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.

looked up at Lin Xinyan suddenly. “Mommy, didn’t you teach me to

That’s right, she taught

and one should forgive and forget once the situation

failed to do

mother, she felt furious and guilty the moment

Ruixi turned to look at the woman, who was still

lost their shine, and she scoffed at herself. “One mistake is

yet he abandoned her and even told her that she was an embarrassment to

woman. “Mommy,” she said before turning to

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

so, the world had its ugly

sure?” He asked his daughter

that you should forgive as much as possible

raised his eyebrows. “What else did she

if others try to mess

“Mommy only told you that, not

approaches in educating her two kids. For Lin Ruixi, she did as much as she could to

him to be strong, determined, and fearless. She wanted

she told the two kids

‘an eye for an

you hit me first,” Lin Xichen said without

not like you hit me back whenever I

his eyes. Was his

that we share the same blood since we’re twins, so I will never hit you no

the side and pondered over it for a long

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

Lin Ruixi said, looking at Zong Jinghao. “You can ask Uncle Su to slap her twice, and we’ll be even. If you chopped her hand off, how

clear, innocent

took her father’s hesitance as doubt, and she wrapped her arms around his neck. “Daddy, just let her

not out of mercy, but rather his reluctance

to do it instead of Su Zhan, since their training made them much stronger than Su

hand, leading them away from the scene. Su Zhan walked in front of

bodyguards held the woman down while the other administered her

heard a loud ‘piak’ behind them as the bodyguard slapped the woman’s

had used quite a bit