Reborn: The Return of the Villainous Mr. Liu

A year later.

Chyou whistled in a good mood as she reached the set. Her manager, Sun Jiang, waved her hand at her.

"Chyou!"

"Jiangjiang!"

"You seem to be in a good mood," she raised her brow.

Chyou grinned. "Yes, I am in a very good mood. I don't know why though. My sixth sense tells me that something awesome is going to happen today~"

"Only awesome things have been happening with you~ First you won the best actress award and your boyfriend won the best newcomer award. I am telling you Chyou!" She sobbed. "Drag Gu Yating in this industry. Today he has won the newcomer award but if this trajectory continues, then he has the making of a King! The Best Actor award is not so far in the future."

She sighed. "I would also love for him to come here but he is already the Chief Editor of Dream High and also the CEO of Gu Corps. Two major responsibilities are already tiring enough. A third career at this point will be too much."

Sun Jiang covered her face. "It bleeds my heart to see such great talent slipping past me. Ah the pain…"

"Editor, CEO and actor," Chyou grinned. "Isn't my boyfriend's resume so amazing?"

"Yes, yes, you boyfriend-complex woman," she rolled her eyes. "We all know how lovey-dovey you two are. Shoo, take it somewhere else."

Chyou stuck out her tongue and went to her dressing room. The rest of her day was consumed by the new movie shooting and when dusk settled in the sky, she had no energy to lift even a finger.

"Haish…!" she collapsed back on her chair, exhaling in exhaustion. She sent back her makeup assistants for the day.

"Are you sure Mam? Everybody is leaving a little early today."

"Yes, yes. Don't worry. I will be leaving in sometime myself once Yating comes to pick me up~" she winked.

The assistants got blinded by her ecstatic golden zeal.

Ah the Queen looks so beautiful! Is this the shine of loveeee?

I also want a boyfriend! The assistants unanimously thought.

They bade her goodbye for the day and closed the door.

Chyou did some simple exercises to relieve her shoulder stiffness and felt relaxed. The Q pendant twinkled on her neck as usual and she grinned. She picked her phone and scrolled through her messages.

She raised her brow. "Huh…"

A knock was heard a few minutes later and she said while still busy typing on her phone, "Come in."

The door creaked open and a pair of footsteps came in. The door then shut.

Chyou grinned without looking up. "Is it my handsome boyfriend~? I was waiting for you. You know Jiangjiang was sobbing sad tears to me today. She so badly wants you to drag in this industry and personally groom you to become the best actor. Director Murong is also so upset.

He regularly keeps asking me if you have changed your mind. It feels like he has tons of scripts ready for you. Even the fans are crying to see you on the big screen again."

Her brow twitched. "Why do I feel that you have become more popular than me? But it's good that you are not interested so that I can hog you all to myself~! Ahahaha!"

When she heard no response, she frowned and looked up. "Why are you so silent-"

She froze as the man that stood before her was a man she never wanted to see again.

Cheng Yin had already become a part of her history, yet he appeared before her in her present as if nothing had changed.

But a lot had actually changed. Cheng Yin hardly looked recognizable anymore with the beard that was seemingly unshaved for a long time and baggy clothes that were torn here and there.

"Long time no see, Chyou."

"Y-you…" Chyou stuck her back on the chair as if urgently trying to make some distance between them. "What are you doing here!?"

A sinister chuckle escaped his lips. "You didn't expect me to be here, right? Not after more than a year has already passed. You thought I was history, didn't you?"

She trembled, the bright shades of her face becoming paler and paler. "Get out, Cheng Yin! H-How did you even enter the set!?"

"Ah the set…brings back good memories," he whispered in a daze. "We used to enjoy working together so much. But now I cannot even enter the set. I was in luck that the security was a little lax today."

Chyou remembered her assistants saying that everybody was leaving a little early today.

"The guard should still be at his post-"

"I knocked him out only to meet you," he smiled. "How the days have changed Chyou. I am being reduced to enter like a criminal only to meet you."

Chyou breathed out, clutching her phone hard.

"Don't even try to scream or use your phone," Cheng Yin warned as took out a knife. It shone menacingly in the light.

Her expression further dropped. "W-what…Why do you have a knife? What are you to planning to do…?"

"Something that I have been wishing for a long time," his eyes narrowed. "I am in this state only because of you and that bastard Gu Yating. You rejected my love despite my cries and pleas. You broke my heart and now you Gu Yating's girlfriend? He is enjoying everything that I used to have once. So I wonder what his expression will be if he sees your dead body," he tilted his head.

Chyou looked in horror. "Have you lost your mind! You want to kill me because I broke up with you? Because you cheated on me? You think…I should have just accepted your betrayal like a mindless doll?"

"If it allowed me to keep my status, career and happiness intact then why not?" He laughed without a hint of remorse.

"You…"

"But it's too late," he sighed. "I have been secretly following you for a long time only to get this chance to have my revenge on you and Gu Yating," he walked forward, the knife shining even more viciously than before.

"Stay away from me, Cheng Yin!" She screamed with all her might, her eyes fearful and desperate.

"I will kill you today, Zhu Chyou. Kill the Queen once and for all. Only then my heart will get some peace…"

With a callous and cold gaze, he raised his arm to stab her. He enjoyed the sight of tears and fear in her eyes and the smile which was now gone from her lips. He had longed to see a helpless Chyou.

But his happiness was short-lived when a hand pulled his wrist backward and knocked out the knife from his hand.

"That's enough, Cheng Yin."

He jerked his head back and his eyes widened the next second.

"Are you done?" Yating met his gaze with an extremely frigid countenance. "I must admit that's some serious guts to be wanting my girlfriend dead."

"Oh you are finally here!" Chyou chirped merrily and got up on her feet, dusting her dress.

Cheng Yin blinked at her, his mind not registering the sudden positive change in her demeanor.

What the fuck…

She frowned at him. "Why are you looking at me like an idiot? You have worked with me before so you should have realized that I was acting, right?"

He stared at her hard.

She gasped with his reaction. "Oh my gosh, I am so talented Yating! I fooled the ex-Prince of the entertainment industry! He actually believed my tears just like I had believed in his fake feelings for me at one point."

She brightened. "Oh my this tit for tat feels so amazing!"

Yating dotingly smiled. "As expected of my girlfriend."

She sheepishly blushed. "Thank you, thank you."

"Shut up!" Cheng Yin exclaimed, his rage bursting forth with the unexpected turn of events. "Why the hell is Gu Yating here and why the hell are you laughing?"

Chyou rolled her eyes. "Well duh~ Of course I will laugh if you fell prey to our plan, right?"