Chapter 7 — The day I registered my marriage, I discovered that my husband had two lives

“Who let you two touch this?”

His voice was very low. I looked straight at him. That moment... I suddenly wasn't afraid anymore. On the contrary, the mind is unusually alert.

“Just how many ‘lives’ do you have?”

He didn't answer. Just stared at me. Deep eyes. It's like looking at... A variable that shouldn't continue to exist. My heart suddenly sank. Before I could say anything more... He spoke.

“What you two saw…”

“Just a part.”

I stopped.

"What do you mean?"

He looked at me and To Uyen respectively. The corners of the lips slowly curved up. That's not a smile. It's more like... The expression of someone who has just made a decision.

“If you two have investigated this far…”

He spoke slowly.

“Then I don't need to keep pretending anymore.”

The air... In that moment, it completely froze. I suddenly realized... Maybe we really touched something that shouldn't have been touched.

“Then I don't need to keep pretending anymore.”

Lam Trach said that in a strangely calm voice. So calm that it sends chills down other people's spines. I stared at him. Heart rate increases little by little. Su Uyen stood next to me and instinctively grabbed my wrist. Her hand was cold.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

Lam Trach did not answer immediately. He put his old phone in his pocket, walked to the window and half-closed the curtain. The light immediately dimmed. The whole living room seemed locked in a tight space.

“The pictures you two just saw.” He finally spoke. "Not important."

I couldn't help it, I burst into cold laughter.

"Not important?" I looked straight at him. “You live with many women at the same time, so you call it unimportant?”

He glanced at me.

“If you two only understand this as 'adultery'.” he said. “It's true that you two don't understand anything.”

Those words made my heart suddenly sink. Not because of the content. It's because of the tone. That kind of voice... It's not an excuse. It's calmly stating an even greater truth.

“So tell me, what should we understand?” I stared at him.

He didn't answer me. But turned to look at To Uyen.

“Lately, do you often feel like there's something wrong with time?” he asked.

To Uyen was stunned.

“The timing isn't right?”

"For example." he said. “I feel like you just got home not long ago, but looking at the clock, several hours have passed.”

To Uyen's face changed slightly. Instinctively, she nodded. My heart suddenly tightened. Because I used to feel the same way. There were times when he had just come home, the two of us only talked for a while, but looking back, a long time had passed. But at that time I just thought... It was because I didn't pay attention to the time.

“There's more.” Lam Trach continued. "Have you two ever received a phone call from me, but felt like there was something about the call's content... that didn't match?"

My mind suddenly made a buzzing sound. I suddenly remembered something. One time, he called me, said he was in a meeting, and told me to eat myself that night. But that night, he still returned on time, even claiming he had never called. At that time, the two of us had an argument. Finally he showed me the call history. Truly... There was no such call. I thought I remembered wrong. But now that I think about it... It's not that I remembered wrongly. That call... Came from a different "timeline".

“What do you want to say anyway?” My voice was a little choked.

Lam Trach looked at me. Silence for a few seconds. Then he said something that sent chills down my spine.

“According to you two, how much time is there in a person's day?”

I frowned.

"What do you mean?"

“Twenty-four hours.” He replied. “That is the perception of two people.”

He stopped for a moment.

“But if…”

“What if a person's time is cut out?”

The space immediately fell into silence. My mind could barely keep up.

“Cut out?”

I repeat. He nodded.

“It's not a simile.” He replied. “But quite literally.”

To Uyen couldn't bear it anymore.

“What the hell are you talking about?”

Lam Trach did not pay attention to her. He just looked at me. It's like confirming... Whether I can understand or not. I took a deep breath.

“You mean... you live in different timelines at the same time?”

I inquired. His eyes wavered slightly. Seems like a bit of a surprise.

“Something like that.”

he said. My heart suddenly sank.

“What roughly?”