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Mrs. Olsen had suffered from poor sleep for many years, so when the villa of the Olsen family was being renovated, particular attention was paid to sound insulation.
Whether it was the living room or the bedroom, soundproofing cotton had been installed within the
walls.
Therefore, Mrs. Olsen didn’t hear any noise outside the door while she was dining.
Seeing so many people rush in at this moment, she was slightly startled.
Only after hearing Keira’s voice did she begin to look at the photo in her hands.
Keira was looking at her earnestly, her eyes full of expectation!
She knew that her actions today were somewhat impulsive, the best course would have been to do a stealthy DNA test with Mrs. Olsen first, then acknowledge each other…
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But she couldn’t wait.
She looked so similar to Lady South in the photo,
almost as if they were cast from the same mold, so they must be blood-related!
Therefore, she was sure that she was Mrs. Olsen’s daughter…
Keira’s eyes were eager as she carefully watched Mrs.
Olsen.
Mrs. Olsen, upon seeing the photo, showed a trace of surprise on her face. She looked up at Keira, and then at Mr. Allen who had followed them in.
Mr. Allen spoke first. “Mrs. Olsen, do you find the person in this photo familiar?”
Mrs. Olsen’s expression was puzzled as she glanced again at Keira.
Her gaze slid back and forth between the photo and Keira, her brows slightly furrowed.
Mr. Allen once again probed. “Don’t you think Miss Olsen and the person in the photo should be blood-related?”
Mrs. Olsen frowned looked at Keira again, and after a
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moment, cast her gaze downward, slowly saying, “The person in the photo and Keira do indeed look very
similar. Considering the age, Keira, is this your grandmother?”
Grandmother?
Keira immediately seized on the implication in Mrs. Olsen’s words and froze on the spot. “Mrs. Olsen, you, you don’t recognize the person in the photo?”
Mrs. Olsen looked perplexed and asked in return. “Should I recognize her?”
Keira turned, puzzled, to look at Mr. Allen.
Mr. Allen, clearly stunned by this turn of events, looked at Mrs. Olsen incredulously. “Isn’t this Lady South?”
Mrs. Olsen frowned immediately. “You mean my mother? No, it isn’t…”
Keira was instantly bewildered.
She felt as if she had been doused in cold water, extinguishing the hopeful flames that had just risen!
She looked dumbly back at Mr. Allen.
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Mr. Allen was also flabbergasted, staring at the photo in disbelief. “This isn’t Lady South? How can it not be Lady South?”
Mrs. Olsen gave a bitter smile. “How could I possibly not recognize my own mother? This definitely is not my mother.”
Aunt South, who stood by her side, quickly stepped forward to glance at the photo and shook her head. “This isn’t our Lady South. She has a red mole between her eyebrows.”
Mr. Allen was astounded, looked down at the photo, then back up at Mrs. Olsen.
Mrs. Olsen and the woman in the photo didn’t look
alike at all…
He frowned tightly. “What’s going on here?”
Mrs. Allen immediately stepped forward, grabbed his arm, and pinched it hard. “You couldn’t possibly have remembered the wrong person, could you?”
Mr. Allen was taken aback.
Mrs. Allen looked puzzled at Keira. “Keira, even if this person isn’t Lady South, there must be some relation
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to you. Could she be your paternal grandmother? Or possibly your great-grandmother?”
Otherwise, they couldn’t possibly look so similar!
Mr. Allen immediately tugged at her. “What nonsense are you talking about? Keira’s father is Mr. Olsen!”
Mrs. Allen then realized she had misspoken.
She glanced subconsciously at Taylor, then at Keira, and suddenly leaned into Mr. Allen, whispering, “Don’t you find it strange? Keira also doesn’t look like Taylor…”
“Shh…”
At this point, both were a little afraid to speak, considering the major blunder they had caused.
Keira dumbly watched Mrs. Allen, her chin tightened, not saying a word.
Mrs. Olsen looked at the photo again.
The woman in the photo, who looked very similar to Keira, gave her an inexplicably familiar feeling, but she couldn’t recall where she had seen her before.
Life in Clance was all over twenty years ago…
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Mrs. Olsen lowered her gaze and handed the photo back to Keira, just about to say something, when she suddenly noticed Ellis standing beside her; the
moment she saw him, Mrs. Olsen was slightly startled. “You are?”
Ellis stepped forward immediately, “Mrs. Olsen, I am Ellis Olsen from the Clance Olsen family. My third uncle sent me to extend his greetings to you on his behalf.”
Third Uncle, Olsen…
Mrs. Olsen swayed, almost losing her balance, but she was steadied just in time by Aunt South.
She looked at Ellis with astonishment, her eyes suddenly becoming a bit hazy.
As if looking through him, she saw his uncle… the man who masterminded everything with great strategy.
Mrs. Olsen’s complexion turned two shades paler.
“Shirley…”
The call from Taylor brought her back to her senses.
Mrs. Olsen tightened her jaw, took a deep breath, and asked almost frantically. “Why have you come?”
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Ellis responded with a smile. “You invited the son of the Hill family to Oceanion for a visit. When my third uncle found out, he sent me along to have some fun… Mrs. Olsen, are you well-acquainted with my third uncle?”
Ellis carefully observed Mrs. Olsen.
His third uncle, a man who had never married, with a peculiar temperament and significant influence, was the current head of the Clance Olsen family.
Therefore, he had no choice but to heed his uncle’s
words.
In his entire life, Ellis’s third uncle had kept his distance from other women, but he specifically instructed Ellis to greet Mrs. Olsen and casually chec if she was doing well.
What relationship did the two have?
As Ellis pondered this, he saw Mrs. Olsen’s face turn slightly pale, yet she quickly regained her composure and said indifferently, “I only have a casual
acquaintance with your third uncle.”
Her fingers clenched tightly inside her sleeve.
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Taylor’s gaze fell on Isla; he then looked down and said lightly, “Mr. Olsen, while you’re here in Oceanion, let Isla show you around.”
As soon as these words were spoken, Mrs. Olsen tensed up immediately, glancing at Taylor.
Taylor forced a smile, leaned closer to her, and whispered in a voice only the two of them could hear. “Shirley, let Isla and her cousin spend some time together to foster a relationship…”
Mrs. Olsen’s fingers unconsciously clenched tighter as memories of a night more than twenty years ago, when she and Ellis’s third uncle lost control, flashed through her mind…
Afterward, she found herself pregnant, so she fled Clance and came to Oceanion with Taylor, where she gave birth to Isla.
Her complexion grew increasingly pale, and she almost fainted…
Taylor immediately said, “Mr. Olsen, Mr. Allen, Shirley isn’t in good health today, so we won’t be able to entertain everyone any longer!”
Ellic looked at Mro. Olgen with confusion and ranliad
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“Alright.”
Isla and Jake stayed behind while the rest of the
visitors made their way out.
Keira turned around in a daze, ready to leave with Mr.
Allen.
She felt like a joke.
The thing her heart yearned for never responded; it was all just wishful thinking.
She lowered her head and walked toward the door…
Mr. Allen, full of guilt, felt that he had been too hasty. How could he have mistaken the person?
He hesitated, wanting to apologize, but he didn’t kn what to say…
Mrs. Olsen watched them.
As the group headed out, Ellis unintentionally stood next to Keira, walking side by side. His pretty eyes made Mrs. Olsen to space out momentarily.
Then suddenly, Mrs. Olsen remembered something… She remembered.
The woman in the nhata who looked almost avantly
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like Keira was Ellis’s third uncle’s mother in Clance!
Ellis’s grandmother!
But how could this be?
Mrs. Olsen’s pupils slowly contracted as she
unbelievingly looked toward Keira!!
Today, Aunt South had shown her the DNA test report of Keira and Taylor. Indeed, Keira wasn’t Taylor’s daughter…
This had already puzzled her
She didn’t understand; the amniocentesis for the child in Poppy Hill’s womb had been compared with Taylor’s DNA, confirming paternity, so why was the child born
not his?
Could it be that Poppy had tampered with the DNA?
But at this moment, she suddenly understood!
Keira looked like Ellis’s grandmother because his third uncle was Keira’s father! The third uncle’s mother was Keira’s grandmother!!
…Keira was her and the third uncle’s daughter!!
