The daughter-in-law gradually revealed her spiteful and self-serving nature.

Yesterday afternoon, on my way home from work, I came across Uncle Binh sitting next to my mother, talking to her. Both of them had red, teary eyes, and it was heartbreaking to see.

For the past few months, the relationship between Uncle Binh and his daughter-in-law has been quite strained. My mother, probably frustrated and unable to control herself, turned to Uncle Binh and said, "You're too kind and tolerant. If I had a daughter-in-law as disrespectful and rude as that, I would have kicked her out of the house a long time ago."

Uncle Binh sighed, wiping the corner of his eye with his hand: "I blame my daughter-in-law less, and my son more for being weak-willed. Well, as long as they accept each other, that's fine. I'm old now, and interfering might just make me look like I'm trying to break them up, which would be a disservice to my grandchildren."

Uncle Binh lives next door to me. His house was originally a communal apartment allocated to him by the factory where my mother and he worked. Uncle Binh's house is at the end of the row, so it has the advantage of open space, and he even managed to extend his frontage by an additional 2 meters, making it much larger than the other houses.

Now that Hanoi is planning to become a satellite city, my district is about to be upgraded to a city district, land prices are skyrocketing, and Uncle Binh's house has become "golden" land, worth tens of billions of dong.

Uncle Binh's daughter-in-law, being a businesswoman, asked her parents-in-law for permission to renovate the entire first floor to open a spa, cosmetics shop, and warehouse for online sales. Thinking she was part of the family, Uncle Binh gave her full use of the entire first floor, over a hundred square meters, for her business.

But as time went on, her true nature became apparent, and the daughter-in-law gradually revealed her sharp tongue, calculating, and self-serving side. Because she earned money, she often criticized and scolded her husband. Although her husband's parents were from Ha Tinh , she used the excuse of motion sickness and poor health to avoid long train or car journeys, always "escaping" back to her hometown.

She also disliked it when relatives from her hometown came to visit her husband's family and stayed. That's why, whenever relatives from her hometown came to visit, she would be very annoyed, her face cold and sullen.

Mr. and Mrs. Binh have several nieces and nephews studying at universities in Hanoi, and they occasionally take the bus to visit them in the suburbs on weekends. However, after witnessing their daughter-in-law's sullen and dismissive remarks about "treating their house like a public place," the children no longer feel comfortable visiting.

Recently, a cousin from the same village had to go to Hanoi for outpatient treatment for a while. Feeling sorry for her difficult situation, Uncle Binh took her in to live with him, both to help each other out and to save on rent.

Seeing a "stranger" in the house without her mother-in-law's prior consultation, the daughter-in-law started an argument with Mrs. Binh. The quarrel between the two reached the ears of her cousin, who made up an excuse that the doctor required her to go to the hospital, absolutely refusing to stay at Mrs. Binh's house.

After that incident, Uncle Binh thought carefully and decided to have a frank private conversation with his daughter-in-law. He offered advice on her attitude and how to treat others so that the family could get along well.

Unexpectedly, she retorted defiantly: "You came to this house as a daughter-in-law, you single-handedly rebuilt this business, so you should have your rights! There are relatives all over the district back home, and you love and help everyone; how can you possibly manage them all? This is our house, not a refugee camp where anyone can come and stay as they please"...

Uncle Binh was trembling with anger at his daughter-in-law's disrespectful words. But if he made a big deal out of it, he'd only be accused of "exposing his private life to the public," which wouldn't do any good! Besides, it was also his fault for not being frank with his daughter-in-law from the beginning.

After much thought and reflecting on the saying "a wicked daughter-in-law ruins the family," Mrs. Binh discussed it with her husband and they decided to sell their house and return to their hometown.

From the sale of the house, the couple will divide a portion between their son and daughter as dowry; set aside another portion to buy land in their hometown to build a small house, and put the rest into savings. Combined with their pension, the couple will have more than enough to live comfortably.

Uncle Binh said that it's better to return to the countryside, close to the village, surrounded by family and relatives, than to live with his own children and experience disagreements, loneliness, and the loss of family ties.

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