Chapter 1123 The Truth from Eight Years Ago
Lisa sat on the ground, her shoulders slumped, and her voice barely a whisper, drained of all the energy she had earlier. "We really had a daughter named Hannah. Eight years ago, Oliver was messing around and accidentally drowned. He almost died, but she saved him and never came back up. The current was too strong, and we never found her body.
Oliver was deeply affected by this. He had a fever for three days and nights, and when he woke up, he had forgotten everything about it.
We didn't have the money to search for her body. We thought, dead is dead, after all, she was just a girl. We didn't have the money for a funeral, so we acted like she never existed."
Hearing this, everyone felt a surge of anger.
Lassie was trembling with rage. "What kind of people are you? No matter what, Hannah was your daughter! How could you treat her like that?"
Lisa didn't argue, looking like she had nothing left to lose.
Hannah was already dead, after all, and they didn't like or care about her.
From the moment Hannah was born and they found out she was a girl, Lisa didn't like her.
If it hadn't been for Hannah's grandmother stopping her, she would have drowned her in a basin of water.
Until she was twelve, Hannah lived with her grandmother.
After her grandmother died, they had no choice but to take her in.
When Hannah drowned, Lisa wasn't sad. She even felt relieved that there was one less mouth to feed.
Charles raised an eyebrow. "And then?"
"A week after Hannah died, Austin found us! He gave us a large sum of money to take care of someone for him."
Charles asked, "That person was the real Violet?"
Lisa nodded. "Yes! We were very poor, my husband had just fallen ill, and his company was laying off workers. We desperately needed money, so we agreed to his request.
The first time we saw Violet, she seemed to recognize us. She called me 'Mom' and my husband 'Dad.' She really thought we were her biological parents.
We found it strange and asked Austin, but he didn't tell us why. He just told us to treat Violet like our own daughter.
Oliver, having forgotten some things due to his grief, really believed Violet was his sister.
Every six months, Austin would transfer a large sum of money to us for Violet's living expenses and care.
About six months later, Austin arranged for us to immigrate to Country D under the pretense of a job transfer for my husband."
At this point, Lassie couldn't hold back any longer and slapped Lisa hard. "If Austin gave you so much money, why did you mistreat my daughter? Why did you make her work to support you at such a young age? She was just a teenager, bearing so many burdens."
Lisa's face swelled up, a red handprint visible, and her lip was bleeding.
She wiped it indifferently and sneered, "You rich people don't understand the struggles of us poor folks! My husband had liver disease, and needed a lot of money.
Oliver was still in school, with all kinds of tuition fees!
Even though Austin gave us money, it wasn't enough for my husband's treatment."
She even thought that if Austin hadn't given them money at that time, her husband might not have survived.
Lassie sneered, "That's no excuse for exploiting your daughter! Why didn't you make your precious son work? Instead, you used Hannah's money to pay for his expensive tutoring? It's because she wasn't your biological daughter, so you deliberately mistreated her."
Lisa didn't deny it, essentially admitting it.
Lassie, still furious, slapped her twice more and was about to continue when Quentin spoke up. "Stop it! We may have treated Violet poorly, but it was still better than how we treated our own daughter! Besides, ever since Hannah and Charles got together, we've genuinely tried to be good to her."
Lassie laughed bitterly. "Good to her? If her fiancé wasn't Charles but someone from your social class, would you still treat her well?"
Quentin fell silent.
Lisa's face was swollen on both sides, burning with pain.
She pushed her cheek with her tongue and continued, "Later, my husband's liver condition worsened, and he needed a transplant. Austin stepped in, paid for it, and found a donor.
I later found out he had known Violet for a long time.
When Violet was in her junior year of high school, she was harassed by some thugs after a night class, and Austin saved her.
After that, Austin pursued her aggressively, but she didn't fall for him.
It wasn't until after my husband's liver transplant, when he was out of danger, that Violet accepted Austin's proposal and got engaged to him.
Since my daughter was a year younger than Violet, they couldn't get married right away. They agreed to wait until Violet was of legal age."
Austin glared at Lisa, his eyes full of hatred, as if he wanted to tear her apart.
Feeling Austin's intense gaze, Lisa shivered but continued, "You know the rest! Violet got into D University, met Stella, who introduced her to Charles. She fell in love with Charles and broke up with Austin again.
Suddenly, she seemed to remember something and urgently explained, "But we really didn't know she was Violet.
When Austin brought her to us, she had completely forgotten her past and only remembered her name was Hannah and that she was our daughter. We never saw any missing person notices.
We didn't know why Austin chose our family or how he knew so much about us.
We didn't ask questions, just followed his instructions to raise Violet."
After finishing, she clung to Charles's legs, crying and begging, "I know you hate us because of what happened to Violet! But we are innocent! We were just greedy and favored our son over our daughter. We never did anything truly evil.
Now that I've told you everything, you should keep your promise and let us go!"
Charles sneered, "Why didn't you say this earlier? Why wait until now?"
His smile made Lisa's scalp tingle, goosebumps rising all over her body.
She thought Charles was gentle and polite, not as ruthless and twisted as Austin, so she figured it was better to offend Charles than Austin.
She never expected Charles to be so harsh.
"You said you'd give us money and help us leave Country D so Austin couldn't find us. Is that true? I've told you everything now. If you don't help us leave, Austin will definitely retaliate!
We can't fight him; we're just ordinary people. If you don't help us, we're as good as dead.
My husband and I may have wronged Violet, but Oliver truly sees her as his sister. They have a strong bond!
Violet wouldn't want to see Oliver get hurt.
Please, help us for their sake, won't you?"
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