The words were sharp, clinical, but they were clear.
DNA MATCH FOUND: SUBJECT A AND B SHARE PARENTAL GENETIC RELATIONSHIP.
His eyes widened.
He opened the second report. And the third.
Same result.
Same truth.
They were biologically connected.
Their DNA matched.
Liora… was Aeris.
She was the mother of his daughter. The woman he had loved. The one who had disappeared, lost to time and fate—and yet, she was here. Alive. Under a different name. A different world.
For a long moment, Xu Kai just sat there—silent, overwhelmed. His heart was a battlefield, caught between joy and sorrow, relief and fear. He had found her. After all these years… he had really found her.
The reports slipped from Xu Kai's lap and scattered across the floor, but he didn't care. He stood up so suddenly. His eyes were burning, and he didn't even realize tears were streaming down his face until they hit the collar of his coat. For the first time in years, they weren't tears of grief, or anger, or loss.
