"So, Luo Yang, what kind of person am I in your heart?"
Luo Yang calmly said, "A kind, easygoing yet decisive, even ruthless person."
Ruthless?
Was it because he saw blood when he dealt with He Hua that he left such an impression on him?
She didn't think she was ruthless; she had only cut off He Hua's hair and knocked out a few of her teeth. A truly ruthless person wouldn't be so lenient.
Whether openly or secretly, making He Hua pay with her life would be truly ruthless.
At least she wouldn't dare to kill someone... as long as her bottom line isn't crossed.
Perhaps children understand the word "ruthless" differently than adults.
"Hmm...that's quite fair, so what would you like to talk about?"
"Actually, we are not Dad's biological children."
"Oh..." Xiao Yunying responded absentmindedly, then realized what she had heard: "What?"
Wow, the very first sentence is a huge bombshell!
“My dad just turned twenty this year, but my older brother is already eight years old.”
"etc."
Xiao Yunying was stunned by the news. After a moment's thought, she recalled, "Isn't Luo Sheng twenty-three?"
"The birth dates you exchanged were fabricated. The year was fake; only the month and hour were real. This was to hide the fact that we are not biological father and son."
Xiao Yunying crushed the small flower in her hand: "Luo Sheng is shameless. Isn't this a marriage scam?"
“My father had his reasons.”
"Your father has his reasons, what does that have to do with me... Xiao Yunying?"
"Initially, it was she who pestered my father to marry her; it wasn't my father who took the initiative to marry her."
Xiao Yunying threw the flowers aside: "So on the night of your wedding, your father took Xiao Yunying's twenty taels of dowry money and ran away with his mother overnight, showing her with his actions that he didn't want you anymore, right?"
Luo Yang took a deep breath to calm himself down and told himself not to rush: "Although I don't know why Father left and never came back, he definitely didn't mean to abandon you."
Xiao Yunying chuckled: "Still defending him? Have you forgotten that he not only abandoned Xiao Yunying, but also you all?"
Luo Yang firmly believed that his idea was correct: "Dad must have encountered something that prevented him from coming back."
Say what you want.
Xiao Yunying didn't want to argue with him about this. She looked at Luo Yang's features and said, "Wait a minute, are you lying to me? Of the three boys, except for Xin'er who doesn't look much like Luo Sheng, they all look quite like him."
Luo Xin is a girl, so she probably looks like her mother.
"It seems reasonable. Our biological father is Dad's older brother from the same parents. In other words, we should call Dad Second Uncle."
Xin'er doesn't look like us because she's not related to us by blood; we found her. On our way out of Lingnan, we encountered bandits. Xin'er's mother was severely injured by them and gave birth to her before she died. My father couldn't bear to abandon a newborn baby, so he buried Xin'er's mother and raised her on deer milk.
Xiao Yunying didn't speak, because she really didn't know what to say.
“Stepmother, you have seen the wooden box left by my grandmother. You should be able to guess that my family was not an ordinary farming family, or even a wealthy family.”
Xiao Yunying stopped and faced him: "What exactly do you want to say? Just say it directly, don't make me guess."
Luo Yang's gaze drifted into the distance, as if lost in memories: "I can't tell you the specifics of my family's past situation. I can only tell you that because of some things, the family's former glory and achievements were stripped away overnight. Everyone in the family was demoted to commoners and exiled to Lingnan for a year."
My biological father's wife, whose father is quite powerful, received advance notice of our family's decline. She came up with a plan to use her unborn child as leverage, forcing my biological father to write a divorce agreement and abandon us.
My biological father was deeply troubled by this matter, and coupled with the fact that he couldn't adapt to the climate and environment of Lingnan, he fell ill and eventually didn't make it through.
My grandfather died for his country long ago, and my grandmother is the only elder left in the family. Before my biological father passed away, he asked my grandmother to arrange for us to be adopted by my second uncle, thinking that even if it meant his lineage would die out in name, he wouldn't give that woman the chance to take us back.
Xiao Yunying didn't know what to say, and managed to say, "It happened three or four years ago. The two of you were only four or five years old, and you still remember it all."
Luo Yang's expression was indifferent, as if he were talking about someone else's affairs: "When the family was raided, my eldest brother was almost five years old, already old enough to remember things. I was precocious from a young age, and even if I didn't know what happened at the time, I should have understood by the year I lived in Lingnan. Only Luo Li was too young to remember the Luo family's past glory."
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