Quadruplets' Charm: The Tycoon's Hidden Heirs-Chapter 24 - Like mother like daughter

Chapter 24: Chapter 24: Like mother, like daughter

Chapter 24 -24: Like mother, like daughter

Just as she took a seat at her desk, the mobile phone on her office desk began to ring.

It was an unfamiliar number.

Tang Yu now had a psychological shadow about strange numbers. Every time, they spelled nothing good.

But she still answered, “Hello, who is this?”

“I am Lin Shuhuan. Let’s meet!”

To Tang Yu’s surprise, she had not anticipated it would be Ye Yuli’s mother looking for her.

“Three o’clock in the afternoon, at the coffee shop on Rolla Road.”

Without waiting for Tang Yu to refuse, the call was abruptly ended.

At three in the afternoon, having nothing else on her plate, Tang Yu and Xiao Yu took an hour off and left.

When she arrived, Lin Shuhuan was already there, sipping coffee.

Tang Yu sat down opposite her and said, “Ye Yuli and I have broken up, there’s no need to meet anymore, right?”

“You and Ye Yuli may have broken up, but then you entangled yourself with Ye Sihan. Tang Yu, I really underestimated you,” Lin Shuhuan said with a stern face, the rage unmistakable on her youthfully preserved countenance.

“You’ve misunderstood. There is nothing going on between Ye Sihan and me.”

“But I have my doubts about your character.”

“My character? How well do you know me?” Tang Yu frowned slightly.

Her only interaction with Lin Shuhuan had been a single meal shared during the time she dated Ye Yuli, in which she had behaved properly and showed good manners. What gave her the right to speak this way about her?

Could it be that Ye Yuli had spoken ill of her to his mother?

“Very well,” Lin Shuhuan replied confidently, adding, “After all, like mother, like daughter.”

Tang Yu was stunned. “…What do you mean? You know my… my mother?”

“Even if she turned to ash, I would recognize her,” Lin Shuhuan said with a face full of hate and anger.

Tang Yu felt as though she had suddenly lost her voice, sitting there in shock, looking at Lin Shuhuan who knew her mother, her mind filled with confusion.

Her memories with her mother, Yu Zhaohui, still lingered before she turned ten.

Since Yu Zhaohui divorced her father, Tang Fulin, she disappeared without a trace, with no news at all.

After that, she grew up like a child without a mother, like a weed, growing stubbornly.

To hear about her mother again, after more than a decade, felt…

…distant and strange, her mood heavy and sorrowful.

“Where is she now… Has she remarried, does she have her own family?” Tang Yu fought to keep her emotions steady as she asked.

She speculated thus because she believed no mother could endure not missing and wanting to see her own child.

For herself, not seeing her four little ones for even a day made her feel as if a piece of her flesh had been gouged out.

“Don’t pretend in front of me!” Lin Shuhuan’s face grew colder. “Setting your sights on Ye Yuli and Ye Sihan, did she teach you that? Shameless to the extreme!”

“That’s not it…”

“Enough! Even listening to one more word from you makes me sick,” Lin Shuhuan said with intense disgust. “You brought calamity upon the previous generation of the Ye Family, and now you seek to do the same to the next one. Tang Yu, you and Yu Zhaohui will go to Hell!”

Tang Yu was so scolded that she had no power to fight back; she was more astounded than anything else.

Back then, although Lin Shuhuan did not like her, she had never lost her composure.

“Aunt Lin, I don’t know what you’re talking about, but I need to make one thing clear. I have broken up with Ye Yuli, and there’s no possibility with Ye Sihan. Moreover, it won’t be long before I leave Jingdu to go abroad.”

“How soon is ‘soon’?”

“This month probably…”

“I’ll buy the plane ticket. Leave tonight! Only then will I believe you.”

On her way back to the company, Tang Yu’s mind was filled with thoughts of Yu Zhaohui.

Memories from childhood may be blurred, but that doesn’t mean she didn’t remember.

The image of Yu Zhaohui’s face was etched clearly in her mind.

Because as a child, she missed her mother so much that she replayed her image over and over in her mind, deeply imprinting it there.

But it’s been a decade or so; she must have changed, right?

Yet, what had she done that made Lin Shuhuan hate her so much? To the extent of hating her daughter as well?

Was it related to the Ye Family?

Tang Yu couldn’t figure out what had happened.

Distractedly, Tang Yu returned to the secretarial department and had just sat down when her cell phone beeped with a new message.

It was a flight booking notification from the airline.

Lin Shuhuan knew even her ID number and had bought her a plane ticket without delay.

Tang Yu thought to herself, one ticket isn’t enough, she still needed four!

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The flight was scheduled to depart at eight o’clock in the evening.

Did Lin Shuhuan wish she could fly abroad right now? Maybe she didn’t want to alert anyone from KING Group, especially Ye Sihan.

Although she wasn’t that important in Ye Sihan’s eyes, she was still his life assistant, if only to avoid any complications.

Well, then, let’s leave! Anyway, she had to leave for a good reason.

She was just about to buy four more tickets when there was a knock on her desk.

Tang Yu startled, then looked up, “Assistant Xiao.”

“Overtime tonight.”

“What??”

“Why so surprised?”

Tang Yu asked, “Does anyone like working overtime?”

“Mr. Ye has to deal with things tonight, and the life assistant has to be there.”

“But… I have something to do tonight.”

“Postpone it,” Xiao Yu said matter-of-factly, and then he left.

Tang Yu was speechless.

She thought to herself, it’s not that I don’t want to leave.

Then she thought, no matter, if not today, then tomorrow.

At night, the top floor was still brightly lit, and Tang Yu sat at her own workstation doing the tasks Xiao Yu had assigned her.

Li Xue had already told her about the overtime in advance, so child care fell on her shoulders.

Luckily she had Li Xue, or else she would have been in a real panic.

When the clock struck nine, Tang Yu stood up to make coffee for Ye Sihan.

After knocking and entering, Ye Sihan was still seated behind his desk, his aura deep and heavy, his gaze at the computer sharp and intimidating.

After Tang Yu put down the coffee, she left without daring to ask when they could leave work.

When Tang Yu returned to her seat, she slightly spaced out, her mind drifting to Yu Zhaohui again.

She wanted to see her, at least once before leaving…

Rain began to fall outside the window, lightning slashed across the night sky, gone in an instant, followed by rolling thunder.

Tang Yu stood up and walked to the window, watching the heavy rain pour down beneath the streetlights outside.

Her own reflection overlaid upon the window, merging with the night scene outside.

Did she hold no hatred towards Yu Zhaohui? There was some, but still there was longing…

She thought to herself that if Yu Zhaohui had reasons she couldn’t help, Tang Yu could still forgive her.

Everyone has the right to pursue their own happiness, after all…

In a burst of bright lightning and booming thunder, the room plunged into darkness.

The city’s nightscape from outside the window shone through, casting silhouettes near the window.

Tang Yu blinked, thinking to herself, a power outage, really?

Was Ye Sihan’s work disrupted? Could she leave now?

Tang Yu felt a secret joy, took out her phone for light, and headed towards the office.

She knocked on the door, but there was no response.

“Mr. Ye, may I come in?” Tang Yu pushed the door open and entered.

As expected, the office was pitch-dark, but a pale glow came from the computer screen on the desk. The figure behind the desk was hidden in the darkness, indistinct.

“Mr. Ye?” Tang Yu stepped forward, shining her phone’s light over to see Ye Sihan slumped over the desk, head down, looking quite strange.