Stealing Your Heart

He Ruixing’s expression turned colder. He did not like her talking about terms and conditions with him. “Don’t forget that this was a problem you started. You have the responsibility to deal with it. How dare you threaten me and try to discuss conditions with me? If dad knows about this, he would be angry.”

He Ruilin gave a short laugh. “Ruixing, aren’t you just afraid that you won’t be credited?”

“What a joke.” He Ruixing did not want to bother with her. “You think it’s easy to blackmail Zong Jinghao? If you really had something to blackmail him with, why not just force him to marry you instead of making this mess? Are you crazy?”

Now that He Ruixing was calm, he did not believe that He Ruilin had anything to blackmail Zong Jinghao with.

If she did, she would have blackmailed him into marrying her. He would not have broken off the engagement and she would not have made this mess.

“You’re crazy!” He Ruilin was furious. “I wanted to help you, but since you’re not keen on it. Don’t blame me for what happens next.”

She turned and went upstairs.

He Ruixing gave a cold snort. “Be obedient and stay at home. Don’t keep making dad angry.”

When Xia Zhenyu came out of the room, she heard He Ruixing shouting, so she quietly scolded him. “Your dad has been in a bad mood recently. Don’t talk so loudly at home or else he’ll be angry.”

It took her a lot of effort to console him and made him rest in his room.

“Okay.” He Ruixing walked into his room to change. He took his clothes out but he did not change immediately. He sat on his couch and dialed Guan Jing’s number.

He cleared his throat as he pondered how to tell him. Guan Jing might not pick up his phone or meet him. It was obvious that he was calling because of what was on the news.

The phone kept ringing until it reached the voice mailbox, and still no one had picked up the call. He Ruixing gripped onto his phone. Instead of feeling defeated, he put down the phone. He unbuttoned his suit and went to the bathroom for a shower. He changed then went out.

He Ruilin stood by the second floor’s window. Her hand was holding onto the curtain as she watched He Ruilin left through the back door. He drove his car and went off.

Regardless of whether Zong Jinghao had loved her not, she had been with him for a long time. She knew that Zong Jinghao would not reject seeing him.

The corner of her lips was turned upwards. “Ruixing, I’ve given you a chance. It’s you who didn’t take it, you can’t blame this on me.”

She took out her phone and sent a video to Zong Jinghao’s number. She sent another copy to his personal email, just in case he had not looked at his phone.

At the villa.

Aunt Yu had cooked a whole table of food, as if it was Chinese New Year.

Zhuang Zijin was helping to fill the bowls with rice. Lin Ruixi was in the living room playing by herself. Lin Xichen was still in his room, refusing to come out because he said that his face was too ugly to be meeting with people.

A white light shone in and a black car drove in from outside. Soon, Lin Xinyan and Zong Jinghao came down from the car and went into the house together.

poked her head above the couch to look at

said that this was

with short legs. Lin Xinyan thought that she was here to greet her, so

running to her embrace, Lin Ruixi stopped in front of Zong Jinghao. She looked up at the tall

“Dad.”

Lin Xinyan was speechless.

was Zong

to hug

to coax her daughter. “Ruixi, be a good girl and come over to

her head. “I want a hug

girl had lacked the love of a father, she had never

over to mommy. This man

she had not heard Lin Xinyan’s words, Lin Ruixi hugged his leg tighter. She leaned her face on Zong Jinghao’s face and blinked her bright eyes at him. “Dad, can

that were looking at him. It was like there was a lake in her eyes, the clear water was slowly rippling and shimmering

carry her up. Perhaps it was because she

the man so

tightly, as if afraid that he would put her down. She

wanted to

was a brittle tone in her voice. Deep in her, she wanted she have a dad. She wanted to be hugged by her

wanted a dad to

her daughter. She was

loss.

was a mocking smile on his face. “She doesn’t

felt like a claw had gripped onto her heart so tight

head and went in

his lap and he looked at her face carefully. She looked a lot

was fair like smooth china. It was also soft, tempting

it, Zong Jinghao did it. The cheeks under the finger were elastic and

opened her pink mouth and showed her white little teeth. “Mommy said, Rui for beautiful and soft, and

to be beautiful and as cheerful and bright as

daughter. She wished she would never see the dark and would always be in the

looked at

“Yes.”

that it sounded good. Lin Xinyan had given her

into his embrace. Her small face was leaning on his chest and she was listening to his heartbeat.

time he had heard

an inexplicable