(2) Living as the Villainess Queen

Chapter 231

“…Your mother had fallen ill ever since that incident. She’s just deeply distressed.”

“Father, with all due respect, I’ve never once regarded mother as the victim. The real victim of the incident is Jin, who got kidnapped. I pity Jin for having to go through all that at such a young age. What kind of mother would vent out her trauma on her child who she might have lost forever? I don’t quite agree that mother is such a feeble-minded person. Even though she had not physically or verbally abused her, mother’s disinterest in Jin is nothing more than just another form of abuse.”

“That’s….” Patrick was quick to hold his tongue before he almost blurted out before his son. Enoch promptly continued as he carefully studied the look on his father’s face.

“There’s something which I don’t know about, aren’t there?”

“…”

“Father, please tell me what it is.”

Patrick opened his mouth again with a distressed look. “What I’m about to tell you must not leave this room.”

Enoch answered his father with his face stiff with tension.

“Yes, I promise.”

“Dana… your mother, thinks that Jin is not our daughter. She thinks the child had been switched.”

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“I beg your pardon?” Enoch, who had braced himself for a big blow his father was about to reveal to him, asked back with bewilderment.

“I believe you remember the times when Jin had just been born and how much your mother had adored her before the incident happened.”

Enoch nodded in agreement as he could faintly remember the times when Jin was born—he was seven years old back then. He could recall the moment when he had first met Jin as a baby. She was held in the arms of his mother’s while his mother warmly smiled upon Jin despite looking tired.

“I too, couldn’t quite understand at first as to why she refused Jin, when she was safely returned to us after she was kidnapped. So, one day, as I could no longer put up with her, I urged your mother to tell me what was going on. And that’s what she’d told me that day.”

“Father… you can’t seriously think mother’s right, do you?” said Enoch with a disbelieving laugh. He found it all ridiculous.

“Let’s say that there was a chance she could’ve been switched from that incident. But Jin is an Anika. What are the odds for another Anika to be out there who looks just like her? I’d say none. Or are you saying that she was switched with Anika Flora?”

Patrick kept his silence, leaving Enoch with his unanswered questions. Sighing defeatedly, Enoch turned his heels around, heading towards the door.

“I’ll go tell mother that Jin is coming to visit then.”

“Enoch.”

“Don’t worry, father. I’ll just pretend as if I’ve never heard about it in the first place.”

After Enoch took his leave, Patrick heaved a deep sigh when he was alone in his office again. He wished he could just laugh it off just as if his son did just now, like he’d just listened to the most ridiculous joke, as that would make him feel more at ease.