Stealing Your Heart

At He family estate,

He Ruilin had been turning around on the bed. She could not fall asleep. She looked at her phone every few minutes, but no call nor messages came in.

Finally, she could not lie still. She sat up and took her phone. After a moment of hesitation, she dialed a number.

She held onto her phone with trembling hands. She was nervous and excited.

That night, she had installed a video surveillance in the room. He Ruize did not know about it.

This was the only thing she had to blackmail Zong Jinghao.

If he cared about Lin Xinyan, he would not let this video where Lin Xinyan was being stripped spread on the internet as porn video.

Zong Jinghao looked at his phone as his thumb rubbed on the screen. Just as his phone was about to stop ringing, he picked up the call.

“Hao.” He Ruilin said excitedly.

She thought Zong Jinghao would not accept her call.

Zong Jinghao did not answer her. Her feelings did not affect him.

Slowly, He Ruilin calmed down. The hand on the blanket tensed and relaxed a few times before she opened her mouth. “Did you receive the video? Was it exciting?”

Zong Jinghao’s eyes were half-closed. As if time had stopped, the storms in his eyes had been paused.

“Let’s meet. I’ve booked a room at Shanghuang Hotel. Room 108. I’ll be waiting for you. You can choose to not come, but I can guarantee you that the video in which Lin Xinyan was being stripped would be all over the net. She would be the target for horny men.”

She ended the call but her heart was still thumping loudly.

She was nervous.

Yet when she thought about meeting him, she was excited.

She stood up from the messy bed and ran to the wardrobe barefooted. She started to look for the clothes she was going to wear tonight.

The wardrobe was filled with expensive suits and dresses but none of it was what she wanted. She felt that none of it was pretty enough for tonight.

Yet it was too late to buy clothes now, so she took them all out and tried them one by one.

Her excited look right now was like a young lady who had just fallen in love and about to meet the man of her dreams. She had to become more beautiful so that she could present him the most beautiful look of hers.

To make him surprised and fall in love with her.

Zong Jinghao to

enthusiastically greeting her. It was written all over Aunt Yu’s face that she knew

her head in embarrassment and gave herself an excuse to leave. “I’m going to check on

walked into

not withstand that enthusiastic look from

eating soon.”

not to have heard her and

only came out when it was

When she was about

went to carry

the little girl would not be

good. After all, Zong Jinghao was

I want to sit with dad.” She

could separate

“Ruixi—”

be.” Zong Jinghao

moment. “The girl

Treat this like your home. I’m sure you were unhappy

been ambiguous

“You are divorced, technically we should not come to

mistaken about the divorce.” Zong Jinghao was not in a hurry to explain. He slowly

gaze turned to Lin Xinyan. “Lin Xinyan and I had not gone through the divorce officially, so we were not planning to

looked at her daughter in shock

Lin Xinyan nodded honestly.

always thought that Lin Xinyan no longer had a

hinting to Zhuang

be going out tonight.” He had not been planning to eat at home, but he did not want

home?” Lin Xinyan was the one who asked this but she regretted it

“I have something to do. You’ll be staying in the room you once stayed in. Xichen is already inside, so it’ll be easier for you

for his arrangement. She nodded

said the first five words louder. It seemed like he was emphasizing to Lin Xinyan, and also

onto his arm. “Where is dad going?

blinked her eyes as she looked

Jinghao pinched her tiny nose and

Lin Ruixi asked, disappointed. She wanted

did not come

not have a dad

not let dad just

her patiently. “Do you want me