Since the day the two of them quarreled, Thanh and him have not talked again. A few times in the hospital, he tried to reconcile, but she still showed an uncooperative attitude which made him depressed. His mood has been bad since Lam left, and now Thanh is unhappy, he feels extremely depressed.

Gradually he left Thanh alone with her unreasonable anger. He's already said sorry, but she doesn't appreciate his patience, making him not want to try anymore. Even when both of them encounter each other at work, he doesn't say much.

Thanh began to realize that he was cold and also felt unreasonable, she was afraid that it’s the last straw that breaks the camel’s back. Her effort and waiting for many years will be lost quite. So feeling his distant attitude today, she panicked.

During her lunch break, she texted him, wanting to have lunch with him, but unfortunately for her, he was so busy with surgery that he didn't have time to enjoy lunch. Thanh felt frustrated and uneasy. She waited until late afternoon to get off work. When she went to the on-call room, her co-workers informed that he had gone home, making her angry, but she tried to restrain herself from venting. She can't be impatient at this moment anymore.

Knowing that he must have drove to the house, she could feel that he missed his wife, and their memorial place as well. Thanh is crazy, but getting angry will steal her wits. Even though she was extremely disgusted then, she still rode to the house. Indeed he is here.

Thanh rang the bell. Looking at him opening the door in a bored state, her instincts made her want to flare up without caring of what will happen. But thinking that the effort she had put in was at risk of being lost, she tried to control herself and spoke softly, “I was waiting for you at the hospital all this time, you came back without letting me know.”

Thanh tried to talk normally as if there was no anger between the two. This is her strong point, she is willing to ignore personal feelings for some benefits. What is self-esteem? That doesn't matter to her. The most important thing is how to make this man feel guilty and unable to leave her.

“I'm sorry, I thought you were still angry so I didn't want to bother you anymore.” His voice was also gentle, not as grumpy as a few days ago.

“How can I be angry with you for a long time? I'm just sad about you, but because of love, I can't leave you." She said while leaning close to him. "You're really sad for me, aren't you? Because I'm in a bad mood, I talked nonsense. Sorry honey, don't be angry anymore."

She proactively hugged him, causing his ego to be caressed. At least Thanh needs him, unlike Lam. Thanh can comfort his soul, while she is always cold towards him. That's why he feels more compatible with Thanh than her. Thanh knows how to pamper him, how to coddle herself, while Lam is always rigid and always hides her thoughts .

Thanh hugged and kissed him, but it seemed like Lam’s recent move had put him in a bad mood, so his feelings for Thanh were no longer the same as before. However, feelings seem to fade but men's instincts are still there. When she rubbed against him, stimulating sensitive spots on his body, the two fell onto the sofa.

Thanh was just about to unzip his pants when his phone rang. She was angry at the person who made this phone call, ruining their wonderful moment. She really wanted him to turn off the phone, but the caller was his mother, Thanh couldn't say anything. He stopped her provocative actions, then sat up to answer his mother's phone call.

“Quan, are you on duty tonight?”

“No, mom. You call me for something?"

“I’m going to ask you to come back and take me and your second aunt to your place. Your aunt wants to go to the hospital for a health check-up tomorrow. You’ll be right back here, okay?"

His mother is the type of person who likes to show off. In the past, when she’s still poor, she was already stylish. Now that she is better, she wants people to see how rich she is. She has to travel by car, her son is a doctor, she doesn’t have to wait in lines at the hospital. She always wants to show her relatives and neighbors how talented and powerful her son is.

Sometimes she unintentionally makes him tired because he has to strain himself to comply with her excessive expression. He remembers one time when he was busy studying for a PhD, but his mother insisted that he must help a friend of her friend's friend. In general, this relationship is a very very long chain.

He didn't mind helping sick people, but his mother was so enthusiastic and put him in a difficult situation. He told his mother to call him when the sick one got to the hospital, but she insisted that he must come and pick her and that person up. It wasn't that his mother was being kind, she just wanted to show people how talented, successful and valuable her son was in the hospital.

Actually, sometimes his mother makes him feel ironic. And as this time, she forced him to come back to pick her up. Anyway, helping his mother and the second aunt is okay to him. But Thanh and him should have been having a happy time together, but now the call has ruined it.

“So now you have to go to your hometown and pick your mom up here?” Thanh spoke in an unhappy voice.

"Yes. Tomorrow my mother and my second aunt want to go to the hospital for a medical examination. I'm sorry, I have to serve them now. Honey, I'll compensate for you tomorrow."

“There is no other way.” Thanh pouted, but her hands were not willing, touching his underwear.

He quickly stopped her, "Don't do that, Thanh. I'll make up to you tomorrow. Now I have to drive back there.”

“I hate you so much. Or should I go with you?”

“I'm afraid you’ll be tired. Reaching there might be 10 o'clock at night." Thinking about having to drive a long way, he shook his head in frustration.

"No problem. I just want to go with you.” Thanh pulled his hand.

He drove out to the yard and Thanh locked the door. She couldn't help but smile happily. She feels like she really looks like the head of the family now. The position next to him finally belongs to her. The prospect of soon being able to live in this house made her heart bloom, so happy that she couldn't close her mouth.

She opened the door and sat next to the driver's seat, smiling happily while watching him start the car’s engine. It takes more than 45 minutes to his hometown from here. But it doesn't matter, as long as she might accompany him in the luxury car. Who could be more majestic than her, the wife of Doctor of Medicine?

The way home is not difficult. His mother's house is also spacious, of course not as beautiful as his in the city, but it is enough for his mother to show off in life. In some aspects, Thanh is extremely similar to his mother, likes living by appearances, likes being flattered. So when Thanh met his mother, she knew very well how to make her like her. It's not difficult, just open her mouth and praise her for being beautiful, rich and luxurious, won’t she like?

Remembering the old days, because she’s great with words, even though she was the third person to come in and ruin the happiness of him and his wife, his mother still supported her enthusiastically. This shows that she is more skillful than that wife. At least she can win over his mother's heart.

In fact, his mother is a woman who takes great pains to beautify herself. Even though she is old, she invests a lot in taking care of her body. She diligently spends money on skin care, so she is old, her skin is still smooth. Sometimes looking at her, Thanh is also jealous. Maybe she was young, she must have been very beautiful.

He resembles his mother, inheriting her beauty plus his success in career, giving him an own charm. His two younger sisters were not as lucky. Irony of creation, they unluckily inherited all of their father's rough features.

He resembles his mother's appearance, but is not at all like her lip-service. His mother is the person who speaks sweetly, but her heart is quite different. Anyone who comes into contact with her on the outside might mistake her for a gentle, sweet, and not cruel person. But perhaps only Lam can understand most deeply what kind of person his mother really is.

Remembering when Lam first became her daughter-in-law, she had to cry bitterly on the first day. Lam should not have to live with his mother because her parents had made arrangements for the couple in advance. Her family was quite wealthy, when the two of them got married, her parents gave the couple an apartment. It was only because she loved him that she agreed to follow him to his hometown to stay with his mother for a while.

He is from a small province and has only become a doctor for the first two or three years. His finance is still tight. He himself was still renting at that time. His family is still in countryside, and he chose to start his career in the city, so he rented a room near the hospital to make it easier to get to work.

Lam’s parents had two daughters only, so when Lam got married, they took full care of the couple in the city. But due to customs, she had to follow him. On the first day of bringing his wife home, his mother successfully made her cry. The old story seems trivial, but he’s not sure if anyone else has gone through the same situation as his wife, and the mother-in-law was as horrible as his mother.

Remembering after the guests left, the wedding party just ended. His mother told him to go to her room immediately. He thought that his mother would say something private and didn't want his wife to know. He respected his mother and went into her room alone.

As soon as sawing him, his mother pre-empted, "Check the wedding money, don't let your wife know. She had a party up there, her family took it all in. Here is the one of our relatives and friends. You shouldn't let your wife know."

“What do you mean by that? She is my wife. Husband and wife must share everything. You already want to cause conflict between both of us because of this money?" He looked at his mother sadly.

“Are you still arguing with me? Isn't that I care about you? Lam has no role in this at all.”

“Lam is my wife and your daughter-in-law, the person is married properly.” He was dissatisfied.

"So what? Why are you so stupid? Not everything is clear. You’ve already been defending your wife and arguing with your mother."

Then she became crying and shouting loudly. His wife who was in the wedding room also heard her screams. His wife was extremely scared, not knowing if she had accidentally caused something to make her mother-in-law angry? His wife hurriedly ran to her mother-in-law's room. She wanted to knock on the door when her high-pitched voice rang out. Just because of a few coins, she could lose her temper like that.

His wife's family has never had any mother-daughter argument over money. His mother-in-law has never punched herself, cried or scolded her daughters. His wife was both scared and impatient for her husband, so she pushed the door. Seeing her mother-in-law beating him on the back, scolding him for being stupid, he was already putting his wife on his head.

His wife loved him so she ran to hold her mother-in-law's hands and knelt down. “Mom, don't hit him anymore. I'm sorry, I don't care about this money. Please don't hit him anymore."

“Who allowed you in here? Did you parents educate you so? Without my consent, you still blatantly pushed the door in?” She looked at her new daughter-in-law angrily.

“I'm sorry!” His wife cried like rain, frustrated and sorry for herself.

The first night at her husband's house was such horrible. He looked at his wife being suddenly shouted at by his mother, his heart was also hurt. His mother was so cruel that he couldn't even stand it, let alone his new little wife. So even though he had always listened to his mother because she sacrificed to raise him to be such successful, now he saw that she was too unreasonable, and the first time he argued with her.

He stood up and pulled his wife along, looking at his mother sadly and angrily, "If you like this wedding money, just take it, my wife and me don't need it."