Quadruplets’ Charm: The Tycoon’s Hidden Heirs
Chapter 420 - 419: Inexpressible Sorrow

Chapter 420: Chapter 419: Inexpressible Sorrow

The quadruplets, hearing that mom and dad were back, immediately ran towards the front door.

They only saw the car but no one around.

Entering the hall, they ran upstairs only to be blocked by dad coming downstairs.

"Dad! Where’s mom?"

"Mom worked hard and is resting in her room, you’re not allowed to disturb her," Ye Sihan looked down at his four children from above.

"Just one peek!" Junjun said.

Ye Sihan remained unmoved, "Have you finished your homework?"

"Finished!" all four declared in unison.

"We’ll see after I check it."

In the study, Ye Sihan threw the homework in front of them, "Is this handwriting or worms? Rewrite it!"

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"Xibao, come here." Ye Sihan’s voice softened as he spoke to his daughter.

Xibao approached with hopeful eyes, "Daddy, do I have to write it too?"

"Daddy will hold you while you write."

"..." Xibao turned and walked away, "No thanks."

While the quadruplets were sobbing and wailing in the study, rewriting their homework, Ye Sihan took the dinner upstairs to attend to his wife.

Not until the next day did the quadruplets get to see their mom.

The first thing they did when they saw mom was to compete to be the first to complain.

"Dad is bullying us!"

"Made us write the homework twice!"

"Said our handwriting looked like worms!"

"So angry!"

Xing Ling listened to their young voices, struggling to keep from laughing, and took a stand with them, "That’s too much? How could handwriting look like worms? Let mommy check after you finish your homework next time."

"Okay!"

Xing Ling patted their little heads, thinking to herself how adorable they were!

She couldn’t have children herself anymore.

But with these four, she felt very fulfilled inside.

It seemed, truly, as if they were her very own.

Xing Ling didn’t go to the company with Ye Sihan during the day; she needed rest.

Otherwise, how could she withstand Ye Sihan’s relentless demands? That man turned into a beast when he went crazy!

Xing Ling was lounging on the couch at the observation deck, playing with her phone when the screen flashed—an incoming call.

It was an unsaved number. She answered, "Who is this?"

"Me? Who else than your dear aunt."

Xing Ling paused for a moment.

It was Shen Kuai’s mother.

Her own aunt, Xing Lan.

The last time Shen Kuai got thrown down the stairs by Ye Sihan, he had exploded and died instantly.

When her aunt came to Jingdu afterwards, all that was left of Shen Kuai were his ashes.

After she left with the ashes, there had been no contact, so why was she calling now?

"Don’t be nervous, I have no ill intentions. On the contrary, I’m here to tell you a secret," she said.

"What secret?"

"Aren’t you the least bit curious about your amnesia?"

"Although I don’t remember, I already know what happened back then."

"Know what? Including that you’re not from the Xing family?"

"I’m not from the Xing family? What are you talking about?"

"Back then, you were rescued by Xing Tian and Xing Yaolin, posing as the already deceased daughter of the Xing family."

"...This is getting more and more preposterous!" Xing Ling found it amusing.

Is there such good luck in this world?

Being picked up by rich people to become their daughter, their sister?

"The daughter of the Xing family committed suicide by jumping into the sea because of a broken heart. Xing Tian and Xing Yanjie went to the seaside to stop her, but they were too late. They pulled two people out of the sea, one was the real Xing Ling and the other was you. Both were rushed to the hospital but only you survived. My mother was getting on in years and I didn’t want to shock her, so we took you home instead. She wasn’t very lucid and always thought you were her granddaughter, until the day she died without knowing the truth."

Listening to Xing Lan’s unbelievable story, Xing Ling’s expression turned rigid.

"It’s bad enough you’re posing as Xing Ling, but to also receive a share of the Xing family company’s stock, it’s just absurd!" Xing Lan couldn’t swallow her bitterness. "If it weren’t for Xing Tian’s threats, I would have exposed you long ago! But what am I afraid of now? Shen Kuai is dead, killed because of you!"

"You...I don’t believe you!" Xing Ling felt the blood in her veins turn cold.

How could that be?

She is Xing Ling, isn’t she?

Her mind was a bit muddled, sometimes troubled by Xing Lan’s words, sometimes thinking of Tang Yu.

Why did she think of Tang Yu?

Was it because so many people had told her she was Tang Yu?

Was it because she saw the photograph of Tang Yu on Ye Sihan’s bedside table?

"I have some information about Xing Ling, if you want to see it, come and find me," Xing Lan said and then hung up the phone.

Xing Ling stood there, looking completely at a loss.

This was so annoying.

Ever since she had arrived in the capital, how many people had called her Tang Yu?

Ye Yuli even had her go take a paternity test.

That’s right.

The result of her paternity test had proven that she was not Tang Yu.

Then why would Xing Lan come out and say she wasn’t from the Xing family?

If she wasn’t Xing Ling, who could she be?

Had they all lost their minds?

Xing Ling returned to the master bedroom, wanting to find more photographs of Tang Yu, as if trying to prove something.

But she couldn’t even find the photograph from last time.

Where could it be?

Thinking that the place Ye Sihan spent the most time was the study, she turned and went downstairs.

After entering the study, she began searching through the drawers of the desk.

She found nothing there either.

Xing Ling sat down in the chair, feeling weak and her mind in chaos.

Then her gaze fell on the laptop in front of her.

She turned it on and entered the password.

She knew the password because she had seen Ye Sihan enter it while he was holding her.

Could it be in here?

She didn’t know how many folders she had searched, it took almost twenty minutes, but finally she found it.

Loads of videos and photographs.

All of them featured Tang Yu and the quadruplets, with Ye Sihan also in the frame.

Xing Ling watched their happy moments like a bystander.

Tang Yu’s smiles and frowns, her interactions with the quadruplets, it was almost like she was watching herself.

Xing Ling’s breathing became difficult, a dull pain in her chest.

She felt moisture on her face.

She wiped with her hand, it was tears.

Why was she crying?

Xing Ling didn’t understand.

The scenes in the video stung her eyes, her heart.

In Ye Sihan’s eyes, there was only Tang Yu, no children.

Could such focus really be easily forgotten?

Xing Ling didn’t want to watch anymore, she hurriedly closed the video, the folders, shut the laptop.

As she got up, she accidentally knocked over a file next to her.

The file dropped to the floor with a whoosh, scattering its contents.

As Xing Ling crouched down to pick it up, she saw a photo sticking out from the file.

Ye Sihan was holding the quadruplets, smaller than they were now, and was bending down to kiss Tang Yu’s lips.

This moment was frozen in time.

Xing Ling’s hands trembled slightly, unsure what to do.

There was a knock at the door, Xing Ling jumped, quickly tucked the photo back into the file, and tidied everything up.

After composing herself, she opened the door to find Butler Wen standing there.

"Madam, are you in the study?"

"Oh, I was bored and wanted to find a book to read."

"What book do you want to read? I can help you find it."

"No, they’re all the kind of books that make you sleepy." Xing Ling walked straight out.

Back in her room, Xing Ling stood there dazed.

Those videos and photographs left her heart and mind unable to make sense of it all.

Xing Ling kept telling herself, that was Ye Sihan’s past, she had her own past too.

But why did she cry watching Tang Yu in the videos?

It wasn’t jealousy, it seemed like simple sorrow.

An indescribable grief.

Could it be that Tang Yu really had something to do with her?

But the paternity test had already been done!