05/29/2026
My daughter is pregnant.
But I suspect the baby is my husband’s child.
In her prenatal check-up booklet, under the "Husband" section, the signature is clearly my husband’s.
Yet when I confronted her, my daughter looked shocked and retorted:
“Mom, what nonsense are you talking about? He’s your son-in-law, not your husband.”
My husband, Tran Trieu, and I are in a remarriage. We built a new family together.
When we got married, my daughter was only 8 years old.
He treated her like his own flesh and blood, fulfilling all her needs. She was also very attached to him. Whenever she came home from school, she would cling to him, asking him to play with her.
I always thought I had found a truly good husband.
Even though my daughter called Tran Trieu “Dad,” in the end, they shared no blood relation.
I once reminded him to keep a proper distance and told my daughter not to be too affectionate when she was with him.
Both of them looked astonished and accused me of having weird, unfounded thoughts.
I told my friend about this, and she also said I was overthinking. She said my daughter had been raised by Tran Trieu since she was little. Even without blood ties, she was no different from his real daughter. Moreover, Tran Trieu was a decent man — how could he possibly have any improper intentions toward a girl 25 years younger than him?
After hearing their reasoning, I told myself I was probably being too sensitive.
However, this year my daughter turned 20 and suddenly became pregnant.
When she came home from university for a break, I was the one who unpacked her luggage. At the bottom of her suitcase, I found a prenatal check-up booklet recording her pregnancy status for the past three months.
What completely shattered me was that in the “Husband” section, the name Tran Trieu was clearly written.
I clutched the booklet tightly, my mind going completely blank.
I sat on the floor for a long time trying to calm down, telling myself it must be some kind of coincidence. After all, Tran Trieu was already 45 years old, and right after we got married, he had proactively undergone a vasectomy.
I put the booklet back in its original place, packed the suitcase neatly, and walked out of my daughter’s room as if nothing had happened.
But the moment I stepped out, I saw my daughter and Tran Trieu cuddling intimately on the sofa.
The scene stabbed into my eyes like a needle, causing sharp pain.
Furious, I raised my voice and demanded to know what they were doing.
They were clearly startled by me and quickly separated, putting distance between themselves.
My daughter pouted in annoyance: “Mom, what are you doing? You scared me!”
Realizing I had lost my composure, I quickly apologized to her.
She tilted her chin and said she was hungry, telling me to cook something delicious.
Thinking about the prenatal booklet, I stared at her still-flat stomach for a long time before asking if there was anything she needed to avoid eating.
She looked at me in confusion and asked back: “Mom, aren’t you the one who knows best what I should avoid?”
I stammered, wanting to ask directly about her pregnancy, but afraid of upsetting her. I said a few vague words and quietly went into the kitchen to cook.
While in the kitchen, I couldn’t help secretly watching the interactions between my daughter and Tran Trieu.
They were glued to each other again. Tran Trieu even peeled grapes and gently fed them into her mouth. When grape juice dripped from the corner of her mouth, he softly wiped it away with his fingertip.
This made my suspicions grow even stronger.
I had done some research and learned that even after a vasectomy, a man could undergo reversal surgery. If the two of them had truly been sneaking around behind my back, it was entirely possible that Tran Trieu had secretly had the procedure reversed.
Thinking of this possibility, I unconsciously gripped the cooking spatula tightly. No, they absolutely could not stay together, and the baby in my daughter’s belly must not be born.
“Tran Trieu, come help me in the kitchen,” I called him from the living room.
Tran Trieu and my daughter exchanged a strange look, but he still came over. Once inside, he skillfully helped me peel garlic.
I casually asked: “Do you think Vien Vien looks rounder in the face this time she’s back?”
He turned to look at her sitting in the living room and replied: “Not at all. I actually think she looks a bit slimmer.”
“But I think she might be pregnant,” I took a deep breath and probed: “Don’t you think she looks like she’s carrying a child?”
He paused for a moment, then smiled: “She looks fine to me. I don’t see anything.”
His expression and reaction didn’t look like he was lying. Could it be that I was really misunderstanding? Maybe the baby in my daughter’s belly actually belonged to her classmate, and she had deliberately written Tran Trieu’s name to hide the real father?
I couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. I could accept my daughter getting pregnant before marriage, but I absolutely could not accept her committing in**st with her own stepfather.
Before going to bed, I decided to have a serious talk with my daughter.
But when I opened the door to her room, I saw Tran Trieu already in his pajamas, sitting on her bed. She was wearing a lace nightgown I had never seen before.
The way she looked while sharing a room with her stepfather was completely inappropriate.
I coldly told Tran Trieu to leave first.
He asked me why.
I felt like he was playing dumb, so my tone became heavier:
“It’s this late and you’re still in your pajamas in Vien Vien’s room. Don’t you think you’ve crossed the line?”
He looked at me in confusion, moved his lips as if to say something, but eventually left without a word. I locked the door behind him and sat down on my daughter’s bed.
My daughter asked what I wanted to talk about. I opened her suitcase, took out the prenatal booklet, and asked why she had hidden her pregnancy from me. She snatched the booklet back, complaining that I had gone through her things without permission. I was so angry I nearly lost my mind and shouted that I was her mother!
She sighed and said: “I didn’t tell you because it was less than three months before. This time when I came home, I was planning to find the right moment to tell you.”
“You’re only 20 years old!” My emotions were running high. “You’re still in university. Shouldn’t you have told me as soon as you found out you were pregnant?”
But she blinked in confusion and asked back in a puzzled tone: “Mom, are you remembering wrong? I’m 28 years old this year.”
What?
I froze on the spot. How could that be? I clearly remembered she had just turned 20 and was still in university. But she took out her phone and showed me the date.
According to her date of birth, she was indeed 28 years old this year. But why did I have no memory at all of the years between her being 20 and 28?
I stared at her in bewilderment for a long time before asking again:
“So who is the father of the baby? Why did you write Tran Trieu’s name in the prenatal booklet? He is my husband, your stepfather!”
Faced with my questioning, my daughter looked shocked and shot back:
“Mom, what nonsense are you talking about? He is your son-in-law, not your husband.”
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