A high class secluded villa in the outskirts of Yun city.
Shen Mucheng, alighted from the car but did not directly go into the villa. He moved round the entire villa admiring the scenery, he had not returned for two years but it still felt like he was always there. It felt like home.
The flowers where still as well trimmed as he remembered, the entire garden gave him a feeling of sleeping on a bed of flowers. The different fragrance from different flowers combined to form a pleasant aroma which tingled his senses. He decided to produce a nature based perfume as his first project. He planned to oversee the entire process himself and make sure a fragrance similar to this was achieved.
After moving through the flower garden and encircling the villa one last time, he decided to go in to freshen up. Maybe the water would wash away part of his jetlag. Just as he stepped into the living room, his cell phone vibrated indicating an incoming call and the caller just had to be his mother. He often wondered why his mom wasn't a journalist or even a paparazzi, he just arrived in the country less than two hours ago and she already knew to call. He answered the call not ready to receive an earful for delaying to pick her call.
" hey mom"
"hey yourself ! why didn't I know you would be coming into the country today? "
" calm down mom, even if you knew what would you have done? I just didn't want to stress you, 'cause I know you would want to prepare a feast; which would be extremely high profile and I don't want that. I just want to keep a low profile for now. " Shen Mucheng tried to pacify his mom. He couldn't remember the last time he spoke so much,maybe he could; that would be two years ago.
" of course I would prepare a feast. What did you expect, I haven't seen my son in two years. "
" if you put it that way, I'm sorry mom. "
" By the way, how are you? Both mentally and physically I mean." his mom's voice suddenly softened when she asked that question.
"I'm alright mom, those two years I stayed away, helped me recuperate pretty well, don't trouble yourself too much I would find time to come visit you and dad before I get extremely busy. "
" alright. But do take care not to over exhaust yourself. "
" yes mom see you later. "
" okay. Your dad sends his regards. "
" alright. Tell him I brought back something for him. "
" hey punk what did you bring for me? "
He wasn't surprised to hear his dad's voice over the phone.
" you could say it's something special. You'll see when I drop by. See you."
With that he quickly hung up, before he got bombarded with questions.
Sigh! He made his way up the stairs to have that relaxing shower his body so craved.
At set.
Mo Ning arrived at set earlier than she was supposed to so she could get used to things there and also learn from the other actors who were acting out their scenes.
So far everything was going well, she didn't see a need to go through her script anymore since she did that for most part of the previous day;and thanks to her memory which was slightly better than most people and her ability to grasp the key characteristics of a character and make them come to life, she wasn't too nervous about her scenes for today.
Soon she had to go do her makeup and put on her costume, so she left to the makeshift dressing rooms prepared at the set.
When she arrived where she was to have her makeup done, the makeup artist looked her up and down and then frowned a little. She thought that she had a lot of work to do on her face which kind of looked ordinary;but when she took a closer look at her face, a hint of surprise appeared in her eyes. 'This actress had one of those faces that appeared ordinary at first glance but when you take a second look you would notice how beautiful she really was and wouldn't want to take your eyes off her face.' she thought to herself. She was glad she didn't voice out her initial opinion.
But what she didn't realize, was that Mo Ning noticed every of her facial expressions despite her not voicing out her opinions, Mo Ning decided to keep quite about it to save her the embarrassment.
The scene she was going to act was the same one she acted for her audition. The director decided to put it first because, it was a crucial scene and required the actors to be in the right frame of mind to film it right. So she didn't need heavy make up just natural makeup,in no time the make up was done. The make up artist was once again thrown off her feet;she was amazed and at a loss, she looked Mo Ning over from her makeup to her costume, she looked mesmerizing, she didn't look like a seductive beauty but also didn't look too innocent. With her long hair put up in a messy bun, her eyebrows in a natural arc, her eyes highlighted with eye liner, a hint of blush on her cheeks and pink lip gloss on her full lips she looked even more beautiful than she imagined. She was once again happy for not voicing out her opinion, if not she would have received a slap to her face.
After putting on makeup and costume, Mo Ning made her way to the place that was being set for the next scene. As it was set in a bedroom, a temporary bedroom was being put in place. As she got closer, director Feng caught a glimpse of her face.....