Chapter 4 — I Was Evicted From Home The Day I Lost My Job, 7 Days Later I Became Their Boss

"Lin Van! You ungrateful person! Come out here for me! What have we in the Chu family done wrong to you? You just got promoted and dare to fire your sister-in-law! Is your heart made of stone?!"

Two guards quickly stopped it. There was an immediate stir around.

“It turns out that the person who was fired today is the new director's sister-in-law?”

“This relationship… is really messy.”

"The whole family went to the company to cause chaos, it was so embarrassing."

Chu Minh Hien pushed through the crowd, grabbed my hand, pulled me to a corner, his voice lowered, almost pleading.

"Van Van, can you please stop making such a big deal out of it? I'm begging you! Look how angry my mother is! Just let my sister go back to work first, we'll talk about it later at home, okay?"

I coldly pushed his hand away, looking straight into his face full of compromise.

"Chu Minh Hien, first, I don't cause trouble. Second, we don't have a home anymore."

I stopped for a beat.

“From the moment your mother threw me out like trash and you remained silent, everything was over.”

My voice is not loud, but each word is like ice. His throat was blocked, his face was sometimes red and sometimes white. Chu Le, standing next to him, heard it and immediately jumped up as if his tail had been stepped on.

"Lam Van, why are you pretending to be noble? Isn't that just relying on a petty director position? What's so big about it? Just wait, I'll tell my brother to immediately divorce you! At that time, let's see how long you can stay satisfied! You won't have anything left!"

Her voice was high-pitched, causing all the surrounding eyes to focus on us. I looked at the three people in front of me, ugly to the core, and the last bit of hesitation in my heart completely disappeared. I took out my phone, turned on video recording mode, and pointed the lens straight at them. The red recording light flashes.

“Just keep going.” I said calmly. "Speak a little louder, express yourself a little more vividly. So that my colleagues, even the people passing by here... can clearly see what kind of people my previous family was."

The mother-in-law's loud cries were immediately choked. Chu Minh Hien panicked and rushed over to try to snatch my phone.

"Lam Van! What are you doing! Turn it off, turn it off quickly!"

I took a step back, avoiding his hand.

"What? Dare to do it but don't dare to accept it? Wasn't it still very eloquent just now?"

I pointed the lens straight at his face, asking every word. Some people in the crowd burst into laughter. The hypocritical drama they staged, under my lens, turned into a ridiculous live broadcast. And they - become the laughing stock of everyone. The commotion in the company lobby finally ended with security "inviting" all three members of the Chu family out. I think, at least they will rest in peace for a few days. But I underestimated Chu Minh Hien's "toughness". That same evening, he stopped me in the basement of my new apartment building. Under the dim light, he looked completely haggard, with stubble and a wrinkled suit. As soon as he saw me, his eyes lit up and he quickly approached, smiling to please me.

"Van Van, I was wrong... I shouldn't have been so impatient today. I'll apologize on behalf of my mother and sister. They just have that kind of personality, don't take it to heart."

He reached out to hold my hand, but I leaned away.

"Our three years of love... isn't it equal to a job? Why do I have to work to such an extreme level?"

Seeing that I didn't react, he started hitting me emotional, voice full of hurt. I stopped walking and turned back to look at him, only to find it funny.

"Chu Minh Hien, don't talk to me about feelings. Are you qualified?"

"When I was pointed at and scolded by your mother and sister as 'useless' and 'parasitic', where were you?"

“When they threw my luggage out like trash, where were you?”

"When I called you, when I needed you the most, you told me to go back and apologize to your mother. Chu Minh Hien, ask yourself, in the past three years, has there ever been a time when you really stood by my side?"

Each question made him step back step by step. He opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word. Shame was quickly replaced by anger.

"But... but you can't go too far like that! That's my biological sister! You made her lose all face, the whole industry laughed at her, how will she still live in the future?!"

He raised his voice, as if I was the one at fault.

“I was humiliated by her in front of the whole room, called an evictee, did she ever think about how I should live?”

I coldly asked again.

“Not the same!”

“Where is it different?”

The argument escalated. Being cornered, Chu Minh Hien blurted out something that made me completely lose my mind.

"Lam Van, can you explain a bit? My sister has been spoiled since she was a child, spending money frequently! If it weren't for me secretly taking the money we saved to buy a house to make up for her every month, how could she afford to buy those branded goods?! If she doesn't live well, how can my mother feel secure? My mother can't feel secure, how can our family be at peace? I did everything... wasn't it for this house?!"

His voice rang out in the empty parking lot, each word hitting me in the head like a hammer. I stood still. The money saved to buy a house... It's every penny he and I have saved so much. Including bonuses I stayed up all night working on projects, there was money I stopped buying new clothes to save, there were also expectations for the future, for a child, for a home... Turns out, all... were quietly taken by him, feeding on the vanity of others. But he... "quietly" gave that money to his sister, just to satisfy his cheap vanity. A chill flowed from my feet straight to my head, I felt like the blood in my body was freezing. Turns out, the so-called trying together... was just my own solo play.