Chapter 18 — I have a mother, no one is allowed to bully me

After the divorce news was announced. Co Dien Chu's situation... Going downhill very quickly. Thanks to the name:

"The husband of the owner of Tham Thi Group."

He is always sought after in the industry. Some people compete to pay. Go play golf. Someone proactively made an appointment. Where to go? There were also people who politely called out:

"General Manager Co."

All disappeared. People who asked him to play golf. No longer replying to messages. Those who once called themselves brothers. Also pretend like you don't know him. He went to the private club he frequented. Blocked right from the gate again. Because that membership card... is the business card of Tham Thi group. Locked. He stood silently in front of the gate. Quietly hail a taxi. Even Lam Uyen Nhi... I no longer answer his phone calls. He just understood. Lam Uyen Nhi... Never truly called him "daddy". What she calls... Money in your pocket. The name... Son-in-law of the Tham family. When all those things are lost. In Lam Uyen Nhi's eyes. Just an ordinary middle-aged man. Not worth a penny. As for Lam Uyen Nhi's own life... It's no better. Tong Quoc Binh was forced by the legal department to return all the money appropriated. His trading company... Was terminated by Tham Thi. Lost my biggest support. That shell company... Only lasted three more days. Then close. Before returning home. Tong Quoc Binh made his last phone call to Lam Uyen Nhi.

"Uyen Nhi."

"I can't help you anymore."

"Later..."

"Take care of yourself."

Lam Uyen Nhi hung up the phone. Throw the phone on the bed. She sits in a rented apartment. All day long. People who were "friends". No one contacted anymore. Bloggers. Reporters. Used to pursue her. Now no one mentions it anymore. Her online posts. Comments section... It's all criticism.

"You ungrateful thing."

"Poor fake."

"Taking 8,000,000 yuan from someone else."

"Do you still have the face to cry?"

"This kind of person..."

"Should disappear from society."

Lam Uyen Nhi closed all social network accounts. The image she worked hard to build. Glamor is built with other people's things. After just one night. Complete collapse. No one pitied her. No one reached out to help. From a "genius of the Tham family." She became... A joke that everyone avoided. Lam Uyen Nhi disappeared for two weeks. Just when I thought that. It's all really over. Then she... Appeared again. Not online. At Uc Ninh's university. Went back to school. I sat back in the same lecture hall as before. First day back to school. Just got home. Something was wrong with Uc Ninh's face. I looked at my child.

"What's up?"

Uc Ninh pursed his lips slightly.

"Lam Uyen Nhi is waiting for you at the school gate."

"What did she say?"

I hesitated for a few seconds.

"She said..."

"Want to talk to you."

"Are you paying attention to her?"

"She cried."

"She said there's nothing left now."

"Please help me tell Mom."

"Give her some money."

"She will leave immediately."

I nodded slightly.

"What do you think?"

Uc Ninh silently thought. A moment later. The child raised his head to look at me.

"Before..."

"Maybe you've softened your heart."

"Every time she cries."

"I agree with everything."

"But now..."

The child looked straight into my eyes.

"I don't want to be soft-hearted anymore."

I smiled.

"Just tell her that."

The next day. Uc Ninh met Lam Uyen Nhi again in front of the school gate. I didn't bow my head and walked past. But stop. Calmly look straight at her. Lam Uyen Nhi still showed the same pitiful appearance. The clothes on the body are older. The hair is no longer groomed.

"Ninning."

"Help me."

"I really have nowhere else to go."

Uc Ninh stood still in front of her. I'm a little taller than two years ago. Also thinner. His eyes were completely different. Avoidance. Fear every day. Has disappeared. Instead. Is a calm strength.

"Lin Uyen Nhi."

"The things you did."

"You are the one who knows best."

Lam Uyen Nhi was stunned. Uc Ninh had never dared to talk to her in such a tone.

"You took my money."

"Steal my room."

"Take my car."

"Wear my necklace."

"Going to a fake school."

"Forcing me to drop out of school."

"Make me clean the floor."

"Washing clothes."

"Carrying things."

"And locked me in the storage room."

"While doing all that."

"You're happy, right?"

Lam Uyen Nhi's lips trembled.

"At that time..."

"I have no other choice..."

"Is there no other way?"

Uc Ninh repeated softly. The voice is very light.

"When you used my 8,000,000 yuan to buy jewelry."

"Do your hands ever shake?"

"When you threw your milk tea at me."

"Have you ever hesitated?"

"When you told me..."

'You are nothing.'

"Are you also reluctant?"

Lam Uyen Nhi... I can't say anything anymore. Uc Ninh looked at her. Calm voice.

"I won't tell my mother for you."

"If you want to go, go."

"If you want to stay, stay."

"But from today."

"Don't ever appear in front of me again."

I turn around. Walk straight into the school gate. Never looked back.