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.”

know what to think of her two children. In the past, her daughter had been the cute

there was some meaning to her

Yanxi had become brighter and more cheerful, as she seemed

quiet and meek. Perhaps

for his age, she didn’t want him to feel left out if she only bought something for his sister. It wouldn’t be any

want on this floor,”

the third floor instead?” Lin Xinyan asked, reading his mind. She knew that Zong Yanchen didn’t want anything to eat. On the contrary, he

him. Giggling a little, he muttered,

they went up to

touch a single chess piece for a long time despite Zong Qifeng’s coaxing. However, he finally thought things

life, but he had to learn how to overcome them. Only by doing

him to play a game with me.” Zong Yanchen

there was anything else that he wanted. He shook his head, and they went downstairs

many people in the supermarket today. The line at the counter stretched out to

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

around aimlessly too. Thus, she grabbed Lin

jabbed a finger at a pastry shop that was

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

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

sold all sorts of fresh juices and coffees. Zong Yanxi ordered what she fancied before she kindly ordered two glasses of juice for the

the maid to have some too. The chauffeur knew how friendly she was with her employees, so he sat down, looking rather nonplussed. However, the maid seemed a little more reluctant.

explained, “We all live in the same house, and you help to take care of my kids. We’re not strangers, so there’s no need to behave like one. Come on,

It had barely been a few days since she had first arrived, but

friendly. Besides, the maid took one look at the daughter and knew that she had seen her somewhere

in passing, so it was unlikely that Zong Yanxi would remember her.

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

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

quite astonishing how

Xinyan made her way back to the table with a

of milk pudding and placed it

she was a little

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

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

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 to go into the pastry shop to have

that, all of them left the supermarket and returned

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 bed— it had been a long morning, and she

into the fridge. They lay some aside and washed them for the kids to