Her words were gentle and faint, yet seemed to possess an indescribable magic that involuntarily prompted Mother An to shut her mouth.
"Since I was young, you bought the latest toys for my sister, brought her beautiful dolls, took her to amusement parks to play... But what about me? Whenever there was a sale at the department store, you didn’t even care if the clothes fit me, you’d just buy five or six sets in a rush, and that was all my new clothes for the whole year."
"Not to mention taking me out to play. I will always remember, in the fifth grade, when a lady from your workplace visited us at home, saw me, and said, ’Is this your child? I always thought you only had Qinqi.’"
"When I was little, I cried secretly, wondering if it was because I wasn’t as outstanding as my sister that you didn’t like me. But later on, I understood that no matter how outstanding I became, you would still not like me. I’ve always wanted to ask why—if you really didn’t like me, why did you give birth to me in the first place?"
"I also wondered if it was possible that I was actually picked up or adopted, which was why you treated me so poorly?"
"No matter what the truth is, today I am willing to accompany these two gentlemen and lady to do a DNA test. It’s not that I truly believe I’m not your daughter, but I think they really care about their long-lost biological daughter, and I wish for them to find her soon. I don’t want there to be another child in this world who suffers from such unfair treatment like me."
"As for you, since you dislike me so much, doing one more thing to upset you is just going to make you despise me a bit more, that’s all."
She finished these words with an unchanged expression and gave a shallow smile to the already tearful Mother Song, "Auntie, let’s go."
Unable to hold back anymore, Mother Song hugged her tightly.
"Child, Qinyu, you are a good child. It’s them who don’t know how to treasure you..."
Gu Shengyin’s eyes also began to well up with tears. She claimed not to care, to be unaffected, but it was only because no one had ever shown her tenderness.
Tears only become precious when shed in front of someone who cares about you.
Gu Shengyin forced the tears back from her eyes, smiled, and said, "I know, I’ve always been outstanding. Their loss of such an excellent daughter is their loss."
Mother Song too wiped away her tears, took Gu Shengyin’s hand, and led her out the door: "Whether you are Auntie’s daughter or not, from today onwards, Auntie will love you like a daughter."
The three of them got up and, ignoring the stunned An family parents seated at the side, left the house.
"The DNA test result is out," a doctor in a white coat handed a document to Father Song.
Even though he had anticipated the answer, upon seeing the numbers, Father Song and Mother Song were once again moved to tears.
Gazing at the stupefied Gu Shengyin standing aside, Mother Song, with tears in her eyes, smiled and said, "Yuyu, my child, would you call me ’mom’?"
Gu Shengyin was still stunned; she hadn’t expected her childhood suspicions to all be true. They hadn’t disliked her because she wasn’t good enough or because they had a daughter already; the reason was that she was not their daughter at all.
An immense sourness surged through her heart, and she finally couldn’t restrain her sobs any longer.