It was a reunion a family did not expect.
While a Chinese mother was preparing for her son’s wedding day on Wednesday, March 31, she made a shocking discovery – his blushing bride was actually her lost daughter.
According to a Times Now News report, the mother realized who the woman was after noticing a birthmark on her hand. The mother of the groom quickly came to the bride’s parents and asked if their daughter had been adopted about 20 years ago.
The couple were just as surprised by the investigation because they kept the adoption a secret for most, including their own daughter.
The bride’s parents confirmed that they had indeed saved her as a baby. They admitted that they had found her as a baby along the way, and adopted her to raise her as their own child. When the bride hears the truth, she bursts into tears and embraces her biological mother. According to Times Now News, she called her meeting mother “happier than the wedding day itself”.
As joyful as the reunion between mother and daughter was, the bride expressed concern about the wedding now that she knows her true relationship with the groom’s mother. According to Oriental Daily, the groom was happily adopted as well. His mother explained that she adopted him after years of unsuccessfully searching for her biological daughter. She allegedly resigned never to find her daughter.
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Although the family dynamics can get a little complicated, the bride and groom went through with the marriage. Some guests had to celebrate the wedding, as well as the mother and daughter meeting.
This casual reunion is the latest in a series of families reuniting after being forced apart. Just last month, another Chinese woman was reunited with her birth family after being abducted and sold three decades earlier. In 2018, an Asian couple found their son 22 years after he was abducted by his father’s co-worker.