Chapter 14 — Don't Touch My Limits

That afternoon, they followed Cao Trung Dan to the transaction center and completed the procedure to transfer the name of the apartment building to his name. In the evening, twenty thousand was transferred to Cao Trung Dan's account. The remaining 300,000 also had debt papers written out, signed, and fully indexed. We also told lawyer Vuong not to withdraw the lawsuit for the time being. We will wait until the remaining amount is paid before we can withdraw the lawsuit. If during that process they are late in paying even one period, we will immediately ask the court to open a hearing. Truong Nguyet Cam also returned the spare key to us, saying that he would not come on his own in the future. If he wanted to come, he would call first and only come over after we agreed. This matter... is finally over. I thought this was the end, we could finally live in peace. But unexpectedly... Not even a few days later, something happened again. That evening, we had just finished eating when we received a phone call from neighbor Ms. Ly. She lives in the same area as Truong Nguyet Cam, usually goes to the gym together, and is quite close. On the phone, her voice was urgent:

"La Mai, come over now! My mother-in-law and my brother-in-law are fighting in the neighborhood! People are already crowded! My mother-in-law was pushed to the ground!"

Cao Trung Dan and I looked at each other and were both stunned for a moment. No matter what… it's his mother and sister. Can't ignore it. We immediately changed clothes and drove over. As soon as I arrived, from afar I saw a crowd gathered under the building, noisy and chaotic. We squeezed in, the scene before my eyes made me stop - Truong Nguyet Cam was sitting on the ground, her hair messy, fingerprints on her face, crying and panting. Cao Hieu Quyen stood next to her, pointed straight at her and cursed, his voice was high-pitched, his eyes bloodshot. Neighbors stood around, pointing and whispering. Seeing us coming, Truong Nguyet Cam felt like she had grabbed a life-saving straw and shouted:

"Trung Dan! Lap Mai! You two are here! Hieu Quyen is crazy! He wants to hit me!"

Cao Trung Dan immediately stepped forward to help her up, turned to Cao Hieu Quyen, frowned:

"Gao Xiaojuan! Are you crazy? Do you dare to hit your mother?"

“What if I fight?!”

Gao Xiaojuan shouted, his voice almost breaking.

"It's all because of her! If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't be like this! The house is gone! The money is gone! The store is about to collapse! It's all her fault!"

Now I understand. After the house was renamed, and saddled with a debt of thirty thousand, her husband argued every day, demanding a divorce. Gao Xiaojuan had no place to vent his anger. All the resentment... fell on Truong Nguyet Cam's head. In her eyes, it was she who promised to give away all of her inheritance, so she was so blatant and dared to go to this extent. Now I'm empty-handed, still in debt, my husband wants to leave... Everything... is my mother's fault. Today, she ran straight to Truong Nguyet Cam's house, demanded money, and forced her to help pay the debt. But Truong Nguyet Cam has no money left. Then fight.

“Is it my fault?!”

Truong Nguyet Cam trembled, cried and screamed.

"I worked hard to raise you and gave all of your father's inheritance to you! Because of you, I tricked your brother for five years and went to this extent! Now you come back and blame me? You ungrateful thing! I really raised you wrong!"

“Raised me by mistake?”

Cao Hieu Quyen smiled coldly.

"If you hadn't given me all the money at that time, would I have ended up like this? If you hadn't secretly taken the flowers delivered by my sister-in-law, Has it come to this? It's all because of you! Now you have to give me the money! Otherwise, I will break off the relationship between mother and child with you!”

“If you want to break up, then break up!”

Truong Nguyet Cam was so angry that she was suffocating.

“I'll pretend I've never given birth to a child like you!”

Around us, neighbors started talking:

“See, if you hit me too…”

"It's because she pampered her too much, giving everything to her daughter, and now she's being bitten back."

“It's worth it, it's too biased…”

Those whispers were like invisible slaps. Truong Nguyet Cam's face was sometimes red, sometimes white, and she bowed her head, not daring to look at anyone. Cao Trung Dan looked at this scene, his face expressionless, his voice cold:

“Not enough? If you want to argue, go home and argue, don't stand here and act like a show for people to see."

Cao Hieu Quyen turned to him and immediately changed the target:

“Gao Zhong Dan! Don't pretend to be a good person! It's all because of you! If it weren't for you suing and sealing the house, would I have reached this point? You must give me my house back! Otherwise I won't leave it alone!”

“Don't leave it alone?”

Cao Trung Dan laughed coldly.

“Gao Hieu Quyen, I warn you, if you dare to lay hands on your mother again, and dare to cause trouble here, I will immediately ask the court to enforce the sentence and force you to immediately pay the full thirty thousand. If you can't pay, then sell the house in Hoa Vien Anh Duong. You try it.”

Hearing that— Cao Hieu Quyen immediately became speechless. Don't dare say another word. Cao Hieu Quyen glanced at us with resentment, then looked at Truong Nguyet Cam, turned around and ran away. Neighbors saw there was nothing left to see and gradually dispersed. There were only us left... and Truong Nguyet Cam seemed to have lost her soul. We helped her go home, the house was a mess, things were broken everywhere. She sat down on the sofa, tears kept falling, muttering:

“Why did I raise such an ungrateful child… I devoted myself to him, gave him everything… yet he treats me like this…”

I looked at her. There wasn't the slightest bit of pity. Whatever you sow... reap what you reap. Her today was all created by herself. It is the favoritism, the unconditional indulgence... that has raised a Cao Hieu Quyen who only knows how to receive, not be grateful.