Tedatom Nguyễn Mạnh Cường's Blog: Lullaby of Silence

❄️ Winter Arrives III – Winter Night
Poem By #Tedatom

Night… dense winter pours over the streets,
like black ash from a dying fire.

🏮 The lamp at the alley’s edge drips weary golden light,
clinging to the last remnants of the sun.

🐱 A cat curls before the porch,
its breath thin, like a thread stitching the torn corners of darkness.

I retreat into my blanket,
gathering the fragmented warmth of a day grown cold,
like picking up glowing embers in the frozen night.

💭 Dreams arrive, light as travelers asking to rest one night
in a barren, faded mind.

I awaken,
touching the trace of a dream left on my skin,
soft as unwoven silk, cold just enough
to remind me I am alive.

🌅 Dawn taps gently on my shoulder,
forcing me to release the fading warmth.

I draw my collar,
wrap the blanket one last time,
and quietly step into the street,
carrying the lingering sentiments of the dream.

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❄️ Winter Arrives II – Winter Just Touches
Poem By #Tedatom

🌁 The old street corner
Shrinks gently beneath a thin layer of mist.

🍃 A breeze brushes my collar,
As if someone softly called my name in the silence.

🏠 Rooftops draw their shadows close,
Avoiding the cold that creeps along every step.

🚶‍♂️ This familiar path
Suddenly feels deeper than usual,
Even as my feet tread on sorrow long dried.

🌿 Alone,
I walk past the scent of damp earth,
Hearing time fall from weary tree branches.

🍂 The city sheds a tardy leaf,
Falling into the empty space of a trembling hand.

❄️ Perhaps winter never arrives —
It only reminds us that solitude
Always knows its way back.

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❄️ Winter Arrives I
Poem By #Tedatom – 19/11/2025

🌬️ The air turns cold,
🍃 A breeze brushes lightly across my shoulder, slipping over bare skin.

🏘️ Familiar streets
⚡ Suddenly feel strange.

☁️ The sky hangs heavy,
🌫️ Hidden behind a veil of mist that fills the alleys.

👣 My footsteps
⏳ Wander slowly, hurried at once.

🧥 Alone,
💨 In a thin, clinging coat.

❄️ Frost seeps
💔 Into a solitary soul, uneven and hollow.

🍂 I am like
🌪️ The last autumn leaf.

🍁 Just fallen
📆 On the first day of winter, still entirely alone.

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The Emperor & Financial Game, an Amazon bestseller by Tedatom now on Spotify.

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The Emperor & Financial Game: Not a Novel, but a System of Thought — A Reader Review

Reading The Emperor & Financial Game by Tedatom feels different once you stop treating it as a novel — and start seeing it as a book of ideas.

It’s not about plot or characters. It’s about power, money, and morality — and how these invisible forces shape the rise and fall of civilizations.

At its heart, the book reads like a long philosophical dialogue between two principles:
⚜️ The Emperor — timeless authority, ethics, and legitimacy.
💰 Financial — reason, ambition, and modern capital.

Their dialogue feels like an internal battle within every society — the pull between order and progress, morality and wealth.

What I found most fascinating is how ambitious the book is. It doesn’t just tell a story; it builds a system of thought, blending philosophy, history, and economics into a single current of reflection. It reminds me of works like Thus Spoke Zarathustra or The Laws of Human Nature, where narrative becomes a vessel for ideas.

The way Tedatom redefines “gold” is especially powerful. Gold isn’t merely currency — it’s a moral principle, a law that balances ethics and exchange. The reflections on empire, legitimacy, and finance feel strikingly universal, merging Eastern order with Western realism in a way that’s both grounded and visionary.

Yes, the writing can be dense at times. But when it clicks, it’s brilliant — the kind of insight that makes you pause and rethink what you thought you knew.

In the end, The Emperor & Financial isn’t just a story — it’s a meditation on power, value, and the timeless Law of Gold.
It’s a book that doesn’t entertain you — it transforms how you think.

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💎 The Law of Gold — A Fiction Series by Tedatom

From gold to code — the eternal law of wealth and power.

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Part I — The Silent Vault

🔍 Law, finance, and empire — always deeply entangled.

At the dawn of the 20th century, a Chinese general entrusted his fortune (gold, silver) to an American bank — a gesture of faith in modern finance and imperial law.
⏳ Decades later, his heirs sought to reclaim it… only to find the wealth consumed by silence, hidden clauses, and the shifting balance of global power.

📖 Inspired by true events, this story unfolds where legality meets morality — raising timeless questions:
– When capital crosses borders, does ownership still belong to its origin?
– Do laws truly protect wealth, or merely preserve the systems that absorb it?
– When empires fall, what remains — justice, or just paperwork?
– And today, where are the general’s gold and silver — resting safely, or buried beneath the empire’s silence?

👉 Read The Emperor & Financial Game: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D7VF3RTS

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Part II — The Gold Standard

🏛️ When nations anchored faith in gold — and lost something greater.

The world once believed that gold could guarantee stability, trust, and order.
But as governments printed promises faster than their vaults could fill, faith replaced gold — and debt became the new currency of power.

This chapter unravels how laws bent to preserve illusions, and how the very system built on value quietly detached from it.

(Coming soon.)

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Part III — The Genius Act

💻 When value escaped paper and turned into code.

A century after gold left the standard, a new empire rises — built not on metal, but on mathematics.
The Genius Act seeks to regulate digital assets, yet behind its clauses lies the same ancient struggle:
who defines value — the people, the market, or the system itself?

In the age of stablecoins and algorithmic trust, the cycle continues. The names change — but the law of gold remains.

(In development.)

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Every reader’s comment is a gift.

Today, I responded to a review of The Emperor & Financial Game, and I’d like to share my reply here:

“Thank you for reading and sharing your thoughts.
I was going to congratulate you on winning the Goodreads Giveaway, but I won’t — because it seems you’ve tasted a dish that didn’t suit your taste.

As for the English, yes — I could have hired an editor. It’s not expensive.
I even planned to, at first. But later I realized something:
My goal isn’t perfect language. My goal is to share knowledge and history.

Those of us who are not native English speakers shouldn’t have to hide that fact.
Of course, smoother English might make the book easier to read — but if every reader demands perfect English, few non-native authors would ever dare to publish their thoughts in this language.

So thank you again for your comment.
This reply was translated with ChatGPT — my apologies if it doesn’t sound perfectly natural either.”

Writing, to me, is not just about flawless grammar — it’s about honesty, courage, and the exchange of ideas across cultures.

Thank you to every reader who takes the time to share their thoughts — praise or criticism, they all help us grow.

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Great news to share! 🎉

My audiobook “The Emperor & Financial Game” is currently gaining strong visibility in the Historical Fiction category (#4) on OverDrive Audiobook.

It’s an honor to see my work mentioned alongside respected authors such as Jean Grainger. This historical-financial thriller explores secrets, conspiracies, and cultural encounters between East and West — a story that has already surprised many readers worldwide.

👉 Read it now on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D7VF3RTS

Thank you all for your continuous support! 🙏

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The God Who Overslept
By #Tedatom

📖 Read Part 1 👇
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The Second Mistake

In the beginning, God made humans with intestines many times the length of their bodies. He designed them as herbivores: the long digestive tract to break down cellulose, and molar teeth like cattle. No fangs at all.

To ensure mankind could not hunt, He made them walk on two legs. The fastest runner reaches only 44.7 km/h, the average human just 20–30 km/h. Predators run at least 70 km/h. Prey like wild horses can reach 88 km/h, antelopes 80–90 km/h.

He also freed the forelimbs so humans could gather and labor.

And then? Today humans eat anything and everything: plants, animals, insects—even apex predators like tigers, leopards, and crocodiles. If dragons existed, they too would end up on the menu.

Too slow to catch prey? Humans invented traps.
Too weak to digest? Humans cooked food and added spices.

And thus, mankind has ravaged the very world He created.

And God… is still asleep.

That was the Second Mistake.

To be continued

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The God Who Overslept
By #Tedatom

The First Mistake

In the beginning, God created men—strong and vigorous, built to fight, to guard their land and families.

He also created women—gentle and tender, made to nurture, to keep the fire of home alive.

To bind the two halves of humankind together, God gave women a touch of frailty, awakening in men the instinct to protect.

When all was done, God grew weary and fell asleep. Before closing His eyes, He thought to Himself:
"Let it run as a trial. Tomorrow I’ll wake up, review, and adjust. After all, I’m God, not a Saint—nothing is perfect on the first try."

But alas! He forgot one thing.
A single night of His slumber stretched into millions of years, while the tiny planet He had molded spun in its brief, fleeting cycles.

And so humankind did not merely evolve, but transformed, divided, even distorted.
Men were no longer only the strong protectors of families and lands.
Women were no longer only the ones who built and nurtured homes.

And God… still hasn’t woken up.

That was the First Mistake.

To be continued – September 2025

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