Chapter 3 — Divorcing the Cold Battalion Commander

“Lam Mieu, is your brain waterlogged? Just now you boldly told me I was having an affair.”

“If it's adultery, then he's a cheater.”

Lam Mieu's face stiffened.

“If he is the victim, report it to the police and say I raped him.”

“If he is a cheater, then you guys can just arrest him.”

“And if he is a criminal, then I am a victim.”

“Now you guys are just saying I'm having an affair, while letting him pretend to be pitiful.”

“The script is so messy, didn't anyone fix it during rehearsals?”

Luc Xuyen stared at me. His eyebrows frowned even tighter.

“To Van, you weren't like this before.”

“I held back before, but that doesn't mean I'm stupid.”

Luc's mother angrily shouted: "You still dare to lie!" I looked at her.

“Mom, just calm down.”

"Waiting for this matter to be investigated clearly, I have to consider whether or not I should apologize to you."

Luc's mother was so angry that her whole body was shaking. Lam Mieu quickly caught her.

“Auntie, don't be angry.”

“Sister-in-law is in a bad mood right now.”

I turned my head to look at Lam Mieu.

“Don't say one word to your sister-in-law, two words to your sister-in-law.”

“I feel nauseous listening to it.”

Lam Mieu's tears were about to flow again. Luc Xuyen instinctively stepped forward to cover her half a step. Just that half step. The last bit of painful feelings left in the original owner's heart suddenly stabbed me hard. She used to love this man. Once mended his shirt. Winter gets up at dawn to warm up food for him. He brought the survivor money his parents left him to treat his mother's illness. She thought Luc Xuyen didn't speak because he wasn't good at expressing himself. Now I understand. It's not that he's not good at showing off. It's his gentleness that was never given to the original owner. I suppressed the pain in my chest, silently telling the original owner in my heart: *"Don't worry, I will make them pay back the humiliation a hundredfold."* When I raised my eyes again, the temperature in the bottom of my eyes was completely cold. I looked at the young soldier in military uniform standing at the door.

“Please go call someone from the Security Department (Protection Department) here.”

4. The soldier was stunned and instinctively looked towards Luc Xuyen.

“Don't go!”

Luc Xuyen shouted loudly. I laughed, but the smile didn't reach my eyes.

“Why not?”

“Battalion Commander Luc, are you afraid that the Security Department will investigate clearly, or are you afraid that they won't be able to investigate?”

Luc Xuyen's face immediately sank.

“It's a family matter, there's no need to make such a fuss that it's reported to the unit.”

“Family matter?”

I felt like I had just heard the biggest joke in the world, pointing at Trieu Dai Cuong.

“An unknown man brazenly barged into the military compound.”

“A soldier's wife was drugged in broad daylight and locked in a warehouse.”

“There are also people publicly accusing me of violating my lifestyle.”

“Battalion Commander Luc, you call this a family matter?”

“This political enlightenment of yours, even if you wrote a review, it would be three pages long.”

Outside the door, someone took a deep breath of cold air. The blue veins on Luc Xuyen's forehead twitched continuously. Before he could speak, Luc's mother rushed up, pointed straight at my nose and cursed.

"Shame on you, shame on you! Show your shirt for everyone to see!"

“You have to tear this matter apart one or two times. You want to destroy our Luc family, right?”

“If you dare to cause trouble again, get out of the Luc family immediately!”

I didn't care about her yelling, just raised my eyes and calmly looked at Luc Xuyen.

“You mean that too?”

Luc Xuyen's eyes avoided for a moment, but finally stopped on me, his voice stiff.

“To Van, if you feel you can't live anymore, we can divorce.”

The room fell silent again.