Lü Zhi radiated an air that warned strangers away. She was not scowling, and her expression was even fairly gentle, but there was no concealing the coldness that came from deep within.
Luo Xin did not know what had happened, so he quietly asked Liu Le. Still a child at heart, Liu Le spoke with a child's unguarded candor. "Brother, it seems Father came to Zhao City but didn't come home, so Mother is unhappy.
"Brother, is Zhao City very far from the village? If it isn't, why didn't Father come back to see A Le?"
Hearing this made Luo Xin's teeth ache. How had he stumbled into a matter involving such a faithless, heartless man? No wonder Lü Zhi looked like this.
He could only comfort Liu Le. "A Le, having your mother beside you is enough. I'll take you to see your father someday."
Lü Zhi was truly heartbroken. She had obeyed her father's command and married a man so many years older than herself. She was beautiful, hardworking, and highly capable.
She could build an enterprise alongside Liu Bang, help him manage his domestic affairs as a worthy wife, and even bring him support from her own family. With such a wife, what more could a husband ask?
Yet this was the outcome she had received. How could the ever-proud Lü Zhi bear it?
She dearly wanted to ask Liu Bang, "How have I wronged you? In what way am I unworthy of you, that you should treat me so heartlessly?"
"Madam."
Faced with a woman whom love had turned dark, Luo Xin decided to say little and avoid stirring up trouble. At the sight of him, Lü Zhi finally regained a little of her usual composure.
She simply could not bring herself to dislike Luo Xin.