Rong Dai stood by the window for a very long time, until her feet felt a little numb. She then took a deep breath and glanced at the time.
It was already six o'clock in the morning.
She turned and went to the kitchen to make breakfast, ate a little by herself.
Then she went to the side bedroom to take a look at Xiao Wan, who was still fast asleep, and left a note for her on the dining table. After taking a bath and washing up in the bathroom, she got dressed, took the script and went to the set.
When she arrived at the set, the other crew members were already busy working.
However, she was the earliest to arrive among the actors.
"Mrs. Huo is here so early?"
Seeing Rong Dai arrive at the crew so early, Zhu Li couldn't help but be a little surprised. She was carefully cleaning the makeup tools.
Rong Dai smiled slightly and nodded, "I've had enough rest these past few days. I wanted to come early to get familiar with the set."
She sat down and looked at herself in the mirror, smiling at Zhu Li, "It will trouble you again." Then she habitually opened the script in her hand and started reading it.
Zhu Li looked at her with a deep look in her eyes.
She had been working with Rong Dai for a few months, and she had never met such an easy-going actress or rich lady before.
Rong Dai was easy-going in the crew. Even if some of the crew members had offended her before, she just laughed it off.
She looked at the makeup brush in her hand, then stuffed it back into the box and took out another set, and started to apply Rong Dai's makeup according to the director's request.
Rong Dai was reading the script carefully and naturally didn't notice her subtle move.
After other actors arrived at the set one after another, Qiao Wanzhou and Zhou Jing both took leave. Rong Dai had fallen behind on several scenes during her days off, so the scenes were temporarily changed to make up Rong Dai's scenes.
Rong Dai had a good grasp of the script, and was also willing to learn. She had a total of twelve scenes today, and finished shooting them all by evening.
Because of Rong Dai, the crew members and other actors were able to get off work early today.
There was no night shooting tonight either, with the two leads being absent, they couldn't shoot.
Huo Shaojie and Lu Ye were also afraid that Rong Dai would work too hard after just starting, so they wrapped up early.
Rong Dai went to the dressing room to remove her makeup and change into her own clothes.
It was rare to get off work early today. Last night, she had pondered more about the company's affairs, which made her gain a lot of enlightenment.
She could also face her feelings for the emperor in her previous life more correctly. This drama was all about the female lead's story.
If she shot it according to her pattern with the emperor in her previous life, there wouldn't be too many big problems, but it would be a bit inconsistent with the female lead's character setting.
This was indeed art coming from life.
Last night, she had a feeling of sudden realization. So in the script, she wanted to discuss more with Shaojie and Lu Ye about the character and the script.
After all, they were family. Xiao Wan was also at home. They would go to her apartment for dinner tonight, and talk about the role and script by the way.
So after changing into her own clothes, she sat on a cabinet in the dressing room and planned to take a short nap. Many costumes were hanging on the screen behind her, and no one could see her unless they came close.
Not long after she closed her eyes, she heard someone come in.
She was about to speak up and remind that someone was here.
But the other person seemed to be on a phone call, and the voice... it was makeup artist Zhu Li's.
Zhu Li's face was tense, and she could only hear her say in a lowered voice, "Xiao Wan, it's really not that I don't want to help you, this is harming others!"
"And Mrs. Huo is not like what you said. She is very easy-going..."
Zhu Li carefully explained, but before she could finish speaking, she was interrupted very fiercely by the person on the phone.
"Zhu Li! You are ungrateful! Have you forgotten how you begged me back then?! If it wasn't for me helping you, you would have been played to death by some boss long ago!"
"I just asked you to ruin her face. The brush has poison on it, not you putting it there. If the police want to investigate, you can completely push it away!"
"There are so many people in the crew. Who knows who did it? A slut like Rong Dai is so hateful, so it's very normal for someone to want to harm her!"
It was very quiet in the dressing room. Even without the speakerphone, Rong Dai could hear it loud and clear.
This voice... wasn't it the crew member Wang Xin?
Although she had only heard the other person say a couple sentences, Rong Dai had a strong memory. She wouldn't mistake the voice.
"Xiao Wan, I'm very grateful that you helped me before. You can ask me for money or ask me to help you in any way, but you can't make me harm others!"
Hearing the other's unreasonable scolding, Zhu Li felt very tired. But she also owed Xiao Wan a huge favor that she couldn't ignore.
Hearing Zhu Li say this, Rong Dai became even more certain of the other's identity.
Among the people she had "offended" before, besides Yang Wanwan, no one else had the character "Wan" in their name.
That was to say, her near drowning was all planned by Yang Wanwan alone!
Yang Wanwan's matter had passed months ago. She had been busy shooting and learning these months, and had long forgotten about this person.
If it wasn't for the voice she heard tonight, she wouldn't have remembered this person at all.
She thought of Wang Xin's ordinary and plain face, very different from Yang Wanwan's decent looking face.
But on second thought, the features did look a little similar.
It was just that at the time, she didn't look closely. How could she have imagined that an ordinary crew member was the once famous Yang Wanwan!
Rong Dai's eyes were deep. She took out her phone to record.
- Well, her biggest hobby was collecting evidence, then striking with one hit!
"What do you mean harming people?! She harmed me so badly, I can't even vent a little anger? Now I can't even go out the door!"
Yang Wanwan was furious and yelling hysterically on the phone!
"Xiao Wan, you... but this time Mrs. Huo almost got killed by you too!"
Hearing the other's unreasonable words, Zhu Li felt very tired. But she also owed Yang Wanwan a huge favor that she couldn't ignore.
Hearing Zhu Li say this, Rong Dai became even more certain of the other's identity.
"Isn't she still not dead?! That bitch really has a strong life, so many sleeping pills still couldn't kill her! That bitch!"
Yang Wanwan cursed her on the phone.
Except for the coldness, Rong Dai didn't have any other emotions in her heart.
She stopped the recording and saved it. At this time, Shaojie called her.
Rong Dai answered, "Okay, I'm in the dressing room. You and Lu Ye can come over."
After saying that, she walked out from the inside and turned on the light in the dressing room.
Her face was calm, her eyes coldly staring at the dumbstruck Zhu Li.
"Zhu Li, are you listening to me?! Did you hear me?! You must use that brush to put Rong Dai's makeup on that bitch according to my order!"
"This is the last time I'm asking you for help. After this, we're even! Did you hear me?!"
Zhu Li's face was pale and shocked as she looked at Rong Dai who appeared. She was no longer listening to what Yang Wanwan was saying on the phone.
