A Night with Her Cruel Mate

Jean was looking at Julia and smiled as she spoke. "I need to apologize to everyone here about my relationship with Terence."

She gave a bow as she continued, "Terence and I are just friends. He helped me choose a birthday gift for Director Guo.

The last thing I wanted was to cause this misunderstanding. So I would like to say that I am genuinely sorry. Please focus on the movie and not my personal life."

But despite her denial, her ambiguous attitude towards the relationship aroused the curiosity of the media more.

Jean was in the hot seat. They bombarded her with questions, but she was ready with her answers. This went on for a while until she was finally able to get rid of them.

The new movie offered a good distraction as they turned their attention toward Director Guo. As Jean stepped off the stage, Julia approached her.

"Jean, what’s going on?" Julia looked angry. "Director Guo said you recommended me to him. What does this mean?"

Jean chuckled. "Director Guo promised that he wouldn't tell you. Alas! He broke his promise."

"Spare me the hypocrisy!" Julia cut her off. "What the hell do you want, Jean?"

Jean smiled. "Yes, it was me. I recommended you to Director Guo. Why? Is something wrong?" she asked Julia.

"Why don’t you just tell me what the hell you want?" Julia didn’t believe that Jean would be kind enough to get her the gig.

began to lose patience. "Look, I knew it would mean a lot for you to get an opportunity like

know things are tough for you right now, and I’m just trying to help. I mean you’re single now, and I just can’t bear to see you struggle on your own

was smiling but her words felt

I am in this position," Julia

be ridiculous," Jean retorted. "You can’t blame your failed marriage on me." Jean let out a reproachful laugh. "It’s your fault that you lost Terence. And it gave me a chance to get him. Things are going

"You know that no one's blessing would

what you want!" Julia hissed.

ulterior motives. Do you honestly think I would

one's forcing you," Jean said as she was getting ready to leave. "You don’t have to

now. "Terence is waiting for me, so I need to go. But there‘s

Director Guo and left. Julia felt like a loser. This was something she had always wanted, and the opportunity was finally within reach. But it was given to her

to give them some space. But she wanted to hear how their talk went.

a worried look on her face. She told Consuela about the encounter and what

do you think she’s going to do?" Julia asked worriedly. "I honestly don’t

"But this can’t

I know," Julia said despondently. "I know Jean could never be this thoughtful. But on the other hand this is a great opportunity. So should I take it

decisions," Consuela said in a calm voice. "You have an audition with Director Zhang tomorrow. It’s also a female supporting role, and he is a lot more experienced than Director Guo. If you nail the audition, you can consider both roles and choose whichever

remembered the audition with Director Zhang. "You’re right,"