Stealing Your Heart

When Lin Xinyan smiled, her crystalline eyes seemed to laugh as well. “Should I be paying my respects to them since they helped me so much through such an important situation? I can’t really drink though. Would you be willing to help me?”

As she spoke, she filled Zong Jinghao’s glass to the very brim.

Zong Jinghao glanced at the overflowing glass of alcohol before him and smirked. So this all had been a trap just for him.

He smiled tenderly. “Whatever you say.”

Su Zhan blinked. What’s going on between these two? Why are they acting all flirty?

“Jinghao, what’s-”

What’s going on?

“You must have done quite a bit to help out after that little internet incident. This is just my gratitude to you. If you aren’t willing to accept it, you don’t have to.” After she had gotten pregnant, she hadn’t looked at her phone apart from taking calls. She’d only found out because the nurse from her check-up the other day had been stealing glances at her while watching that video.

After that, she managed to direct Aunt Yu away before reading the news for herself on her phone.

Lin Xinyan’s words made it hard for Su Zhan to turn her down. He picked up the glass and eyed Zong Jinghao uneasily. Am I supposed to drink this or not?

Without further ado, Lin Xinyan passed a glass toward Jinghao. He looked at her through hooded lids. He knew what was going on, and yet he chose to play along.

This alcohol was strong and definitely burned going down. They hadn’t eaten anything yet, which made it even easier to get drunk since they were drinking on an empty stomach.

Meanwhile, Su Zhan only had a small shot glass of alcohol and he downed it in one gulp. He frowned at the spiciness of the liquor and quickly stuffed some food into his mouth in an attempt to cancel out the bitter and raw taste.

Lin Xinyan looked at Zong Jinghao worriedly. However, he was as expressionless as if he were simply drinking water. She picked up some dishes that she knew he would like and placed them on his plate. “Wash it down with this.”

Hearing that, Zong Jinghao leaned closer to her and whispered, “Feeling bad for me?”

Lin Xinyan calmed her frenzied heart and whispered back, “As if.” To prove that what she said was real, she filled Zong Jinghao’s glass once again.

and Guan Jing should toast together. While you weren’t at

what I’m supposed to do.” Guan Jing said, taken aback by the sudden

get drunk on an empty stomach. After downing two glasses of that liquor straight, Jinghao’s eyes started to become bloodshot. He looked fine, but Xinyan knew how uncomfortable he must be feeling. After all, it was terribly damaging to drink liquor with such a high alcohol content on an

she couldn’t leave without

I was 18 years old, and you didn’t have anything to give me. No dowry, no wedding, and even our marriage certificate got signed because

before Zong Jinghao downed the glass in

he spoke

“I…” He paused for a while and suddenly wrapped Lin Xinyan in his arms. “Really love

him nodded

you. You gave me Ruixi and Xichen.” He downed the fourth glass in one more shot and filled it up again. “I can’t apologize enough with just one glass, nor can I properly express how much heartache I felt all those years or my stupidity that led to all this. Thank you for raising them so

his heart. He’d never said them out loud before this, but he had

thousand days and nights. It wasn’t just time that had slipped by, but plenty of laughter and

the anxiety and hopefulness of a soon-to-be father waiting

didn’t know what their children looked

that, but he also didn’t know when his children

said their first word, what it was, or if they said “mom” or

the feeling of carrying a newborn

been drowning in his own depressing thoughts. Either way, he downed the entire bottle of liquor

ended up getting

Lin Xinyan tightly, he did not let her go

held her in his arms and felt her warm body against him, he

drunk.” Lin Xinyan patted

the crook of her neck. “I’m not drunk. I just

guided it to his heart.

Xinyan blinked at him and whispered, “I know. We still have a long way to go together, so for now,

to the three men before her.

knew now. This was all a ruse to get Zong

– well, they still

two of them were enough to carry him up, so Shen Peichuan didn’t follow. Instead, he looked at Lin