Qin Liuyan stopped crying by then.
She just looked at Chu Qianli, her eyes full of pity and sorrow.
"I really am your mother, and you are my daughter... I'm sorry, sixteen years ago, it was Mother's fault."
She lowered her eyelids, tears falling drop by drop to the ground.
At last, she recounted the events of sixteen years prior in full detail once again.
"I know that as long as Long Qianyue is around, I will never be able to hold my head up high in front of your father."
"As soon as Long Qianyue's child is born, my child will never have a day in the sun."
"It is because of my lowly birth that I have been unloved in this household for so many years, and I feared my daughter would follow in my footsteps."
"Therefore, on the night sixteen years ago when I and Long Qianyue were giving birth, I bribed the midwife to find a way to swap her child with mine."