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

another look. “Is that what your parents

it’s what I

the same woman even after so

himself unable

he said, “That doesn’t mean

you hate him or something?” Shen Xinyao raised an

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 father’s

Bai Yinning instead of his father, Zhuang Jiawen would never have

in his father’s shoes, and therefore, he dislikes

like him too

still had much

no way he would be able

Bai Yinning for his persistence. There

man who loved her since her younger days continued to love her even

the door. She looked rather solemn. He knew from years of looking at his parents that they were very much

if his mother felt something for Bai Yinning, it would be a very small bit

selfish—he wanted his mother to love only