A Star Reborn: The Queen’s Return

She cried until her liver and guts were cut to pieces and heard him ask, “Did he hurt you?”

She was still crying, and her mind was in a haze. She didn’t know what to say. Her body was pulled away from him and he forced her to face him, his hands gripping tightly onto her shoulders. “Did, he, hurt, you.”

His malicious eyes scared her.

She was shocked and said, “I, I don’t know.”

“You don’t know?”

“Yes, maybe…” She remembered something. When he had been up-close talking incoherently to her, his hand had touched the wound on her chest. The blood marks that had been abraded by the diamond necklace were still faint and painful.

He suddenly threw her into the back seat of the car and roared. “I asked if he raped you!”

She was scared senseless. She looked at his red eyes and couldn’t speak. A boundless fear hit her heart. His abnormal reaction was making her feel at a loss. Rape… what was rape…?

She was still thinking about it when he violently separated her legs.

“Ah!” She cried out, shy, angry, and a lot of unclear emotions rushing into her heart. She tried in vain to close her legs and reached out to push him hard.

He was annoyed. He picked up the torn dress on the ground, tore it into two or three strips and used it to tie her hands together.

“Don’t!” She screaming, crying, “Let me go! Don’t touch me!”

He simply ignored her. He lowered his head and looked at her carefully, his rough palms pressing down forcefully onto her, making her shrink in pain.

“Don’t…” She pleaded tearfully. His actions made her ashamed and she wanted to die. Her hands struggled, but she couldn’t break out from the shackles of cloth. Soon, her wrists were swollen red.

He turned a deaf ear to her crying and supported her with his palm. He lifted her easily and carefully examined the cushion under her body.

Fortunately, there was no blood on her belly nor the cushion.

He was half relieved.

But no bloodstains didn’t mean complete insurance. She heard that some girls would not bleed during their first time, what if she was one of them? Pei Ziheng put her down and pinched her chin again, forcing her to face him despite her struggles. “Did that offal enter you?”

Under his low tone and his previous inspection, she suddenly understood what he meant. She looked at him with tears of disbelief, her face red and pale. This kind of question was simply too embarrassing to answer. Furthermore, it was just too confusing now. Her mind was in a complete blank at the moment and she couldn’t remember anything.

She was trembling all over and didn’t want to think about it. She only wished that this nightmare would end quickly.

Her voice hoarse, she begged him. “Let me go home… I want to go home…”

He sneered. “Go home?” He lowered his body and took unfair advantage to get closer to her. “You don’t want to tell me? It’s okay, I have lots of ways to find out.” He used one hand to untie the belt around his waist. The expensive heavy belt buckle fell onto the car floor with a cold and hard sound and Pei Ziheng ruthlessly pounded into her.

Xia Ling screamed out in pain.

It was too painful, an acute pain that completely caught her off guard. She only realized what was happening after a few seconds. Her face was as pale as paper and she was trembling uncontrollably.

Pain, it was too painful…

There was only this endless pain left in the whole world…

She heard him ask in her ear, “Tell me, did that offal do this to you?”

She couldn’t say anything. She could only plead weakly with her eyes, begging him to let her go.

Pei Ziheng asked fiercely, “Tell me! Did he!”

“No!” She finally cried again, her voice hoarse and almost inaudible. “No…”

Even the driver was not as cruel as him! How could he do this to her? “It hurts…” She tried her best to tell him. “It hurts, Brother Pei…”

Having forced the answer out of her, he kissed her eyes gently. “Does it hurt?”

She did not have any strength left to talk. She choked on her tears and looked at him pleadingly.

He slowly wiped away the tear from her eyes and said with an even gentle voice, “This is punishment, Xiao Ling. You asked for it. Who told you to sneak out without my permission? Did you know…” Did she know that he had to exert a lot of perseverance to restrain the urge to take her? However, all his rationality collapsed after seeing her under the body of another man. At that moment, his mind was full with only one thought, and that was—to possess her! He desperately wanted to possess her!

Without any sense of tenderness or pity, he carried out his next round of assault.

Xia Ling did not even have the strength left to cry. Her sight gradually slackened, like a small boat in a storm, letting the gale gigantic wave toss her around and drop her with all hope lost… until dark…

Pei Ziheng did not notice she fainted.

After everything was over, he looked down and saw she was in a mess. She was injured and even his naked eyes could see the vestiges of laceration on her. Was the blood from her injury or because it was her first time…?

The feeling of uncertainty irritated him. For a moment, he almost couldn’t control himself and wanted to punish her fiercely again. If she had not run away without his permission, why would this happen? Did that offal driver succeed? Even if he had checked, even if she had cried and said “No”, even when after he interrogated the driver later and the same conclusion was reached, but, the shadow in his heart was still like a ghost. It was impossible to get rid of.

He understood that he was out of control.

He shouldn’t be so cruel to her. In fact, he had never treated a woman so roughly before. Furthermore, this was her first time.

But he couldn’t control himself. At the thought of the driver, he lost all reason.

He wanted to confirm that every inch of her skin, every hair on her was his. There was a kind of overflowing anger in him. He wanted her to know that everything had been brought on by herself.

If she had just listened obediently to him and had stayed by his side, she wouldn’t have to suffer all these.