A Star Reborn: The Queen’s Return
chapter-245

Chapter 245: Not Knowing How to Make A Concession

“Xiao Ling!” He increased the sternness in his voice. “You can’t shower like this. You will catch a cold. Let me help you. After you shower, quickly go to bed and sleep.”

“I don’t want your help!” Xia Ling was impatient and pushed him out. “Get out!”

He grabbed hold of her wrist. “Ye Xingling!”

She glared at him. “Get out!”

“Why won’t you let me help you shower?” He said while pushing her against the wall, his eyes filled with fury. “You’re mine. Why can’t I touch you?! Ye Xingling, have I not treated you well enough? Why must you treat me like this? You keep pushing me away, and Wei Wei even told me just now that you plan on moving out?!”

“That’s none of your business!” The alcohol gave Xia Ling a throbbing headache. She did not understand a single word he said but only felt that he looked like he was about to eat her up, so she could not help but be scared. “Li Lei, let go of me. Get out! Get out!”

His expression became colder. Without saying anything, he grabbed her wrists with one hand and started to unbutton her coat. Xia Ling screamed and struggled. After he undid two buttons, he decided to rip the coat off her. There was a tearing sound, and the finely crafted clothes on her body turned into rags that were quickly thrown on the ground.

The sheer unexpectedness of her body being exposed in front of him drove Xia Ling crazy. She frantically used her hands to cover herself, and even her voice became a screech. “Get lost!”

He paused for a moment. In a flash, he suddenly grabbed her with more strength and almost broke her wrist. With his other hand, he felt around for the thin belt around her waist, untied it, and watched it fall off her skirt.

“Li Lei, you pervert!” Xia Ling was desperately trying to escape his grip. Since she could not use her hands, she kicked and bit him. Taking advantage of a moment when he was unprepared, she shoved him and made a mad dash out of the room.

However, he soon dragged her back and took off her undergarments. Even the last piece of clothing covering her vanished.

Xia Ling only felt a buzzing sound in her head. Blood rushed up to her head, and her mind was burning while her hands and feet were cold. Her body shivered violently as the world spun around her, and she did not know where she was. A few illusions that she had never seen before appeared, and everything before her eyes was fragmented. In her mind, there was a room filled with countless cameras, a tall and cold man, torn clothes and a bloody whip…

She opened her mouth and let out a hysterical scream.

Li Lei ignored it, dragged her into the bathtub, twisted the shower knob, and water rushed onto her body. She continued to scream. In her mind, the man’s cold eyes coincided with Li Lei’s. They were difficult to overcome and lacked emotion like a demon from hell. She wanted to escape and tried to crawl out of the bathtub again and again, but every time she tried, she was pushed back into the bathtub by Li Lei.

“Let me go, let me go!” She cried and struggled violently.

He was unmoved. Grabbing a bottle of shower gel, he poured it all over her body. “You better behave yourself. After the bath, I will let you sleep. Stop kicking and biting me. If you continue to move, I will tie you up.”

His palm fell on her shoulders and spread the shower gel on her body in circles. He moved his hand down her body but stopped for a moment near her stomach.

“Don’t touch me there… Don’t…” Xia Ling could not see him. She only saw the white room in the large villa, and something was restraining her body. A pair of hands that were moving down her body only had evil intentions.

Xia Ling desperately tried to retract her body. “Don’t…”

“Xiao Ling.” Li Lei’s voice was very distant. “It’s only a bath.”

Don’t… Don’t!

Xia Ling felt those warm hands wander further. The blood in her body almost flowed the opposite direction. The more she wanted to struggle, the more she could not move. It seemed she was trapped by a nightmare. She could not even make a single sound… Pain and disappointment. She tried hard to break away. Suddenly, there was a sweet sensation in her throat. Coughing, something slightly warm flowed out.

The pair of hands that were wandering on her body stopped moving.

“Xiao Ling?!”

Who was calling her? It was an anxious and concerned voice.

A trembling yet cautious finger was on her lips.

She wanted to avoid the finger, but she could no longer move. She only felt that her surroundings were becoming darker, her body was becoming lighter, someone was holding her, and there was a very distant voice. “Doctor! Quickly call for a doctor!”

As the darkness grew larger and the world became more distant, she did not know when, but suddenly, there was a deathly stillness.

The doctor came over to check on Xia Ling.

“Previously, her rib punctured her lung and she had surgery. She has only rested for a while, the injury is not fully recovered.” The doctor checked Xia Ling and said to Li Lei, “Miss Ye used her vocal chord a lot today. Did she sing? This puts a large burden on her heart and lungs. Furthermore, she is also drunk and struggled intensely after being provoked… It is not surprising that the wound on her lungs tore again.”

Li Lei was anxiety-ridden. “Is it serious?”

“The blood she coughed out was very little. It is only a small tear, so it is not something very serious.” The doctor said. “However, you must be careful. Don’t provoke Miss Ye. Otherwise, her small injury may become a major one. It’ll become very troublesome then.”

After he sent the doctor out, Li Lei sat beside Xia Ling’s bed.

Still tightly frowning in her dreams, her expression was a little pale. It pained him to see her like that.

He reached out his fingers to lightly trace her lips. They were really beautiful lips, why did they always have to spit out words that made his heart ache? Wei Wei told him that Xiao Ling wanted to move…

This was not the first time she had mentioned that she wanted to move. Did she really want to leave him so badly?

He was furious and went hard on her again last night. It seemed that in front of her, he became angry more easily and could not control his temper while Xiao Ling never once gave in to him.

She was too stubborn. If she left him, how could she continue to live after offending people in the future?

Li Lei was so worried that his brows were knitted. He touched her face and whispered. “Xiao Ling, don’t go.”

On the bed, the girl’s eyelashes quivered and she woke up.

As her vision slowly became clear, the scene in the bathroom appeared before her eyes. If it wasn’t because of how real her fear felt, she wouldn’t have suspected that it was not just a nightmare.

Xia Ling moved to the other side of the bed to distance herself from Li Lei.

Although Li Lei appeared warm, he was not someone to provoke lightly. Once triggered, he would selfishly and ferociously hurt her. Perhaps one day, without knowing what she said or did wrong, she would end up in a state similar to her previous life.

As Xia Ling looked at the man in front of her, her heart shuddered. In the past, how naïve was she to think that she could spend her entire life with him? When he was happy, he would take care of her seamlessly and accommodate her. However, when he was unhappy, no matter what he did would cause her immense pain and fear that she could not counter.

Li Lei stood up, poured a glass of water, and handed it to her. “You fainted and slept for a day. Drink some water.”

His hand was so close to her. She pursed her lips and did not take the glass from him.

He moved forward and tried to hand the glass to her.

“Take it away.” She lightly demanded.

“Xiao Ling…”

“Take it away!”

“What exactly do you want me to do?” Li Lei was rather irascible. “As long as it’s something I can do, I will do it for you!”