Chapter 4 — My Ex-Fiance and My Secret Lover

Luc Ngon's voice was cold:

“Tieu Y is with me.”

On the other end of the line, Tran Hang seemed angry, his voice suddenly raised:

"Where are you two? Luc Ngon, please bring her back to me immediately!"

I took the phone from Luc Ngon's hand.

“I won't be home tonight.”

Hearing my voice, Tran Hang's voice immediately softened, returning to his familiar coaxing style:

"Baby, I really rushed home tonight, but there was some trouble at Vi Vi's hotel room. I helped her find a few new hotels to make arrangements, so I was late. I thought you were at home waiting for me. Can you come home soon? Little Ancestor, don't act anymore, if you don't get enough sleep, you won't be able to be a beautiful bride tomorrow."

I hadn't even opened my mouth yet, tears were rolling around my eye sockets.

"Tran Hang, tomorrow... I don't want to get married anymore. Being a bride is supposed to be the happiest and happiest day of a person's life. I really don't want a thorn in my heart, then force a smile. Let's cancel the wedding. Wait until my heart... gets over this and then continue..."

"Cancel the wedding? Hua Y, what are you kidding?"

His voice suddenly rose, his patience finally disappearing.

"Just because of this small matter, do you want to make it so big? Come back to me quickly, while I'm not angry yet..."

Tran Hang is the same every time. Although he will coax me, I don't have much patience. He has a hot temper, comes quickly and leaves quickly. After two or three sentences, if I'm still angry, he will become angrier than me. I don't like arguing, so every time I follow the steps he gives me and walk down. Because I know, after a while, that staircase will no longer exist. Before he finished speaking, Luc Ngon next to him couldn't listen anymore, so he grabbed the phone and hung up directly. On his face was suppressed anger.

“Let him be angry!”

I know in my heart I was very determined. So I opened WeChat, went to my circle of friends, and typed a text:

"We are extremely sorry to inform our friends and family that the wedding planned for tomorrow will be canceled due to personal reasons. We sincerely apologize for causing inconvenience to everyone!"

To avoid being bombarded with countless phone calls, I turned off the phone.

06

When I woke up the next morning, I had a moment of panic, thinking everything last night was just a wild dream. However, right now I am actually in the hospital. As soon as the phone turned on, it almost froze. It felt like it was being electrocuted, it vibrated crazily, it buzzed non-stop, the screen was instantly lit up by countless notifications. Dozens of missed calls. Then there was Tran Hang's message, like a floodwater breaking a dike, news after news flooded in. The first few messages were begging me.

“Baby, I was wrong, please come home quickly, I beg you!”

"You and Liu Wei Wei do have a bit of a problem in your heart, but it's been a long time since then, nothing can happen to you and her!"

"You really drank a lot last night! Your mind is not clear!"

"You go home first, finish organizing the wedding first. Is there anything we can talk about later?"

After that, the tone gradually changed.

"I don't gamble, I don't want girls, just little things, do you need to make such a fuss?"

"If you don't want to get married, say so soon! Now that all relatives and friends have announced it, you deliberately want my family to lose face in front of everyone, right?"

“Parents I'm a person with a good reputation, so you have to let everyone see the joke, making the situation so unsightly?

“House and car, which one is not the house I bought outright? Touch your conscience and say, what does my family owe you?

“Let's go back on our own, we still have a chance. Hua Y, don't ask for a fairy, I will absolutely never look for you again!

... Reading this, I was so angry that I burst out laughing. Looking further down, I discovered there was one last message.

“This morning at ten o'clock, if you don't come back, I will propose to Liu Wei Wei!”

Instinctively, I looked at the time in the upper right corner. A quarter past ten. The last bit of warmth left in my heart was completely cold. Propose to Liu Weiwei? He always said I was childish and not mature. Only then did I discover that the childish person was really him. Not long after, a college classmate called:

“Tieu Y? What is it all about? Aren't you and Tran Hang getting married today? Why did the bride change to Liu Wei Wei? Quickly take a look in the group, Tran Hang posted Luu Vi Vi's wedding photos. Our class group exploded, everyone said you ran away from the wedding, is it true or not?”

I held the phone, my fingertips were cold, and I didn't know what to say. I opened WeChat and sure enough, I saw that photo. Tran Hang wrote:

“The right time, the right person.”

I couldn't stand it anymore, buried my face in the blanket, tears silently wetting the pillow. It felt like a fall. I was like a child who always walked on flat ground, suddenly falling down a cliff, forever unable to return to the original path. I still have to face this dirty mess alone. I don't have courage. I want to leave.

07

Luc Ngon said I could go to the coastal city where he lives. Just in time today, the company driver will come to pick him up, I can ride with him, just to entertain him. For me, this was not a bad choice, because I had nowhere else to go. Luc Ngon's apartment is located on a high floor in the center of Hai Thanh city, the view is extremely beautiful, the entire city night scene spreads out below.