Chapter 2 — Five Years of Pursuing Love

4On the wedding day, I stood next to give the ring to Duong Duong. Hearing them take the oath, I couldn't help but cry. Other people's happiness is like a mirror reflecting my own failure. When it came to throwing wedding flowers, she threw them straight at me. Ordinary people, like me, like wedding flower paintings, reflexively avoid them. Facing her surprised eyes, I just smiled gently. Luc Hac Minh stood right next to him. His face immediately became unsightly. On the way home, he coldly said while driving: "You don't want to marry me anymore, right?" I don't answer. Just tired and closed my eyes. The atmosphere in the car became cold. When stopping at a red light intersection. I finally spoke. "Luc Hac Minh, let's break up!" He looked at me in surprise. Then it seemed like I thought of something. "Are you starting to think too much?" "That's just color, right?" I didn't expect such dramatic lines to come out of his mouth. Because before, I once shared this saying with him as a saying of bad men. But now I become the main character in that story. We returned home one last time. I calmly packed my luggage. But when I was about to walk out the door, he pulled me back. My suitcase was kicked over by him, the contents inside were scattered everywhere. "Hua Duc, have you played enough?" He looked at me angrily. I calmly looked at him for a long moment. Then sighed and said: "Luc Hac Minh, don't be too greedy. Wouldn't it be better if I took the initiative to give up my seat now?" He let go and sat down on the sofa tiredly. As if he was complaining to himself, as if he was talking to himself. "You don't understand." "Tieu Tu's appearance made me feel alive again, my life was suddenly full of vitality and youth."I think I was mentally prepared. I should calmly listen to his confession. But my heart felt like it was pierced by a needle. I can't stay any longer. Like a fugitive, I want to leave here. But he pulled me back. He pulled me from the living room to the bathroom. Pressing my face into the mirror and saying: "Hua Duc, look into your eyes, there is only lust." "Hua Duc, you are not only getting old, but your soul is also becoming old." "Hua Duc, we are people full of schemes and calculations, so we are easily attracted by innocence and beauty." "Can you give me a little more time? Wait for me..." I turned around and slapped him forcefully. It turned out to be five years of love. Through long nights filled with love, I ended up becoming a woman full of intrigue, calculation and desire in his eyes. The nostalgia eventually dissipates this way. It's like lifting the blanket and realizing that it's full of lice underneath, causing a feeling of disgust. 5Perhaps because I finally understood. Tieu Tu, in his words, went directly to the company to work. Luc Hac Minh said I don't know what to do. In just three short months, most of the power in the company had transferred to her. I still haven't quit my job. Every day hang around in the office or company canteen. After all, I spent five years contributing here. At first she wanted to use the company's test to push me away, but unfortunately I met all the standards. Furthermore, the company has been operating up to now, even if she wants to re-establish a strict inspection process, she must also consider the psychology of other employees. Finally, Tong Tu couldn't stand it anymore and stopped me in the break room one afternoon. She spoke first: "I know what kind of person you are, what's in your heart. But I tell you, the only person who is not loved is the third person. After so many years of love, how can it not end well?"

so what? Likes to be the third person, likes to win over men, and now wanting to steal other people's efforts is more noble? I smiled back at her. "Luc Hac Minh doesn't like old women like you anymore, what else do you want to do..." I only said one sentence, she completely lost control, constantly cursing me for being an old woman, unwanted by anyone, repeating over and over about my age and the fact that Luc Hac Minh no longer loved me. Old? I'm twenty-seven this year, Tong Tu is twenty-one, maybe a little younger than me. But everyone will get old, right? Luc Hac Minh is not young anymore, he is three years older than me. I couldn't bear it, that very day I packaged those unpleasant words into an audio package and sent it to the entire company. Attached is a message: 【Everyone probably knows that I will soon leave Minh Duc Group, but I still care about the company's spiritual culture. I hope everyone sees this as a lesson, don't do things that violate ethics.】 This action caused Luc Hac Minh, who was always silent, to speak up. He pushed all the documents and computers on my desk to the ground. "Hua Duc, for that little benefit, do you have to make everything so unsightly? Now everyone sees us as a joke, are you satisfied? Otherwise, at the age of 10, why did he take a megaphone and go around the neighborhood looking for his father to ask for money? "I didn't say anything, listening to him curse. My silence seemed to make him even more agitated. He listed the things I used to do to make money, not afraid to do all kinds of things. What he once praised about my patience and effort, has now become ambition. Finally, he summed it up in one sentence. "I should have known in advance, that people like you, for the sake of money, do nothing. There are limits, have you never thought that Tieu Tu, so young, could endure these things?