Chapter 30

Mm, I feel so guilty, sob sob sob...

The two sisters embraced each other, crying with tears like pear blossoms in rain.

As the two sisters listened, images of their father's bitter days surfaced in their minds from what the woman said; the more they thought, the more they felt heartache for their own father.

Father endured such hardship, yet they couldn't stay by his side; poor father could only rely on others to care for him.

"Father?"

Xie Lingyu, upon hearing the two sisters address Xiao Ming as "father," was instantly dumbfounded.

Xiao Ming actually has this liking, letting his lover call him "father"?

Really knows how to play!

She has been by Xiao Ming's side for so many years, yet we didn't notice he had this fetish?

"Huff huff huff, I'm going to die of anger."

Xie Lingyu secretly took two deep breaths of oxygen.

She secretly thought, if he likes this, he should have told her earlier—calling him "father"?

Is that considered romantic? She'll learn it.

If she could be his woman, letting her learn any overly sentimental flirtation, she could learn it.

"Hmph, 'father'? In this day and age, little girls becoming mistresses even develop familial feelings? Seems you have some self-awareness—Xiao Ming's age could be your father, yet you dare to lay hands on him?"

Xie Lingyu's eyes were full of mockery.

Jingrou was stunned; so, this woman had been hostile toward them from the start, thinking they were Xiao Ming's little lovers?

"Haha, sis, you say we're Xiao Ming's lovers?" Jingrou wiped her tears, gave a playful smile and said: "We are lovers, but we were my father's little lovers in his past life, hehe."

"Don't waste my time with this useless talk." Xie Lingyu obviously didn't believe it, already showing impatience between her brows.

"Really, Xiao Ming is our father, biological father, the kind related by blood—understood?"

Jingrou didn't want to cause trouble and give father trouble; after all, this woman's relationship with father seems unusual: "My mother only knew she was pregnant with us after separating from my father; these years, my father had no idea we existed."

Only recently did we finally find our father; this place is where he let us live.

Jingrou explained patiently, unlike Yuchun, who, knowing the other misunderstood, deliberately stirred the mud.

Her words left Xie Lingyu dumbfounded again.

Xie Lingyu scrutinizingly looked at the two sisters opposite: "Upon close inspection, they indeed resemble Xiao Ming quite a bit."

Xie Lingyu, surprised, covered her mouth with her hand, giving a questioning look at the sisters; the sisters nodded affirmatively.

Xie Lingyu exclaimed: "You two, are you Xiao Ming's children? Biological ones?"

"Mm, yes, biological."

Yuchun dissatisfiedly let out a cold snort, arrogantly lifted her chin at Xie Lingyu: "Hmph, I said we are the ones closest to our father."

Yuchun's glance at Xie Lingyu was unmistakably that of a rival!

Very playful!

"Well..." Xie Lingyu hadn't expected that, with her aggressive aura wanting to assert dominance and keep other women away from Xiao Ming, she ended up causing such a big mix-up.

Good heavens!

This is too embarrassing; she actually did that in front of Xiao Ming's children.

At this moment, Xie Lingyu wished she could find a hole to crawl into!

Fortunately, she hadn't messed up to the point of no return.

Xie Lingyu quickly composed herself, putting away all those feelings toward a "love rival," put on a full-faced smile, then walked over to the two little girls, took their hand, and gently said: "Sweeties, sorry, I misunderstood you."

"I am Xie Lingyu, I am, I am your father's good friend; if you don't mind, call me Lingyu sis."

As she said, she secretly thought, she looks so young and beautiful, calling her "sis" is fine, right?

"Tch!" Jingrou didn't have much resistance, but Yuchun wasn't buying it at all.

What kind of Lingyu is this—so good-looking, wearing so little, obviously here to seduce her father, and also good at ingratiating herself like her, no wonder she could stay by her father's side for so many years.

What if one day she steals her father away?

Just thinking about it makes Yuchun unhappy.

"Lingyu sis, actually it's not your fault; now that we've talked it out, it's fine." Jingrou, not really rejecting Lingyu's presence, politely smiled and said.

At this moment!

Anjin City Jinyang District, Guoji Jinrong Dasha, 76th floor!

Here, the whole building is the turf of Inscribe Joy Group, a listed company.

And the top leader of Inscribe Joy Group is Xiao Ming.

Today, he originally planned to completely bid farewell to the business world.

But now he suddenly has a child in his life, and he changed his decision.

Before, he wanted to hand over the company to others to manage, after all, he is alone, and after a hundred years, any fame and fortune cannot be taken with him; clinging to it is meaningless.

But now it's different; he has sons and daughters.

He has an heir.

All, he decided, everything he has will be left to his several children.

He wants to start from this moment to cultivate his several children, so that they all gain the ability to run the company, and then he will completely retreat behind the scenes.

Therefore, he today held a shareholders' meeting, indicating he will find someone to act as company manager, but the final decision authority remains in his hands.

Before, he was preparing to abdicate directly, even having already chosen a successor, waiting to announce it when he steps down, but now he changed his mind.

His company's successor can only be his child.

Those company executives who originally thought they could successfully rise to power, upon hearing the news that Xiao Ming would not retire, felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over their heads.

The duck that was about to reach his mouth flew away.

However, Xiao Ming acts decisively and ruthlessly, cold and unfeeling; nobody dares to offend him, and though unwilling, they can only hide their resentment silently in their hearts.

……

Inside the CEO's office.

Xiao Ming had just finished the shareholders' meeting and returned when his special assistant Xiao Feng happened to come find him; after completing his work report, he gave Xiao Ming a folder.

"General Manager Xiao, all the materials for the investigation you asked me to conduct are here."

"Hmm, go attend to your own affairs."

Xiao Ming responded indifferently, waving his hand to let Xiao Feng leave.

He picked up the files, opened them, and began to examine them carefully.

These are what he specifically had his assistant investigate—what his several children have experienced from birth to the present.

The investigation includes the mothers of the several children, and everything about Wen Zihan!

"Wen Zihan, she's actually the Eldest Miss of the Huangcheng Wen family?"

When he came across Wen Zihan's file, which stated that she was the Eldest Miss of the Huangcheng Wen family, Xiao Ming was quite surprised.

He frowned, then continued reading; after finishing reviewing Wen Yunzhe's experiences over the years, especially the past six months, Xiao Ming's face suddenly darkened, and he abruptly flung the files aside.