Chapter 15 — I Overturned My Own Sentence

Because Tran Kien Hoa knows who my mother is. He knew… If I passed the entrance exam to a good university, left Hecheng, had my own social status… One day when the Co family found me, I would become their legal heir. So he had to break my wings before I could fly. University entrance exam cheating? From start to finish... This was never a case related to exams. It's a hunt and kill that revolves around power and inheritance. As for my mother... Maybe she already knew that Tran Kien Hoa was watching her. That's why she never mentioned the Co family. So all her life she huddled in a small market, living like a normal woman to the point that it couldn't be more normal. She is protecting me. Use your silence. Use your poverty. Use your lowliness and humbleness... To protect me. But she couldn't protect her. Those people... Even a woman selling vegetables refused to let go. I sat in an empty rented room. But for a moment, I felt like I was back in that prison cell. Face the wall. Trieu Hong threw me a mantau cake.

“If you don't eat…”

“My mother died in vain.”

I took a bite. No taste at all. Exactly like three years ago. The next day, Co Tham invited me to the 50th floor of the Bang Vien building. His expression was much more serious than usual.

“Have you seen Phuong Tieu Linh's testimony?”

“Your grandfather's will…”

“I asked someone to take back the original.”

“The version Tien Vinh Xuong gave me before was the edited version.”

“How was the original written?”

He pushed a photocopy of the will towards me. I turned to that page.

"Seventh thing: My second daughter Co Cam Thu, no matter where she is, she and her descendants are entitled to inherit thirty percent of Bang Vien Group's shares."

Thirty percent. The current value of Bang Vien Group is twenty billion yuan. Thirty percent… That's six billion. I close my will.

“I don't need these.”

Co Tham frowned.

“This is your legal inheritance…”

“I told you.”

"I don't need it."

“Because when my mother left the Co family…”

I raised my head to look at him.

“She gave up everything.”

“I respect your choice.”

Co Tham silently looked at me.

“So what do you want?”

“I want the Tran family to pay the price.”

“I want to turn the case over.”

“I want my mother's name to be cleared.”

“That's all?”

“That's all.”

He was silent for a long time.

“You really look a lot like my aunt.”

“Grandpa once said…”

"Second aunt's most stubborn point is that if she doesn't want something, ten buffaloes won't turn back."

“It's genetic.”

The retrial happened faster than I expected. After the Procuracy finished reviewing all the evidence, the same day it immediately conducted an interrogation. Subject of interrogation— Tran Duyet. I wasn't there. But later Ton Minh told me everything. Initially, Tran Duyet refused to plead guilty.

"I don't know who Truong Vy is, nor do I know anything about taking the exam."

“It is true that Lam Van cheated on her achievements.”

The prosecutor placed each piece of evidence in front of her. Testimony of Phuong Tieu Linh. Truong Vy's testimony. Bank transfer history. Every single thing. She still doesn't accept it. Until the prosecutor opened the recording sound— Truong Vy's voice rang out clearly:

“The person who contacted me was Tran Duyet.”

Tran Duyet sat in the interrogation chair, the makeup on his face slowly drifting off. She asked to see a lawyer. Tien Vinh Xuong did not dare to come. Because he himself is being investigated. The person who came was another lawyer. After reviewing all the evidence, the lawyer only said one sentence to her:

“I advise you to plead guilty and accept the punishment.”

But Tran Duyet did not accept. She only said one sentence:

“My dad told me to do it.”

An all too familiar blame scene. But the prosecutor was not surprised. Because their goal has never been just Tran Duyet. While being investigated for money laundering, Tran Kien Hoa was charged with an additional crime—

“Inciting others to slander constitutes a crime.”

Many crimes are combined for trial. The day the news was released, social networks in Hac Thanh completely exploded.

"The shocking case of the university entrance exam has turned upside down! The real killer is the daughter of a famous businessman!"

“Lam Van, 2019 candidate at Hac Thanh High School No.

"Hoa Kien owner Tran Kien Hoa is suspected of money laundering and harming others, facing extremely heavy penalties!"

My phone almost exploded.