Stealing Your Heart

The night was quiet.

Zong Jinghao’s car stopped in front of the villa. He turned the engine off and went down the car.

He walked across the forecourt and opened the villa’s front door. There was a warm, yellow light still lit in the living room. The house was quiet, as if all living beings were asleep.

He took off his jacket and threw it onto the couch. He loosened his collar and walked towards the room where Lin Xichen was sleeping.

The light was still on in the room but Lin Ruixi was already asleep in Lin Xinyan’s arms on the bed.

Lin Ruixi’s eyes were red, as if she had cried. She hiccupped every once in a while even when she was already asleep.

When Zong Jinghao had not come back, she was sitting on the living room’s couch. She was unwilling to sleep; she wanted to wait for her dad to come home.

Lin Xinyan’s coaxing did not work on her.

When it was nearly midnight and her eyes could barely open, Lin Xinyan forcefully carried her into the room even when she did not want to sleep. She cried immediately and asked Lin Xinyan if her dad did not want her again.

Lin Xinyan kissed her cheeks and disagreed on her words.

Yet the girl did not believe in her words. Children who grew up in a single-parent family often felt a lack of security. It was the same for Lin Ruixi.

She curled herself in Lin Xinyan’s arms and kept saying that she was a fatherless child.

She cried, and Lin Xinyan cried along with her.

When she tired herself from crying, she had fallen asleep in Lin Xinyan’s arms.

Lin Xinyan did not let go of her and went to sleep.

Lin Xichen was sleeping in the innermost part. The bed was spacious, and it did not feel cramped even when three people were sleeping on it. Zong Jinghao walked to the side of the bed. He gently moved Lin Xinyan’s arm, which was on Lin Ruixi, to his neck. He placed his other arm on her waist and carried her up.

When Lin Xinyan felt someone moving her, she opened her eyes and saw Zong Jinghao. She sobered up instantly. “You…”

“Hush.”

He gave her a look.

Lin Xinyan swallowed the words that were about to leave her mouth and let him carry her out of the room.

He carried her upstairs.

“You drank?” Lin Xinyan asked.

He had a strong alcohol scent on him. There was also a hint of perfume.

“Yes.”

Xinyan lowered her eyes.

not want to mention

smiled

had realized her nonchalant smile, he asked, “What are you smiling

said with a half-serious tone. “You’re a man with

his forehead on hers. “If you don’t

he opened the door with his

unusually dim. Spots of shadow littered over each corner of the room. In comparison with the room downstairs, this room felt darker. Its colors were dark and grey, filling

when she placed on it. He leaned down and

her from

away, uncomfortable, from his

did not

me.” He said with a

could feel his skin underneath the shirt. His voice was low

Xinyan’s entire body stiffened. She did not

that he

her. Their bodies were touching each other closely. He buried his

It was ticklish

She tensed.

you, I’ve used my beauty as a strategy. Should

don’t know what you’re talking about.” Lin Xinyan pretended to be calm, but her hands on

and sucked. Lin Xinyan tried

I know what I’m doing.” His words were clear, and he emphasized on

you raise your children here,

skipped a beat, and she

lot. She had not spent much time with

had never seen her daughter as upset as just now. Neither had she heard her daughter ever say what she said earlier that she was a

of her eyes and disappeared

she said, “You can’t

“Of course.”

had agreed with

Lin Xinyan shivered.

her and leaned her against his chest. He

out from her and exposed it in the

She started trembling uncontrollably.

soaked his shirt. Zong Jinghao lowered his head to look at her tearful face, and his gaze seemed to darken. “I’m not a predator who’s

sniffed and said, “I’m

not say anything in return for

soaked and she still insisted that she

Jinghao wiped the tears on her face and said gently, “If

he could finish his

Xinyan had initiated