A Star Reborn: The Queen’s Return

There were many people in the auction area.

And yet, it was dead silent when Li Feng uttered those words.

His voice seemed to have suspended in the air, causing discomfort to everyone around. Under the red light, he looked all the more demonic.

Xia Ling coughed weakly, sounding like a broken ragdoll.

Li Lei looked at his brother straight in the eye. “Just what do you want?”

“What do I want?” Li Feng laughed. “Your little girlfriend was being mean, actually daring to bid against me during the auction. Since she likes that little girl so much…” He glanced at the girl in the cage and sent a chill down her spine.

Li Feng was still smiling. “Then she shall use her own little boy to exchange for her.”

“Her own little boy?” Li Lei had a bad feeling about this.

“Let me think of his name… Shaohui, am I right?” Li Feng grinned like a Cheshire cat. “Exchanging a child for an adult, you’re already having it cheap.”

“No…” Xia Ling struggled to speak even before Li Lei had said a word. Regardless of the sharp pain she felt each time she breathed a word, she said while coughing blood, “You can’t… give Shaohui… to him… you can’t…”

She looked at Li Lei with eyes that had long lost their light.

Li Feng seemed amused by their interaction. He looked at her, and then at Li Lei. “Aww, what a noble love. But Miss Ye, you can’t go back on what you’ve said.” He said to Li Lei, “To exchange the child for her or not… the choice is in your hands. Xiao Lei, all you need is to give me a slight nod, and this woman is yours again.”

It sounded like a devil’s temptation.

Li Lei knew what he was trying to achieve.

Li Feng was simply coming between them. If Li Lei really used Xia Ling’s precious child to exchange for herself, Xia Ling would hate him for life. Even if she was free from Li Feng today, she wouldn’t want to be with Li Lei again.

Li Feng’s plan was to have him doomed.

Li Lei tensed slightly. “The child isn’t on board, I can’t exchange him right now.”

He wanted to buy time to think of a better solution, but Li Feng saw right through him. He smiled sinisterly. “Xiao Lei, you’re still as naive as before. Did you really think you could fool me like that? The child is onboard, I saw him backstage just this afternoon. He’s being detained in a cage… tsk, poor thing.”

Li Feng had gone backstage in the afternoon to pick out potential slaves.

He had recognized Shaohui at once. This child had a pure aura and was very charismatic, just like his little brother in his memory. It was the first time he saw a child who had a vibe this similar to his brother.

Li Feng had wanted the child at once, but the employees refused, and even had to call the management to talk to Li Feng. Seeing that there was no way to stop him, the management had no choice but to reveal that the child was sent here by Old Master Li. Old Master had made it clear that he was only to be detained, and no one should lay a finger on him.

Li Feng figured out what was going on at once.

He did not do anything to the child back there, just so that he could use him as a pawn to pit Xia Ling and Li Lei against each other.

Li Lei sensed that things were taking a turn for the worse since Li Feng actually knew about Little Shaohui’s incident! He gave the straightest face he could manage. “I don’t know what you’re saying.”

Li Feng smiled. “You’re not handing the child over? Then you can wait to watch her die.”

Saying that, he raised his hand and aimed the whip at Xia Ling.

“Ah!” Some guests began screaming. This was too cruel to watch on.

Xia Ling watched as the whip approached her with every passing moment. She tried with all her might to move away, but the excruciating pain from her broken rib was making it impossible. She foresaw that if the whip hit her this time, it wouldn’t just be a case of split skin.

In that split second, a hand grabbed hold of the whip.

Blood trickled down the whip and dripped onto Xia Ling’s face.

Xia Ling looked up and saw that Li Lei’s arm had come between her and Li Feng. The spiked whip was latched in Li Lei’s palm as it bled.

“Li Lei…” Her voice was hoarse and weak.

The man still looked handsome, but at this moment, it was colder than ever before. Instead of looking at Xia Ling, he kept his eyes on Li Feng as if he was a venomous snake to be wary of. “Leave the woman and child out of this, you’ve been coming for me the whole time. Brother, let’s fight it out. If you win, I’ll leave it to you to punish me. If you lose, I’m taking Xiao Ling away with me.”

“And the child?” Li Feng grinned suggestively.

The Paradise employees had gone to check the cage upon hearing his words and found that the one holding Shaohui was now empty. They locked down the entire cruise and began splitting up to search for the missing child.

Li Lei felt an odd shift in the atmosphere.

But onstage, he appeared to be worried about Xia Ling with no room to be concerned for the child.

He had already rescued the child earlier and hid him in the room. Now, he could only pray that the employees were not going to check the rooms, or that Little Shaohui was smart enough to make an escape.

He looked at Li Feng. “Forget the nonsense. Are you up for the bet?”

Li Feng said, “You can exchange the child directly, you know.”

Li Lei threw a punch at him.

Li Feng managed to duck just in time, but the cobra mask on his face had slipped and scratched his cheek. He touched his cheek and licked the blood on his fingers. “So we’re doing this for real…”

He smiled even more deviously and kicked at Li Lei in a flash.

Alas, Li Lei managed to dodge it.

The two brothers began their fight onstage, and it was a spectacle.

But nobody dared to reach out and stop them.

This was an internal fight of the Li triad family, who would want to get between them and ask for trouble?

Paradise’s management and employees were getting anxious. If any of these Young Masters of the Li family was to get into trouble, Old Master Li was sure to skin them alive!

“Hurry, go look for Old Master Li!” A manager said.

An employee looked at him blankly. “Look for Old Master Li?”

“Get Old Master Li here! As fast as you can. Use the helicopter!” The manager was in a panic. “His two precious grandsons are here. No matter who gets injured, we can’t possibly compensate him!”

Although Paradise was rather powerful, and couldn’t even care less about policymakers and commercial giants, they were actually afraid of situations like these, where fights involved members of the black triad.

Paradise was running their business well and fine, how could they possibly deal with such trouble?!

The helicopter landed at where Old Master Li was in the shortest time possible.