Chapter 4 — On the day you give birth, I send you a letter of reconciliation

I immediately recognized it at a glance, it was the incense bag I once gave to Ta Tram Chu, on which was embroidered an ancient image of a couple.

"Brother Tram Chu said this incense bag was old and asked me to embroider a new one for him."

She deliberately shook the incense bag in front of my eyes, "Your skills are indeed very good, it's just a pity that... you're old and your beauty is fading." I put down the embroidery frame and looked straight into her eyes: "What do you want to say?" Lam Nhu Nhi suddenly leaned closer, the strong smell of makeup on her body made me dizzy: "Sister, you know? Sometimes, I really pity you."

“Pity me?”

I almost laughed out loud.

"That's right."

She blinked, "For example... that night on the Upper Plains." My fingers suddenly clenched tightly into my palm. The night of the Upper Plains, that was a nightmare that I never wanted to remember.

“That night, when older brother Tram Chu held me in his arms, he was still worried about whether something would happen to you or not.”

She tilted her head with an innocent look on her face, "But I said 'you'll be fine, you'll be fine', so he won't be worried anymore." The blood in my body rushed straight to the top of my head, and my eyes turned dark. That night, while I was lying in a pool of blood struggling in pain, they were...

“Ah, that's right,” Lam Nhu Nhi suddenly lowered her voice, a cruel light flashed in her eyes, “do you know why that horse suddenly went crazy?”

“What…what did you say?”

My voice is so strange that I don't even recognize it. She slowly pressed each word, as if afraid that I wouldn't hear clearly, "I was the one who plotted to kill your child. How could I let you give birth to the Ta family's eldest son? Brother Tram Chu is mine, since I was ten years old I decided to marry him. Whatever you are, are you worthy of taking my position?" The whole world in that moment seemed to freeze. My ears were ringing non-stop, I could only see Lam Nhu Nhi's dark red lips opening and closing continuously. I heard the sound of something breaking— Probably my mind. In the next second, I rushed forward, both hands clasped tightly around Lam Nhu Nhi's slender neck. She widened her eyes in panic, and the incense bag in her hand fell to the ground.

“You killed my child!”

I heard my own hoarse scream, "You killed it!" Lam Nhu Nhi desperately struggled, her nails scratched my arm, leaving a few streaks of blood oozing out. But I couldn't feel the pain, only the pulse pounding under her palm reminded me that with just a little more strength, I could avenge my child.

“Let… go…”

Her face turned red, her lips gradually turned purple.

“You go and die!”

I increased my strength, "Go pay for my child's life!" Suddenly, a whip passed by, and a burning pain exploded on the back of my hand. I reflexively let go, Lam Nhu Nhi immediately escaped like a slippery eel, fell to the ground, coughing violently.

“You evil woman!”

Ta Tram Chu's angry shout rang out from the door. He strode forward, pushed me away with one hand, and hugged Lam Nhu Nhi tightly in his arms to protect me, "Are you crazy?!" I fell to the ground, on the back of my hand, drops of blood were oozing from the whip mark, but compared to the pain in my heart, those things were basically nothing.

“She did admitted it…”

I trembled and pointed towards Lam Nhu Nhi, "That night on Thuong Nguyen, it was she who plotted to kill our child! She intentionally made the horse crazy..."

“Language chaos!”

Ta Tram Chu interrupted with a serious voice, "Nhu Nhi, even an ant, couldn't bear to trample her to death. How could she do such a thing?" Tong Thanh Duong, she is sick.” Lam Nhu Nhi suddenly burst into tears, burying her face in Ta Tram Chu's chest: "Brother Tram Chu, I'm so scared... my sister suddenly strangled me, saying she wanted to kill me..."

“I'm not sick!”

I forced myself to stand up and grabbed Ta Tram Chu's shirt tightly, "She admitted it herself! She said she tied a firecracker to the horse's tail, intentionally creating chaos..." Ta Tram Chu violently shook my hand away, his eyes cold and scary: "Enough! Since the miscarriage, she has been restless. Now you're still making up this kind of lie to slander Nhu Nhi?"

“You don't believe me?”