Part 2On the Day We Gave Birth, My Best Friend Secretly Swapped Our Babies
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A year ago, shortly after I married into the wealthy family, my best friend Olivia would cry in front of me every day.
She said I had forgotten our promise to "never forget each other if we became rich."
Looking at her strange heavy makeup and the exaggerated expressions on her face, I remembered how five or six years ago, after she hooked up with a rich guy, she cut off contact with all our old classmates.
I could only laugh it off and repeatedly deny her accusations.
Unexpectedly, half a month later, I saw her getting together with my gambling-addicted brother-in-law.
My in-laws didn't approve, but she got pregnant first and forced a marriage.
Her baby was only a month behind mine.
Seeing both daughters-in-law pregnant, my in-laws were overjoyed.
They declared that whoever gave birth to a son would be rewarded with a million dollars.
I didn't care much, as I hadn't married my husband for his family's wealth.
Besides, whether it was a son or daughter, both were blessings, and I would love either.
Olivia didn't see it that way. She went everywhere to get her fortune told.
She consulted several masters, and they all said she was carrying a girl.
She even spent a lot of money trying to change her luck, but to no avail.
After all this trouble, she ended up in the hospital for a month to protect the pregnancy.
When I was close to my due date, she kept staring at my belly.
A mother's instincts are unusually sharp, so I became wary.
Sure enough, on the day my water broke, she arrived at the hospital right after me.
She insisted that the doctors perform a C-section on her, saying she had consulted fortune tellers and today was an auspicious day.
After my daughter was born, while everyone was distracted, I switched her son with mine in advance.
So, the baby Olivia took away was actually her own son.