Chapter 20 — Women Don't Need To Be Chosen

11:30 p.m. The phone connected very quickly. To Cam Hoa finished listening and said only one word.

“Just let it post.” Her voice was terrifyingly calm, "I want to see, what a person from a garment factory... can do to a 1,200,000,000,000 yuan corporation."

“But the content will affect mom—”

“Nem Niem.”

She interrupted, her voice low.

"The harsh words I've heard... are more than the number of meals I've eaten."

She stopped for a moment.

“But Tien Ngoc Hoa is different.”

The air on the other side of the phone was cold.

"She touched you, I held back. For you."

“But this time… she touched me.”

This time… it's not my fight anymore.

“What are you going to do, Mom?”

“You will know tomorrow.”

6 am. The article was posted on time. Two hours later, the number of reads exceeded 1,000,000. Comments began to divide.

“So To Cam Hoa was also like that?”

“Maybe it's true, who in the financial world is completely clean?”

“Daughter inherits 20,000,000,000 yuan… sounds a bit…”

Public opinion began to waver. But only for a very short time. 8 hours 17 minutes. A new post appeared on the corporation's official account. To Thi Group's title is only four words.

“Legal Declaration.”

No emotions. No lengthy explanations. There are only two parts. One: the entire content of the article is fabricated, a criminal lawsuit has been filed for defamation and spreading false information. Two: directly publish notarized documents, proving my legal identity, along with the entire transparent legal process. Finally… a line.

“To Thi Group will pursue responsibility to the end.”

Exactly at 8:20 a.m. The account with 8,000,000 followers... disappeared. Don't delete the post. Delete it forever. Like it never existed. Chu Can called, his voice almost uncontrollable.

“General Su… they… flew away.”

I looked at the screen, the corners of my lips curled slightly. Not a counterattack. Is crushed.

"Just an unmarried mother, twenty-six years later letting her daughter return to take over someone else's property. Isn't that just cutting vegetables to make money?"

At ten o'clock in the morning, the wind direction began to change. The official account of To Thi Group posted an article. Not a lawyer's letter, nor a correction. It's… a letter. A letter written by To Cam Hoa himself. There is only one very simple sentence at the beginning.

"My name is To Cam Hoa, sixty-one years old this year. Twenty-six years ago I gave birth to a baby girl. When she was eight months old, I was forced to take her away because someone threatened to kill her."

No complaining. No dramatization. Not a single word is used to please the reader. Little by little. About Co Thanh Cuong's threat. About her being forced to leave Giang Thanh. About twenty-six years of building an empire from scratch... just to one day be strong enough to protect my children. The last part of the letter is like a knife cutting straight into public opinion.

“Some people call me an unmarried mother, as if that is something shameful, yes, I am an unmarried mother, but I have never felt ashamed of that, what makes me ashamed is that I failed to protect my daughter, letting her grow up in an orphanage, being called an abandoned child, if that is a 'scandal', I accept this scandal to be known to the whole world, because my daughter is not wrong, I am not wrong, wrong is those who use power and violence to force a mother to leave her child.”

One hour after posting, plays reading exceeds 10,000,000. Public opinion reversed. Not a slight turn. Which is overturned.

“Oh my god, I'm crying, what kind of mother is this…”

"Twenty-six years of looking for a child, making over a trillion billion from nothing, the movie wouldn't dare write like that."

"Tien Ngoc Hoa messed with the wrong person, she can't touch this level."

The account that self-promoted 8,000,000 followers... was locked that afternoon. Reason: spreading false information, defaming businessmen. Tien Ngoc Hoa's last card. Crushed. At this point, Tien Ngoc Hoa... had nothing left in her hands. Co Thanh Cuong was investigated. Bach Khai Minh cut ties. Her son stood facing her. Father-in-law openly criticized. The whole social network scolded her. Luc Thi shares fell to a three-year low. But what really broke her... was Mr. Luc's decision. He organized an official family meeting, with a lawyer and notarization, not the underground meeting like before. Right at that meeting, he announced two things. First, transfer all 15% of your shares to Luc Canh Tham. Second, propose to dismiss Tien Ngoc Hoa from the position of board member. The reason was read clearly, word by word, cold as a verdict. Misuse of company resources for personal purposes, outside collusion to damage interests, false statements that cause stock prices to decline. No one objected. Luc Canh Tham... voted yes. Minor shareholders… all agree. The results are approved immediately.