Chapter 12


    On the retum fight, Phyllis was always badmouthing Eileen to Bblythe whenever she had the chance


    “She’s bossy like a dictator”


    Eblythe didn’t really buy into it. asionally consoling Phyllis Saving fifteen euros for next time sounds


    pretty cool, we wont be so stressed then


    “But I didn’t buy a single souvenir Our trip to Pans was a waste” Phyllisined


    We can buy next time After bluffing for a bit. Bblythe suddenly nced at Egbert sitting diagonally in


    front, whispering Egbert might not be joining us next time”


    Phyllis was taken aback. “Huh? Why?”


    “Actually, thest guest wasn’t supposed to be him, but Kaleb But Kalco fell sick, so Egbert was asked


    to fill in for an episode”


    1 see” Phyllis said. “I was wondering how our team could afford a top-notch star like Egbert. But it


    shows how influential Kaleb is if he could pull in Egbert”


    “Actually, Egberts first role was with Kaleb They know each other privately, they re good friends


    Phyllis nodded satisfied feel lucky to work with Egbert He’s the type of person anyone would look up to


    Then, Phyllis started to gossip out of the blue Blythe, what kind of woman do you think someone like


    Egbert would marry? I can’t imagine”


    Blythe thought for a while and said Probably someone gentle understanding with great temperament


    and good looks?”


    Phyllis nodded as she listened. “Only such a woman would be worthy of him.”


    “Hey your leg” Before Phyllis could finish a familiar impolite female voice rang out from the front


    They both looked over only to see it was Eileen sitting next to Egbert


    Eileen, probably needing to use the restroom, got up from her seat stood next to Egbert, and


    impatiently nudged Egberts knee with hers, seemingly annoyed that his long legs were in her way


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    This action woke up Egbert, who was taking a nap.


    Phyllis and Blythe were a bit homfied by this sight. They thought Egbert would get mad


    But the next second Egbert just moved his legs to let Eileen pass without a word


    Then they saw Eileen, like a mafia boss, hands in her pockets, swaggering her way to the restroom


    Phyllis and Blythe were left in a daze


    Finally, Bblythe swallowed and whispered. No matter what type of woman he likes definitely not like


    this”


    Phyllis nodded in agreement. No man would like such a woman. less he’s stUE


    The first episode of the show ended in this joyful atmosphere


    Everyone went their separate ways after getting off the ne


    Eileen was the first to leave She took a taxi straight back to her small apartment with her luggage.


    The moment she got home, she copsed on the bed


    After a twelve-hour fight, she was utterly exhausted


    She took out her phone from her bag All this time she had been using the phone provided by the show


    crew and her own phone was dead.


    She plugged it in to charge and went to take a bath When she came out the phone was half charged so


    she unplugged it and tumed it on


    She had missed five or six calls and had a dozen unread messages


    She nced at the caller ID. Ableson Lopez s house had called twice Sarah once, Hedy once, and


    there were two other calls, e from thepany and one from Ophelia


    Eileen chose to ignore everything rted to Ableson’s house and called back Ophelia, while checking


    WhatsApp


    Ophelia picked up quickly She had been watching the live broadcast these days. As soon as the call


    connected, she started scolding Elleen. “Do you really understand your responsibilities as Travel


    Concierge? How could you openly act like that towards Hubery Your words were infunating What the


    hell”


    Eileen responded nonchntly. “I thought I was doing fine”


    “Eileen Ophelia shouted angnly. Talk back to me one more time, see what happens”


    Eleen replied straightforwardly. “Even the show crew has no objections. Anything else you want to say.


    Ophelia’


    Ophelia was sent for a moment, then said after a while. “Come to thepany tomorrow


    After hanging up Eileen saw the dozen or so messages from Sarah on WhatsApp, didn’t even bother


    reading them, just deleted them all and blocked Sarah


    Then she went through her contacts and blocked all numbers rted to Ableson’s house then went to


    sleep


    The next day due to jetg. Eileen couldn’t get up in the moming By the time she got to thepany,


    everyone was about to get off work.


    Seeing her Ophelia was angry. If you are gonna be thiste, you’d bettere tomorrow


    Eileen had just walked in the door and upon hearing this, turned to leave. “Okay thene tomorrow”


    “Get back here Ophelia shouted


    ad mood


    At the entrance to Ophelia’s office an assistant made a throat-shing gesture to Eileen indicating that


    Ophelia


    Eileen didn’t care After following Ophelia into the office, she found another person inside. A guy she


    didn’t know


    The guy was tall, and his eyes it up when he saw Eileen. He stood up and extended his hand towards


    her. Ms. Lopez, nice to meet you, I’m Coln.”


    Eileen recalled that this Colin must be the onginally intended Travel Concierge. But since he knew he


    had to take care of Hubery, he vanished.


    Eileen shook his hand, puzzled


    Colin is a big nigged guy. Super strong He told Eileen, Ms. Lopez, I watched that scene where you


    sshed water on Hubery Watched it thirty might times I have mad respect for you”


    He sounded sa sincere


    Eileenughed. “Cool if you don’t like Hubery either, we’re friends!”


    Colin saluted her. Salute to you!”


    Eileen replied “No problem


    “Can you two stop it Ophelia was about to lose her mind on the side, “Are you guys putting on a show?”


    Colin, scared of Ophelia, zipped it Eileen sat on the sofa, crossed her legs and asked, “Did you call me


    here to pay me? Honestly, I’m broke Can’t even afford the


    bus nde home”


    Ophelia scoffed. “Pay? After eight hundredints from the production team, you still want to be


    paid


    Eileen scratched her head. “Comints? Why didn’t they say it to my face?”


    “Who would dare Ophelia banged the table, “And be scolded by you? Who are you mocking now!”


    Eileen pped all of a sudden, “Ophelia you look awesome today”


    Then she raised her eyebrows at Colin


    Colin immediately joined in the apuse, “Ophelia does look very pretty!”


    “Eileen!”


    Eileen didn’t respond, but suddenly looked sad and sighed, “Who would do all these works for a living if


    it wasn’t for survival. I’m all alone, show me some Sympathy..


    Cphelia grabbed a water bottle and threw it at her.


    Eileen didn’t even blink, caught it with one hand and smirked. ‘Nice throw”


    Ophelia clutched her chest, finally feeling a chest pain.


    She took three heart pills before she felt a bit better.


    When she locked up, she saw the damn Eileen and Colin huddled together, staring at her curiously.


    Ophelia mmed the pill bottle on the table. What are you locking at!”


    Eileen sat across from her and reached for the pill bottle


    “Pull your hand back!” Ophelia moved the bottle to the other side


    Eileen stood up, insisted on getting it. She managed to grab the pill bottle, but before she could read


    two lines, Ophelia snatched it back and scolded her, “Sit down!” Colin blurted out, Ophelia, do you


    really have a heart condition?”


    Ophelia was annoyed. “You two are driving me mad!”


    Eileen nced at Ophelia, then at the pill bottle, and fell back in her chair, not saying a word.


    At this time, Ophelia took out a stack of things from the drawer and handed them to Colin, This is your


    curriculum for the next month. You neede to thepany at seven every moming and you can’t


    leave until all the sses are over.”


    Colin looked at it and panicked. All these sses? Who can keep up with this?”


    “You’ll keep up even if you can’t! Ophelia said angrily, “Next month, SterView Television is having a


    talent show. One hundred traineespeting for five debut spots, Ive signed you up.


    Colin was stunned, Tm an actor Why would I need to go to a talent show? I can’t sing or dance”


    “You’ll learn if you can’t. Don’t you want to go? You want to live like this forever?”


    Colin rubbed his face in annoyance, “I’d rather be an extra on a set


    “People have to want to use you for you to be an extra After Ophelia finished speaking, she looked at


    Eileen and handed her something. “Your next job”


    Eileen took a look and then said to Colin, “The small role you want is right here”


    Colin leaned over to look, a small role in a production he had never heard of


    Basically, just an ordinary extra


    Colin couldnt believe it, Tunt this a good situation? Your Traveller 5+1 has been well received after it


    aired, right? Your poprity is high, only 99% of people are criticizing you instead of 100 Plus with


    Egbert backing you, you must have a lot of other work offers, night?


    “Really?” Eileen stroked her chin, thinking


    Colin took her seriously, then looked at Ophelia. He thought he would soon hear Eileen arguing with


    Ophelia about the job.


    But after warling for a while, all he heard was Eileen mumbling. “So my show is called Traveller 5+1*


    Colin was taken aback. “You ve been filming for a few days and you don’t even know the name of your


    show?”


    “I didn’t pay much attention Eileen said casually


    Ophelia said impatiently “Ainight, stop arguing, give me some peace” She handed Edeen a stack of


    scripts, “These are all the scripts, read them carefully. Colin is right, the attention on you is high now, I


    don’t usually care about a small supporting role. But this script is indeed good. There’s an open


    audition tomorrow, you should go audition for the lead actress.”


    Eileen raised an eyebrow. The lead, me?”


    Ophelia frowned. What You don’t have confidence? Take the contract for the supporting role and


    audition for the main role. If you pass the audition, you won’t need to y the supporting role. If you


    don’t pass, go y that small rolet


    Eileen smiled and looked at Ophelia


    She got it Ophelia was a motivator Rather than overprotecting her artists, she preletted to put them in


    tough situations to grow


    There’s nothing wrong with that People only understand the hardships of the road when they ve gone


    through them themselves, and that’s when they can go higher


    and farther


    Eileen said slowh. Let’s give it a try”


    She remembered getting this script in her previous life. But she didn’t end up shooting it because the


    supporting female role was cut And this drama had some


    issues in the and


    The anginal leading actress was suddenly exposed for drug use, what could the crew do? They had to


    re-edit the plot, remove all the scenes with the leading actress. This led to the final diama being


    completely different from the original, the characters rtionships were a total mess.


    The drama was a total failum no doubt about that.


    But Eileen, who had read the whole script, knew it was actually pretty good. If she could nail it, she


    might just steal the spotlight among the multitude of actors


    Since theres an open audition, there’s no harm in giving it a shot


    In her previous life. Ophelia never let her audition for the lead role. She didn’t even know there was


    such a thing as an open audition.


    Seeing her agree Ophelia added. Tomorrow moming at 10. I’ll send you the address. Dont bete


    Eileen just nodded and lifted her head towards Ophelia, her hand extended


    “What?”


    “My paycheck.


    Ophelia snorted. The finance department won’t be able to transfer the funds until the end of the month


    at the earliest. What’s your rugh?”


    Eileen pouted. Tim in a humy because I’m really broke. The property management guy came knocking


    this morning, and I was too scared to open the door. I’m afraid they’ll ask me to pay the property fee a


    whole thirty bucks! Where am I supposed to get that kind of money?”


    Colin was beside himself withughter


    Ophelia frowned. Til transfer you 300 bucks for now, stop ying poor in front of me


    Before long. Eileen received Ophelia’s transfer, and she was over the moon, finally stopped


    comining.


    Ophelia felt annoyed watching them. Alnight if you guys have nothing else, please leave. Stop buzzing


    around me”


    Colin grabbed his course schedule and dashed out, Eileen also picked up the script, but stopped at the


    door. She turned to Ophelia and said. “Ophelia, don’t just take pills.”


    Ophelia raised an eyebrow ncing at her medicine battle. “You mean these? They’re prescribed by a


    doctor”


    Eileen shook her head. This medication affects estrogen levels. In severe cases it could potentially


    affect fertility”


    Ophelia was taken aback, then looked at Eileen with suspicion, “You know about this stuff?”


    Tknow a bit Eileen shrugged. These side effects are too senous


    With that she waved and lett


    Ophelia sat alone in the office, deep in thought.


    Eileen took a cab back to her small apartment and immediately started reading the script as she sunk


    into her couch


    Although she read the script in her previous life, it had been a long time. As Eileen read it again, she


    took notes on the characters


    And like that the day was over. She went to bed early and woke up the next moming got dressed, and


    went straight to the audition venue following the address Ophelia sent


    This series, although not directed by a very famous director and not adapted from an onginal novel,


    lacked the support of fans of the original work, there were still more than thirty actresses at the audition


    Most of them were rtively unknown. Eileen, as one of them, stood out.


    “Thats Eileen someone whispered in awe


    Eileen lifted her head, straightened her chest, and for a moment, felt pretty amazing