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.

her dream for Zong Jinghao to fall in

was written all over Aunt Yu’s

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

into the

not withstand that enthusiastic look from Aunt

be eating soon.” Aunt Yu

pretended not to have heard her and went into the

out when

that Lin Ruixi had a “dad”, she did not even want Lin Xinyan anymore. When she was about to eat, she ran to sit beside Zong Jinghao. “I want to

Zijin went to carry

that the little girl would not be able to

all, Zong Jinghao was not

to sit with dad.” She pulled Zong

could separate

“Ruixi—”

be.” Zong

a moment. “The girl isn’t being

him. “You can be yourself here. Treat this like your home. I’m sure you were unhappy about my divorce

him had been ambiguous and Zong Jinghao

was going on. “You are divorced, technically we should

not in a hurry to explain. He slowly said, “Lin

turned to Lin Xinyan. “Lin Xinyan and I had not

at her daughter in

Lin Xinyan nodded honestly.

She had always thought that Lin Xinyan no longer had a

husband and wife.” He was hinting to Zhuang Zijin that Lin Xinyan’s staying here

planning to eat at home, but

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

“I have something to do. You’ll be staying in the room you once stayed in. Xichen is already

grateful for his arrangement. She nodded and said

he was emphasizing to Lin Xinyan, and also to

Lin Ruixi held tightly onto

blinked her eyes as

tiny nose

disappointed. She wanted

not come

she would not have

she could not let

Jinghao coaxed her patiently. “Do you want me to