Spoiled By The CEO: Why The Wife Is Kinda Sweet? novel Chapter 386

Max cocked an eyebrow thoughtfully.

Seeing that, Sally thought that he’d taken in her words, and her smile grew even more contented.

On Laura’s end, she didn’t even know what had happened on this side.

The serving man behind her was making consistent mistakes because of his nerves, and with the assistant director scolding him for it, he grew even more nervous, shaping up to be a vicious cycle.

Laura paused, then smiled, “Assistant Director, I don’t think his acting skills are the problem here. He might just be tired and nervous. How about a five-minute break for everyone to rest and recharge before trying again?”

The assistant director frowned, dissatisfied.

But he didn’t say too much about it and agreed.

Seeing him agree, Laura smiled gratefully at him and walked back over to the actor playing the serving man.

In a low voice, she urged, “Rest up, don’t get nervous. If you really can’t manage, go have a drink of water. The investor is human too, he’s not going to eat you. There’s no need to be so nervous.”

The actor looked pretty young. He was probably a rookie who’d just gotten started, having struggled to land this role with a few lines.

He hadn’t thought that there’d be an investor coming to check on the scene, and he’d probably overthought it to result in his nerves and mistakes.

He looked at her gratefully and nodded. “Thank you, Laura, I’ll do better.”

Laura nodded back.

In the time afterwards, to get him to relax, Laura chatted with him for a while longer.

The actor already knew that he’d made a lot of mistakes today.

Since he’d been guilty about it, getting Laura to comfort him made him feel a lot better, and he was very thankful for it.

After all, rookies like them were always the bottom of the ladder. Usually in the cast, they got bullied.

They had to take being yelled at and being hit without yelling back or hitting back, but forget that. If things went well, that was fine, but if things weren’t going well, they often got abused just for stress relief.

They had no status in the cast at all. Anyone could replace them, so they were always high-strung and cautious about everything, not knowing that it was even easier to make mistakes like this.

He’d almost thought that the director was going to switch him out, but it turned out it was just a five-minute break.

That was all thanks to Laura.

Thinking of that, he looked gratefully at her and sincerely said, “I really have to thank you this time, Laura.”

Laura smiled at him. “You’re welcome. I was a rookie once too, and I know it’s not easy starting out. It’ll be fine if you just wait a bit to get your head in the game, and don’t make any more mistakes.”

The man nodded heavily.

Laura smiled and patted his shoulder as encouragement.

Meanwhile.

Max’s face sank.

His thin lips parted as he scoffed, “Leroy, did I invest all this money into the show to watch these actors flirt on set?”

Leroy flinched.

Flirting?

There wasn’t any!

He’d always kept strict control over the set. Even play fighting wasn’t allowed, so who’d have the nerve to flirt here?

And he didn’t even remember any couples in the cast!

Seeing his clueless face, Max chuckled coldly, his smile stingy.

“Are actresses in the cast allowed to just speak for other actors? You used my money to hire this trash to act, Leroy?”

His sudden tantrum caught Leroy flush, and he only reacted after a long while.

Paling, he hurriedly said, “Don’t be angry, Mr. Nixon, isn’t everyone just nervous because you’re here? Ahaha. I’ll go and talk to them about it and there won’t be any more mistakes.”

As for Laura comforting the actor, he didn’t bring up a word about it.

He could only act like he didn’t understand.

Max’s face sank as he scoffed.

Thankfully, the actor had taken Laura’s words seriously, and after the break, it only took two more takes to pass.

The final scene was a fight scene.

Coincidentally, the fight scene was between Sally, a female side character, and Laura, the female costar.

The costar that Laura was playing was dressed as a man, while Sally, playing the concubine, had seen through her and threatened her for it, trying to blackmail her into using her position to change the previous Emperor’s will, naming the concubine’s son, the third prince, as the successor to the throne.

The costar didn’t agree, and the concubine was going to let the word out before she stopped her. The two started fighting in the sealed chamber, with Laura’s costar character finally winning.

The fight was a heavy scene that counted as a twist in the plot.

Because of that, it was very important.

The fight moves had already been choreographed by the martial arts director, and the two only needed to carry it out from memory to counter each other’s blows.

With the scene set, the director yelled “Action” and the filming started!

Max sat on the director’s chair and watched Laura act in silence.

This was the first time he was watching her act in person. The girl was dressed in men’s clothes, and her heroic aura was intense, giving her the impression of a champion of the nation.

His lips curved up pleasingly.

Laura and Sally took the acting seriously, too. They carried out the fight up until the concubine was sent flying by one of Laura’s blows. With blood in her mouth, she started laughing.

“Bitch! If you don’t want to make my son the Emperor, I’ll drag you to hell with me. Let’s die together!”

With that, she pounced at her with no regard for preserving her own life.

There was a dagger hidden in her sleeve. In accordance with the script, she was going to try to stab and kill Laura with it, but Laura would kick it out of her hand.

Unexpectedly, that was where things diverged.

The choreography had been for her to stab with the dagger from the left, with Laura catching the strike and countering.

But the dagger had come thrusting from the right.

Laura hadn’t expected that at all and her eyes widened.

It was too late to avoid it, so finally, she could only back up and tilt her body, but the dagger still brushed past her elbow and left a gash.

Someone on the scene started screaming right away.

“Ahh! Someone’s hurt!”

The first person to react was Max, who sprang off his chair almost in an instant, growling, “What’s going on?”

Sally’s face changed too as she hurried to Laura’s side.

“Are you okay, Laura? Are you all right?”

She spoke, going to check her wound.

Laura’s gaze grew cold as she took a step back and avoided her hand.

Sally’s motions froze.

At that moment, Max walked over and took her arm.

Because Laura had consciously covered her wound, it wasn’t clear how badly she’d been hurt, but seeing blood seep out between her fingertips, it was obvious the injury was severe.

His handsome face darkened.

“What are you standing around for? Call a doctor!”