After Taking My Aunt's Advice, I Swapped My Younger Brother for a Sister

Before my younger sister got married, she underwent genetic disease screening and casually asked our parents to do a kinship test as well. The results showed that she wasn't their biological child. At almost the same time, the police reopened a twenty-year-old case involving an illegal brick kiln. After DNA from a disabled boy who had died at a relief station years earlier was entered into the database, it matched my parents. The police said he'd been sold to a brick kiln in the mountains as a child, where his leg had been crushed and his hands covered in old scars. Later, when the kiln was raided, he was sent to a relief station. His family never came for him, and he died of illness there. As I listened to that statement, something suddenly exploded in my mind...