This night, the relationship between the two had been eased down to the freezing point again.
The next day, Jane Gardner woke up with her back in her hands, saw that Zachary Irwin was no longer next to her, and remembered the image of last night.
She held her forehead.
Damn, how could she practice dancing with this “injury”?
“Young lady, the doctor the old lady sent for you is here, is it now?” Jane Gardner was considering whether to take the morning off when Nanny Finn’s voice rang out from downstairs.
“The doctor?” Hadn’t she failed to please Zachary Irwin, and he had called in a doctor for himself anyway?
“Yes, the old lady was going to have the doctor come over a few days ago, and I said the young lady had gone away for training… No, you’re back now, and the doctor is here.”
Nodding in understanding, Jane Gardner knew that Zachary Irwin would not be so generous as to hire a doctor for her, and she quickly changed her clothes and went downstairs.
Nanny Finn had always known that Jane Gardner had injuries, but had no idea that there were so many wounds and that the injuries were so severe.
She blamed herself for not being able to take good care of Jane Gardner in the past few days.
Jane Gardner came down in short sleeves and showed the wounds on her arms to the doctor, “I have about two thousand wounds like this all over my body, each one is not deep and does not hurt the vital parts, just a little too ugly, can you give me some medicine to make these red wounds disappear quickly?”
The doctor has been practicing medicine for decades and has never seen so many wounds concentrated on one person.
“You have also had this wound for almost a month, healing are healed, just these marks are really too much, I can prescribe you medicine, but if you urgently need to attend some important occasions, you can also ask the makeup artist to give you makeup to cover these marks.”
Thinking of the upcoming national top ten competition, Jane Gardner feared an accident and turned to the doctor, “No, you’d better prescribe me some fast healing medicine, even if it means surgery, I agree.”
Later, the doctor prescribed some combination of bathing and application, Jane Gardner used it for two days and felt that it did work.
At least, the bruises she has now are not visible if you don’t look very close.
Still, to better conceal them, on the day of the competition, she made an appointment with the makeup artist Selena Lott recommended to her, changed into her costume, and put makeup on all over her outer skin.
“Jane Gardner, I can’t believe you actually made it!” Jane Gardner had just finished putting on her makeup and was fixing her eyelashes when Mary Gardner came in.
And beside her, was Kailee Cyrus.
“What are you guys doing together?” If Jane Gardner remembered correctly, Kailee Cyrus had fallen out of the running at the beginning.
“Jane Gardner, don’t think you’re the only one in the world who can sing, our sister Mary is much better than you at singing and dancing.
Kailee Cyrus accidentally saw Mary Gardner’s performance in the competition after she lost, and she intuitively decided that Mary Gardner would definitely get a good ranking.
In order to wait for Mary Gardner to become famous so that she can hug her leg, she organized and founded Mary Gardner’s fan support group, and also took the opportunity to ingratiate herself with Mary Gardner and became her life assistant without pay.
“You’re the one who sent out the video of me and Zachary Irwin last time, so what’s this collusion with Mary Gardner?”
With her arms around her waist, Jane Gardner looked at the clown-like Kailee Cyrus with contempt, feeling nothing but disgust.
This kind of person, with such poor character, could never succeed in whatever he did!
“It looks like you’re not going to back out of the race. jane Gardner, then may you succeed in making it to the top ten in the country this time, so that I can really stand on the field and beat you! I will show you with strength that I am the best!”
Pushing Kailee Cyrus away, Mary Gardner stepped forward to face Jane Gardner.
In her eyes, there was all the confidence of a sure winner.
Jane Gardner, of course, does not believe that Mary Gardner will really compete on the basis of strength, with Shan York’s character, the daughter she raised, can be a good type?
However, as long as she does not provoke herself, she will definitely not meddle in the matter.
After the hiccup, it was time for the competition.
This time, the atmosphere was even more tense than before, after all, everyone who made it to the national 50 was eliminated from a large number of people.
Moreover, if you can get into the top ten, even if you can’t get the top three, you will still get great exposure.
Later on, no matter if you are looking for a company to sign with, or if you are picked by a company, you have a way out.
One girl after another went out, while Jane Gardner waited quietly in the background.
Suddenly, whoever was next to her spilled a bottle of drink on herself.
Jane Gardner hurriedly checked her clothes and was relieved to see that her costume was undamaged.
However, her arm, after being splashed by the drink, the original makeup marks all disappeared.
Those red scars, too, gradually emerged.
Covering her arm and sniffing, Jane Gardner realized that the drink was makeup remover!
She turned and searched around, trying to find out who had spilled it on her.
But there were too many people in the room, and she wasn’t sure who owned the white sarong just then.
Leaving the room for the bathroom, Jane Gardner looked at the marks on her arm and quickly thought of a way to save her.
However, before she could come up with a solution, her entry number was dialed on the radio.
Listening to the voice on the radio, Jane Gardner was sure that whoever had thrown the makeup remover on her must have known her entry order to catch her in the act!
With her eyes closed, she took the ribbon off her waist and tied it around her arm in a butterfly shape.
A few minutes later, the Best Singer national live stage.
Jane Gardner sang and danced, using a song called “The Butterfly Sea” to explain what it means to appreciate beauty.
When Jane Gardner was about to finish singing and posing with her backup dancers, one of them intentionally pulled the ribbon off her arm while turning around.
Jane Gardner was quick to see and react, letting the ribbon fall to the ground as she changed positions and put her left hand on top of the wound on her right hand.
Afterwards, the backup dancers exited the stage and Jane Gardner was evaluated by her mentor.
Jane Gardner remembered Paul Gao, whom she had met at The Shine, and glanced at the mentors in front of her to see that he was not among them.
Her heart was relaxed.
This time, some tutors were very discerning and had sharp comments, but most of them gave fair comments.
Reading her score, Jane Gardner bowed and exited the stage, guessing as she went that she would advance.
Backstage, she was ready to find the backup dancer, but after looking around, she found that the clothes and the person had disappeared.
Instead, Kailee Cyrus stood smugly in front of herself.
“Did you do that?”
“What did you say, I can’t understand.” The mouth said she couldn’t understand, but the facial expression of smug disdain told Jane Gardner that she knew something.
“How do you know I have bruises on me? What, Mary Gardner is finally working with Ivel Day?” Ivel Day hasn’t been out to make a fool of himself for a while, so it seems he has other plans.
“I’m the one who did it, what can you do to me?” Ivel Day walked in from the back, pushed Kailee Cyrus away and glared at Jane Gardner with hatred.
“I thought revealing your disgusting body in public would make that old woman Ottilia Amos disgust you and drive you away, but to my surprise, no matter what I did, she desperately defended you! But your life will not always be good!”
Looking at the white sarong on Ivel Day, Jane Gardner understood.
“So, last time at The Shine, just now backstage, everything was done by you!” Jane Gardner wants to settle old scores with Ivel Day!
“What? Do you want to hit me again this time?” Catching Jane Gardner’s hand, Ivel Day backhanded her and pushed her against the wall.
Then he quickly stepped forward, pulling Jane Gardner’s hair and slamming her into the wall, “Why do you always get in my way? Do you know, just a little bit, just a little bit, Zachary will divorce you and be with me!”
Jane Gardner stomped on Ivel Day’s foot with the heel of her high heel, turned around and slapped her twice while she was in pain.
“Ivel Day, I’ll show you by my actions that I will one day climb to the top and make you regret what you’ve done to me!
Not only that, I will also collect evidence to show Zachary Irwin your true colors, so that the law will punish your evil deeds and make you stay in jail for the rest of your life!”
“Heh, is that so? Then we’ll see! Tonight, I guarantee you’ll be the one who suffers the most!” Covering his face, Ivel Day laughed freely.
Then he didn’t have any more trouble with Jane Gardner.
Jane Gardner looked at Ivel Day’s back and felt something strange about her.
Thinking about her last words, she sulked, remembering half a day, but still did not understand.