Chapter 199 How about you marry Isabella?
Same time, same place - that couple abandoned her, and she just happened to be picked up by her master.
This was what Isabella believed to be her background.
The Taylor family had also found this out, which is why they matched her with the child who was switched at the hospital back then.
"Your Taylor family people are way too careless. They brought you back and didn't even do a paternity test or anything?" Violet was stunned.
So this is how rich people handle things - so carelessly.
Isabella let out a cold laugh. "Is it possible that they simply don't care? So they can't even be bothered to do a paternity test."
The people who went to Stratford-upon-Avon to investigate this matter, and even to pick her up, were just Hayden's subordinates.
In Hayden's mind, this matter wasn't even worth him making the trip himself.
He just knew he had a daughter who was switched at birth, so he casually looked into it. If she was still alive, he'd bring her back while he was at it.
That's all.
Whether she was dead or alive, whether she came home or not - it didn't matter to the Taylor family people, because they had long gotten used to having Bianca as their daughter.
She could even imagine that if Hayden had received news of her death instead of her being alive, his expression wouldn't have changed much.
So her return to the Taylor family, something she saw as incredibly significant, was probably as unimportant to the Taylor family as a fly getting into the house - not even worth any of them paying attention enough to take her for a paternity test.
"The Taylor family people are really terrible." Violet couldn't understand how anyone could be so dismissive of their own biological daughter.
"But... Isabella, what do we do now? Why doesn't your blood type match with the Taylor family's?"
Isabella's brow furrowed slightly. "There are only two possibilities for this - either Hayden and Olivia aren't actually type O blood, or I'm not their biological child, not the child the Taylor family had switched all those years ago."
Either way, she needed to find a way to get a paternity test done as soon as possible to see if she was really Hayden and Olivia's biological child. If not, then whose child was she?
"I need to get back to the Taylor Villa." Isabella stood up. "I'm leaving Aurora's hospital discharge to you, Violet. I need to figure out my situation quickly."
Violet looked at her. "Will you still go to school on Monday?"
"Yes, see you at school."
Isabella said goodbye to Violet and quickly left.
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The Baker Villa.
After returning from the birthday party, Zachary had locked himself in his room and hadn't come out.
Grace Hernandez was worried about him and went to knock on the door. "Zachary, she's just a woman. Why lock yourself in your room over her?"
What Bianca did at that party to embarrass herself - the entire upper-class circle knew about it.
Bianca had stopped at nothing to compete for favor, conspiring with Abigail to find a man to violate Isabella's innocence.
That kind of tactic was really disgraceful.
Not only disgraceful, but stupid - Isabella exposed it all at once, making them the laughingstock of everyone.
When Zachary was dating Bianca, she often came to their Baker Villa. Grace had many conversations with her and never noticed Bianca had such a stupid side.
If she had known this would happen, she shouldn't have let Zachary date Bianca in the first place.
Grace knocked on the door for a long time before Zachary finally came out.
He didn't look well, seeming irritated. "Mom, what is it?"
Grace's eyes swept over him, somewhat helpless. "What else could it be? Of course I want you to come down and eat. You didn't eat breakfast, and now you're skipping lunch too? What Bianca did is her business - why trouble yourself over it?"
Zachary was pulled downstairs. "Mom, I already told Bianca - our engagement is canceled."
Now that Bianca had become a laughingstock, there was no way he could marry her.
Grace wasn't surprised at all to hear this. "Should have been canceled long ago."
When she found out Bianca wasn't the Taylor family's real daughter, she had planned to cancel the engagement.
Zachary was her Baker family's only son after all - what would it look like for him to marry an adopted daughter?
It's just that at the time, Zachary was very firm about Bianca, seemed set on her, so Grace just made a fuss at the Taylor family but didn't actually cancel the engagement.
Now that Zachary wanted to cancel it himself, Grace couldn't be happier.
"Mom, I'm sorry. I should have listened to you back then." Zachary sat down at the dining table, very regretful.
He had always thought Bianca's background wasn't that important.
In others' eyes, Bianca was beautiful, sensible, gentle and gracious, very excellent - so he felt that even if Bianca wasn't the Taylor family's real daughter, she was still good enough for him, and marrying her would be very respectable.
But the birthday party shattered all his illusions.
He had gone to great lengths to hire a three-Michelin-star chef for Bianca, but Isabella was able to get Sophia, William, and even Soren to come.
Bianca could only play one piece, "Tassel," while Isabella played an original Mira composition that shocked everyone.
Honestly, he still couldn't figure out how Isabella was able to play such a difficult piece, and play it so perfectly.
Anyway, he realized that marrying Bianca was no longer such a respectable thing.
"You're not too late to realize it now." Grace sipped her porridge elegantly, one spoonful at a time. "But after you break off the engagement with Bianca, what are your other plans?"
Zachary shook his head and let out a slow breath. "I don't know."
He had thought he was definitely going to marry Bianca.
Now he didn't want to marry Bianca anymore.
Grace thought for a moment, stopped what she was doing, and looked at him. "How about you marry Isabella instead?"
Zachary was slightly stunned.
Marry Isabella?
He instinctively shook his head. "No."
Grace pressed her lips together. "Why not?"
"I don't know, but I just feel it's not right."
He had never even thought about marrying Isabella. Grace's sudden suggestion that he marry Isabella - he wasn't used to it.
Grace smiled. "You're saying no before even seriously considering it - that's not right, is it? Even if you think it's not possible, you should give a proper reason."
"After all, I heard all about the Brown family and the Parker family going to Isabella's birthday party. Sophia and William specially gave Isabella priceless gemstones, and Soren also gave Isabella an expensive gift. This has already caused a stir throughout the entire upper-class circle."
The Brown family and the Parker family - those weren't ordinary families.
They could make Emerald City's economy shake with just a move - and they both went to Isabella's birthday party.
That kind of prestige was beyond what she could even imagine.
"Isabella is the Brown family's lifesaver. With that connection, no matter what happens in the future, the Brown family will be her backing."
"And her calligraphy being appreciated by Soren - that's something countless socialites couldn't achieve."
"I also heard that Isabella played the complete 'Midnight Solitude.' This has caused a sensation in the entire piano world. I believe it won't be long before piano masters personally seek out Isabella to meet her."