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.

like to act spoiled, but as she grew up, she became

seemed to know that the discussion was not benefitting her now. Her big, round eyes blinked as sadness filled her

that, she jumped down from the sofa and head into the kitchen while calling out, “Grandmother, grandmother, I want to go home. I don’t want to stay here

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

that Lin Xinyan was pregnant with another baby. She

Zong 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 more about the baby

as tears welled up in them. It only took a while before

to pick Lin Ruixi up when Zong Jinghao walked over. He

leg go and insisted, “I don’t wanna. I want

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

pried Lin Ruixi’s arms away from Cheng Yuxiu before taking the

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, “She’s still young, she’s only acting up because she’s worried about being neglected after the new baby

Ruixi said earlier as well. Lin Xinyan didn’t realize that

the sofa. Lin Ruixi was still mad at

Yuxiu nodded

Inside the study room.

but Zong Jinghao didn’t comfort her.

exhausted from all the crying. She ended

fingers against the side of his daughter’s eyes. Zong Jinghao asked, “You don’t

her head down as she fidgeted with her fingers without saying

and daddy’s love for you?” asked Zong Jinghao again as he sat his daughter up straight, so she was

tears were still hanging on the

his large palm. He promised, “You are mommy and

Lin Ruixi as she

daughter’s cheek and