Stealing Your Heart (Lin Xinyan) novel Chapter 206

Stealing Your Heart Chapter 206

Seeing that it was Zong Jinghao, Lin Xichen began to panic, wondering if he had done something wrong.

“Why are you here?”

Zong Jinghao walked over and sat down at the side of his bed, ignoring his question completely. Before Lin Xichen could move away, Zong Jinghao grabbed his shoulders and asked, “Do you hate me so much?”

“That’s not true,” Lin Xichen denied.

“I knew exactly what you have done…”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about!”

Lin Xichen shouted before Zong Jinghao could finish his sentence.

His little hands grasped the clean white sheets tightly, turning them into a crumpled mess.

How did Zong Jinghao even find out?

Zong Jinghao stroked his head. “You’re using Bai Yinning to compete with me for your mom’s attention, am I right?”

Lin Xichen’s eyes widened, and his face scrunched together comically. How did he know that?

“You’re my son,” Zong Jinghao said as he sighed.

When he heard from Bai Yinning that Lin Xinyan gave birth to the two kids after she divorced Zong Jinghao, he knew that it must have been Lin Xichen who told him about it.

That was something Lin Xinyan would never talk about, and not many people knew about it. Even Shen Peichuan and Su Zhan wouldn’t have known the full story.

Lin Xichen pursed his lips together to affirm Zong Jinghao’s suspicion.

He could bluff anyone, but never Zong Jinghao.

After all, he was his flesh and blood.

“Are you angry?” Lin Xichen asked, lowering his head and picking his fingers.

Zong Jinghao looked at him lovingly, a small smile formed on his lips. “I’m not mad. I’m just glad that you know how to take advantage of others.”

Lin Xichen got a huge shock. What was that?

He stared at his father with a bewildered look on his face.

“The highest level you could attain would be to accomplish your own goals through the hands of others. You didn’t do it properly, since I managed to see through it, but you’re not that dumb.”

When Zong Jinghao spoke, his tone was serious, yet there were hints of love lingering around his eyes.

Lin Xichen was only five, yet he could come up with such a complex scheme. That was impressing enough on its own.

Zong Jinghao held back from praising him outright since he needed to make it clear that it wasn’t enough.

If he complimented him, it would only make him complacent.

Lin Xichen huffed, not impressed with Zong Jinghao’s comment. Everyone else showered him with praises, and all he gets from his own father was not that dumb?

So he was essentially the smartest idiot?

He refused to listen to Zong Jinghao. “Of course I’m not dumb! Why don’t we have a bet?”

Zong Jinghao nodded, very much interested in his suggestion. “What do you want to bet on?”

“I wanna bet that you’ll never win Mommy’s heart back!” Lin Xichen said, raising his chin. The words you’re not that dumb had angered him completely.

He would make sure that Zong Jinghao failed!

He was such an arrogant man!

Zong Jinghao pursed his lips together and went silent. After a while, he spoke again, “Are you sure you want your mommy to be with that handicapped guy?”

“At least he’s only crippled physically, not emotionally,” Lin Xichen argued.

Zong Jinghao didn’t know how to respond to that.

Was Lin Xichen implying that he was crippled emotionally?

“Son…”

“I’m tired,” Lin Xichen said, clearly unwilling to listen to him any further.

In order to prevent Zong Jinghao from saying anything else, Lin Xichen burrowed into his blankets and closed his eyes, pretending to fall asleep.