Rebirth of an Idle Noblewoman || LK Adaptation

𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑳𝑿𝑽𝑰

Following the address that was sent by Rosé, Lisa arrived at Studio City, which served as a well known filming base in the Imperial Capital. When the taxi stopped outside the building, she saw groups of performers lingering around the area.

The people who hung around here, if they weren’t young people full of hope and dreams, then they were the older generations of performers whose dreams have already been drowned by reality. At their age, it was extremely difficult for them to become popular again.

Double checking that she had the right place, she slowly made her way toward the filming base.

‘Empire Under Siege’ was Cheng Zhou’s only work this year, and the reason they started shooting at this time of the year was to make it in time for the awards ceremony which was at the end of the year. Generally speaking, the entire filming process was quite fast. Whether you were a big shot or a newbie, you had to get up early and work late into the night when you were in this crew, and no one dared to go against this culture here.

The ones who joined the filming of ‘Empire Under Siege’ were mainly there due to Cheng Zhou’s reputation. He was an unorthodox genius director from China, with only seven films in his hands, with an eccentric temperament. If he couldn’t find a person suitable to play the role in his movie, then he would rather not shoot at all. The films that he produced were all classics, and differed a lot by the movies that were generally found in the box office.

They didn’t manage to find a suitable heroine for one of his other movie of his last year, and till today it still hadn’t started production due to that reason. With such an amazing script just sitting in his hands like that, it made a lot of people jealous.

It was precisely due to his eccentric personality that many of the fresh and new rising stars were eager to hold a part in his movies.

This time, Rosé was lucky to be selected. Because he had been having problems finding a perfect candidate for his movie for a long time Cheng Zhou had made a call to a good friend of his, hoping to be able to find some fresh talents. He never expected that he would be able to find someone like Rosé.

“Cut! Jin Soohyang, the role you’re playing is Princess Qixia! It’s a princess, you know! Not some prostitute! From the top again!” Cheng Zhou’s eyes were on the actress in front of him who was playing an indispensable character in his movie, the fire in his gaze was threatening to burst out at how annoyed he was toward the woman.

A princess of a ruined nation, there were many actresses and entertainers that were qualified to play this role in the entertainment circle. However, the princess was described as the world’s greatest beauty, and Cheng Zhou was very obsessed and picky in regards to the personality of the person playing this role. If the person wasn’t beautiful, then he didn’t want her. Although the one in front of him was indeed a beauty, one that would shine in front of him, her acting was subpar. No wonder she was still only a second-rate entertainer even though she had such a gorgeous face.

“Director Cheng, calm down. She’s a newbie, she probably just needs more practise.” The producer who was beside him smiled as he tried to mediate the situation.

“Newbie?” Cheng Zhou sneered, pointing toward Xiao Yun, who was busy memorizing her lines at a corner of the stage. “Open your eyes and look, that’s a newbie! No matter how, this one has stayed in the entertainment industry for nearly three years already, and she’s acting just like a fresh newbie!”

The producer wiped the cold sweat off his forehead, thinking if it weren’t for him being so demanding about looking for an extremely beautiful face, then they wouldn’t be doing so badly until they felt like dying in this scene.