✅ A star Reborn: The Queen's return (Completed)

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Chapter 236: Happy Breakup
Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

“Brother Ziheng…” Xia Yu’s whiny voice rang out. “Where are you? Can you bring me to my sister’s grave today?”

“What’s up?” Pei Ziheng asked in a low voice. Ever since Xia Yu insulted Xia Ling, he had been cold to her and was reluctant to give her access to anything related to Xia Ling. He would not even allow her to visit Xia Ling’s grave as she wished.

On the other end of the line, Xia Yu bit her lip. “I folded a thousand cranes for my sister to give her my blessings. I’ve only just completed that and was thinking that she would be lonely today since it is Valentine’s Day… Brother Ziheng, the caretaker of the graveyard wouldn’t let me in… Can you come with me? I want to give my sister the cranes. I… I miss her…”

Her voice sounded like she was close to tears.

A tinge of gentleness entered into Pei Ziheng’s cold gaze. Xia Yu was Xiao Ling’s sister, after all, joined by blood, and only she would pine after Xia Ling other than him.

“I’ll come to fetch you in about half an hour.” Pei Ziheng said before hanging up.

“Are you leaving?” Xia Ling asked.

Pei Ziheng picked up the half-peeled apple and continued to turn it in his hands against the knife skillfully. The thin apple peel continued to come off smoothly. “There’s something I need to tend to.” He said to Xia Ling gently. “Eat this apple and rest early. If you have any issues, just give me a call.”

Xia Ling had heard the voice in the phone vaguely. “Was that Xia Yu?”

Pei Ziheng looked up at Xia Ling, and there was sharpness in his eyes as if she was prying on a secret she was not supposed to. Xia Ling grimly laughed to herself inside. She was still an outsider to him in this life, even if they were friendly on the surface, there was no way they would be as intimate as before.

“I didn’t mean anything else.” She said lightly. “I was just surprised that you would spend Valentine’s Day with her.” Did this mean that her good sister had succeeded? Had she managed to remove all those in her way one by one in her quest to get close to Pei Ziheng and finally was able to summon him to spend a romantic evening with her? All those years of scheming seemed to have paid off then…

There was a hint of disdain in her lips.

Pei Ziheng felt upset seeing the disdain in her words and smile.

Unknowingly, he started to explain himself. “Xia Yu wanted to go see her sister at the graveyard. I’m just going to send her there.”

Oh, so Xia Yu had used Xia Ling to get him to spend time with her. The disdain in Xia Ling’s expression intensified, and she looked up at him with a queer expression. “Didn’t Xia Yu just insult Xia Ling recently? Why would she want to go see her sister?”

Pei Ziheng frowned. “It’s natural for sisters to have small spats, but there wouldn’t be any true hard feelings.” This was the reason that he was willing to forgive Xia Yu. After that incident, Xia Yu had apologized to him in tears, saying that she had somehow been momentarily overcome with anger, and was angry with her sister for hurting herself so much just for love and for finally taking her own life, leaving her all alone in this world.

Pei Ziheng had believed her.

After all, Xia Yu had been playing the role of Xia Ling’s good sister for more than a decade.

Xia Ling did not care to engage Pei Ziheng in more discussion. If he chose to believe Xia Yu, so be it. She was not interested in getting mixed in the matters pertaining to her past. She lazily lay against the bedhead and watched as he peeled the apple, her expression relaxed.