Stealing Your Heart

Lin Xinyan’s head was heavy. It seemed bumpy and she felt like she was lying in a car.

She gradually opened her eyes and her vision turned from blurry to clear. She saw where she was.

She was in a seven-seater car. The back seats had been placed down and it had become a large space, much like a bed that she was lying on top of. The windows had a layer of black film, so she could not see whether it was day or night. However, she felt that it should be the day because there were no flickering street lights.

She wanted to move but realized that her head was pounding and her hands could not move. She looked down to find out that her hands and legs were tied up.

He Ruize, who was driving, saw that she had woken up through the rearview mirror. “You woke up. Are you hungry?”

Lin Xinyan recalled what had happened and she did not want to talk to him. She closed her eyes again.

“Do you hate me?” He Ruize could see her expressions clearly through the rearview mirror.

Did she no longer want to talk to him?

“Yan, we’re lovers. We’ll eventually make love to each other. Why should you be like that? I feel upset that you’re hurt.” He did feel upset, but his want for her was stronger.

“Are you hungry?” He Ruize repeated his question.

Whatever He Ruize said, Lin Xinyan pretended that she could not hear him and did not answer him. She hated this man with a vengeance. She now knew what he was made of.

He Ruize knew that she was angry so he did not continue to say anything else. He only said, “Tell me when you’re hungry.”

He focused back on his driving.

Lin Xinyan’s head was throbbing, as if there was someone drilling in her head. She did not know where He Ruize was driving to, but the road was bumpy and the wound on her head kept pounding along with each bump. Yet she never cried; she just suffered quietly.

To distract herself from the pain, she forced herself to space out and fall asleep. That way, she would not feel the pain.

The sun set and the sky darkened.

When she woke again, she did not know what time it was. She was no longer in the car. She was at a motel. The place was not spacious and the furnishing was simple. It looked like the kind of motel that did not need any identification, because Lin Xinyan realized the motel should be originally a house. The room was originally a part of the living room.

There was a mocking smile on her pale face.

hard. To avoid detection, he

of the He family, he was born with

legs were

pushed open and He

saw her awake, he asked, “You’re

was worried that the lock would not work properly, he turned the handle to make sure that the door was locked before he

thirsty.” Her

long she had not spoken or how long she had

He touched her thin, fair wrists that had been scratched red by

Xinyan did not answer him. She just felt that he was a hypocrite. If he really did feel upset for her, he would not

untied the rope on her legs and supported her into

wrist and looked at the bottle of water that He Ruize brought over. He was

Ruize replied, “Doesn’t your hand

saw that you’ve bought food. Are you hungry?

a second before handing her the unopened bottle. When Lin Xinyan took the bottle, she made sure that the bottle had not been opened before she twisted the cap. She

had to be

stuffed two mouthfuls of food then handed Lin Xinyan hers. “Eat

Xinyan was indeed hungry, but she

so he said, “This place is too remote, and there are no proper restaurants around. One more day, and we’ll look for

her hunger. She did not eat much. It was not because the food was terrible. Back when she was living with her mother and they were scraping by in life, she had tasted all kinds of food and

more, because this

was constantly afraid of him trying to

was afraid that he would drug him through the

down. I’ll apply some medication for

food container and drank a sip of water. “I want to go to

stood up, she realized that her legs were

bent down to massage her numb legs. He Ruize reached out, wanting to help her massage, but she instinctively moved backwards. Her leg knocked onto the side of the bed and

making sure that it was locked. She did not actually want to use the

on the toilet bowl and rested while she massaged her

up to flush the toilet bowl. It was to make sure that He Ruize thought