Stealing Your Heart

Jiang Mohan walked towards Zong Yanxi as he turned to glance at the movie posters at the entrance of the cinema.

“Are you here alone?” He asked.

Zong Yanxi chuckled, “There isn’t anyone else here to keep me company, is there?”

“Which one did you watch?” For some reason, he felt curious about it.

There were three new movies being screened that month, including those of the sci-fi and romance genres.

Zong Yanxi turned around to look at him. “Lovestruck,” she said.

“Ms. Lin, do you have a boyfriend?” Jiang Mohan asked again.

“President Jiang, you seem to be really interested in my personal affairs,” Zong Yanxi laughed.

Jiang Mohan felt a little embarrassed.

His questions seemed to come to mind naturally, and he simply asked without thinking twice.

“Sorry about that.” He pulled a serious face. “It’s getting pretty late. You should go back soon and have a good rest,” he said, walking off to his car.

Zong Yanxi stayed put. As she watched him leave, she suddenly called out to him, “President Jiang, have you ever been in love?”

Jiang Mohan stopped in his tracks, turning around.

“I know that this is not related to work, so there’s no need to answer me. It was a good movie by the way. If you have the time, it might be good entertainment for you,” she continued before walking off.

At that moment, she could not help but wonder if he had ever felt attracted to her in the days that they had spent together.

Does it really matter though? Like that would change a thing.

She smiled bitterly and took a deep breath.

Jiang Mohan simply stood there. The poster for the movie “Lovestruck” caught his eye.

It seemed to depict a love story between two childhood friends.

He shifted his gaze towards Lin Ruixi, but he could somehow see the shadow of another woman on her.

No, that’s Lin Ruixi! Why am I always seeing things?

He was sick of feeling that way. She is irreplaceable. I shouldn’t feel that way.

Even as he got in his car, he turned back again to look at that poster. Memories flooded his mind.

He first met her at a very young age.

She had a smile that warmed his heart like rays of sunshine.

Jiang Mohan’s eyes darkened with a tinge of passion and love that he was unaware of.

even recall when he began feeling that way, but that smile of hers always had a place in his

it, he would feel

time to clear his head and get on his

The next day.

her sweet slumber. She answered her mobile phone

“What news?” She asked.

a scandal about your ex-husband.” Gu Xian

finally sat up, rubbing

“What scandal?” She asked.

headlines read “President of Hengkang Group Exposed,”

afterwards: What? Your ex-husband hits women? How violent! Did he

message, and read on. It was common knowledge that tabloids would

woman, but refused to pay her the amount she had in mind, causing things to end up in

rather amused. Refusing to pay money when he’s that rich? Fighting, even. How

replied to him: You aren’t feeling upset about this, are

texted back: Why would I feel

why? Your ex-husband is hooking up with

He indeed is my ex-husband. I repeat, my ex-husband. Hence,

relief as he replied: Alright then. Have a

got off her bed. She had work

for what she did to her, she needed

Yanxi had no leads, and dared not contact those people involved, fearing

for any footage or records of Ling Wei entering and leaving the villa where the

incident happened, the surveillance footage would be worth a look because the place had a top-notch security

she promptly left

place which used to be her residence had turned into a wasteland.

the gate swung right open. Jiang Mohan did not change the passcode when

the courtyard, fleeting memories of the past flashed through her mind. Once upon a time, she genuinely believed that she would happily spend the rest of her life with him

Reality hurts.

the door of the villa. The

cold. A thick layer

to be her dream house when she had just

eyes

How pathetic! How foolish!

The study was also the control room for the security

she knew about every little

study, Zong Yanxi sat herself down

moved out since the divorce, the water

screen lit up in an

accessed the records of the security system, and entered the date and time of the

footage for that exact time interval had already been

Wei would have cleaned up the footage to hide

a perfect crime. Even without

to

the computer, she hastily made her way out, knocking a book off the