Quadruplets’ Charm: The Tycoon’s Hidden Heirs
Chapter 399 - 398: You’re Hurt

Chapter 399: Chapter 398: You’re Hurt

Initially, the Xing family knew that they were bringing Xing Ling home to impersonate their daughter.

They didn’t disclose it only because they were threatened by Xing Tian.

That was just on the surface, but they were provoking at every turn, waiting for an opportunity to strike.

Otherwise, Shen Kuai wouldn’t have watched Xing Ling so closely when she came to the capital to film.

Xing Ling didn’t take Shen Kuai seriously and just went back to her room to be upset.

She didn’t know how to handle her relationship with Ye Sihan anymore.

Should they just break up?

But were they even together? They weren’t even qualified to break up.

Especially since Ye Sihan had said that once she regained her memory, he would let her go.

The more Xing Ling thought about it, the sadder she became; she wiped her tears with her blanket.

She didn’t want to deal with Ye Sihan anymore!

How could he be so excessive!

When night fell, Xing Yanjie came in to call her for dinner and found that she had already fallen asleep.

Then he noticed new love bites on the inside of her neck.

That Ye Sihan, what a bastard!

She slept straight through till the next morning, only stirring awake then.

Her mood hadn’t improved from sleeping.

A knock on the door sounded, and it was Xing Yanjie’s voice outside, "Ling, are you awake?"

Xing Ling got out of bed and opened the door, "Second Brother."

Xing Yanjie observed her mood and said, "Breakfast is ready, go freshen up."

"Oh."

Sitting at the dining table, Xing Ling tried to peel a boiled egg, struggling to even make a small crack after a long while.

Xing Yanjie took the egg and helped her peel it, "Did you sleep well last night?"

"Mhm."

"Don’t wander off these few days, and if you go out, have Second Brother accompany you."

"Why? It’s just a breakup, not a mental breakdown," Xing Ling took a bite of the peeled egg she received.

"I’m talking about Shen Kuai."

"What does he have to do with anything?"

"He’s psychologically disturbed."

"What?" Xing Ling didn’t know much about Shen Kuai, only that he always seemed to have a strange look in his eyes.

She just thought that’s how he was naturally.

"He has been behaving abnormally since he was a child."

"Abnormally how?"

"Torturing cats."

"...How did I not know about this?" Xing Ling was surprised.

"Didn’t you fall into the pool and get sick with a fever, forgetting everything from before?"

"But I’m not a cat." Xing Ling muttered, feeling uneasy.

"Just don’t go out alone."

"Got it." Xing Ling wasn’t in the mood.

Since she had returned, Ye Sihan hadn’t reached out to her.

After being exposed, what was he thinking?

Did he really not care about her feelings at all?

Xing Yanjie stayed with her at home for two days, during which his phone did ring, showing Ye Sihan’s caller ID.

But Xing Ling knew that the person calling was most likely one of the Quadruplets.

Because it was seven o’clock in the evening.

She liked the Quadruplets, but she didn’t want to answer the phone, she was torn.

That day, Xing Yanjie had to leave for company affairs, leaving Xing Ling alone at home.

Sitting bored on the sofa watching TV, she started thinking about the time she watched a movie with Ye Sihan.

The heart flutter she felt when he kissed her in the darkness, how could she forget...

There was a loud thud from outside the door, as if someone had fallen over.

Xing Ling got up to check, but saw no one on the video feed.

Then she heard a cat’s meow, followed by the grating sound of claws scratching at the door.

Xing Ling felt helpless. Whose cat was it?

When she opened the door, it wasn’t a cat outside, but Shen Kuai.

He was squatting on the ground, tilting his face up with a sinister smile at her.

And on his hands, he wore gloves resembling cat claws.

Xing Ling was so frightened that she froze on the spot. Before she could react, Shen Kuai pounced towards her, covering her mouth and nose.

"Mmph!"

She smelled a pungent odor and suddenly lost all her strength as her consciousness plunged into darkness.

When Xing Ling became conscious again, she felt her wrists tied up and she looked up to see.

Both wrists were bound and hanging from a railing.

Looking down, her feet were dangling in the air, above the height of over twenty floors. She was so terrified that she almost lost her soul, screaming loudly, "Ah!! Ah—"

"Stop yelling, I’m right here!"

When Xing Ling looked up again, she saw Shen Kuai lying at ease on the railing, smiling at her, playing with a sharp fruit knife, "You... are you crazy? Pull me up!"

"Don’t you find this fun?" Shen Kuai asked.

"Help! Somebody help!" Xing Ling cried, tears streaming down, falling as if into a bottomless abyss.

She dared not move, her hands clutching the rope tightly.

She also couldn’t see anyone below passing by.

"Even if someone does find you, by the time they get up here, you’ll be gone." Shen Kuai’s knife began to cut the rope, and the rope started to fray.

"Please don’t!! I beg you!!" Xing Ling wailed, "Shen Kuai, let me go, whatever you ask I will agree to!!"

Shen Kuai stopped cutting the rope and looked at her in confusion, "What do you take me for? I won’t want anything. Just like the Xing Family’s assets, I do all this... just for fun!"

With that, he twisted into a grotesque laugh.

Xing Ling’s face lost all its color; her second brother was right, Shen Kuai truly was a psychopath!

"I haven’t offended you. Please, let me go!"

"No worries, you won’t be scared once you fall." Shen Kuai continued cutting the rope.

"No! Help! Is there anyone? Save me!!" Xing Ling cried out loudly.

Shen Kuai was quite pleased with her terrified response, deliberately cutting slowly just to hear more of her screams.

"Ah ah ah ah!" Xing Ling watched as the cut in the rope grew bigger and bigger. Despairingly, she closed her eyes, letting the tears flow.

Was she really going to die like this?

She and Ye Sihan hadn’t settled their issues yet, how could she...

When the rope was cut by two-thirds, Shen Kuai excitedly said, "It’s about to break, it’s about to break. Why aren’t you screaming? I don’t believe you won’t scream!"

The fruit knife forcefully finished the last bit, and the rope snapped with a ’snap’.

Xing Ling’s body plummeted—

"Ah!!" Just as her scream burst out, her arm was suddenly grabbed.

Her body stopped, pressed against the railing.

Xing Ling opened her panicked eyes, looked up, and met Ye Sihan’s deep and fierce black pupils.

Her eyes forgot to blink, her lips trembled, and tears crazily slid down the corners of her eyes.

"Call for... someone to help," Xing Ling’s voice shivered.

Ye Sihan didn’t call for help; instead, he pulled Xing Ling’s body, which was dangling outside, up with one hand.

This was a terrifying arm strength that ordinary people couldn’t possess.

"Ah!" Xing Ling’s legs went weak and she collapsed to the ground.

Ye Sihan held her powerless body, "It’s okay now."

Xing Ling sobbed into his chest, shaking.

Ye Sihan didn’t speak, his one arm around Xing Ling and the other holding her small hand.

Actually, his heartbeat was abnormally fast.

He was so close to not catching that hand.

Ye Sihan’s attention was all on the crying Xing Ling and he didn’t notice the movement behind him.

A vase was smashed hard onto the back of Ye Sihan’s head—

"Ugh!" Ye Sihan grunted.

The held Xing Ling looked up in shock to see blood flowing from Ye Sihan’s hair, sliding down his neck.

In a trembling voice, "Ye... Ye Sihan, you’re hurt..."

Meanwhile, Shen Kuai behind him didn’t stop. He raised his knife and stabbed towards Ye Sihan.

"No!" Xing Ling struggled to block the knife for Ye Sihan but was pushed aside.