"Son, I have been asked to clean litter on the sets. If you like I can go back. In that case you have to take the blame." Saying that she turned back to go.
The guard became confused and replied scratching his head, "Come back grandma. Clean the sets as soon as possible and go away."
She smiled at him and went inside the sets. There she studied the network carefully. Now she knew where to cut and when to cut.
On the day of the final dance, she had woken up very early in the morning. Xie Weihui was pleasantly surprised to see that her daughter was awake so early in the morning.
"Ru s.h.i.+s.h.i.+, why are you up so early dear?" asked Xie Weihui as she came to her daughter and stroked her hair.
Ru s.h.i.+s.h.i.+ replied stoically, "I have to go for the movie shoot. They have to capture the early morning scene."
"Oh, okay. In that case let me make breakfast for you." Xie Weihui got up from there with a smile and went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast.
Ru s.h.i.+s.h.i.+ quickly went to her room, took a shower, packed her disguise in a backpack and came out. Xie Weihui had served the breakfast on the table by then, which Ru s.h.i.+s.h.i.+ ate quietly. She had started to dislike Xie Weihui a lot now. As her mother, she was useless because she didn"t have any contacts to push her into stardom. She had started spending three to four days a week with Hung Jia.
Ru s.h.i.+s.h.i.+ went to the movie sets and changed into the blue scrubs. She saw a junior artist carrying a newspaper with her to show to Feng Xinying. She noticed how Feng Xinying pursed her lips after reading it. When everyone had left for the sets, she picked the newspaper that was thrown aside and grinned when she read the news. "Feng Xinying, this is just the beginning." Saying that she took a picture of that news article and posted it on a fake Weibo account. Within a few minutes there were numerous remarks.
"How spoiled these rich people are? Xie Yuansheng, be mindful of the public property."
"Look at the Ferrari that he has damaged!" Man, if I had that Ferari, I would have kept it like my mistress." There were seventy likes for that comment and many laughing emotes.
"Why the h.e.l.l is he hugging that water pump?"
"Did he even realize how much money we pay as taxpayers?"
"What a rotten spoilt brat?"
"He should be jailed for this offence."
As Ru s.h.i.+s.h.i.+ walked in the sets, she read the growing number of comments and started laughing at them.
She went and stood at the point she had chosen the day before. The moment Lu Dao said "Action!" she looked at the artists and Feng Xinying from behind the curtains of the set that s.h.i.+elded the equipment and followed all their movements. She was ready with her things, waiting for the right moment. There was a window of two minutes only. And the right moment was when Feng Xinying attached her third rope.
In that third two-minute sequence, when the technician brought Feng Xinying down, there was a lot of tension in the rope and he brought her down very easily with perfection. His job was the toughest in the entire arrangement because he had to bring her down and then take her back up as soon as the artists threw her in front.
The junior artists took her down slowly and the moment they started swinging Feng Xinying, Ru s.h.i.+s.h.i.+ started cutting the rope with the sharpest blade she had bought from the market. She had calculated that this was the time she had to start cutting the rope. The rope was completely cut the moment Feng Xinying was thrown with full force by the four junior artists in front.
Feng Xinying went flying ahead with no support.
There was a "Tw.a.n.g" noise the moment it was cut. Ru s.h.i.+s.h.i.+ ran away from there. She hid in one of the rooms, changed her dress and walked out of the sets and the studio.
Flashback 2
Xie Yuansheng had slept very late that night after his drunken stupor. In the morning he got up late that too when his reminder alarm on the phone rang loudly enough to disturb him in his sleep. He tried to find his phone and stop the alarm but he saw what it was reminding him of. It was the day of Feng Xinying"s final dance performance.
He had slept in the same coat and pants and was completely disheveled. He rushed out of the bed, but sat back as he felt very dizzy. His head was aching. Suddenly he retched. He ran to the bathroom and vomited. Somehow he washed his face and went to Xie Shengun, who gave him a painkiller along with breakfast to eat. Xie Yuansheng gulped the breakfast down and drove to the movie sets to see her dancing. He was not even bothered how he appeared. His clothes were all wrinkled and dirty. He was already very late. He felt guilty and nervous that he might miss her performance. He increased the speed of his car.
But something disastrous was about to happen.