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.”

would have given her cheek a good pinch. She knew so many things, yet

Jiawen shot her another look. “Is that what your

it’s what I

man who’s so constant that he loves the same woman even after so many years? I doubt someone like

Jiawen found himself unable

a long silence, he said, “That doesn’t mean he is

or something?” Shen Xinyao raised an

like Zong Yanchen and Zong Yanxi—he had no understanding of Bai Yinning as a person. However, when he found out that Bai Yinning used to like his mother back in the day, and still continued to love her, he realized that this man had been his own

be together with Bai Yinning instead of his father,

put himself in his father’s shoes,

him too from his own point

had much

be able to wait for one

Bai Yinning for his persistence. There

his mother know about this man’s lifelong infatuation with her? If she found out that a man who loved her since her younger

was standing by Zong Jinghao at the door. She looked rather solemn. He

very small bit of affection compared to the love she felt

was selfish—he wanted his mother to love