Chapter 1: Regret（1）
Zelda Roscente's daughter is dead.
She was killed by her husband Burton Lowell and the so-called sister Elle Roscente.
The little baby was only seven months old, just learning to sit, fair and tender, like a doll, very cute. She would even reveal two small dimples when she smiled, such an adorable child, and yet she was accidentally dropped by them and died.
"Zelda, Burton is mine. My son is Burton's own blood. Your daughter is just a fake."
"You wouldn't have thought, Burton has never touched you. That man that night was not Burton at all. Do you know who the real father of your daughter is? Haha, we don't even know. She's just a fatherless baby!"
"Zelda, do you know how your parents died?"
"I killed them. Because they wanted to leave all of the Roscente's property to you, saying that I am also their daughter, treated equally. In the face of interest, they only considered you, their blood daughter."
"Zelda, go and die with your wild seed!"
Elle's words echoed in her ears.
The cries of her daughter, who was thrown to the ground, cut through Zelda's heart. She listened to her daughter's cries getting weaker and weaker, panicked. She begged them to take her daughter to the hospital for treatment, and she was willing to give up the Roscente, Burton, everything, as long as her daughter could survive.
But...
She had nothing left.
Zelda held her daughter's small lifeless body, step by step leaving the hospital.
Outside, a drizzle was falling. It was winter, and the drizzle made the already low temperature even colder.
Zelda looked numb, her eyes vacant, but tears at the corners of her eyes never stopped, sliding down one drop at a time.
Rain fell on her, seeping into her hair and clothes, but in her dead heart, she felt no cold; she only knew regret.
She was Roscente's switched biological daughter, found four years ago and named Zelda. Elle had lived in the Roscente for more than twenty years and formed a deep bond with her parents. Unable to bear to send her away, the two swapped children stayed in the Roscente.
When Zelda returned to the Roscente, she was twenty-five years old. Her biological parents felt guilty towards her. After she became familiar with the upper-class society, they wanted to arrange a good marriage for her.
Several prominent families in River Town wanted to form an alliance with the Roscente.
Even the first noble family in River Town, the Winstons, came to propose marriage. Winston was interested in Zelda, the true heiress of the Roscente.
But Winston's eldest son had a car accident, leaving his legs crippled, making the already cold and proud man even more difficult to approach. The young ladies who used to line up to marry Charles Winston all avoided him now.
Zelda's parents might have been afraid of offending the Winstons. They let Zelda make her own decision.
She, blind and infatuated, fell in love with Burton, rejecting Charles's proposal.
Although her parents did not expect her to agree to Winston's marriage proposal, they also didn't want her to marry into the Lowell family. It was her insistence on marrying Burton that her parents couldn't resist. They could only reluctantly agree.
In marriage, one wrong step was a plunge into an abyss.
When Zelda married Burton, she learned that Burton and Elle were in love. But during the marriage negotiations, neither Burton nor Elle said anything. One was willing to marry her, and the other supported her marriage.
They had already dug a pit and were waiting to bury her.
She was too foolish to see through their conspiracy.
As her parents passed away in accidents, and her daughter was born, Burton became increasingly indifferent to her. He openly brought Elle home to fool around, and she tried to defend her marriage but was no match for Elle.
The Lowells did not stand by her side either.
...
Zelda crossed the road in a daze.
