Contract Lover - L.K Adaptation

9

Chapter 9 - Face Slapping ("With her high standing,
if she's willing to bash your actresses, she was doing you a favor.") (1)

The crowd who was happily waiting for the drama
to unfold earlier went silent all of a sudden as they
stared at the crushed coconut on the table and
exchanged looks with each other.

Zhou Tzuyu, whose arm was still pinned behind her
back, kept on shouting, "Xu Lisa, what do you think
you are doing! Let me go!"

She might still sound tough, but she was already
panicking inside - her arm, twisted behind her, was
hurting like hell and all she could think of was the
scene of Xu Lisa crushing the coconut with her
bare hands. She never knew that she could do
that. Should she kneel down and thank the good lord
that Xu Lisa didn't just dislocate her shoulder???

Xu Lisa sneered and gave Zhou Tzuyu a forward
shove when she let go of her. Tzuyu stumbled
forward a couple of steps and fell onto a lounger.

"Oh!" She acted surprised, took a couple steps
forward, bent over, and said, "I am sorry, Tzuyu-jie. It seems I have... accidentally knocked your plastic surgery nose out of place."

Startled, Tzuyu immediately pulled out her phone
and turned on the front camera.

It was only after she had turned the camera on that
she realized that she had fallen for her trick.

But it was too late.

The crowd around them started chitchatting among
themselves.

"So Zhou Tzuyu had plastic surgeries?"

"Hadn't she always bragged about everything being
all natural on herself?"

"She had a nose job?"

"And she had the audacity to call someone else a
head-changing monster day in and day out?"

Embarrassed, Zhou Tzuyu got up, stomped her feet,
and went back to her dressing room.

Xu Lisa smiled, called Xiao Rose over, and opened
up another coconut.

It was only after a long while before Zhou Tzuyu
slowly re-emerged after she had touched up her
makeup. She had already touched it up a few times
this afternoon, but still couldn't stop her small beads
of sweat from showing up on her forehead.

In contrast, Xu Lisa's makeup was fine on her
delicate face. With her being able to use her magical
ability to maintain her body temperature, the heat
had no effect on her. Her rosy red lips still casually
sipping coconut juice out of a straw. Her slender,
white legs were crossed, and her curvy body was
leaning against the back of the chair as she looked
down upon everyone and everything around her.
every look and smile of hers had an added hint of
amorousness to them.

It was as though the ceramic doll who was only
capable of a fake smile had suddenly gained a soul
and turned into a beautiful woman from the inside out.

As much as everybody else was busy running
around with their own business, they still couldn't help glancing over in her direction from time to time.

Noticing the chance in the ways that others were
looking at Xu Lisa, Zhou Tzuyu was so mad that
she could explode. But she was still intimidated by
Lisa's brute force. She wasn't even able to
negotiate the beating scene. She hasn't even been able to slap her across her face yet, and she already had her arm twisted behind her. What the hell was going on?

She mulled over it for a long time. Finally, she gave
into her fear and said with a quivering voice, "We
should stick with the original plan of faking the slap."

Taking their places and standing in front of the
camera, Tzuyu had lost all her drive of "beating
up" Xu Lisa, Right now, her eyes were filled with
nothing but fear.

Once the rolling had begun, she recited a weak, "You
shameless little slut."

After saying that, she lifted her arm, but she was too
afraid to swing it at Xu Lisa- not even just to
fake slapping her. Had Xu Lisa give her a stare
right now, she'd probably drop onto her knees right
then and there.

After a long while, she grabbed Xu Lisa's shoulder
lightly and started reasoning with her, "Can you
please give me back my husband?"

Zhou Tzuyu, her hands quivering, had to try it a few
times before they were finally able to finish the
scene.

It was also dinner time and Eun-jie, presumably, was still at work so Xu Lisa just took the car back to the agency's office.

The company she was with was called Silver Start
entertainment, and it was one of the peripheral
properties that belonged to mu Jungkook. As their
businesses had been going downhill recently, nobody. Really gave too much effort in managing it. And the original owner, in particularly, was one of the least noticeable actresses of theirs. She made a paltry amount when she was able to get into an official filming. Otherwise, she just got small parts here andbthere, and barely anyone ever noticed her.

According to the original novel, Mu Jungkook merely
used Xu Lisa as an excuse in front of his family
and never announce this fake "lover" relationship
publicly. As such, nobody knew of Xu Lisa's
background at Silver Start entertainment and nobody
gave a shit about her. Anyone could stomp on her
whenever they felt like.

Her agent, Eun-jie, in particular, was like a vampire.
She didn't even treat the original owner as a human
being. Many of the negative publicity actually
originated from her. As long as the actresses under
her can bring in money, she didn't care if the entire
internet spit on the actress.

She had a bad impression on Eun-jie. She
went into the office to reason with her, but as soon
as she stepped out of the elevator, she heard her
gossiping with her other colleagues inside the office.