Kiss me tender

Chapter 28 Bear

Sophia was happy to hear Melissa's words. She said to the director, "Director, you see? She said she can do anything for the art. Did you hear that?"

The director was stunned. He didn't expect that Melissa would say that.

Charles seemed to be tired of it. Although he sympathized with Melissa, there was no way to reach a stalemate with Sophia. Otherwise, everyone had to delay. The play couldn't be shot, so he could only take a look at Melissa sympathetically.

Clenching her fists, Melissa said calmly, "Let's begin our acting. I won't complain for the sake of the upcoming drama and the upcoming return."

The audience started to whisper to each other. Some were waiting to see a joke, some sympathized with Melissa and some thought she was silly. There were different views about it. The director didn't care about a little star like Melissa at all and he was happy with it and nodded, "Okay!" With a loud speaker, he said, "Everyone, get ready to begin filming!"

Melissa returned to her original place in silence without any complain. Of course, Sophia wouldn't let her go in the following play. After all, she had said that she didn't complain anything, so she beat her in relief.

So during the shooting, Sophia acted as a little princess and complained, "You bitch, why did you steal the official money?" The onlookers all shut their eyes and screamed miserably after they saw the slap on Melissa. As if they felt too much pain to bear, let alone her. This time, Sophia slapped harder. What's more, Sophia slapped on Melissa's face which had just been beaten. Melissa's face swelled up again and was very painful. She closed her eyes and endured it.

Sophia gritted her teeth and cursed, "You scum! You bitch! I'll kill you!" Then she gave her another slap on both sides of her face. Both sides of Melissa's face were burning in pain, so she thought her face

must have been swollen and her head was even buzzing because of the slap. But thinking that she was making a scene, she secretly clenched her fists and endured the pain.

Seeing that she didn't resist, Sophia slapped Melissa more wantonly. She kept cursing "Bitch" and beating Melissa again and again. She slapped her happily. Although she wore an expression of righteous indignation and even crying, she couldn't help but happy in her heart. It seemed that it was good thing to hit Melissa.

The slap had hit Melissa's left cheek and right cheek all the time. On the stage, Charles felt sorry to watch the fight, but they couldn't help shaking their heads because he had reason to step in.

After a long time, the cold-blooded director couldn't stand it anymore and shouted, "Stop! That's enough. Let's get down to next scene."

However, Sophia kept fighting. She couldn't give up. She shouted, "Why do you stop? The shooting hasn't been finished yet. I laughed just now, so I have to continue. The director needs to shoot again. Let's shoot it again. Since it's for the art, it's better to shoot it again!"

"Sophia, enough! Don't be so mean!" Charles stood up and asked coldly.

"What do you mean? I did all of this for art. I do this just because of the willing of her. What do you think, Charles? " Sophia protested.

Seeing that the two of them were about to have a fight again, Melissa didn't want to delay the progress of the filming, so she said lightly, "Charles, you don't need to worry about me. Since Sophia has said that she want to make another shoot, I can take it!"

"Did you hear that? She said she wanted another one." Sophia was overjoyed. She raised her head haughtily and said to Charles.

Charles was a little angry at Melissa's words. How could she put up with it? But since she had said so, he had to sit down angrily.

The director saw that Melissa was fine with this. However, Sophia was unwilling to submit and. So he agreed to take another shoot. Therefore, Melissa was slapped by Sophia five or six times.

In the end, Melissa was already numb with pain. Tears kept rolling down her cheeks. She gritted her teeth and endured the burning pain on her face. She couldn't help but take Sophia's distorted revenge. She kept telling herself in her heart, "Everything will pass. Everything will be fine!" But she didn't know why she felt so wronged, wanted to cry, and why was so uncomfortable?

Outside the filming site, Quintin was shocked to see what happened. He thought that Sophia beat her too hard, so he reported to Colin, "Boss, do you think you should get involved in it? If you go on like this, you are going to ruin Melissa's face! "

Colin pursed his lips tightly as if he was trying hard to hold back his anger. He looked determined as if he would explode at any time. He raised his hand slowly.

When Quintin was waiting for him to speak, he suddenly heard director Chen shouting on the set, "Stop! That's enough, that's enough, 100% sure. No need to shoot anymore!" Director Chen was also afraid that Melissa might die if Sophia kept fighting against her. Although Sophia had the support of the big boss, he would take responsibility if a person died on his filming group or had an accident. So when he saw Sophia beaten hard for a while, he stopped her. Please check at N/ôvel(D)rama.Org.

Sophia was done with the beating. She was satisfied to see that Melissa's face was red and swollen. What's more, she slapped so hard on the face just now, which made her hands numb. She was totally exhausted, panting for breath. So she was willing to stop slapping. However, she coldly said to Melissa, "Huh, you have a good performance, I'll let you go today!" Sophia's assistant brought a towel to Sophia and started wiping her sweat. Sophia then walked out of the studio.

Melissa was still kneeling on the ground with her eyes closed. Her face was red and swollen, so people couldn't see it. Until the director came up and said, "Melissa, your play has been completed. You can go to the backstage to rest. Remember to ask the medical staff to apply medicine to you. If you have any problem, you can go to the hospital!"

With her eyes closed, Melissa knelt on the ground like a piece of wood.

The director called again, "Melissa?"

His words brought her back to her senses. Melissa opened her eyes and said, "Okay." She stood up with a bang. She said in a low voice, "Director, thank you." Her ears were buzzing and it seemed that she couldn't hear people's words clearly.

Seeing her acting like this, the director shook his head and left. When Melissa was about to leave indifferently, she suddenly heard Charles called her, "Melissa!"

It was the first time for Charles to call her in such a friendly way, as if she was his younger sister. Melissa turned to him. Charles took out an ointment from his assistant and handed it to Melissa. "This is the essential ointment for my daily combating. It's been used for many years and it's very effective. You can apply it to reduce the swelling and pain in a short time! From now on... " He patted Melissa's shoulder, feeling a little sad and helpless. "Don't work so hard. If you can't bear it, you can just quit. Why do you have to compromise yourself?"

Holding the ointment in her hands silently, Melissa was moved to tears. She felt bitter and she held back her tears as well as muttered, "Senior, thank you..." But she sighed in her heart that she would still work so hard for the shooting. She didn't have a backstage background and she had offended people. If she didn't start acting from these small characters step by step, how could she rise to fame? How could she show off to those who had bullied her?

But Melissa didn't tell this to Charles. Charles shook his head and left reluctantly. At the same time, outside the filming site, Colin coldly said to Quintin, "Let's go!" Then he strode away, ignoring anything happening on the set. No matter how badly Melissa was hit or cursed, he had never stepped in.