A Star Reborn: The Queen’s Return

And Xia Ling would clearly not accept her excuses.

Xia Ling’s sentence was not a question, but a definite statement. She was waiting for Xia Yu to make her confession.

Xia Yu was intelligent and immediately guessed what her sister was trying to do. After weighing her odds in her head, she gritted her teeth and said, “I was wrong. I was out of my mind then. I shouldn’t have tried to push you down the stairs when you were pregnant, and shouldn’t have thrown little Shaohui into the rubbish bin during his hundredth-day celebration… Sister, I didn’t know that you were my sister then! I thought that you were taking away everything that belonged to us sisters…”

Her tears fell unfettered as she covered her face.

The emcee was so shocked she dropped her microphone.

Offstage, there was a split second of silence in the audience as they took in what they had just heard before pandemonium broke out. What?! Xia Yu admitted to such a grave crime?! She had tried to harm Xia Ling more than once!

“That’s preposterous!” A middle-aged mother who had come to watch the Nebula Music Festival with her daughter remarked. “That girl was pregnant! How can Xia Yu push her down the stairs? She could have killed two lives! What was she thinking?!”

Her daughter’s expression was ashen. “I… I’m never liking Xia Yu again.” She had been Xia Yu’s fan and was absolutely certain that there was no way that Xiao Yu would do something like that. However, that perfect picture was broken with Xia Yu’s confession. How could she worship such a cruel and evil woman?!

The girl was regretting all that she had done to support Xia Yu.

Many in the audience were angry. “Little Shaohui is so cute… how could she bear to do that to him?! Horrible woman!”

Little Shaohui had appeared alongside Xia Ling in many occasions now, and being the adorable son of a wealthy father and a Diva mother, he was garnering his own pool of fans. They were protective of him and were furious to hear that someone had tried to kill him!

“Xia Yu is too much! That is murder!”

“Yes! Murder!”

Angry audience members dialed out to the police, hoping that the police would come to arrest Xia Yu.

The broadcast station received a call from the police station informing them that a matter like attempted murder was a criminal offense, and even if the victim didn’t report the matter to the police, they would still be activated on getting any other tip-off.

Moreover, Xia Yu is an artiste and had confessed under live broadcast. The societal impact would be grave if they didn’t take action.

The director of the music festival passed a slip of paper to the emcee who, upon reading it, turned and asked Xia Yu, “Miss Xia Yu, do you know what you are saying? Throwing little Shaohui into the rubbish bin is illegal and you will be subject to criminal liability. You need to think this through clearly!”

“I did it.” Xia Yu exclaimed. She was all-in now. So what if she had to serve a sentence? That would still be better than having her body to rot from that weird drug that Wei Lingnan gave to her! “I… after the program, I’ll go to the police station to turn myself in.”

As she spoke, her tears continued to flow. She looked at Xia Ling and said, “Sister, I genuinely regret all my actions. Can you forgive me on account that I’m going to jail and taking responsibility for what I’ve done? I beg of you… I want to go home… boohoohoo… I miss dad and mum… Sister, we both grew up in the orphanage… All these years, you know that my biggest wish is to find my biological parents. And now I know that they are still alive… can you forgive me, please? Let me see them… even if it’s just a glance… I beg you to tell me how I can find them…”

She cried so hard that her shoulders shook uncontrollably.

The Xia Family was too mysterious. Xia Yu tried all she could but didn’t manage to find a way to contact the Xia Family. Turning to Xia Ling was her last resort. To return to the Xia Family, she was prepared to give up everything!

But she also had another thought.

So what if she admitted that she tried to kill Shaohui? She was the actual daughter of the Xia Family! Even though the “Ye Xingling” in front of her now claimed to be the reincarnated Xia Ling, she still didn’t have blood ties with the Xia Family! The Xia Family wouldn’t leave the actual daughter in the lurch over an outsider, right?

She had asked Wei Lingnan what kind of family the Xia Family was.

Wei Lingnan’s lips had curled into a mysterious smile. “The Xia Family’s power goes beyond your imagination. As long as you return home, you will be set for life. You’ll be able to call the shots wherever you go and enjoy all kinds of riches.”

As long as she could return to the Xia Family, what Ye Xingling? What police? None of them would matter!

Her cries became louder, “Sister, I beg of you… forgive me… don’t keep my identity a secret from dad and mum… I really miss them…”

The audience members that hated Xia Yu’s gut just a second ago started to pity her again.

“This girl is such a poor thing… there’s much to hate about her, but there’s also a lot to sympathize with her as well…” They commented. “Even though she was out of her mind in wanting to harm Xia Ling and her son, she knows she’s in the wrong now. She’s even going to go turn herself in to the police. She might even have to go to jail… It’s fair for her to be given the chance to see her biological parents before being packed off to prison, right? She’s been an orphan for so long and just found her parents, after all…”

“Exactly, exactly…”

Many were saying, “I hope that Miss Ling can forgive her.”

Xia Ling was furious on stage. Xia Yu was still trying to act all pitiful now? What was her scheme now? Why was Xia Yu making it seem as if she was preventing her from meeting her parents?!

“I will never forgive you.” Xia Ling regarded her coldly, unmoved by her antics. “I’m a mother… and regardless of whether you’re truly regretful of your actions, I will never forgive a woman who tried to kill my child.”

Her gaze turned towards the camera and she spoke to the audience. “I’m sorry for disappointing all of you. I am a person… one with blood, tears, and emotions… I’m not an actress that was prepared by the director to perform in front of the cameras. I can’t act out a scene of reconciling with my sister just so all of you can watch a happy ending. Ask yourselves now… if your child encountered something like that… how many of you can truly forgive the culprit? My child almost died! Twice!”

Everyone was silent. Even the audience watching from home stopped munching on their snacks.

They could tell that she was truly furious. They started to reflect if a similar incident happened to them, would they be able to put it aside and forgive the culprit so easily?

No….

Many realized that they could not.

But… Xia Yu was so pitiful…

The audience were conflicted.

“Sister…” Xia Yu cried out, her knees buckling as she made to kneel down.

“Don’t kneel down to me.” Xia Ling averted her gaze. “It’s no use. Even if you didn’t kill Shaohui, you were the reason that we were separated from each other for four years… You also indirectly caused me to be separated from the love of my life for four years. Time past cannot be turned back… life as well. If not for the fact that Shaohui was thankfully saved by someone, he would have died in that rubbish dump.”