Stealing Your Heart (Lin Xinyan) novel Chapter 21

Stealing Your Heart Chapter 21

Lin Xinyan came to the hospital and saw He Ruize sitting at the corridor outside the rooms. His hands were placed on his knees, his back arched, and he seemed to be thinking.

He did not even realize that Lin Xinyan was already standing beside him.

“What are you thinking about?”

He Ruize looked up. He kept his emotions to a minimal when he saw it was Lin Xinyan. He looked towards the room and said, “Your mother’s moody.”

“Alright, take a rest, I’ll stay here.” Lin Xinyan was prepared.

He Ruize glanced at her stomach. “You need rest too.”

“Don’t worry, I can take care of myself.” Lin Xinyan gave him an effortless smile.

He Ruize nodded after a moment of silence. “Call me if there’s anything you need.”

Lin Xinyan hummed as an answer. He Ruize stood and walked out. Looking at his back, Lin Xinyan pursed her lips. Despite knowing him for a long time, she still did not know anything about him. She knew nothing about his family nor his background.

He was obviously thinking hard about something earlier, or else he would not have spaced out.

At this moment, He Ruize stopped and turned around to look at Lin Xinyan. “I heard from those woman. Someone had bribed them to say those things and splash paint on your house.”

Lin Xinyan nodded.

“Alright, Ruize. You can talk to me if there’s anything you’re worrying about too.” Lin Xinyan looked at him.

“I’m good.” He Ruize chuckled.

Lin Xinyan did not press on. Everyone had something that they did not want to discuss with others.

After He Ruize left, she did not enter the room. Instead, she thought about the identity of the person who bribed those neighbors.

Lin Yuhan? Shen Xiuqing?

Although, they did not know that she was pregnant.

Then—

Crash!

Suddenly, there were shattering sounds coming from the room. Lin Xinyan’s heart dropped. She hurriedly pushed the door open and saw the broken glass cup under Zhuang Zijin’s feet. She walked over and bent down to pick up the glass fragments. “Mom, are you thirsty? Sit down, I’ll clean this up and pour for—”

Before she could finish her sentence, Zhuang Zijin grabbed onto her wrist, her expression blank. “Yanyan.”

“What’s wrong?” Lin Xinyan raised her head and looked at her mother.

Zhuang Zijin seemed conflicted; she only grabbed onto Lin Xinyan’s hand tighter. “The baby in you. Can you abort it?”

This was just the start. The baby was not going to have a father, and if the baby had blond hair and blue eyes, how would the others judge them?

Lin Xinyan knew that her mother was in a shock, but she had not thought that she would repeating about this again.

“Mom—”

Zhuang Zijin let go of her, and repeated in a trance, “You don’t want to. I know you don’t want to.”

She sat then curled up near the bedrest, and said, “I lost Xinqi, I lost Xinqi…”

Lin Xinyan was shocked and in disbelief. What— What was happening to her?

Lin Xinyan rushed to call for the doctor. Zhuang Zijin was not cooperative, and had signs of self-harming behavior, so the doctor gave her a sedative.

“My preliminary judgment is that the patient might be having a psychological disorder.” The doctor said after checking her.

Lin Xinyan swayed, and only when she used her both hands to hold onto the wardrobe then could she stand still.

“Why is it so serious?”

“Have your mother ever undergo any psychological trauma? This doesn’t happen after one trauma, only when everything is accumulated in her mind, then would this happen.”

Lin Xinyan’s lips trembled. Ever since her mother was sent out of the country by Lin Guoan, she had never smiled; surely she was traumatized. After that, her younger brother was born with autism. Her brother died and she was pregnant. These were all traumatic events for her.

This was the last straw.

Her endurance had reached its limit. If anyone were to touch the fragile string in her heart, she would lose control.

“How— How do you treat this?” Lin Xinyan’s words were incoherent. She was just holding on purely on willpower.