Quadruplets’ Charm: The Tycoon’s Hidden Heirs
Chapter 385: Visible but Untouchable

Chapter 385: Chapter 385: Visible but Untouchable

After the waiter left, Wu Qianqian asked, "Now that the filming is done, when are you leaving? I heard the director and the others have already gone back."

"Why does it sound like you’re eager for me to leave?" Xing Ling asked without betraying any emotion.

"Not at all, I was just asking casually."

"What do you want to talk to me about?" Xing Ling got straight to the point.

She didn’t want to beat around the bush.

"Ling sister, do you like Sihan?" Wu Qianqian bluntly said. "Could you please not compete with me for him? I really love him very much."

Her eyes were pleading, nearly crying—a pitiful look.

As if Xing Ling had done something unforgivable.

"I’ve always thought of you, Ling sister, as a good person, someone who would never want to ruin my relationship with Sihan. You have everything, a family that loves you, countless resources. And I have nothing, only Sihan, do you really want to see me left with nothing at all?"

"I don’t know what you’re talking about." Xing Ling picked up her coffee to drink, a sign of trying to conceal something.

"Sihan told me everything."

"Told you what?"

"He said... that he booked a room in the hotel, and it was an accident that he ended up in bed with you."

Xing Ling’s face stiffened, her fingers whitened from the force of her grip on the coffee cup.

Ye Sihan... had actually told Wu Qianqian even about such a thing, but why?

Telling her so easily, wasn’t that showing too little respect for her?

As if Ye Sihan had merely found a prostitute.

"I forgave him, because I love him too much," Wu Qianqian said. "Sister, do you understand how I feel? When I found out he had been with you, my heart almost broke, but there was nothing I could do but accept it. He has promised me, he won’t make such a mistake again. But I still can’t help worrying, that’s why I came to you..."

Xing Ling felt that she was the one whose heart was truly broken.

She hastily set down her coffee cup, "I have something to attend to, I must go."

She fled in near panic.

If she listened any longer, she feared she would lose her composure.

After leaving the cafe, with the stream of cars coming and going on the road, she felt short of breath, as if struck down by some serious illness.

Ye Sihan and Wu Qianqian vowed to make no more mistakes, yet Wu Qianqian worried about being seduced by her, which is why she had pleaded.

And her, how much like a clown she seemed.

Xing Ling took out her phone and called Xing Yanjie, "Second brother, see if there are any tickets available for today. I think it’s better to go back, it’s boring to stay here."

"Alright."

Xing Ling didn’t doubt Wu Qianqian’s words at all, because the only ones who knew about her sleeping with Ye Sihan were themselves.

If Ye Sihan hadn’t told Wu Qianqian, how would she have known!

Xing Ling felt incredibly pained, forcing a laugh while tears welled up in her eyes.

It was her first time in bed with a man, and the first time she’d been emotionally moved by one, yet this was the outcome.

That very afternoon, Xing Ling was on the plane heading home.

It was a business class seat.

Xing Yanjie sat next to her, "Why do you seem so troubled?"

"Not at all," Xing Ling denied.

"Don’t want to leave?"

"No," Xing Ling said.

She was just hurt by Ye Sihan.

Who would have known, coming to Jingdu to shoot a movie, she’d encounter so many troubles!

Lost her body, lost her heart, truly tragic.

The Xing Family residence was a scenic and luxurious villa.

Behind the villa, there was also a grapevine yard, which provided fresh grapes every summer season.

Upon entering, she saw Xing Tian coming down the stairs with one hand in his pocket.

His tall stature, mature and stable presence, and a face that was infuriatingly handsome.

"Big brother, you’re at home?" Xing Ling was surprised.

Xing Yanjie, who was behind her carrying things, said, "Know you’re coming back and still stay at the company? Is that reasonable?"

"Second brother, don’t be too ridiculous," Xing Ling was somewhat speechless.

Xing Tian approached Xing Ling, looking at her face, "You’ve lost weight. Seems like your second brother hasn’t taken good care of you."

"He took care of me. Also, I haven’t lost even a pound, big brother must be mistaken."

"Getting sick, what’s that about? I don’t remember the weather in Jingdu being that cold," Xing Tian sharply remarked.

"It was just... caught a cold from sweating after exercising, an accident."

Xing Tian’s gaze was slightly intense, but he didn’t expose her.

After all, Xing Yanjie had told him everything that happened at the Ye Mansion.

"Go rest," Xing Tian said.

"Okay." Xing Ling went to her upstairs room.

Hearing the door close, Xing Yanjie said, "Still have to go there after finishing the filming."

"It’s inevitable. Even if we don’t go, Ye Sihan will come looking for us."

"I regret letting her act in the movie now. If she had to film, she shouldn’t have gone to that place in the capital," Xing Yanjie said.

That way, there would be no need to worry about Xing Ling regaining her memory; she could live carefree.

"No leads on the reason Tang Yu jumped into the sea?"

"No one knows. That special assistant by Ye Sihan’s side is very tight-lipped; you can’t even coax half a word out of him," Xing Yanjie said. "I think it must be a love affair, there’s no shortage of women around Ye Sihan."

Xing Tian’s expression was grave, quite unpleasant.

When Xing Ling returned to her room, there was a sense of solidity.

The first thing she did was take a bath, then she lay down on the bed, very comfortable.

After calming herself for a while, she picked up her phone beside her and browsed through the call log and text messages.

There was nothing. She left without a trace.

It was as if she didn’t even have the value of a body double anymore.

Ye Sihan had taken her body, then failed to recognize her once out of bed.

She didn’t know what time she had fallen asleep when her phone kept ringing by her ear.

She groped for her phone in a daze, listless, "Hello..."

"Mommy!"

Xing Ling’s eyes slowly opened, her consciousness gathered, "Quadruplets?"

"Mommy, where are you? Why aren’t you coming to see us?"

"I’m at home, I’ve returned," Xing Ling said.

"What!?" Junjun shouted loudly.

Xing Ling’s eardrums were almost ruptured.

"Mommy, do you not want us anymore?"

"How could you just leave like that?"

The crying was almost incessant.

Xing Ling’s voice was gentle yet firm, "Um... there’s some urgent matter here waiting to be handled; as soon as it’s done, I’ll come to find you, okay?"

"Really?"

"Of course!"

"When will that be?"

"Hmm... it’s going to take a few days," Xing Ling said, already being very conservative.

"Where are you, Mommy? We want to come to you!"

"It’s a bit far from here, and you kids need to go to school."

"Don’t want to go to school!"

"Don’t feel like studying without Mommy!"

Xing Ling was sweating; this was getting serious!

She thought, it was a good thing she had left directly; otherwise, how could she have left with them acting like this?

"Mommy, we miss you," the whiny voice said.

"I miss you too. Can you please be good for now?" Xing Ling could only coax them. "Anyway, you can give me a call directly when you miss me, okay?"

"We can see you but can’t touch you."

Xing Ling almost laughed, amused by them; where did they learn that?

"Just hold on a little longer, okay? I love you."

The quadruplets muttered to themselves, their little cheeks blushing at the ’love’ their mother had expressed.

Xing Ling glanced at the bedside clock; it was nearly midnight.

It was daytime over there in the capital.

After chatting for a while, the quadruplets showed no intention of hanging up.