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.

Lin Xinyan suddenly. “Mommy, didn’t you teach me to forgive

head. That’s right, she taught her daughter

one should forgive and forget once the situation

failed to do

furious and guilty the moment she saw

still sprawled on the floor. “Do you

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

husband had been the sweetest man on earth before, yet he abandoned her and even told her that she was an embarrassment to him.

said before turning to her father. “Daddy, let her go. My face doesn’t

out to

world

asked his daughter

forgive as much

“What else did she

mess with us, we

brother. “Mommy only told you that,

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

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

the things she told the two kids differed greatly as

does ‘an eye for an eye’ mean?”

that I will beat you up if you hit me first,” Lin Xichen said without much

whenever I

the urge to roll his eyes. Was his

so I will never hit you no matter what happens. Mommy gave birth

to the side and pondered over it for a long

Xichen 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 made the first move. We have to make

Uncle Su to slap her twice, and we’ll be even. If you chopped her hand

his daughter’s clear, innocent eyes,

took her father’s hesitance as doubt, and she wrapped

gave in to his daughter’s pleas, not out of mercy, but rather his reluctance

Su Zhan, since their

took Lin Xichen’s hand, leading them away from the scene. Su

held the woman down while the other administered

them as the bodyguard slapped

bodyguard had used quite a