Rong Yan didn’t participate in the interrogations on either side at all; she stood in the courtyard without entering any of the rooms.
When she had left earlier, she had already packed two sets of clothes in her backpack, not bothering with the thicker ones.
She didn’t plan to take anything else with her afterward, since she no longer wanted any of these things.
However, she remembered the ID card.
Her eyes flickered; it seemed she wouldn’t need to go looking for it herself.
The interrogations on both sides went very smoothly.
Ms. Li and Rong Shuiniu weren’t particularly strong-willed, plus they were inexperienced in the ways of the world.
They couldn’t withstand the scrutiny and spilled everything.
It turned out that when she had felt pain in her belly many years ago, just by chance, the midwife had gone to another village to deliver a baby.
To ensure the safety of the child in her womb, her family had no choice but to send her to the town health clinic to give birth.
That day, coincidentally,
there was another woman in the same room who was also about to give birth.
They shared the same delivery room and even entered at the same time.
But her delivery was smooth; the baby was born and she was in good condition, whereas the other woman fainted after giving birth.
Ironically, the health clinic was small with very few doctors and nurses, and at that time, they had to attend to another woman with severe postpartum hemorrhage.
Thus, the doctors and nurses rushed to help in the other room, and they were left in the delivery room, not yet moved out.
At that moment, seeing the other woman dressed so nicely, she felt a crooked thought and took advantage of the fact that the medical staff were all busy with the delivery next door; she swapped the newborns’ swaddling clothes.
And so, the child she carried out was that woman’s, while her own child became the other woman’s.
Truly, she did it because she knew her family preferred boys over girls; she just wanted her daughter to have a better life in a well-off family.
Police Li and the female officer were left speechless by Li Cuixia’s confession.
To secure a better life for her own daughter, she swapped someone else’s child?
What kind of selfish and self-serving logic is that? Did that family owe you anything?
And knowing full well that you disadvantaged this young girl, you still wouldn’t let her go to college?
"Why didn’t you let Rong Yan go to college?" the female officer still asked, "She clearly had the ability to get into college, so why didn’t you let her? Moreover, you arranged for her to have a blind date and marry a man who was much older than her and on his second marriage. What were you thinking with that decision?"
"I, I thought it was for her own good... isn’t getting married the ultimate goal for a girl? That man was in good condition, had a good job, so what if he had children? It could even teach her how to take care of kids early..."
Both officers: ...
If it wasn’t for their profession, they would have cursed out loud.
The female officer pointed out unpromisingly.
"How is that for her good? She clearly had a brighter future ahead of her. If she were a college graduate, she would have work after graduation, and the person she would find would surely be someone on par with her, with a respectable job of their own. They would cherish and respect each other, not marrying off to a man in his second marriage and more than a decade her senior. Even if she were your biological daughter, nowadays marriage is about freedom of choice, not coercion."
"Or are you afraid that if she became successful, she would eventually find her biological parents, thereby affecting the child you switched her with?"
That hit the nail on the head.
Ms. Li’s face turned ghastly pale in an instant, and the shock and guilt in her eyes couldn’t be concealed.
"...I, I didn’t... I, I’m not..."
"Tell us! Where does that family live?" the female officer pressed directly.
She had already deduced the answer from Li Cuixia’s expression.
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