Dad! But hit Mom!"
"I told not provoke her, didn't understand?!" roared angrily. past, dared raise his voice his precious son.
Lam Thanh was still before speak again, hung up.
"Done calling?" softly.
Lam Thanh frowned, "What do want? hit mom, now hit me too?"
"Give me back phone."
Lam Thanh clutched phone his chest. "Why I? This is mine."
I grabbed it without hesitation. "How is money earned from part-time jobs yours?"
"But you're sister."
How someone be so shameless?
"I'm not."
I sneered. Thanh words, giving me chance snatch phone.
"What do mean you're not?"
I smashed phone ground and crushed screen under foot.
"I'm not Cuong's daughter."
Behind Lien blurted out, "What?! too..."
16
Tran Lien's reaction puzzled me. If Cuong's daughter, didn't she know?
I turned look Lien, Thanh, was still in shock.
Suddenly, realized something Thanh no resemblance Cuong. Even son takes after his mother, strangely, Thanh didn't look like Lien either.
Lam Thanh retrieved his shattered phone, now far than before. Apparently, Lien mattered than phone.
He me like madman. "Lam Ky, dare break phone! Die!"
Thankfully, me bodyguards, or couldn't handled mother and son.
"You're ones die."
I dodged Thanh's lunge. At fourteen, already resembled bloated pig, his greasy flesh quivering bodyguards pin down.
Disgusting.
"Just wait I'll call police! The hospital has cameras! assaulted an elder I'll make rot in jail!" Lien screamed behind me.
I yanked out fistful hair from son's scalp.
"What are doing?! Ky!"
I turned and pocketed hair.
Tran Lien visibly panicked. Had guessed right?
17
When saw again, was police suspicion trafficking.
In just one day, he'd lost his arrogance. His eyes now held hint groveling.
Earlier, I'd obtained tests using hair samples.
"Qiqi, let me explain. may not be your biological father, raising counts for more!"
So beg too.
"I raised these years doesn't that mean something? Now that you've found your real parents, genuinely for you."
Sitting across from his turned stomach.
"Your 'efforts'?"
I showed fresh and old arm.
"Is your 'effort'?"
Lam choked, guiltily avoiding gaze.
"I admit temper! But ate, wore, used didn't pay for Your school too!"
"You can disown owe me repayment!"
His hit new lows. thanked heavens scum real father.
"Instead demanding money from why not ask your precious far more in him."
Lam looked bewildered.
"What do mean?"
I report in his face.
"See for yourself."
18
Lam opened report. His face paled, crimson with rage.
Like deranged boar, shredded document.
"Impossible!"
He lunged for throat.
"You bitch! Whore's forged this! just ruin Slut!"
His curses rained tried strangle me.
I let we were in police station.
The trafficking charges might failed due lack evidence, now? He'd just tried kill me camera.
"I should've bought you, curse!"
Lam lost control, his grip tightening until police rescued me from his filthy hands.
"Officer, tried kill me."
The same officer who'd lectured me about filial piety days before now wordlessly dragged away.
My entered weeping. We embraced.
"Qingqing, you've suffered so much these years."
I shook head. Dad... can still go school?"
"Of course. Any school want."
19
My helped me complete documentation.
Finally, dream university without worrying about tuition.
As for During bail, beat Lien, drawing whole village spectators.
I wouldn't miss show.
The same scenario an enraged man, now Lien was victim.
She wailed "Whose child is he?!"
Their golden boy Thanh didn't defend his mother. Instead, joined in vilifying her.
