Chapter 15 — Ten Years of Loving You, A Lifetime of Learning to Love Yourself

Screen shattered. Just like my worldview in that moment. In the end... Did I really win? Or from beginning to end... Am I just a piece on someone else's chess board? The name of that piece... Is revenge. And the real person behind the chessboard, controlling everything... is another person. I stood in the cold night wind, looking at the broken phone under my feet, unable to move for a long time. That photo was like an invisible hand, tearing apart everything I had just believed to be the truth. Tran Thuy was not under house arrest, did not collapse, and did not look like a person waiting to be crushed by fate. He sat in that cafe, so calm that it sent chills down one's spine. And lawyer Vuong, the person I trust the most, sat across from him. I bent down to pick up the phone. The screen was cracked into countless lines, but the photo was still clearly visible. I looked at lawyer Vuong's smile in the photo and suddenly understood something. From beginning to end, perhaps I have never been a hunter. I am just a knife sharpened by someone else, then placed right in my hand. A black car slowly stopped in front of me. The glass door lowered, Chu Tinh stuck her head out, her originally happy expression immediately changed when she saw me.

“Nien Nhien, what's wrong with you?”

I opened the car door and sat in, showing her the broken phone. Chu Tinh only glanced at it, his face immediately turned pale.

"Lawyer Vuong? Why is he with Tran Thuy?"

I closed my eyes, my voice was so calm that even I felt strange.

“I also want to know.”

That night, I neither went home nor returned to the company. I let Chu Tinh take me to an apartment in her name, then used her computer to log into Khai Hang Technology's internal system. All my powers remain intact. But in the access log, I discovered that a high-level administrative account had been silently copying the company's core financial data in the last three months. That account belongs to lawyer Vuong. I looked at the cold notes on the screen and finally burst out laughing. It turns out this is the real play. Lawyer Vuong did not help me collect evidence to protect Khai Hang Technology. He is helping Tran Thuy clean up all the worms in the company, and at the same time let me stand as the one holding the knife. What about Tran Thuy? He used betrayal to force me to come back. Use Lam Hieu to provoke me into action. Use your illness to make me waver. Use lawyer Vuong to guide me step by step to the position of Chairman. A ruthlessly perfect plan. Chu Tinh stood behind me, so angry that he burst out laughing.

“Very good, this bastard is truly an A-class screenwriter. If he doesn't write an arcade movie, it would be a waste of his life.”

I didn't reply. I just opened the encrypted mailbox that lawyer Vuong set up for me a long time ago. There was an unread email, sent three hours ago. The sender is Tran Thuy. The title is only four words. After I win. I looked at that title for a long time, and finally clicked open. In the email there was only one video. I pressed play. On the screen, Tran Thuy sat in his old office, his face a bit pale, but his eyes were still alert and deep. He looked into the lens, smiling slightly.

“Nhuan Nhien, if you see this video, That means I've got Khai Hang back."

“I know you will be angry, will hate me, and will even feel like you have been taken advantage of. But I have no other choice.”

“Khai Hang is rotten from the inside, Truong Hanh is not the only one who wants to swallow the company. If you stay in that position, they will continue to hide, but if you come back, they will definitely be impatient and reveal their tails."

“I need you back, not because I want to hide, but because this company belongs to you.”

The video stops for a few seconds. After that, Tran Thuy bowed his head and coughed very softly. When he looked up again, his eyes were red.

“As for Lam Hieu, I'm sorry. I did take advantage of her, but I didn't expect her to be more greedy than I thought."

“The child is not mine, I knew this from the beginning.”

“From the day I knew I was at risk of carrying the Huntington's disease gene, I got tested. The result is positive.”

"I can't have children, and I don't dare to have children."

My fingertips clenched until they turned white. Tran Thuy in the video looked at me, her voice hoarse.

“Nien Nhien, I really wanted to live with you for the rest of my life. But after knowing the test results, I no longer dared to think about those two words for the rest of my life."

"I'm afraid that one day I'll get sick, I'm afraid that you will have to see my most pathetic appearance, and I'm even more afraid that because of pity, you'll be tied up for the rest of your life next to someone who is no longer yourself."

“So I chose the stupidest way, which is also the cruelest way.”

“You let me hate you.”

“As long as you hate me, you can move on.”

I looked at the screen, my throat so tight it hurt. Chu Tinh, standing next to him, had red eyes, but still gritted his teeth and scolded:

“You psycho.”

Tran Thuy in the video smiled slightly, as if he also predicted that someone would scold him like that.

“But you still miscalculated one thing.”