Stealing Your Heart

“Well, so is this true?” Zhuang Jiawen looked at his siblings and pressed, uncharacteristically interested in this little bit of gossip. He wanted to understand what happened then.

Zong Yanxi decided to satisfy his curiosity. She replied, “Yes, he was once in love with Mom.”

“Wow, he must be pretty persistent, huh? I heard from my parents that he has no children at all. Apparently, he didn’t marry his wife out of love,” Shen Xinyao said and snuck a furtive look at Bai Yinning. Although his looks had been tempered by age, it was evident that he had been a very handsome man in his heyday.

He had a very pleasant aura as well.

“Has his leg always been that way?” Zhuang Jiawen knew the least about him, and his questions were thus the most frivolous.

“Yes,” Shen Xinyao replied.

Zhuang Jiawen shot her a glance. “How do you know everything?”

“My parents told me about it,” she answered.

“Well, what else did your parents tell you? Tell me all about it,” Zhuang Jiawen said.

Shen Xinyao shook her head and said, “Nothing else.” She paused before adding, “He wasn’t a bad person.”

all these?” If they weren’t in a mourning hall, Zhuang Jiawen would have given her cheek

shot her another look. “Is

it’s what

so constant that he loves the same woman even after so many years?

himself

long silence, he said, “That

you hate him or

Bai Yinning used to like his mother back in the day,

his mother had chosen to be together with Bai Yinning instead of his father, Zhuang Jiawen would never have

in his father’s shoes, and therefore, he

him too from his

much

be

persistence.

man who loved her since her younger days continued to

he thought, Zhuang Jiawen’s gaze fell upon Lin Xinyan, who was standing by Zong Jinghao at the door. She looked rather solemn. He knew from years of looking at his parents

for Bai Yinning, it would be a very small bit of affection compared to the love

selfish—he wanted his mother to love only his