Chapter 23 — Behind the Door is Still Home

When Mom heard this, her tears fell even harder.

“This girl… is really stubborn.”

She wiped her tears as she spoke.

"That year, my parents put my name on the house book, also thinking that in the future they would leave it to me as a dowry..."

“Why are you…”

I interrupted her.

"Whether you get married or not, whether you have a house or not... are not the most important things."

I looked straight at my parents.

“The important thing is the parents' hearts.”

I said softly.

“After all, my parents consider me a member of the family…”

“Or just a girl who 'will get married anyway and doesn't care anymore'.”

That one sentence made the mother feel weak.

“Of course I am a member of the family.”

She choked up.

"You are the child who was born to me after ten months of heavy labor and pain. How can I not consider you as family?"

I nodded.

“Then let's talk about the second story.”

I turned to look at Chu Hao and Tri Tinh. I said slowly.

"If the house has been transferred back to the parents' name, then how to handle it in the future will be decided by the parents."

Speaking of this, I deliberately looked at the two people.

“But I have one condition.”

My voice turned cold.

"As long as my parents are still alive, this house can only be a place to support their old age."

"No one is allowed to use any reason or any way to force their parents to transfer the house's name to someone else."

Tri Tinh's face immediately changed.

“What is forced, we…”

“Don't be so quick to refute.”

I interrupted her.

"What you call 'coercion' includes arguments, cold wars, threats to take you away..."

“Including letting grandparents take care of their grandchildren but still wanting the house to be in their name.”

“Including using sentences like ‘no one will take care of your parents in the future’ to scare you two.”

I stopped for a moment.

"This includes taking advantage of parents' illiteracy and ignorance of the law to make their own decisions."

Tri Tinh suddenly choked.

“This time I'm back.”

I continue.

“Not just to confront people.”

“I also went out and asked a lawyer.”

I took out another stack of photo paper from my bag.

“This is the document the lawyer gave me, and there is also an agreement that the lawyer helped me draft.”

I spread paper on the tea table.

"After transferring the house back to our parents' names, we can go together to have our residence rights notarized and make a will."

"It will clearly state: this house belongs to my parents."

“While the parents are still alive, the two of them have full rights of residence and disposal.”

“No one is allowed to force two people to make decisions against their will.”

Tri Tinh rolled her eyes.

“Do you still want your parents to make a will?”

“It's a suggestion.”

I calmly replied.

“It's not forced.”

“But I will respect your choice.”

I turned to look at the two people.

“Do your parents agree?”

The two looked at each other. The expressions on their faces from initial confusion and guilt... Gradually turned into a kind of heavy alertness.

“This girl…”

Dad sighed.

“Think carefully about everything.”

Mom was the one who spoke first.

"As long as we make sure that when our parents are old, they will still have a place to live and not have to live by looking at someone's face, then we will agree."

Dad also nodded.

“Dad also agrees.”

The attitude of the two people stunned Tri Tinh and Chu Hao.

“Have you thought carefully?”

Tri Tinh started to panic.

“If you make a will, in the future what if…”

“Let's figure out what happens next.”

Dad interrupted her.

“Right now, Mom and Dad only know one thing.”

“When I was alive, my parents didn't want anyone to hold a house come out to calculate.”

He looked at me.

“In this life, parents really feel more sorry for their children.”

"I'm still thinking about transferring the house's name to my parents, and helping them think of a way out..."

“Parents both remember.”

“I didn't do this to make you remember.”

“I just don't want my parents to be led by someone else.”

“What about us?”

Tri Tinh tightened his pants leg.

"In the future, when my parents are old, they will have to have someone to take care of them."

“We are here, how convenient it is to take care of.”

“If we don't transfer names to us soon, if something happens to him outside in the future…”

“Who can parents rely on?”

“Who takes care of my parents…”

Mom wiped away her tears and became tough for once.

“It's not decided by a piece of paper.”

"My parents have lived to this age, they are not stupid."

"Whoever is truly kind to their parents will know it in their hearts."

She looked at Tri Tinh and Chu Hao, then looked at me. In those eyes, there was hesitation, there was tension... There was also a kind of calmness forced out by reality.

“Before, my parents thought…”

"The children stay by your side and worry first, which means being truly kind to your parents."

“But these days…”

“The things you said behind your sister's back…”

“Mom and Dad heard it too.”

Tri Tinh's face turned pale little by little.

“You guys feel…”

Mom's voice trembled.

“Just consider it an 'outsider' and you can exchange this house.”

“So what are parents?”

“My mother gave birth to him, raised him, sent him to school, to work, to fend for himself.”

“Now he sends money back to his parents…”