In contrast, Jessica cared a lot about it.

After all, they were still in the shooting phase and they hadn’t even released any footage. All news was being passed out through this interview.

Because of that, when the media arrived, Jessica got her acting chops on and reverted to her gentle fairy image.

“It’s the most important scene in the show that’s coming up next, sis. You have to give it your best. Don’t drag everyone behind.”

Natalia shot her a mild look and casually said, “Worry about yourself.”

Jessica smiled and said lowly, “With so many reporters here, of course I’ll give it my best. You, though – don’t think that you’ve done well enough just because you did well earlier. You can’t succeed at acting with just hard work; you also need talent. There’s a lot of explosiveness needed for the shooting today. If you don’t perform up to par, everyone’s going to see it. If rumors get out, I can’t help you.”

Natalia looked at her coldly, treating it like a joke.

Seeing her silence, Jessica thought she’d been affected by her words. She smiled contentedly and turned to leave.

The equipment was in place, and so were the actors. They were about to shoot.

This scene was where the female lead, played by Natalia, finally ascended to the position of Empress after many trials and tribulations.

While the original Empress had her plots exposed and got her just desserts as she lost favor with the Emperor, was dethroned as Empress, and locked up.

The new Empress and the former Empress met up in the palace where she was confined, where the new Empress passed her a glass of poisoned wine for her to kill herself with.

To hurt the new Empress one last time before her death, the former Empress revealed the true mastermind behind the deaths of the new Empress’ entire family all those years ago – the reigning Emperor himself.

It was a contrived plot, but admittedly quite a twist, tugging on all the right heartstrings.

A scene like that was naturally the climax of the whole show.

Because of that, everyone had made preparations beforehand.

Natalia over in the middle of the night because he was afraid she wouldn’t be able to give as good a performance, so he wanted to explain

were steady, run-of-the-mill scenes, not like today,

trap had

depressed mood, which had the whole cast feeling

ready, they

bent willow was growing under a corner in the wall. It was spring, but

covered with lichen, becoming a tripping hazard. The stench of

wonder how the cast

wasn’t big. It took a few steps to reach the interior. Two handmaidens behind her pushed open the door,

came

moment the door opened, what greeted them was

her stood in front of her and fanned the air,

a hand and stopped them. Then she lifted the hem of her dress and

from outside the palace. The moment she stepped

went. Cobwebs massed over the corners of the palace with the dried corpses of mosquitoes stuck to their surface.

the ground. One was missing a leg, the other a corner. It was

stench continued to waft up from the room. In the east corner, a

that

no longer visible. Her hair was a mess. Seeing the newcomer, her eyes blazed with

you

hand, commanded her handmaidens to step

were sick, your Majesty. I’m here to visit. Are you surprised?

words “your Majesty” jabbed at Jessica’s

of the whole empire. Anything she wanted, she got. With her brother as a general commanding armies, even the Emperor would not

was only an insignificant little handmaiden, crawling under her foot like a cockroach. A bit of

taken her place as

in this dilapidated palace, now

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