Chapter 10: Speculation
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The Jianghua Group was founded by Zhao Xinhong 60 years ago. It dabbled in the food and beverage industry and business hotels. It swiftly dominated the Mainland market and had been going strong ever since.
Owned by the Fengs, Zhongnan Industries’ headquarters was in Hong Kong. It was also involved in the hotel line. The Fengs intended to dominate the Mainland market and wanted to team up with the Zhao family of the Jianghua Group.
The Zhao family was rich and had many connections. However, just as Sandy had said, it could not have contacted the military, pull some strings for “Rescue Mission”, and rented firearms from the army. It was impossible.
While the Zhaos had no background in the army, the Fengs did.
Back then, Feng Zhongliang had served in the army during the revolution although he went to Hong Kong and developed his career there. However, his former comrades were now illustrious officers in the military.
This was also the reason why the Zhao family fixed their attention on Feng Nan and arranged the meal between her and the young master of their family.
A frightening possibility occurred to Jiang Se. This might have something to do with “Feng Nan”!
She remembered the conversation between the director Zhang Jingan and Liu Ye. Zhang Jingan had mentioned the Feng family of Zhongnan Industries. Her face darkened further as she clenched her fists.
Feng Zhongliang was not the kind of person who would call upon his connections in the military for some minor shooting event. It was highly possible that this was “Feng Nan’s” doing.
As to how “Feng Nan” had pulled this off, Jiang Se pursed her lips and sighed softly. “Pei Yi.”
The two of them had been as close as siblings.
Even though Pei Yi had gone off to France in the heat of the moment after she rejected his invitation because of the meal with the young master of Jianghua Group, Jiang Se believed that he would not stay mad at her forever.
If “she” made a request, Pei Yi was sure to oblige.
The Pei family was unrivaled in their standing among the military in Huaxia. Pei Yi was the eldest grandson of the new generation of Peis and was loved the most. If he made the request, there would not be any problem.
Jiang Se gritted her teeth. When she thought about that, her expression turned darker and she had an unexplainable feeling in her heart.
“What did you say?” Sandy thought that Jiang Se was talking to her when she said the words “Pei Yi” out loud.
However, Jiang Se had not spoken loudly, but Sandy did not hear her clearly, so she asked for clarification.
Jiang Se shook her head. Her fists were clenched while she said softly, “It’s nothing.” However, she was pale and her brows were tightly knitted together. She did not look as if it was nothing.
Sandy, however, did not think much about it. She merely treated it as if Jiang Se had been under the sun for too long and was having a mild case of heatstroke. She might even be worrying about the potential audition Director Zhang would be putting her through.
After all, Jiang Se had only gotten a chance to be spotted by a famous director. There was no guarantee of her landing a role in “Rescue Mission”.
“There are some Huoxiang Zhengqi pills with the crew. I think you’re having a mild stroke from being under the heat for so long.
At this moment, Jiang Se’s mind was a mess. However, there was someone beside her, so in the end, she could only look at this woman and say, “Thank you, Sandy.”
Sandy blinked at her before chiding, “Don’t thank me now. When you become a star in the future, I’ll hope that you can pull me up the ranks.” She half-meant what she said.
“I’ll go get the medicine. You should rest a while here before going out to have your outfit sorted out,” she added the consideration to give her a subtle reminder, “It’s getting late.”
Zhang Jingan was a famous director. He would not be free to wait for her, so she had to hurry up.
Jiang Se suppressed the feelings in her chest and thanked Sandy again.
When Sandy left, Jiang Se raised her head with an angry expression in her eyes.
She had been Jiang Se for more than a fortnight. She had abided scrupulously with her principles and did not meddle in the original Jiang Se’s affairs because she did not want to cause trouble for her.
She was unsure if she could turn back into Feng Nan ever again. However, every day she spent in Jiang Se’s body, she lived the same way the original Jiang Se would have.
Her desire to take up part-time jobs when she needed money was because of the original Jiang Se’s wishes. She became an extra which was a job that had something to do with the entertainment industry.
All she wanted was to not give the original Jiang Se too much trouble when she turned back into Feng Nan again. She did not want to make Jiang Se’s life a complete mess.
She had been wondering about the kind of life her other “self” was living. She did speculate if Jiang Se had become the current Feng Nan, or if some accident had already befallen Feng Nan.
She had followed Feng Zhongliang out of Hong Kong since she was a young girl and had left her parents’ side. Her grandfather was a strict, old-fashioned man who expected highly of her. Therefore, she learned to keep things to herself and grow up to be a careful person.
When she was reborn, she had not acted rashly. Instead, she had been mulling the entire affair over in her mind, thinking of a way for her to “return”.
She thought of many things, but she never thought that someone was “living” in her body, living a free and unconstrained life as “her”, and doing many things that she did not know about with her body!
Feng Zhongliang was old-fashioned and strict. He did not think highly of actors, thus she could imagine the disturbance she caused when “Feng Nan” dabbled in this industry. She was unsure if “Jiang Se” was the one making her life a mess!
When Jiang Se thought about this, she could not find it in herself to remain calm.
Waves were raging in her heart. She sat there for a long while. In the end, she stood up.
She had to get to the bottom of this. She had to find out who “Feng Nan” was no matter who the person was!
Outside, Sandy had prepared some Huoxiang Zhenqi pills for her. The medicine did nothing to abate the anger Jiang Se felt within herself.
Sandy blew dry her hair. A makeup artist carried a box and jogged over. It was the makeup artist who had applied and patched Jiang Se’s makeup in the first place, Tony.
Not even having the time to greet Jiang Se, he opened his makeup box in no time.
This time, there was no need for Jiang Se to be unremarkable. Hence, Tony did not pick a dark foundation. Instead, he produced an ivory white CC cream.
The moment he applied it onto Jiang Se’s face, Tony frowned. “This foundation is fair enough, yet your skin tone is even fairer, Miss Jiang.”
However, out of consideration for the script, he went ahead with this color.
Jiang Se’s facial features were refined enough. All she needed was some touching up and she would be outstanding. With a few touches here and there, Jiang Se was already looking bright and beautiful.
The script supervisor had given him instructions. He knew that Zhang Jingan wanted Jiang Se to audition for a woman who would rather die under a Japanese soldier’s gunfire than live a life of humiliation. Tony paid attention to the details. He smoothened out the edge of her eyes, roughened the corners of her brows, and did not dare apply any lipstick that was brightly colored. He considered it for a moment. In the end, he picked a very faint pink lipstick, applied some silvery-white lip balm, and drew some wounds on her face.
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