Stealing Your Heart (Lin Xinyan) novel Chapter 1036

“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.”

“Dear me, how do you know 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 them.

Zhuang Jiawen shot her another look. “Is that what your parents think too?”

“No, it’s what I think.”

Shen Xinyao continued, “A man who’s so constant that he loves the same woman even after so many years? I doubt someone like that could be a horrible person.”

Zhuang Jiawen found himself unable to respond.

However, after a long silence, he said, “That doesn’t mean he is a good person.”

“What, do you hate him or something?” Shen Xinyao raised an eyebrow.

Zhuang Jiawen wasn’t 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 father’s love rival.

If his mother had chosen to be together with Bai Yinning instead of his father, Zhuang Jiawen would never have been born.