Stealing Your Heart

Perhaps their ill-fated romance had been ordained by the gods. No matter what, they were humans after all, and nothing they did could’ve prevented the untimely end of their relationship.

“Xichen and Ruixi will be heading off to primary school soon, right? It’s time to bring her back and live out the rest of our lives together.”

Their children weren’t to blame for the grudges they harbored towards each other in the past. Naturally, the blame wasn’t their children’s to shoulder.

Ever since he found out from Bai Yinning that Lin Xinyan had left, Zong Qifeng had constantly been on edge. He was afraid that his son would do something he would regret in the future.

Zong Qifeng had tasted bitter regret before, and he didn’t want Zong Jinghao to follow him down the same slippery path.

Zong Jinghao continued, his voice quavering a little, “I wonder if she hates me. She’s been gone for so long, but she has never visited me in my dreams.”

The older man didn’t reply. Instead, he continued standing silently and listening to him.

A gust of wind blew through the garden, sending the trees rustling noisily as their branches danced in the breeze.

Time had simply flown by. The sun, which had been high up in the sky the entire day, had disappeared behind a mountain in the west. The mountain blocked out the rays of the sun, finally allowing dusk to settle over the city.

The father and son stayed in the room for a long time, with nobody coming in to disturb them. When it was dinnertime, however, Zong Jinghao finally exited the room by himself.

Cheng Yuwen had prepared dinner and set the dishes down on the round table in the courtyard. Zong Yanxi ran over to Zong Jinghao and tugged at his hand. “Daddy.”

Zong Jinghao caressed her hair lightly.

“Come and have dinner with us,” Zong Yanxi said, dragging him over to the table.

Buzz—

At that moment, Zong Jinghao’s phone started vibrating, signaling that he had an incoming call. Telling his daughter to sit down first, he walked to a corner and took out his phone. Shen Peichuan was calling him. Zong Jinghao accepted his call and brought the phone to his ear.

other end of the line, Shen Peichuan said, “Wen Qing’s sentence

according to the law. When the judicial court launched its own investigation, they quickly realized that the car accident had been caused

two-year suspended sentence,” said

crimes have severely tainted the image of the civil service in the eyes of the public, not to mention the damage caused to its reputation. For that, you deserve to be punished severely. However, considering that you surrendered yourself to the police, confessed your wrongdoings, apologized to the public and showed a willingness to turn over a new leaf, we have opted to lighten your sentence. You are hereby sentenced to a two-year suspended sentence, and you will not be able to take up a job in the civil service for the

didn’t seem affected by this news at all. Showing

authorities have meted out similar penalties to Wen Qing, but…

out Gu Bei first, and as such, he was the mastermind behind the crimes. Besides, Gu Bei wasn’t the one who had hired the gangsters to hijack the

video of the clandestine meeting between the assistant manager and the gangsters. He had even managed to get a recording of the assistant manager saying that Gu Bei had sent him there.

had made use of his connections with the higher-ups to ensure that Gu Bei would escape

to open a highly-publicized nightclub had to be

him. Will

into their trap this time. Knowing Gu Bei, there

his movements. We’ll make further plans when

“Okay.”

words had struck a chord in him. Even while Zong Jinghao was seeking revenge

approach, Cheng Yuwen pulled out his chair for him. “It’s

him before sitting down on the

have to be so polite in your own house.” Cheng Yuwen passed him a pair

me know.” Zong Jinghao took the pair of chopsticks from him. “From now on, my father will be living here

Qifeng had asked to stay with them for the time being. His body was in good shape,

your father like an outsider. Even if there’s no real love between him and my sister, they’ve been married for

felt a lump in his throat. Twenty years wasn’t a long time,

him a glass of wine. “Actually, there’s something I need to

glass too. Although he was holed up in this tiny town of Baicheng, Cheng Yuwen kept perfect tabs on what was going on in the outside

weaving, and Tea Silk was finally invented around my grandfather’s time. By the time the trade was passed on to my father, Tea Silk had gained quite a reputation for itself. During my father’s time, the standard of living in the

this beautiful, idiosyncratic fabric.

of the original experts of Tea Silk,