Rebirth of the Entertainment Circle: Return of the Queen

Chapter 14 What about the coldness and brutality promised?

He was an extremely handsome man, probably of mixed race, with a face that combined the handsomeness of an Easterner with the sculptural profundity of a Westerner. His skin is a very healthy wheat color, and his eyes, against the clear sunlight in the forest, show an intoxicating dark green. His limbs are slender and well-proportioned, and his slightly open clothes reveal just the right amount of muscles, making him look relaxed. Sitting under the tree, there was a sense of danger that could break out and hurt someone at any time.

Xia Ling looked at him and took a cautious step back.

 He smiled, showing his white teeth: "I don't eat people either...in fact, I was injured."

 He said, spreading his hands innocently.

She then noticed that there was a thick strip of cloth wrapped around his waist, with dark blood coming out of it. The leopard took a few restless steps beside him, and he reached out and patted its head as if to comfort it.

 “What’s your name?” he asked her again.

“…Ye Xingling.” She announced her name in this life.

  “From the music video shooting team below?”

 “Who are you?” she asked.

He laughed again, but there was a slight coldness in his intoxicating dark green eyes: "Little beauty, you have to understand the situation. I am asking you now, do you understand?"

The leopard roared lowly at her.

 …then she understood.

"I'm a trainee at Tianyi Training Camp," Xia Ling said resignedly, "I'm here to shoot the MV with Tan Ying this time."

He showed a satisfied expression and rubbed the soft fur on the back of the leopard's neck: "Tan Ying is here too? You're lucky." Then he asked her, "Do you have his phone number? Let me borrow it. one time."

Xia Ling really didn’t want to borrow it, but the situation was better, so she had to take out her phone and throw it away.

He caught it with one hand and dialed the number: "Hello, Tan Ying? I'm not Ye Xingling... I'm your boss..."

Well, she finally knew who he was, Li Lei, the big boss of Tianyi, the legendary grandson of the legendary ruthless and violent underworld Li family. It's just...Xia Ling turned her head and glanced at him who was on the phone, and the low and lazy voice reached her ears intermittently:

“I’m in the mountains, I’m injured, come here quickly... What, wait? Your boss is about to die... No, no, don’t bring Wei Shaoyin here, I don’t want to experience the venomous tongue of that germaphobe..."

He changed into a comfortable position while talking on the phone, with a bit of coquettishness and grievance in his voice.

At that moment, Xia Ling couldn’t bear to look directly at—

 This is the legendary underworld? What about the coldness and brutality you promised?

Before Xia Ling could finish being surprised, Li Lei had already hung up the phone and returned the phone to her.

She silently looked at the mottled blood on her head. She didn't know whether it was from his injury or the blood from the leopard's corpse. Resisting the urge to throw it out, she thought in her mind that she should replace it when she got back.

Tan Ying came very quickly and brought a whole team of people with him. They were all new faces and did not look like members of the film crew. Xia Ling guessed that they were probably the original staff of this mountain.

They silently and quickly set up the stretcher and put Li Lei on it. They were methodical and well-trained.

While busy, I could faintly hear Tan Ying's anxious voice: "How are you doing? Does it matter?"

"The gunshot wound has avoided the vital part, so you can't die." Li Lei's tone was lazy, but it had a strange soothing power, "Tan Ying, please have someone check the area to see if there are any other killers. There is no need to look at the corpse on the tree, leave it to Ermao for dinner. Besides..." He said, looking sideways at Xia Ling: "The little beauty over there is also injured, please ask someone to take care of it."

Tan Ying responded one by one, glanced at Xia Ling, and ordered: "Give her a stretcher and come with us."

From the beginning to the end, no one said a word to her, and no one asked her for her opinion, whether it hurt or if she wanted to go together. If it was in the previous life, Xia Ling would have fallen out with her a long time ago, but now it is no different than in the past. Without Pei Ziheng's blessing, she no longer has any halo on her body, and must learn to get used to the life of a little person.

 Fortunately, before meeting Pei Ziheng, she had also endured twelve years of hardship in an orphanage, experiencing the warmth and warmth of human nature. Now she just needs to regain her plainness and anonymity. Perhaps, this is what she should be like.

Him obediently got on the stretcher and followed them to the building complex on the top of the mountain.

They settled Xia Ling in the guest room, and a full-time doctor came to check her injuries and applied medicine and bandage.

"It's just a flesh wound, not touching the muscles and bones. Rest for a few days, don't touch water, don't eat spicy food, it will be cured soon." The doctor said to her.

Xia Ling smiled and nodded, but as soon as the doctor left, she turned and entered the bathroom.

 Turn on the showerhead, fill the bathtub halfway with water, and then immerse as much of her body in it as possible. The clean and warm water surrounded her, and with the water vapor, there was a faint trace of blood lingering on her body. Xia Ling struggled to clean her body with her left hand, carefully avoiding the wound on her right shoulder. However, the smell of blood seemed to be getting stronger and stronger, rushing straight into her nose.

The image of the leopard pounced on her kept flashing in her mind.

 In a trance, he turned into a huge and ferocious mastiff, half as tall as a man, with shiny black fur. It also tried to attack her, its heavy body pounced on her again and again...

In the dark basement of Pei Ziheng's isolated villa, she desperately avoided the mastiff, frantically banging on the door and calling for help, but the prison door was closed and no one came to her aid.

 That was the scariest day of her life.

Even now, thinking about it, I still tremble all over.

Before that day, she was not docile to Pei Ziheng. Even though she was under house arrest in the villa, she still made noises with him and disobeyed his every order. He always said, Xiao Ling, one day I will run out of patience with you.

That day has finally arrived. On her twenty-eighth birthday.

 Early in the morning, he picked a bouquet of bright red roses and placed them beside her bed, then leaned down and touched her lips. Xia Ling tried her best to dodge his lips, but her chin was clamped, and her hands were clasped behind her back on the bed. She watched helplessly as the handsome face came closer and closer, and the lips smelling of red wine and lemon captured hers...

 She bit him hard.

 The taste of blood spread between his lips and teeth.

 He let her go, with a fleeting look of shock and anger in his eyes.

She yelled: "Get out of here! You beast!"

He looked at her gloomily, his eyes were terrifyingly cold, but then he casually wiped the blood on his lower lip with his hand: "Beast? Then I'll let you see what a real beast is."

 She was dragged out of the bedroom by him and thrown into a basement.

 The door was slammed shut and locked. It was very dark in the basement, and she could only vaguely see the outlines of things. She heard a frantic barking sound, and a huge shadow rushed towards her.

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 (End of this chapter)