Chapter 2 — After Betrayal Comes Peace

No matter how you think about it, it's hard to believe. Perhaps realizing my anxiety, a regular customer who was eating noodles in the restaurant at that time comforted me:

"You're only at the shop one day a week. If you're busy, how busy can you be? Why be afraid?"

"Furthermore, having a food blogger proactively come to film, doesn't it prove that your skills are very good? Be confident!"

Thinking about the fact that the video has had a lot of views, if I took it down, it would make people feel like my noodle shop has a problem. I refused Luc Ung Tham's proposal.

“Even if the video is taken down, the people who should come will still come. Just leave it like that.”

We talked for a while longer, then Luc Ung Tham ended the call after I repeatedly urged him. Hearing the sound of arguing coming from downstairs, I thought I heard wrong. I went to the window and looked down. Co Yen So and Ha Du are indeed still there. I looked at the video call duration just now. Almost twenty minutes. In other words, from the time I got home until now, they've been arguing for twenty minutes. Perhaps sensing something, Co Yen So raised her head and looked up. Without expression, I closed the curtains, blocking his probing eyes. A while later, I received a friend request. It's Co Yen So. His profile picture has not changed. It's still the photo I took the year we left home. In the moment of pressing the decline button, I suddenly remembered the years that I had deliberately forgotten. When I was young, Co Yen So and I lived in a place that was not too rich but had very beautiful scenery. We made an appointment to go to the big city to see the outside world. In the year of the university entrance exam, we were accepted by two different universities in Hai Thanh. Before leaving home, Co Yen So brought her parents to my house to ask me to marry her. He said that if it weren't for me in this life, he wouldn't marry anyone. Ha Du is my college roommate. Unlike me, who is busy working part-time every day in her free time, Ha Duu is a rich girl, completely unaware of what worries are. I thought that I and a rich lady like Ha Duu wouldn't have too much to do with each other. Until one day, she tasted the dinner I conveniently cooked. From that day on, she started clinging to me.

3

At the beginning of her second year of university, Co Yen So suffered a serious illness. I used all the money on me to pay his hospital bills. His illness was cured, and I had no money left to pay tuition. When I was most confused and helpless, Ha Duu lent me some money. Out of gratitude, a few days later I took Ha Duu to the rented apartment Co Yen So rented so as not to disturb my roommate. Just to cook for her, make all kinds of delicious dishes for her. In my third year of college, Ha Du's company had a problem. After just one night, she turned from a rich lady into a poor, penniless girl. To help Ha Duu earn tuition and living expenses, I took her to work part-time and taught her how to make money. After graduating, I even invited her to move into my and Co Yen So's apartment. It's often said on the internet that your best friend will never please your boyfriend. Ha Du and Co Yen So are exactly like that. Ha Du is very clingy to me. Co Yen So is no less competitive. The first year we lived together, the two of us often argued about whose room I would sleep in. By the second year, Ha Duu's company already had good transformation. Obviously she could return and continue to be the eldest lady, but Ha Duu used the excuse of not being able to leave me to continue to stay. At that time, a colleague often saw Ha Du walking around with us. She reminded me that three people together is not a good thing. But I don't take it to heart. Because for a long time, I considered the two of them to be the closest people in this world, except for my grandmother.