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.

Jing should toast together. While you

That’s what I’m supposed to do.” Guan Jing said, taken

easier to 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

all that, she knew she couldn’t leave without getting Zong

years old, and you didn’t have anything to give me. No dowry, no wedding,

Zong Jinghao downed the

starting pulsating, and his Adam’s apple bobbed up and down as he spoke in a raspy voice, “I used to

today. “I…” He paused for a while and suddenly wrapped Lin Xinyan

three men before him nodded

for 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

He’d never said them out loud before this, but he had never forgotten

thousand days and nights. It wasn’t just time that had slipped by, but plenty of laughter and growth that he had failed to be there

had never experienced the anxiety and hopefulness of a soon-to-be father

what their children looked like as

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

word, what it was, or if they said

of carrying a newborn in his

or he might have been drowning in his own depressing thoughts. Either way,

ended

not

hold on to her. When he held her in his arms and felt her warm body against him,

patted him on the

her neck. “I’m

hand and guided it to his heart. “I

whispered, “I know. We still have a long way to go together,

that, she turned to the three men before her. “Can you bring him

knew now. This was all a ruse to get Zong Jinghao

the reason why – well, they still didn’t

so Shen Peichuan didn’t follow. Instead, he