Chapter 6 — Love Behind a Ring

09

A long time later, Phuong Chap Duat still did not retract his gaze. The dull pain in my chest spread again. These past few days... If he hadn't just received the health check results showing that everything was normal, he would have suspected that he had the same heart disease as Phuong Nhu. If not, why do you always feel so much pain? When Tran Uong just left, because he wanted Phuong Nhu to stop causing trouble, he tried to make her forget Tran Uong. He found many girls of the same age to play with her. But he didn't expect Phuong Nhu to start getting angry before even meeting her. She shouted at him:

“I just need Tran Uong!”

At that moment, besides frustration, he had no other emotions. He didn't know what kind of amnesiac spell Tran Uong had cast on Phuong Nhu, nor did he understand what kind of charm Tran Uong had. Until the third day after Tran Uong left... He dreamed of her. Tran Uong in the dream was docile and gentle, like a cat rubbing the hollow of his neck. He unconsciously tightened his arms, wanting to hug her. But in the end, it just hugged the void. Consciousness is strongly pulled back to reality. His heart suddenly became empty, as if something had been hollowed out. An unprecedented feeling of disappointment immediately enveloped him. Only then did he gradually realize... The person who couldn't leave Tran Uong was probably not only Phuong Nhu. But he didn't want to admit it. He didn't want to take the initiative to bow first. I don't want to hang the word love around my mouth, and I don't want to put myself in a weak position because of love. So he pretended like nothing had happened. He considered breaking up with Tran Uong as a normal thing. He doesn't even want to care about Phuong Nhu anymore, because every time he sees her, Tran Uong's name will definitely only sound in his ears. Currently, he needs time to forget Tran Uong. He told himself that Tran Uong only took up three years of his life, completely insignificant. But he never thought... He and Phuong Nhu still stood still, and next to Tran Uong, a new person appeared. When Phuong Nhu took the photo of Tran Uong posted on her friends circle to find him, her eyes were filled with resentment.

"Phuong Chap Duat! Can you finally do it?"

“Do you know who the person standing next to her is?!”

"It's Chu Lang! Her childhood sweetheart, her first love! There is more than ten years of love between them, what do the two of them have?!"

“What are you still sitting here waiting for?!”

She screamed frantically to vent. And he sat in place, not reacting at all. But actually, it wasn't that he didn't react. But in that moment, he completely didn't know how to react. In his mind, there were only thoughts... Tran Uong and Chu Lang were once childhood sweethearts. Tran Uong used to love Chu Lang very much. Those are all the past that he was never present. So, he naturally panicked. Phuong Nhu forced him to give her his citizen ID card, gritted his teeth and said:

"If you don't go look for Uong Uong, I'll go myself!"

“I will bring her back, but I will not let you two get back together again!”

"Phuong Chap Duat, you are completely unworthy of Uong Uong. I misread you!"

“If I knew sooner... if I knew sooner, I would have…”

What if I knew early? I don't want to listen anymore. Finally, he raised his hand to rub his hair Phuong Nhu.

“I will bring Tran Uong back.”

"But Tieu Nhu must cooperate with me, okay?"

Of course Phuong Nhu did not object. She just wants Tran Uong to return to the Phuong family. And he also thought he could take Tran Uong home.

10

After returning to the dormitory, I finally video called Phuong Nhu. She picked up the phone very quickly. At first he was happy, then immediately began to complain:

“It's obvious that you and your brother had an argument, why didn't you even notice?”

"Tran Uong, you're a fraud! You once said that even if you two broke up, we would still be best friends, best friends!"

She constantly condemned me. I do not explain, nor do I refute. Just listen quietly. Then Phuong Nhu burst into tears. She continued to apologize about the ring. She scolded Phuong Chap Duat for being a bastard. Scolded Phuong Chap Duat for harming her. But does Phuong Nhu really know nothing? There are many things I don't want to think deeply about, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. In the video, Phuong Nhu is leaning against the white headboard, her face rosy. Completely unlike someone who just got sick. Looking closer, I saw my reflection in the mirror opposite. That is Phuong Nhu's room. At this point I realized I had been deceived.

“Uong Uong, when will you come back…?”

"The days you're not here, I'm really sad. I'm even thinner..."

I pursed my lips, looked into Phuong Nhu's unguarded eyes, and couldn't help but ask:

“Phuong Nhu, why do you have to force me to go back?”

Phuong Nhu was stunned, then immediately excitedly replied:

"Of course it's because we're best friends! I can't live without you!"

“Our twelve-year relationship, can you just say you don't need it?!”

"Phuong Chap Duat can't keep you because he's stupid, what does it have to do with me?!"

“On what basis do you not need me?!”

Her eyes immediately filled with blood. At first she just pretended to be sick, but now her emotions were so agitated that her heart was clearly affected.

"Tran Uong, I have the grace to save your life. You cannot be ungrateful!" She bit her lower lip, straining every word.

Suddenly, I no longer had the strength to argue.

“So I have to spend my whole life revolving around you?”

“Yes!” Phuong Nhu roared: "I don't have any other friends, I only have you. Therefore, your friend can only be me!"

“Phuong Nhu, you are no longer a child.”

After saying that, I didn't pay attention to her anymore. I directly hung up the call. Phuong Nhu's anxiety disorder has become more serious, even accompanied by stubbornness.