51 Chapter 51: Let’s Give It A Sho (1/2)

The dresser was about to reluctantly choose clothes for her when Kylie suddenly obstructed her when she saw the costume in her hands.

”What the heck are you doing?”

Kylie humbly negotiated with her: ”Dear Miss Cotty, can I wear a more conservative dress? I had a cold last night, and my neck doesn't feel well now...”

The dresser glanced at the looming hickeys on her neck, and taunted her: ”Are there so many mosquitoes in the mountains? Everyone else is fine, how troublesome!”

Kylie pulled her aside and put a card in her pocket. ”My dear Miss Cotty, you know that there's been a lot of gossips lately about me. If I get caught by the reporters like this, I'll drown in everyone's saliva...”

Cotty took a look at the cash card with its golden lines, smiled, and said with embarrassment: ”I don't want to be mean either, but if the director is dissatisfied with your costume, you have to cover for me.”

”Don't worry, and I won't sell you out.”

The amount on a cash card was three times as much as Cotty's salary for a month; she certainly knew what she should do. Besides, she didn't have a profound hatred of Kylie, so there was no need for her to turn Kylie down. In a few minutes, Cotty matched Kylie with a decent dress, that was better than yesterday.

After changing clothes, Kylie went to the washroom and checked the clothes, front and back, confirming that it was not broken and that there was no strange smell. Then she put it on again.

When she had entered the entertainment industry, she had started her career from the bottom, so she had seen a lot of terrible things: Such as squeezing a pushpin into one's shoes, or putting a needle in one's wig. And one time she had seen someone putting paprika on the lining of someone's costume...

The entertainment industry from an outsider's perspective was wonderful and desirable. But in fact, there were so many gray, and even black areas, among it.

She could check her clothes and shoes, but not the water. She was not sure whether Khloe had done something with the bottle of water, which had suddenly appeared in the dressing room.

Even Lily had not taken it away, so she would not drink it either.

After Kylie had checked her clothes, she found that the piano teacher was waiting for her. The director let the others shoot first and asked Kylie to learn the gestures of playing the piano. She just needed to act like playing; the music would be dubbed during post-production.

After several shots, Director Johnson came over and said: ”Kylie, learning piano is not an overnight success. If you find it difficult, we could use a substitute.”

”I want to give it a shot,” Kylie humbly replied.

Director Johnson asked the piano teacher: ”What do you think?”

The piano teacher laughed, ”Then let her have a try.”

”Alright, let's give it a shot!”

The scene was about breaking off a marital engagement. There were several characters in the scene: the householder of the family, Mr. Ruiz, the stepmother, Becky Ruiz, plus Angela Ruiz, Richard Martin and several servants.

The eldest daughter, Angela Ruiz, was engaged to Richard Martin. But Richard wanted to break off the marital engagement because the Ruiz Tea House was facing high debts. However, after coming to the Ruiz house, he fell in love at first sight with Mr. Ruiz's second daughter, Becky.

Therefore, he proposed a condition: he would marry Angela, and he'd also pay off the Ruiz family debts. But, with the condition that he could marry Becky, as well.

Mr. Ruiz called Becky to the hall to convey Richard's intention.

When Becky entered the hall, the expression on her face shook everyone. Director Johnson gestured towards the cameraman to give her a close-up.

She strode in and sat in front of the piano with determined eyes. She took a breath, and her hands landed on the keys.

When the music started, Director Johnson and all the crew were totally shocked. He hadn't expected that a girl with such a low degree of education and such a strong personality could play the piano so well.

They hadn't expected her to really play the piano, just to act like she was playing. But she played the adapted version of Beethoven's work: Daniel Barenboim's Allegretto, a piece of great difficulty. Kylie played smoothly and elegantly as if she were a professional pianist. Director Johnson hurried to gesture to the cameraman to give her more close-ups.

Standing not far away, Richard was completely attracted by her valor and talent.

Seeing his eyes that obsessively staring at Becky, mouth-watering, Angela was full of envy.