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.

began feeling that way, but that smile of hers always had

it,

took him a long time to clear his head and get

The next day.

alarm mercilessly aroused Zong Yanxi from her sweet slumber. She answered her mobile phone in annoyance. “Hey, go

“What news?” She asked.

scandal about your ex-husband.” Gu Xian sounded

finally sat up,

“What scandal?” She asked.

headlines read “President of Hengkang Group Exposed,”

followed up with a text afterwards: What? Your ex-husband hits

was common knowledge that tabloids would often blow things out

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

was rather amused. Refusing to pay money

Yanxi had not replied to him: You aren’t feeling upset about

Yanxi finally texted back:

why? Your ex-husband is hooking

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

sigh of relief as he replied:

phone and got off her bed. She

to get back at Ling Wei for what she did to her, she needed to gather evidence on the incident where she

Yanxi had no leads, and dared not contact those people involved, fearing that her parents would find

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

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

having breakfast, she promptly left her

used to be her residence had turned into

tried using the old passcode to unlock the gate. To her surprise, the gate swung

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

Reality hurts.

composure, she walked towards the door of the villa. The passcode there was also

the villa was stone cold. A thick layer of dust

her dream house when she had

Yanxi’s eyes watered

How pathetic! How foolish!

the study. The study was also the control

knew about every little

the study, Zong Yanxi sat

out since the divorce, the water and electricity

lit

security system, and entered the date and time of the footage she needed

footage for that exact time interval had already

Wei would have cleaned up the footage to

perfect crime. Even without that particular surveillance footage, she could still obtain evidence from the

has to be a

computer, she hastily made her way out, knocking a