A Star Reborn: The Queen’s Return
chapter-1196

No amount of dirty privacy in the giants was an issue. It only mattered if it was exposed, and Xia Yingluo just had to be untactful and be the one to expose the shameful matter. The staff members walked toward her.

A twisted smile bloomed on Pei Yan’s face. Humph, Xia Yingluo, who asked you to be so arrogant! I want you to get out of here even more embarrassingly than me!

Many of the guests at present shook their heads and sighed. This little girl had been too impulsive, what a pity. Even if she had suffered tremendous grievances, she still shouldn’t challenge the Pei family in public. Offending the Pei family meant offending almost half of the entertainment circle. She was still a little trainee yet to debut, so her future might be ruined.

But Xia Yingluo didn’t care. Humph, so what if it was half of the entertainment circle?

The other half was in her family, Skyart’s hands!

She wasn’t afraid that Imperial Entertainment would fire her or even ban her. It wasn’t as if she didn’t have a second choice. The most important thing was not to suffer any grievances.

Thus, she raised her head high now. “Don’t touch me, I’ll go by myself.” Then, she jumped off the stage with a slight jump and walked towards the exit arrogantly, looking like a triumphant queen in everyone’s eyes.

In the confusion, someone shouted, “Wait.”

Xia Yingluo turned around and saw that a man had stood up at the main table. He smiled and said to her, “This young girl, you sure have a big temperament. Since you’re already here as a guest, how could you leave after a few words? Stay and eat something, or how about a glass of wine?”

When the man spoke, Pei Yan’s face turned ugly, but she said nothing.

Xia Yingluo asked curiously, “Who are you?”

“I’m Chu Chen.” The gentleman smiled softly.

Xia Yingluo suddenly realized why Pei Yan couldn’t flare up even though she was unhappy. It turned out that he was Chu Chen, the trusty man beside Imperial Entertainment’s Chairman, Pei Ziheng. His words were more useful than that of many of the Pei family members. “Then…” Her beautiful clear eyes followed Chu Chen and fell onto the calm and majestic middle-aged man in the middle of the main table. “You are Pei Ziheng?”

Everyone sucked in their breaths—

How dare she call the Chairman’s name!

She was so bold!

Unexpectedly, Pei Ziheng was not angry at all. He said to Xia Yingluo cheerfully, “That’s me.”

Xia Yingluo looked at him carefully. Since she was a child, she knew that her father Li Lei had found a person particularly unpleasant to the eye. He didn’t even allow them to mention the person’s name at home—Pei Ziheng. She also knew that he was her mother’s lover in her past life, thus Xia Yingluo had always been curious about what kind of man was cinnabar in her mother’s heart and a thorn in her father’s side.

At this time, looking at Pei Ziheng, she nodded and said, “Yes, you’re not bad.”

He was indeed worth remembering for two lives, but of course, he wasn’t as good as her father. Her father Li Lei was the best.

The crowd was going crazy. She was just a little trainee, how dare she judge Chairman Pei in such an arrogant tone? Everyone secretly glanced at Pei Ziheng’s face, feeling like this little girl was going to be unlucky soon.

But Pei Ziheng was still cheerful. “Come sit with me.”

His words astounded everyone. Had the Chairman taken the wrong medicine today?

Even the protagonists of today’s engagement banquet, Pei Yan and Zhao Yixuan, didn’t have the privilege to sit beside him!

And the little girl just tilted her head slightly. “Why?”

She stood in the crowd with such innocence and perfection that it provoked tender affection for her. Many celebrities and nobles couldn’t help but want to say to her, “Just go if he asks you to. How could you possibly disobey Chairman Pei?” But they didn’t dare to. Pei Ziheng had accumulated power over many years and everyone knew that it was a taboo to intervene when he was talking. Even Chu Chen was quiet.

Pei Ziheng looked at her and said with a soft voice, “I’m inviting you to eat with me, will you eat?”

Xia Yingluo felt her stomach growl at his words. She looked at the table full of delicacies and felt it wasn’t worth it to come all the way here due to Pei Yan’s evil intentions and yet return with an empty stomach. So, she walked over and said, “Sure.”

Pei Ziheng smiled.

Chu Chen very eagerly gave up his position. He called the waiter to remove the tableware and replace them with a new one.

Everyone was breaking out in cold sweat. Little girl, how could you sit at Chu Chen’s seat so carelessly? Don’t you know who he is? He’s second only to Chairman in Imperial, and he can decide your life with a single word!

But the little girl, Xia Yingluo, seemed unaware. She sat down very naturally and picked up the chopsticks.

She was tired from dancing and it had been very draining to challenge Pei Yan. She drank two bowls of bird’s nest without restrain and ordered several rare dishes like bud tips and truffles to eat. Pei Ziheng didn’t move his chopsticks and just watched as she swallowed her food ravenously. “Didn’t your parents feeding you anything at home?”

She glanced at him with a vigilant look and smiled very naturally. “I’m a poor student, how could I afford such an expensive thing? I have nobody to lament to. Otherwise, how could Ms. Pei Yan bully me?”

“You!” Pei Yan felt anger bubbling and almost hit her table.

Xia Yingluo smiled lightly and gave her a provocative glance.

Pei Yan suppressed herself with much difficulty. Just now when Pei Ziheng made her stay deliberately, it was obviously slapping her in the face, but she didn’t know what she had done to upset her brother-in-law. It was clear she had to tolerate the little bitch in front of him or she would be looking for her own death.

Xia Yingluo was stuffing herself, and even advised while eating. “Your white tea sprouts were not fried well and are a little old. It’s a bit tough to chew, like grass. The bird’s nest soup is a little lean and doesn’t melt in the mouth. And that carp soup over there? It’s the most unpleasant carp I’ve ever had. Ms. Pei Yan, it’s not that I’m deliberately going against you, but it’s rare to hold an engagement party, so don’t you think you’re being too stingy to serve these kinds of dishes?”

In front of a table full of guests, Pei Yan was so angry that she almost vomited blood. In fact, what was so bad about these dishes? All the invited chefs were usually used in feasts for wealthy families and were all first-class. Only the little bitch Xia Yingluo could pick out so many problems! “What are you talking about?” She couldn’t help but say, “Don’t spew nonsense if you’ve never eaten good stuff before!”

As soon as her words fell, she heard Pei Ziheng say to Xia Yingluo indulgently. “It’s really not delicious, poor you.”

Pei Yan’s next series of scolding was stuck in her throat and she couldn’t say anything.

The faces of the guests at the tables were also surprised. They could say that the little girl had not eaten good things and was ignorant, but how could they dare say that of Pei Ziheng as well?