Stealing Your Heart

Zong Yanxi was extremely nervous as she stood there, wondering how she was supposed to face the man. She did not have to wait long for the door to open.

The man standing before her was someone who had watched her grow up.

A year was not a long time but neither was it very short. A lot of things had happened during that time. Having seen the darker side of humanity, she had changed significantly. She was not the same innocent woman that she was back then.

Dressed in a suit, Guan Jing looked pretty much the same as she remembered him since young. The only difference was the wrinkles on his face, signs of the passage of time.

He moved aside slightly so she could enter. “Come in.”

Biting her lip, Zong Yanxi greeted him softly, “Uncle Guan.”

He grunted in reply.

She stepped inside his room, noting how the layout was exactly the same as hers.

“I…”

“Just ask what you want to know,” he directly stated. He sighed and continued in a gentler tone, “You little brat, you made all of us worry so much. As they say, wisdom comes with age. You refused to listen to us back then and look where that’s gotten you!”

She bowed her head, already expecting he would lecture her.

“Uncle Guan.” She lifted her head to smile at him. “Can we not talk about the past anymore?”

He sat down. “Finally realized what was going on, have you? Then let me handle this matter. You should go back-”

“Uncle Guan,” she cut him off. “How could I let you clean up the mess I made? I’m a grown adult now. I can settle my own problems.”

He watched her for several long seconds, his gaze causing a shiver to run down her spine.

“Uncle Guan?”

He stood up and walked toward a locked cabinet. Taking out a USB drive, he handed it to her.

She accepted it, asking, “What is it?”

for yourself.” He pushed his laptop

plugged in the USB drive and

played the video inside, her

“Isn’t this…”

Ling Wei abducting her from the villa one

you get this?” she

Luckily, someone managed to save you. You even had him tamper with the evidence so that you could fake your death. However, has it never occurred to you whether that man had the means and

had not expected that Gu Xian would be able

thought about that after she had already enlisted Gu

about the man and the woman who died

said that it was a man and a woman to cover up your fake death.” Guan Jing could still remember the terrifying look on Zong Jinghao’s face back then. He had been

seen

men die in the fire was merely to give them a taste of what it was like to be

reason we didn’t move against Ling Wei was because of you.” He took

gathered the evidence showing her

had wanted to tell her the truth. However, their talks always ended on a sour note as she refused to listen

she really did love Jiang Mohan. The rest of the world could have burned down around her for all

for telling her

of this, Zong Jinghao had done a lot of things, such as leaving Wanyue Group to her. Unfortunately,

Group was nothing more than an empty shell as it

into Rui Mei successfully. Her being in charge of dealing with Hengkang

Guan Jing was in charge of Rui Mei nor that it was

“Actually, what happened might have been for the best. If not for what you’d gone through, how would you have understood how sinister humans could be?

hide the

it safer for you now

the only reason that Zong Jinghao had helped her in covering up the truth that she

dead, nobody would be out to get her when she came back to the city. She would be safe and

Mr. Zong most definitely did not expect that there would be such a scheming and wicked woman by his side. Your mother has been giving your

her lips

happened at the charity gala?” Guan Jing decided to tell her everything. “We found that ring

time. “You were the one who

that he would lose his humanity. Thankfully, it would seem that he’s not completely heartless. I still managed to trick quite a hefty sum from him, which I donated to those in need.”