Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation
Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“Alright, mom. I told you, it’s just a minor character, so it’ll only take two to three days. I’ll take care of myself, I’m not a little kid… Alright, alright, I’ll be careful… Bye, I love you.” Katherin put her phone down, then looked at the hostel counter for a long time before she sighed. She clenched her fists and gritted her teeth, then went upstairs after looking around her angrily.
She felt extremely embarrassed when she thought about what happened in the afternoon as she felt like she had been stripped in public and people were laughing at her. Katherin pursed her lips tightly and looked at herself in the mirror when she was back in her room. ‘This feeling sucks! I feel like when… Dad passed away.’
“Damn that b*stard! I was only questioning his opinion, I didn’t think that he was going to react like that… B*stard! A narrow-minded b*stard!” Katherin cursed as she paced back and forth in her room. She kept taking deep breaths. “I knew it! I knew it! Why would anyone sign a contract with an extra so formally! I’m so dumb, I should’ve known…”
After exhaling deeply then rubbing her face with her hands, she finally calmed down. Evidently, Adrian did that so as to prevent her from quitting, and he was going to “repay” her as well as he could. ‘If that’s the case, just you wait and see, don’t think I’ll be bullied easily!’ She said to herself angrily.
As Katherin had expected, Adrian continued making things difficult for her during the second day of shooting. She kept quiet through it all, and always lowered her head with an apologetic look. When Adrian was finally satisfied, he passed two shots, then announced that he would shoot other parts while she reread the script to figure out her character’s emotions.
With that, Katherin sat in a corner quietly to look at her script as she had been tamed by him. A few crew members comforted her, then quickly focused on the next shoot. One would be terribly wrong if one thought that she was going to let it go, because she was actually observing closely, and had been waiting for an opportunity.
Finally, her opportunity came when Adrian announced that they would have a 10-minutes break after the weed planting scene. She stood up quietly after looking around, then walked toward a small desk near the camera where she took a coffee pot.
Katherin strode toward the washroom after avoiding the crew’s sight, then went in swiftly after taking a careful look around her. After pouring the remaining coffee into the sink, she smirked as she entered one of the cubicles, then placed the pot on the floor and pulled her skirt up.
It was the director’s coffee pot, from which Adrian would drink one to two pots of coffee or black tea a day, thus it became Katherin’s target. Since she was just a teenager, it was normal for her to act impulsively.
After wiping the pot and adding something inside to conceal what it really was, Katherin took a deep breath before she returned to the set. At that moment, Adrian was having a conversation with the cameraman and the assistant director, and the rest were occupied, thus she managed to put the coffee pot back safely.
Feeling proud and pleased, she returned to her seat as she waited for the b*stard to be punished. However, she became frustrated because Adrian was fully immersed in the shooting, so he had not used the coffee pot for more than an hour.
‘You’re going to drink it sooner or later!’ Katherin said to herself. Following that, she was so frustrated that she caused continuous NG takes during her shoot, resulting in her being belittled by Adrian again.
‘Patience, patience. He’ll have a taste of my revenge soon.’ She calmed herself down as Adrian scolded her. A few more NG takes later, she finally passed three shots.
“That’s it. We’ll rest for 15 minutes, then we’ll shoot act 34, scene 55,” Adrian announced after they were done with another shot, then waved at Katherin. “Please come here, Ms. Beckinsell.”
Katherin blinked as she was confused, but she quickly walked over when she saw Adrian looking for a cup on the table beside him. Nothing felt better than watching her plan succeed.
“Do you know what your problem was?” Adrian asked without turning back.
“Hmm… I was too stiff. A person who takes weed for a long period of time becomes… Indifferent, sluggish, distracted, and so on… Not a dead fish that’s rolling its eyes,” Katherin replied carefully. Although Adrian had his back facing her, she knew what he was doing, so she was extremely nervous.
“Very well, at least you’re using your head—ha, they prepared black tea today—I hope that you’ll keep this up instead of having me remind you every time, okay?” When Adrian turned around, he held two cups in his hands.
“Yes, I understand… This is?” Katherin was stunned when she looked at the cups.
“This is a treat for you, take it as encouragement. We’ll be even from now on,” Adrian replied seriously.
“This…” Katherin turned pale as she did not expect this to happen at all.
“Why? Is something wrong?” Adrian noticed her abnormality.
“No… Nothing… I’m just… Surprised.” Katherin explained, then gritted her teeth as she took the cup. She shivered a little when she saw the brown liquid.
“Surprised?” Adrian chuckled. “You think that I’m a bit different from how I was in the beginning?”
“Mm… This…” Katherin did not know how to reply to him.
Adrian shrugged, then lifted his cup. “You’ll know why.”
Katherin sighed a breath of relief, then forced a smile as she lifted her cup too. She thought that that was it, but Adrian was watching her closely. He was obviously waiting for her to drink it.
‘Damn it! Damn it!’ She said to herself because she was not expecting this. Her face would have turned dark by now if she was not being hopeful that he would drink from his cup too.
Someone else would have noticed that something was off, but Katherin, who was only an impulsive young girl, overlooked it. Subsequently, she pulled her cup closer to her mouth and closed her eyes as she endured the disgust. Although the liquid only touched her lips by a bit, she was so disgusted that she twitched.
‘As long as he drinks it too! As long as he drinks it!’ Katherin stared at Adrian while holding back her anger. She only had one aim!
Later, Adrian smiled and poured the liquid out of his cup, then retrieved an identical coffee pot from the middle of a newspaper pile.
“Did you really think that I was going to drink it?” Adrian mocked Katherin as he placed the pots together.
Katherin’s face turned white, and she could not let a word out. On the other hand, Adrian looked back at her playfully.
An indescribable feeling of humiliation filled her heart while she looked at Adrian with teary eyes. Furious and hopeless, Katherin threw her cup to the wall, then ran toward the corridor.
Adrian shrugged, then waved his hand at the onlookers. “Alright, it’s none of your business.”
He had always been watching Katherin. Since she was so bold that she went against him from the start, it was impossible that she was going to let him lecture her throughout the shootings. Knowing that, Adrian had been watching her every move and was going to teach her a lesson.
The others whispered even though they looked away. Adrian rubbed his chin, then picked up a coffee pot and a cup before he walked toward where Katherin headed towards. He initially thought that she was going to smash her cup at him, thus he flinched slightly, but she only threw her cup at the wall. In that case…
After searching a few rooms, Adrian finally heard soft weeps from a storeroom. Through the door gap, a lady was seen weeping softly while leaning against the wall, and she was trying very hard to not make a sound.
Adrian shook his head, then entered the room. “How can you prank someone without being prepared to be pranked?”
“Why are you here?!” Katherin turned around right away, then glared at him with her red eyes.
“F*ck you! You b*stard! Thug! F*ck you!”
“Alright, relax, it’s not a big deal.”
“If you’re here to enjoy the fruits of your victory, you’ve done it! So get lost! Get lost!”
“I said, relax. It’s just a cup of black tea, you don’t have to make a fuss about it.”
Katherin who wanted to curse at him again was startled for a few seconds before she asked, “Wh… What?”
“It’s just black tea.” Adrian shook the coffee pot in the air. “It’s not your… Mm.. Gift. I’m not a pervert.”