Chapter 2 — Mother Died, Father Repented

But when he looked at my mother and I, his face immediately turned cold, like he was looking at a pile of trash.

“Where are the guards? Don't you hurry up and chase these two crazy people out!”

The surrounding people were talking loudly. Countless taunts were like slaps, aggressively slapping the mother and daughter in the face.

"Bringing a stepchild to get in the way and still wanting to enter the door of the Hoac family in the military region, that's truly shameless!"

"Who doesn't know that Miss Tuong and Chief Hoac are childhood sweethearts, that any cat or chicken would dare to come here and cling to them?"

After that, dad brought gifts to find mom. He always said that the person he loved the most was actually my mother and me. The bankruptcy talk was just to test how much Mom loved him. Saying Tuong Vi was terminally ill, he just wanted to fulfill her last wish. He told his mother to be a little more patient.

"It's true, after she leaves, I will properly take you and your mother home, and in the future I will compensate you and your child doubly."

Mom was in tears, slapped Dad in the face, broke down and screamed:

"To repay your debt, I have to donate my liver and sell my blood! Your daughter has no money to go to school!"

"Hoo Lam Xuyen, I hate you, how can you treat my mother and me like that!"

The shoes I was wearing at that time had almost worn out soles. But I never complained once. He even said he wanted to save money for his father. Dad stood frozen in place, there was finally a trace of shame in his eyes. But before he could speak, a sharp voice suddenly sounded outside the door. Tuong Vi stood there with a pale face, holding a little boy in his hand.

“Brother Lam Xuyen, why is she here?”

Dad's face immediately changed, he forcefully pushed mom away, turned around to comfort Tuong Vi.

“Vi Vi, don't misunderstand.”

“It's just a crazy woman, she keeps clinging to you.”

After speaking, he turned back to look at his mother, his face full of disgust.

"You scared Vi Vi, don't apologize to her quickly!"

With a "Bing" sound, the thread of reason in her mother's head suddenly snapped.

The mother kicked Tuong Vi and the baby fell down the stairs, bleeding profusely, both mother and child were injured. That night, the guards pinned her mother down in the yard, forcing her to kneel and apologize to Tuong Vi. I also knelt with my mother. Inside the house, Dad was thoughtfully asking about Tuong Vi's care. Outside, my mother and I were shivering in the cold. The rapidly growing snow buried our bodies. …

“Stop causing trouble.”

Dad's voice pulled me back to reality. I looked at the man in front of me, the memories kept rubbing over and over again, until I couldn't squeeze out any more pain. He still doesn't know that because of him, his mother even lost her life.

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Chapter 3 Seeing my silence, Dad's eyes became even more impatient.

“It's all because your mother taught you wrong, and you don't have any manners.”

“She's already old enough to be a grandmother, but she's still as unreasonable as before.”

I looked at him blankly, only finding it ridiculous to the point of being absurd.

“Unreasonable noise?”

“In these five years, my mother and I have never looked for you, we live our own lives, is that also an eyesore for you?”

His eyebrows immediately furrowed.

"What does a child like you understand about me and your mother?"

I stared at him:

“I don't understand?”

"So do you understand? Or does Tuong Vi understand?"

Dad's tone was also cold go:

“When your mother divorced, did she ever think about you?”

“She only cares about her personal feelings, she never makes any plans for your future.”

“If she wasn't so stubborn, would you have to live like this?”

I glared at him, feeling that every word that entered my ears was extremely harsh.

“Why do you have the face to say these words?”

"The person who broke my leg with his own hands, wasn't it you?"

"The one who kicked me and my child out of the house, wasn't it you?"