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.”

given her cheek a good pinch. She knew so many things, yet she had never told him about any

“Is that what

what

who’s so constant that he loves the same woman even after so many

found himself unable to

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

hate him or something?” Shen Xinyao

of Bai Yinning as a person. However, when he found out that Bai Yinning used to like his mother back

together with Bai Yinning instead

put himself in his father’s shoes, and

he didn’t like him too from his own point of

had much admiration

there was no way he would be able

Yinning for his persistence.

with her? If she found out that a man who loved her since her younger days continued to love her even today, would she

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

it would be a very small bit of affection compared to the love she felt for her

selfish—he wanted his mother to love only