Chapter 17 — The Day I Stopped Fasting, They Lost Everything

He lowered his head to look at his body, the male body that had been familiar for thirty years suddenly became a giant lie, a life built on the blood and fate of others. He was not the son of the Chu family, not even a man, so who he was, or who she was, he himself no longer knew. A shrill burst of laughter tore through the silence. Chu Le slowly sat up, her hair disheveled, her eyes crazy like a lunatic.

“Ha ha… so you are a girl, my dear brother.”

Chu Hao raised his head, his eyes were red like a wild beast, and roared.

“Shut up, I'm not, I'm not a girl.”

Chu Le laughed even more crazily, tears flowing from her eyes from laughter.

“No, then what are you, you are a monster, something that steals other people's identities.”

“You stole my life, I'm the daughter of the Chu family, I'm the one.”

She suddenly rushed forward like a crazy person, her nails were as sharp as knives, scratching straight at Chu Hao's face.

“I will kill you, give me back my life.”

Chu Hao was pressed to the ground, his face was immediately cut into several deep cuts, the pain pulled him back to reality, and then the madness broke out.

“You're trash, you're something bought, you don't even know who your parents are.”

He grabbed Chu Le's hair and slammed it on the ground, his voice hoarse like a beast.

“I at least know who my mother is, and you are trash.”

The two of them were like two caged animals, biting each other with their most primitive instincts. They didn't fight because of their bodies but because of the fake life that had just been torn apart. Chu Le bit down on Chu Hao's hand, not letting go, and Chu Hao used his knee to push her hard in the stomach, screams and curses resounded throughout the cell. The iron door was banged loudly, the warden shouted loudly to stop, then the door opened, several policemen rushed in. The scene before their eyes made them dumbfounded. Blood was all over the floor and walls, the two people seemed to have just been picked up from a pool of blood, Chu Le's face was swollen, Chu Hao's clothes were torn, full of bites and scratches. They were still frantically struggling, as if they wanted to devour each other, it took the police a long time to separate them. The two were pulled apart but still screamed and cursed, the cruel words resounded in the closed space. At that moment, an office police officer walked in holding documents, looked at them with unpleasant eyes and read the contents in a cold voice.

"Chu Hao, according to Luu Ngoc Mai's signed declaration along with birth and civil registration records, your real name is Chu Hao Dinh, female gender."

“We will transfer you to the women's prison to await trial.”

One sentence was like lightning striking a clear sky, everything completely collapsed. Chu Hao Dinh, female, transferred to the women's prison, each word hit like a hammer, shattering her entire world in an instant. She, no longer "he", completely collapsed, looking at the policeman reading the order with desperate pleading eyes.

“No… no… I'm not a girl, I don't want to go to a women's prison, I've lived like a man since I was a child, I'll die…”

Her cry was as mournful as someone falling off a deep cliff, the last cry before disappearing. But no one was moved. Two female police officers stepped forward and pulled her away, letting her struggle like a cornered animal. When she was pulled to the door, she suddenly turned her head, looked at Chu Le with extremely resentful eyes, and then burst out laughing. distortion.

"Chu Le... or that unknown thing that came out of nowhere... you won, my life is ruined by you, by my mother, by Giang Than, by Hua Tinh."

“But I tell you, even if I die, I will drag you to hell with me.”

After saying that, she jerked away from the police and rushed like a bullet into the concrete wall. A deep "bang" rang out, blood bloomed like a bright red flower on the white wall. But even death refused to accept her. Chu Hao Dinh only suffered a severe brain injury, was hospitalized for half a month and then woke up with empty eyes like a soulless body. Then she was transferred to a women's prison, and her real hell began. Meanwhile, Giang Than's information network operates like a giant machine, and the secret of Chu Le's identity is quickly exposed. Thirty years ago, on the rainy night when Luu Ngoc Mai sold her child, she made a deal with a notorious human trafficker, who was sentenced to death, but one of his subordinates is still in prison. The team of lawyers approached that person. Under pressure and interest, he remembered the old transaction.

"That girl was very pretty, had big eyes, didn't cry often. She was sold to a poor couple named Lam. They had no children so they bought them to raise."

The clue "Lam" became the key, big data and facial recognition were released, sweeping the country like a storm. Three days later, a photo appeared on Giang Than's desk. In the photo is a woman in her thirties, with a delicate face, somewhat similar to him, wearing work clothes, washing dishes in a small shabby restaurant. Her eyes were calm but hidden deep was resilience honed by life. Her name is Lam Van, thirty-one years old, in the same province as the Chu family, her past is obscure, her adoptive parents passed away ten years ago, she lives alone, works every job to survive. Giang Than looked at the photo for a long time, his fingers gently touching the face that looked like his own, a feeling that was difficult to name arose in his heart. That was his sister, his only biological sibling, who should have had another life, but was thrown into the mud for thirty years. We arranged to meet her in a quiet cafe. In real life, she was thinner than the photo, but her back was straight and her eyes did not bow to anyone. Facing two people like us, she was neither flattered nor embarrassed, just looked calmly and asked.