Chapter 5 — My Fiance Sneaks Down to the Countryside to Have an Affair

I sighed, didn't want to look any further, turned around and left. Luc Truong Thanh panicked and broke away from the crowd, rushing towards me, his voice filled with urgency:

"Vu Ha! We just had a misunderstanding! Don't go, we can start over!"

I smiled coldly, sarcastically:

"Luc Truong Thanh, you are truly a coward. Before marrying Truong Thu Phuong, could she have forced you into bed? If you don't want to, how can a woman take off your pants?"

“At the end of the day, the problem is still yours—that you don't have the courage to stand your ground.”

Luc Truong Thanh's eyes were empty, without any light left. Tears overflowed from the corners of his eyes and rolled down his cheeks.

"Vu Ha... you're lying to me, right? You still love me, otherwise, I wouldn't have intentionally come here to see you..."

I shook my head, my voice as light as the wind:

“I had long forgotten you were here.”

5

I thought that from now on, between me and Luc Truong Thanh there would never be any more contact. But early the next morning, right at the hotel in town, I saw him again. Clothes are disheveled, hair is messy, torn shoes reveal muddy, black and messy toes.

"Vu Ha, I guess you'll be here. I walked all night and didn't arrive until dawn. But the gatekeeper refused to tell me your room number, so I could only sit here and wait."

He rummaged in his pocket, took out a steaming roasted sweet potato, and handed it to me.

"I bought it for you on purpose. You used to like grilled sweet potatoes the most."

I didn't accept it, just coldly replied:

“Thanks, but there's no need. I've already had breakfast.”

Luc Truong Thanh was not angry, still smiling, determined to put the potato in my hand.

“Then just take it and eat it when you're hungry.”

I looked at him with cold eyes, then without hesitation threw the bag on the ground.

“Luc Truong Thanh, I no longer like roasted sweet potatoes a long time ago!”

"Now I like Western food, like pasta, like hamburgers, like pizza! I have changed!"

Luc Truong Thanh's eyes were dim, confused and he whispered:

“What are those things…? I don't know…”

But very quickly, he regained his composure and his eyes became determined:

“Vu Ha, even though you have changed your taste, I believe that your feelings for me have not changed!”

"You've never forgotten our past, right? You definitely still love me!"

I don't understand why a person who was sad all his life because of Truong Thu Phuong in his previous life is like this in this life - clearly having achieved what he wanted, why is he still stubbornly clinging to me? I looked straight into his eyes, my voice firm but calm:

"Luc Truong Thanh, yes, I have never forgotten our past. But what about that? Currently I have a happy marriage, a husband who loves me, an obedient and understanding child. You and I have no more possibilities!"

Hearing this, Luc Truong Thanh excitedly grabbed my hand, his voice full of excitement:

"I know! You're the same as me, I've never forgotten! We were together for decades in our previous lives, can't we compare it to the less than ten years of love I have with my husband now?"

I looked him, suddenly felt like he had just heard the most ridiculous myth in the world. 1 n gay is, m c'o t, than

"Luc Truong Thanh, have you forgotten? How have our so-called decades of marriage passed? What you brought to me was only indifference, coldness and mental violence. By the time I died, I didn't even have a child by my side to take care of the funeral, my whole life was lonely and lonely. I remember those things not because of nostalgia, but to remind myself - to live again, I must know to avoid the same mistake!"

Luc Truong Thanh's face turned pale, his voice trembled, full of regret:

"I... it's my fault to you. In fact, I already regretted it in my heart. But at that time, I thought that since I was married to Truong Thu Phuong, I couldn't continue to be ungrateful to her. Unexpectedly, it turned out that things between us had become like this... it was all because she was playing tricks behind her back."

He trembled and took out an old black and white photo from his pocket. On it was me when I was seventeen years old, my smile still pure and simple.

"Vu Ha, all these years living in the countryside, I have never forgotten you. I always carry this photo with me. In my heart, you will forever be the pure, innocent girl of the past."

I'm really speechless, I just want to roll my eyes to the sky. In two lives as a human, Luc Truong Thanh still hasn't changed his nature—all his life he only knew how to paint himself a lovelorn reputation. In my previous life, I hugged Truong Thu Phuong's photo and cried, but in this life, I held onto my photo and didn't let go. Does he really think that just holding a photo can prove the depth of his heart? Luc Truong Thanh—this man, in his entire life, only knew how to be ungrateful to those around him.

"Vu Ha, I was wrong, really wrong. Over the years, I have long regretted it. Life in the countryside is too hard, before dawn I have to go to the fields. I have wanted to return countless times to look for you, but I was afraid that you would not forgive me, so I was always hesitant to face it."

"Now I can't hold back my feelings anymore. Can you give me a chance? I promise to love you wholeheartedly!"

I listened to his confession, but there was not a single ripple in my heart.

"I have a new life, there is someone beside me who knows how to appreciate me. Let the past go by, don't bother me anymore."

I looked straight into his eyes, my voice was calm but full of weight:

"Thank you for not marrying me in this life. Thanks to that, I was able to completely let you go, focus on studying, passing the university entrance exam, and then having a completely different life. I love who I am now, love the life that I have built for myself."

“The man next to me cherishes and protects me. With him, I don't have to lose myself.”

Luc Truong Thanh's eyes were filled with unwillingness:

“Can you really give me just one chance?”

I firmly shook my head, my voice was light but decisive:

"Luc Truong Thanh, haven't you realized yet? We no longer belong to the same world. Between us is the gap between heaven and earth—do you understand?"

Luc Truong Thanh shed tears of pain:

“Vu Ha, I have been since I was a child better than you. In the past, I was always worried about winning and losing, I always felt like your feelings for me were just like an empty dream. That's why I believed Truong Thu Phuong's lies, stayed with her and had children with her."

“One wrong step, wrong life. After marrying her, he immediately regretted it. She is so rude and shallow, how can she compare to me?

He suddenly grabbed my hand, his eyes full of desire:

“Haven't you always wanted to have a child? We are still young, we can still have a child. I am willing to give you a child, or you can bring your child with him, I will treat it as my own child!”

I frowned, a feeling of extreme disgust arose in my heart, I withdrew my hand forcefully, my voice cold as ice:

“Luc Truong Thanh, please calm down. From the moment I came back to life, it was completely over between us. There is no longer any relationship.”

“Please, stop bothering me.”

If it weren't for this reunion, perhaps I would have truly believed that Luc Truong Thanh once loved Truong Thu Phuong. In my previous life, when we separated, although I had resentment, I still sincerely blessed them in my heart—hoping that this time they would not have any regrets and could truly become a perfect couple. Now I understand—Luc Truong Thanh has never truly loved anyone. No matter who he is with, he will regret it. Because his nature is a weak, hesitant, selfish person who only thinks about himself. Whether it was me in my previous life or Truong Thu Phuong in this life, in the end, I bet wrongly on an unworthy person. Luc Truong Thanh opened his mouth, intending to say something more. But I don't want to listen anymore. Not giving him a chance to hold back, I decisively turned around, without looking back, walking straight forward. Behind him, he stood frozen in place, bewilderedly watching my leaving, leaving only emptiness and endless regret in his heart.