Stealing Your Heart

Shen Peichuan peered at him with a mysterious look on his face. “Take a guess.”

Su Zhan gazed at Shen Peichuan for a long while before replying smilingly, “Did you get a new girlfriend? Did you come here with her today?”

Shen Peichuan’s face clouded over in an instant. If Su Zhan had joked about something else, he wouldn’t have gotten so angry. However, Lin Xinyan was inside the room right now, and they couldn’t crack a joke like this lest she overheard their conversation.

Su Zhan blinked. “If you don’t want me to crack a joke like this, I won’t! Why do you have to get mad at me?”

Shen Peichuan glanced at him and said huffily, “Xinyan’s inside.”

Su Zhan’s expression instantly changed. Every time he heard Lin Xinyan’s name, he couldn’t help but think of Qin Ya.

Looking down at the floor sheepishly, he mumbled, “Then I’ll take my leave first.”

After Qin Ya left, Su Zhan had drowned himself in work in order to forget her. When he had free time, he stayed at home to accompany his elderly grandmother. After bumping into Lin Xinyan at the airport the other day, he hadn’t seen her again.

Lin Xinyan and Qin Ya were bosom friends. When he saw Qin Ya, Su Zhan couldn’t help but be reminded of Qin Ya too.

Shen Peichuan shot him a look. “Haven’t you gotten over that woman already?”

Why does Su Zhan still look as though he’s holding a horrible grudge against Lin Xinyan?

“No, I…”

“Alright, alright. Everyone’s just trying to help you out. Come with me and say hello to Xinyan.” As he spoke, Shen Peichuan threw his arm around Su Zhan and practically dragged him into the room.

After being interrupted by Su Zhan, Shen Peichuan had completely forgotten about giving Zong Jinghao a call.

Lin Xinyan was the only person in the room when they went in. She was barefoot and curled up in a corner of the sofa, nursing the glass of wine in her hand.

The two men exchanged a glance. Their gaze fell on Lin Xinyan, and they scurried to sit down on the sofa.

Su Zhan spoke first. “Hello, Xinyan.”

Lin Xinyan looked up and finally noticed that two other people had entered the room. “Did Peichuan tell you to come?”

Su Zhan sat down on the sofa next to hers. “No, we bumped into each other at the front door.”

Lin Xinyan hummed in acknowledgment but didn’t ask why the both of them had bumped into each other at the front door.

Shen Peichuan had told her that he was going to the toilet. If that were true, he wouldn’t have passed by the front door at all. However, there was a more pressing matter on Lin Xinyan’s mind, so she didn’t realize that there was something fishy about the men’s story.

Su Zhan and stayed

preoccupied as well. After Qin Ya left, he had been living in guilt. Because of his ineptitude, he had caused her to miscarry

wine trickled out, striking the sides

from Su Zhan. Instead, she said plainly, “Qin Ya is

lowered his head. When he finally spoke, his voice sounded a little hoarse. “Knowing that she’s doing well makes me feel

has probably made

health.” Su Zhan

her glass as well and clinked it against Su Zhan’s. The

downed the entire glass of

down half the glass flew right out of the window. Enduring the burning sensation as the wine fizzled down her throat, she forced down the entire glass in

though her entire gullet was

frowned in

anguished expression, Su Zhan finally realized

he ventured, “Xinyan, are

and gazed at the flickering candlelight. Yes, he was right—she did feel horrible. She had watched as Zhuang Zijin entered prison, becoming skinnier by the day. Upon looking at her paper-thin, sickly

occupied with taking care of her kids and advancing her career. She hadn’t had time to check in on

enough to forget about her grudge against the

but Lin Guoan had caused her so much mental and emotional anguish that it would

she had given

failed her

Jinghao?” Su Zhan thought she had gotten into another

think everyone is as hung up on the past as

Zhan was instantly annoyed. Why did Shen Peichuan have to

and his

trying to get a rise out of

it when people made fun of his attachment to

another glass of wine.

entire glass in one

set down his glass, Su Zhan refilled his. “Don’t you know how this works? If you’re punishing yourself, you need to down three

Shen Peichuan was speechless.

refuse to

just

“Alright. Isn’t it just three glasses? That won’t

your friend, I’ll take this shot with

towards him.

Su Zhan frequently butted heads, but they had