Chapter 6 — A Retreat Called Love

I hesitated for a moment and then said a combination that made even me disgusted.

“zyzk... plus his mother's birthday?”

Lam Man's expression looked like she had just swallowed a fly, but she still typed: Immediately, the folder opened. Lam Man and I looked at each other, in each other's eyes were surprise, mixed with a ridiculous feeling of "that's true". Inside the folder there isn't much, just a few PDF files. We open the first file. The file name is “Thien Su Venture Capital Contract”. Party A: Chu Khai. Party B: Chu Nghi. Investment amount: 500,000 yuan. Investment project: O2O community fresh food delivery platform. The signing date was the third day after my parents transferred the money. Each line of black and white letters appears clearly before your eyes. The blood in my body seemed to freeze. It turned out that his so-called "helping" was taking my parents' retirement money and investing it in that worthless cousin's unrealistic dream. It turns out that the statement "for our future" was just a deception from beginning to end.

"You bastard! You animal!"

Lam Man was so angry that he almost crushed the computer mouse.

“This is clearly a scam!”

I opened the second file. That's a scanned copy of the home purchase contract. The address is the house we are living in now. Home buyer: Ly Tu Lan. (Chu Nghi's mother) The house buyer's name is my mother-in-law. I stared at the payment methods section. Full payment. One million eight hundred thousand yuan. Full payment? How can we have enough money to pay in full? Even if I add in my five hundred thousand yuan, it's still far short. I don't dare think anymore. With shaking hands, I opened the last file. It's an insurance claim. Insured person: Chu Kien Quoc. My father-in-law passed away. Beneficiary: Ly Tu Lan. Compensation amount: One million five hundred thousand yuan. The day the money was transferred into their account, exactly one week before they bought the house. The truth is like a poisoned knife, piercing my heart. I finally understood. Everything, I understand. From the beginning, mother and son had laid a trap for me. They used the insurance money after their father-in-law passed away to buy the house outright, putting it in her mother-in-law's name alone. That is the solid property of the Chu family, no one can touch it. After that, they cheated me of the five hundred thousand yuan my parents gave me and invested it in Zhou Kai's project that was sure to fail. They don't even bother to use that money to legalize it as part of the house purchase price. Because if I do that, legally, I can still get a share. So they directly threw my money into the hole. Thus, the house will have absolutely nothing to do with me. As for my five hundred thousand yuan, because it was recorded as "investment", it was completely lost without a trace. A huge game of chess. A truly cruel plot. At that moment, the hospital room door was pushed open. Chu Nghi walked in holding a bouquet of flowers and carrying a fake smile.

“Wife, I cooked soup for you, I…”

Before he could finish his sentence, I picked up the glass of water on the nightstand and threw it at him with all my might. The cup grazed Chu Nghi's cheek, hit the wall hard and shattered. Water splashed on his face. The smile on his face stiffened, surprise flashed in his eyes, then quickly turned into gloom.

“To Tinh, what are you crazy about?”

“I play crazy?"

I looked at him and laughed, but the tears kept flowing.

“Chu Nghi, your whole family treated me like a fool, lied to me for three years, and now you still ask me why I'm crazy?”

Lam Man immediately closed the laptop, blocking it in front of me like a lioness protecting her cubs.

“Chu Nghi, do you still feel ashamed?”

“Cheated Tinh Tinh's money, gave it to your useless cousin, burned it all, used your father's insurance money to buy a house and put it in your mother's name only! Are both you and your mother's hearts black?"

Chu Nghi's face immediately turned pale. He looked at me, then looked at the laptop next to Lam Man. The panic in his eyes could no longer be hidden.

“You... you...”

His lips trembled, unable to say a complete sentence. Perhaps in his wildest dreams he did not expect that the secret that he thought was tight and without any loopholes would be revealed to us so quickly.

“What do we do?”

I looked at him coldly.

“We know everything, aren't you happy?”

He finally recovered and roared angrily.

“That's our family's business, it has nothing to do with you! It's natural for my father's insurance money to be used to buy a nursing home for my mother! As for your money, if your investment fails, can you blame me? Doing business is inherently risky! It's just you being stupid!”

I repeated those two words, my heart hurt like a knife.

“Yes, I'm stupid! I was stupid because I believed your sweet words, stupid because I thought your mother truly treated me well, stupid because I put everything into this marriage!

“What's the use of talking about those things now!”

Chu Nghi completely ignored everything and showed his ugliest face.

“I tell you, five hundred thousand, not even a penny left! Chu Khai's company went bankrupt a long time ago! Even if you sue to heaven, you won't get a penny back!

Lawyer Truong, who had remained silent until now, now stepped forward. In her hand was the phone that was still recording.