Giang Uyen Thanh thought I had returned to beg.
She thought I would stand in front of everyone and ask Co Hoai Tham to choose me.
She was wrong.
I had not come back for him.
I came back to let everyone see the truth.
The hall became silent.
More than three hundred pairs of eyes were watching me.
Waiting for my answer.
Giang Uyen Thanh still maintained that gentle smile.
The same smile she had worn every time she took something from me.
My opportunity.
My jewelry.
My place beside Co Hoai Tham.
Even my reputation.
“Miss Lam?”
She tilted her head.
“Why aren’t you answering?”
I looked at her.
Then I smiled.
“Why should I answer you?”
Her expression froze for a second.
Only a second.
But I saw it.
The panic hidden beneath her perfect makeup.
“I heard you went to Vienna.”
She continued.
“I was worried about you.”
“Worried?”
I repeated softly.
“That’s strange.”
“Because before I left, nobody seemed worried.”
The atmosphere changed.
Several guests looked at each other.
Giang Uyen Thanh’s fingers tightened around her bouquet.
“Lam Niem, today is my wedding.”
“I know.”
“Then why are you here?”
I looked around.
At the crystal chandeliers.
At the guests.
At the signing table.
Then I answered calmly:
“Because you invited me.”
A murmur spread through the hall.
“Invited?”
“Who invited her?”
Giang Uyen Thanh immediately looked at Co Hoai Tham.
He had been silent from the moment I entered.
His eyes had never left me.
Not once.
Three years.
I had wanted that look.
I had wanted him to look at me like I mattered.
But now…
I felt nothing.
Co Hoai Tham finally spoke.
“Lam Niem.”
His voice was low.
“Why did you come?”
I turned toward him.
The man who once said:
“Break her legs.”
The man who wanted to destroy the future of the woman who loved him.
The man who believed I had nothing after leaving the Lam family.
I looked at him for a long time.
Then I said:
“To give you your wedding gift.”
His expression changed.
“Gift?”
I nodded.
“Yes.”
“The gift you thought someone like me could never give.”
I took the kraft paper bag from beside my chair.
The room became quiet.
Everyone was watching.
Especially Chu Ngoc Lan.
Her face was full of contempt.
“Another performance?”
She sneered.
“Some people really don’t know when to stop.”
I ignored her.
I opened the bag.
And took out a document.
The first page.
The logo at the top.
Made the entire hall freeze.
Because everyone recognized it.
Lam International Investment Group.
The company that had been rumored to disappear after the Lam family’s internal conflict.
The company everyone thought had been taken over.
Someone whispered:
“Impossible…”
“Didn’t Lam International belong to the old chairman?”
“How does she have those documents?”
Co Hoai Tham stood up.
His face changed completely.
“Where did you get that?”
I looked at him.
“From the person who actually owned it.”
Silence.
I placed the document on the table.
“The first gift.”
“Ten percent of Lam International’s shares.”
A gasp spread through the hall.
Giang Uyen Thanh’s face became pale.
“No…”
She shook her head slightly.
“That company…”
She stopped.
Because she remembered.
Three years ago.
The reason Co Hoai Tham agreed to cooperate with the Lam family.
The reason he suddenly received a huge investment.
The reason his company survived the financial crisis.
It was because of me.
I looked at Co Hoai Tham.
“You always said I only knew how to play piano.”
“You said I had no value after leaving the Lam family.”
A faint smile appeared on my lips.
“But you forgot one thing.”
“I was the person who saved your company.”
His hands slowly tightened.
“No.”
His voice was almost a whisper.
“You never told me.”
“Exactly.”
I looked at him.
“Because when someone loves you, they don’t calculate what they give.”
A pause.
“But when someone destroys you…”
“They deserve to know what they lost.”
At that moment, the large screen behind the wedding stage suddenly lit up.
Everyone turned around.
The wedding organizer looked confused.
“I didn’t activate that.”
Then a video appeared.
The first image.
Co Hoai Tham’s office.
His voice.
Clear.
Cold.
“Break Lam Niem’s legs.”
The entire hall went silent.
Nobody moved.
Nobody spoke.
Even Giang Uyen Thanh’s smile disappeared.
Co Hoai Tham’s face turned completely white.
“Turn it off.”
His voice shook.
“Turn it off now!”
But it was too late.
Everyone had heard.
The video continued.
His assistant’s voice.
“Mr. Co, Miss Lam has withdrawn from the competition.”
Then his own voice:
“Good.”
“Let her leave.”
“Someone like her doesn’t deserve to stand beside me.”
A wave of shock passed through the hall.
People who had just been praising the Co-Giang marriage…
were now looking at him differently.
I sat calmly.
Tham Dien beside me smiled slightly.
“You really prepared everything.”
I looked at the screen.
“No.”
I answered.
“I just collected the truth.”
The video stopped.
Then a final document appeared.
A contract.
With a date.
A signature.
And a name.
Giang Uyen Thanh saw it first.
Her body trembled.
“No…”
She stepped back.
“That’s not possible.”
I looked at her.
“What?”
She couldn’t answer.
Because the document proved one thing.
The person who leaked information about my competition…
the person who caused my withdrawal…
was not Co Hoai Tham.
It was her.
The wedding music stopped.
The guests were no longer waiting for the bride and groom.
They were waiting for an explanation.
And for the first time…
Giang Uyen Thanh had no sweet words left.
Co Hoai Tham looked at me.
His eyes were filled with disbelief.
“Lam Niem…”
“Why?”
I looked at him.
“Why did I do this?”
I stood up.
Adjusted my dress.
And answered:
“Because you wanted me to disappear.”
A pause.
“So I disappeared.”
“Just not the way you expected.”
But nobody knew…
that the documents I brought today were only the first part of my gift.
Because the biggest secret…
was still hidden in the final file.
A secret about why the Lam family abandoned me.
And why Co Hoai Tham had fallen in love with the wrong person from the very beginning.
TO BE CONTINUED…
