"Nanny, you said you had news about my daughter, didn't you? Where is she? Is she well? How is her foster parents treating her? Is she married? What does she do?"
Lydia kept asking questions, and it was as if the injuries on her body were not so painful anymore.
When Nanny Liu saw how devastated Lydia was, she decided to tell the truth to her
"No, she didn't get married or adopted. She grew up in an orphanage, but she met Mrs. Ye, who is Mango Shen."
Nanny told Lydia everything she knew, and she even told her about the terrible things that Diego had done to Haniya. Upon hearing this, Lydia was deeply shocked.
She sat on the floor in disbelief, while she had an emotional gaze.
"Did Diego find her?"
"Yes."
"Does he know her identity as well?"
"That's right."
"Did he lock her up in the training ground because he wanted her to participate in the project where he turned people into mutants?"
"Yes."
Nanny Liu felt even more heartbroken every time she spoke as Lydia's body was trembling incessantly.
"That bastard! He even tried to hurt my daughter! Where is my daughter now? Where is she?"
"Mrs. Ye's father, Dennis Hans, has sent him to Master Mo's place. I heard that Doctor Noah is treating her."
After heating this, Lydia could not help but let out a sigh of relief.
"That's a relief! She probably will survive this ordeal then."
After she said this, tears of remorse flooded her eyes instantly, and they rolled down her cheeks uncontrollably.
All these had happened because she was useless!
This was because she couldn't protect her own child!
Lydia blamed herself, and Nanny Liu also felt sorry for her. They cried silently for a while, and Lydia suddenly said, "I want to see her, even if it's a secret meeting."
However, Nanny Liu felt that this wasn't possible.
"Miss, Diego has been sending people to keep an eye on you. He might get rid of you if you go to Master Mo for help. You have been through these hardships for so many years, and you're no longer young anymore..."
"Yes, I'm getting old, and I don't want to see my daughter being hurt by him again. Nanny, how many subordinates do we have now?"
Lydia's gaze instantly changed as she said this.
She bore the humiliation back then, allowing Diego to take his anger out on her. Furthermore, she pretended to be weak and allowed him to bully and humiliate her. However, before she married Diego, she was a daughter of an influential family, so she had her subordinates as well.
She had endured the sufferings throughout the years for the sake of the child. Thus, she would never give up now that she found out about Haniya's whereabouts.
Why Nanny Liu saw Lydia acting this way, she immediately knew what the latter wanted to do.
She took a deep breath and said, "Well, we don't have a lot of subordinates left, but it shouldn't be enough to protect you while you're on your way to meet the child."
"Thank you for your hard work."
Lydia looked at her with great gratitude while saying this.
What else could Nanny Liu say?
After that, she got up and went out.
Then, Lydia stood up on her own and felt pain all over her body. However, she was somehow excited.
She was going to see her daughter soon! What would her daughter look like now? Was her body alright?
Also, would she be disappointed if she knew that she had an incompetent mother?
Lydia looked at her swollen face in the mirror at this thought. For the first time, she took out some makeup and started dressing herself up.
She hadn't put on makeup for many years.
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