It all started in May 2005 when Kylee, then known as Liang Jinglang, moved to Foshan City’s Shunde District with her biological father Liang Hua from their hometown of Leizhou, Guangdong Province.
The two moved to Shunde where her father worked in the area.
However, his dorm did not allow 5-year-old Kylee to stay with him.
Therefore, Liang Hua asked a favor from her brother who lived in a town near Zhongshan to take care of her daughter, The Paper reported.
Kylie soon became homesick and attempted to return to her hometown of Leizhou on May 20. Unfortunately, the little girl got lost until a kindly old woman found her and took her to the police station.
However, little Kylie couldn’t understand the officers there as she only spoke in her hometown accent.
Later, the officers sent Kaili to the Zhongshan Child Welfare Institute and gave her a new name, Zhong Fengmin. Kelly stayed there for two years before moving into a foster home.
In 2012, an American couple adopted Kylie and brought her to Chicago where she began a new life.
Back in China, Kylie’s father, Liang Hua, was desperate for his young daughter. For seven years, he and his wife faithfully searched for Kylee and traveled from town to town looking for her.
Her search finally came to an end when Kylee, then 18, began searching for her biological parents with the help of her adoptive parents.
Kelly then posted on the Baobei Huijia volunteer group website how she disappeared 14 years ago.
Fortunately, Liang Hua saw her message and contacted her via WeChat. After several questions about someone involving Kylee dislocating her shoulder after falling from a stage outside her old house, they both realize that they are part of the family.
“You are my father,” Kylee replied to Liang Hua, crying after he asked her questions.
It didn’t take long for them to arrange a DNA test to confirm that Kylee was indeed Liang Hua’s daughter.
After 13 years of searching, Liang Hua finally found Kylee at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport on July 1, 2018.
Their intimate reunion not only moved Kelly and her family of origin, but also her adoptive parents. “I’m so happy for Kylee. She always wanted to find her family. I told her it was good. Having two families who love each other, they came from two different countries, we couldn’t do better than that” , said the Kylee adopter. mother.
Last fall, Kelly began her studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also plans to study abroad at a university in China.
Credit: Medium / @Shanghaiist
