After Marrying the Officer Chapter 1305 - 1304: Trap

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Previously on After Marrying the Officer...
Xia Chuyi was about to save Mother Xia from drowning when two college students intervened. The male student quickly rescued Mother Xia, while the female student administered CPR, reviving her. Xia Chuyi was relieved not to have to jump in herself, given her pregnancy. However, upon regaining consciousness, Mother Xia became terrified, pointing at Xia Chuyi and struggling violently, while the male student insisted on taking her to the hospital.

"You... why would you wish me harm?" Mother Xia finally voiced the question burning in her mind.

"Huh?" The male and female university students exchanged bewildered glances at her words.

Xia Chuyi, meanwhile, knitted her brows tightly.

She wanted to harm Mother Xia?

"Why did you want to harm me?" Mother Xia, gathering some strength, managed to slide off the student's back. Tears streaming down her face, she pointed accusingly at Xia Chuyi, "I raised you for twenty years; I am your foster mother. Why would you try to harm me?"

Mother Xia's voice trembled with a particularly sorrowful tone.

An immediate silence fell over the scene.

"You..." The female student who had helped Mother Xia looked at Xia Chuyi, her gaze uncertain. Hesitantly, she inquired, "Didn't you say you weren't mother and daughter?"

Even if this woman called herself a foster mother, wasn't a foster mother still a mother in essence?

Could this be a family dispute that led this young woman to...?

The unspoken question in the female student's mind was articulated by the male student: "Miss, is this lady your foster mother? Did you push her into the water?"

Based on Mother Xia's statement, the male student had readily concluded what he perceived to be the