Chapter 5

My daughter's thoughts left me utterly stunned.

My face went pale as I looked at Julian. I never imagined he had cheated on me.

He used my money to support a mistress, and even deliberately swapped his illegitimate daughter with my own.

I was trembling with rage.

Julian, seeing me silent, thought I'd bought his story and continued, "Daisy is a sensible child. Go back and apologize to her, give her more gifts, and she'll get over it."

I scoffed. "What's she going to hold against me?"

"She's an illegitimate child, living off my money, eating my food. How dare she be mad at me?"

Julian froze. "Wh... what illegitimate child? What do you mean?"

"Julian, I’ve given you too much leeway. How dare you pull stunts right under my nose?"

"Don't you know what you've done?"

A flicker of guilt crossed Julian's eyes, but he still stubbornly denied it. "Rainie, you just don't want to keep raising Daisy, so you're framing her as my illegitimate daughter? Do you have any conscience?"

"Daisy is just a child, and you want her to bear a lifetime of infamy!"

He accused hysterically.

I simply pulled out my phone in front of him, dialed a private investigator, and even put it on speakerphone.

"I need you to investigate whether my husband, Julian Yang, has a mistress. Also, six years ago, the incident where my child was swapped – was it an accident, or was it deliberate?"

Julian reached out to snatch my phone, but the private investigator had already hung up.

His finger trembling, he pointed it at my nose. "How long are you going to keep making a scene? Do you have to turn this family into chaos and make all our children hate you?"

"Rainie, don't say I didn't warn you. Our three sons cherish Daisy. If you keep this up, our sons will disown you!"

"Go back now and apologize to Daisy, then let Rainie go to a different school to adjust. Everything will be fine if you just follow my plan."

Seeing I was unmoved, he took a deep breath and softened his voice. "Honey, you don't understand how to raise children. They need to progress gradually. And this illegitimate child talk is all fabricated. Stop wasting money on detectives; there's nothing to investigate."

"Otherwise, when our sons arrive and see you acting like this, how will you explain it to them?"

"Explain?"

I sneered. "I don't need to explain anything to anyone!"

"You abused my daughter and tried to give my company to your illegitimate child. I haven't even held you accountable, and you want me to explain myself?"

"You're the one who needs to explain to Dad!" Before Julian could retort, a voice came from behind us.

My three sons had arrived.

Leo, my eldest, quickly shielded Julian. "Mom, you're misunderstanding Dad like this, and making Daisy cry. Of course, you need to explain yourselves to them!"

Max, my second son, pointed at Rainie and yelled, "It must be you, you little monster, lying again and trying to stir up trouble between Daisy and Mom. You're so scheming at such a young age, why don't you just drop dead?"

Caleb, my youngest, looked annoyed. "Because of your favoritism, Daisy almost committed suicide at home. What are you standing around for? Go back immediately and tell her that she's the only princess in this family."

"If anything happens to Daisy, I will never forgive you!"

Watching my three sons' righteous indignation, my chest ached with anger. I gritted my teeth and spoke, "Do you even know what kind of people your father and Daisy, whom you're protecting, really are?"

Their brows furrowed deeply, their faces full of suspicion.

I turned and slapped the evidence the private investigator sent me onto their faces.

It clearly documented that Daisy was Julian's illegitimate daughter.

And six years ago, the ironclad evidence that Rainie and Daisy were swapped was indeed Julian's deliberate act.

My three sons froze, and Julian completely panicked.

He snatched my phone, roaring at me, "This is slander!"