Chapter 14 — Because of his ex-wife, he lost everything

It's all a loss." I hung up the phone and sat idly on the sofa for a long time. Should I laugh, or should I sigh? Luc Hanh Chu abandoned his marriage for this child, spent all his savings, sold a house, and in the end discovered that the child was not his at all. This joke is so big, so big that for a moment I don't know how to digest it. I remember Luc Hanh Chu's fiercely righteous face when he said: "You are an adult, why do you compare yourself with a child?", remember his calm tone when he voluntarily transferred fifty thousand: "The opportunity to choose a school for Duong Duong is only once", remember his back without hesitation every time he left me behind to run to Tham Duong. If he knew the truth, what would he do? I discovered I didn't want to know the answer. It's okay for Luc Hanh Chu to collapse, it's okay to be angry, it's okay to regret, all of it no longer has anything to do with me. I am no longer the one who has to clean up the mess for him, nor am I the one who has to comfort him when he collapses. I had already stepped out of that quagmire, and he was still standing in place, and was about to receive the most painful slap. I put down the phone, stood up and went to the kitchen to pour a glass of water. The beautiful afternoon light poured in outside the window, golden sunlight spread over the potted plants on the balcony, dyeing the bright leaves. I leaned against the kitchen table and slowly drank the entire glass of water, feeling peace like never before. The law of cause and effect in life, sometimes you don't need to act on your own, God will help you calculate clearly and fairly. My good days are still ahead, and Luc Hanh Chu's good days have come to an end. 11 Luc Hanh Chu finally learned the truth, right at Duong Duong's parents' meeting. That day, he took half a day off and went to school for a parent meeting for Duong Duong. Tham Duong said he was busy and couldn't get out of it. He didn't think too much about it. After all, in the past, things like going to parent-teacher conferences were all up to him. He sat in Duong Duong's seat, in front of him was the midterm exam scoreboard: Math over seventy points, Literature over sixty points, English failed. The homeroom teacher stood next to him and gently told him that Duong Duong had not been paying attention in class lately, and his homework was often not submitted, so he hoped his parents would pay closer attention. Luc Hanh Chu nodded repeatedly, promising that he would definitely urge him when he got home, but in his heart he thought, Tham Duong ran out all day long, where would he have time to manage his children's education. After the parent-teacher meeting, he encountered Duong Duong's deskmate's mother in the hallway. The woman greeted enthusiastically, said she hadn't seen Duong Duong's father for a long time, then casually asked: "Oh right, has Duong Duong had any contact with his biological father over there recently?" Last time Duong Duong told me that his biological father bought him a flycam, he was very happy." Luc Hanh Chu's footsteps suddenly stopped.

“Which biological father?” He turned his head to look at the woman, the expression on his face made the other person startled.

My tablemate's mother realized that she had said something wrong, stammered and said: "Ah, that... I must have remembered wrongly, sorry..." and then hurriedly left, as if she was flee. Luc Hanh Chu stood still in the hallway, surrounded by parents and students bustling back and forth. The noise was like the tide rising and receding, he could no longer hear anything, in his head only those two words echoed endlessly. Biological father. Biological father. Duong Duong also has a "biological father". He didn't know how he got out of the school gate, nor did he know how he got back to Tham Duong's house.