Serena and Anna looked at each other.
Anna was about to nod, but Serena stopped her and said softly, “I’m sorry, I may not have time to take new orders in the short term.”
“So, can you leave me a business card? So when you are free we can contact each other?”
He was so good at bargaining that Serena could not counter anything, so she looked at Anna.
Anna pulled out her business card and handed it to him, “Hello, assistant director, I am the assistant to the stylist Shelly, my name is Anna!”
“All right, then as soon as you give me the card you have to leave immediately?”
“Yes.”
After saying goodbye to the assistant director, Serena and Anna exited the set. Unexpectedly, when they exited, the driver was still there and waved to them as soon as he saw them leave.
Serena was stunned, then left with Anna.
“Were you here the whole time?”
“I wanted to wait to see if there were any actors who needed a ride, I didn’t expect you to leave after so few minutes.”
Serena thought about it and said, “We need to go home. If it’s convenient for you, you could give us a ride.”
“No problem.”
So they got into the car. As soon as Anna got into the car, he hugged her, “Hey, today’s work was a bust, and I feel like a lot of money is still missing for the year-end bonus. That woman is really arrogant. When she appears on the screen she is always so polite and well-behaved. I didn’t expect her to be like that in private. Aren’t you afraid we might expose her?”
Serena looked at her, “Then why don’t you try exposing her? Then see if people on the Internet will believe you or their idols? I hope they won’t tear you to pieces.”
Hearing this, Anna immediately said angrily, “Hey, this shallow world is really a despair! However, didn’t the assistant director just now suggest you become an actress? With your beauty, you can definitely find a way in the entertainment industry. Then you will overcome her and see if she dares to be arrogant with you again.”
Serena: “… I thank you, but unfortunately I’m too old for such things now, I’ll leave this endeavor to you.”
Anna: “Do you think I wouldn’t like it? Unfortunately, I don’t have your face.”
After that, he could not help but hold her by the arm and complain, “All people always vent their anger on me. They tell me that I’m not as smart as you, then that I’m not as beautiful as you. If I had even one of those things, I now-I wouldn’t be your assistant.”
“Do you feel belittled to be my assistant?” Serena looked at her.
Anna felt cold in her back, and then smiled back, “Don’t feel that way, you are perfect just the way you are.”
“But I don’t think the assistant director will let it go, otherwise she wouldn’t have asked me for a business card. I think in the future there is no need for you to continue being a stylist, and being an actress is also a great job.”
Serena: “No way.”
“Why?”
“You’ve seen how old those actors are. They are very young. I am over ten years older than them. Won’t I be ridiculed for that if I go into show business?”
Anna: “Yes, you are a woman in your thirties. It’s just that… Your face fooled them! There are many people in show business who lie about their age. You can fool them all by saying you are younger.”
“Don’t even think about it, if you want to be an actress, you can go and offer yourself to the assistant director.”
Anna immediately bolted upright and shook her head.
“I don’t want to! I don’t want to go into show business, and I won’t sacrifice anything to follow a script! So, I am determined not to go into show business!”
Hearing those harsh comments, Serena retorted, “You don’t want to go into show business, but you’re trying to talk me into it?”
“It’s different, you look good, and then you have someone who wants to help you, once you are in, I can be your assistant.”
Serena: “…”
She was too angry to continue talking to her, so she did not respond. The car arrived at Red Community fairly quickly.
*
Initially Serena planned to return to the Giordano family in North City after a few days. Considering that Francesca wanted to go to North Town to shoot the film, she did not expect that things would be so bad and that she would have no reason to go to North Town.
So she decided to warn Matteo that she would not be stopping by the Giordano family home.
She did not expect that Matteo would laugh coldly after that news, and it made her blood run cold.
He asked her to bring Manuel the next day.
Serena: “No, I can’t make it tomorrow, and I haven’t even bought the ticket yet.”
Matthew: “I’ll pick you up tonight.”
Serena: “No!”
“It’s only a few hours, I can make it.”
Despite what Matteo said, you could hear from his voice that he was fatigued.
Serena said she did not feel sorry for him, after all he was her brother and treated her very well, so Serena could only agree.
“All right, tomorrow morning I will take a cab with Manuel, okay?”
Matteo was silent for a moment and then replied with satisfaction, “I will send a driver to pick you up.”
Serena: “Didn’t I tell you I would come by cab?”
“You might hit traffic. Come early in the morning. I will send a driver later. After dinner get ready and rest.”
Serena: “Matteo! You are so pushy!”
The meeting was clearly set for the next day, but apparently she would not be able to rest peacefully at night either.
Matteo was not angry despite forcing her to do what he said, on the contrary he laughed and said in a low voice, “Be good, you will sleep after you arrive.”
After hanging up the phone, Serena reluctantly scratched her long hair.
Her brother was always good, only. She wanted to check on her sister.
He didn’t know why he hadn’t looked for her for over twenty years, then when he looked for her initially he found the wrong person, and only later did he find her. That was why he treated her so well, and also why he wanted to control her.
But according to what Clare said, toward Alice he was much more indifferent.
Perhaps that is the power of familial affection.
That evening, Anna cooked and Manuel was able to eat the fish he so wanted. Finally, he felt satisfied, and he fell into his mom’s arms.
“Mom, the braised fish made by Aunt Anna is really delicious.”
Serena listened to that speech, looked at Anna and joked, “Do you want to marry Aunt Anna?”
Anna almost choked on her food.
Manuel shook his head, “No.”
“Why?”
“Mom, what kind of question is that, I’m only five years old, and it will be at least 20 years before I can get married. Then Aunt Anna will be Grandma Anna, and she won’t be pretty.”