Chapter 4 — Being Betrayed by the General, I Became the Protector of the Nation's Wealth, Making Him Kneel and Pray

He, Luc Thoi Nghien, the youngest general in Thuong Kinh, from beginning to end was just a pawn on her chessboard. A feeling of great confusion and failure immediately engulfed him. He looked at the familiar yet strange face before him and discovered for the first time that he had never really understood her. His voice was hoarse.

“What exactly do you want to do?”

Tham Tri Y raised the tea cup and gently blew the rising hot steam.

“General Luc was joking.”

“I didn't do anything.”

“It was you who chose the wrong person and took the wrong path.”

Her eyes were calm and unwavering, but made Luc Thoi Nghien feel so humiliated that he had no place to live. In the elegant room of Bat Ngu Tra Lau, it was completely quiet. Luc Thoi Nghien felt even his breathing became difficult. His status, power and strategy, which he was always proud of, became so ridiculous in front of this woman.

“So, the Luc family's current miserable situation was all created by your hand?”

He spoke with difficulty, each word seemed to be forced out from between his teeth.

“I told you, I didn't do anything.”

I put down the tea cup, making a clear sound.

“I just took back a few things that originally belonged to me.”

"The waterway transport fleet belongs to me. The network of relationships within the military is something I have diligently built. The medicine Stop Than Huong is also mine."

“General Luc, tell me, all these years, besides the empty shell called the General's mansion, what else has your Luc family truly belonged to you?”

My words were like sharp blades, stripping away his last bit of dignity. Luc Thoi Nghien's face changed from red to white, then from white to pale blue. He clenched his fists, his nails digging deep into his palms, yet he didn't feel any pain. He had always believed that the marriage between the Luc family and the Tham family meant that the Luc family was supporting a fallen aristocrat like the Tham family. Now that I think about it, the truth is quite the opposite. It's Tham Tri Y, or more accurately, Thinh Tuyet Lau, who has always borrowed the Luc family's sign to silently advertise. And he is the biggest puppet pushed forward.

“What do you want?”

After a long time, he found his voice again, hoarse to the extreme. He knew that today she was willing to meet him, which proved that this matter still had a way to turn around. She definitely has a purpose.

“Very simple.”

I held up two fingers.

"First, break up with Khuong Nguyet Linh, kick her out of the Luc family, and never be accepted back."

【Do you want to marry her? Then let you kick her out yourself.】 Luc Thoi Nghien's whole body shook, as if he didn't expect me to make this request. But he did not hesitate and immediately nodded. As for Khuong Nguyet Linh, there has long been only disgust left in his heart. I looked at him and slowly said each word.

"I want three parts of the profits of the entire property in the name of the Luc family. At the same time, Luc Thoi Nghien yourself must work for my Thinh Tuyet Lau for ten years."

Luc Thoi Nghien jumped up and looked at me in disbelief.

“Tham Tri Y, don't be too harsh!”

If you want the Luc family's fortune, so be it. Yet he still wanted him to work for her for ten years? That's no different than selling yourself as a slave!

“Is it too much?”

But the smile never reached the bottom of his eyes.

“General Sixth, you are not qualified to bargain with me right now.”

“Or agree to my conditions, I will help you solve the situation of the Luc family, and by the way, also remove the poisonous substance in your body.”

"Or embrace your title of general and that 'gentle wife' and watch helplessly as the Luc family's hundred-year-old legacy is destroyed in an instant."

“Oh right, I almost forgot to tell you.”

I stood up and looked down at him from above.

"The longer the poison in your body lasts, the more times it will attack, the more pain it will cause. In no more than three months, you will be mentally disturbed, turning into a madman who only knows how to bite and tear others."

“You choose for yourself.”

Having finished speaking, I didn't look at him again, turned around and left.

“I give you three days to think.”

“Three days later, send someone to Tinh Tam Cu to answer me.”

My figure disappeared at the top of the stairs. Luc Thoi Nghien lazily sat back in his chair, his whole body cold as ice. He knew he had no other choice.