A Star Reborn: The Queen's Return

Chapter 31-40

Chapter 31: Another Present that She Had to Accept

She took a deep breath to give herself some strength. It was only 10 meters away. Xia Ling, you can do this. Just walk over.

As she was giving herself a pep talk, Wei Shaoyin was getting increasingly impatient. “Are you coming or not? Hurry up, I need to arrange a new song for tomorrow.”

Pei Ziheng was still staring at her, the edge of his trench coat silently fluttering in the wind and snow.

She saw that he did not make a move and consoled herself that he could not have recognized her in her new face and body. Finally, she steeled her mind and slowly walked towards the car.

She walked right past him.

The bitter smell of cigarette smoke lingered on his body, not blown away even in the blustering weather.

Close enough to touch, he said in a low voice, “You….”

She stumbled a little and started to shake uncontrollably. At this moment, all kinds of thoughts ran through her mind and she barely controlled her tears from falling.

Yet, all she did was to quicken her steps and walk away, as if she was escaping from him.

When she got onto Wei Shaoyin’s car, she was still in a state of confusion. Her hands were shaking and it took her a few tries to buckle her seatbelt. She lifted her head and looked up ahead, where she saw Pei Ziheng still standing with one hand on the car door, seemingly unaware of the blistering snow beating down on his body.

Wei Shaoyin started his car.

He drove a distance before suddenly asking, “You know Pei Ziheng?”

Xia Ling did not respond.

The warmth in the car made it seem like spring, and soft music was playing in the background. Her cold and stiff body was regaining its sensations. As she relaxed, all she felt was a sense of fatigue.

Wei Shaoyin’s clean, white hands holding onto the steering wheel and his gaze still resolutely on the road, he said, “The look that he gave you just now looked like you owe him a few hundred million dollars.”

She gave a bitter laugh and finally found the strength to retort. “Do you think I can afford to owe him that much?”

Wei Shaoyin laughed as well, saying, “That’s true, you are already in the tenterhooks for owing our company just a few million dollars. If you really owed Pei Ziheng a few hundred million, you should just jump off a building.”

She wished that she simply owed Pei Ziheng several hundred million dollars. That would have been easier, and there would be an end to her misery. But what was this situation now? Even death could not banish that man from her world. What did she have to do to forget him completely?

Wei Shaoyin lowered the music volume but pressed on astutely. “So, do you or do you not know him?”

“Mr. Wei,” She closed her eyes and said softly, “Ye Xingling is but a small, insignificant trainee in Skyart Entertainment. How would I know the big boss of Imperial Entertainment?”

“I told you to just call me Ah Wei, why won’t you listen?” Wei Shaoyin complained. Seeing that she did not react, he said, “That was what I thought as well. But that look he gave you… it does not look that simple.”

“Bosses are all crazy.” She coldly said. “Who knows what they are thinking?”

Wei Shaoyin glanced at her, sensitive to the tone of her voice. “Which boss in our company offended you?”