Chapter 3 — Because of his ex-wife, he lost everything

Then there's the matter of money. Tham Duong does not have an official job, the reason is that staying at home to take care of the children is not convenient for work. Duong Duong's tuition, extra tuition, medical examination, living expenses, large piano costs tens of millions, small toys cost hundreds of thousands, all paid by Luc Hanh Chu. The amount of money Luc Hanh Chu transfers to Tham Duong each month is more than the living expenses of the two of us combined. I once talked to Luc Hanh Chu about this issue. I told you it's right to give alimony, but in moderation, we also have our own lives. Luc Hanh Chu clearly agreed, but when he turned away, Tham Duong called, he transferred the money again, without even discussing it with me.

"It's not easy for her to raise a child alone. You're the baby's father, if you don't worry, who will?" Luc Hanh Chu always brings up that sentence.

I want to say, she's not easy because you spoil her, but every time the words reach the corner of my mouth, I swallow them. I don't want to appear narrow-minded, and I don't want people to say I'm a cruel stepmother who can't accommodate my husband's ex-wife and stepchildren. Therefore, I endured time and time again, suppressing all dissatisfaction and self-pity deep in my heart. Until I got pregnant. I thought the appearance of this baby would change Luc Hanh Chu, would make him regain his thoughts, and focus on his new family. But the truth proves that I thought too much. In the second month of pregnancy, when morning sickness was most severe, I couldn't smell the smell of grease, couldn't swallow rice, and was so weak that I had difficulty getting out of bed. At first, Luc Hanh Chu seemed considerate, cooked me porridge, and took me to the hospital. But Tham Duong made a phone call, and before the rice could be cooked, he was gone. I was alone facing an empty house, so hungry that my stomach turned upside down, and in the end I had to cling to the wall and crawl into the kitchen to cook myself a bowl of porridge. That night when Luc Hanh Chu returned, it was almost eleven o'clock. He smiled brightly and said that Duong Duong won first prize in an activity and was especially happy. I lay on the bed, my face pale, and whispered to him if he had eaten yet. He said he had eaten at Tham Duong's place. Tham Duong made sweet and sour fried ribs, which he liked best. I closed my eyes and didn't say a word. Things like this happened so many times that I can't remember clearly anymore. Every time it was Tham Duong who called, Luc Hanh Chu immediately dropped everything in his hands to run over there, leaving me alone. I went to the prenatal check-up all by myself. I gritted my teeth and endured all the morning sickness and vomiting. I woke up in the middle of the night with cramps and the place next to me was deserted. I held my leg in pain and broke out in a cold sweat. Luc Hanh Chu was probably in another apartment building, coaxing someone else's child to sleep. It's not that I've never been angry, but every time Luc Hanh Chu looks at me with the expression "Why don't you understand things like that?", telling me to compare myself to a child, calling me narrow-minded. Arguing until the end, the mistake is mine.

"Khuong Dan Thanh, can you be less narrow-minded?! You're an adult, Duong Duong is only seven years old!" Luc Hanh Chu always ends with that sentence, his voice carrying a suffocating reason.

So today, I had a plate of braised pork that I stewed for two hours The watch was silently taken away by him, and the bowstring that had been taut in my heart for too long finally broke. Not because of the braised meat dish. But from beginning to end, in this man's heart, I never had a place. 03 Taxi parked under the apartment lobby. I paid, dragged my suitcase upstairs.