After Divorcing the Tycoon, I Married into a Wealthy Family Again
Chapter 23: The One Most Worth Hating Is Already Dead

Chapter 23: Chapter 23: The One Most Worth Hating Is Already Dead

The quiet living room was filled with the sound of clinking dishes, and no one spoke until a sob broke the silence.

Florence Fuller paused and looked over silently.

This sob seemed to break through the barrier, and Evelyn Shaw hugged her bowl and began to cry.

Charles Shaw hadn’t expected Evelyn to react this way, and he glanced awkwardly at Florence, gently patting Evelyn’s shoulder: "Alright, stop crying. It’s not easy for Florence to visit."

"Waaah...," Evelyn sobbed, hugging her bowl, "You came without telling us beforehand... Now it seems like these two dishes make our home look so shabby."

Florence handed over two tissues: "I don’t think so."

She was actually quite willing to eat.

"Waaaaaah...!!" Evelyn cried even harder.

Florence took a deep breath: "If you really don’t want me here, then I’ll leave."

"Hey...! Florence!" Charles quickly stood up to stop her.

Evelyn’s crying stopped abruptly: "That’s not what I meant."

Florence was just scaring her and had no intention of leaving. She picked up her bowl again: "Then let’s continue eating."

Evelyn sniffled a couple of times, her eyes red from crying, and watched as Florence ate seriously. Silently, she picked up her chopsticks and took a bite... It was a bit salty...

She wiped her tears with a tissue and decided not to eat anymore.

"If this meal was just to thank me," Florence put down her bowl and chopsticks, "after finishing, don’t ask me to come again."

Neither Charles nor Evelyn said a word.

After a while, Charles looked at her: "Perhaps a little, but not entirely."

Florence said nothing.

"We’ve always known," Evelyn looked at her, "that it was you who secretly helped us get treatment at XR Hospital."

Florence’s eyes lowered slightly: "When did you find out?"

"Not long after we were at XR Hospital," Charles said, "Initially, we really thought it was help from a charity fund, but gradually it didn’t seem right until we discovered you secretly visiting mom at the hospital."

Florence’s gaze was calm: "Your family raised me for fifteen years, and she treated me well. I couldn’t just stand by and do nothing."

"That’s not true." Charles bit his lip, "You were obviously very worried."

"But you have every reason to hate us," Charles said sadly.

They returned Florence to the Fuller Family and then took fifty thousand yuan to sever fifteen years of family ties. They couldn’t face Florence anymore.

"I should hate," Florence blinked, "but those I’m supposed to hate the most are already dead."

Evelyn covered her face, weeping, while Charles looked on with sorrowful eyes.

Florence will never forget the day she was sent back to the Fuller Family.

From childhood, Henry Shaw was a kind and gentle father in her heart, but on that ordinary day...

Henry Shaw said he was taking her out to buy something. They went to the airport, flew from South City to Cloudsea, and she even asked why they were going to the airport. Henry Shaw only said what they were buying was important and was out of town.

During the more than two hours of flight, she seemed to notice her father was uneasy.

After leaving the airport, Florence Shaw saw two black luxury cars, with many people standing by them, asking Henry Shaw to get in.

Henry Shaw took her into the car. From the moment they got in, his face was no longer gentle as before; his eyes filled with endless regret, and his expression was tense and ugly, unable to maintain that gentle demeanor.

She became somewhat uneasy.

She asked Henry Shaw what exactly they were going to buy.

Henry Shaw didn’t answer.

The vehicle drove for over half an hour, entering a villa district. Here, everything was vast, and every villa looked grand and luxurious. By the time Florence Fuller realized it, the car door had opened to let them out.

Henry Shaw stood outside the car, forcing a smile: "Florence, we’ve arrived."

She shook her head cautiously: "Dad. Where is this place? Why don’t we just go back?"

But Henry Shaw said, "This is where you should have grown up."

At that moment, Florence Shaw felt her blood run backward, and the world seemed to come to a halt.

"Florence." Henry Shaw took a deep breath, trembling: "Get out of the car, alright?"

Florence Shaw saw there were many people standing outside the car. She didn’t get out, nor was she willing to.

She saw many people coming over, surrounding Henry Shaw, questioning him about many things.

She heard it all clearly.

"Why are you only returning the child now!"

"How did you even know we lost a child!"

Henry Shaw had always lived a clean life. At school, he was a respected dean; at home, a husband who loved his wife, a caring father. But at that moment, Henry Shaw felt utterly ashamed: "Florence was a baby we picked up at a garbage dump. We saw an elderly woman throwing away a pile of things, and amidst them, there were the cries of a child. But the old woman seemed completely unaware and left after throwing it away. We were concerned and went to check."

The child, about four or five months old, was a skinny little girl. Her eyes couldn’t open wide, and her body was dark all over, yet her cries were exceptionally loud.

"We found out she was your child when she had just turned five."

Laura Yates was once a famous singer in the entertainment industry, later married into the wealthy Fuller Family of Cloudsea as a society lady.

At the time, Amelia Linney knew she’d lost a child when Laura Yates adopted another one and made it public, which also unraveled a major incident at a big hospital in Cloudsea.

A few mentally ill patients had somehow infiltrated the hospital. Some attacked hospital staff and patients with knives, while others caused chaos by running around. Florence’s abduction occurred when Laura Yates was leaving the hospital with a one-month-old Florence. At that moment, there was no one by her side, and a person suddenly appeared, snatching the child from her arms and fleeing swiftly.

She was so frightened, she was at a loss. It wasn’t until her husband and family returned that they reported it to the police immediately. In the end, the mentally ill person who snatched the child jumped to their death, and the police followed their trail but still couldn’t find where the child had been taken.

A large-scale search yielded no results.

Laura Yates developed depression and subsequently withdrew from the music scene.

"Then why didn’t you just return her immediately back then!"

"You had already adopted another child." Henry Shaw said softly: "Besides, Florence was like our own child by then, and our family loved her very much."

Amelia Linney was unwilling to let her go, and Henry Shaw couldn’t bear it either. Their three children were close and loving, making many envious.

At fifteen years old, Florence Shaw was in turmoil from overhearing everything. She didn’t even know what she was thinking.

How could she possibly not be her parents’ biological child? Her parents treated her so well, and her siblings cared for her deeply. How could she not be the daughter of Henry Shaw and Amelia Linney?

It must be a mistake, no... She was just dreaming, not yet awake!

Yes, that must be it.