Chapter 16 — Cracks Under Light

Tham Nhuoc Ninh smiled: "I bought a ticket. What's wrong, the museum doesn't allow ordinary people to see the exhibition?" Chu Nghien Tu walked up from the back row: "Nhuoc Ninh, get out." She looked at him, her smile became sharper: "What good person are you pretending to be now? Didn't you initially say that Lam Van was very annoying, saying she made you lose face, saying she didn't deserve to appear in front of everyone?" Chu's mother's face changed: "She said nonsense." Tham Nhuoc Ninh took out his phone from his pocket: "Did I say something nonsense? Do I need to record it?" Chu Nghien Tu's face turned pale: "What else did you record?" "Record how you scolded her, record how Mrs. Chu taught me to move into your apartment, record how Hua Kien Thanh told me to get the jade button." Tham Nhuoc Ninh looked at me: "Lam Van, you thought you were the only one who knew how to record." sound?” There was a commotion under the stage. I firmly placed the small cup and raised my head to look at her: "What do you want?" Tham Nhuoc Ninh's eyes were filled with blood: "I want you to withdraw your application, tell Director Co that the matter of the jade button was just a misunderstanding, tell everyone that I did not steal." Co Minh Nghi's voice was stern: "Are you threatening others in the museum?" Tham Nhuoc Ninh smiled: "I'm just adding the truth. Lam Van is also not clean. All these years she pretended to be innocent? Knowing clearly that Chu Nghien Tu doesn't love her, she still clings. Isn't she just taking care of someone else because she wants to marry into the Chu family? My mother stood up angrily: "Shut up!" Tham Nhuoc Ninh pointed at my mother: "Don't you pretend? Doesn't your family also secretly agree? Who doesn't know that your family wants to climb into the Chu family?" Nhuoc Ninh!” Tham Nhuoc Ninh looked at him, tears falling quickly: “You yelled at me? I hugged you before, told you not to be afraid, why didn't you yell?” Chu's mother stood up impatiently: “Where is the security guard? Pull her out.” Tham Nhuoc Ninh immediately shouted: “Just pull me away, I will post the entire recording. Don't you people of the Chu family want to be innocent.” The hall immediately became chaos. I bowed my head and continued to clean the crack on the cup. Uncle Phuong lowered his voice: "The girl?" I said: "Let her take care of it." Tham Nhuoc Ninh was stunned. I looked at her: "Didn't you have a recording? Play it." Her hand stopped on the screen: "Aren't you afraid?" "I used to be afraid." I said: "Afraid of you saying I'm embarrassing others, afraid of embarrassing my parents, afraid of becoming a laughing stock for twenty-three years. Now I'm afraid enough." Chu Nghien Tu turned pale and looked at me. Tham Nhuoc Ninh gritted his teeth and opened the recording. Chu Nghien Tu's voice came from the phone: "She's been like that since she was little, taking care of too many things." Next was Chu's mother's voice: "Nhuoc Ninh, you can rest assured. That child Van Van is very easy to coax, she will come back on her own in a few days." It was Chu Nghien Tu again: "I just think of her as a sister." The whole hall was silent. Those words were like an old knife, belatedly opening the wound. Tham Nhuoc Ninh looked at me smugly: "Did you hear that? In his heart, you are nothing." I nodded: "Heared that." She didn't expect me to be so calm, her expression was blank for a moment. I swept the crumbs on the cup into the tray: "Is there more?" Tham Nhuoc Ninh was angry: "What are you pretending to be?" I said: "If it's gone, then it's my turn." Ms. Luong connected another audio clip to the speakers in the hall. Hua Kien Thanh's voice came out clearly: "Having gotten the jade button, I can say that the vase belongs to the Co family. The Chu family wanted to buy it, Lam Van couldn't resist." Immediately followed by Tham Nhuoc Ninh's voice: "What if Chu Nghien Tu finds out?" Hua Kien Thanh said: "He believes you, not Lam Van." Tham Nhuoc Ninh laughed: "That's right." There were deep breaths in the hall. Sharp

Tham Nhuoc Ninh's face changed violently: "Why do you have this part?" Co Minh Nghi said: "Hua Kien Thanh wanted to lighten his responsibility so he handed it over this morning." Uncle Phuong added: "Do you still expect him to bear the burden for you? The relationship between teacher and student is very deep." Chu Nghien Tu stared at Tham Nhuoc Ninh, his eyes full of disgust and regret: "Are you always lying to me?" On the contrary, Tham Nhuoc Ninh was shocked. laughed: "Is it difficult to deceive you? I just need to cry for you to believe it. Lam Van is telling the truth, but you scolded her for forcing herself too much." That sentence was like a slap in his face. I continued to restore the cup: "She's right." Chu Nghien Tu looked at me, his lips moving. Tham Nhuoc Ninh suddenly rushed towards the display table: "You ruin me, I won't let you be innocent!" She raised her hand to snatch the cup. I didn't back away, I leaned forward to block the tray, using the soft cushion in my hand to hold the rim of the cup. The security guard rushed forward and held her back. She struggled and shouted: "Lam Van, what do you rely on? Why do you always have someone to help you?" I looked at her: "Because I don't steal other people's roads." The security guard took her away. When passing by Chu Nghien Tu, she suddenly stopped and smiled sadly: