Chapter 5 — The Most Calculating Person Is You

To make it easier to pick up and drop my child off, I had to send my child to a kindergarten near my company. The first day he moved there, Ly Dong overslept. His body is used to the old schedule and cannot adapt to waking up an hour earlier. He frantically brushed his teeth, washed his face, and before tying his tie, he hopped around looking for his socks, almost falling several times. As for me, I leisurely sat on the sofa, applying a mask while watching cartoons with my two children. "Tham Phuong! I'm about to be late! Help me call a car!" – Ly Dong shouted as he stuffed the documents into his briefcase. I slowly took out my phone, opened the ride-hailing app, looked at the red map showing traffic jams, and curled my lips slightly: "It's the morning rush hour, it's very difficult to hail a ride in this area. Maybe you should take the subway to go quickly. By the way, husband, don't you always ride a bike? Protecting the environment and exercising at the same time, what could be better?" Ly Dong didn't respond, just slammed the door shut. How many mornings have the children and I been so chaotic? I had to take my daughter to school, then leave my son with my mother-in-law to look after, and finally run to the timekeeping company. Arriving on time is rare, and having your salary deducted for being late is a common occurrence. If it weren't for my ability and having been with the company for many years, I'm afraid the management would have soon found a way to fire me. And when I was busy, tired and irritated because my child refused to wake up, Ly Dong leisurely made coffee and spread butter, looking leisurely as if nothing had happened. Opening his mouth, he always said a familiar sentence: "To be human, you have to calm down a bit." 8. Since graduating, Ly Dong has never left school, nor has he ever stepped into a real working environment. He had never experienced morning rush hour in a big city. After standing helplessly at the intersection unable to hail a car, unable to get on the bus or subway, and being late to work for three consecutive days in a week, finally, during dinner on the first weekend, he opened his mouth to ask me: "Wife, before you said our car was being repaired, where is it now?" My hands - peeling shrimp for my daughter - paused, then calmly said: "The car's engine is almost completely broken, the paint needs to be completely redone." If it's a big repair, it'll cost at least eighty thousand yuan. My family's savings aren't much right now, so spending that amount is a bit of a stretch." "Why don't we have to use our own money to repair the car?" - Ly Dong's face turned pale. Obviously, he couldn't accept this result. "This type of damage is caused by someone, the insurance company does not compensate. When you refused to accept the compensation from Tiet Mai's family, it meant that the cost of repairing the car had to be borne by the family." I threw the shrimp shell aside, gently waved my hand: "Husband, actually I think you're right. Our family originally didn't need a car. Now I walk the two kids to school every day, watching them walk to school every day. It's good for your health, and it's also environmentally friendly. I plan to sell the car at the liquidation price, then donate the money to Hope Primary School." "If you don't have a car, how can you go to work?! You're forcing me to move here, and now you're talking about selling the car! Why do you have to get up so hard in the morning?! Besides, what's the point of having to pay for the car to be repaired? quit?!” Ly Dong shouted, scratching his hair, his face distorted with anger, no longer looking like his usual elegance. That made Dao Dao - who was sitting and eating - startled and burst into tears: "Hu hu, dad is so angry, dad is so scary! Dad, don't be angry anymore! I'm so scared!" I quickly hugged my child, comforted him, my face full of resentment: "Husband, I decided I didn't need anything else, I didn't say it myself.

Don't get compensation? Once you say it, you can't change your mind." "At that time, I was just out of love for the neighbors! But now we have moved house! If you damage someone else's things, you have to pay for it - that's natural! Why didn't Tiet Mai's family pay?!” Now, Ly Dong completely lost his temper, no longer had any composure and tolerance like the day he taught me at the police station. “If that's the case, then go and ask your husband to get the car repair money back.” – I put down my daughter, who had stopped crying, and seriously looked straight at him. – "Anyway, at that time I decided it wasn't necessary, it's reasonable for me to say it again now." Hearing that, Ly Dong - who was still eloquent - was immediately confused, his eyes avoiding: "This... how can this be. How can a person be so untrustworthy? It's only been a few days since you changed your words, Tham Phuong, why have you become like that? Haven't you told me, as a person you have to be generous, don't compare and calculate." I smiled, gave a thumbs up and praised: "There, this is truly my husband! I knew immediately that you were just testing me. Don't worry, after the last lesson, you have changed. I absolutely will not disappoint you again.”