Chapter 20 — After Divorce, My Father Immediately Withdrawed 30 Billion Yuan, My Ex-Husband Went Bankrupt After Just Two Weeks

"Nem Niem..."

"I know I was wrong for you before."

"I'm blind."

"It's me..."

"I'm not human."

"You can scold me all you want."

"You can hit me if you want."

"I just ask you to save old Luc once..."

"He's just a business man."

"He doesn't deserve to go to jail..."

I waited for her to finish crying. Just calmly spoke up.

"Trieu Le Phan."

"You listen carefully."

"The first."

"Luc Kien Hoa's case is an act of false reporting."

"It has nothing to do with us."

"That's because he himself falsified the documents when submitting the documents."

"For legal matters, find a lawyer."

"Don't look for me."

"Tuesday..."

I stopped for a moment.

"She told me something the other day."

"'If you break up, you should break up peacefully. Don't contact me again in the future.'"

"Today..."

"I return that sentence to you."

"From now on..."

"Don't contact me anymore."

I hung up. Then block Trieu Le Phan's number. I sit in the office. Quietly looking out the window. It's been a year. Three hundred sixty-five days. From a hated woman. Being despised. Was used 100,000 yuan to chase her away... The title "Mrs. Luc" was also taken away. I have become a man with a name for myself. General Director of Thuc Lan Holdings. Strategic investor of Bac Vien New Energy. The head of the business has an annual revenue of 16,200,000,000 yuan. Those names... No one gave them to me. But it's all my own. Every night we work overtime until late. Each time there was a fierce debate at the negotiating table. Each financial report has been turned over and over countless times. Every flight back and forth between cities. Those days... It was much harder than the three years of being a bride of the Luc family. Also worth twice as much. At that moment... The phone on the table lit up. It's a message from Tham Van Chu.

"Are you free today?"

"I'm under your company."

I looked at the clock. Seven thirty in the evening. I replied.

"Wait for me five minutes."

Five minutes later. I went downstairs. Saw him leaning against the car door. In his hand he held a bag of roasted chestnuts.

"I saw it for sale on the way."

"Still hot."

"Try it and see."

I take it. Peel one seed.

"I'll take you somewhere."

"You will like it."

He drives. Take me to a lake in the suburbs. The lake surface is covered with a thin layer of ice. Moonlight falls onto the water. Sparkling like another world. The two of us sat in the car. Just ate chestnuts. Just quietly looking at the lake. A moment later... Tham Van Chu turned to look at me.

"There's something..."

"I thought for a long time."

"Waited so long..."

"Just waiting for the right time to say it."

"What's going on?"

"Are you willing..."

"Later..."

"Between us..."

"Not just partners anymore?"

The lake surface is still quiet. The heat from the chestnut bag covered the glass door with a thin layer of frost. I looked into his eyes. There is only sincerity in it. There are expectations. There was no calculation at all.

"Are you sure?"

"From the first time I met you..."

"I'm sure."

"Aren't you afraid?"

"I know your family situation."

"I also know you just got divorced."

Tham Van Chu gently shook his head.

"Family belongs to my parents."

"Not mine."

"Divorce..."

"It's because I corrected a wrong choice."

"It's not your fault."

"What I saw..."

"It's To Niem."

"Not a girl by To Kien Quoc."

"Nor is Luc Canh Dien's ex-wife."

I bowed my head. Quietly peel another chestnut. Give it to me.

"You should eat the chestnuts first."

"Then let's talk more."

I took it.

"Does this mean you agree?"

I smiled.

"It seems..."

"I haven't refused yet."

He didn't ask more. Don't force me either. Eat only chestnuts. Then turn the air conditioner in the car up one notch.

"No rush."

"When are you really ready..."

"Tell me."

Outside the glass door. The moonlight on the lake is as quiet as a painting. And in my heart... There is a place that has been frozen for many years... It is slowly melting. Luc Kien Hoa was sentenced to three years in prison but the sentence was suspended. Because he proactively returned part of the illegal profits. Moreover, he is old. Health is also not good. So the court decided to give a lighter sentence. As for Luc Canh Dien... He completely disappeared from my life. Someone said... He went to another small city. Working as a project captain at a construction site. Some people also say... He returned to his hometown. Rent a few acres of land to grow crops. Someone else said... In a residential area in a third-class city... He opened a hardware store. The hardware store... I don't know... Whether it was a bitter joke of fate or not. Trieu Le Phan and Luc Kien Hoa... Have moved back to their hometown. Branded handbags. Expensive jewelry from the past... All sold out. Exchange for a few tens of thousands of yuan. Enough for the two of them to live a simple life for the next few years. Chu Uyen Thanh... Completely lost news. Some say she got married in Hong Kong. Some people also say... She settled in Singapore. No matter what... In her life... There are no more three words...

"Luc Canh Dien."

Those people... All had their own endings. But a long time later... I learned one more thing. Once I cleaned out my old phone... I discovered... After the last message Luc Canh Dien sent me... There was actually a draft. A message... Never sent. He writes and then deletes. Delete then write again. Finally... Still don't have the courage to send. There are only a few lines above.

"To Niem, if time could go back... I wouldn't choose Chu Uyen Thanh, I wouldn't listen to my mother, and I wouldn't let you bear all the humiliation alone. But in life there is no 'if'. You live better than me, better than everyone... that's enough." I finished reading.

Quietly turn off the old phone. Not emotional. No regrets. Just suddenly realized... There are people... Only wake up after making a choice. But by that time... It was too late.