Chapter 7 — Ten Years of Loving You, A Lifetime of Learning to Love Yourself

I stared at his strange eyes in the photo. An unreasonable cold current... Slowly rising from the bottom of my heart. I always thought... The story between us is simply a broken marriage due to exhausted love and betrayal. But now... Looking at that photo... I suddenly had a very strange feeling. Up until now... I have never really understood Tran Thuy. Our ten years... There seems to be a secret hidden behind. A secret... Deeper than anything I've ever known. The phone screen suddenly went dark. The room fell silent. There's only me left. And the immense silence has no end. The commercial empire that I just regained... Now suddenly became strangely distant. On the contrary... The man I thought I understood better than anyone... Suddenly became vague like never before. The next day, I returned to the company. Calmly as if nothing had ever happened. That strange photo... I'm temporarily buried deep inside my heart. The most urgent task right now is to stabilize the ship Khai Hang Technology, which has just had its captain replaced. I summoned all directors of departments to a meeting. The atmosphere in the meeting room was extremely heavy. The people who were still on Tran Thuy's side yesterday all bowed their heads, no one dared to look at me.

“I don't care who you were before.”

“Ever stood on any boat.”

“From today, Khai Hang Technology has only one path... that is to move forward.”

“Whoever can keep up will stay.”

"If anyone can't follow, go to the human resources department to receive severance pay."

“My request is very simple.”

“Within a week, I want to see each department's development plan and detailed budget report for the next quarter.”

“What I need is data.”

“It's the result.”

“Not fancy stories.”

Every word I said was decisive. Don't leave anyone any dignity. Some people were starting to sweat. The meeting ended. Only Uncle Ly remained.

“Nhan Nhien.”

“The audit team worked through the night.”

“We discovered some problems.”

He gave me a file.

“Over the past two years, Tran Thuy has transferred at least 30 million yuan through several related advertising companies.”

“The legal representatives of all those companies refer to the same person.”

My heart sank.

“Lam Hieu's brother.”

I wasn't surprised.

“Continue to investigate.”

I closed the file.

“Complete the entire chain of evidence.”

“I don't want the time when he ends up using the excuse of 'family expenses' to get away with it.”

Uncle Ly nodded.

“There's one more thing.”

"Tran Thuy... didn't come to the company today."

“Can't contact either.”

“Don't pay attention to him.”

I calmly replied.

“Now he is only a shareholder holding less than 1% of the shares.”

“Whether you come or not... doesn't matter.”

Say it with your mouth. But that photo appeared in my mind. That look... A man... Would he really be afraid of his wife and plan for years of adultery and betrayal? What does he want in the end? Just to get away from me... To the point of accepting to leave empty-handed, risking the entire career you've built for ten years? Not reasonable. He has a greater purpose. For him, it takes work The new company is a liberation. The more I think... The colder I feel. I immediately asked my assistant to extract Tran Thuy's entire work schedule in the last five years. Along with large expenditures from his personal account. I want to find clues from those cold numbers. By late afternoon. The assistant placed a thick stack of documents in front of me. I flipped through each page. Most are very normal. Go to work. Receiving guests. Until... I saw a bill from a year ago. Location: Zurich, Switzerland. Expenses: Service fees for the organization "Hermes Trust". Amount: 500 thousand euros. Hermes Trust... This name... I think I've heard it somewhere before. I immediately looked it up. It is one of the world's leading private trust management companies. Famous for its almost absolute level of security. Along with extremely complex asset isolation and protection services. Their customers... Or extremely wealthy. Or extremely powerful. And most... Are used to handle assets that are not convenient to make public. Tran Thuy... Why go there? What assets does he have... Should he hide it that way? Company money. Every account has clear records. My money. Even more impossible. There's only one possibility left. He has another source of income. A source of money... Which I don't know at all.