Chapter 13 — One Key, Turns the Whole Family Over

Chu Duc Minh and Cao Tue dispersed their assets. As for Ngo Ngoc Linh, it is financial fraud and large-scale money laundering. That notebook is just the tip of the iceberg. Below is an abyss of sin. Lawyer Truong immediately became serious.

“This is no longer a family dispute, but a serious criminal case that requires immediate asset freezing.”

The old police officer nodded and quickly left to deploy. The entire police station immediately went into emergency operation mode. I helped my mother-in-law, her hand was no longer cold but gradually warmed up. Her eyes looked at me full of guilt but also relief after so many years of being tied down. At that moment, the young police officer ran in again, out of breath but full of excitement.

“We found the warehouse according to the receipt in the album, someone came to check.”

“But there is another clue from Sister Liu.” he paused, his voice lowered.

“Gao Tue hid something in the warehouse, something Chu Duc Minh has never found.”

“Something enough to make him never raise his head again.”

The room was silent, everyone seemed to be pulled into a new level of danger. That news came as a blow to all of us. A trump card that even Chu Duc Minh doesn't know.

“What is that?” Lawyer Truong asked immediately, his voice tense.

“It's unclear, but according to testimony, a hard drive was hidden in a safe in the warehouse.”

Just two words but carrying countless scary possibilities.

“Cao Tue is very intelligent and skeptical.” The young police officer continued to narrate.

“She quietly installed cameras and recording devices in the dating apartment and office.”

I took a cold breath, my scalp numb. This woman is like a time bomb next to Chu Duc Minh.

"She once said that the things in her hand were enough to pull everyone down, not only Chu Duc Minh but also Ly Hoanh Phat and Ngo Ngoc Linh."

The room fell into dead silence. We both realized things had gone beyond a family matter. This is the collapse of an entire criminal network. And the most ironic thing is that the ones who buried it were the women he used. A person endured twenty years to retain the truth. Another person silently prepared the final trap.

“Immediately bring the hard drive here and contact the technical team to decrypt it immediately.” the old policeman ordered.

The entire police station operates like a speeding machine. While waiting, I sat next to my mother-in-law in the break room. Her hand was still warm, no longer shaking. It was as if after all, the twenty-year nightmare was finally coming to an end. Having gone through all that, she was strangely calm, like a big wave had passed, leaving only calm water.

“To Van, these years have been hard for you.” She looked at me, her eyes were gentle and mixed with unprecedented guilt.

I shook my head, squeezing her hand tightly as if holding on to a fulcrum in the middle of a storm.

“Mom, we are one family.”

She sighed, the corners of her eyes reddening when talking about her son who had deviated from the roots.

"Chu Hao, because his mother did not raise him well, was taught wrong things about money by his father from a young age."

“Everything will have to pay, there he will have time to think.” I gently comforted.

We talked a lot, about the past, about the years she silently endured and prepared for today. The amount of more than 300,000 yuan she hid little by little from the company's books. The same tricks Chu Duc Minh taught her, she used again On the contrary, to save yourself. She knew he was having an affair for a long time but did not expose it, just quietly collected evidence. Waiting for the day when everything can be turned upside down.

“I thought I would endure it all my life.” She looked out the window, her voice distant.

“Until you enter the house, you look like me in the past, so I don't want you to go down that path again.”

The will is not only an asset but also a reminder, a buoy she left for me. It was her way of saying that in that house, who was trustworthy? At that moment, the door opened and lawyer Truong and the police officer walked in with heavy faces.

“We looked at the contents of the hard drive.” His voice was hoarse as if carrying the weight of the truth.

The policeman clenched his fist, each word coming out with anger.

“Chu Duc Minh is not human, he is a monster.”

"There are countless videos and audio recordings, recording dirty transactions between him and Cao Tue and Ngo Ngoc Linh."

“It also records how he manipulated Ly Hoanh Phat, turning the entire company into a hollow puppet.”

“They forged contracts and withdrew money from banks, totaling nearly 50,000,000 yuan.”

That number was like an explosion, leaving me and my mother-in-law dumbfounded.