Chapter 4 — The Stolen Heir For Thirty Years

I glanced at each face in front of me, my eyes cold to the bone.

“You guys say my eldest brother is not in good health and needs to be taken care of, okay.”

“Take 3,000,000 yuan, deposit it into the joint account of me and Chu Vu, consider it as insurance money for old age.”

"When you get old or sick and need someone to serve you, that money is our credit."

"Anyway, we have to give up the opportunity in Nanjing, losing several hundred thousand yuan of income and a better future every year to stay as servants, we can't work for free."

My conditions, each one more severe than the last, each hit their limits. The entire dining room fell into dead silence, as if not even the air dared to move. Chu Cuong was so angry that his lips turned purple. He pointed at me and stammered, unable to say a complete sentence. Vuong Cam immediately broke down and cursed loudly:

"Hua Tinh, you are crazy! This is robbery!"

Luu My Lan hugged her chest, looking like she was about to have a heart attack at any moment. Chu Chinh Duc has been silent from the beginning, his face so gloomy that it looks like it could be squeezed out of water. He stared at me, then looked at Chu Vu who was "timid" behind me, his eyes were indescribably complicated. After a long time, he gritted his teeth and said a sentence, his voice as if each word was forced out.

"My eldest brother... can't do without Chu Vu."

“It's not just poor health… it's…”

He seemed to have made up his mind, his eyes torn with pain.

"The fortune teller said, its destiny... is tied to Chu Vu's destiny."

06 Tied by Fate Chu Vu and I looked at each other, in each other's eyes there was clear confusion and a chilling understanding. It turns out that it's not an unspeakable disease, but just a ridiculous superstition. Vuong Cam was also stunned, clearly this was the first time she heard about this.

“Dad, what are you talking about? What era is it now that you still have fate and fate!”

Luu My Lan seemed to have been poked at a vital point. She immediately pulled her husband's hand back, her voice panicked.

“Are you crazy, how can you say this!”

The more you prevent it, the more it proves that it's true. Chu Vu immediately took the opportunity and stepped out from behind me, all his weakness disappearing in the blink of an eye. Instead, there was a kind of coldness with an ironic smile, sending chills down people's spines.

“Mom, you don't have to stop anymore, let dad talk.”

“Today I also want to hear how my destiny is tied to him.”

“Do I owe him… or do you guys owe me?”

He moved forward step by step, his eyes as sharp as knives, so pressing that no one could avoid him. Chu Chinh Duc was seen to have no way to retreat, in the end he could only sigh, as if he had aged ten years.

“The moment you two were born…”

He spoke each word with difficulty, as if swallowing each blade.

“Pham Chong.”

"That year, right when I was born, my brother became seriously ill and almost couldn't be saved."

“We have found a very famous master to read our fate.”

"The teacher said, you two brothers are destined to 'share the same birth, share the same honor, one will lose both'."

“But your brother's fate is weaker.”

“And you… are its noble person, and the thing that suppresses its destiny.”

"As long as you are by my side, I can suppress the murderous aura in its life and keep it safe and smooth for the rest of its life."

"But if you leave her, her luck will plummet. If she's light, she'll lose money, if she's heavy... she could lose her life."

As soon as the series of words ended, the entire dining room fell silent Absolute silence. I felt my worldview was mercilessly crushed. This is the twenty-first century, not the setting of a fantasy story. Yet, just because of a few superstitious words from a gangster, they decided the lifelong trajectory of their two children. So stupid it's funny, it's so funny it's pitiful. After hearing this, Chu Cuong's face turned pale, his eyes filled with fear. Apparently… he believed this beyond a shadow of a doubt. Only Vuong Cam was still struggling.

"No way! It's all a scam! Have you been tricked by someone?"

No one answered her. Luu My Lan cried until her face was wet. She held Chu Vu's hand tightly, her voice trembling and begging.

“Son, I beg you.”

“I think I love my brother and my parents.”

"This family only depends on your brother. Nothing can happen to him."

“As long as you stay, your wife and children's conditions... we all accept!”

To keep him, she was really willing to give up everything. Chu Cuong and Vuong Cam immediately changed their faces, their faces darker than the bottom of the pot. Especially Vuong Cam, she almost couldn't believe her ears. The house had to be re-divided, the debt had to be borne, and 3,000,000 yuan had to be spent? So what else do those five houses mean?

"Mom! You can't agree!"

Vuong Cam shouted, his voice almost breaking.

“That's no different than dividing property with them!”

Luu My Lan turned to glare at her, her eyes seemed to swallow her.

“You shut up for me!”

“Money is important or your husband's life is important!”

One sentence... stops everything. I looked at the scene in front of me, a fantastic play to the extreme. There was not a trace of pity in my heart, only coldness remained. From beginning to end, they never saw Chu Vu as an independent person. He is just his eldest brother's dependent, a walking talisman. Chu Vu listened, his face expressionless. He just quietly looked at his parents and his older brother. It took so long that everyone thought he would bow his head and accept. He laughed. That smile carried bitterness to the bone, along with a layer of cold irony. He spoke word by word, as if cutting pieces of the past.

“Just because of a few nonsense words from a fortune teller.”

“You want to sacrifice my life so I can be his foundation?”

He looked around at everyone, his voice suddenly raised, sharp as a knife.

“So today I will speak frankly.”

“I won't do this amulet anymore!”

“Didn't you guys say that if I leave, he will have bad luck?”

"Okay."

The corners of Chu Vu's lips curled up, an almost cruel smile.

“I want to see, I'm gone… how unlucky he can be.”