Chapter 3 — Your Biggest Mistake Is Looking Down On Me

“When the SR-3 project started, the company also invested, the location also belonged to the company…”

I burst out laughing, as if I had just heard the funniest thing in my life.

“Investment company?”

“Are you talking about the amount you transfer ten thousand to me every month, telling me to ‘save a little’?”

“Or is it your 'research department' that only has two old centrifuges that don't even guarantee a sterile environment?”

I took out another file and threw it down in front of him.

“Co Trach Xuyen, open your eyes and see clearly!”

“The core technology of ‘cell regeneration and recovery’ this time, I completed independently during the half year of our separation, at an outsourced laboratory under my own name!”

“Equipment invoices, cash flows, experiment logs... I have them all notarized!”

“You think the SR-3 you can hold is everything?”

“So naive.”

“That's just the most basic first phase of my entire technology stack.”

“And what I sold to Khai Minh… was its complete core.”

Co Trach Xuyen's body began to tremble uncontrollably. He looked at me. For the first time… there was real fear in his eyes. He finally realized… I wasn't joking. Every word I say is the truth. The game I laid out was much deeper and more cruel than he imagined. At that moment, the phone in his pocket rang frantically. The urgent sound of the bell sounded like a soul calling, resounding in the suffocatingly quiet living room, so deafening that it sent chills down one's spine. He frantically picked up the phone. As an assistant.

"General Gu! It's not over! There's something big going on!"

The assistant's voice trembled, almost crying.

"Khai Minh Group just held an emergency press conference! General Director Luc Hoai An personally announced... they... they spent 2 billion yuan to buy the global exclusive rights to Ms. Tham Tinh Nhuoc's 'cell regeneration and recovery' technology!"

“Our stock price… is starting to plummet!”

Co Trach Xuyen's hand loosened. The phone fell with a "clack" to the floor. His whole body seemed to be drained of strength, he collapsed onto the sofa, his eyes staring blankly at the ceiling. The man who once stood at the top, so arrogant that no one could match him... Finally, he was afraid. Gu Zechuan's contempt and arrogance, in the face of the steel-cold truth, were completely crushed. Instead, it was a frenzy of shame turned to anger. He couldn't accept being counterattacked and stepped on by me - the person he always considered "dependent". Even more unacceptable... my business empire is shaken because of that. That night, Hoa Thinh's PR team worked overnight. An article in reverse black and white quickly dominated the front pages of newspapers. 《Concussion! Hoa Thinh was betrayed by core personnel, founder Co Ze Xuyen choked up telling the story of "farmers and poisonous snakes"!》 In the article, I was painted as a calculating person from beginning to end, ungrateful. A genuine "gold digger". They said I relied on my husband's resources and background to complete my research, and as soon as I became famous, I immediately colluded with my competitors, stole company secrets, sold out my conscience, and maliciously transferred a patent worth multiple cities. Co Trach Xuyen even appeared himself and received a video interview from a financial newspaper. In front of the camera, his eyes were red and his voice was choked, playing the role of a victim I love betrayal.

"I have always supported her career unconditionally. For her research, I even bet the company."

"I thought we were teammates standing shoulder to shoulder... but unexpectedly, in her heart, there was only money."

"Didn't I give her enough? I gave her a prosperous life, gave her a safe environment to do research, I protected her so much... why does she treat me like that?"

His acting... was so perfect that it was scary. Very soon, an army of virtual accounts flooded in. Online, attacks and curses aimed at me rose like fierce waves.

“This type of woman is really disgusting, she relies on her husband, kicks her when she gets stubborn, she's so ungrateful!”

"Mr. Co is so miserable, having to keep a poisonous snake with him."

"What if you're talented? A bad personality like this will sooner or later be punished!"

“Shen Tinh Nhuoc, get out of the research world!”

Public pressure crashed down like an avalanche. My phone got called out of order. My parents in the countryside saw the news and immediately called to question, their voices full of disappointment and indignation.

"Tinh Nhuoc! How could you do such a thing? The Co family treats us well, why are you so unscrupulous?"

I tried to explain, but they didn't listen.

"The Tham family doesn't have a shameless daughter like you! Hurry up and apologize to Trach Xuyen and find a way to save it!"

Having finished speaking, they hung up. Immediately after that, relatives, even close friends... also took turns sending messages of reproach. After just one night, it was like I became someone the whole world turned away from. When I go out to buy things, people point at me. Right below the apartment building, a "righteous passerby" even threw a cup of hot coffee directly at me. Dark brown liquid flowed down her cheeks, burning. But the cold in my heart... hurts even more. I was surrounded, humiliated, attacked. The whole person fell to an unprecedented depth. Co Ze Xuyen's goal has been achieved. He wants to use public opinion... to crush me. Turned me into a loser, a crazy person despised by everyone. As soon as I locked myself in the apartment, it felt like the whole world was my enemy... A strange call suddenly came. Instinctively, I decided to turn it off. But for some reason, I clicked to listen. On the other end of the line, a deep male voice rang out.

"Is it Dr. Tham? I'm Luc Hoai An."

Luc Hoai An. General Director Khai Minh. Co Ze Xuyen's biggest opponent. The same person who spent 2 billion yuan to buy back my patent. I picked up the phone, not knowing what to say.

“Dr. Tham, are you okay?”

His voice carried clear concern. My nose suddenly stings.