Chapter 4 — 6 Days to Clean Up Your Estate Then Divorce

Chu Van Bac's face turned from pale to ash gray, he let go of my hand, staggered back and sat down on the ground. He understands better than anyone else that the legal entity of the company is me, and he is only in charge of design and engineering, all finance and legality are in my hands. Every account I transferred was so clean that it was impossible to refute it.

“And our joint account…”

I looked at him, my eyes carrying a bit of cold pity.

“There's less than two hundred thousand yuan left, so I'll leave it to the Chu family as parting money.”

“I almost forgot to say, this house has two hundred and thirty thousand yuan monthly debt payments, previously it was paid using the company's cash flow.”

"Now the company is only a shell. Next month, you can take care of the money from the bank."

“You, your elderly parents, and your seven-year-old brother need to spend money.”

The mother-in-law finally understood. The money is gone, the company is empty, the house is in huge debt. She rolled her eyes, her whole body stiffened and she fell backwards. Chu Van Bac panicked and took it, the living room was immediately chaotic like a broken market. He raised his head, his eyes bloodshot like a cornered animal.

“You are crazy, this is fraud, it is theft, I will report you to the police, I will make you go to jail.”

“Report to the police?”

I stood up and looked down at him, looking at the man I had shared bed with for ten years, now only suffering and pitiful madness remained.

“Okay, just tell me, I'll wait here.”

My calmness seemed to add fuel to the fire, making him lose control even more. He actually pulled out his phone, his hands shaking and dialed 110, his voice screaming in panic like someone about to drown.

"Hello, are you the police? I want to report a case. My wife swindled all our common assets, tens of millions of yuan, she drained all the company's money."

He stuttered, his words were jumbled, and there was almost no logic left. And I just stood there watching, like I was watching a ridiculously clumsy show. The other end of the line asked for the address, asked to stay calm, and said they would send someone to check the situation. After hanging up the phone, he seemed to have grasped the last straw to hold on to.

"You wait, the police are coming, I'll see how arrogant you still dare to be, you will have to go to jail, you will never get out for the rest of your life."

The father-in-law also regained his spirit, supporting the mother-in-law while following suit, his voice was stiff on the outside and hollow on the inside.

“Yes, arrest her, this kind of cruel woman must be put in jail.”

I didn't pay attention to those screams. I slowly took my phone, found Ly Tuyet's number, dialed and turned on the speakerphone. The call was picked up almost immediately. Ly Tuyet's voice rang out clearly in the living room, cold and sharp as a knife.

“Hua Tinh, have you played your cards?”

"Yes, the scene is a bit unsightly. Chu Van Bac said I appropriated property and committed fraud, and reported it to the police."

The other end of the line laughed softly, a laugh full of sarcasm.

"Mr. Chu, hello, I am the lawyer representing Hua Tinh and Ly Tuyet. Regarding your accusation of my client committing a crime, I will clarify a few legal points for you to understand."

"First, Hua Tinh is a legal entity and controlling shareholder of the company. She has complete rights to mobilize cash flow within the scope of legal business. All transactions have contracts and invoices, valid processes, and full evidence."

“Second, the money goes into the trust fund of her daughter, part comes from pre-marital assets, the rest is her personal legal income and dividends, completely in accordance with regulations.”

"Third, when marital property has not been divided, both parties have equal rights to handle it. Hua Tinh's actions are at most just arbitrarily handling the property, within the scope of civil disputes, not criminally related."

"I advise you not to waste public resources. If you want to sue, I will follow until the end. At that time we can clearly analyze your family's adoption of an unrelated child for the purpose of succession and old age."

"As well as intending to appropriate assets before marriage and my client's future interests, I believe that the media and the public will be very interested in this story."

Ly Tuyet's every word was like a hammer, smashing their last illusions. Chu Van Bac's face was no longer pale, but a gray color of extreme despair. He knows clearly, it's all true. He lost. The mother-in-law's crying suddenly stopped, and the father-in-law was also choked up, unable to say another word. The boy stood in the corner of the room, from beginning to end like a shadow, now looking at us with confused and scared eyes. It's ridiculous. The source of it all, the so-called "old age insurance" that they bet their whole future on, is just an innocent child dragged into this drama. At that moment, Chu Van Bac suddenly knelt down in front of me, his knee hitting the floor with a heavy sound.

“Tieu Tinh, you are wrong, you are really wrong.”

He started slapping himself in the face, one by one, the sound was dry.

"It's me being confused, it's me being a bastard, can you forgive me this time? Let's take the boy away, take him away immediately."

"Let's go back to how we were before, live again as before, I will treat you well, my child..."

He cried and put his head on the floor, heavy collision sounds echoed continuously. If it were a day ago, maybe I would have softened. But my heart... has died since the call that night.

“It's late.”

"It's late."

I softly said two words, as light as the wind but strong enough to cut off everything that had ever existed between us.

"Chu Van Bac, don't you like excitement? Don't you want to have another younger brother? Don't you think that adding one person is an extra part of old age insurance?"

I walked to the door, pulled it open, and the afternoon wind rushed in, bringing cold air, blowing away the stuffy air in the house.

“Then now, please bring your parents, bring your younger brother, bring your so-called old age insurance, and leave my house.”

“Forever.”

My voice was not loud, but each word fell like the end of an old life. Zhou Wenbo fell to the ground like a pile of mud, and his parents finally understood that everything was over. They supported each other, dragging the skinny boy along, and left quietly like defeated people, without any of the energy they had when they entered. Chu Van Bac was pulled up by his father. As he passed me, he looked at me with regret, unwillingness, and resentment in his eyes. There's just no more love. I don't need it anymore either. The door slammed shut behind me, as if cutting off the entire past. The world suddenly became quiet strange.