Chapter 454: The Past


    This was thest thing that Johanna wanted to talk about. She had been depressed for years, knowing


    that her daughter had been reced. She even considered taking her own life, but Beal had stopped her.


    The White family had a lot of connections in Barnes. They had asked anyone and everyone they could to


    look for their missing daughter, but there was no sign of her.


    Gradually, Johanna came to believe that she would never reunite with her daughter. Beal, on the other


    hand, didn’t lose hope and suggested they search in other cities. After all, Barnes was a metropolis and


    lots of people came and went every year, so it was possible that their daughter wasn’t in Barnes


    anymore. Now, they finally found her-their long lost daughter.


    Johanna looked at Beal hesitantly. Beal didn’t say anything and gave her a reassuring look.


    Holding J’s hands, Johanna bit her lower lip nervously. She took deep breaths, but she was so


    emotional that she couldn’t squeeze a single word out.


    Finally, Beal looked at J and sighed heavily.


    “When you were born, there was an earthquake of unprecedented magnitude in Barnes. The whole city


    was in chaos. The hospital copsed, and all the expecting mothers and infants were trapped inside.


    Your mother, who was staying in a VIP ward at the time, was moved with the other mothers during the


    evacuation. The situation was aplete mess at the time and she had no idea that you were reced.


    Later, when we did find out, we investigated the matter and found that a couple took advantage of the


    chaotic situation to rece you with their daughter and took you away.”


    Tears rolling down her cheeks, Johanna lowered her head guiltily and covered her mouth with the


    handkerchief in her hand. In between sobs, she said, “It’s all my fault. I wasn’t able to protect you. If I did,


    you wouldn’t have been reced. You were born without birthmarks. I didn’t get to see you clearly


    because I was too weak and therefore didn’t memorize what you looked like.”


    Beal hurried tofort his wife.


    “Don’t me yourself. All babies look alike when they were just born. It’s difficult to tell them apart.”


    J patted Johanna’s hand, too.


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    “You’ve found me now and that’s what matters. Truth be told, I never wanted to look for my biological


    parents before. I always thought that they had deliberately abandoned me.”


    Now that she knew that Johanna and Beal never meant to lose her, she didn’t feel unwanted anymore.


    Johanna threw her arms around J and wept tears of joy. J had grown up to be such a gentle and


    considerate youngdy.


    “I’m so d we found you, my child. My life would’ve been meaningless otherwise.”


    J could keenly sense that her mother really cared about her. Thinking of the baby who had taken her


    ce, she asked, “How is the girl now?”


    “Her name is L. She lives in Barnes with us now. Your mother and I didn’t know that she wasn’t ours at


    first, so we raised her as our own.” Beal sighed.


    After all, the baby girl had looked a lot like baby J. Beal and Johanna had no idea that the girl they


    raised wasn’t theirs.


    It wasn’t until L had a blood test that they realized that something was wrong. Beal’s blood type was A,


    and Johanna’s was o, while L’s was B—there was no possible way she was their biological daughter.


    So they secretly conducted a paternity test and found out that indeed, L wasn’t rted to them by


    blood. Theyunched an in-depth investigation into the matter. That was when they found out that their


    baby had been reced amidst the chaotic aftermath of the earthquake.


    “People can be really evil. Even the clothes and wristbands on the two babies were switched, so it


    obviously was not just a simple mistake. I knew what my baby was wearing and that was why we took


    that girl with us.” Johanna sneered angrily. Just thinking about the evildoers who had stolen her daughter


    made her want to tear them to pieces.


    It was because of them that she wasn’t able to see her own child in more than twenty years. L, on the


    other hand, had been treated as Johanna’s and Beal’s biological daughter for years. They loved her


    deeply and by the time they realized the mistake, it was toote for them to leave her. Thus, they


    continued to treat L as their own while secretly looking for their real daughter.


    A few years ago, they had managed to track down L’s biological parents, but the evil couple had


    abandoned J as a baby and had no idea where she was. With her lips pursed, J asked warily,


    “Has L met her biological parents?”


    “L is still with us. She has no idea that she’s not our biological daughter…” Johanna sighed heavily.


    These problems were not easy to solve.