A Star Reborn: The Queen’s Return - Chapter 1396
Chapter 1396: Crisis Resolution
The door was closed gently, and she unknowingly walked to the window, watching his figure go further and further on the flowery path. She didn’t know what she was doing, but she turned around and opened the door before catching up with him. “Wait!”
He turned back in the flowers and the morning light. “Ah Luo?”
She was still wearing a blood-stained silk satin nightdress. Her hair flared around her, and her chest slightly undulated due to her sharp movements. She looked at him and suddenly didn’t know what to say. After a while, she said, “I’ll let the butler send you.”
A little hope in his eyes faded away.
“Ah Luo, can you send me away?”
The floral scent of summer spread between the two and unknown birds sang lightly in the forest. Her blood-stained nightdress was swayed by the breeze and stood under a bush of flowers at the end of the path, faintly fragile and at a loss.
He asked again, “Can you?”
She turned to her side. “I’m not so free.” Then, she was afraid he might have misunderstood and explained. “You have a battleship on your body, so it’ll be safer if the butler sends you away. What if the battleship is lost halfway?” She couldn’t even bear to hear this excuse by herself. With the technology of human beings today, they wouldn’t even know what the little thing Wei Lingnan had on were. So why should he worry about losing it?
“Really?” He looked down, his emotions fading. “I’ll be careful.”
He walked outward very slowly like a toddler, and she could easily hold him as long as she stepped forward a few steps. However, she didn’t step forward or speak again, so he had to walk through the corners of the path slowly, through the magnificent wood of hibiscus and hydrangea, until they could no longer see each other.
Xia Yingluo was uncomfortable and felt a sort of heavy mood that she couldn’t even identify.
She returned to her room to bathe and changed into her clean clothes. When she went down to the restaurant for breakfast, Li Rui was very excited. “Take out the battleship and show it to me later. It can be folded into a tiny cuboid, it’s too amazing. I have to examine it carefully.”
She was absentminded. “What can you even examine?”
The Skatana’s technology had developed to the current level after the efforts of many generations, and allowing Li Rui, from an uncivilized race on the edge of the universe, to study the most advanced technology in the universe, was simply tantamount to giving aircraft carriers to little babies.
Li Rui was dissatisfied. “Why are you looking down on me? Can’t you just give it to me to play with?” His eyes sparkled and he looked imploringly at his sister. “Little sister, look at how your brother has helped you and stayed by your side for so many years. Why don’t you just give me a glance? Just one glance.”
Xia Yingluo rejected him with one sentence. “I gave it to Wei Lingnan.”
“What?” Li Rui paused, not even knowing that the fork in his hand fell off. “You gave it to him? When did he come to you? Oh, what’s wrong with our alarm system? There wasn’t any response at all, how could I not know anything?!”
Xia Yingluo rubbed her forehead. Was this elder brother a husky? Why was he so vigorous and full of curiosity?
On the entire Earth, the place that could defend against Wei Lingnan was only the Xia family’s territory. There was a layered array method under The Preceptor’s magic. With the power of the planet, an alien like Wei Lingnan couldn’t easily invade. Then it was the city, the villa where she and her parents and brothers often lived. Under the joint defense of Xia Moyan and Li Lei, they arranged a lot of settings specifically for Wei Lingnan, and he could be blocked immediately.
As for the other places?
It was too ridiculous.
Li Rui was stunned for a while and understood how powerful the intruder was. He no longer asked how the other party came in, but said fiercely, “The next time he does this, I’ll have to take him down! Yingluo, did that bastard hurt you?”
“No.” Xia Yingluo was still absentminded. “Second Brother, let’s go back to the city this afternoon.”
“You’re not staying here a few more days?” Li Rui frowned.
“He already found out about it, and it’s boring to live here,” Xia Yingluo said. “We’ll go back earlier. There are still a lot of announcements.” She also had to draw closure to Jiang Yu’s marriage proposal. There were still many people on the Internet arguing about whether the proposal was successful. The fans who supported its success said that Xia Yingluo had already promised verbally, and the ceremony was considered complete. Fans who thought that the marriage proposal was unsuccessful said that Jiang Yu’s bouquet of roses was not delivered to Xia Yingluo, which meant the ceremony wasn’t completed and was a bad sign. Thus, Yingluo and Jiang Yu wouldn’t be happy together.
Both sides had their own opinions. They discussed and argued on the internet.
Everyone urged the parties to come forward and give an explanation and make closure on the proposal, but Xia Yingluo was hospitalized a few days ago, and they didn’t get to fulfill their wishes. Now that there was news about Wei Lingnan’s new anti-cancer drugs after she was discharged from the hospital, countless people around the world hoped that Xia Yingluo would be with Wei Lingnan so that Wei Lingnan could improve the new anti-cancer drug with a peace of mind and even have some staged demonstrations in certain regions.
It could be said that the eyes of the whole world were on Xia Yingluo. They were all hoping that she would stand up and settle it.
Li Rui also knew that she couldn’t hide and sighed. “It’s all because you were born in the Li family’s house. These days, Dad and the rest are all helping you stop several kidnappings and attacks. There are even more secret oppressions. If you were born in an ordinary family, I’m afraid you would have been shipped to Wei Lingnan’s bed a long time ago.”
Xia Yingluo didn’t argue with him and said lightly, “I hope he was warned after the battleship incident yesterday.” She was also confused. As soon as he appeared this morning, all the persecution was thrown out of the clouds. The way he resigned the guardian contract with him regardless of himself made her so shocked that she forgot to order him to settle the outside world matters.
In the afternoon, she and Li Rui returned to S City as scheduled.
Xia Ling waited for her at home, and Li Lei made a table full of desserts for their baby daughter. She said in distress, “It has been hard on you these days. You lost so much weight. Eat more and supplement your body.”
Xia Yingluo dug a spoonful of matcha cake for her. “Mom, you eat too.”
Both mother and daughter were passionate about desserts. There was a sentence called “There’s no problem that can’t be solved by dessert. If one spoon isn’t enough, then eat two.” Two equally beautiful and charming women wiped out the dessert together, and gradually, their low mood faded away.
“People like Wei Lingnan deserve a beating,” Xia Ling said while snatching the chocolate hazelnut pudding from her daughter. “He will only be good once stimulated. He just released the news saying that improved versions of the new anti-cancer drugs have been successfully developed. All patients can buy it at a very low price. Now there’s a lot of cheering outside, and those who wanted to find trouble with you have all dispersed.”