Have you ever been curious about the author's life and love in real life, holding a love story book? Does the "step mother" really have troubled love affairs? As hard as the literature you write? Are the "natural mothers" the princesses in a love story as sweet as the dreams that we are still weaving?
"I used to like to be alone, until I had you" is an autobiography about the love between female author Diep Lac Vo Tam and Trinh Trach - who Tam Tam nicknamed the troublesome one. Unlike previous works filled with counterintuitive episodes, tormenting both the character and the reader, Diep Lac Vo Tam's love story has sweetness, flight, and gentle torments. There are also the problems of firewood, rice, oil and salt like all the stories that we often hear in daily life.
The book begins with the small stories of the couple Tam Tam and the Troublemaker. For the first time, readers see the image of an extremely lethargic and absent-minded Diep Lac. Forgetting to press the button in the elevator, leaving the house forgetting the phone, helpless with the numbers… Tam Tam has proven that her pseudonym "Vo Tam" is not too wrong.
If it is said that Tam Tam is a girl who easily makes people mad, then our male lead - The troublesome one - is also absolutely not an easy husband. With the unique life motto "It's okay to ask for help from others, it's okay to hurt yourself", Trinh Trach is a typical example of a husband whose wives want to spank.
But in the world, there is still a very magical thing called fate, a girl carelessly bumping into an annoying guy creates an extremely… difficult couple.
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The annoying person said that today was a good day, so I thought the hall of the Civil Affairs Department must be very crowded, but when I entered the door, I was surprised because there were at most a few people doing the procedures.
“Didn't you say today is a good day? What calendar do you see?" I wondered.
"No need to queue, isn't that a good day?"
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One day, I and the Troublemaker went out to a party until midnight and had to take a taxi home. Sitting in the car, I suddenly excitedly asked him: "Are we going to your house or to my house?
The annoying person was silent for a while, then answered me with the suspicious look of the driver: "Come to your house, my wife is back today."
The troublemaker's QQ password is very complicated, consisting of letters and numbers, every time I want to log into his account, I have to ask: "What's your password?"
After the nth time, the troublemaker finally couldn't take it anymore. “It's fine if you check my QQ chat every day, but please don't let me know okay? You must understand how I feel!” I found myself weak, so I whispered: "But people only check once every few years, of course they don't remember."
The annoying person: "Take a notebook and write it in!"
Me: “Good idea!”
After a long time, I timidly asked the Troublemaker: "What's your QQ password?"
"Still what I wrote." He said dejectedly.
"But I can't find that notebook..."
“I… wait a minute.”
"YES!"
Ten minutes later, the Troublemaker said to me, “I changed my password to the same as your QQ password.”
I immediately jumped into his arms: "Love you to death!"
After that, the Troublemaker was also very understanding, changed his mobile password to be the same as mine. (*)
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For story review work, I always have a principle of "Haven't read, haven't signed up for a review", simply because I don't have enough confidence that my review will be good if I don't like the book. But "I used to like to be alone, until you" was the second time I broke the rule. And these are two extremely correct decisions. If "In the world, it's all about meeting", the first book that I broke the rules, helped me become a better person, then "I used to like being alone, until I had you" taught me how to become a better person. a more confident and happy girl.
When reading "I used to like being alone, until I had you", many of you would think that Tam Tam was too lucky to have met Trinh Trach, a good man and loved her dearly. But there is a fact that “Luck is also a kind of ability”(**). And the happy marriage with the Troublemaker is the result of Tam Tam's years of relentless efforts.
From her school days, little Tam Tam has understood that every girl needs a good husband, but in order to meet a good man, she must first become a girl. good. “Love is not everything for a woman, but a woman without love is not okay. No matter how old you are now, starting from now on, try to improve yourself, so you have a better chance of meeting a better man.”
So, little Tam Tam is determined to go alone to a strange place, attend a high school far away from home, and work hard every day to study to pass the exam to a good university. Her efforts paid off when she passed the entrance exam to T University and it was there that Tam Tam met Trinh Trach.
Loving someone is easy, falling in love with someone is not difficult, but determining that you will be with that person for the rest of your life is extremely difficult. In order to fall in love with Trinh Trach, a classmate who is two years younger than her, Tam Tam had to overcome challenges set by herself, but in order to maintain this love, the two still had to face many challenges. a lot of pressure from family and life. Since then, Ninh Tam, who has never had a natural talent for studying, continued to grit her teeth on her way to studying for a Master's and then a Doctorate.
Getting married is not necessarily a happy ending for a love story, but in fact it is just the beginning of the biggest turning point in a person's life. Entering married life, Tam Tam turned from a girl to a woman, a wife, a mother. Those were the days when I had to work from morning to night but still had to take care of the housework and take care of my husband and children. Those are the times when the couple "rice is not healthy, soup is not sweet". Those are the times when tears are shed from fatigue and exhaustion. Those are the times when life forces you to become a strong and brave woman.
“In life, there is no white horse prince who does not have to receive guests, and there is no Snow White princess who does not lose her hair. When he's drunk, I'll gently cover him with a warm blanket and smile. When my hair fell out on the pillow, he was ready to pick it up for me without complaining. That's life."
I have to admit that with regard to Diep Lac Vo Tam's previous works, I have always been somewhat biased. So I was quite hesitant to receive a review of this series. But "I used to like to be alone, until I had you" really made me change my perspective. I may not appreciate Diep Le Vo Tam as an author but I still have to admire her as a woman.
In "The world, it's all about meeting" there is a saying that I like very much: "A woman's most precious talent is not her academic ability or money, nor her ability to understand people's hearts. or good at doing water, doing housework, that's when you can think and work like a man but still enjoy life and care about emotions like a girl." Diep Lac Vo Tam is such a talented girl.
