Chapter 4: After the Storm

CHAPTER 4: After the Storm

After the quiet signing of their divorce papers, she walked away from the Trinh family mansion with nothing but a shattered heart.

Once admired for being the long-time girlfriend of a powerful CEO, Trinh Y Nhi had now become the forgotten woman—replaced without warning by someone else. The media had never known they were in a relationship, yet the CEO’s public declaration of his new girlfriend barely a month after the divorce made headlines across the country.

“He never made our relationship public...” Y Nhi whispered, staring at the morning paper. Her hand trembled slightly around the teacup. Her family said nothing, but the silence in her mother’s eyes weighed heavy.

A month passed.

No longer the silent wife of a prestigious CEO, Y Nhi moved in with her best friend, Ha Vy—a bold, outspoken woman who stood beside her when the world seemed to fall apart.

“You can’t keep starting from zero, Y Nhi,” Ha Vy said one evening, her hand firm on Y Nhi’s shoulder. “If you don’t rebuild, he’ll always think you’re weak.”

The words hit hard—but they sparked something inside her.

Though her heart still ached, Y Nhi began rising early every morning, enrolling in fashion design classes again—rekindling the dream she had long buried while standing in her husband’s shadow. Her first sketches were full of pain, yet strangely beautiful. Each stitch was like her soul trying to speak.

Her return to the fashion world didn’t go unnoticed. A photographer captured her leaving the headquarters of an international brand one day.

The photo went viral online.

**“Ex-wife of CEO Trinh reappears radiant after divorce.”**

A simple headline—but it stirred public attention.

As for Trinh Thien Kha?

He frowned when the photo popped up on his screen. The woman in that photo… her eyes were different. No longer sad. No longer waiting. But calm, confident—powerful.

“Is that… Y Nhi?” he muttered under his breath.

Beside him, the brunette employee—Lam Nguyet—giggled at something on her phone, but he barely registered her voice. His mind drifted, uninvited, back to the university library. To that first time they met. To her soft apology: “Sorry, I didn’t mean to bump into you.”

He had loved those eyes once.

Why did he throw her away?

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One day, Y Nhi received an unexpected envelope.

A formal invitation.

A fashion charity gala… hosted by the Trinh Corporation.

Her fingers froze around the card. Why was she invited? And... should she go?

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