"WHAT?!"
"How can that be?"
Both Qin Ling and Zhao Chen exclaimed in disbelief and shock. How can such a fake-looking hairpin be so precious and unattainable?
The man let out a cold 'hmph!', he detested how stupid they looked right now. "Miss Qin and her manager... The movie might be low-budgeted, but Miss Meng Chen was able to acquire us some items we could use as a prop. Most of them are high-quality props and some are even highly valued by many scholars in Universities."
"Of course, that hairpin you just broke is the most precious one that the friend Miss Meng Chen let us borrow," the man continued. "But now, it's all broken."
Qin Ling was now trembling in fear. She didn't think that Meng Chen was friends with someone and let the filming crew borrow such treasured things. If she had known, she would have been careful and tried to think things through before she smashed it!
However, it wasn't only her who was suffering right now.
Zhao Chen's face was pale... just a moment ago she was still trying to act charitable by paying the man a thousand yuan for the hairpin while thinking that it only cost about a hundred yuan and the rest would be kept by him. Who knew that the hairpin was something of great value?
"Will Miss Zhao even be able to pay for the hairpin?" the man laughed in a mocking manner. With how much Manager Zhao gets from her job as a manager of a few artists, where would she get the money to pay the hairpin from?
Zhao Chen was now out of her wits. From the look of it, the hairpin should at least be priced around a million yuan if not, tens of million yuan.
"That... I wasn't thinking earlier..." she stuttered really hard. She could already hear her heartbeat drumming inside her chest. She really had no money to pay for the hairpin.
Wait, Qin Ling was the one who broke the hairpin. Why would she pay for something she didn't break in the first place?
However, Qin Ling acted first and pulled Manager Zhao by the arm before raising her head. The next thing the manager Zhao knew, she was whiplashed and Qin Ling was murderously looking at her as if she killed her entire family.
"How could you do that, Manager Zhao?" Qin Ling questioned and angrily huffed. "I treated you so well but this is how you're going to pay me? Why haven't you apologized to Director Lan and Mr. Chen for what you've done?"
Manager Zhao held her cheek that was already reddening with a clear palmprint across her face.
When she realized what happened and that Qin Ling had slapped her, Zhao Chen's initial thought was not the pain, it was to ask herself when was the last time she was slapped like this? Was it by her mother? No, her mother was too kind and her father was so loving that they did not even dare touch her skin.
Yet, now somebody else had slapped her.
"You... Did you just slap me?" Manager Zhao threateningly stared at Qin Ling.
Qin Ling flinched. The way Manager Zhao was looking at her, it was the same expression she saw when Manager Zhao had destroyed an artist under her management.
But what can Qin Ling do in this situation? If she didn't try to make herself look good in front of everyone and push all the blame on Manager Zhao, she would be the one to carry the blame and burden to repay the hairpin.
She could easily pay it, of course. The only problem is that her father already spent a staggering fifty million yuan just to get her role back and invest in the movie. If she came to her father, asking for money again, leading him to find out the truth of the incident and the master's name, she didn't know how he would react.
But why is she glaring at her?
Manager Zhao, just play along, d*mn it!
Manager Zhao, however, didn't get Qin Ling's signal. Her head was already hazy and clouded with anger. She couldn't wait to get her hands on Qin Ling and claw her inside and out.
"Qin Ling, are you f*cking out of your mind?! Do you think I would tolerate you after what you did to me?" Manager Zhao grabbed the young actress' hand and pulled her towards herself.
Qin Ling, being a spoiled brat who grew up with a silver spoon and never experienced carrying a five-kilogram bag, was quickly pulled forward. She lost her balance and the next thing she knew, she was hauled to the ground.
"Ahh!" Qin Ling screeched out loud, catching the attention of the people who were passing by outside. Her loud scream even attracted the people in the filming studio to look in the direction of the makeup room.
Director Zhao recognized his niece's voice and stood up abruptly from his chair. He looked around the studio, expecting that Qin Ling was lazing around or sitting somewhere close to the studio. But he couldn't find her.
The only means that the voice really did come from her.
"What is going on?" Director Chi also heard the scream and turned to his assistant, who shook his head and was as confused as him.
Meng Chen, who was on standby for her next scene, glanced at her manager and signaled for her to check the makeup room. Her manager quickly responded by rushing to the makeup room.
However, she wasn't the only one who was hurrying towards the makeup room. The others who heard the scream also came running towards that direction, trying to catch what was happening.
When they finally arrived at the makeup room, the door was wide open and the scream intensified as the two girls inside continued to fight.
At this moment, Qin Ling should already expect that her image would be utterly destroyed.
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