Chapter 12 — After Menopause, I Found Out I Was Pregnant

I held the phone tightly in my hand, I could almost clearly hear my heart beating violently like a drum.

“What secret?”

On the other end of the line, Ly Mai took a deep breath and lowered her voice as if afraid that even the wall would eavesdrop.

“Tran Tranh, please calm down.”

“I hired a private investigator to investigate Chu Chi Minh's call history and movements in the last two months.”

“Guess what I discovered?”

“Mai, stop hiding things, say it quickly!”

I was so impatient that my palms were covered in cold sweat.

"Chu Chi Minh... he didn't suspect you were having an affair."

“He has a habit of being startled!”

“Because he himself… is raising a woman outside!”

This result actually doesn't surprise me too much. It can even be said to have been predicted. But Ly Mai's next sentence made me feel like I was struck by lightning.

"That woman's name is Manh Dao, twenty-six years old, a new intern at his company."

Ly Mai stopped for a moment then gritted her teeth and said each word.

“She is also pregnant.”

“The due date is next month.”

My mind buzzed, completely blank. Twenty-six years old. Those words put together were like a poisoned knife, stabbing another stab into my heart that was already riddled with hundreds of thousands of holes.

“When… when did this happen?”

My voice trembled so much that I could barely make a sound.

“Detectives found out that they have been together for nearly a year.”

“But there's something even scarier.”

Ly Mai's voice was full of hatred.

“Chu Chi Minh… two years ago secretly had surgery to reconnect his vas deferens!”

“Do you remember the time he said he had to go on a business trip for three days to attend a closed training course?”

“Actually, he took advantage of that time to have surgery!”

My hands tightened on the bed sheet until it wrinkled. Of course I remember. Two years ago, he specifically showed me the so-called "training invitation". At that time, I also told him to pay attention to his health and not to work too hard. Turns out from start to finish... It was all a lie. A cruel trap he secretly planned for two years. He wants to have children. A child that is not mine and his. It's his child with that young girl. My whole body started to feel cold uncontrollably. The cold crept from the marrow of my bones. I finally understand. I understand everything. Why did he secretly call "her" in the middle of the night? Why is he so irritable and out of control? Not because of my illness. It's because that woman named Manh Dao and the baby in her womb had a problem! The argument I heard that night was not about the project at all. It's a crisis caused by the revelation of his affair!

“Why is she right at this time…”

His unfinished sentence now rang in my ears with terrifying clarity. The person he mentioned was not me. It's Manh Dao. Surely at that moment, the other woman used the pregnancy story to force him to make a choice. But he was so confused that he didn't know how to handle it. Right at that moment... I was discovered to be "pregnant" again. To him, this was both wild and ridiculous. He had to calculate all the ways and secretly reconnect the vas deferens to get his lover pregnant. Yet I - his official stay-at-home wife, the one he had a vasectomy for more than ten years - was also "pregnant"? In his perception, That absolutely cannot happen. So he never thought about the possibility of the previous surgery failing. His first reaction was to pour out all his anger, panic and shame because his secret was punctured... on me. He put on my head the "adultery" hat. Use the cruelest words to attack me. For him, it was the perfect choice. First, it is possible to redirect one's own sins. Second, it can also create a perfect excuse to divorce me in the future and live with that woman. He can even turn himself into a pitiful person whose wife betrayed him. A really big move. That's right Chu Chi Minh. I really underestimated him.