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.

could not even recall when he began feeling that way, but that smile of hers always had a

time he thought of it, he would feel

long time to clear his head and get on

The next day.

phone alarm mercilessly aroused Zong Yanxi from her sweet slumber. She answered her mobile phone in annoyance. “Hey, go check out the news!” It

“What news?” She asked.

a scandal about your ex-husband.”

Yanxi finally sat

“What scandal?” She asked.

the headlines read “President of Hengkang Group Exposed,” and the article showed an image of Jiang

Your ex-husband hits women? How violent! Did he hit you

text message, and read on. It was common knowledge that

about how Jiang Mohan slept with a woman, but refused to pay

pay money when he’s that rich? Fighting,

again, worried because Zong Yanxi had not replied to him: You aren’t

texted back: Why

you mean, why? Your ex-husband

 You’re right. He indeed is my ex-husband. I repeat, my ex-husband. Hence, it is none

a sigh of relief as he replied: Alright then.

got off

she did to her, she needed to gather evidence on

involved, fearing that her parents would find out about what she was

any footage or records of Ling Wei entering and leaving the villa where the former used to live with

time since the incident happened, the surveillance footage would be worth a look

having breakfast, she promptly

of a year, the place which used to be her residence had turned into a

the old passcode to unlock the gate. To her surprise, the gate swung right open.

a

Reality hurts.

her composure, she walked towards the door of the villa. The passcode

the villa was stone cold. A thick layer of dust

house when she had

Yanxi’s eyes

How pathetic! How foolish!

study was also the control room

three years, she knew about every little design and detail of the villa

the study, Zong Yanxi sat herself

had moved out since the divorce, the

lit up

entered the date and time of the footage she

dismay, the footage for that exact time interval had already

Wei would have cleaned up the footage

Even without that particular

to be a

made her way out, knocking a book