Chapter 5 — After Receiving My Mother's Letter, I Decided to Marry Someone Else

My body instinctively trembled, the unhealed scar on my back began to hurt, and the image of Hac Tieu's tragic death kept appearing in my mind. I gritted my teeth, trying to maintain my outward composure. The two little maids accompanying me were frightened and immediately pulled Co Than's hand away from me: "Brave! Quickly let go of my lady!" Co Than's face twisted, he waved his hand and pushed the two maids away: "What, your lady, she is mine!" Just as I was about to speak, my mother finally slowly walked over with the shopkeeper of the tailor shop. She saw the scene before her eyes, her face immediately darkened, and she ordered the servant next to her to pull Co Than out: "Do any kind of cat or dog dare to come here and act rashly?" The shopkeeper was sweating profusely, and quickly pulled Co Than who was about to rush forward, admonishing him: "General, what are you doing here? That's the general's wife and the general's wife, how dare you offend?" Co Than was stunned: "Thien Kim General's Palace? How is that possible? She's been with me for three years, and has never mentioned it..." But very quickly, he finally saw the robe on her clearly, his face changed dramatically: "Why are you wearing the robe? Besides me, who else do you want to marry?" The mother smiled coldly: "My daughter can marry whoever she wants. Someone like you is not worthy." Co Than breathed heavily with anger, his eyes looked like a wild beast about to tear people apart. The shopkeeper quickly advised: "General, please go first. I will choose a date to send the outfit you ordered to Miss Hua to your palace." I lowered my eyes and smiled softly, full of sarcasm. Co Than stared at me harshly: "Tham Thanh Hoa, aren't you going to give me an explanation?" I didn't bother to answer him, turned around and said to my mother: "If it fits you, mother, let's go home." Mother glanced at Co Than contemptuously and nodded: "Go, don't let unlucky people make you lose your mood." 7 When reaching the door, the mother stopped, turned around and said to the shopkeeper: "That's right, take the robe to the general's palace. After all, in one month, our Thanh Hoa family will be married." The corner of her mother's lips curled into a gentle smile, as if she completely couldn't see Co Than's terrifyingly pale face. After something like that, my mother and I were no longer in the mood to linger outside, so we immediately got on the carriage and returned to the palace. But before he could go far, he could faintly hear the sound of horse hooves following behind. My heart sank, I opened the curtain and looked back, and sure enough, I saw Co Than following me, not far or near. The mother was so angry that her eyebrows raised: "This bastard, let you suffer for three years on the border, stop it. If he truly loved you, he would have asked to marry you long ago, but now he shows this endless entanglement, it really makes people nauseous!" I don't know what I'm feeling inside, I just have to let down the curtain and don't look at him anymore. But Co Than still refused to give up. He stopped at the door of the general's palace and insisted on an explanation: "Are you leaving me just because you want to marry someone you don't love?" "Just because I said we can't get married now, you turned around and wanted to marry someone else? Tham Thanh Hoa, do you really want to get married that much?" “A Uyen is right, she is no different from the ordinary girls out there!” I finally couldn't bear it anymore and looked at him angrily: "So what does it have to do with you if I get married?" Try God became even angrier: "You once said you would only marry me in this life! So why are you like this now?" I no longer wish for anything, I gently closed my eyes. In my ears, the promise between me and him still echoes for the past three years. But he himself destroyed those sweet days. Now, why bother questioning me? I laughed coldly: "When it comes to marriage, when it comes to the parents' orders and the matchmaker's words, between you and me, are there any of these two things?" Co Than froze on the spot, seemingly finally realizing that I was no longer the old Tham Thanh Hoa - the person who always listened to him and only looked at him with all my heart. I took a deep breath and said coldly: "From now on, between you and I, there will be no more connection." Pausing for a moment, I continued: "I've said it before, the general doesn't need to worry about my marriage." Co Than's face changed, obviously he remembered my expression when he said that sentence. He staggered back a step, finally realizing that he had misunderstood. “So… at that time, did you decide to leave me and marry someone else?” I shook my head slightly, my voice calm: "No, it was earlier than that." Until I returned to the general's palace, Co Than's face when he was extremely sad was still imprinted in my mind. He couldn't accept that I had already decided to leave him, his eyes were full of hurt. But I don't feel the slightest pleasure in revenge. Co Than's personality has always been arrogant. Hearing those words, he gritted his teeth and left. If nothing unexpected happens, we will never meet again in this life. But isn't that a good thing? After meeting Co Than again, the mother was clearly a bit impatient, and seemed to intend to speed up the wedding. Strangely, the Crown Prince's Palace also agreed and forced the wedding date to be moved up half a month early. On this matter, I also have no opinion. Just a few days later, the maid suddenly hurriedly ran to me and said: "Someone has been kneeling at the palace gate for several days, insisting on seeing the lady!" I was stunned, a ridiculous conjecture suddenly appeared in my heart. The little maid also mumbled: "He said he is the person in your heart, also the person you love the most. He did something wrong, now it's time to be punished, tell you to definitely bring someone to see him." "But the lady still told her not to tell the lady. Today I saw that he was really pitiful, his back was stabbed by a rattan rope until blood was flowing, so I secretly told the lady." I calmly said: "Don't pity men, they are not worthy." The little maid nodded as if she didn't understand, turned around and threw this matter to the back of her mind.