Chapter 491: There Is No “Forever”
Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

Li Lei eventually removed the unnatural expression he wore on his face.

“Preceptor,” he said. “it was the Preceptor who gave me the fengshui and allowed me to strategize effectively against Imperial Entertainment, thank goodness.” He did not understand why the Preceptor wanted to help him, but when that man appeared in his life, asking him if he were willing to save Xiao Ling, he agreed without a thought.

It was okay even if it were a scam.

Even if his life was at stake.

All he wanted was for Xiao Ling to be blissful, to be free from that man’s clutches.

Thankfully, his gamble paid off.

Xia Ling then realized what happened—it was all her brother’s doing. “Didn’t he say the vows could not be broken?” she asked giddily.

Startled, Li Lei said, “When did he say this?”

Xia Ling replied, “Not long after I was taken away by Pei Ziheng, I instructed Sister Mai Na to pass the amulet to you, wanting you to go and find him. You later sent me the message saying that the Preceptor expressed his lack of ability to help me in my request.”

“So that was your request back then?” Li Lei was slightly confused and did not understand. “If he did not help us break the vows back then, why would he choose to help us now?”

Xia Ling, too, could not understand. It seemed like these questions would only be answered when she met her brother.

She told Li Lei, “Is the Pei family really going bankrupt?”

Li Lei narrowed his eyes slightly. “Don’t tell me you’re feeling pained over that.”

Xia Ling smiled sadly. She was feeling slightly troubled over it, because regardless of how cruel Pei Ziheng was to her, he did help her out, and that made it all so complicated. “Him liking me wasn’t wrong in any way at the start. He just did so in the wrong way.” Xia Ling’s voice was gentle. “You suppressing him is all for the sake of rescuing me, but when he releases me… please don’t give him any more trouble.”

“He treated you that way, and you’re still thinking of him?” Li Lei’s expression turned dark. The wound on her lower abdomen was still there, and she was already helping that man plead for forgiveness. “Do you really… not love him?”

Xia Ling’s heart skipped a beat, as she sensed his jealousy.

“I…” She didn’t know what to say, and Li Lei was still in the dark about everything regarding the reincarnation.

“I know I owe you an answer.” Xia Ling thought for a moment. “If I’m able to return to your side this time around, I’ll tell you everything that happened between him and me. Li Lei, the person I love now is you.”

Since she could go back to how it was before, she would no longer try to hide it.

She loved him, and this was a strong vow she made in her heart after all that had happened.

Li Lei’s expression slowly softened. “Alright.” For the longest time, he knew that Xiao Ling’s heart hid a huge secret, one that Pei Ziheng could not know of. Before the paragliding incident, he was so close to finding out the truth, but everything became messy after that event, and thus, the investigation was interrupted.

The fact that she was willing to tell him the truth herself, how could it not make him happy?

“Please take good care of yourself,” said Li Lei. “I’ll be able to come and bring you away very soon.”

She smiled and nodded.

Li Lei accompanied her for a while more before leaving the hospital.

When Xia Ling returned to the hospital ward, the crowd of reporters had dispersed. Even the ward itself had been tidied up, with all used items replaced with new ones.

But the nurses were looking at her oddly. Seeing the ongoing battle today, and believing what all the reporters said, they would have thought she and Li Lei had cut all relations all because she wanted to marry Pei Ziheng in order to be a corporate spy. Today, Imperial Entertainment was about to experience its downfall, and she was about to return to Li Lei’s side.

They were secretly full of disdain towards her.

Xia Ling didn’t care, as there were already too many things on her mind. She did not have the energy to care about how other people saw her. The wound on her lower abdomen was not stitched yet and hurt from time to time. She did not dare to move much now and needed to take care of herself properly. As long as she could return to Li Lei’s side, it did not matter that she could no longer bear children.

She regretted her impulsiveness.

What was an even bigger regret was her not taking good care of the baby. She could have returned to Li Lei’s side with the baby too, and be able to tell him that that was their child, their child called Shaohui—Hui bearing the meaning of light.

Her heart full of bitterness and pain, what was a month felt like a hundred days.

It had really been a long time.

She sat in the ward in a very long daze.

At midnight, the chauffeur came to fetch her. “Madam, please follow me home.”

Xia Ling was slightly stunned. “My wound hasn’t completely healed, I need to continue staying in the ward for treatment.” She did not wish to return to the house and face Pei Ziheng.

However, the chauffeur said, “Mister wants me to fetch you home for dinner.” Seeing the unwillingness on Xia Ling’s face, the chauffeur could not help but add on, “Madam, please just head back to see how things are, as Mister has recently lost a lot of weight.”

She then recalled Li Lei’s words about the Pei family soon facing their downfall.

She suddenly felt a guilty conscience creeping up on her as she was the cause of this mess.

Pei Ziheng destroyed her and her child, and she also destroyed his family. No one owed each other anything now. She thus decided that it would do no harm to go visit him before Li Lei came to bring her away.

Therefore, Xia Ling followed the chauffeur back.

Pei Ziheng stood in the yellow lighting in the living room, staring at her. “You’re back.” Almost a month of not seeing him, his complexion had become haggard. If Li Lei were to be thought of as radiant, he would be a complete mess.

For a moment, Xia Ling did not know what to say.

“Come eat with me since you’re back.” Pei Ziheng headed into the dining room.

Xia Ling followed him in silently, only to see the table piled with all her favorite dishes, from both this life and the previous. “What is this…?” Xia Ling was shocked.

Pei Ziheng had already sat down, and personally placed a piece of grilled scallop onto her plate. “Let’s eat.”

There was something not quite right with him today.

She did not dare to question further and quietly accompanied him for dinner.

After dinner, he did not head to the study as per usual, and instead, pulled her along to the terrace to have some wine in the moonlight.

“Do you still remember how I brought you back here 19 years ago?” Pei Ziheng tilted his head towards the moon, his voice low and distant. “Back then, I fell in love with you at first sight and only thought about protecting you, never letting you get hurt forever.”

Xia Ling was silent. Where was the “forever”?

Ultimately, the one who hurt her the most was him.

Pei Ziheng poured out a glass of wine, sipping it slowly. He was acting very differently today, causing Xia Ling to be unable to tell what he had up his sleeves. She did not engage in conversation, nor persuaded him.

Just like that, he downed glass after glass till the bottle was empty.

He turned to stare at her intensely for a long time.

Xiao Ling, do you still remember that I once said I would never ever let you get hurt?

Sadly, I still messed up at the end of the day.

Pei Ziheng rose to his feet and told Xia Ling, “It’s getting chilly, and the dew is heavy. Let’s turn in for the night.”

Xia Ling found it weird and climbed into bed with him. Just like how many nights went by this past year, she fell asleep in his embrace.

His body curled behind her back, as he held her in his arms, his hands gripping her tightly.

Chapter 492: Skyart, I’m Back
Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

When she woke up the next morning, Pei Ziheng had already left.

Xia Ling got up and went downstairs, only to find that Nanny Zhou was quietly shedding tears.

Xia Ling asked, “Nanny Zhou, what’s wrong?”

When Nanny Zhou saw Xia Ling, her tears came gushing down. It took her a while to be able to talk between sniffles, “Madam, are you leaving Mister? How could you leave him at such a difficult time? Shouldn’t husband and wife go through tough times together?”

Xia Ling was stunned. What was this all about?

She knew that Li Lei would force Pei Ziheng to release her, but how would Nanny Zhou, a servant, know about her leaving? Unless…

“What did Pei Ziheng tell you?” Her voice trembled.

“Mister said, when you’re up, the chauffeur will send you to Skyart where Mr. Li is,” Nanny Zhou said between tears. “He even packed your things personally, and insisted that I made sure you brought them along.”

Pei Ziheng was willing to let her go?!

Xia Ling’s mind was a blank, and it took her a few moments to return to her senses. It still seemed too unreal. She had worked so hard to escape this cage, and when she was about to lose all hope, he actually decided to release her.

She stood rooted to the ground, unable to process her emotions.

No wonder he was acting so weirdly the night before, he must have had made his decision by then. She recalled the sadness in his eyes the previous night.

“Madam, don’t leave, will you?” Nanny Zhou looked at her expectantly. “Mister loves you so much and gives you his all. You don’t know that he… he…” Nanny Zhou burst into tears again and could not go on.

The night before he fetched Xia Ling, Pei Ziheng’s mood was already low. Refusing to eat, he sat in the study room for the whole night.

The next day when he went downstairs, Nanny Zhou pointed a finger at him in shock. “Mister, you…!”

He did not know what had happened until he took a look in the mirror. That was when he noticed the amount of white hair that lined his head, and began slowly picking at it.

He looked at himself in the mirror for a long time.

He then turned around and told Nanny Zhou, “Bring me the hair dye.” He was about to fetch Xiao Ling that night, how could he let her see him in such a state? He paused before adding, “Don’t let Madam know about this.”

Hence, Nanny Zhou decided to wipe her tears away and swallow her words instead.

“Madam, please stay with Mister.” She was practically pleading her. “Madam, I know he’s let you down and has not taken good care of the child. But, Mister doesn’t have it easy as well, and he really loves you!”

Xia Ling was miserable too. Thinking back about how she and Pei Ziheng had been through thick and thin together over the years, tears welled up in her eyes as well.

Even so, she stood her ground.

Li Lei was still waiting for her at Skyart Entertainment, and he was the one that she truly wanted to spend the rest of her life with. She closed her eyes for a while, and when she reopened them, her voice was void of emotions. “Where’s the chauffeur, get him to send me away.”

Nanny Zhou did not manage to persuade her and continued crying as she walked Xia Ling to the car.

At the car, Nanny Zhou handed her a briefcase. “Madam, you have to take this along with you. Mister prepared this.”

Xia Ling did not know what it contained and wanted to decline it.

Nanny Zhou’s tears came again. “If you don’t accept it, Mister will be even more hurt. Please, please don’t hurt him any further.”

Hence, Xia Ling bit her lip and swallowed her words of rejection.

The Rolls-Royce took her to Skyart Entertainment.

Xia Ling looked up at the tall building through the car window. At that moment, everything felt so foreign.

“Madam, I can’t send you any further.” The chauffeur was suppressing his unhappiness towards her. If not for Mister’s orders that they were not to be rude to her, how could he still bring himself to address her as “Madam”? For a wretched woman who abandoned her husband when he was facing a rough patch, she did not deserve to be addressed so politely!

The servants did not know about the past disputes between her and Pei Ziheng and thought that she was a materialistic and ungrateful woman who was returning to her old flame’s embrace once Imperial Entertainment was facing trouble. Some even thought that she had been staying by Pei Ziheng’s side to plot against him.

Poor Mister remained devoted to her and even decided to let her go when he was no longer able to provide her the luxuries of life.

It took the chauffeur immense effort to keep all these words in.

Xia Ling put on her shades before alighting from the car with her travel briefcase.

Now that she stood before the main entrance of Skyart Entertainment, apprehension crept up on her.

She walked in anyway.

It was bustling in the main lobby, and celebrities being accompanied by their managers, assistants and the like were a common sight. She was petite in stature and had a pastel green top on. In the crowd, she was so unnoticeable, especially because she had her shades on.

She orientated herself in the lobby and approached the receptionist.

“Good morning, how can I help you?” The receptionist was polite and warm.

Xia Ling said, “Could you help me get Li Lei?” She was released by Pei Ziheng, but he had not given her a cellphone before she left. There was no way she could contact Li Lei, and she did not even know if he was currently in the office.

The receptionist looked at her for a while, finding it rather strange as it was uncommon for people to ask for the Boss the moment they came. She asked Xia Ling, “Miss, may I have your name, please? Do you have an appointment with him?”

Xia Ling replied, “I don’t have an appointment, I’m—” She was about to give her name but remembered the news about her infidelity that had been going around recently. Would it look bad on Li Lei if she looked for him so openly? But she missed him too much to delay meeting him any more.

“Is he in the office today?” She changed the topic.

The receptionist was taken aback by her directness. “You don’t have an appointment? I’m sorry, but I cannot tell you whether Boss is in the office today.”

Xia Ling felt a surge of urgency.

She thought for a while and decided to just go for it. “I’m Ye Xingling. Please give Li Lei a call and let him know who I am. He’ll see me.”

“Ye Xingling?!” The receptionist was stunned. Who would’ve expected to see her here—the news had been going on about Big Boss’ conflict with Chairman Pei, and she was the reason behind all these?!

Her voice had reached several pitches higher out of shock.

In that instant, several people had turned their heads toward them.

Xia Ling furrowed her brows. Not wanting to be surrounded by the others, she hurried the receptionist. “Please, help me give Li Lei a call.”

“Oh, right, sure.” If it were Ye Xingling, Boss might really be willing to see her.

The inner tattletale in the receptionist was more than eager to verify the news she had been reading and immediately made the call to the chairman’s office.

Chapter 493: Visitor Pass
Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

The chairman’s office was huge, consisting of two rooms.

The two special assistants Su Tang and Tan Ying worked in the external part of the office. They submitted all of the documents to Li Lei, as well as answered his phone calls. Today, Tan Ying was out for work, and only Su Tang was present.

Su Tang picked up a call and coldly said, “Ye Xingling? Say that Boss won’t see her.”

After that, she hung up the phone with a beautiful and long jade-like hand, her eyebrows gently arched. Why did Ye Xingling come at this time? Recently, Li Lei defeated Imperial for her. She did not come this time to plead for Imperial, right?

If Ye Xingling were really here to plead… she did not care.

Su Tang was deep in thought. The more she sided with Imperial, the more she pushed Li Lei out, and the chances of her getting back together with Li Lei would be smaller. However, what if she did not come to ask for a favor? As the outside world said, perhaps Ye Xingling was a social climber, had loose morals, and would follow any powerful man?

What should she do if she came here seeking refuge with Li Lei?

Su Tang did not know about the oath. She also did not know that Li Lei was only able to crush Imperial because of Preceptor Xia’s help. She genuinely thought that Li Lei attacked Imperial out of anger and happened to be lucky.

The internal phone range again.

Su Tang picked it up, but it was still the young girl at the front desk. “Special assistant Su, Miss Ye refuses to go. She said that I definitely did not inform Boss and that it was impossible that Boss would refuse to see her.”

Su Tang was somewhat impatient. “Boss is busy dealing with business. Can she afford to waste his time?”

The girl at the front desk stammered. “How about you inform him again…”

In the office, there were already speculations that special assistant Su was secretly in love with Boss. However, Su Tang was always restrained and elegant and concealed her emotions very well. Thus, no one could tell for sure. Unfortunately for the front desk girl, there was an impasse between Big Boss’ rumored girlfriend A and rumored girlfriend B.

She still did not want to be fired!

However, Su Tang hung up the phone again. The front desk girl looked at Xia Ling with a troubled expression. “Miss Ye, Boss still doesn’t want to see you. How about you leave first?”

Xia Ling felt that something was wrong. “Just now, you called Su Tang and not Li Lei?”

“I’m not qualified to contact Boss.” The front desk girl weakly said. “All of the internal calls are answered by special assistant Su.” She really hoped that Miss Ye would be able to distinguish between the truth and falsehood. If Miss Ye were really with Big Boss, she might ask Big Boss not to fire her.

Xia Ling did not know about the secretive thoughts of the front desk girl. She lightly lowered her head and remembered that Su Tang did not like her very much. Was she the one creating difficulties for her? She said to the front desk girl, “Can I borrow the phone?”

The front desk girl handed the phone to her.

Xia Ling took it. Based on her memory, she directly called Li Lei’s phone.

Li Lei was currently revising the operational plan and talking to the general manager of the Strategic Investment Department about a crucial point. When the phone rang, he glanced at it. After seeing that it was a foreign number, he did not pick it up.

Xia Ling waited for a while, but no one answered.

She refused to give up and called again. This time, Li Lei directly rejected the call.

“Aren’t you going to answer the call?” The general manager of the Strategic Investment Department asked. “There are two consecutive calls. Maybe there is something urgent.”

Li Lei dismissed it and said, “It’s probably an advertisement.” He saved all the contacts of close friends and family members on his phone, so if they called, it would not be a foreign number. Besides, if it was really urgent, they could find the company’s landline and directly transfer the call to him from there.

“This investment plan is very urgent. Let’s talk first.” As he spoke, Li Lei pointed his finger at a place on the proposal. “If I were Pei Ziheng, I would fight back from here…”

Both of them started talking seriously again.

The front desk looked at Xia Ling as she made the call. The surrounding people also glanced at her. Skyart Entertainment was a place with people who liked to gossip. Xia Ling only needed to stand at the front desk for a minutes before news spread throughout the company that she was carrying a suitcase and looking for Li Lei. Was it because she had left the crumbling Pei Family to seek refuge with Big Boss Li?

The nosy crowd started to use every excuse they had to walk past the front desk.

“The call didn’t get through?” The front desk girl asked Xia Ling. She was a little skeptical of the news now. Why didn’t Boss answer the call if Miss Ye called him just now? Was their relationship as close as rumored, or was it just Miss Ye’s wishful thinking?

This girl was speculating so much that she forgot that her phone number was foreign.

Xia Ling came back to reality and handed the phone back to the front desk girl. “Thank you.”

After thinking about it, she asked, “Can you help me contact Sister Mai Na?”

“Sister Mai Na?” The front desk girl checked the internal line. “Please wait.” She dialed Sister Mai Na’s number. After a while, she told Xia Ling, “I’m really sorry Miss Ye. Sister Mai Na is not in the office.”

Xia Ling sighed. “What about Wei Shaoyin? Is Wei Shaoyin here?”

The front desk girl lowered her head and attentively did a check.

This time, there was pleasant news. “Mr. Wei is in recording studio B. He said he’s busy now, so he can’t come down to greet you. He told me to give you a visitor’s card so you can go straight to the main building.”

When Wei Shaoyin was busy, he would become testy and unreasonable. In this case, she was lucky that he remembered to ask someone to give her a visitor’s card. Xia Ling knew that she could not ask for too much.

Thus, she smiled at the front desk girl. “Thank you.” For today’s sake, she could only visit Wei Shaoyin for a while before meeting with Li Lei.

The young girl at the front desk was not able to determine her relationship with Boss, but since the company’s chief music producer did not object to her being there and even wanted her to have a visitor’s pass, the rumors must be real. As someone familiar with the important people of the company, she deeply understood that with Wei Shaoyin’s explosive personality, he would not meet any guests now unless it was extremely important.

She gave Xia Ling two visitor passes. “The silver one is for Block B. The visitor pass for Block B and Block A is not connected, so you have to take a detour. If you take the visitor pass for Block A, things will be different because you can go straight through this path on the side of the road.” She guessed that Wei Shaoyin was a busy person and did not remember that the visitor passes were not universal. Considering that the relationship between Xia Ling and Boss was still a mystery, she could only give Xia Ling a silver pass for the sake of preserving her job.

Xia Ling acknowledged her efforts. She took the two visitor passes and thanked her readily.

Just as she was about to use her pass, suddenly, she heard a cool, jade-like sound—

“Who gave her the visitor’s pass for Block A?”

Chapter 494: Special Assistant Su in Action
Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

Xia Ling turned around and saw a woman wearing lilac silk embroidered and crocheted dress.

She spent some effort before finally remembering that this elegant and beautiful woman was Su Tang. They had not seen each other since the Li Family’s headquarters, but she still remembered that Su Tang placed a time bomb on her helicopter. If it weren’t for Li Feng, at that moment, she would have turned into dust in the vast open sea.

The past was coming back to her.

She remembered that Li Lei said that he had already transferred Su Tang away from him. Why was she back again?

Xia Ling did not really like this elegant yet secretive woman. After all, no one liked people who tried to murder them. She looked at Su Tang and took off her sunglasses. “What do you want?”

Su Tang did not think that Xia Ling would be this confident.

In Su Tang’s imagination, no matter how hard Xia Ling begged Li Lei to let the Pei Family off or sought refuge with Li Lei, she should be extremely fearful. Why did she look so confident instead?

What she did not know was that Xia Ling had undergone tremendous changes in the past few days and finally got out of Pei Ziheng’s control. She wholeheartedly thought that she could return to Li Lei, but after he did not pick up her calls, she was annoyed now. Coincidentally, she also bumped into Su Tang, the one who blocked her calls just now.

“Did you even tell Li Lei that I’m here?” Xia Ling asked coldly.

Su Tang smiled elegantly. “Young Master is very busy and has no time to see you, Mrs. Pei.” She deliberately emphasized the words “Mrs. Pei” and raised her volume so that people who were hungry for gossip nearby heard her clearly. “You’ve already married someone else and gave birth to an heir for Mr. Pei. Why are you here to meet your husband’s rival in public?”

“I don’t need you to care about what I do.” Xia Ling stated in a cold voice. “Please give way and don’t hinder me from using the pass.” There was internal security in Skyart. Without a pass, she could not enter the building.

“Who was the one who gave her the pass?” Su Tang refused to give way and asked the front desk girl.

Just now, after she rejected Xia Ling’s transfer call, she felt that something was wrong. What if Xia Ling met Li Lei through other means? What happened if they rekindled their love? She had to stop them from meeting. After Li Lei completely defeated Imperial and the Pei Family went bankrupt, perhaps Xia Ling would hate Li Lei, and the two of them would no longer be possible.

Thus, Su Tang rushed to the front desk.

The young girl at the front desk had always been a little scared of Su Tang. She was too elegant, no-nonsense, and was the famous cold beauty in the company. The front desk girl said timidly, “It was Mr. Wei Shaoyin who said to give Miss Ye the pass. He wants Miss Ye to go to Block B from the main building to find him.”

“So you gave Ye Xingling two passes?” Su Tang’s voice became colder.

The front desk girl shyly nodded.

Su Tang slightly moved her thin lips, and her voice was like a broken glass bead. “Do you know that Wei Shaoyin doesn’t have the authority to issue a guest pass into the main building?” The recording studio was in Block B, and the main building which was in Block A was the administrative office building. It housed the chairman’s office, the finance department, the legal department, various economic strategy departments, information centers and more. Miscellaneous people were not permitted to enter.

The front desk girl was stunned and speechless.

Of course, she knew that Wei Shaoyin did not have the authority to issue visitor passes to the main building, but this was not a big deal since Skyart was not a very strict place. It was common for visitors to walk past Block A to get to Block B conveniently, and everyone turned a blind eye to it. When were the rules suddenly so strict?

However, if one really looked at it, the front desk girl was the most unlucky.

She could only bow her head obediently as Su Tang reprimanded her. “Do you know who Ye Xingling is? She’s the wife of Imperial Entertainment’s Chairman Pei, the chairman’s wife. How could you let someone with such a special title directly into the main building? Will you able to take responsibility if something happens?”

In actuality, she appeared to be reprimanding the front desk girl, but she was actually reprimanding Xia Ling—she was already Pei Ziheng’s wife, so she should not come to Skyart to steal trade secrets!

Many smart onlookers understood what Su Tang meant.

She was right. Did this Mrs. Pei think she was still a singer in Skyart? How could she casually enter the main building? Skyart and her husband’s Imperial were still fighting intensively, but she did not know how to avoid suspicion!

Xia Ling was dumbfounded.

Although she lost her child, her stupidity remained.

She did not understand what Su Tang meant and very stupidly said, “I don’t want her to take responsibility.”

Startled, Su Tang was actually speechless after hearing what Xia Ling said. She had always been elegant and always spoke in a roundabout way. When she encountered such a girl with a low IQ, for a moment, she did not know how to deal with it. After pausing for a few seconds, she finally said, “You can’t enter the main building.”

“I want to go in.”

“You can’t go in.”

“Oh.” Xia Ling initially set her mind on entering the main building, but suddenly, she realized that she could take a detour by entering another building. Although Wei Shaoyin did not have the authority to visit the main building, he was in control of the building where his recording studio was! Since she did not manage to talk to Li Lei, she could not take advantage of Li Lei’s boss position, but she could still take advantage of the big producer’s position somewhere else.

Xia Ling, who was clear about that, turned around and left.

“You!” Su Tang was taken aback. Did she succeed so easily? It was said that Ye Xingling was argumentative and a master at arguing. She had defeated Xia Yu, Gu Lin, and others miserably. Now, it did not seem this way. Su Tang was at a loss for words.

She did not know that Xia Ling liked arguing, but today, she was not in the mood.

Recently, too many things had happened. Her pregnancy, getting a marriage certificate, having a baby, having her child pass away, getting hurt, the Pei Family’s misfortune… Today, she left Pei Ziheng with extremely complicated feelings to look for Li Lei. She was emotionally exhausted. So, how could she have the energy to look for more trouble?

If there were no necessity to quarrel, she would not argue with anyone.

Besides, she really didn’t like Su Tang. In the future, she would ask Li Lei to stay further away from her.

Xiao Ling swaggered out.

Su Tang looked at her back-view and did not even feel the joy of being a winner. In contrast, the more relaxed Xia Ling felt, the more nervous she became. She just felt that… something was wrong.

“At the end, special assistant Su is still more awesome.” Nearby, a small supervisor tried to curry favor with Su Tang and laughed. “You chased Imperial Entertainment’s chairman’s wife away with just a few words.”

“Yes, exactly.” People continuously agreed. “If special assistant Su steps in, she will definitely win.”

The administrative building was different from the studio building and managerial building. The artistic building had a free spirit, and there were no proper formalities. However, on this side, there were many white-collar workers. Although there was less competition than other companies, it was not completely absent.

Many people were willing to flatter Su Tang a little when they saw her.

Chapter 495: Thank you Lady Boss
Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

A faint smile appeared on Su Tang’s face.

She watched as Xia Ling walked out of the automatic door.

It was already close to noon. The outdoor sun was a little bit blinding. Xia Ling raised her hand to cover her forehead and slightly narrowed her eyes, trying to decide if she should turn left or right.

At this time, a man chased after her. “Xiao Ling!”

Everyone was shocked. “Bo… bo… boss! He chased after Ye Xingling!”

What was this sorcery? Ye Xingling actually made boss personally chase after her! Those who were aware of the situation had already turned to look at Su Tang’s expression and realized that she was not looking very well. Just now, the person who stopped Ye Xingling from seeing the boss was her. Boss’ behavior was simply a slap in her face.

Su Tang was shocked. Why did Li Lei come out?

How did he know that Ye Xingling was here?

This was because Li Lei hung up on the foreign number.

He had always been efficient when doing work in the office and quickly worked out the next step with the general manager of the Strategic Investment Department. After that, he finally remembered the strange call and redialed the number.

The person who answered the call was the front desk girl.

“Bo… bo… boss!” After she realized that the Big Boss had called her, the front desk girl was so excited that she turned incoherent. “Are you asking why I called you? No, the person who called you wasn’t me. It was Imperial Entertainment’s chairman’s wife, Mrs. Pei! Ye Xingling! She was here looking for you!”

Li Lei finally realized that he had missed something and rushed downstairs after ending the call.

At last, he managed to catch up at the entrance.

Xia Ling turned around and saw Li Lei.

Today, he was wearing a clean white shirt buttoned randomly, revealing a light brown, well-proportioned chest which made many girls blush as he walked past them. He stopped in front of Xia Ling, bowed his head and smiled breezily. “Xiao Ling, you’re here.”

Xia Ling tilted her head as she looked at him unhappily. “I’m not here to see you.”

“Huh?”

“I’m here to see Wei Shaoyin, hmph.” She became arrogant. After rejecting her calls, why did he bother to chase after her? “Ah Wei immediately invited me over after one call. What about you? Now that Skyart has expanded, you’re also busier!” She glared at him ferociously.

Big Boss Li felt wronged. How would he know she had called? If he knew, he would not have dared to reject her call! Big Boss Li apologized to his most beloved person. “I was in the wrong. I won’t do it ever again.” His attitude was good when apologizing; like a student after being reprimanded by his teacher.

Xia Ling laughed out loud, her Initially depressed feelings fading.

She lightly leaned over to look at him. Tears brimming in her eyes, she softly said, “I’m back.”

As soft as feathers.

However, it made Li Lei’s heart to explode in happiness.

What did she say? She’s back!

Back to his side and no longer going back to Pei Ziheng’s side?!

In an instant, the entire world became background noise. Only her pure smile was completely clear in front of his eyes. The moment she looked at his smile was like the blooming of the most beautiful flower in the world…

In a daze, he stepped forward, took her into his arms and kissed her.

It was a long and meticulous kiss that was filled with countless attachment and feelings since their parting. He was completely immersed in the kiss. At first, it was just light sucking, but it gradually became a violent and domineering siege of her lips. She gradually felt that it was hard to breathe in his arms and finally pushed him away. The surroundings were silent.

Everyone.

Everyone was staring at them.

Oh my god… were they mistaken? The onlookers felt that they were going crazy. What was wrong with the boss? Did he really have an affair with Imperial’s Mrs. Pei? How could he be so immersed in his kiss with a married woman?! Why did they not know about Big Boss Li’s fetish before? Was it dating someone else’s wife?!

Everyone was bewildered.

Su Tang’s expression was very unsightly. She had been Li Lei’s special assistant for so many years, even before Xia Ling’s appearance. Li Lei also had so many women around that she had to appear unaffected. However, now, after witnessing this romantic scene in front of her, she was broken.

Her look was so terrifying that it scared the front desk girls. Oh god, special assistant Su looked ghastly… In contrast, the girl who was in the boss’ arms was bathed in pure golden sunlight and looked as beautiful as an angel.

Although, that was Chairman Pei’s wife.

Did their boss really defeat his competitor for his wife? This was simply too low, too shameless, too… overbearing!

The young front desk girls were starry-eyed as they stared at their boss.

Xia Ling had already pushed out of Li Lei’s arms. In front of so many people, her face turned beetroot red. “Shameless man.” She whispered.

Boss Li smiled widely. Suddenly, he lifted her hand and announced to the surrounding onlookers. “Your lady boss is back! Today, I will treat everyone to a feast!”

“Yeah!” Everyone cheered.

Although they didn’t understand what he meant by “your lady boss is back” since Mrs. Pei had not divorced Boss Pei yet, they all understood that a feast was underway, and the boss was treating them! With their previous experience of working with Li Lei, that meant a really extravagant feast! It would be incomparable, and would exceed everyone’s expectations!

The crowd was filled with tears of happiness.

“Thank you, boss! Thank you, lady boss!” Right now, they didn’t care about whose wife Xia Ling was and their moral integrity. A feast was about to happen!

The crowd celebrated as they rushed off to spread the good news.

Only Su Tang stood in the noisy crowd with a cold expression.

Li Lei linked arms with Xia Ling as he walked towards the company. As he walked, he gently said to Xia Ling, “Be careful… Slow down… How is your wound? Don’t let it split open again.”

Xia Ling smiled and said, “I’m not that fragile.” When she passed Su Tang, there was a faint pleasant smell of body wash that was mesmerizing.

The jealousy in Su Tang’s eyes deepened. She then concealed it with some self-control.

“Young Master, don’t you think it isn’t very good to let Mrs. Pei in?” When the two of them passed the door, Su Tang said coldly. She looked calmly and sincerely at Li Lei.

Li Lei frowned. “Xiao Ling being here is like being in her own home.”

“This is Skyart, not Mrs. Pei’s home. Mrs. Pei’s home is in Imperial.” Su Tang refused to relent. Although she sounded elegant and cool, she had a ruthless character behind her gentle appearance.

What she said caused a few onlookers to stare at them again.

Special assistant Su and Mrs. Pei… did not get along.