Chapter 5 — The Day I Overthrew My Husband's Family

She thought she knew my weakness. I thought I could use the relatives I cared about the most to threaten me. A ray of hope also flashed in Chu Van Ban's eyes. He looked at me, like he was looking at someone who was about to lose. Chu Van Hao seemed even happier watching the show, he just wanted us to both lose and hurt him so he could sit and not enjoy the benefits. I stood at the door, my back to them. Don't turn around. Just laughed softly. The laughter was very light... but it was like a heavy blow hitting their hearts. Luu Ngoc Mai's face immediately changed.

“What are you laughing at!”

I slowly turned around. There was no fear or anger on his face. There is only… pity. It was like watching a clown dance one last time before being pulled off the stage.

“Liu Ngoc Mai.”

“I laughed… because she was so naive.”

“You think about my father… don't I know?”

Her pupils shrank sharply.

“You… you know?”

“Of course I know.”

I step by step returned to the middle of the living room, standing right in front of her.

“Five years ago, my father's company broke its cash flow.”

“It was you, through an underground money line, who lent him a loan.”

“But that amount has exorbitant interest rates and the books are vague.”

“You're not helping him.”

“It's about digging a hole for him to fall into.”

“The so-called ‘evidence’ in your hands…”

“It's just a trap you kept from that same plot that year.”

“A trap that you think could strangle me at any moment.”

“What I said… is it wrong?”

Luu Ngoc Mai's lips began to tremble. She didn't expect me to know every detail so clearly.

“What do you… know!”

She screamed, her voice strong on the outside but weak on the inside.

"The evidence is in my hands! As long as I hand it over, your father is finished!"

The corners of my lips curled up, cold and scary.

"So have you ever thought... why five years ago my father's company suddenly had a cash flow breakdown?"

“Why does a person who has been in business for decades... so easily fall into your trap?”

Luu Ngoc Mai was stunned. She never thought about it. Or more accurately… she didn't even think. In her eyes, my father was just a stupid prey that could be taken advantage of. I looked straight at her, each word falling as cold as ice.

“Because the vice president of his company… was bribed by you long ago.”

“It was she and he who colluded internally and externally to manipulate the company, disrupting the cash flow.”

“Then she pretended to appear as a savior.”

“Luu Ngoc Mai, this 'hero saves the beauty' trick... you played it beautifully.”

“Evidence?”

I smiled faintly.

“You said it was a recording of you and that deputy discussing in the coffee shop?”

“Or is it the bank statement that he transferred the commission to you?”

“Ah yes, those… I have a copy too.”

I gently shook the phone in my hand.

“Tell me, if both sides submit evidence…”

“The crime of ‘tax evasion’ that you blame on my father… is bigger…”

“Or is your crime of commercial fraud and intentional setting up… bigger?”

“By then… people will be in prison longer…”

“Is it my father… or is it you and your accomplices?”

The words just ended. Liu Ngoc Mai's face was completely drained of blood. She staggered back, crashed into the sofa, her whole body seemed to be drained of strength. Her last card... was not only useless, but also became a fire that burned herself. Chu Van Ban stood still as if petrified. He looked at me… like a monster. He has never known... a gentle and gentle wife in my eyes... but secretly holds so many secrets. I am like a net. A net has been spread for a long time... just waiting for the prey to enter on its own. And they... are the stupid moths trapped in there. Luu Ngoc Mai fell down and sat on the ground, muttering.

“No way…how do you know…”

“Whatever I want to know… I will definitely know.”

My voice was cold as ice.

“Liu Ngoc Mai, from the beginning you are a bad person.”

“For money… she can do anything.”

“Do you really think… I did everything perfectly without any flaws?”

“Have you forgotten…”

“More than twenty years ago, there was a fire in a textile factory in the south of the city?”

“Thanh Nam weaving factory.”

Those five words were like a bolt of lightning, hitting straight at the top of Luu Ngoc Mai's head. Her body trembled violently and she suddenly raised her head. In his eyes was unprecedented fear and terror.

“What…what nonsense are you talking about!”

Her voice became shrill and shrill because she was so panicked.

“I don't know any textile factories!”

Chu Van Ban and Chu Van Hao were also bewildered. Apparently they were completely unaware of this.

“Mom, what textile factory is that?” Chu Van Ban asked reflexively.

“Nothing!” Luu Ngoc Mai immediately shouted and interrupted.

She glared at me, like a cornered animal.

"Tham Nguyet! Don't be here talking nonsense and misleading others!"

“I don't know what you're talking about!”

I looked at her clumsy performance and just found it funny.

“More than twenty years ago, the finance department of Thanh Nam textile factory had a fire.”

“Burn all the books.”

“After doing an inventory, we discovered that all 200,000 cash was missing.”

“Twenty thousand… was a huge sum of money back then.”

With each sentence I said, Luu Ngoc Mai's face became a little whiter.

“At that time, the factory's accountant was a man named Ton Chi Cuong.”

“He became the only suspect.”

“Due to lack of evidence, he was eventually sentenced to fifteen years on charges of embezzlement of public funds.”

“But at that time, there was a new cashier in the finance department who had just started working not long ago.”

“That person's name… is Luu Ngoc Mai.”

“After the fire, she immediately quit her job.”

“Soon, she used some initial capital to open the Chu family's first small workshop with her husband.”

“It is also the predecessor of the company now.”

My voice was calm, as if I was telling a story that had nothing to do with me. But every word... was like a knife cutting into her nerves.

“Liu Ngoc Mai, this story… is it familiar to you?”

She sat down on the ground, breathing heavily. Cold sweat soaked the back of my shirt.

“Fake… everything is fake…”

She still tried to resist in vain.

"You made it up! You have no evidence!"

“Evidence?”

I smiled softly.