Stealing Your Heart

After he had finished counting the money, Lin Xichen passed it to his sister and looked at Zong Jinghao. He blinked, his eyelashes fluttering. “You don’t even know my Mommy’s birthday. How can you call yourself her husband?”

Zong Jinghao was rendered speechless.

He could not even rebuke Lin Xichen. Yeah, he’s right. I’m not a qualified husband. We’ve been married for six years. In fact, it’ll be seven years after tomorrow. Our kids are going to be six years old already, yet we’ve not even slept together yet.

Am I not an unqualified husband?

It’s my fault for not giving my wife happiness—in life and in bed.

Although Lin Xichen had already accepted Zong Jinghao, he had never forgotten about how Zong Jinghao had abandoned them. If he wants to win Mommy’s heart, he’ll need to put in some effort.

“Find out yourself.” It was evident that Lin Xichen was unwilling to reveal that piece of information. Crossing his arms over his chest, he announced, “Let me give you a hint. You don’t have much time left.”

Zong Jinghao raised his eyebrows. Not much time left?

Does this mean that her birthday’s going to happen in a few days?

Zong Jinghao crouched down to look his son in the eyes. “Do you believe that I can find out just by asking a single question?”

Nonetheless, Lin Xichen reacted swiftly and slapped a hand over his sister’s mouth.

He was afraid that Zong Jinghao would ask his sister. After all, Lin Ruixi was an easily-swayed person who always clung to Zong Jinghao. If he were to ask her, she would definitely spill the beans.

“Don’t try to coax my sister.” Lin Xichen glared at Zong Jinghao.

On the other hand, Lin Ruixi felt a bit flustered. What’s going on?

Why did Xichen suddenly cover my mouth?

“Mmm…”

“What are you doing?” asked Lin Xinyan. When she was walking down the stairs, she saw Lin Xichen covering Lin Ruixi’s mouth.

Zong Jinghao glanced at his son and grinned happily. “Just now, Ruixi said that your birthday is on the day after Chinese New Year. Then, Xichen insisted that she was wrong and covered her mouth.”

“It’s on…”

worried that

Zong Jinghao. “You’re

Jinghao shrugged. “Aren’t we going to rely on

was

patted her son’s shoulder and told him to release Lin Ruixi. “If you keep covering her

him! Let him find out when’s your birthday himself. If he fails to do so, it means that he’s insincere,” explained Lin Xichen to Lin

blinked, starting to understand

in Lin Xinyan, he did not trust his sister that much. Hence, he dragged her to the bedroom. “Follow me to

Lin Ruixi stared at her brother pitifully. With all that money, I can buy a lot of things for

to leave the money there. What if I lose

money.” Lin Xichen was adamant in preventing his sister from interacting

Lin Xinyan nodded.

Zong Jinghao

Jinghao sat beside her, while she picked up the money. He took the bills from her hands and helped her pick them up. “Your

actually the victim

bullied

rolled her

the money back into the envelopes, which he then put on the table. “Accompany me

that this was the company’s internal gathering

Lin Xinyan rejected his offer, stating, “I don’t want to

intention of bringing her to the annual gala was to

relationship with Zong Jinghao was not extremely stable yet, she did not want to be

acknowledged

decided to get married, it was very secretive and barely anyone knew about it. If I suddenly appear at the company’s gala, with you introducing me, what would the others think? If they knew about our children, what kind of speculations would they have? Would they say that I’d married into money? Or that I’d used the children to force you to marry me?

head and glanced at him. “I understand

true identity to the others, but he had never considered the negative consequences of announcing

did Uncle tell

what Wen Qing and Zong Jinghao talked about, and

to know Zong Jinghao’s thoughts

not know about Yuxiu’s background, nor did he