Lottie put down the ss of water, sat down beside Connie, and slowly hugged her.


    “I’m fine.”


    Connie patted Lottie’s hand, took a deep breath, and forced a smile at her.


    “After so many years, I’ve already figured it out.” Connie said.


    More and more rumors spread. One day, her mother went out to have afternoon tea with her friends. When she came back, she met the couple next door who were quarreling. Connie’s mother couldn’t help speaking up for the man.


    As a result, her mother caused a lot of trouble. The woman scolded her mother and even went forward to tear her mother’s hair.


    The neighbor aunt’s words were unpleasant to hear, and everyone in the courtyard ran out to watch the farce.


    Only then did her mother realize that she could no longer stay here.


    Her mother contacted Steve and asked him to take them away overnight.


    “I didn’t want to leave at all. My mother had an improper rtionship with Steve. She had been receiving Steve’s favor all the time. She even wanted to live in Steve’s house. This would make people gossip more.”


    However, there was nothing Connie could do. Because she was still too young. At that time, she was just about to go to junior high school, but she was too young to support herself, so she had no choice.


    “I still remember that when I was carried into the car, I cried for a long time.”


    “Then we would live in the Lewis family’s house.”


    It was not until Connie arrived at the Lewis family that she realized what her mother had been pursuing over the years.


    If it weren’t for her father’s great guide, Connie would have been lost by the luxury of a rich family.


    Because her father was Steve’s savior, she and her mother had received preferential treatment from the Lewis family at the beginning.


    Butter, Steve’s father knew that Steve and her mother were together. So, Steve’s father was angry and forced Steve to cut ties with Connie’s mother.


    Steve immediatelypromised. He rented a house for them and wanted to make them leave.


    Connie’s mother refused. She took out the test report of the hospital and said that she was pregnant.


    The Lewis family was shocked and immediately arranged a parent-child test for her.


    However, Mrs. Lewis suddenly took this opportunity to attest Steve’s rtionship with her by a DNA test.


    The final result was beyond everyone’s expectation.


    “Steve is not Mrs. Lewis’s son. He is the son of Steve’s father and a woman outside. My mother was not pregnant at all. She just didn’t want to leave the Lewis family, so she made up such a lie.”


    When Lottie heard this, she sighed silently, “It’s all fate.”


    Connieughed loudly and said, “Yes.”


    “Steve was discovered to be not Mrs. Lewis’s biological son. Mrs. Lu was shocked. If her son wasn’t Steve, then where had her biological son gone? She went to question Steve’s father, but they had a big fight. Steve’s father hit Mrs. Lewis for the first time.”


    Mrs. Lewis had been doted on since she was a child and had never been wronged like this. On that day, she went back to her parents’ home and told this to her parents’ family. Mrs. Lewis’s parents’ family directly called the police.


    The police investigated and found that Mrs. Lewis’s child had long been reced, and then was drowned by Lewis’s biological mother.


    Steve’s father didn’t tell the truth and even hid the truth with Steve’s biological mother. They treated Steve as their biological child. If it weren’t for Mrs. Lewis’s doubts about Steve, this matter might have been hidden all the time.


    “What would happen to Steve after they found out everything?”


    “Steve’s birth mother was arrested, and his father was sentenced to three years of imprisonment. Mrs. Lewis’s parents’ family had powers, and they directly destroyed the Lewis family. As for Mrs. Lewis, she divorced Mr. Lewis, took her property, and went abroad. But Steve… became a poor and homeless man.”


    After leaving the Lewis family’s house, he only had several thousand dors and the house bought by Mr. Lewis, which Mr. Lewis intended topensate Connie’s mother.


    Later, Steve had nowhere to go. He moved to the house with Connie and her mother, and then lived with the money saved by Connie’s mother.


    At that time, Connie was already 15 or 16 years old.


    She found that Steve’s temper was getting worse and worse. He was drunk every day and often hit her mother, because in his opinion, all this was caused by her mother.


    If Connie’s mother had not pestered him and refused to break up with her and lied that she was pregnant, Mrs. Lewis would not have thought of doing a DNA test, and his identity would not have been exposed.


    There was one more thing, Connie didn’t confess to Lottie.


    That was, when she was fifteen or sixteen years old, Steve’s gaze on her had changed. From time to time, he liked to touch her casually.


    Connie felt that Steve’s mind was very dirty, so she applied for amodation after high school and tried to earn as much money as possible on holiday.


    When she was at school, she had been studying under a work-study programme. Every year, she received a schrship and basically didn’t use much money from Steve’s.


    When Connie was in college, in order to leave the “home”, she deliberately applied for a school in Rexwell, which was particrly far away from her home.


    Aftering out, Connie waspletely free.


    She made money for her own living expenses. In order to pay back the money her mother had used before, she had to work hard. Hearing that the entertainment industry had made a lot of money, she did not choose to go to a bachelor university. Instead, she chose an art college to learn how to perform.


    However, Connie really didn’t have the talent to act. In the end, she could only act as an extra and then help contact other extras. As a result, it made her umte a lot of people’s connections.


    Hearing this, Lottie felt that Connie had been living a bad life for the past few years.


    Connie had a hard time before. She was so good, strong, and optimistic. She deserved the best treatment.


    “What happened next? Since you havee out, how could Steve find youter?”


    “More than a year ago, my mother was diagnosed with a terminal disease. She called me and asked me to go back to see her.”


    “You’re back?”


    Connie nodded. Although the rtionship between her mother and her had not been good, Connie had no other rtives except her mother. She rushed back as soon as she received the news.


    When she went back, she found that her mother had reached thete stage and had no chance to save her.


    Connie secretly went to find the doctor and asked him many times, but she still got the same answer.


    Perhaps it was because she was ill, or maybe it was because Steve turned a blind eye to her that her mother finally saw the reality.N?velDrama.Org owns this.


    Her mother called Connie back and sincerely apologized to her.


    She had already regretted it.


    Every time she received Connie’s money, she felt embarrassed.


    She had never given this money to Steve. She had saved it for Connie.


    Her mother held Connie’s hand and told her that there was a saving card hidden at home, in which there was a letter written to her and thest thing left by her father. Her mother wanted her to remember to go back and get them.


    Connie still cried, but this time she cried silently. “My mother wants to live a rich life. However, before she died, she found that her real good days were the days when my father doted on her.”