Chapter 6 — Because of his ex-wife, he lost everything

I stood in front of the bank, the bright sunlight shining on me, but I felt cold. My hand holding the phone was shaking with anger. A rage welled up from the bottom of my heart, almost swallowing me whole.

"Luc Hanh Chu," I gritted my teeth, squeezing out each word, "That thirty thousand is my savings before the wedding, it's my money. I have no right to transfer it to someone else without your consent."

"Who is someone else? Is Duong Duong someone else?"

“For me, it is someone else.”

The other end of the line was silent for a moment, then Luc Hanh Chu's voice deepened: "Khuong Dan Thanh, when did you become so selfish?" Selfish. This word is like a knife, stabbing precisely into my weakest place. Over the past two years, I have endured Tham Duong's endless stalking, endured him leaving me over and over again to go hang out with his ex-wife and son, and endured his shared assets being treated as a private safe for him to use as he pleased. In the end, he cursed me for being selfish. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. When I opened my eyes, the last bit of hesitation in my eyes had completely disappeared.

“Luc Hanh Chu, listen carefully.” My voice was clear and cold. "First, divorce. Second, the fifty thousand you have moved out of, you must return to me not a penny less. Thirty thousand of them are my pre-marital assets, the remaining twenty thousand are common assets, when divorced, you have the right to divide half. If you do not agree, I will sue in court."

“Don't you…”

I didn't hear him finish his sentence, so I hung up directly. 05 That afternoon, I went to the lawyer's office. Next to me was a female lawyer in her forties whose last name was Chau. Her style was resourceful and decisive. It looked like she was an expert in handling marital disputes. Lawyer Chau listened to me tell the story and nodded and said this case was not complicated. I have all the records of pre-marital savings transferred into a joint account, and evidence of the joint savings account being unilaterally disbanded. If you go to court, your chances of winning are huge.

"However," lawyer Chau looked at me, his eyes carrying a bit of scrutiny, "You are currently more than four months pregnant, the divorce lawsuit must last at least a few months, by which time the child will have been born. Are you sure you want a divorce at this time?"

I was silent for a few seconds, then said: "Lawyer Chau, I want to deal with the child first." Lawyer Chau did not ask further, just nodded and gave me a business card: "When you think carefully, contact me." Coming out of the lawyer's office, I stood on the side of the road, looking at the busy traffic, a decision coiling in my heart that I had not dared to think through. Child. My child and Luc Hanh Chu have been in my belly for more than four months. I've been looking forward to this child so much, even in the worst moments of morning sickness, just thinking that in the future there will be a soft little creature calling me mom, I feel like everything is worth it. But now it's different. If I give birth to this child, Luc Hanh Chu is its father. I will never completely cut off ties with him in my entire life. He will use the child as an excuse, just like Tham Duong used Duong Duong to tie him up, to turn around and tie me up. Until then, there are no visiting rights custody, alimony, time with the children... I will have to spend the rest of my life entangled with this man. More importantly, I don't want my child to have a father like that - a father who always harbors another family, another child in his heart. I don't want my child to grow up in Duong Duong's shadow, I don't want my child to be like me, always ranked behind others.