Chapter 52: Claiming What’s Mine (Revised) Part 3

Besides wanting to stifle his own panting, it was also to stop Fu Si Heng’s increasingly excessive actions.

Now coming back to his senses, Tao Zhi hurriedly pushed open the closet door and sucked in two big gulps of fresh air.

He couldn’t tell if his legs were stiff or weak; he nearly fell when he came out.

Fortunately, Fu Si Heng steadied his waist.

But today, Tao Zhi didn’t want to say thank you.

…

He thought Fu Si Heng was really detestable.

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Twenty minutes later, Tao Zhi reappeared in front of Fu Zheng.

The mark on his cheek was gone, so Fu Zheng couldn’t nitpick even if he wanted to.

Tao Zhi insisted firmly that Fu Zheng had seen wrong and refused to back down, infuriating Fu Zheng.

After finally quieting down for a bit, Fu Zheng chased him again, asking how he had suddenly disappeared from the room.

Tao Zhi: “…”

In the picking garden, Fu Zheng chased after Tao Zhi, determined to get answers. From a bystander’s view, it looked like Fu Zheng was endlessly pursuing Tao Zhi, impossible to shake off.

“No big disappearing act.” Tao Zhi firmly denied it: “I saw you when I went out. You just didn’t see me.”

Fu Zheng: “???”

“How is that possible?!” Fu Zheng absolutely didn’t believe it.

Right now, it was like he had a targeting scope locked on Tao Zhi—how could he miss him?

In a crowd, he could spot Tao Zhi at a glance.

“How is it impossible?” Tao Zhi was stubborn when it came to his own matters: “Really.”

Fu Zheng: “Absolutely no way.”

“Then how else do you explain it?” Tao Zhi was very busy right now, extremely busy.

He was busy digging spring bamboo shoots, squatting on the ground without even glancing at Fu Zheng, digging so hard it seemed like sparks would fly: “Did I really vanish into thin air or something?”

Fu Zheng: “?”

Even that wasn’t possible.

Fu Zheng felt none of Tao Zhi’s desperate busyness.

“Vanishing into thin air is impossible, but I still think something’s off.” Fu Zheng stated firmly, continuing to pester Tao Zhi, vowing to get the truth from him: “And how did you end up appearing with Fu Si Heng later?”

“We ran into each other outside. I had something to tell him.” Tao Zhi’s eyes were only on the bamboo shoots, digging frantically.

“What thing?” Fu Zheng pursued relentlessly, acting just like a suspicious main wife grilling her spouse.

Though in reality, he wasn’t the main wife at all.

He was completely the third wheel acting like the main palace.

Meanwhile, the actual main palace was doing third-wheel things, hiding in the closet for an affair.

And right now, he didn’t seem to have any intention of legitimizing it. Fu Si Heng stood outside the picking garden, watching them tussle with an expressionless face.

Xu Yujia walked over and stood with him for a while before suddenly saying: “Your brother isn’t your plaything. That’s enough.”

“Oh?” Fu Si Heng turned his head: “You knew?”

Xu Yujia: “?”

“I’m not some idiot like Fu Zheng.” The mom personally certified her youngest son’s IQ, rolling her eyes.

Fu Si Heng chuckled.

Xu Yujia couldn’t have coincidentally appeared in the room.

To stop Fu Zheng, Fu Si Heng had sent her a message asking her to come take him away.

Right when Fu Zheng was foolishly checking the window.

Fu Si Heng was a man of his word. Since he promised to help Tao Zhi hide it, even if he wasn’t worried about exposure himself, he would cover for him.

Having Xu Yujia help meant he was prepared for her to guess. He wasn’t surprised.

“What exactly are you trying to do?” Xu Yujia didn’t understand: “That’s the person your brother likes.”

“Your brother is pursuing her—”

“We’ve been together since last New Year’s Day.” Fu Si Heng’s voice was flat as he interrupted Xu Yujia: “Tell him not to steal my person. She’s his sister-in-law.”

“I’m tolerating it for now, but I can’t guarantee later.”

Fu Si Heng was seriously planning to find some remote mountain village and send Fu Zheng there to farm.

Xu Yujia: “…”

Such a complicated relationship. She tried to sort it out: “Unrequited love from the brother? Or is it just you three in some unclear, messy entanglement?”

Fu Si Heng: “Your daughter-in-law doesn’t even know Fu Zheng likes him.”

Oh.

Put that way, Xu Yujia got it.

So, the older brother met his younger brother’s female classmate while disciplining him, they fell for each other and got together, but for some unclear reason, they kept it underground without telling the brother. In reality, the brother liked the girl too but missed his chance because he was clueless.

Probably a tragic story like that.

Feeling like she’d figured it out, Xu Yujia sighed: “Then just tell Fu Zheng clearly.”

“Don’t pull these stunts anymore. Aren’t you embarrassed? Getting cornered in the closet by Xiao Zheng. What if he insisted on opening it then?”

Xu Yujia knew what her eldest son was up to.

Playing pretty fancy tricks.

Xu Yujia condemned him: “So embarrassing!”

“I’m not embarrassed.” Fu Si Heng didn’t care about that.

But.

Fu Si Heng watched Fu Zheng circling Tao Zhi with questions, and it seriously irritated him.

Tao Zhi took a step, and he followed, orbiting around him.

Fu Si Heng withdrew his gaze and cracked his knuckles: “I’ll tell him when we get back.”

The affair play was stimulating, but not legitimizing himself? Impossible.

It was time to lay the cards on the table.

Time to make the little fool realize their relationship wasn’t fake.

And whose wife he really was.