The next few days passed peacefully for Ran Xueyi. She got her husband and son to accompany when she was idle in the hospital. Though she really didn't need to stay in the hospital, in order to not rouse anyone's suspicions, she had to stay there. Meanwhile, Song Yu Han also ordered her to stay there to rest after nights of not being able to sleep properly.
There was no harm in staying there anyway so she listened to him.
When it was about time for her to reappear, Ran Xueyi let Adelle take care of the things that needed preparation.
At this time, Steffanie was still under the assumption that Ran Xueyi's face was disfigured. So, she had no idea that she was digging her own grave as time passed. There was also no news regarding the actress who was involved in an accident. That news disappeared from the hot topics and nobody talked about it again.
Director Xiao has been quite stressed out this time. Speaking honestly, he was stressed because of two reasons. Ran Xueyi, who was the female lead in the TV drama, was not there. Usually, she was the only one who could make him feel that the filming procedure was so smooth and unproblematic, but after she was gone, the filming crew was lifeless.
The second reason was obviously because of two people; Ran Yue and Steffanie. Especially Steffanie, who showed her arrogant attitude in front of everyone. Thankfully, Producer Long was back and she no longer flaunted her power and acted like a spoiled rich lady boss.
But still, many things were wasted because of the two actresses. Ran Yue and Steffanie were pushed into filming by their sponsors and Director Xiao couldn't refuse the investors' intentions and so he could only accept them. But with them wasting everyone's time and energy, Director Xiao only wanted them to finish filming and separate from them.
"Director Xiao! Director Xiao!" an assistant came rushing forward and loudly called him.
Director Xiao frowned and was annoyed by the loud voice. "Stop screaming already! I heard you for the first time!"
But the assistant didn't stop shouting his name and title as he reached him.
Panting a little bit, the little assistant leaned his hands on his knees and tried to catch his breath. Director Xiao noticed him like this and also didn't scold him anymore, patiently waiting for him to stop panting.
The little assistant saw Director Xiao's water bottle and reached his hand for it. He uncapped the bottle and drained the water inside it under Director Xiao's dark gaze. When he was finished drinking, he stupidly smiled at Director Xiao.
Director Xiao gritted his teeth. "Well? Why don't you tell me what's gotten into you that you screamed my name so that the entire city could hear it and even drank from my water bottle?"
Being pointed at by his words, the little assistant felt a bit awkward. He was really anxious earlier and did things that were disrespectful. But he could help it, could he?
Earlier, the crew just finished filming the last scene that morning and headed for lunch when they heard one of the staff members shouting in fright. Everyone who was inside the cafeteria was alerted by this but when they were about to treat this event as nothing, the staff member who screamed then started to panic and told everyone to look at their phones.
As if drawn by the staff member's words, everyone's phone suddenly rang and received text messages from an anonymous sender. The sound of notifications ringing one after another in the cafeteria was eerie and scary. Even the kitchen staff received messages too.
Everyone was spooked by this and was at first afraid to look down at their phone, but their curiosity got the better of them. They read the message and were stunned by the contents of it.
Director Xiao looked at his phone and saw that nothing was sent to him. Did the sender forget to send one to him?
The little assistant continued to say, "The message contained a four-minute long video. We recognized the place immediately and saw that the location was the same as the one outside! The video was too dark to show the faces of the people in it, but we recognized one of them. It was Steffanie's manager!"
"Director Xiao, what do you think is going on? Steffanie's previous manager suddenly left and was replaced, and the video didn't show much but we still recognized her. What do you think is the intention of the sender by sending this video to all of us?"
Director Xiao was silent for a moment upon hearing the little assistant's words. After a while, he shook his head. "There's no need for us to think too much about this. We are not involved in this. Let's not participate in this mess."
The little assistant felt that something was wrong in the director's face and couldn't stop himself from asking, "Director Xiao... do you know something?"
Calling this event a 'mess' and telling him to not get involved and participate in this situation was the same as Director Xiao telling everyone to not do anything. That also means that he knew something.
Director Xiao sighed and stared at the little assistant: "Don't ask about things you shouldn't ask. If you can't move with the flow of the wind, you will either get lost and fall under the sea, or stay safe and sound."
His profound words chilled the little assistant. The little assistant understood the meaning of the director's words and he could only look at his phone. Just how big of a mess was going on? Could it be that more events like this will happen soon?
As if his thoughts were an omen, the next day after the entire crew received the video, another video was sent. But this time, it was not in the form of a message, instead, it was posted on Weibo where anyone can see it.
The video was one-minute long and it already garnered 300,000 views, and it only has been twenty minutes after it was posted by a new registered account.
In this video, however, it didn't have the same content as the ones the filming crew received. Rather, it was a video where Shi Lian first approached Ran Xueyi and the two talked for a bit. The video soon cut into Shi Lian running with tears in her eyes and fear and panic was seen in her expressions after meeting with Ran Xueyi.
Shen Yi, who also saw the video, has a deep frown etched on his eyebrows. He coincidentally saw Steffanie walking past him and he grabbed her arm before facing the phone towards her.
"Have you no shame at all?" Shen Yi questioned him with a glare. "You're not even showing guilt after what you did and even spread this kind of gossip around? Steffanie, I'm telling you this, don't go overboard!"
Steffanie only felt pain in her wrist which was suddenly grabbed by Shen Yi. She hadn't expected Shen Yi to strongly react this way towards her and responded angrily, "Shen Yi, are you manhandling me right now?!"
Steffanie struggled to get away from him.
After hearing him, Steffanie stopped struggling and slapped him. The crisp sound resounded in the corridor and many staff members who were passing by couldn't help but look at them before murmuring with each other.
But Shen Yi reacted as if he didn't see them and continued to stare at Steffanie with his eyes.
Steffanie couldn't take this humiliating feeling and sensing everybody's gazes landing on her as if she was the one at fault here.
Finally, she said, "I don't know what you're talking about. I didn't do it!"
After saying this, she pushed Shen Yi away and ran.
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