Stealing Your Heart

“I am aware,” Lin Xinyan said. She’d figured it out since the first time Bai Yinning brought tea silk to her.

She was curious as to what Bai Yinning’s plans were. “He saved me because of this jade bangle. Do you think he has something to do with Yuxiu?”

She looked at Zong Jinghao. He didn’t like her, neither did he want to hear anyone speak her name.

However, she had a feeling that both the tea silk master and Bai Yinning had connections to Yuxiu, considering how the master had glanced at her jade bangle ever so discreetly. “Where did this bangle come from?” She asked.

Zong Jinghao didn’t know either. As a man, he never needed these kinds of things, and neither did his family tell him about the fact that they had a jade bangle as an heirloom.

“So you want to stay and figure things out?” Zong Jinghao asked, though it was obvious what the answer was.

This damn woman…

He closed his eyes and forced himself to calm down before saying, “You don’t even know why he wants you to stay. Have you ever thought about what will happen to me or the kids if something happens to you?”

That was an oversight on her part, but the curiosity to find out who Yuxiu had outweighed the guilt. She didn’t see Yuxiu as a villain.

“You will protect me anyway,” she said, hugging his arm and pressing herself against his body.

Her sudden affection made Zong Jinghao freeze for a moment before recovering.

She checkmated him.

She was nowhere near being a submissive woman, and that made her difficult to control.

He couldn’t scold her or beat her, so he had no choice but to play along.

Zong Jinghao hugged her back. “What am I to do with you?”

Lin Xinyan rested her head on his collarbone and looked faraway. The reason why she wanted to find out more about Yuxiu was because of Zong Jinghao as well.

If this man wasn’t her children’s father, she wouldn’t have stepped into this mess.

She reached out and wrapped her arms around his thin waist. “I’ll protect myself.”

a hand onto his head and planted a warm kiss onto her forehead.

want to leave her

along with their men so Su Zhan and Qin Ya went back to the hotel to pack their things. The old man moved into a wooden house in the backyard, leaving the front side for the rest of the group to stay

them were allowed to go to the backyard, and neither could Lin Xinyan come out from it until she

like the extreme private lessons of the past,

of the house, yet it had all of the latest technology installed. Everything was arranged in an orderly manner and wiped clean. It was pretty obvious that the

handed a notebook to her. “These are some notes I made. You can take a look. By the way, have you come across

both hands and answered truthfully, “I’ve never used a

seemingly satisfied

he looked at the machinery in the room. “These might not

that, Master?” Lin Xinyan asked. She was curious as to

don’t you leave this

it tomorrow,” the old man

want to dwell on the subject any

calm. This was her first day after all, and she will figure out what she

small rooms there besides the machinery room. Each room was occupied by a bed and

the perfect place to get absorbed into a

the rest of the

a couple

fell, the old man prepared some dishes and called

a rectangle in the middle of the yard, along with two small stools. There were two dishes, a fish as well as a

Xinyan took the initiative to get the cutlery and handed the old man

it was the first time she

the river, so it’s definitely clean. Don’t worry, just eat,” the old man said, putting a

her before. She could feel tears prickling her eyes as

had gone easy on the flavoring, leaving the original taste largely intact. The fish meat was soft, with just

in this?”

will taste like this,” the old man said calmly, answering her questions with

mostly related to things in the notebook that she

answered each and every question in

moved in,