Chapter 4 — Khuong Niem woke up dreaming

At first, I was attracted to her. She was bold, generous, unconstrained, completely two extremes for Khuong Niem, who always lived according to the rules. But after truly living together, when the new feeling passes, the edges that once fascinated each other turn into thorns that stab people. She is strong, domineering, and has an extremely high desire to possess. Even when he came to visit his daughter on the weekend, he showed a face to stop her. She said "wiggle your finger and you can make him abandon them", half a year ago, when she was the most infatuated with her, perhaps she would really be confused and consider it. But now... Tham Duat closed his eyes, casually coaxed a few words, lured To Duong into the bedroom, then picked up the phone to call Khuong Niem. The phone was connected, and on the other end came Khuong Niem's calm voice, neither cold nor hot, like water retaining heat in a laboratory. Tham Duat felt his heart soften again, missing her a little. He unconsciously cleared his throat, his tone was especially gentle: "Nien Niem, don't listen to To Duong's nonsense, she's in a bad mood after surgery, there won't be any more like that in the future." The other end was silent for two seconds, Khuong Niem only said "yes". Tham Duat quickly added another sentence: "That's right, how is our father's health after the follow-up examination? I've been really busy with work recently, and I haven't had time to visit him..." "Very well, just keep busy with your work." After saying that, the phone was hung up. Tham Duat looked at the dark screen, an incomprehensible feeling of loss rising in his heart. 9This story eventually ended with Tham Duat doubling his living allowance of thirty thousand per month. The condition is that I cannot step into their company any more. The reason Tham Duat spoke very euphemistically was, "To Duong just finished surgery, his emotions are unstable, everyone is shy when they meet each other." But in my heart I know. If I say my limit is my children, then To Duong's limit is this company. She and Tham Duat were there calling themselves life partners, from top to bottom, who wouldn't call her "boss"? Now when I, the official wife, came to the door and threw down the warning "don't have children of your own" in front of everyone, my subordinates didn't know what to say. She was so embarrassed that she became angry. She felt embarrassed and didn't dare meet people. She was even more afraid of me coming to visit every few days, so she threw money to buy my silence. The day the first sixty thousand arrived in my account, To Duong's phone indeed followed closely behind. There was a noble tone in her voice as she tried to maintain: "Khuong Niem, listen carefully." "The status of official wife that you call yours has been bought off by me with money." "Not only are you not allowed to go to the company, Tham Duat is also not allowed to return to that house of yours without my consent. Women living to such a degree as you are truly sad." Sad? I do not believe. Whether Tham Duat comes back or not, I don't care at all. At first, the daughter often mentioned her father. But after that, Tham Duat continuously absented himself from Nhiem Nhiem's birthday, parent meetings, and musical performances at school, each time using the same excuse as "the company was too busy to go". A child's heart cools much faster than an adult's, and later, Nhiem Nhiem doesn't even ask anymore. With money without him, my mother and I's life is extremely happy. I changed Nhiem Nhiem to a more professional violin teacher. On weekends, I take Nhiem Nhiem to piano lessons, and after class, I go to eat strawberry cake, which she likes the most. In the evening, after practicing the piano with her, the two of us curled up on the sofa to watch cartoons, and the baby leaned on my lap and smiled.

welcome. Sixty thousand a month, buying away a husband who was already in name only, in exchange for some clean, undisturbed peace. More importantly, my initial choice not to divorce caused a lot of things to quietly change. First, with increasing age, combined with the aborted child, To Duong's desire for a family began to grow stronger. But now is different from before. The little passion between her and Tham Duat was soon consumed in the day-to-day arguments over food and clothing. Tham Duat has long since lost the excitement of wanting to abandon his family and children for her like before, and even occasionally comes back to play with Nhiem Nhiem on weekends, his expression is a bit more relaxed than hers. The conflict between them gradually seeped into the company's operations. Several consecutive wrong decisions almost caused the company to stagnate. One time, an order that To Duong stubbornly took had quality problems, and customers complained a lot. Another time, Tham Duat arbitrarily adjusted his sales strategy, offending more than half of his old customers. Competitor companies took the opportunity to steal a lot of market share, profits on the books could be seen with the naked eye shrinking. Even with the sixty thousand living expenses transferred to me every month, I had to try to withdraw it from the company budget a few times.