Emily would even avoid my touch. This past year, Emily had been finding fault with me every day and making things difficult for me in various ways. I was exhausted just dealing with her messy requests.

Only then did I discover something that I had ignored for a long time.

Was it possible for young children who were in the growth period and did not grow taller for a whole year?

When I thought carefully about the changes that happened to Emily, I realized that they started on Children's Day last year.

That day, Bell was rarely kind towards Emily. I had dressed Emily up beautifully in a blue dress and wanted to take her to the amusement park.

But Bell forcefully took Emily away, saying that his colleague had given him two tickets to the aquarium and he wanted to take Emily to there.

Even though I said I would buy a ticket and go with them, Bell frowned impatiently and said, "Have you made a penny? How dare you spend my money? A ticket costs four hundred and fifty dollars. Just stay at home. Emily is my biological daughter, I can't do anything bad to her."

I thought it might be because I had never left Emily for a single day since she was born, so I was too anxious about leaving her.