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

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Chapter 441: All of a Sudden
Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

The sudden kiss shocked Xia Ling.

Her interaction with Pei Ziheng became more cautious again, no longer as relaxed and peaceful as it was in recent days.

Pei Ziheng started to regret his actions. If he knew that she would be this sensitive, he would have been more careful and test her after she had the child. However, it was too late for him to take back his actions, and he could only think of how to rectify the situation.

He was not a romantic person and only knew so many ways to try to get into a girls’ good books. These were to give Xia Ling everything she wanted and to dote on her excessively.

Her morning sickness was much better in recent days, but instead, she always felt tired and sleepy. Every afternoon, she would need to take a nap, whether it was at home, in Imperial Entertainment’s office, at the venue of her schedules, etc. Pei Ziheng was of the view that the rest area in the recording studio building had too many people coming in and out, which, firstly, made the place too noisy for her to have proper rest; and secondly, it increased the chances of people knocking into her accidentally. As such, he created a small rest room in his office. He decorated it with a thick, wool rug, a soft and wide sofa bed, and hung lace, flowery curtains that she favored at the windows.

Xia Ling accepted his good intentions as she did not want to argue with him over something so small. She stopped sleeping in the rest area in the recording studio building and came over to his chairman’s office for her afternoon nap.

Hence, senior managers that came to report business matters to Pei Ziheng would be informed by the secretary to keep their volume down so as not to disturb the Boss’ wife from her rest.

The senior managers did as the secretary said, all the while lamenting in surprise that the cold, domineering Pei Ziheng could be so gentle and sweet to his lady.

The wondrous power of love.

Xia Ling was blissfully unaware of their thoughts, or rather, even if she knew, she would not care. She felt as if her intellect had decreased rapidly over her pregnancy, and she could not think of too many things at once. Her thoughts were occupied in large part by the child she was carrying, and occasionally, she would have nightmares.

She would pine for another man in her dreams.

On the cliff amidst the thunderstorm, the peach blossom tree… he risking his life to fly over and save her… The knife cutting through the paraglide rope… the peach blossoms flying all around. Those three words: “I love you.”

The flash of lightning… the falling white parachute.

“Li Lei!” She woke from her nightmare in cold sweat.

On the other side of the partition, Pei Ziheng was signing a document at his mahogany desk when he heard her cry out. The fountain pen in his hand stopped mid-word, and he looked like he was about to snap it in half.

The senior manager across from him looked on in horror.

Oh my, did he hear it wrong? Did the lady boss cry out “Li Lei”? Wasn’t Li Lei the lady boss’ ex-boyfriend? The Big Boss Li from Skyart Entertainment? Was she… still pining for him?

Oh my, oh my, Boss’ face is so dark.

The senior manager’s heart beat in trepidation. Did he chance on a big secret? Oh my, was Big Boss going to have to kill him to silence him?

Luckily, Pei Ziheng was not so cruel and unreasonable.

While his expression was dark, his hand moved as per normal to the pen holder on his desk—made by a famous sculptor—to pick up another foundation pen, signing the document with a flourish. He pushed the document away from himself and said, “You can leave.”