Thirty minutes later, Mo Ning scrambled out of the room. She decided to grab a late breakfast or an early lunch, anyway you looked at it, on her way to set since she still had forty minutes before she was needed on set.
She opted for steamed dumplings, and a glass of low fat milk, since she wasn't that hungry anyway.
By the time she got to set, she still had twenty minutes to spare. She said hi to the guard on duty, and thanked him sincerely, it was the same one from the first day she was here. She made a mental note to get him something as a way of appreciation. If he had refused to let her in, or he hadn't gone to inform the director on her behalf that day, maybe she wouldn't have gotten the job.
When she got inside, they were filming the scene where Gong Hao and Gong Xinyi found out that they weren't really siblings,at least by blood anyway, according to the law, they were still siblings since they were adopted by the same people.
Mo Ning ,went closer to watch the scene. The male lead was played by a popular actor in the industry, Zhi Yunfan, who won the best actor award two years back.
When she saw their acting, she was impressed and thought that if Xue Lin, concentrated on acting and didn't put her effort on causing trouble, then she could probably win an award with her current acting skills.
Yes, Mo Ning noticed the previous day, that Xue Lin was trying to distract her during filming so she could make mistakes, but she didn't realize, that her acting skills had to be better than Mo Ning's, before she could pull off a stunt like that.
Unfortunately, some people were born brain dead or rather their brain became dead overtime due to lack of use.
Just then, Mo Ning's cell phone rang, it was a call from her Nigerian friend, Grace, who had gone back to Nigeria two months before to visit her family. She quickly answered the call curious to know the reason she was calling.
"hello Grace. What's up."
" Ning Ning, are you busy right now?"
"Why do you ask? "
" I was wondering if you could pick me up at the airport. "
" What! You're in country M?" Mo Ning asked, her brows furrowed in confusion. As far as she knew, she wasn't supposed to be back until the weekend, unless something happened, and she was eighty percent sure that whatever it was, wasn't anything good,because, she could detect from her voice that she had been crying. But she decided not to ask all these over the phone.
"yeah, I had a last minute change of plans so I couldn't tell you beforehand. So can you? "
" I can't right now, I'm on set, but I can call Yaran, since today's her day off, I'm sure she can pick you up. "
" Alright thanks, I'll be waiting."
Mo Ning directly hung up and then made a call to Bai Yaran.
" Yaran are you busy right now? "
" no I'm not. Why? "
" can you please pick Grace up from the airport? "
" she's back? I thought she was coming back this weekend, why the change of plans? "
" I have no idea, but from her tone, I could tell that she had been crying, but I didn't ask. Anyway, just pick her up from the airport, as soon as I'm done here, I'll meet you guys at your apartment. "
" sure, I'll go now. "
As soon as Mo Ning hung up the call, she saw the set errand boy, Fanglin, walking to her.
" miss Mo, you have a visitor. "
" may I know who the person is? "
" it's me miss, you have a package, and I need you to sign for it." a delivery man said handing a well packaged box to her. It seemed expensive which made her curious of the identity of whoever had sent it.
"may I know who this is from? "
" I'm sorry miss, but I can't say who, my job is just to deliver the package."
"its alright, here let me sign for it. " Mo Ning signed and the delivery man went his way. She was extremely curious about the content of the package, but she calmed her curios heart, and gently unwrapped the package. What she saw inside, left her stunned for a few seconds.