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.”

in a mourning hall, Zhuang Jiawen would have given her cheek a good pinch.

Jiawen shot her another look. “Is that what

what I

the same woman even after so many years? I doubt someone like that could be a horrible

Jiawen found himself unable

said, “That doesn’t mean he is a

do you hate him or something?” Shen Xinyao

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

Yinning instead of

father’s shoes, and therefore,

him too from

he still had much

Jiawen knew there was no way he would be able to wait for one woman for so many

admired Bai Yinning for his persistence. There were few people

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

door. She looked rather solemn. He knew

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

selfish—he wanted his mother to love only his