Everyone was having affairs behind each other's backs. The entire dynamic was a chaotic mess. She had honestly thought...

Natalie looked at Wendy, tears welling in her bright eyes and sliding silently down her cheeks.

Wendy herself didn't know how to describe her feelings back then.

Ultimately, Natalie's arrival had filled her with rage and resentment!

She hated that the moment this girl returned, she snatched away her beloved daughter's fiancé.

If Natalie had never appeared, Joanna could have flawlessly joined the Griffith family.

Wendy had been extremely selfish back then. The Griffith family was a true aristocratic dynasty, a connection that would have tremendously boosted her own business.

Sebastian had been so deeply devoted to Joanna, yet Natalie had to come back and ruin it.

The elders of the Griffith family had aggressively insisted that Sebastian marry Natalie.

Perhaps that was the exact moment Wendy began to harbor true malice toward her own flesh and blood.

But the truth now tore her heart to shreds.

To appease that ungrateful monster, Joanna, she had repeatedly abused her biological daughter.

Every time the realization hit her, it brought a suffocating wave of despair.

Wendy shook her head. "Natalie, I know you're mocking me, but I know the truth now. I could never grow old with them. If you hadn't warned me, I'd have absolutely nothing left by now, while Joanna and her parents would be living a life of luxury."

"I genuinely don't know who your father is. Years ago, I ran into some trouble on a business trip, and he saved me. As fate would have it, someone set him up that same night, and he stumbled into my hotel room. I have no idea how he found out that my business was facing bankruptcy, but he offered me a massive sum of money. The only condition was that if I got pregnant, I had to keep the baby."

"I don't know what I was thinking. In the heat of the moment, I agreed. It must have been the alcohol. Nathan had been using work as an excuse to staa away from home for a while. Looking back, he was obviously with Sophia."

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Natalie remained entirely speechless.

Their world was so unbelievably twisted that she couldn't even form a response.

But then, a thought struck her.

"I always suspected he wasn't my biological father. After I came back, I secretly ran two separate DNA tests, but both confirmed I was his daughter. How is that possible?"

Wendy looked genuinely surprised. She shook her head in confusion. "I... I had no idea you ran tests. But I can guarantee you aren't his."

She knew exactly who had fathered her child.

That night, she had been humiliated and pushed to her breaking point. Nathan was completely useless when it came to business, leaving her to build her empire alone.

It was exhausting, and to make matters worse, Nathan was supposedly too busy to come home.

The man from that night had been incredibly handsome. She hadn't refused him, and she desperately needed the money.

It was a secret she intended to take to her grave. She had never breathed a word of it to anyone Later as her family enjoyed years of domestic bliss, she completely buried the memory.

But then, out of nowhere, Nathan claimed their daughter had been switched at birth.

And just like that, Natalie had been brought back into her life before she had time to process it.

"Natalie, I didn't resent you for being born at first. But when the hospital mix-up was revealed... Joanna was the daughter I had carefully molded. Your sudden appearance magnified all the bitterness I harbored over that one night. Ironically, I was

somewhat relieved to learn Joanna wasn't my biological child. It meant could love her without any

underlying guilt."

The most laughable part was that, back then, she actually felt guilty toward Nathan.