Chapter 1 — Best Friend Steals Husband

My boyfriend pays his entire salary every month. My relatives and friends are all jealous because I have an honest, obedient boyfriend. But my best friend said: "Actually, your boyfriend is very smart." "It looks like he paid all the money, but in total it was only five thousand. The wedding, house, bride price, and travel expenses were all taken from there. If it wasn't enough, you would have to go home and ask your parents to make up for it. In the end, does he really want to marry you?" I smiled and helped him explain: "Five thousand is his entire salary. Now the economy is difficult, and it's not easy for him. But in my heart I feel the awkwardness every time I come home and ask my parents for money. Until one time doing laundry, I accidentally pulled out a long bill from Bui Chieu Xuyen's pocket. One million six hundred and seventy-three thousand eight hundred yuan is the living expenses he transferred to my best friend. Child's daycare fee. Money to beautify and take care of your best friend's beauty. Travel expenses for two people. Health check-up money for close friends' parents. Each item, each item, caught my eye, making me unable to keep up. At this moment, the phone rang with a notification. My boyfriend's transfer of five thousand yuan arrived again. "My dear wife, this month's salary has been paid in full. I hope you love yourself well." I squeezed the long bill in my hand very tightly. I clicked on money transfer and selected refund. "Bui Chieu Xuyen, I don't want to manage this money anymore."……… That afternoon, Bui Chieu Xuyen kept calling me. I didn't answer the phone, and I didn't know how to answer. When he got off work, he came home half an hour early, bringing my favorite yogurt. Seeing me sitting alone in the living room, he came over and hugged me. "Why aren't you happy, baby? Do you think I earn too little, making you feel sorry for yourself?" "Nim Niem, don't worry, it's all temporary. Now I risk my life working overtime every day. Soon I'll get a raise. At that time I'll take you to a big house and buy you everything you want." The same words, he said. said it many times. A huge feeling of helplessness arose. “Bui Chieu Xuyen, aren't you tired?” “What?” Bui Chieu Xuyen looked at me with a puzzled expression. "For seven years, you've been acting like this every day, aren't you tired?" Bui Chieu Xuyen choked up. In the room, there was only the sound of the electric fan spinning, so noisy that it made people feel disturbed. I walked over and turned it off, then handed him the bill in my pocket. "Aren't you going to explain a little?" Bui Chieu Xuyen froze on the spot. "Niem Niem, I'm just out of respect for Hua Manh, who is your best friend, so I help her a little more. You don't need to think too much." "So what about your child? Is it also out of respect for me that I should help her give birth?" The blood on Bui Chieu Xuyen's face drained away. He opened his mouth, it took half a day to find his voice again: "It was just an accident. You know, Manh Manh's health is not good, I can't..." At that moment, Hua Manh's phone rang. On the other end of the line, a child's voice rang out, calling his father in an unclear voice. "Chieu Xuyen, come over here later and remember to buy some tiger prawns, Duong Duong wants to eat the boiled shrimp I made." "That's right, when you buy, buy a little more. When Duong Duong has leftovers, you can bring them to Niem Niem. I've seen her recently lose a lot of weight in order to save money. Ah, buy me a package of vegetarian food. This week, be a little more obedient, I can't stand being abused." Bui Chieu Xuyen awkwardly interrupted: "Hua Manh, I'm at home, Niem Niem is right next to me." The other end of the line was silent for a second, then immediately hung up. My eyes were red, staring at Bui Chieu Xuyen: "Start from here."

When?” “Nim Niem, calm down first. It's not as serious as you think, don't..." "I ask you, when did you two start?" Bui Chieu Xuyen faltered and dodged. I grabbed his phone, crazy and flipped it to the front. One year. Two years. Three years. Six years. Full six years, more than two thousand one hundred and sixty days and nights. Each text message was like a blunt blade, bit by bit cutting into my nerves. Their first time was when I told them to. Bui Chieu Xuyen went to guide Hua Manh to find a job after she failed. The second time they couldn't hold back their feelings. My grandmother suddenly had a brain hemorrhage, I panicked and didn't know what to do, but I thought Bui Chieu Xuyen was working so I didn't dare to bother her. When I went to work part-time to help Bui Chieu Xuyen save for the bride price, Bui Chieu Xuyen was with Hua Manh for a prenatal check-up Feeling sorry, I took out my heart and gave it to Bui Chieu Xuyen. I saw him as someone who could hold my hand for the rest of my life. But in the end, everything I spent became a joke. Bui Chieu Xuyen sighed and stood up: "I admit, there is something wrong with this matter. Just say frankly how much money you want.” “Is the eight hundred and eighty thousand bride price enough? If not enough, one million eight hundred and eighty thousand? I can give it to you." "House, car, whatever you see, you can say it straight, don't be angry." I looked at him in disbelief: "Even now you still think I messed with you for money?" Bui Chieu Xuyen angrily rubbed his hair. "When I didn't have money to marry you, you argued. Now that I have money to marry you, you still argue! Finally, what do you want me to do? Tong Niem, you must force me to go crazy, right?" "Who is forcing who to go crazy? For many years, I was blindfolded and toyed with by two people like a monkey. He and she have children and want to marry me. Bui Chieu Xuyen, what do you think I am?" Bui Chieu Xuyen seemed to be choked by this sentence. His expression finally could no longer be maintained. He suddenly threw the yogurt bottle to the ground. The glass shards tore my skin. Blood flowed down my calves, yogurt stains were all over the floor. Seeing the blood on my leg, Bui Chieu Xuyen immediately regained consciousness and quickly took out the medicine box to treat the wound. me. “Tong Niem, can we stop trying to get into a dead end? Manh Manh also said that as long as she has a child that belongs to her, she will be satisfied and will not come to bother us. We can still be like before..." Bui Chieu Xuyen had not finished speaking when Hua Manh's phone called. "What again?" Bui Chieu Xuyen frowned and asked. The other end of the line paused, seemingly not expecting Bui Chieu Xuyen's voice to be so impatient. Immediately afterwards, the child's heart-wrenching cry came from the receiver. The lines on Bui Chieu Xuyen's eyebrows softened. "Sorry, sorry, dad is not cruel to you." Bui Chieu Xuyen nervously stood up, the iodine bottle was knocked over, brown liquid flowed all over the ground. On the other end of the phone, Hua Manh's gentle, self-pitying voice rang out: "Chieu Xuyen, I didn't mean to bother you, but Duong Duong keeps crying for his father, I have no choice." Bui Chieu Xuyen clenched his fist, looked at me awkwardly, then made up his mind. "Nien Niem, you take care of it yourself first, I'll go and go home right away." I said nothing, standing silently by the window. Watching him run away very quickly, he accidentally got caught on his shirt by the tram in the hallway door. He angrily kicked it over. It was the car he bought me the first year we dated. It can't block the wind and rain, but it can make it so I don't have to squeeze on the subway anymore. The moment I received the car, I was happy

to the extreme, driving him around the block several times. The love I thought, the happiness I thought. Just like this car, it was overturned by rocks to the ground, broken into pieces. Turning around to go back into the house, I saw the computer screen light up, the icon on it continuously flashing. It was Bui Chieu Xuyen who forgot to exit the chat software. I shook my hand and pressed it open. The conversation between Bui Chieu Xuyen and Hua Manh quickly appeared. "Chieu Xuyen, what should we do now?" "We can only use marriage to stabilize her first." "You really want to marry her? But didn't we just register our marriage?" After Hua Manh sent it, he immediately added: "Chieu Xuyen, I don't want to compare with Niem Niem. I know, if it wasn't Niem Niem who sent it, I, a person who just graduated from high school, coming to Hai Thanh, I won't have the life I have now. I'm just worried that if Duong Duong stays in my rural household, going to school, enrolling, and making friends will all be discriminated against. But don't be embarrassed, this is also my fate. I know we should accept it." Bui Chieu Xuyen immediately sent her a comforting symbol, rubbing his head. "You are not inferior to Tong Niem at all. I don't let you and Duong go Duong feels sorry for herself. I will give her a fake marriage certificate. I will not hold a wedding with her. I guarantee that Duong Duong will not be affected at all." "But now she knows that the marriage certificate is fake, will it be..." "No, because of our marriage, she has already made tension with her parents Now her only wish is to marry you. If she gets the certificate, she will definitely be so happy, how could she think so much? You can see that she treasures the torn electric car that you conveniently gave her." Hua Manh sent an obedient sign and nodded. Tears fell drop by drop onto the keyboard. I used my hand to wipe it off vigorously. Then typed each word on the keyboard: "You two despicable scum people, why don't you go die." The next second, the software was immediately logged out. Bui Chieu Xuyen's phone quickly rang, I hung up. Hua Manh also called, I didn't pay attention. That evening I packed my things and moved out. That year, when I just moved into this rented room, I joked with Bui Chieu Xuyen: "I won't buy too much furniture. If one day we argue and you kick me out, I'll look very hurtful when I carry big bags and small bags." Who would have thought that one sentence would become thunder. That night it rained very heavily. I dragged my suitcase away in a struggling manner, the rain water soaked the wound, causing pain and burning. I suddenly remembered the day Bui Chieu Xuyen and I had just moved into the rented room, which was also such a rainy day. He gave me the best raincoat and boots, while he carried the big and small bags, still protecting me on the inside of the road. When he arrived at the apartment, his whole body was soaked and he struggled unbearably. And my whole body didn't really have a drop of water on it. 3When I arrived at the hotel I had booked, I just changed out of my soaked clothes. Someone knocked on the hotel room door. As soon as I opened the door, I discovered that the people coming were Bui Chieu Xuyen and Hua Manh. When I was young, I argued with my parents and ran away from home. The first people to find me forever were Bui Chieu Xuyen and Hua Manh. But now I'm not happy at all. I wanted to close the door, but was stopped by Hua Manh. The door accidentally caught Hua Manh's hand. Hua Manh cried out in pain, her arm turned slightly red. Bui Chieu Xuyen nervously pushed open the door, causing me to stagger back two steps. He held Hua Manh's hand, carefully confirmed that there was nothing alarming, then glared angrily

look at me.