateful beast.

I took the cup of hot tea and drank it in silence.

After a while, the doorbell rang.

"It must be Lauryn coming."

My daughter jumped up excitedly and ran over to open the door.

I saw my best friend, Lauryn Hansen, standing at the door carrying a lot of bags.

Seeing her daughter, her face was full of laughter.

"Briela, the weather has gotten colder recently, so I bought you some thick clothes."

"And ah, didn't you say last time that you liked the pastries I made? This time, I made you some more."

Briela's eyes curved into crescents and she smiled. "Thank you, Lauryn. You are the best to me!"

Lauryn put down her things, held her daughter in her arms and said affectionately, "Of course, you are my sweetheart!"

"I wish I could give you all the good things in the world!"

After that, she took her daughter to sit at the dining table, looked at me and said directly, "Flora, I heard from Briela that there is a parents-teacher's meeting at her school today."

"Will you let me go?"

"You know, I'm not as lucky as you, married a good husband and gave birth to a well-behaved daughter. I got pregnant and gave birth to a daughter because of a scumbag. That short-lived girl could drown in the bathtub when she took a bath. I don't even have a chance to attend the parents-teacher's meeting ...."

She spoke pitifully, her eyes kept moving back and forth between Bryan and her daughter.

Over the years, she always used her daughter's early death as an excuse to do many things that went beyond the boundaries.