45 Chapter 45: Guilty

Ten minutes had passed, and the time arrived for them to begin again. With the loudspeaker, Director Lane immediately shouted,

"Okay, time to get back to work! Is everyone ready?" Edie was the first to return to her position, and Zoe just slowly walked back over to the stage.

Director Lane frowned when he looked at Zoe. "Zoe, how are you feeling now? I hope much better. Please, let this be the last one." "Yes, Director Lane, I am ready," Zoe said in a hurry. "Action!" Zoe couldn't believe it, and she was able to answer her lines.

For some reason, she thought that Edie had less pressure on her. She was thankful that she couldn't see Edie's eyes or may freeze again. So, she had to slightly sway the direction of her eyes, avoiding Edie's eyes, and she was able to finish her part.

Director Lane was enthused with Edie's performance and showed a lot of appreciation towards her. He frowned when he looked at Zoe. Her acting was horrendous. Zoe had been in the acting business for nearly ten years. What terrible acting skills she had. Did she not do a good job when she auditioned before? Zoe was supposed to have plans with Director Lane this evening, but he didn't want to waste his time on her. He had no desire to accompany her anywhere.

He refused when she asked him. Today was enough of her for him. He was so bored that he could barely say, "No, thanks, I will pass." Zoe was relieved when she heard him say he will pass, but she didn't know that she had been replaced in Director Lane's heart.

If the director was willing to correct you, that meant he was willing to allow you to have a remake. It showed that he had confidence in you. If you had made a mess, it said he was really disappointed in you.

Zoe returned to her former self and left with her three assistants. Edie walked out slowly, and after Zoe went, she said to the staff, "Sorry, that out of one-shot you had to remake it so many times, everyone had worked hard and did an amazing job."

"No, Miss Edie's, it's not your fault." "Yes, Miss Edie, you were perfect. It wasn't because of you." "It was a pity that some people didn't even know anything about you, but everyone had stayed with Zoe for so long, and she didn't even apologize," said the staff member.

Edie just smiled, she said goodbye and left with Rhoda. Zoe never dreamed that on the first day of filming, not only did she lose the director's love, but no one on the staff liked her. The next day Zoe still arrived early.

Leda followed the steps of putting makeup on Zoe as if nothing had happened. After she put on the foundation primer, she took out yesterday's bottle of foundation. Seeing the bottle of foundation, Zoe's pupil suddenly got big. "Leda, would you like to put on this other foundation for me? I think it would look much better," asked Zoe, pretending as if nothing had happened.

"Yes, Miss Zoe, what's the problem?" "I don't think the color number of the foundation is suitable for my skin." Leda wondered," Is there something wrong?"

"Yesterday, I used this, and it looked so good on you." "Why don't I put on your makeup and see how it looks when we're done." With that, she was about to squeeze the foundation. Zoe started to panic.

She is pretending to inadvertently reach for a glass of water and deliberately hit Leda's hand. The bottle of foundation fell, the glass bottle immediately broke, and glass was shattered all over the floor. "Oh," Zoe cried, covering her mouth.

"I'm sorry, Leda, I was so careless. Why don't I buy you another one." She looked at Zoe with suspicion in her eyes and did not react to her actions at all.

She was definitely guilty, but she would never say that she would do such a thing. The more guilty she was, the more bold and straight she was. "Leda, it's just a bottle of foundation. I think you've used half the bottle already. I'll pay you ten times the price of it. If that's alright with you?"

"Miss Zoe," Leda said. "I didn't want to believe it, but it was you." Hearing Leda's words, Zoe's heart quivered quickly.

"Leda, what are you saying? I do not understand?" "Lead? Zoe, would you like me to continue?"

Leda kept an eye on her face and didn't want to miss any reaction on Zoe's face. Zoe tried to make a smile as if she didn't care, but there was no way she could do it.

She had been caught. "Leda, even if there was the lead in the foundation, how can you say that I did it?"

"Zoe, I just said the word lead. How did you know that lead was in the foundation?" Carelessness! Zoe thought. Her heart was clattering inside her. She wondered why Edie had not said anything to her yesterday, but it was discovered by Leda.

Her smile could no longer be sustained. Her face turned cold, and she put on a star style. "What if I did do it?" "Leda, you are just a makeup artist, I have been in showbiz for nearly ten years, I will pay you a lot of money.

Do you really want to make a big deal out of this?" There was a saying in showbiz that you could offend the director, but not the lighting engineer and the makeup artist. These two people could easily affect your image on the screen, and no one would know the difference. Leda was the showbiz's first-class makeup artist. All the stars were usually polite to her.

No one ever dared to ridicule her? She was fuming, "Okay, Miss Zoe, the big star, let's go to the director. We can tell him what happened and maybe he will resolve the matter with money. What do you think?"

All Zoe wanted was to put a little pressure on Leda, but it didn't work. Now she wanted to involve the director. She thought about what Leda said and figured if she told the director then really, she had nothing to worry about. But...she played so poorly yesterday, and Director Lane was not very happy with her. She did not want to upset Director Lane anymore.

When Leda finished speaking, she turned around and walked out. Zoe caught her immediately. "Leda, this is just a small problem. It is not necessary to let the director know about this."

"Zoe, if I did not notice that there was the lead in the foundation, and if I put it on someone else's face, you would have ruined my whole career! Do you say this is just a little thing? What the hell did I do to you to make you want to hurt me like this?"

"Leda, I have nothing against you. What did I do to you?" "Then say it! Why are you doing this?" Zoe felt it was important to fool Leda, but instead, she told the truth. "Leda, I have nothing against you, I was trying to get revenge on Edie." Leda had never expected that she would say that name. She was stunned, "Edie?" "Yes, I knew she was next in line to have her makeup put on. I just wanted to give her a warning. She is a new actress, and she robbed me of my role. What if it was you, what would you do?"