In a Love Nest with the Aloof CEO novel Chapter 119

Anger stirred within Avery as she glared furiously at Skylar. “You are just like your mom. Both of you are insidious and vicious. It’s obviously a genetic issue. With a murderer as a mom, you can’t be any good either.”

After Avery disclosed Skylar’s background, the other two girls in the dormitory immediately distanced themselves from Skylar.

Even Yasmin, who was on good talking terms with Skylar, had an unnatural expression on her face.

However, the fact was that Skylar herself was not sure what had happened back then.

She only knew that since young, she had always been labelled as a murderer’s daughter by both neighbors and classmates.

In her final year of high school, when everyone were sharing their dreams, she casually mentioned to her desk buddy that her dream was to join the army and somehow, word was spread to their teacher.

In front of the whole class, the teacher told her to forget about joining the army as they conducted stringent background checks. Also, she should not even think of becoming a civil servant as the recruitment department would assess the past three generations of her family to make sure their backgrounds were proper and it was impossible for a murderer’s daughter to venture into any of those areas.

As such, Skylar understood since a young age what it meant by everyone hitting a man who was down and that the defenseless would always get targeted.

However, Skylar had never blamed Miranda for that. Since she could not choose her family background, she could only accept it.

The next day, Daryl arrived at the school for the selection of the female lead for his new film. The auditions were held at the school hall.

Avery was the most popular candidate for the role as shown by the results of an online poll in the school’s forum. As such, the moment she appeared in the hall, all the boys offstage started cheering and clapping.

Avery had been a goddess in the eyes of all the boys in school since her first day there.

The assistant director was also strongly recommending Avery to Daryl. “That girl seems like a good match for our role. She looks fresh and pretty. Besides, she is also one of the top scorers in her faculty.”

Daryl looked at Avery and commented in dissatisfaction, “Both her nose bridge and cheekbones are too high. No doubt she’s quite attractive, but she has a mean look which wouldn’t sit well with audiences.”

Since the assistant director had been bribed by Avery, he had to continue singing her praises. “Director, don’t you think she has a very distinguishable look that people would remember? I also heard that her acting skills are very polished.”

Daryl couldn’t be bothered to listen to the assistant director spouting nonsense. He had already auditioned tens of candidates but couldn’t seem to find anyone he was happy with. It seemed like he would be leaving empty-handed.

If he couldn’t find anyone suitable from the Southwood Film Academy, he was thinking of opening up the auditions to people who were not trained in acting.

The scene which Avery had chosen was that of Nancy, the lead female character, confessing her love to Zac after knowing that he was going back to the city soon. The scene was set at the suburbs and Nancy wanted to convince Zac to stay.

Avery slipped into her role very quickly and memorized her lines well. She managed to complete the scene in one take while giving a natural and astounding performance.

At the end of her audition, the assistant director had even given her a standing ovation, clapping his hands excitedly.

However, Daryl, who was the one making the decision, remained expressionless as that was not the female lead he had in mind.

Even though Avery was undeniably a beauty, she wasn’t the kind of beauty he was looking for. Besides, there were plenty of good-looking actresses in the entertainment industry, so being pretty wasn’t a big deal.

“Our female lead needs to have short hair. Your hair is too long,” Daryl commented.

Avery touched her waist-length hair subconsciously and replied, “I can wear a wig right? Director, I’m flexible with the arrangement. We can discuss this later.”

Daryl was rather irritated with the girl’s reply.

While he was scanning the audience casually, a pretty face suddenly caught his attention.

The director squinted to take a more focused look at the girl, who was looking down at her phone. She was indeed extremely pretty and had such a fair complexion that with the spotlights in the hall casting down on her, the other girls around her paled so much in comparison.

That was what a “distinguishable look” meant to Daryl. It should only take one glance to catch one’s attention.

Avery remained on stage and was full of confidence. Since Daryl was already talking to her about the lead female character’s hairstyle, that would mean that he was already close to confirming her as the female lead.

Becoming the female lead in Daryl’s film was the perfect gateway to entering the entertainment industry.