Chapter 156 - 155: Slapping the Fake Daughter 56
"It’s not like that, it really isn’t."
Mr. Liu immediately became anxious when he saw Liu Mingzhu tarnishing his reputation.
He hurriedly explained to the police: "I was just frantic and upset from searching for my child, and when we found her and she wouldn’t come home with us, I lost my temper and slapped her."
Liu Mingzhu cried softly: "You’re right, that slap left injuries all over my body, and the perpetual new and old wounds on my sister’s body were also caused by a slap."
Her words immediately undermined Mr. Liu’s explanation.
After all, the daughter of the Liu Family was originally Zhao Anning, and at the beginning, the Liu Family probably didn’t know that Zhao Anning was switched at birth, having raised her as their own for fifteen years. Yet even then, she ended up wounded all over and driven to attempt suicide and hospitalization, which shows just how heartless the people of the Liu Family could be.
The police now looked at Mr. Liu differently: "If what the child says is true, then we truly cannot let you take her away."
Liu Mingzhu then added more to the story: "I had no choice. At night, I overheard my brother planning to sell me off to get money for buying a house. My... my biological mother said, said that the apartment my foster father gave me shouldn’t stay in my hands. She wants me to sell it, to use the money to buy a shop for my brother in the county."
Saying this, Liu Mingzhu’s face turned pale, a sign of her deep sorrow: "It’s not that I’m disrespectful to my parents. That apartment was given to me by my foster father. He actually still cares about me and wanted to raise me till I’m an adult. But my biological parents always caused trouble, insisting on taking me back. My foster father had no choice but to sever ties with me to avoid my suffering, and he gave me an apartment. But I can’t accept it; my foster parents raised me for fifteen years, and I can’t repay their kindness enough. How could I accept the apartment they gave? I was thinking of returning it to them in the future. I can’t sell it. Selling it would be such a betrayal to my foster parents."
Liu Mingzhu, with her reasonable and grateful demeanor, made several policemen feel a surge of sympathy, admiring how sensible the child was.
Observing a sensible child and then looking at the Liu Family pretending to be cordial but actually looking aggressive and confrontational, they felt even more convinced that a good child would be ruined if taken away by them.
Liu Mingzhu grabbed the policewoman’s hand: "Auntie, I... I want to live on my own. I don’t want to go back with them. Please help me find a way. Can I sever ties with them? Since I was born, they’ve never taken care of me, not even for a day. Now they’re forcing me to sell the apartment. Why should I? Why?"