My Three Darlings by Anonymous novel Chapter 138

Chapter 138

Because she had been tortured badly by Beau the night before, Eliza woke up at 10 o’clock in the morning the next day. When she woke up, she instinctively took a look at her phone. There were a dozen missed calls and a lot of unread messages. The last message was sent by Ethan. He sent a picture of Esme standing dazedly in the ward in her striped hospital gown. “It’s settled.” Eliza was startled. After a long while, she finally could not resist laughing out loud. Esme actually went to a mental hospital? She quickly clicked on other messages. Of the missed calls, two were from Ethan, one was from Mr. Long, and the rest were from Riley! The person who sent her the most messages was Riley. In the WeChat message, Riley was hysterical. “You’re something. You can even hire Ethan who has never been close to anyone. You’re really wiling to pay a high price just to get Esme into prison!” “Eliza, I warn you, the jade pendant I gave you is fake. The real one is still in my hands. If you want it, ask Ethan to leave as soon as possible!” “Eliza, you’re too cruel. Since you’ve gone all out, aren’t you afraid that I’ll fight you to the death?”

Among the dozen messages sent by Riley, they were either threatening or begging. In the end, his only purpose was to persuade Ethan to leave so that Esme could leave the mental hospital.

But how could Eliza agree to him? “Esme’s admitted in there. You win!” This was the last one. Eliza looked at the words on her phone and could not help but think of the hysterical appearance of Riley. Somehow, her mood got better. After hesitating for a while, she replied to Riley, “Dad, you should understand my painstaking efforts.” “Since Esme already has a mental illness that is intermittent, then she should be completely cured before leaving the hospital for the legal punishment, am I right?” “I found the expert Ethan. After all, he has the authority in the study of mental illness. Since he diagnosed Esme as a mental patient, she can only recuperate in a mental hospital.” “After all, if she is not ill, she will go to jail, right?” After saying these words, Eliza felt refreshed. Did Riley think that he could save Esme from imprisonment if he made Esme a fake psychiatric report?”

Right now, Esme was in a mental hospital… It was not much easier than going to jail. She might as well stay in jail comfortably. She expressed her gratitude to Ethan on WeChat. “It’s nothing. I’m an expert in this field. They happened to run into trouble.” After that, he smiled at Eliza. “Do you remember our agreement?” “I helped you this time. You owe me a favor.” “Yes, I won’t forget.” Eliza also smiled at him. “But I don’t think there’s anything I can help you with.” “You have.” Ethan replied quickly, “Don’t belittle yourself.” “Eliza, in the future… you’ll be able to help me a lot.” Eliza was confused by his words. At this moment, Eliza’s phone rang. It was an unfamiliar number. “Hello, Ms. Lawson. I’m the new director of Purple City. Raul left the entertainment circle because of his personal problems. I’ll take over the film.” “We have to put up the schedule for our shooting. There is a meeting on the script in the afternoon, and I hope you can participate in it on time.” Eliza nodded. “Alright.” Recently, she had been busy with Roseane’s affairs. She almost forgot that she had another movie to film. She had just changed from a stand-in to a formal actress, so she was not used to this change. The meeting was scheduled at two o’clock in the afternoon. When Eliza finished washing and went downstairs, it was already 11 o’clock in the afternoon.

She had a simple lunch. After a quick meal, she took a taxi to the address given by the director. The meeting was in a hotel near the cinema. When Eliza arrived, Julian had just gotten off the car. The hotel entrance was full of Julian’s fans. Fans screamed Julian’s name, and the entrance of the hotel was surrounded by people. Eliza was was squeezed by the crowd for a long time before she managed to enter the hotel. She was also recognized by the hotel’s security guards as Julian’s fan and almost got driven out. “Thank you for your hard work.” Seeing her enter the conference room with a messy hair, Julian smiled and handed her a mirror. “Tidy up.” Eliza took the mirror and looked at it. Only then did she realize how awkward she was right now. She smiled embarrassedly and said while tidying her hair, “Mr. Benton has so many fans.” “Why, are you jealous?” Sitting on the other side of Julian, an actress looked up at her arrogantly. “Besides you, everyone has more or less some fans, right?”   After saying that, she glanced at Eliza with some displeasure. “I really don’t know what my management company thinks. They want me to be a supporting role for such a person.”

The woman who spoke was Gloria, a new actress who originated from a talent show. Although she had not acted a lot, she had gained a lot of fans in the talent show. In this movie, she played the second lead. On the other side of Gloria sat another actress, Joye, who had been a supporting actress for many years. Although she was a co-star, she also had a lot of fans. In addition to the female characters, the male characters, in addition to Julian, were all popular actors. Indeed, Gloria was right. In front of these actresses with fans and experience, Eliza’s little resume was really not worth mentioning “Eliza is gifted. I believe she will be better in the future.” Julian glanced at Gloria calmly. “At least, I think she will be better than you.” Gloria was not convinced. However, she could not go against a award winner like Julian. She could only secretly roll her eyes. It was not long before the time was up. The chief director pushed the door open and came in. “Hello, everyone. I am the current director of this movie. My name is Hunter. You can just call me Mr. Diaz.”

The director handed out the script to everyone. “Since the main actors of this play are here, I’ll make the long story short.” “I’m inviting all of you here today because I want you to distribute the script. On the other hand, I want all of you to familiarize yourself with each other.” “Because the shooting time is short, the shooting arrangement may be adjusted constantly. So the crew booked the first floor of the hotel for everyone. I hope everyone can move in together so that it will be better for the future communication.” Gloria rolled her eyes. “Do we have to live together for a film?” “That’s right.”

The director nodded and smiled. “This is the rule.” “Mr. Benton has agreed.” Gloria curled her lips and stopped talking. Julian’s agreement was not up to anyone else to disagree. Seeing that no one had any objections, the director cleared his throat. “Of course, there’s one more important thing to announce…”

As he spoke, he glanced at Eliza. “As the female lead of this movie, you and Mr. Benton have a lot of kissing scenes. Do you understand?” Eliza nodded, “I know.” But as an actress, this was a normal job. She did not feel that it was anything. Gloria, who was standing aside, curled her lips and muttered, “She’s really lucky.” “Cough, cough.” Mr. Diaz took a deep breath. “But considering that this is your first film, our producer decided  to prepare one for Mr. Benton…” “A substitute.” Eliza was stunned. A substitute for Julian? That was to say, she had to kiss the substitute instead? D Eliza was a little depressed. Although she did not want to kiss Julian, at least Julian was still an acquaintance to her. But a substitute… Who knew if it was a middle-aged greasy uncle? 2 Julian, who was on the side, also frowned. “You don’t have to, do you?” “It’s necessary.” The chief director wiped the sweat from his forehead. “This is… this is the request of the producer and investor.” Eliza felt a little despair. “Then what does this substitute… look like?” D

The chief director hesitated for a moment and passed her the list of the producer. “It’s one of these producer.” A producer as a subsitute? Wasn’t this a joke? Eliza angrily picked up the list. At a glance, she saw the name of the producer: Beau.