Stealing Your Heart (Lin Xinyan) novel Chapter 930

Zong Yanxi let out a sigh. “You have a lot on your plate, and yet you still show concern for me.”

Suddenly, she looked up at him. “You don’t have a crush on me, do you?”

Zong Yanxi teased him on purpose in an attempt to release her pent-up feelings.

Gu Xian evaded eye contact with her as he replied with a smile, “I like young girls, not older women.”

Zong Yanxi was rendered speechless.

“I don’t look old, do I?”

“But you don’t look young, either.”

Pretending to be angry, Zong Yanxi retorted, “Don’t walk next to me from now on, just in case others mistake me for your aunt.”

Gu Xian chortled. “Are you angry?”

“Will you be happy if I say that you look like an old man?” Zong Yanxi asked rhetorically.

“I really want to be an old man, but do you think I can hide my youth and beauty?”

Gu Xian had once again left her speechless.

“What a narcissist,” Zong Yanxi couldn’t help but roast him.

Grinning, Gu Xian turned her head to face him. “Tell me honestly, am I handsome?”

Zong Yanxi slapped his hand away. “If you want to speak, go ahead. Don’t touch me.”

It was Gu Xian’s turn to be at a loss for words.

“It’s getting late. You should go back,” declared Zong Yanxi as she rose to her feet. She wanted to be alone to clear her head.

Gu Xian glanced at her and replied, “Okay, I’ll leave first then. Feel free to call me if you need me.”

“Okay,” Zong Yanxi agreed.

After Gu Xian left, she lay on the bed without washing up. After a long while of tossing and turning, she was still unable to fall asleep, so she got up to revise the proposal.

Zong Yanxi had started working on this proposal even before she came back. It was deemed a flawless proposal after numerous revisions and confirmations. Any further revision meant that she would have to give up on her original plan and redo the proposal from a new perspective.

Time seemed to pass quickly when she was drowned in work.

She did not even know when the sun was up, and grew so drowsy that she fell asleep at the table in the end.

When it was almost noon, her phone rang and woke her up. Feeling groggy, she felt for her phone and glanced at the screen. It was an MMS. She clicked on it and saw a photo from Zhuang Jiawen.

Seeing the people in the photo, she instantly became awake. Rubbing her eyes, she studied the photo carefully.

The photo was taken at the dining table with four people in it: Zhuang Jiawen, Shen Xinyao, and her own parents who were sitting together at the head of the table.

In the photo, Lin Xinyan was dressed in a traditional Thai costume. Lin Xinyan had not liked to wear makeup since young. Her habit remained and she still had her fair skin today, with the only change being the appearance of some fine lines around her eyes.

Her eyes told of her own story, but there was no sign of aging on her face. This was all because Zong Jinghao had given her a comfortable life.

When Zong Yanxi was ten years old, Lin Xinyan had an unplanned pregnancy. As her health had been negatively impacted when she gave birth to Zhuang Jiawen, the doctor said that she could not have any more children.