A Star Reborn: The Queen's Return

Chapter 936: Boss Is in Trouble

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

It was a full box.

The contents were all over the ground.

Lin Yunan was stunned as well. He even stopped in his tracks and forgot to drag Chu Chen out. What was going on, these capable and successful chairman and manager came all the way from Imperial Entertainment to Phoenix Down Corporation, passed through all the levels of security and subjected themselves to such humiliation, just to send a box of paper cranes?!

This must be... the most expensive delivery in history?

The cost of the delivery was more expensive than the item to be delivered!

Lin Yunan was confused. Was Imperial Entertainment... not in the right mind?

Chu Chen was fuming. “Ye Xingling, do you have to be this angry? Boss folded each and every one of the paper cranes on his own. He has been missing you all this time.”

“I should be thanking him then!” Xia Ling was furious. At a time like this, Pei Ziheng was still acting all saint-like to disgust others?! She scoffed. “Chu Chen, you’ve been his lackey for so many years, you’re really willing to speak up for him anytime. But what a pity, I’m no longer the child who’s infinitely grateful for his one act of kindness anymore! He misses me? If he really did miss me, he wouldn’t have done so many horrible things! Chu Chen, you’d better pick up all this trash and leave! The both of you will get your retribution!”

She still had not released her anger. She stepped onto the paper cranes and exerted force until they were deformed under her heels.

Chu Chen rose his voice. “Ye Xingling! Don’t be too much!”

Xia Ling looked into his eyes so calmly that he was slightly stunned. She smiled. “Too much? Chu Chen, I didn’t even know you were the sort to get angry, nor did I know that you even knew what ‘too much’ meant. Tell me, what’s the mission your master gave you today—” She walked on the paper cranes and arrived before him. “Was it for you to make me change my mind and return to him? I’m sorry, I’ll have to disappoint you. Are you going to be punished because of this? Is that why you’re so agitated? Let me offer you some advice, don’t work with that beast anymore, you’ll get your retribution if you continue to stay by him!”

Chu Chen glared at her like a predator. If not for Lin Yunan holding him back, he would’ve pounced onto Xia Ling and given her tight slaps on the face.”You’re the one who will get retribution. Ye Xingling!”

But this time, Xia Ling kept quiet. Her eyes shifted to the space behind him.

There was silence.

Behind him, by the sturdy door, was Pei Ziheng. He was bent over slightly against the sunlight, and his expression was barely visible.

“Boss...” Chu Chen turned around and looked at Pei Ziheng.

Pei Ziheng looked quietly at Xia Ling. They stood on two sides of a door but appeared to be standing in two different worlds.

“Boss, that’s not what it looks like!” Chu Chen was getting flustered as he tried to explain things. “Miss Ling didn’t mean to say that about you. I offended her, that’s why she’s taking it out on you...”

But Xia Ling said, “Pei Ziheng, I actually do mean to say that about you, so what? I don’t know what Chu Chen is doing, taking all the blame on himself, but let me make things clear to you now. I meant every word I said!” She tipped her chin up and looked at him. “No matter how much trash you give me, I won’t forgive you. I remember everything you owe me! In this life, no, in all the lives to come, the thing I regret most is knowing you!” With that, she opened the other door and walked out.

It was fall.

In the suspended garden of the building, the sunlight was abundant, but the air was chilly.

Xia Ling placed her hand on the railing and looked down at her employees hustling, but the image of Pei Ziheng still haunted her mind. She seemed to have seen his expression, but not quite. The scene of his slightly slouched back, his unreadable expression, and her own feet stepping on the paper cranes repeatedly were all jumbled up, and they actually made her feel a little... bad.

What was there to feel bad about? Xia Ling, haven’t you stopped caring about him a long time ago?

She looked down and asked herself, so what if he folded all of those paper cranes on his own? So what if you hurt him? Hasn’t he hurt you countless times before?!

She forced herself to look up and face the hazy sun of fall.

Behind her, footsteps approached.

She turned around and saw that it was Chu Chen. He was still in a prim suit, but his expression was solemn.

She really disliked seeing him. “Why haven’t you left?!”

Chu Chen looked at her with a tinge of disgust on his serious expression. “There’s something that Boss told me never to tell you about. But I feel that you have the need to know.”

“I don’t want to know.”

“Boss has cancer.”

W-What?!

Pei Ziheng has cancer?!

Those words seemed to explode beside her ears. She couldn’t believe what she had heard. “What did you say? Can you say it again?”

Chu Chen still seemed annoyed at her. He looked at her coldly and added, “Ye Xingling, you keep saying that I’m just like a dog that follows Boss wherever he goes, but even a dog develops feelings after a while. What about you? You’re inferior even to a dog!”

She shook her head. She wasn’t in the mood to fight back at all as her head was in a mess. It felt almost like a dream.

Impossible...

Pei Ziheng was so big and strong, he was insurmountable, how could he possibly be down with such a horrifying terminal disease?

She asked softly, “You’re kidding, right? You’re just trying to lie to me.”

“Why would I lie to you over something like this?” This time, it was Chu Chen who sneered. “Unless his life is no more than a joke to you?”

She continued shaking her head in disbelief.

For the longest time, Pei Ziheng had been a respectable god-like figure in her heart. He was just like a mountain, sturdy and strong. She never would’ve thought that an unconquerable mountain could collapse one day too...

Into shambles.

An inexplicable fear choked her. She staggered to regain her footing, pushed Chu Chen aside and went to look for Pei Ziheng to clarify things.

That man was still in her office.

The early fall sun rays filled the room, reflecting off the paper cranes scattered all over. He was squatting in the middle of this “wasteland”, trying his best to smoothen out all the traces that she had stepped on them. His movements were slow and almost unnoticeable, and his back was still bent over.

Xia Ling had never noticed that he had his moments of sadness and loneliness too.

She stopped at the door and did not have the guts to step forward.

Pei Ziheng had his back facing her. He coughed occasionally while trying to erase the footprints on the paper cranes, and that hollow sound echoed through the quiet room.