Chapter 7 — Mother Standing On The Other Side Of The Horseshoe

But it's too late.

“The person you should make up for is your daughter, not me.” “I have no right to forgive you for her.”

I turned my head to look at Tong Canh:

“Let's go.”

Thinh Du suddenly stood up and grabbed Tong Canh's collar.

"It was you who instigated Thanh So, right?" "Do you want to take the opportunity to interfere? How despicable." “It's also difficult for you to not be able to let go after all these years.” "Unfortunately, Van Tinh never loved you."

I didn't miss the flash of loss in Tong Canh's eyes. I was a little surprised, what did he lose? Apparently that year when I said I wanted to annul the marriage, he even helped me handle it. I always thought that in this commercial marriage, he had no feelings for me. Turns out, did he ever care? This time I can turn the case around, he has helped me a lot, how can I let him be humiliated by Thinh Du. I took a step forward, blocking Tong Canh's face.

“Thinh Du, maybe I used to love you.” “But if I had a choice, I hope we never had a past.” "The time to wait for our divorce is over. Find a day to go through the procedures to get the divorce papers."

My words almost completely denied the past between us. He looked at me in disbelief, then spoke for a long time:

“I will not divorce you.”

I glanced at Tong Canh:

“It's not your turn to decide.”

Leaving Tham Thanh So's house, I immediately entrusted Tong Canh to file a divorce lawsuit with Thinh Du on my behalf. I do not deny Thinh Du's professional ability. If I had sued him before, my odds of winning would not have been high. But now that I have Tong Canh, I am not afraid at all. Tong Canh took me home, let him talk about it later, and told me to rest well. Looking at the concern in his eyes, I wanted to ask something several times, but in the end I still swallowed all my doubts. There is still a difficult battle to fight ahead, now is not the time to talk about these things. Although the daughter's case could not be quickly overturned, the livestream that day at Tham Thanh So's house still caused a wave of public opinion online. The video of Phan Ninh bullying his classmates was dug up and spread widely online. The image that Thinh Du had built by stepping on my daughter completely collapsed. The law office's phone had been called out of service, but now it was once again called out of service. It's just that before it was to make an appointment, this time it was to cancel it. It is said that every day someone comes to the office and causes trouble, making the whole office unable to work. Thinh Du was directly advised to quit his job by the office. Originally this year he had the opportunity to become a partner. In the divorce case, Tong Canh won easily. Whether it was evidence of adultery in marriage, or indirect evidence of his daughter's death, Thinh Du had no strength to resist. The judge pronounced the sentence right in court. When leaving the court, Thinh Du stopped me. He looked haggard, his lips were wrinkled, and his eyes no longer had the same spirit as before. A week ago, the daughter's case was reopened. Phan Ninh and Tham Thanh So went to prison one after another. And he - the lawyer who had defended their innocence - was directly nailed to the stake of shame. He was completely unable to continue rolling in the main precepts in Kinh Do. He said:

"In a while I will return to my hometown." "When is my daughter's funeral? Can you attend?"

I shook my head:

“Impossible.” "From the moment you stood in court defending Phan Ninh, you were no longer her father."

I organized my daughter's funeral very privately. But I don't know where netizens got the news from, but there were quite a few people who came. They didn't go in, they just gently placed a bouquet of flowers in front of the door, wishing her peace. I cried uncontrollably. Tong Canh stood next to him, looking at his daughter's photo, his voice calm but full of affection:

“Nieu Nieu, be happy in heaven, from now on, I will take good care of mother.”

This was the first time he showed his deep feelings for me in front of me. My guess confirmed, my first reaction was to avoid it. I pretended not to hear the implications of his words. But that night, when he took me home, when we said goodbye, he suddenly pulled me into his arms.

"Van Tinh, you said you loved him before, so I let you go so I can pursue happiness." “God knows how much I regret it now.” “Can you… give us a chance?”

Since my daughter passed away, my heart has always been tight, but now it has calmed down a bit. I left his arms:

“I don't know if I'm still capable of loving anyone else.”

His eyes flashed with joy:

“You don't need to do anything, just enjoy my love.”

The next day, the sound of repairs was heard in the house next door. I left the house to go to work. As soon as I opened the door, I saw him standing in front of the door. Holding a bottle of wine in hand:

“The house is being repaired, it's been annoying these past few days.”

I'm surprised:

“You moved here?”

He smiled brightly:

“Being close to the mandarin is bestowed with fortune!”

I thought him moving next door was flamboyant enough. But later I learned, that was just the tip of the iceberg. Every day, a bouquet of fresh flowers almost fills the house, and I don't need to worry about three meals a day. Even if he has to go to court that day, he will have his assistant bring food to the company first. All the holidays, his gifts have never been absent. For my birthday, he rented a yacht and went with me to Norway to watch whales. He said:

“I remember this was your wish when you were twenty years old, at that time I had no right to invite you.” "I hope to give it to you when I'm thirty, it won't be too late."

I looked at the deep affection in his eyes and was finally moved.

"Thank you for not giving up on Tran Van Tinh in his thirties." “She vows to be brave one more time for you.”

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