Spoiled By The CEO: Why The Wife Is Kinda Sweet? novel Chapter 362

The following day, Natalia returned to the cast.

She’d recently taken on a period drama – a fantasy themed serial. It wasn’t too popular, but Natalia had seen the script and liked it, and so taken the role even though it was just for a side character.

Today, there was a fight scene they were supposed to shoot between her and the male sidekick.

For realism, the director had forgone shooting in a set and compositing the scene, and instead decided to shoot on location.

The location the cast had chosen was atop a particularly famous mountain in the countryside of Eqitin.

This mountain was famous for having a view famous around the nation. With trees and grass blooming over a magnificent scene and a perfectly sunny day today, standing on top of the mountain gave one a feeling of relaxed contentedness.

Before they started filming, the crew had cleared the ground and set up the cameras. Natalia finished changing and got out, ready for the wirework.

The setting was on the edge of a cliff.

The side character Natalia was playing had appeared to be a courtesan plying her charms in a brothel, but was in reality an assassin from a neighboring nation.

For the survival of her own country, she’d assassinated the crown prince.

The sidekick had discovered her identity and chased her all the way to the edge of the cliff.

Here, the assassin was to duel to the death with the sidekick. Finally, heavily wounded, the assassin was no match for the sidekick. With soldiers on her tail, she was to jump off the cliff and die.

The assassin’s character setting was calm, cold, and collected, a woman of few words, which suited Natalia’s personality just fine.

With the wires in place and the makeup done, the director yelled, “Action!”

Natalia’s gaze grew wintry.

She clutched at her injured chest, blood seeping from her mouth, her blade in one hand as she backed up to the edge.

Richard, the actor playing the sidekick, growled, “You’ve got nowhere left to run. Give it up and surrender!”

The corners of Natalia’s mouth lifted slowly.

That smile was cold and decisive.

“No. I still have one path left to me!”

She spoke, taking her hand off her chest and gripping the hilt of her blade, raising the weapon.

The soldiers who’d chased their way here grew pale.

His expression dark, Richard intoned, “You served your country only for glory and riches. Now that you’re at the end of your rope, I’ve asked the chief magistrate to spare your life. Why resist?”

Natalia sneered.

Her elegant, delicate features were completely unmoved.

“Death is nothing for a loyal subject of her nation!”

With that, she gripped her sword and rushed towards Richard.

The wires spooled and the fight began.

Natalia had already had a martial arts instructor guide her choreography with Richard, so as the two exchanged blows, the fight went beautifully.

Finally, Richard’s blow landed on her shoulder, and Natalia spat blood, falling off the cliff, ending the scene.

Of course, she wasn’t really falling off. The camera would show her disappearing off the edge, while the wires would keep her hanging there until the shot was over and they pulled her back up.

But then something went wrong!

Natalia had been ready to keel off the edge of the cliff with the force of the blow.

But the moment her feet left the ground, she heard a whipping crack.

Before she could react, she felt her balance shift. The wire to her left had snapped!

Natalia turned pale.

But that wasn’t the worst part. Looking up, the wire to her right was only hanging by a thread, and clearly about to snap as well.

Hastily, she reached out and grabbed the line. With another whipping crack, the right wire snapped as well.

Natalia could only hold on with both hands, her body suspended midair like a kite.

Meanwhile, the people above had realized something was wrong.

“What’s going on? Why isn’t it reeling her up?”

The props group gaped and ran over, babbling, “Director, there’s a problem with the machines and the wires aren’t spooling up.”

The director whitened.

“What?”

He stood hurriedly and sprinted over to the wire feed. “What is it? What’s wrong with it?”

The person in charge of the wires said, “I don’t know. It was fine in the morning, but it’s stuck now for some reason.”

The director’s name was Howard. He’d had Natalia take the role both because she had the right aura for it and because Nathan had recommended her vehemently.

So he was familiar with Natalia’s identity and background.

Right now, looking at the unresponsive machinery regardless of how the special effects staff tried to operate them, his heart sank.

The cast had gone for this long with no problems, so why was it breaking today?

There was no time to think about it. He hurried to the edge and looked down, yelling, “Natalia, are you okay?”

Right now, Natalia was using the strength of her arms alone to grip the wire, and her body was giving out.

Still, she gritted her teeth and said, “I’m fine, but the wires around my waist have snapped. I’m holding on with my hands. What’s going on up there?”

Hearing that the wires had snapped, the director paled, his heart sinking even deeper.

“It’s okay. There’s a problem with the machines. Hold on, I’ll send someone down after you.”

With that, Howard hurried to find someone with a lifeline.

Right now, Natalia was quite literally at the end of her rope.

The wires were smooth steel. Her full weight was being supported by her arms, and because of the force, the wires were biting into flesh. The pain came shooting up her palms, screaming for her to give up.

But she clenched her jaws and endured it even as blood seeped down her palm. Both her arms were trembling from the pain, but she still gritted her teeth harder and kept grabbing on to those two wires.

Because below her was a sheer drop.

If she let go and fell from that spot, she could guarantee that she’d be smashed to smithereens.

After an eternity, a lifeline was finally let down.

But Natalia didn’t have the strength to reach out for it. A few dozen seconds later, a staff member crawled down with the rope.

“Hang on, Natalia, I’m coming to save you.”

With that, he clipped another rope onto Natalia’s waist.

At that moment, the skies rumbled with thunder.

In just a few beats, pea-sized raindrops started hammering down mercilessly.

Natalia’s entire body was drained. Arms trembling, she let her savior clip the rope onto her wire frame, then released her grip on the wires, hanging limply from his frame.

The man yelled in the rain, “Hold on, we’re going up.”

For some reason, she couldn’t see the man’s face.

She just faintly sensed his mouth open and close, and nodded cooperatively.

The worker had mountaineering experience.

About two minutes later, he’d brought her back to solid ground.