Quadruplets’ Charm: The Tycoon’s Hidden Heirs
Chapter 438 - 437: Did Mom and Dad Go on a Date Again?

Chapter 438: Chapter 437: Did Mom and Dad Go on a Date Again?

Xing Ling’s expression froze.

With astonishment and bewilderment.

Xing Ling didn’t know, but Tang Yu remembered.

During high school, she was lonely, and when she saw a stray cat on the roadside, she would feel pity and feed it every time she passed by.

One day, her father got drunk, locked her up,

and hit her.

She didn’t go to school for three days.

By the time she went back and passed that same path again, the stray kitten was gone.

Even the cardboard box she had made for it as a shelter had disappeared.

If it had been maliciously taken, the box wouldn’t be gone too.

She must have been adopted by a kind-hearted person.

That’s what Tang Yu thought at the time, and she couldn’t care about anything else, her sixteen or seventeen-year-old self was struggling enough.

She just never imagined that the person who adopted the cat would be Meng Jilin.

How could it be him...

When Meng Jilin looked over, Xing Ling just smiled and said nothing.

She was Xing Ling, naturally, she wouldn’t remember such a story.

She could only act as if she knew nothing.

"If that girl knew the cat was adopted by you and that you’re still taking care of the stray cat’s offspring, she would definitely be touched!" Zhou Rui said. "Haha, if that girl isn’t married, maybe a new relationship could blossom!"

Chen Xindian didn’t join in the joke, she hadn’t forgotten the look of the man hiding behind the tree branches earlier, it was terrifying.

Thinking to herself, could it have been an illusion due to the lighting?

A person who loves pets so much couldn’t possibly be like that, right?

Moreover, he was a doctor who saved lives and helped the injured.

Xing Ling’s phone rang in her hand, and upon seeing the caller ID, she immediately handed it to Xing Ling, "Miss Xing, Mr. Ye’s call."

Xing Ling snapped back to reality, took the phone, and said to Meng Jilin, "I’m glad the cat is found, thank you for today. I’ll be leaving now."

"Okay." Meng Jilin gave her a smile.

Xing Ling had walked some distance when the phone stopped ringing.

She had no choice but to call back, "Did you need me for something?"

"Why didn’t you answer the phone?"

"I was busy." Xing Ling thought Ye Sihan would inquire about the man who appeared by her side, but he didn’t, which surprised her—

"I’ll come to pick you up tonight."

"Is that what you called for?"

"You can also talk to me if you have something to say."

"I don’t." Xing Ling hung up the phone mercilessly.

She found the director and asked how much longer it would take to finish the shoot.

The director said at least twenty more days.

Truthfully, Xing Ling couldn’t bear even one more day.

Ye Sihan came early to pick her up.

After Xing Ling got into the car, they went out to a restaurant for dinner, and he didn’t mention the man who was currently at the film set.

From Chen Xindian’s description, he knew who it was.

Meng Jilin.

Meng Jilin had always harbored romantic feelings for Tang Yu, and as a man, he was very sharp in that regard.

Meng Jilin’s villa was indeed not far away.

They have been shooting for half a month now, and he could have insisted on moving the set.

However, doing so would make Xing Ling unhappy.

How did Xing Ling feel about Meng Jilin?

She was trying every possible way to divorce him; was it to go to Ye Yuli?

Now there was Meng Jilin as well, each one more irksome than the last.

Based on his previous temper, he would’ve dealt with them behind the scenes to stop their attempts at closeness.

Doing that now would only make convincing Xing Ling to reconsider the divorce even harder.

During the meal, Ye Sihan noticed that Xing Ling was still wearing the ring she hadn’t taken off, which somewhat alleviated his irritation.

"Why do we have to eat out?" Xing Ling asked. "The food at Ye Mansion is no worse than outside."

"Do you like it?" Ye Sihan’s dark eyes stared at her.

"I just don’t like eating out." Xing Ling said.

Since there was less than a month left, she might as well spend more time with the quadruplets.

She also wanted to find an opportunity to discuss her plan to go abroad with the quadruplets.

How should she bring it up?

"Okay, we’ll eat at home tomorrow."

Home? Xing Ling thought, that was not her home, it never was.

But she did not retort, there was no point.

As fingers raised to touch her mouth, Xing Ling’s body stiffened, instinctively wanting to dodge.

Those fingers pinned her in place, "Don’t move, it’s gotten on your lips."

The gesture was intimate, Xing Ling did not resist anymore.

This was a ’request’ from Ye Sihan.

In order to part ways amicably, she could only get used to enduring it.

While Ye Sihan wiped her lips, he gazed deeply at her, wishing this moment could freeze.

"The thing I regret most in my life is what I did to you in the past," he said hoarsely.

Xing Ling did not react, internally resisting his topic of conversation.

"I was wondering, if you fall in love with someone, can you ever fall out of love?"

Xing Ling’s expression was frantic, and she angrily brushed his hand away, "Rest assured, I will definitely not fall for you again! The words before I jumped into the sea, you can forget them!"

"I was talking about myself," Ye Sihan said, his dark eyes calmly watching her.

Xing Ling’s hand gripping the chopsticks tightened, her heart in turmoil because of his words, "Stop it, I don’t want to listen, let’s eat!"

Back then, how Ye Sihan had forced her, tormented her, mocked her, it was all because of her ’greed.’

And yet, after regaining her memory, she became Ye Sihan’s wife.

Before ending her life, she was not even considered Ye Sihan’s lover, let alone daring to think about marriage.

So why talk about such things now?

Love? Ye Sihan would never understand love in this lifetime!

Anyway, no matter what he said, her heart remained utterly calm.

After dinner, Xing Ling walked out of the dining room and nearly collided with a man who wasn’t paying attention to where he was going.

It was too late for her to dodge when she noticed, but a strong and powerful hand wrapped around her waist and pulled her to the side, preventing a collision.

"Can’t you walk properly? Are your eyes just for show?" The man, also realizing the near-collision, not only did not apologize but grumbled under his breath.

And Ye Sihan happened to overhear this.

"Wait a moment," he said.

The man turned, startled by Ye Sihan’s grim gaze, "...What?

"Apologize," Ye Sihan demanded.

"Why should I apologize?"

"If you don’t apologize, next, you’ll break a leg," Ye Sihan said calmly.

But Xing Ling, who was close by, knew this was just the surface.

If the man didn’t apologize, he really could end up with a broken leg.

When Ye Sihan got vicious, he was indeed terrifying!

"Forget it, let’s go!" Xing Ling did not wish to cause a scene.

"He insulted you," Ye Sihan said, yet his expression eased nonetheless.

"It’s not like it will cost me a chunk of flesh." Xing Ling pulled away the hand around her waist and moved forward.

Then she heard the man sneer again, "Trying to scare who? He’s sick."

Xing Ling paused in her steps.

Ye Sihan hadn’t let the bodyguards come in, prepared to handle it himself, "Go wait in the car for me."

This time, Xing Ling did not stop him and went straight out.

Xing Ling only waited a few minutes in the car before the door opened, and Ye Sihan got in.

The car drove away.

In the confined space, Xing Ling did not smell anything out of the ordinary.

It was as if Ye Sihan hadn’t done anything.

She couldn’t help but ask, "What did you do to that man?"

"Not telling," he replied.

"...," Xing Ling did not expect him to have such a secretive attitude.

Since he wouldn’t say, she would not ask.

"Don’t worry, I know my limits, I didn’t scare him," Ye Sihan reassured her.

Xing Ling looked out the car window, thinking it seemed like he hadn’t been too harsh because he had listened to her.

There was no need to take her seriously at all.

Upon returning to the Ye Mansion, the quadruplets rushed up, looking aggrieved—

"Dad, Mom, did you go on a date again?"

"You never take us with you!"

"As a punishment, Dad and Mom have to sleep with us tonight!"

"Awesome!"

Xing Ling smiled slightly at the corners of her mouth and ruffled their small heads, thinking they should just say outright if they wanted to sleep with their parents.