Chapter 23 - A Turn of Events

Susan looked at him and asked again, "Let's not talk about the results of the bone marrow match for now. It's just that with Alice and Kathy's identities, no one will believe this news even if we tell them now."
"But now, Janet is her last hope. If hers doesn't fit either, then it will be like looking for a needle in a haystack to find the same match among this population of 1.3 billion again."
He looked at her with a worried face.
The two sighed in unison, shocked as much as they were at Alice's birth, and feeling pity.
The two decided not to tell the result for now, they just didn't know how long they could keep it hidden this way.
Susan found the time and ran next door. It so happened that Richard was also at home and was a little surprised to see her coming over on her own initiative.
"Let me in." Susan said in a very direct manner.
Richard moved out of the way and watched her enter before asking, "Is something wrong with Alice?"
"Yes, possibly not." She sat down grumpily on the sofa and found a more comfortable position before eyeballing him as he approached.
"The Smith family is Alice's last best chance now, and I want to ask you for a favor."
Doing Alice a favor, Richard agreed without even thinking about it, "What kind of favor, I'll do my best."
"Leonard's pairing failed and now there's Kathy's, I just don't have the means to get close to her, so I have to ask you. There will be a dinner party in a few days and I heard that Tony will bring her to it." Susan looked at him with a smirk and added, in order not to make things difficult for him, "Just pull one of her hairs."
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"......," Richard didn't know what he should say, but since it was Alice's business, he would naturally do all he could.
Not to mention a single hair, even a cup of her blood. He had to get it all.
Only after the matter was settled did Susan return to his home in a good mood. These few days were busy with Alice's affairs, and the agent and the assistant all knew about it. But to have their little princess so diligent, they suddenly became curious about Alice as a person.
After asking around a bit, Susan propped up her chin and said meaningfully, "There is a kind of person who is born without being favored by the heavens, and it just so happens that I have stumbled upon it."
Back at the hospital, looking at Alice's bloodless face, Susan couldn't help but say, "Alice, I want to tell you something. Don't get too excited."
"Hm?" Alice looked at her, somewhat curious.
Susan organized her words well before she slowly said, "We did a test on your blood type and your biological mother's, and then found that you don't have any relationship."
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Alice smiled and looked at the person in front of her with great shock. She tried to find traces of fakery on her face, only to look at it half-heartedly and smile somewhat vainly, "This ...... is all fake, right?"
"But we matched your blood type with Leonard and the two of you are father and daughter. As for why it's not a mother-daughter relationship with that aunt, I think you weren't her daughter originally, you're Janet's daughter."
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Alice froze as she quietly looked at her hands. Somewhat less convinced, the truth had been laid out before her eyes ......
For the first time in all her years of living, someone had told her that she was not Alice, she was Kathy. How could this make her calm down.
Susan continued again, "I think that back then, when you were born, you should have been deliberately swapped. And all of this was unknown to your parents."
With her origins abruptly revealed, Alice wanted to laugh but couldn't. The corners of her mouth tugged, but then she felt ironic.
For so many years, she had lived in a corner. Watching her own parents treat other children with all the love they could muster, while she could only live cautiously, like a shadow of herself.
Everything she endured was done on purpose by others. And what about herself?
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"My mother she ...... doesn't actually want to know, does she?" Alice asked with difficulty, a bitterness in her throat as she looked at Susan and then at her own hands, suddenly saying, "Perhaps, I was originally a mistake. If my birth hadn't upset such a balance, perhaps I wouldn't have been like this."
"It's not your fault." Susan soothed softly, "It's just that there are some things you must know, it's just that this matter is only our guess, deliberate or intentional perhaps only Kathy's mother would know."
Alice was powerless and couldn't help but think of the person she had treated as her biological mother for so many years, she thought that biological mother would be very sad to let her go.
But the way she looked at herself, she had a few sneers in her eyes, she thought that with her own biological mother, she would have been happy to see her.
But the way she treated herself was like a stranger.
After all these years, only today did she realize that she had never been her daughter, that it was she herself who was feared for stealing everything that should have belonged to Kathy, so that everything now was her own doing?
Alice couldn't help but think, her heart a little frightened. Seeing this, Susan held her in her arms and gently comforted her.
Such an outcome, she had also thought about. But it was a little better than expected, at least she hadn't gotten too worked up.
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