Stealing Your Heart

The boy looked up at the person who had just called him and saw a little girl standing on the opposite side of the glass. Zong Yanxi straightened up and stared directly at him. The boy took a good look at her face and realized that he had seen her before.

His mother had brought him here to meet his father. While the car was being serviced, he had seen her at the supermarket near the servicing center.

“Do you remember me?” Zong Yanxi asked, grinning broadly. It was rather strange, seeing how she managed to remember his face so clearly.

Today, she wore a red party dress with a frilly lace collar. Her hair had been done up in a ponytail, exposing her porcelain-pale cheeks. When she smiled, her eyes curved into twin crescents. She looked really pretty.

The boy didn’t say anything but made a mental note of her face immediately.

Lin Xinyan walked over to them. “Yanxi, let’s go.”

The boy glanced behind Lin Xinyan and saw an older woman wriggling her eyebrows at Aunt Yu. He quickly drew his gaze away from her and followed his father away.

Zong Yanxi stood rooted to her spot, blinking furiously. As the boy drew further and further away, she wondered gloomily why he couldn’t be bothered to even greet her. This is basic manners!

I had said hello to him, so why didn’t he at least reply?

“Oh, you’ve gotten something sweet again,” Lin Xinyan glanced disapprovingly at the doughnut on her daughter’s tray and frowned. “Having too much sugar is bad for your teeth.”

Zong Yanxi pouted. “Well, I like eating doughnuts. Besides, we don’t come to the supermarket every day. Why shouldn’t I stock up on some? When we get home, I’ll place them in the fridge so that I can have some every day.”

Lin Xinyan looked at her daughter helplessly. This girl was getting smarter by the day, and sometimes Lin Xinyan couldn’t outsmart her anymore.

“Mommy, please buy this for me.” Trying to appeal to her mother, Zong Yanxi tugged at her sleeves and pleaded cutely, “Pretty please with an icing on top?”

Lin Xinyan was left with no other choice. Sternly, she pressed forth, “Alright, but promise me that you’ll only have one per day. Don’t eat more than that.”

Zong Yanxi tried to bargain with her. “Two.”

“Then, that’s a no from me.”

Lin Xinyan turned around as she pretended to leave. Zong Yanxi immediately grabbed her sleeve again as she agreed reluctantly. “Alright, I’ll have only one each day! I’ll get the baker to put these in a bag for me.”

As soon as she spoke, Zong Yanxi dashed over to the cashier counter, as though she was afraid that Lin Xinyan would go back on her word.

Lin Xinyan smiled at her, looking a little hapless.

Zong Yanchen came over and took her hand. “Mommy, don’t you think that Yanxi has changed somehow?”

Lin Xinyan looked down at him and nodded in agreement. “Yes, she has changed. However, why do you sound sad about this?”

Zong Yanchen replied, “I don’t feel sad about it at all. However, your daughter used to be a very clingy girl in the past. That was because her father had just entered her life, and she didn’t feel secure in his love. Now that she knows that her father loves her unconditionally and will never run away, she’s starting to believe in his love. That’s why she has stopped being so clingy toward you.”

the past, her daughter

was some meaning to

her daughter’s change. Zong Yanxi had become brighter and more cheerful, as

be quiet and

son and asked. Although Zong Yanchen was very mature for his age, she didn’t want him to feel left out if she only bought something for

nothing that I want on this

instead?” Lin Xinyan asked, reading his mind. She knew that Zong Yanchen didn’t want anything to eat. On the contrary, he wanted to buy toys. More specifically, the toys that

him. Giggling a

doughnuts, they went up to the

a single chess piece for a long time despite Zong

to learn how to overcome them. Only by

ask him to play a game with me.”

her son’s head and asked if there was anything else that he wanted. He shook his head, and they went

many people in the supermarket today. The line at

Yu offered, “Why don’t you guys find a seat

Thus, she grabbed Lin Xinyan’s hand and urged, “Mommy, let’s

at a pastry shop that was

thinking. She was feeling a little peckish too, so she took her children by

on to the shopping cart, told the maid to follow after them. She was rather worried about

Zong Yanxi ordered what she fancied before she kindly ordered

had left the house in the morning, and now, it was already noontime. Lin Xinyan ordered a few snacks and told the chauffeur and the maid to have some too. The chauffeur knew how friendly she was with her employees, so he sat down, looking

the same house, and you help to take care of my kids. We’re

the maid was forced to sit down. It had barely been a few days since she had first arrived, but she could tell that these were very nice

fabulously wealthy, the mistress was kind and friendly. Besides, the maid took one look at the daughter and

Zong Yanxi would remember her. Besides, the

had been much darker. The girl probably wouldn’t remember

Zong Yanxi, the maid wondered how it was possible for a person to

quite astonishing how pretty

back to the

up a spoonful of milk pudding and placed it in the maid’s

was slightly over thirty years of age. Although she was a little

a sister. Indeed, she regarded the maid as a close family member. After all, the maid had been hired to take care of

was very quiet, and the sofas were soft and perfectly cushiony. It was the perfect place to rest their feet, after a

children ate very slowly, but the chauffeur and Aunt Wang finished their food quickly. Thus, they left the table and went to help Aunt Yu load the groceries into the car, telling her

that, all of them left the supermarket and

of the snacks that they had at the pastry shop, nobody felt particularly hungry for lunch. Lin Xinyan asked Aunt Yu to prepare lunch a little later in the afternoon. Then, she headed upstairs and flopped into

Yu and Aunt Wang started putting the fruits into the fridge. They lay some aside and washed