Reborn as a Tough Army Wife-Chapter 803 - 798: Caught Red-Handed

Luo Zhiyong paused his hand resting on Fang Pingying when he heard her words. The playful expression on his face vanished. He stood up and sat by the edge of the bathtub, pressing his temples with a hint of frustration in his voice, "Didn’t I tell you before? I don’t care who she is. I never wanted to find her."

Fang Pingying turned around to face him, her eyes meeting his directly, "Zhiyong, ask yourself honestly. Do you really not want to know who she is? Don’t you want to know how she’s doing now?"

Luo Zhiyong glanced at Fang Pingying without speaking. In fact, his heart was not as calm and unwavering as he appeared on the surface. To some extent, he did want to know something about his biological mother.

Especially now, faced with his wife, Luo Zhiyong felt there was no need to hide some things, and since Fang Pingying said she had found her, he directly asked, "Who is it?"

"Someone from the Liu family," Fang Pingying explained clearly to him, "Liu Fengsheng’s aunt, the one who came to our house with Mrs. Liu last time. Didn’t I tell you then, that her look at you seemed a bit off? Actually, I already had some suspicions through some clues, so afterwards I asked someone to check, and as it turns out, it was quite a coincidence."

"It’s her?" Luo Zhiyong recalled meeting Xiutao that day. Although he hadn’t paid special attention to her, he had seen her picture before, and with his keen military senses, he noticed something. He hesitantly said, "Judging from her appearance, it seems like her life hasn’t been easy these years."

"Yes, in fact, she really hasn’t had it easy these past years. She..." Fang Pingying did not hide the truth from him and told him everything about Xiutao in detail.

Luo Zhiyong, after hearing everything, was unsure how he felt.

To say he was upset seemed unreasonable; after all, she was someone who abandoned him as a child, leaving him to live so many years under Zhou Yunmei without experiencing real motherly love. Whether her life was good or not, he never thought about what compensation or anything else she would provide him now, and he didn’t need it either.

But to say he was gloating wasn’t quite right either. Even as a stranger, knowing that she had lived such a tragic life all these years, there was bound to be a sense of sympathy that arose in his heart.

So, at this moment, Luo Zhiyong was very conflicted, unsure of what he was truly thinking.

He stayed silent for a long while before he softly said, "If she had known it would end up like this, why do it back then? If she had stayed with my father, even if life was harder, it wouldn’t have been this way."

Fang Pingying nodded in complete agreement with Luo Zhiyong’s words, "That’s why I always say, people should learn to cherish what they have, not always thinking there’s something better out there. As long as you’re happy, it doesn’t matter who it is. This life, marrying our dad, as long as she appreciated what she had, life wouldn’t have been too bad."

Except, Luo Dashan’s life wasn’t truly fortunate.

The first one, Xiutao, didn’t cherish his kindness. She left him despite how much he loved her, so she couldn’t blame anyone else for the way she’s ended up.

The second one, Zhou Yunmei, fundamentally didn’t know what it meant to appreciate fortune. So, in Fang Pingying’s view, Zhou Yunmei’s outcome probably wouldn’t be good either.

Luo Zhiyong thought about his honest and loyal father, who aside from lacking boldness and not knowing how to handle family matters, didn’t really have other major flaws.

He nodded towards Fang Pingying, "Yeah."

Fang Pingying fell silent for a moment, then brought up Xiutao’s situation again, "Have you thought about meeting her?"

Luo Zhiyong thought for a moment, then expressed his deepest thoughts, "It doesn’t matter. Meeting or not won’t change anything. It’s fine as it is. If fate brings us together, a meeting wouldn’t be a big deal. If not, so be it. We each have our own families, and there’s no need to interfere with each other’s lives."

"Mmm, I respect your decision. Whatever you choose is fine." Fang Pingying promised she wouldn’t force Luo Zhiyong to do anything about this matter. She smiled at him, "No matter what, remember, you always have me and our children by your side. We are your safe harbor."

Perhaps because talking about his biological mother made Luo Zhiyong especially vulnerable, when he heard Fang Pingying’s words, his nose tingled slightly. He reached out and pulled her into his arms, softly saying, "Pingying, thinking about it, we almost missed each other back then. It’s truly frightening. If I didn’t cherish what we have then, perhaps today our fate would be like my dad’s."

Fang Pingying laughed softly at this, neither confirming nor denying his statement, of course. She and Xiutao were not the same kind of person and would never place herself in such a situation.

However, Luo Zhiyong’s words filled her with a strong sense of happiness. For a woman, these kinds of love words were the sweetest.

She laughed gleefully at Luo Zhiyong, "If it weren’t for someone being so shameless, perhaps it would be."

Hearing this, Luo Zhiyong lowered his head to bite her lip lightly and whispered, "Who’s shameless?"

Seeing their lips about to meet again, unlike before, this time it was in a tender, affectionate manner, neither hurried nor too slow.

Fortunately, it wasn’t rushed, because as the couple was expressing their affection, Fang Pingying suddenly noticed a small figure standing at the entrance, watching them with wide eyes.

Instinctively, Fang Pingying pushed Luo Zhiyong off her and, blushing, waved to Yaoyao standing at the door, "Why aren’t you asleep yet, Yaoyao?"

Yaoyao kept staring at them, then rolled her eyes, took a step into the bathroom, and asked curiously, "Mommy, what are you and Daddy doing?"

Caught in the act, Fang Pingying was too embarrassed to answer, so she glared fiercely at Luo Zhiyong, blaming him in her heart. It was bad enough this man wanted to do naughty things, but why didn’t he close the door, letting the little one burst in just like that.

Luo Zhiyong, caught off guard just now, was pushed to the ground losing his balance, but thanks to his military training, he managed to steady himself without falling over. He walked towards Yaoyao, coaxing the little one, "Actually, we weren’t doing anything. Your mom was just taking a bath, and she felt her shoulders were sore, so she asked Daddy to massage them."

This little one didn’t buy it at all, scrutinizing both with suspicious eyes, questioning, "Massage shoulders, does that mean Mommy and Daddy don’t wear clothes?"

"Uh..." Their faces both turned crimson up to their necks at this question, and in her extreme embarrassment, Fang Pingying gave Luo Zhiyong a sharp pinch on the leg.