Stealing Your Heart

However, He Ruize didn’t stop. Instead, he continued walking towards her.

Lin Xinyan continued backing away. She was so frightened that her face had lost its color completely, and it now looked like a blank piece of paper.

How did he manage to get out?

She suddenly felt a scream rise to her throat. It was getting harder and harder for her to breathe.

“Are you surprised to see me?” He Ruize asked, giggling maniacally.

He Ruize was much scarier now than he had been when he kidnapped her.

Lin Xinyan forced herself to calm down. Trying to keep her composure, she warned, “Don’t you dare come over. If you take one more step towards me, I’m going to scream for someone!”

“Haha!” He Ruize burst into laughter, as though he was trying to tell her that he wasn’t scared of anyone.

When he wasn’t paying attention to her, Lin Xinyan groped around her pockets and realized that she had left her phone in the room. There was only the toilet behind her—she had no way of escape now.

She gazed at He Ruize. “What do you want to do to me?”

He Ruize laughed again. “Do you know something? He Ruilin is dead.”

The last time Lin Xinyan heard of her, He Ruilin had been locked up in prison.

How could she have died?

“Zong Jinghao framed her for killing someone and got her locked up. Unable to stand life without her freedom, she committed suicide in jail.” He Ruize gritted his teeth, a look of anger flashing across his brutal face. “Because of my sister and I, the entire He family got implicated and lost our repute. We became the laughing stock of the entire B City! Awful, isn’t it!”

“You brought this upon yourself! Nobody made you do it—those who live by the sword die by the sword! You know that perfectly well!” Lin Xinyan retorted as she glanced around frantically, trying to find something she could protect herself with. Other than the flower pot by the wall, there was nothing else on the corridor.

“Yan, you’re very cruel to me. Do you really think you had no part to play in this?” He Ruize walked even closer to her. “If you got together with me instead of flirting with Zong Jinghao, he would have gotten married to my sister, and we would all have gotten our happy endings! But being the wretch you are, you had to go and flirt with another man—my sister’s man! You threw a wrench in my plans and caused our happy ending to turn into this tragedy. It’s all your fault!”

He was only two steps away from her now.

Lin Xinyan couldn’t sit still and wait for someone to rescue her any longer. She tried to escape through the gap between He Ruize and the wall. However, the moment she moved, He Ruize shot forward and pounced onto her.

Lin Xinyan screamed, “Shen Pei… Ahh!”

yell for help, He Ruize clamped his

eyes were

are you so scared?” He Ruize whispered into her ear. “I won’t hurt

Lin Xinyan shivered uncontrollably.

arm still clamped over her mouth, she

kiss to her neck. Lin Xinyan froze in horror—her entire stomach started churning again,

tried

my touch disgust you that

crack in his

even further, grabbing hold of her face and pressing kisses all over it. Lin Xinyan struggled, but he was much stronger than her;

suddenly realized that there was something hanging from He

wildly and saw that it

pressed it against He Ruize’s stomach.

a second before laughing. “You don’t

pulling

was only one thought in her mind—she couldn’t let He Ruize

Bang!

a loud crack, she fired a bullet into

He looked down and saw a huge red stain spreading over the thin fabric of his

cruelly. “I know where your kids’ kindergarten is. I’ll

the line when he brought her children into this matter. Lin Xinyan would never allow anyone to hurt

“How dare you!”

He Ruize pressed a hand to his injury. His brows were covered in sweat, and there was a tremor in his voice that wasn’t there a minute

Xinyan looked at him with red eyes. She continued pointing the gun at him but refused to pull

to her room swung open. The gunshot had alerted Shen Peichuan and Su Zhan, and they quickly dashed out of the room to see what was going on. Seeing the gun in Lin Xinyan’s hand, they knew that something was terribly wrong and ran up to

“Xinyan…”

himself upon Lin Xinyan. Grabbing her arm, he pointed the gun at himself and

“Ah!”

“A murder has happened!”

Ruize looked at Lin Xinyan and laughed. His legs finally gave way, and

pool of blood started forming

daze. She

something was amiss. He Ruize had been locked up in jail with Shen Peichuan’s men guarding him day and night. There was