Chapter 1 — Cold Marriage

1“You can go now.” The sound of the stick hitting the iron door echoed loudly. The guard stood at the cell door, looking at me with contempt. He is just like everyone else out there. From the bottom of their hearts, they all looked down on me, Co Trach Dinh's wife. I tried to stand up, it took me a while to realize that I - the person who had died under the mud - had been reborn! Co Trach Dinh was still the same as before, standing outside the gate waiting for me.2 "Why are you crying?"His beautiful face appeared before my eyes. I even still remember the pleasure of stroking his eyebrows and the bridge of his nose every night. Reincarnated back into this life, facing him, for a moment I didn't know what to say. Only now can I clearly determine that I have truly been reincarnated! I took a deep breath and silently walked down the steps. Winter in Hai Thi is really cold. It's so cold that it makes my heart tremble in pain. Co Trach Dinh habitually took off his jacket and put it on for me. "Don't catch a cold." Familiar warmth, accompanied by the faint scent of gardenia flowers. I recognized this scent - it was the scent of soap at Bach Chi's house. Thinking back to my previous life when I questioned him, Co Trach Dinh initially seemed gentle but gradually became cold, in his eyes was the restraint waiting to explode. "Chu Diep, I've locked you up for three days, have you still not calmed down?" "Can you stop causing trouble?" At that time, my heart was full of injustice. Faced with Bach Chi's provocation, Co Trach Dinh ignored it. I could only struggle in pain, with no one to help me, and finally lived in the ridicule of others. Co Trach Dinh, in this life, you should just love your girl honestly, I won't continue. I tried my best to control the tears that were about to spill out, stiffly took off my jacket, not mentioning the scent. "Put it on, I'm not cold." Co Trach Dinh was stunned and stopped walking, it took a while to regain his composure. 3 Returning home, I took a kettle of hot water and went to the bathroom to take a shower. When he came out, Co Trach Dinh, who rarely goes into the kitchen to cook, wore an apron to cook. At this time, there were three dishes full of family flavors on the table. "Sit down, one more soup and you're done." Who would have thought that the arrogant man that so many people admire is wearing my apron? If it weren't for seeing him protect that woman with my own eyes, ordering me to be locked up in a cell in front of so many people, I could hardly believe this was the same person. Even though I took a hot bath, my body still shivered from time to time because of the cold. It was the coldness that penetrated to the core, the pain of being buried under the mud, and the despair of being abandoned by Co Trach Dinh. I took a deep breath and told myself: Chu Diep, you have to be strong! Even if others don't appreciate you, betray you, or abandon you, you still have to love yourself more! I helped myself to a full bowl of rice. Three days locked in a cell, no one to take care of him. Every day there are only two meals of man tau, white porridge and pickles. When Co Trach Dinh brought the bowl of seaweed soup to the table, he looked at me in surprise. I didn't wait for him to finish cooking and then eat with me. I just picked up the meat with my chopsticks and chopsticks, like a starved person who was about to die, greedily chewing rice. He sat across from me, took a bowl of soup. "Eat slowly, if you like it, I'll buy more tomorrow." He placed the bowl of soup next to me. The sound of bowls and chopsticks colliding echoed in the house, but there was no more talking or asking, making the two of us even more strangers. Finishing dinner quickly, I stood up and wanted to leave. "Chu Diep." Co Trach Dinh called me back. "Let's talk." 4. "You don't need to have a cold war with me." Co Trach Dinh's personality

cold, quiet. Perhaps due to the influence of his father, he always restrained himself. At a young and talented young man, he rarely showed his emotions. "Previously, when Bach Chi's father passed away, she followed her mother and left Hai Thi, we lost contact." "A few years later, he met her again in a remote and poor mountain area, at that time she was forced by her uncle to sell her to an alcoholic as his wife." No one could understand the horror and anger of Co Trach Dinh at that time. The proudest and most beautiful girl in the ward in the past, after only a few years, was abused by her previous husband to the point that her whole body was covered in wounds. When Co Trach Dinh picked her up, Bach Chi cowered in his arms, trembling non-stop. "She was seriously traumatized and still had a child with her. It took me two years to help her stabilize. I really didn't want her to suffer any more pain." Perhaps it was because my attitude had changed after reincarnation that this life's Co Trach Dinh decided to tell me about the past. The pain in his eyes was not fake, he truly had compassion for his childhood sweetheart. Even though I had already died, seeing my husband moved by another woman broke my soul. He will never know that that moment of his weakness was like a sharp knife piercing my heart, where the wound was bleeding. I tried to control my breathing, holding on to my last bit of reason. "So, you locked me in a cell?" Co Trach Dinh stopped breathing, he tried to explain so I could understand his pain: "You publicly slandered her as a third party in front of so many people, do you know how much of an impact that has on a single mother?" "Co Trach Dinh, my monthly salary is 80 yuan, give me 20, give her She's 60, is this what you call pure?" "If you love her so much and don't want her to suffer resentment, why do you still marry me? What do you see as this family?" "You don't want her to get hurt, so you lock your official wife in a prison cell. Do you know that this will make me laugh at people, get fired from the textile factory, and never find a job again?" The resentment of my past life finally spills out with every sentence. question. Looking at the man I had loved for half my life, I smiled in despair: "I know, I just don't care." Tears blurred my vision, I was engulfed in my own pain, unable to breathe, like a dying fish. The man hugged me tightly, Co Trach Dinh's unique warmth enveloped me. He hugged my waist, patted my back, as if he didn't know what to do. "I don't, Diep Tu, don't cry." "It's okay if you don't have a job, I'm your husband, I will take care of you for the rest of your life." 5 In his previous life, he also said the same. He said, he will support me for the rest of my life. At that time, I retained my little dignity and refused him. I tried to find a job everywhere, but with the sentence on me, no one dared to hire me. In the end, I returned home with a broken head, like a dog that had been kicked out of the house, and became a full-time housewife. Co Trach Dinh does not mock or despise me because of that, in fact he is a very good person, he can do what he says. When he got married, he gave me all his savings to keep. Before knowing about Bach Chi, I really lived very happily. But when Co Trach Dinh locked me in a cell because of another woman, and I lost my job, many people began to mock and mock me. They said behind Co Trach Dinh's back that I was a toad and wanted to eat swan meat. The most terrible thing is, cruel words

That, to me, is all true. People living in this world are not afraid of lies that cloud their minds, but are only afraid of the truth piercing their hearts. Day after day I gnawed at my own pain, becoming a stupid and rude woman, easily angry and cursing. But everything has become the past, and the past cannot be turned back anymore. In this life, I know which path I should follow so I don't have to die in pain and resentment again. Drying my tears, I pushed Co Trach Dinh away and said softly: "Okay."