A Star Reborn: The Queen’s Return

The tall and well-built man finally spoke. “What’s wrong with you?”

Jin Ling’er was taken aback by his question. What did he mean what’s wrong with her?

The man only looked at her quietly.

His assistant, who was accustomed to his boss’ speaking style, quickly interpreted what he meant. “Chairman Du meant to ask what happened to you. He saw you being thrown out and scolded for a long time. Did Sister Qi and the group bully you?” Just now when he got out of the car with Chairman Du, he saw his own crew throw her out with his own eyes.

Only then did Jin Ling’er react. “Sister Qi and her crew? Does this mean that you are related to that group of people? No wonder. Who are you?” Her last question was directed to Chairman Du.

“I am Du Zheng,” the man said simply.

Du Zheng? Jin Ling’er suddenly realized who he was and widened her eyes. “You are Du Zheng?! Chairman Du Zheng of the Du Family Cultural Corporation?!” Like a typical girl of her age, she loved gossip, especially gossip related to the major companies in the entertainment industry. Although the Du Family Corporation was not as large as Imperial Entertainment or Skyart Entertainment, it was not small in size either and ranked highly in the list of entertainment companies. Most importantly, the group she had some conflict with had shares in the Du Company.

“Yes,” Du Zheng said. “Now, can you tell me what happened?”

Imperial Entertainment rarely collaborated with the Du Family Corporation. This time, Imperial Entertainment wanted to borrow the star of Du Family Corporation, Yang Mengqi, to act in a new show. Yang Mengqi had an amicable personal relationship with Du Zheng. After hearing that Du Zheng would have a business discussion nearby, she invited him to visit her. Unexpectedly, once Du Zheng got out of his car, he saw this girl viciously thrown out by her.

Looking at her indignation, could it be that she was bullied by her crew?

Jin Ling’er looked at him suspiciously. Now, she had a very bad impression of these powerful people. However, things were already so bad that they could not be worse. Making a Hail Mary effect, she recklessly challenged. “Chairman Du, do you know that there’s an insider story about your crew? That Jiang Bilian is so immoral! She actually replaced Yingluo who was so outstanding during the audition and shamelessly stole her role! How can a good show be filmed like that?”

No wonder she said that this film would suffer a disastrous defeat at the box office.

However, Du Zheng was more concerned about the name she mentioned. “Yingluo?”

“Yes, Xia Yingluo.” Since he asked, Jin Ling’er decided to introduce and promote her good friend to him. “Our Yingluo is extremely talented and the best trainee at Imperial Entertainment! She is always ranked first in the examinations every year! Her acting skills are killer, and it was said that everyone at the audition, even the director, was impressed by her. Chairman Du, give her a chance. I beg you. If you let her be in the film, it will definitely be a hit!”

His assistant convulsed in rage. Miss, isn’t this quite outrageous? The female lead of this film was obviously Sister Qi. What was she doing trying to promote the name of a small actress?

However, Du Zheng seemed to be very interested. “Do you have Xia Yingluo’s photo? Let me see it.”

“What? Oh! Yes, I do!” Seeing that there might be hope, Jin Ling’er was ecstatic. She quickly retrieved her phone from the mess of items on the floor and showed him a photo of Xia Yingluo and her. “Look, this is Xia Yingluo. She looks really pretty in the photo and is even prettier in real life! In the future, she can definitely become a famous celebrity!”

The two girls smiled brightly in the photo.

Xia Yingluo, who was wearing a hoodie, wrapped her arms around the girl in front of her like a bear. “Welcome to Imperial Entertainment’s Training Camp, New Students” was written on the bulletin board behind them and the cherry blossoms were in full bloom.

He was slightly immersed in the photo.

Jin Ling’er looked at him pleadingly. “Chairman Du, can you support her?”

He looked away from the photo and turned to Jin Ling’er. The girl in front of him looked anxious and her face was stained with dirt. However, in his eyes, she looked more beautiful than in the perfectly taken photo. How many genuine friendships were there in the world? Did Xia Yingluo know that her friend spared no effort helping her?

“Go back and wait for news.” He turned around and left.

“Chairman Du? Chairman Du? Hello?!” Jin Ling’er did not understand what he meant, but when she called him again, he did not stop and disappeared into the distance.

“Seriously, what sort of person is he?” She muttered with a mix of disappointment and hope. Would he really seek justice for her? It would be great if Yingluo could take part in that film.

In the film setting.

Summer sunlight sprinkled on the vintage street set-up.

Du Zheng’s well-built figure walked past it step by step.

Beside him, his puzzled assistant asked him, “Chairman Du, are you really going to help that girl?”

Du Zheng said, “Yes. Send someone to investigate what happened. Get rid of that Jiang Bilian and give the role to Xia Yingluo. Remember to do it discreetly and not let others find out that I was responsible for it.”

“Yes,” his assistant respectfully said. However, he could not help but have misgivings. Could it be that his boss, who was usually unpassionate, was interested in Xia Yingluo? Or perhaps Jin Ling’er?

However, he could not ask a question like that and kept it buried in his heart.

However, he did not know that when he first saw the photo, Du Zheng immediately recognized who Xia Yingluo was—

His good friend and business partner Li Shaohui’s sister, Xiao Yingluo, whom he had not seen in years.

The last time he saw her, she was only about eleven or twelve years old and was wearing a white princess dress. She covered his eyes from behind him and laughed like a silver bell as she asked him to guess who she was. The children in the Li Family were very playful and, as someone very used to rules, he was unaccustomed to her. Shaohui reprimanded her for being rude, but she just squinted her beautiful eyes and made a face.

In a blink of an eye, she had grown up.

The little princess had reached the age of leaving home, but he did not expect her to come to China.

Du Zheng generally knew the rules of the Li Family. They were not allowed to reveal their identities and contact relatives and friends. However, this was done mainly for the sake of protecting Shaohui’s heir or future children. As for princess Yingluo? If he remembered correctly, her wish since young was to live a peaceful life. What was there to protect?

Even if he wanted to secretly help her cheat, no one would get hurt.

Du Zheng’s expression softened slightly. Although Yingluo and he were like brother and sister, their age difference was too large and there were many differences between them. To him, Yingluo was more like someone of the next generation whom he saw grow up, so he could not treat her badly.

His assistant went to get the job done.

Xia Yingluo was unaware of this and she did not even know that Jin Ling’er had visited the crew.

These days, she was depressed. Why was everything always turning out wrong? She seriously considered if she should burn a joss stick to pray to the deities or do a good deed like helping an old lady cross the road.

Before Xia Yingluo could act, her luck changed and she encountered an unexpectedly good situation.