Chapter 595 - 589_1
"Looking at me like that, do you not recognize your own husband? Or are you scared and frightened, hmm?" Zhao Erhu asked gently, rubbing his little wife’s head with movements extra soft.
Lin Yue shook her head without speaking, but Zhao Erhu did not regret showing his other side to his little wife. Some things had to be faced sooner or later. The woman before him was his little wife, with whom he was to spend his lifetime. Some things simply couldn’t be kept secret forever. Moreover, Zhao Erhu didn’t want to live a life full of secrets and concealment, at least not at home with his family, where he could relax completely without concern. Besides, his previous reservation was only because he didn’t want his little wife to worry, not because he had done anything wrong.
It was only because Lin Yue saw that look on Zhao Erhu’s face that she was taken aback for a moment. How could she really be scared? Removing Zhao Erhu’s hand that rested on her head, she said, "Scared? How is that possible! Don’t you know what kind of person your wife is? I wasn’t even scared in front of the Emperor, so how could I be scared by you? That would be too pathetic. It’s just that I find you’ve changed a lot. If you had shown this determination before, how could the Wei Family’s mother and son and your aunt dare to bully you? Life would have been much easier."
"I just couldn’t be bothered to argue with them, after all, what kind of man would I be to quarrel with women? So I let them be. I just didn’t expect that by ignoring them, I’d let them get even more out of line. Now I understand the principle behind it, and such things will certainly not happen again."
Zhao Erhu felt a wave of emotion in his heart. If he had understood some things sooner, like his attitude and approach to the Wei Family’s mother and son and those top-grade relatives, perhaps the outcome with his first two wives would’ve been different. Even when it came to the flirtatious Li Family, he couldn’t blame her alone. She was driven to those circumstances. Otherwise, what woman would want such a reputation? But if it hadn’t been for that, he wouldn’t have been able to marry his little wife. So it’s said, with gain there comes loss, and with loss, there is gain. Worldly matters are difficult to define clearly. For him, the gains were definitely greater than the losses. Not to mention the Zhao Family and the Li Family, even if he added several more people, he would not want to exchange them for his little wife. He even wished that from the very beginning, there would have only been his little wife.
Thinking of this, Zhao Erhu’s hand unconsciously found its way to Lin Yue’s head again—a habitual gesture. Lin Yue tolerated it once, but not a second time, "I’ve told you not to keep touching my hair. Why can’t you remember? No wonder I never grow taller. You’ve messed up my hair too. Really annoying!"
Zhao Erhu just looked at Lin Yue and laughed. The fact that his little wife wasn’t afraid of him gave him real comfort and joy. Although he had always considered his little wife’s temperament to be that of a female hero, who would not be frightened by such a trifle, what worried him more was that she would worry for him. He feared she might be fretting at home when he went to sea. But after confirming his little wife’s reaction, any hint of worry in Zhao Erhu’s heart vanished.
"What’s there to fear about mess? I’ll just comb it again for you. When you first came over, you couldn’t even comb the simplest bun, and I was the one who helped you." Saying this, Zhao Erhu let out a few muffled chuckles, as if reminiscing about the past. He missed, after all, how silly and clumsy his little wife was back then. Now she was much smarter and not as obedient and pliable as before.