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.

as she grew up, she became a bellyacher too. She especially liked

now. Her big, round eyes blinked as sadness filled her heart. “Mommy is so mean. Now that you have a tiny

jumped down from the sofa and head into the kitchen while calling out, “Grandmother, grandmother, I want to go home. I

to the kid who soon hugged her leg. Lin Ruixi said, “Grandmother, let’s go home. Mommy only wants the baby in

Ruixi had been terrified ever since she learned that Lin Xinyan was pregnant with another baby. She was

to Lin Xinyan, Lin Ruixi felt like she was abandoned because it seemed

her eyes reddened as tears welled up in them. It only took a while before Lin

Zong Jinghao walked over. He

Yuxiu’s leg go and insisted, “I

should hold 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

reply. He simply pried Lin Ruixi’s arms away from Cheng Yuxiu before taking the kid out of the kitchen. Lin

didn’t dare to tell Zong Jinghao to put the kid down, so she turned to Lin Xinyan instead and said, “She’s still young, she’s only acting up because she’s

pursed her lips. She was surprised by what Lin Ruixi said earlier as well. Lin Xinyan didn’t realize that Lin Ruixi thought

Xinyan before she sat down and rested on the sofa. Lin Ruixi was still mad at that moment, so it was better if

nodded in

Inside the study room.

no tomorrow, but Zong Jinghao didn’t comfort her. He simply held

crying. She ended up

then did Zong Jinghao wipe her tears off. His movements were gentle as he brushed his fingers against the side of his

she

Zong Jinghao again as he sat his daughter

tears were still hanging on the little girl’s long

her tiny back with his large palm. He promised, “You are mommy and daddy’s daughter, so we will never stop loving you. I will always want to give you the

as she tilted her head

Jinghao kissed his daughter’s cheek and