Chapter 8 — My Home, No One Should Touch It

Finally... stopping at a "gentle" smile that sent chills down people's spines. She approached me, her voice lowered.

“Vy Vy, I know you're having a hard time.

Or like this, consider me borrowing this house from you."

“Let your younger brother get married first, wait for him to buy a house and then return it to you.

Mom, write me a debt note, okay?"

“Mom said yes, he bought the house and will definitely return it to me.”

I looked into her eyes. No guilt. No apologies. There is only… calculation. A kind of "I've given in, you should know better". That moment, I understood. All these years, I've been waiting for an apology. A “we were wrong”. But what can I wait?

"Please help your brother", "Think about your family", "Why do you need so much alone?"

They will never think they are wrong. Because in their world, girls are just tools, boys are the goal. A girl's things belong to the family. Family things... belong to the boys. A perfect logic. So perfect that they couldn't see anything wrong. In their eyes, I have never been an independent person. I'm just an ATM. A tool that can be sacrificed at any time.

"Impossible."

The "gentle" smile on my mother's face completely crumbled. Gendarmerie Tran had seen enough of this family drama and finally spoke up.

“Everyone calm down, Miss Tham, what is your request?”

“Very simple.”

I said decisively.

“Today, they all have to move out.

It's my house, I decide for myself.”

"Today?!" Pham Dao shouted, his voice as sharp as tearing through the air.

“How can there be so much stuff to clean up today?!”

“Do you know how long it took us to move in?

Do you know how heavy this stuff is?”

“What you're doing is forcing people too much!”

“That's your job.”

“You… you're forcing us to die!”

“Forcing you?” I laughed coldly.

"Did I force you to take over my house? Did I force you to move in in the middle of the night?"

“I forced you to take my keys, without permission and then blatantly stay in my house?

Pham Dao, use your brain a little, who is forcing who?" Pham Dao was cornered until he was speechless. Tears fell, makeup was smeared, eyeliner and foundation mixed together to form two gray streaks on her face. Tham An's face was as gloomy as the sky before a storm. The fist clenched so tightly that it made a cracking sound.

“You… you must go to this extent?”

“Do it to this extent?”

I looked straight at him.

“Tham An, you arbitrarily took my key, illegally entered my house, moved in without permission, that is called going to the end.”

“I ask you to move out, that's called protecting your legal rights.

Shrink your fist, don't play bully with me."

“Okay… okay.”

He gritted his teeth, his jaw muscles twitching continuously.

“Then we'll just stay here.

Anyway, I've already moved in, what can I do?

“What if you call the police?

Can the police still arrest us? This is a family matter, the police are not in charge!” He turned to Tran, his voice provocative.

"Comrade police, this is a family matter, you can't take care of it, right? A family quarrel and you can take care of it?"

Tran Canh frowned and looked towards me. I took a deep breath.

“Comrade Tran.”

“If they don't move out today…”

My voice was terrifyingly calm.

“I don't need this house anymore.”

All were stunned. Tham An was stunned, Pham Dao was stunned, my mother Stunned, even Officer Tran frowned slightly.

“But I will spend the rest of my life…”

"Death also brings this area, this management company, and the investor down with it."

I say every word. Each word is like a nail nailed to the ground.

“I will sue them for negligence, sue them for infringing on my property, sue them for causing mental damage.

I will hire the best lawyer, drag out the lawsuit the longest, and let them pay until they go bankrupt.”

“I will bring the media in, I will let social networks expose it.

I will let the whole country know—Cam Tu Hoa Dinh can arbitrarily hand over the master's house key to someone else.” Vuong Duc Hau's face was as white as paper. He rushed up, his voice shaking.

"Miss Tham, don't... don't do that! We will definitely solve it, we will definitely make them move out!"

“Don't do that?”

I laughed coldly.

“When you gave the keys to strangers, why didn't you think 'don't do that'?”

“When you say 'industry practice', why don't you think 'don't do that'?

When you say 'a family doesn't differentiate between people', why don't you think 'don't do that'?" Vuong Duc Hau was speechless. Sweat flows in streams on his forehead. I turned to Landscape Tran.

“My request is very simple.”

“Or they move out today, I won't pursue it.

Or I leave this house, but this area, this company, this investor... will not have a peaceful day."

“I said it can be done.”