Chapter 5 — After returning, I was favored to the heavens by my godly brother

7. “Okay.” Trinh Ky Xuong gave a cold smile. “Trinh Thien Thien, you really don't shed tears when you see the coffin.” Trinh Thien Qian's heart immediately sank to the bottom. Right after that, Trinh Ky Xuong slowly took out his phone from his vest pocket. He bowed his head, gently scrolling a few times on the screen. Then—he turned the phone around, pointing the screen towards Trinh Hoang Vien and Lam Van. “Dad, Mom, I'd like you to see clearly.” In that moment, all eyes were focused on the small phone. A video starts playing. The angle was very strange, from the chandelier in front of my room, tilted down, taking in the whole scene. Camera? When to install? In the video, Trinh Thien Thien walked to my door, without a trace of sadness on her face - only calculation. She smoothed her hair, took a deep breath, then suddenly knelt down, moving decisively and quickly. Then he began to cry bitterly, every word, every line, ringing out clearly. "Sister, please don't take away my parents..." "My biological parents... passed away in a car accident..." In the video, I opened the door and looked at her in surprise. I reached out my hand to help her. Then—Lam Van appeared. Slap me straight in the face. At that moment, a look of confusion flashed in Trinh Thien Thien's eyes, but was quickly replaced by a smug smile, which was then perfectly hidden by tears. The video ends. “Clack.” Trinh Thien Thien's legs seemed to lose strength and collapsed to the ground. “No… that's not it…” She muttered, her eyes vague and soulless. “Camera?” – Lam Van's voice trembled – "Ky Xuong, you... when..." "Last night." Trinh Ky Xuong took back the phone, his voice cold as ice: "I'm afraid someone has free time and likes to play tricks." His eyes were sharp as knives, piercing straight at Trinh Thien Thien. Trinh Hoang Vien and Lam Van's faces turned blue, then white, white, then red, like a broken pan. They looked at Trinh Thien Thien who was collapsing on the ground — their eyes were no longer filled with pity but with shock and disbelief. "You... you are..." Trinh Hoang Vien pointed at her, so angry that he couldn't speak. Trinh Ky Xuong didn't bother to look at them anymore. He turned to me and gently asked: "Does your stomach still hurt? I'll take you to the hospital." I shook my head. This pain, compared to the pleasure when the truth is revealed, is nothing. Trinh Ky Xuong's eyes turned back, once again looking straight at the two "biological parents" who were stiff as stone statues. “What now, do you two still want to send her away?” The other pair of lips moved, but couldn't say a single word. “I am the heir of the Trinh family.” “This house, I have the final say.” “I will not harm this family, but I will also not tolerate stupidity and favoritism, causing it to collapse from within.” His eyes glanced at Trinh Thien Thien - who was shaking like fallen leaves in winter. "I will give you a sum of money, enough to live comfortably for the rest of your life. This is the last favor the Trinh family has given you for eighteen years of nurturing." “From now on — you and the Trinh family, go your separate ways.” Then he looked straight at Trinh Hoang Vien and Lam Van, his eyes cold to the bone: "And if you two continue to be manipulated and hurt your own daughter because of an outsider—" "Then in the future, you won't even have a son... anymore." One sentence was like thunder in the clear sky, making the other two people tremble. That night, Trinh Thien Thien was taken away. But this house - that doesn't make it warm. The eyes Trinh Hoang Vien and Lam Van looked at me became more and more complicated. There is guilt... but more of it is hostility and coldness - the feeling of being exposed by my daughter's bias, being warned by my son, of not being willing. They started taking their anger out on me, instead of reflecting on themselves. This house is as cold as an ice cellar. The only person who brings warmth... is Trinh Ky Xuong. He brought me the newest clothes. He himself went into the kitchen to cook dinner for me. As I sat dazed, he quietly patted my head like a habit. That evening, when he brought a glass of hot milk into my room— I finally asked out loud: “Why?” “Why are you so different from them?” 8. Trinh Ky Xuong's movements stopped for a moment. He placed a glass of warm milk on the nightstand and sat down next to me. A long time later. He took a deep breath, as if gathering courage to say something extremely important. "To Moc, what I'm about to say... you might not believe it." His eyes were deep, hiding pain and regret that I couldn't explain. “You…” “…are someone who came back to life from a previous life.” I held my breath. Rebirth? “In my previous life,” – his voice was hoarse, with sharp pain as if cutting into his heart – “I believed Trinh Thien Thien, believed my parents… and thought you were just a country girl, ambitious, ambitious.” “I stood there watching them torture you, humiliate you, and you—just stood by, coldly indifferent.” “Until the day I climbed to the top floor of this mansion—” “And… jumped down.” "After I died, Trinh Thien Thien revealed her true face. It turned out that from the beginning she had colluded with a competitor, stealing all the company's core secrets." “The Trinh family went bankrupt.” "She laughed at us, saying that the 'wrong child' was never an accident, but was staged by her money-hungry biological parents." “In the end, she hired someone to cause a car accident…” “Your whole family… died.” Trinh Ky Xuong's voice was very light, but each sentence was like blood seeping through his teeth, heavy in his heart. I looked at him stunned, unable to speak. At that moment— In front of the room's door, a soft sob sounded like broken silk. Both Trinh Ky Xuong and I turned our heads. The door was only slightly closed, outside— Trinh Hoang Vien and Lam Van were standing frozen. Their faces were pale, panicked like never before, as if the world had just collapsed right before their eyes. Since the moment the truth was exposed, Trinh Hoang Vien and Lam Van's attitudes towards me changed completely. Lam Van no longer secretly sends money to Trinh Thien Thien anymore. We are—finally like a real family. As for me, I also officially became the eldest lady of the Trinh family. Trinh Ky Xuong - still retains the model of crazy doting on his younger sister as in the original. The only difference is, the person you favor this time— It's me, To Moc.