A Star Reborn: The Queen’s Return
chapter-458

Chapter 458: Li Lei’s Call

It was all Ye Xingling’s fault.

Su Tang looked at that wedding candy box that was decorated with lace and pink hearts and sincerely wished Pei Ziheng and Ye Xingling everlasting happiness. That way, she would never come back to harass her young master.

Maybe in time, the young master would be able to forget Ye Xingling.

And accept her.

With this thought, Su Tang felt that Ye Xingling and Pei Ziheng’s wedding was not something bad.

Beside her, the front desk girl urged. “Special assistant Su, please deliver this wedding candy to the boss. It’s too eye-catching if it’s placed at the door.” Many people were coming and going near the front desk, and this box of wedding candy attracted many people to gather there. It was the source of all the gossip in the company.

The front desk girls were troubled. If the box were stuck there, it would really affect their jobs.

Su Tang really did not want to deliver it.

This box of wedding candy was a blatant slap on Li Lei’s face. Anyone who delivered it to him would be unlucky.

Su Tang asked, “Where’s Tan Ying?” Now, although she had returned to Li Lei’s side, Tan Ying had not been transferred away. This meant that Li Lei had two special assistants. One was her, and the other one was Tan Ying.

Besides her, Tan Ying was also qualified to hand things to Li Lei.

“Special Assistant just entered the office. He saw this box of wedding candy and then… he said that he remembered something urgent and needed to fly to Tokyo. After that, he hurriedly left.” The front desk girl said.

Even though Su Tang was good at exercising self-control, her expression darkened.

What urgent matter required him to fly to Tokyo? Tan Ying obviously did not want to deliver the wedding candy and used that as an excuse to avoid it!

“Special Assistant Su, you don’t have anything urgent, right?” The front desk asked carefully.

Su Tang was speechless.

She really wanted to have something urgent to attend to, but life did not turn out the way she had planned, and her most pressing matter was a document that she needed Li Lei to sign. As such, she could not avoid this matter.

She secretly scolded herself and took the box of wedding candy.

She stood outside Li Lei’s office and placed the box of wedding candy on the sofa by the window. Without a trace, she turned around and took out the document that needed Li Lei’s signature and placed it on his desk.

“Young Master, there’s also this document which requires your signature.”

Li Lei quickly signed it and asked Su Tang, “What’s the package that you just brought in?”

Su Tang was quiet for a while before saying, “It came in a big box. Even I don’t know what it is. Young Master, open it slowly. I will leave first.” After that, she rushed out of the office.

Li Lei did not care much and leisurely walked to the sofa to open the package.

However, once he caught a glimpse of it, he paused in his footsteps.

On the gorgeous pink big box, there was a striking card with the words: Wishing the newly married couple Mr. Pei Ziheng and Miss Ye Xingling a lifetime of happiness together after tying the knot.

Li Lei tensed as he stared at these words. No wonder Su Tang ran away so quickly. How was it possible that she did not know what was sent over? Pei Ziheng… Ye Xingling…

A lifetime of happiness together after tying the knot…

The words on the small card were extremely glaring, and they gradually turned blurry in front of his eyes.

He remembered that a long time ago, someone wanted to forcefully marry her. He took a whole team of people to save her and left in power and prestige as he carried her to safety. At that time, she wore a white wedding dress and softly agreed to be his girlfriend. He felt like the happiest person in the world.

But what about now?

If he went to steal her on Chinese Valentine’s Day when they were getting their marriage certificate, what would happen?

He already knew that she was going to officiate her marriage on that day, but he did not steal her back because he finally understood that the reason why he succeeded that time was not that he was powerful. Rather, it was because she was willing to leave with him.

However, this time, she would not be willing to do so.

She had already tied the knot with another man.

The phrase was enlarged in his mind, and it made it hard for him to breath. He reached out to take a lighter and burned the small card into ashes.

He pressed the landline and called for Su Tang to come in.

“Settle it for me.”

He did not clearly say what it was, but Su Tang knew he was referring to the box of wedding candy. Su Tang carefully agreed. After some hesitation, she still advised him. “Young Master, you will find someone more worthy of your love.”

Li Lei looked at her coldly.

He rarely used such a fierce expression, and it caused Su Tang’s heart to skip a beat. She quickly shut her mouth as she did not dare to say anything more.

“Get out.” He ordered.

Su Tang knew that he was in a bad mood and did not dare to stay any longer. Hurriedly, she took that big box of wedding candy out.

The office door was closed.

Li Lei lay on the sofa for a long time before dialing Pei Ziheng’s number.

Pei Ziheng was currently sunbathing with Xia Ling when a pleasing ring tone rang. He glanced at the caller ID and realized that it was actually Li Lei. He could not help but feel a little strange and alarmed. Why would his love rival that lost call him? Looking at Xia Ling, Pei Ziheng got up and walked a few meters away before answering the call.

“Treat her better.” Li Lei said directly. “Otherwise, I can take her back anytime.”

“By yourself?” Pei Ziheng’s voice was still gentle although he was being condescending and domineering. “She won’t go with you.” With that vow, Xiao Ling would only commit to him.

Li Lei challenged. “You can give it a try.”

Pei Ziheng snorted and hung up the phone. He felt a little irritated. The feeling of having a love rival monitoring him at the side was horrible. Although he sounded arrogant over the phone, he knew very well who the true loser was. Considering the real father of Xiao Ling’s child was not him, he had already been defeated a long time ago.

His victory was just a front.

He put down the phone, turned around, and looked at Xia Ling.

Xia Ling came over some time ago with one hand placed on her lower abdomen and looked at him rather desolately. She overheard some parts of the phone call just now and guessed who had called… She really missed Li Lei, the child’s biological father. She eagerly listened to what Pei Ziheng said and guessed what Li Lei had said over the phone.

She silently said to her child, “Baby, that’s your biological father…”

He was at the other end of the horizon.

Pei Ziheng’s expression darkened and warned her. “You aren’t allowed to eavesdrop when I’m on the phone in the future.”

Xia Ling bit her lip and did not say anything as she watched Pei Ziheng walk past her.

Her stomach grew larger every day.

She did not go to Imperial Entertainment frequently anymore. Occasionally, when she went, everyone would respectfully give way to her when they saw her and bow as they called her “madam.” Even artistes who secretly resented her no longer competed with her. Marrying into an eminent family was a divide that was too obvious. A saying that describes this well would be: When you have far exceeded your kind, they stop resenting you and start looking up to you.

Xia Ling did not like to be treated so differently by others.

However, now that things were this way, what could she do about it?

She returned to visit the family clan once with Pei Ziheng.

The elders in the family did not like her very much, but because she was pregnant, they could not make things difficult for her at face level. In contrast, they suppressed their grievances as they carefully made concessions for her and wholeheartedly wished for her child to be a girl because such a lowly person like her was not qualified of giving birth to a boy for Pei Ziheng.