Stealing Your Heart

Lin Xichen frowned. He shifted his gaze from the piano to his sister.

He shook his head exasperatedly as if he didn’t know what to do about that sister of his.

“I am truly worried about your future,” said Lin Xichen. She thinks she’s smart just because she memorized the Goose poem? That kind of low-level intelligence worries me.

“See, daddy? Xichen is looking down on me again,” complained Lin Ruixi while pouting her lips. She was hugging Zong Jinghao’s neck at the time.

Lin Ruixi was wearing an adorable dress and a pair of white socks. Because it was summer and it was getting hot, the material of her dress was soft and silky to counteract the heat. She had a ponytail on, and she looked upset as she sat on Zong Jinghao’s lap with her hands wrapped around his neck. Lin Ruixi looked like she wouldn’t let go until Zong Jinghao gave her a satisfactory reply.

Zong Jinghao chuckled. He couldn’t say no to his daughter, so he asked, “Alright, tell me what you want me to do. I’ll do whatever you ask.”

“Did your brother look down on you again?” asked Lin Xinyan as she stood by the stairs and stared at her daughter.

That kid’s getting more and more spoiled. Lin Xinyan walked down the stairs, and Zong Jinghao set his daughter down on the sofa before hurrying over to Lin Xinyan to help her. Lin Xinyan refused his offer. “There’s no need for that. I’m getting better already,” said Lin Xinyan. She had her hand on his arms when she reminded him, “You can’t keep spoiling her like that, or she will get used to it.”

“It’s fine, she’s still a kid,” replied Zong Jinghao. He thought that daughters were different from sons and that it was alright for girls to be a little spoiled.

He could afford to spoil his daughter, anyway, and he loved doing so.

Lin Xinyan glared at him. She didn’t agree with him. “That is how someone gets spoiled. It starts when they’re young. She’s about to start elementary school, and there will be many kids in her new school. Conflicts will inevitably arise. What’s she going to do then? Complain to her teachers every day? Then come home and continue complaining to us? Will that be good for her?”

Lin Xinyan wanted her kids to grow up instead of remaining as immature as a baby.

“Isn’t it right for her to complain if she is wronged?” refuted Zong Jinghao, who thought that Lin Xinyan was exaggerating, “Besides, it doesn’t matter if she doesn’t go to school. I can afford to pay for all of her expenses for the rest of her life.”

Lin Xinyan was speechless as she stared at Zong Jinghao. She frowned and pointed out, “And what happens when you grow old? Who’s going to spoil her then?”

Zong Jinghao was stumped.

but as she grew up, she became a bellyacher too. She especially liked to whine in front of

was sitting on the sofa, and she seemed to know that the discussion was not benefitting her now. Her big, round eyes blinked as sadness filled her heart. “Mommy is so mean. Now that you have a tiny baby in you, you don’t want me anymore,”

while calling out, “Grandmother, grandmother,

and Aunt Yu were busy preparing dinner at the time, so Cheng Yuxiu still had her apron on. When she heard the kid calling out to her, she turned to the kid who soon hugged her leg. Lin Ruixi said, “Grandmother, let’s go home. Mommy only wants the baby in her tummy and Xichen. She doesn’t want me anymore, so I don’t want to

learned that Lin Xinyan was pregnant with another baby. She was worried that her parents would

Jinghao set her down on the sofa to go to Lin Xinyan, Lin Ruixi felt like she was abandoned because it seemed like her daddy cared

as tears welled up in them. It only took a while before Lin Ruixi’s

Jinghao walked

Lin Ruixi refused to let Cheng Yuxiu’s leg go and insisted, “I don’t wanna.

her for a while,” suggested Cheng Yuxiu, who couldn’t bear to watch her granddaughter bawling like that. The child’s pink cheeks were puffy from her

from Cheng Yuxiu before taking the kid out of the kitchen. Lin Ruixi kept struggling and

watched as Zong Jinghao carried Lin Ruixi into the study room. She didn’t dare to tell Zong Jinghao to put the kid down, so she turned to Lin Xinyan instead and said,

said earlier as well. Lin Xinyan didn’t realize that Lin Ruixi thought she would be abandoned once the new baby

down and rested on the sofa. Lin Ruixi was still mad at that moment,

nodded

Inside the study room.

Ruixi bawled like there was no tomorrow, but Zong Jinghao didn’t comfort her. He simply

from all the crying. She ended up sobbing

off. His movements were gentle as he brushed his fingers against the side of his daughter’s eyes. Zong Jinghao asked, “You don’t like the baby in

her head down as she fidgeted

of mommy’s and daddy’s love for you?” asked Zong Jinghao again as he sat

were still hanging on the

her tiny back with his large palm. He promised, “You are mommy and daddy’s daughter, so we will

as

his daughter’s cheek