Chapter 2 — Goodbye The One I Love So Much

She cooed.

“Just one sip!”

After speaking, regardless of everyone around her, she stood on tiptoe and kissed him lightly on the lips.

“Good boy, just one sip, okay?”

“Drink this.”

In front of her is a white porcelain cup. Inside is a rose floating on water. She opened the lid, and the faint smell of roses wafted out. She frowned.

"Roses? Ah Nam! I've told you eight hundred times, I don't like flower tea!"

“Why do you always forget!”

He paused for a moment, then replied calmly:

"I don't know... just mix it with your hand each time."

I squeezed the beer can in my hand. Deliberately turned his head away and drank the last sip. I don't like drinking water. In high school, because I read too much, my throat became so dry that I couldn't speak. Yet to force me to drink more water, Tham Quan Nam thought of all kinds of ways. After flower tea, fruit tea, then oolong tea. In the winter, they also specially cook apple juice and pear soup for me. Every time I drank another glass of water, that arrogant young master carefully treasured my pink thermos like a treasure. Seeing me drinking beer, Diep Ninh continued to make excuses.

"Look, Ms. Niem Nhat drank an entire can! Maybe her hair is this beautiful because she drinks beer?"

“Talking nonsense.”

I looked at the beer can in my hand and smiled bitterly.

“My ex also won't let me drink alcohol.”

“When I drank it, I collapsed immediately. He controlled me very strictly.”

Diep Ninh looked at me and asked curiously:

“So now that you drink like this, won't he be angry?”

I quietly looked at the man behind her, then shook my head.

“He stopped caring about me a long time ago.”

It seemed like she had just said something wrong, Diep Ninh looked at me apologetically, stopped joking around, and obediently drank all of Tham Quan Nam's tea. I only ate one skewer of mushrooms. I drink a lot of beer. My head was a bit dizzy, so I decided to go back to my room early. Just down the stairs, I heard Diep Ninh's crisp laughter. I turned my head. She was clinging tightly to Tham Quan Nam's back like a sloth, her arms and legs flailing restlessly, her mouth chattering endlessly. Occasionally, Tham Quan Nam was so tightly squeezed by her that he staggered, but still patiently bent down to clean up the table, as if he had been used to it for a long time. He is not a pleasant person. I used to think, he was just patient with me. I used to believe that my whole life he would only love me. Looking at Diep Ninh's radiant and happy face, my heart ached. It hurts so much that I want to die.

“It should have been me who was loved so much by him!”

I braced myself, suppressing the urge to pull them out. Gritting his teeth, he returned to his room, rummaged through his bag, and dumped all his belongings on the ground. Only when I swallowed the pill did the angry waves in my heart gradually subside. Ms. Ly walked in and I regained my composure.

“I thought you were going to cause a ruckus.”

I looked out the window.

“At first that was also the intention.”

“But then suddenly I couldn't bear it anymore.”

She glanced at my luggage.

"You carry so many things... do you want to help Tham Quan Nam restore his memories?"

In that suitcase were all our ten years of memories. It was the first note he wrote to me. It's the first love confession letter. These are the gifts he gave me from the age of 18 to the age of 28. This is the first photo taken together. It's the first wedding photo. I shook my head.

“Never had that intention.”

Ms. Ly looked at me in surprise.

“Why… why?”

I closed my eyes, trying to stay calm.

“The pain of losing a loved one, I don't want him to suffer again.”

4

The next day, I woke up late. By the time I finished cleaning up and took the drawing board out, it was already past noon. Ms. Vuong waved at me.

“Nien Nhat, I'll leave the rice for you.”

Everyone is sitting around chatting at a wooden table in the yard. As soon as she saw me, Diep Ninh immediately ran into the house. A moment later, she happily walked out, holding an orange envelope in her hand. She held it up like a treasure.

"Miss Niem Nhat! We don't have many relatives, so I officially invite you to the wedding!"

The invitation is very formal. I received the envelope without daring to open it. Diep Ninh continuously urged.

"Miss Niem Nhat, you studied art! Help us see if this wedding invitation design is beautiful or not?"

A thin card, but weighs a thousand pounds.

“Let me see! This color is so beautiful!” Ms. Ly quickly spoke up.

"I think so too! This orange color was chosen by A Nam! At first I chose purple, but orange looks much better! Niem Nhat, what color do you like?"

I put down the drawing board and pointed to the orange shirt I was wearing. In high school, I didn't have a favorite color. Until one time when I wore an orange jacket, Tham Quan Nam told me that this color looked very beautiful. Since then, orange has become my favorite color.

“Miss Niem Nhat, you and A Nam have very similar tastes!”

A Nam "my house". Those four words were so harsh that they made me ache. In the past, when standing in front of everyone, Tham Quan Nam always called me by a pampering name:

“My Remembrance.”

Ms. Ly noticed that my face was different, so she quickly took the wedding invitation from my hand.

"The painting inside looks so much like you! So cute! But is this a sunset? Is the wedding taking place at night?"

Diep Ninh rubbed his face, smiled and said:

"It was A Nam who requested it! Because he said..."

“Because some people sleep too late and can't wake up.”

Diep Ninh was stunned and looked at me in surprise.

"Miss Niem Nhat! How do you know that?!"

"Ah Nam really said that! But most importantly, he really likes sunsets."

Tham Quan Nam once said. His favorite moment of the day is sunset. Because dusk falls. The sleeping beauty will become his girlfriend. I was born with a passion for sleep. In high school, having to wake up at 5:30 a.m., for me, was torture number one. During those three years, every morning I sat on the back of Tham Quan Nam's bicycle, closed my eyes, hugged him, and continued to sleep. During ten minutes of recess, I can also dream three times. Every time I wake up, his uniform jacket is draped over me. One time, I fell asleep and heard someone sighing in my ear.

"You sleep so well, what should I do with you on the wedding day?"

Until I was 24 years old. That morning, I was woken up by his stubble beard. Pushed him away, intending to continue sleeping. He pulled me into his arms again, gently patted my back, and said in a hoarse voice:

“Niem Niem, let's hold the wedding at sunset!”

I lazily hummed twice. He leaned down and kissed my forehead, letting out a contented sigh.

“You must let your sleeping worm get enough sleep, otherwise he will get angry and refuse to marry you, what will happen?”

“At that time, who will you find to judge?”

But now. It's not that I refuse to get married. It's the person you married, not me. Indeed, there is no one left to judge. I stood up and picked up the drawing board. At that moment, Diep Ninh saw the ring on my ring finger. She looked at me intently. I raised my hand and gently shook the ring.

“Because he also said so.”

"Are you married? Ms. Niem Nhat?"

“Yes, married for five years.”

Diep Ninh was very surprised.

"So... where's your brother-in-law? Why doesn't he come with you?"

I looked at the man coming from afar, shaking my head slightly.

5

When stepping out of the motel gate, Diep Ninh's laughter still rang out behind. She was telling Ms. Ly about the process of A Nam proposing. I sped up my steps, as if a devil was chasing me. Finding an empty lot, I set up the drawing board. As soon as I picked up the palette, my head suddenly became dizzy. I quickly took the medicine box from my pocket and swallowed it. The feeling of discomfort gradually disappeared. I'm not a lucky person. No parents. No friends. Never won even a free bottle of soft drink. I used to think the god of luck hated me. But that day... I picked up a stuffed animal that I had liked for a long time. I got a free glass of milk tea. I cracked a golden egg in the supermarket and immediately won 5 million in cash. Even the can of soft drink I bought for Tieu My also won "one more bottle". Tieu My smiled and narrowed her eyes.

“Goddess of luck, thanks to you!”

I can't believe it. A person like me who hasn't been lucky all his life, how could he have such a lucky day? The moment our car turned the corner, suddenly, the car lost control and went straight towards the wall in front of us. Looking at the wall getting closer and closer, I screamed in fear. BAM! The car blew over the wall. But strangely… There was no feeling of impact at all.