Chapter 11 — On the day of the university entrance exam, my parents forced me to take the blame for my sister

I stopped walking.

"What is up?"

He bit his lower lip tightly.

“Nowadays, parents argue every day.”

“Mom always cries, saying she misses her sister.”

“Dad also regrets it.”

“The family doesn't look like a family anymore.”

I looked at her.

“So can you come visit them once?”

I laughed.

“Lam Dao, have you forgotten?”

“All of this was caused by you.”

Her face immediately turned pale.

“You have been punished.”

“I can't study at my old school anymore.”

“Everyone scolds me.”

“My life is ruined.”

I looked at her, her tone was extremely calm.

“Is your life ruined?”

“You're still alive.”

“You can still go to school.”

“It is still possible to start again.”

“Previous life…”

I suddenly stopped. I almost missed my words. Lam Dao looked at me confused.

“What past life?”

I moved my eyes.

"Nothing."

“I just want to say, if that day I really plead guilty for you…”

“Then the ruined life is truly mine.”

Tears fell from her eyes.

“But now you have such a good life.”

“Why still won't you let me go?”

I looked at her. Suddenly it felt ridiculous. Everyone who has ever hurt others likes to say this. You have lived such a good life. Why still won't let me go? But I live well... It's not because they are lenient. It's because I crawled out of the abyss myself.

“I will not take revenge on you.”

“But I won't save you either.”

“How will you live in the future, what kind of person will you become…”

“It has nothing to do with me anymore.”

Having finished speaking, I walked around her and went upstairs. Behind him, suddenly there was a shrill scream.

“Lin Chieu!”

“Don't think I won!”

“Mom and Dad may regret it now.”

“But they raised me for eighteen years!”

“They can't really leave me!”

My steps stopped. I turned my head to look at her.

“Then you keep them.”

“Don't come looking for me anymore.”

Winter of second year of college. My mother was hospitalized. Acute kidney failure. When my dad called me, his voice sounded like he had aged ten years overnight.

“Chieu Chieu...”

“Your mother wants to see you.”

I was about to hang up. But his next sentence made me stop.

“Dao Dao took all the money for your mother's surgery.”

I was silent. Dad's voice trembled.

“The bank card in the house, the red book, even the jewelry my mother and I have saved for many years…”

“It's all gone.”

“It left a note.”

“Saying he wanted to go to the South to start a new life.”

“Chieu Chieu, after knowing what happened, your mother's condition got worse.”

I didn't answer right away. After a long time, I asked:

“Have you called the police yet?”

Dad replied hoarsely:

“So just wait for the police to handle it.”

“Chieu Chieu...”

His voice sounded like he was about to burst into tears.

“Can I go see my mother once?”

I hold the phone. Standing outside the library of Kinh Thanh University. Snow falls on my shoulders. Logically speaking... I shouldn't have gone back. But I remember my past life. Remember when I was about to die. My mother stood next to Lam Dao. Coldly looking at me locked in an old house in the countryside. I remember the times she said: Dao Dao is weaker. I remember how she once wanted to ruin my university entrance exam because of Lam Dao. I thought I would feel gloating. But no. I just feel tired. In the end, I still bought the ticket. Not for forgiveness. But for me want to see with my own eyes. Wanting to see how the person they once risked their lives to protect... ultimately betrayed them. In the hospital. My mother was so thin that she was almost skin and bones. As soon as she saw me, tears immediately welled up in her eyes.

“Chieu Chieu...”

I stood next to the hospital bed. Don't get closer.

“I heard that Lam Dao took the money for surgery.”

Her tears flowed even more intensely.

“Mom was wrong.”

“Mom is really wrong.”

“I thought it just lacked a sense of security.”

“I thought I just needed to love him a little more…”

“It will get better.”

“But it… how could it…”

How is that possible? Of course it's possible. In my previous life, she could push me down the mountain. Is it strange in this life to take all the money for surgery and then run away? I looked at my mother.

“Didn't Mom say she was just a child?”

Her whole body trembled.