Samantha raised her head just in time and saw the sun peeking out from the clouds.
At nine o'clock in the morning, the clouds broke, and the sun rose slowly.
Samantha's thoughts shifted, and she couldn't help but say to Peter beside her, "How about calling her Lisa?"
Peter nodded without hesitation.
That afternoon, the couple took their children to the police station again, and Lisa's name was added to the couple's household registration.
Time passed, and even though Samantha had received the medical examination report five years ago, stating that she was able to conceive a child, she had no idea of having another child.
After sixteen years of raising the infant baby into the young girl in front of them, Samantha and Peter both believed that Lisa in front of them was their biological child.
How could parents really be willing to let Lisa go back with that strange couple that suddenly appeared?
"I don't want you to go back!" Samantha said such willful and straightforward words for the first time.
The next moment, she burst into tears.
Lisa's tears also fell down.
Of course, she knew what Samantha and Peter were thinking. If they didn't want her, they would have had a child of theirs long ago.
But until they died in a car accident in their previous life, they did not make this choice.
"Then I won't go with them," Lisa choked and said, "I will never leave you now, in the future, and never. You are my parents, they are not."
Samantha could no longer control her emotions and directly stretched out her hand to hug Lisa tightly into her arms.
Peter turned away and wiped the corners of his eyes with his hand, then quickly stepped forward and hugged both of them.
It took the family a while to calm down.
Looking at Lisa's red eyes, Peter suddenly smiled, rubbed Lisa's shoulders, and said, "It's a good thing that Lisa doesn't go back with them. Before, I was afraid that you would find out and pretend in front of you. Now, since Lisa has made a decision, I am too lazy to pretend. I have long disliked them!"
"What a dog looks down upon!"
Peter's voice was very low when he said the last sentence, but the living room was too quiet; Samantha and Lisa still heard it.
Samantha pushed Peter disapprovingly: "What did you say in front of Lisa?"
Lisa laughed directly.
Samantha glared at Lisa: "Are you still laughing?"
Lisa took Samantha's arm and shook her hard, which was her usual method when acting like a baby.
Samantha lost her temper immediately and reached out helplessly to rub Lisa's head. The corners of her beautiful eyes were full of red marks, but her eyes were full of tenderness: "You."
Lisa hugged Samantha again: "Mom, you are the best!"
Peter stood aside and looked at the two of them. After a while, he thought of something: "Then I will put Lisa's box back now..."
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard a burst of noise coming from outside the door, which was also mixed with a familiar male voice and countless shutter sounds.
Peter and Samantha's expressions changed at the same time.
Lisa quickly realized something, and the smile in her eyes suddenly faded.
The next second, Lisa's doorbell rang.
Finn's voice came: "Peter, Samantha, are you at home? Let's have a good chat, please?"
Peter and Samantha said almost in unison: "Lisa, go back to your room."
Lisa was not ready to go back to the room.
Finn and Jade wanted to go back by themselves to treat their beloved daughter. Now that they had changed their minds and refused to leave, how could they give up so easily?
She remembered.
When Finn and Jade came to pick them up in their previous life, in order to portray themselves as parents who really cared about their children, they specially invited many media reporters to witness the scene.
The day Lisa followed them back, a video of the couple crying in front of the camera also spread all over the Internet, and the two gained a lot of good reputation from it.
All movies and novels will have good and bad characters. Finn and Jade took the lead in using public opinion to shape them into decent characters. The villains who caused their separation of flesh and blood for sixteen years naturally became Samantha and Peter.
While Finn and Jade were praised by the entire Internet, Samantha and Peter were subjected to overwhelming criticism and abuse. Some netizens even speculated that Samantha and Peter were the "buyers" and the "real culprits" who caused the separation of the LU family.
Although Lisa personally came forward to clarify and found the adoption certificate from that year, these unwarranted accusations and abuses did not stop.
On the contrary, it was Peter and Samantha who took the lead to let go. They moved and changed jobs. They also reduced their meetings with Lisa for fear of implicating her.
This also directly caused Lisa to have less and less contact with them. Lisa misunderstood that they did not want to contact her, so she was further manipulated by Finn and Jade as a minor, and fell into the abyss step by step.
This time, Lisa will not let these things happen again.
"Dad, where is the adoption certificate you used to adopt me?" Lisa asked Peter.
Peter and Samantha looked at Lisa in surprise at the same time.
Lisa showed a slight smile to them, rubbed the red marks at the corners of her eyes, and said with determination: "Since I won't go back, I just want to make it clear now to avoid unnecessary trouble in the future."
Samantha refused without thinking, "That won't work either!"
"You are still an underage child," Peter also said, "What are you doing in public? There are reporters outside. You don't need to worry about these things, just leave them to us."
Lisa ignored them and walked directly to the study.
She remembered clearly that Samantha liked to put important documents in the drawer of the study.
Samantha and Peter originally thought that Lisa was obedient and went back to their room, but they felt something was wrong when they saw her turning around and heading to the study. By the time they arrived, Lisa had already found the adoption certificate.
"I'm not going alone, you are accompanying me, right?" Lisa shook the certificate in her hand and looked at the two people in front of her with a smile.
Samantha and Peter looked at each other, and Peter was the first to agree: "Okay, let's go together."
Finn and Jade outside the door waited for a long time without anyone opening the door, looking a little impatient.
Jade asked: "Don't you want to open the door for us?"
Finn looked unhappy and did not answer.
Reporter James, who was standing behind the two people, observed their expressions and said proactively: "Shall I give it a try?"
When Finn first approached James and asked him to help report the incident, he gave him a lot of money. James has been helping Finn and Jade speak out and build momentum online. There are several highly liked videos on the Internet that imply that Samantha and Peter are "buyers", all of which were made by him.
As the saying goes, people are short-handed, so when it was James's turn to step up for them, he would naturally not shirk the blame.
Finn had long been impatient and stepped aside. James took a step forward, rolled his eyes, cleared his throat, and said, "Lisa, are you there?"
"If you are here, please open the door and let's have a good chat," James tried his best to sound approachable. "I know it's not your decision to regret it temporarily. It's okay. You don't have to be afraid. We will all help.You can tell me any grievance you have suffered."
As soon as he finished speaking, the security door that had been closed was opened from the inside, revealing the girl's excellent facial features. Her skin was particularly fair, so her red and swollen eyes were particularly obvious.
The young girl glanced at him lightly, the coldness in her eyes flashing past.
James was wondering if he had seen it wrong.
Just listen to the young girl reply in a cold voice: "It is my own choice not to go back with them. As a reporter, you make arrogant assumptions without any factual basis. Do you really have professionalism?"
Being questioned about his professional ethics by a teenager in front of so many colleagues, James was instantly embarrassed. He was annoyed and wanted to retort: "Classmate Lisa, you..."
"Stand behind me." Before James could finish his words, he was interrupted by Peter who followed closely.
Peter pulled Lisa behind him, covered her face, and faced James.
The man was nearly 1.9 meters tall, taller than most people present. He was tall and burly, and he felt a sense of oppression.
When James met Peter's cold gaze, he suddenly became a little confused, and all the rest of his words were stuck in his throat, losing his previous arrogance.
He opened his lips and twitched the corners of his lips awkwardly before saying, "Classmate Yan, don't talk nonsense."
"This sentence is also for you, sir," Peter looked down at James with a hint of warning, "It's you who made assumptions before you knew the truth of the matter."
James choked. He couldn't say anything more in front of so many cameras. He could only smile and take a step back.
But he remembered this grudge.
Finn and Jade's attention was all on Lisa. When they saw Lisa coming out, they both breathed a sigh of relief.
Jade couldn't help but take a step forward. She didn't even look at Peter. She just stretched out her hand towards Lisa. She smiled and said, "Lisa, can you go back with your mother?"
Lisa hid behind Peter and expressed her rejection with her actions.
Peter protected the person behind him and did not look at Jade. Instead, he asked the reporters present, "I want to ask, are there any reporter friends who are live broadcasting now?"
Someone at the end of the crowd raised his hand, "Yes."
Peter gave him a polite smile: "Then please give the child a code. I don't want the child to appear in front of the public without any protection."
The reporter made an "OK" gesture and said, "Mr. Yan, don't worry, neither Mr. nor you have shown their faces in the live broadcast."
He is very professional!
Peter smiled after hearing this: "I feel relieved with your words." After saying that, he carefully glanced at the reporters in front of him. After catching a glimpse of a few well-known local news media, he said to Lisa behind him, "Okay, you can come out now."
His appearance of thinking about his children caught the eyes of most reporters present, causing many people to have a different view of Peter.
"I don't think Mr. is as unreasonable as Mr. said." A reporter lowered his voice and said to his companions.
After the reporters arrived, Finn and Jade complained to the camera for a long time.
Although they didn't say it explicitly, they accused Peter and Samantha of being obstructive, which led to Lisa's temporary repentance.
The audience in the live broadcast room couldn't sit still when they heard these words, and they criticized Peter and Samantha in the barrage.
Some excited viewers even scolded Lisa for being ignorant.
Now seeing Peter defending Lisa like this, some viewers in the live broadcast room couldn't help but say:
"[Dad is very concerned about Lisa.]"
"[It’s so considerate, I’m afraid that the child’s information will be leaked.]"
"[No, no, no, is it possible that just because of such a move, you sympathize with the buyer who separated other people's flesh and blood for sixteen years?]"
"[Do you have any evidence for saying that?]"
Samantha finally walked out of the house at this time and handed all the documents she had sorted to Lisa.
Lisa took it and whispered: "Thank you, Mom."
Samantha rubbed her head and said softly: "Go."
Lisa took a step forward, not looking at Finn and Jade, but looked up at the countless cameras in front of her.
In her previous life, she would occasionally face the camera because of her relationship with the family. But at that time, she had been mentally tortured by the LU for a long time and had become extremely sensitive and unconfident. Every time she faced the camera, she was extremely panicked and even a little afraid.
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