Stealing Your Heart

Acting rashly could send one tumbling down into the abyss.

The woman was acting as if she was the best in the world just because she wore something that cost a thousand.

She had gotten herself into some serious trouble by that one action.

Zong Jinghao made no move to change his orders.

The woman was terrified. How was she going to live without her hand?

No, I can’t lose my hand!

Even so, she could not fight against the people standing before her.

Fear might have flipped a switch in her, and she broke free of her restraints all of a sudden, all before the bodyguards could react.

She barreled herself towards Lin Xinyan.

Zong Jinghao thought that she was going to hurt Lin Xinyan, and he kicked her away. The woman skidded sideways and crashed into a tree in the garden nearby, making it shake on impact.

Zong Jinghao’s eyes were red with anger. “What were y’all doing? You can’t even hold a woman down!”

The woman pressed a hand to her chest and coughed a few times. “I was not going to hurt her,” she rasped.

She looked up at Lin Xinyan. “I just thought that I could ask you for some mercy, since you’re a woman like me.”

Lin Xinyan’s face remained cold, not because she was heartless, but rather because the woman’s actions were beyond her threshold.

As a mother, she felt guilty for not being able to protect her child from harm, yet she couldn’t forgive the perpetrator so easily.

She was not a saint but an ordinary human and a mother.

“My daughter is only five, and I have never even scolded her, let alone hit her. Who gave you the right to hit her?” Lin Xinyan asked, her eyes reddened. “You probably don’t deserve to lose your hand because of this, but you have to be punished.”

The woman’s jaw dropped, and she was at a loss for words.

Lin Xinyan hugged Lin Ruixi close to shield her from the violent scene that was about to take place. “I’ll get on the car first,” she said.

Zong Jinghao nodded.

“Wait.

“Mommy, didn’t you teach me to forgive

That’s right,

should forgive

she failed to do

guilty the moment she

the woman, who was still sprawled on the floor. “Do you

at herself.

earth before, yet he abandoned her and even told

said before turning

still tinged with red, and the slap mark was still visible. He reached out to

so, the world had

He asked his daughter

said that you should forgive as much

Jinghao raised his eyebrows. “What

try to mess with

brother. “Mommy only told you that,

different approaches in educating her two kids. For Lin Ruixi, she did as much as she could to protect her from harm, and strived to shape her into a

be strong, determined, and fearless. She wanted him

a result, the things she told the two

eye for an eye’ mean?”

you hit me first,” Lin Xichen said without much

hit me back whenever I hit you,” the little girl said

resisted the urge to roll his eyes. Was his

doesn’t count! Mommy said that we share the same blood since we’re twins, so I will never hit you no matter what

head to the side and pondered over it for a long while before saying, “Does that mean that if I

put his arms across his chest and held his chin as he considered his sister’s words. “Hmm…it should be two slaps, since she

her twice, and we’ll be even. If you

looked at his daughter’s clear, innocent eyes, and was at a loss

father’s hesitance as doubt, and she wrapped her arms around

not out of mercy, but

asked the bodyguards to do it instead of Su Zhan,

while Lin Xinyan took Lin Xichen’s hand, leading them away from the scene. Su Zhan walked in

held the woman down while the other administered

loud ‘piak’ behind them as the bodyguard slapped the

tell that the bodyguard had used