Chapter 7 — Eight Months Pregnant, I Realized My Baby Was Not Mine

"Luc Van Canh believes this trick of yours, we don't believe it."

Luc Van Canh's movement to help her stopped in midair. He looked at the camera, then looked at Lam Thanh Nghien, doubt appeared in his eyes for the first time. Lam Thanh Nghien cried even harder.

“Van Canh, I didn't mean it.”

“I'm just too scared.”

If it were before, Luc Van Canh would have immediately protected her. But this time, he didn't. I looked at him.

“Luc Van Canh, look.”

“Just because she cries, it doesn't mean I'm guilty.”

His face gradually turned gray. I turned around and went into the hospital room. Before the door closed, he softly called out to me:

“Chi Chi.”

I don't turn around. He said:

“Have I never trusted you before?”

I held the door handle.

“Yes.”

“That's why I don't need you anymore.”

8

The baby was born half a month later. On the day of the cesarean section, Khuong Viet always kept watch outside the operating room. When I woke up, the first person I saw was him, not Luc Van Canh. The doctor told me that the baby was temporarily under the joint custody of the hospital and the judiciary. The origin of the embryo, guardianship, and post-natal care arrangements all must await the outcome of the case. I nodded. Don't cry. This baby is innocent. But I'm also innocent. I will not harm it, nor will I use my life again to fulfill others. Luc Thi Hospital was eventually revoked as a fertility treatment facility and the doctors involved were sentenced. Luc Van Canh was charged with forging a signature, illegally performing medical procedures, and illegally controlling the pregnant woman's actions. After the trial, the court found that during the embryo transfer process, I did not receive true and complete information. Documents called "voluntary adoption" and "relinquishment of custody rights" are invalid. The baby, because of its clear embryonic origin, is temporarily under the joint custody of the child welfare agency and the judiciary. Before the case ends, any party must not be exposed alone. Lam Thanh Nghien wanted to fight for guardianship, but the records of her involvement in using drugs, seducing and forging documents, and conspiring to create evidence that I was mentally abnormal were all presented to the court. The judge dismissed her application right in court. Luc Van Canh also lost his guardian status. To protect herself, Lam Thanh Nghien handed over her entire chat history. Inside there are words from Luc Van Canh's own mouth:

“Khuong Chi is soft-hearted, she will not give up the baby.”

“Just stabilize her first, give birth and then count.”

“Her mother is still at the Luc family hospital, she doesn't dare to cause trouble.”

Lam Thanh Nghien cried and told the media:

“I was fooled too.”

“I thought Ms. Khuong had already agreed.”

But the provocative messages she sent me, the chat history she participated in using drugs, the video she left in the baby's room, were all submitted by the lawyer at the same time. Netizens did not forgive her. Everything she had relied on her sick image to get, collapsed in one night. Later, it was said that her family members took her abroad. Without the Luc family's money, even her further treatment became a problem. Luc Van Canh has come to see me many times. Away from the iron gate of Khuong's house, he stood all night. I didn't meet. The day the divorce judgment is issued, He asked his lawyer to bring me a letter. The letter was full of late regrets. He said it wasn't that he didn't love me, he was just too used to my understanding, so he gradually took my humility for granted. Only later did he finally understand that love should not be built on deception, much less on one person's sacrifice to prove it. He also said that as long as I agreed, he could spend the rest of his life making up for it.