THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 51 – 60
BY SIR ZACH
CHAPTER 56
Brian has never gotten involved in anyone’s business before, in fact, he is hardly ever seen around the company. And even if someone is getting killed, he was the type to walk past, but him suddenly showing up here and getting involved sent fear down the bottom of the girls’ hearts.
Jeslyn’s eyes turned watery and the next thing, fat tears poured down her cheeks. She tried to get up but whimpered and sat back on the floor.
The more Brian looked at her, the more annoyed he got. “Help her up,” he said to one of his assistants standing behind him before he turned sharply to stare at the bullies. “Don’t you have work to do?”
“W– we do,” they stuttered.
“Then get lost.” He frowned and the bullies scurried away.
“T– thank you,” Jeslyn managed to say.
Brian looked at her for a long time, “can you walk?” He asked and Jeslyn shook her head.
“Troublesome,” he uttered before bending over and carrying Jeslyn in a princess style, heading towards the stairs.
“Brother Brian, weren’t you heading to the set?” One of the Assistants asked with a concealed smile.
“Tell them I’ll be late,” he replied while walking up the stairs.
Being in the hands of this famous god didn’t trigger anything in Jeslyn at all. She didn’t feel awkward, or emotional, nor did her heart start to tingle with sexual feelings like butterfly effects or whatnot.
If Brian was to know that there was finally someone who didn’t feel a thing for him, he would have died from disbelief.
The two Assistants walking behind him weren’t surprised because they knew that one day, Brian would approach Jeslyn. He had always been Jeslyn’s fan from the day she did her debut in Country M. He attended a few of her flopped concerts and was also the same artist who was the first to watch the video she posted on the platform.
Thanks to him, VJ Cute got recognition for her first video. It wasn’t known how he found out that Jeslyn was VJ Cute. They’ve asked him a few times but he wouldn’t say.
If only Jeslyn knew that she has a secret admirer who had been stalking her for the longest time.
Brian carried Jeslyn into Manager Kate’s office and sat her down on a vacant seat before leaving without uttering a word to Manager Kate or Jeslyn.
After he left, Jeslyn smiled awkwardly at the woman who was staring at her without uttering a word.
After a long while, she spoke: “What was the meaning of your actions earlier?”
“Ah, Manager, I’m so sorry, I don’t want to create problems like the rules stated and those girls won’t leave me alone, so I made use of what was available. But I had no idea the person whom I was waiting for wouldn’t show up but Brian did instead.”
Manager Kate frowned. “I’m asking you what you did at your sister’s debut, VJ Cute!”
Jeslyn gasped in shock. Did she know? How? When?
“Don’t you dare give me that look. Why are you giving others your talent and pretending to be a waste in front of me?!”
Jeslyn bolted up and hurried to Manager Kate’s back and started to massage her shoulders. “Don’t be angry, older sister. Life is too short for us to build up anger. Your face will get wrinkles.”
Manager Kate stared at her legs as she was hurrying over. ‘So her legs were fine, huh?’
“Let go of my shoulders and come stand in front of me,” she commanded.
Jeslyn sighed and did as told.
“Spill it all.”
“Before I do that, I want you to tell me how you found out,” Jeslyn said.
The woman looked at her like she wanted to slap some sense into Jeslyn. “I’m your Manager. Before I accepted to manage your affairs, I listened to your voice, and do you think that as the kind of Manager that I am, I won’t find even a little similarity?! Have you forgotten that you’re used to straying in voices? You don’t only apply that when you sing as VJ Cute, you subconsciously do that as Jeslyn too. Your debut song has some parts where you strayed between your regular alto voice to soprano. Although it wasn’t noticeable, however, to learned musicians, they could see you are holding back. So tell me, what’s going on, VJ Cute?”
Jeslyn sighed and sat on the chair opposite her Manager. “Good thing my debut song is still in its early phase. I’ll sing it again.”
Manager Kate doesn’t care about what she does with her ongoing debut song right now, what she wanted to know was why a genius would bring herself forward as an average person.
“Christine,” calling that name brought Jeslyn lots of good and bad memories. “That girl was one of my favorite people. I loved her so much that giving my life for her would be a five minute thought for me. She was an adopted child, born to my father and his first wife. Haha,” she laughed bitterly when she saw the frown on Manager Kate’s face.
“Weird, right? Apparently, my dad was married before he tricked my mom into a second marriage and he tried to swindle my mom out of her wealth but failed, then he and his wife came up with the idea to make my mom adopt Christine. It was a success, Christine was adopted but my dad pretended to hate her, making Christine look even more pitiful that my mom and I had no choice but to love her beyond life itself.
My mom shared her fortune in two between Christine and me but when she found out about my dad’s plans, she took back all she gave Christine and put them in my name.
Long story short, my mom died a few years after and my enemies, including Christine, plotted again to take away everything from me, so they killed my grandfather and pinned the crime on me…”
“… I decided I wouldn’t allow them to take a bite from those properties but those people were adamant. They made an article with lots of fake pictures that stated that I killed my grandfather because he was sexually harassing me…” Jeslyn’s voice broke but she held back the tears.
“Some of the articles said that my grandfather wanted me to have a quicky with him before I left for my husband’s place but because I refused, the man slapped me, then I pushed him. Hahaha… people are sick…” teardrops escaped her eyes even though she tried to stop them.
Manager Kate passed her a tissue box that was on top of her desk.
“Thank you,” Jeslyn accepted, pulled out a few tissues, and wiped her tears with them.
“Did you give them the properties?” Manager Kate asked.
“Of course,” she folded the used tissues and placed them on the desk in front of her, then continued: “How could I have allowed my grandfather’s good reputation to be sullied like that? He’s a dead man, he can’t come back to clear his name…” she took a long pause.
“My grandfather used to tell me that a good name is the only thing we leave for the next generation and he urged me to keep my slate clean before I die, so how can I not keep his slate clean?”
“What if they had released the fake news even after giving them the properties?”
Jeslyn shook her head, “They had more to lose.”
“How so?”
“A desperate person who has nothing to lose fears nothing. They probably didn’t want to push me too hard because they know that I’d fight back, after all, prisoners do escape from prison very often and I have been one of them.”
Manager Kate nodded, “You did the right thing… So about Christine?”
“It’s my revenge for her.” Jeslyn grinned like a villain.
“She’s not the mastermind, is she?”
Jeslyn shook her head, “Christine isn’t the mastermind but she’ll face the biggest revenge from me and that’s because she took more than just my grandfather from me. She bankrupted me emotionally.” She raised her gaze to stare into her Manager’s eyes.
“Have you ever been betrayed by a person you love so much?”
Manager Kate didn’t respond, so Jeslyn went ahead, taking that as a silent approval. “Then you know how she made me and my mother feel. For that, she deserves to feel ten times what my mum and I felt.”
“That’s fine. So now, you’ll have to work on your voice and transition. As Jeslyn, you’ll stick to only one voice and mustn’t give yourself away. I won’t ask you for the details of your revenge but I’m anticipating it. So don’t ruin it.”
“Hehe, thank you so much,” Jeslyn chuckled.
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THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 51 – 60
Brian arrived at the set in the company’s black van.
The reporters were already waiting to swarm around him but Brian would rather sleep in the car all day than give the reporters a chance to ask him stupid questions regarding the scandalous photos that were published by that Vixen’s company.
“Brother Brian, the reporters are everywhere, what should we do?” One of the Assistants asked.
“If there’s no way to get into the set, turn the car around and tell the director that I got a cold from shooting in the snow yesterday,” Brian said lazily with his eyes closed.
“But today’s scenes are very important, they–”
“Just stop talking and take me in if you can, but if you can’t, shut your mouth and turn the car around!” Brian said, a little annoyed. Whenever he sees reporters and paparazzi around him, he gets really frustrated.
“We’ll go through the back. I just hope there aren’t crazy fans and reporters waiting there too.” The second Assistant chimed in and turned the car around.
Brian entered the set and went straight to the dressing room without seeing or speaking to anyone.
The director and the others were worried that Brian who was playing the Second Male lead role wasn’t there yet.
The average-sized man with a head full of disheveled hair glanced at his wristwatch and asked his Assistant director.
“What is going on? Brian has never come late to sets before. Hope he didn’t catch a cold from yesterday’s shoot?”
The Young man shook his head, “One of his Assistants called and said Brian is on his way. He must have been stuck in traffic.”
“I hope so. Today’s scene is very important and Piper will create a scene if it’s not shot today.” The director wore a frown.
“That girl is becoming too much of a nuisance ever since her relationship with Alpha Chaos is made public. You just have to exercise a little more patience, the movie is rounding up soon. After this, I hope you won’t accept her in any movie from now on.” The Assistant Manager said.
“Right, Oliver Feng Long wanted her in this teen drama as the only condition to accept the Male lead role. What else could we have done? Brian didn’t want to be the Male lead because the Second Male lead role suits his style better and it’s also the gem of the story and if played well, he’ll outshine the male lead.”
The Assistant Director sighed. “Those two, they’ll never stop getting on each other’s nerves.”
The reason why Brian wanted the Second Male lead role was to beat Oliver Feng Long. The two artists are unique in their own ways. While Brian is an all-weather, playing around all the available sections in the Entertainment industry, Oliver is an actor and a model.
The two actors debuted at the same time and people wouldn’t stop comparing them. Even though Brian has more fans, he wouldn’t let go of chances to prove to Oliver that he is better which was why, whenever there’s a movie that requires them both to be in it, Brian would always choose to be the Second Male lead who in the end would mostly outshine the quiet Male lead.
After all, who doesn’t like a bad boy with good qualities in a film?
THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 51 – 60
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