Chapter 10 — The Day I Overthrew My Husband's Family

I walked out of the police station, it was already dark. The cold late autumn wind whipped my face, like a knife cutting through my skin, but I didn't feel cold. There is a fire burning in my heart, burning so much that it burns my heart and liver. My father, the man who was once like a solid mountain in my heart, the one who taught me to live uprightly, kindly, and not be ashamed of my conscience... now because of a mistake made more than twenty years ago, he has to enter the prison cycle. As for Luu Ngoc Mai, the real cause of everything, the woman who stepped on other people's lives to climb high... she only lost a little money, lost a little face. Not fair. I absolutely do not accept. I sat in the car but didn't start it, leaned my head back, and closed my eyes. In my head, I replayed my father's last eyes over and over again, filled with guilt, relief, calmness... and deep love for me. Dad, don't worry, I won't let you suffer in vain. Dad's crime is for the law to judge, but Luu Ngoc Mai's crime... I will make her pay double. She thought pulling my father into the water would create balance, thinking I would stop and compromise for my father. She's wrong. She did not anger a humble daughter, but a mother wolf who protected her family to the end. Her last card is not my weakness, but my new weapon. A weapon enough to send her to hell. I opened my eyes, there was no longer any wavering in my gaze, only coldness and determination remained. I started the engine, but didn't go home, but turned around and ran straight to my mother. My mother was sitting on the sofa, crying until she was exhausted. When she saw me, she immediately felt like a drowning person reaching for a lifeline.

"Nguyet Nguyet! Dad..."

“Mom, don't cry.” I hugged her, my voice low but firm.

“Dad will be okay, I promise mom.”

Mom gradually calmed down, I helped her sit down, poured her a glass of warm water and sat opposite her.

“Mom, listen to me.”

"Dad's story has happened, now we can't just cry, we have to think of ways to minimize the loss."

"I believe that the law is fair, those three years were for saving my mother, there was a reason, there will definitely be a reasonable verdict."

“But Liu Yumei… we absolutely cannot ignore it.”

Mentioning that name, hatred also flared up in her mother's eyes.

“It was that woman who harmed my father!”

"Correct." I looked straight at her.

“So you need to know all about her.”

"Think back, more than twenty years ago, our families lived near each other. How well do you understand Luu Ngoc Mai?"

My mother was stunned, then slowly remembered.

"That person was not the gentle type when he was young. He was very greedy and always wanted to climb high."

“Then we married Chu Van Ban's father, he was gentle but in poor health.”

"Weak?" I immediately grasped this detail.

"Yes, it seems like he had a heart attack. He was young and died early, even earlier than my three children."

“How did he die?” I asked urgently.

"People said it was a heart attack, he fell asleep and didn't wake up again. At that time, Chu Van Ban was not yet ten years old."

"Liu Ngoc Mai cried so much, everyone said she was pitiful, but I always felt... something wasn't right."

“Wrong place?” My heart beats faster.

"Not long after her husband passed away, something happened to the textile factory, so she quit her job, taking with her some money to open a small factory."

“At that time, everyone rumored that she took money from the factory, but later on, Ton Chi Cuong pleaded guilty instead, so the matter was swept under the rug.”

Mom paused for a moment then continued, her voice low.

"Besides, before the husband died, the two of them had a huge argument, right in the yard, it was said that it was about money."

“Not long after arguing, he died.”

My fingers are getting cold. A scary thought began to spread in my head. Sudden death from heart. Fire in textile factory. Twenty thousand in cash. A young widow quickly prospered. Is it all… really just a coincidence?

“Mom, what is the name of Chu Van Ban's father?”

“Chu Kien Quan.” My mother answered immediately.

Chu Kien Quan. I took out my phone, wrote down that name, then typed another line. Sudden cardiac death. Big insurance money. I looked at those words, my eyes turned cold. Luu Ngoc Mai. Do you think what happened twenty years ago has been buried? Do you think that stepping on your husband's corpse and ruining other people's lives means you can live the rest of your life in peace? Today I will be the gravedigger. Every single one of her sins, layer by layer, I will bring to light. Leave her... nowhere to hide.