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

look. “Is that what

it’s what

the same woman even after so many years?

Jiawen found himself unable

long silence, he said, “That doesn’t

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

together with Bai Yinning instead

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

him too

had much admiration for

be able to wait

persistence. There were few

who loved her since her younger days continued to love her even today, would she feel for

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

something for Bai Yinning, it would be a very small bit

wanted his mother to