Chapter 17: My Movie Role

Lila’s POV: My Movie Role

“Sir when is my male lead coming?” I asked the director as the make up artist added the finishing touches on my face. For the movie sequel, I was going to be introduced to the Empress. The Emperor’s first love.

The movie, as complex as it was truly amazing. The Emperor and the Empress had been childhood lovers who got married earlier in order to preserve their young love.

That was until the Emperor met my character, Bai Ying and fell in love at first sight. Bai Ying was a maiden who had tasted the harsh side of the world.

Being placed in the eyes of the Emperor who she had always fantasized about, she ignored of the fact that the Emperor was married and accepted all his advances.

With the help of her elder sister, she wove her trap as tight as possible, making the Emperor sink deeper and deeper into her spell until all he could think about was Bai Ying.

Bai Ying and the Emperor’s love blossomed until she became pregnant with the Emperor’s child. Inviting the royal physician secretly, the royal physician concluded that not only was the child truly the Emperor’s, but Bai Ying was carrying twins. And to the Emperor who had always wanted a child of his own but had gotten none from the Empress despite being with her for a long amount of time, it was noting but a dream come true.

The Emperor, now obsessed with his love for Bai Ying and their children, brought Bai Ying into the palace and introduced her to the Empress. Making a bold claim that he didn’t love her anymore and would thus love to break their marrital rites and marry Bai Ying as soon as possible.

The Empress hid her rage and met the Empress Dowager to lay her complaints. The Empress Dowager, having known the Empress for a long time leaned towards her side and allowed her stay in the palace. Disregarding every other thing.

And that was where trouble struck.

With each moment that passed, Bai Yong’s belly grew and grew. Bigger than that of a normal human carrying twins. The pain was unbearable and she had to stop moving around without the support of at least five maidens.

The Emperor, concerned about her health, dropped the matters of the royal court and stayed by her side all through. He was a good emperor to his people so his predicament was easily pardoned by them, much to the disappointment of the reigning Empress who wanted to take Bai Ying out of the picture.

One faithful day, the Emperor had stepped out for a meeting that couldn’t be held back for much longer. Before he left, he spent his morning with Bai Ying on their bed. Kissing her belly and trailing kisses all over her which made the always cranky Bai Ying chuckle and smile. Infected by the sound of her smiles, the Emperor continued his kiss attacks and the merry sound of their laughter echoed through the walls.

Not long after the King left, a maiden brought in a cup of water and some medicine for Bai Ying. She didn’t have too much about it since all her medications, food, fruits, water and othe edibles were personally supervised by the Emperor down to whomever served them.

She took the meds and fell back asleep. Too tired to even move a muscle.

That was until another maiden walked into the room and saw Bai Ying wriggling in pain, drowning in a pool of blood. They alerted the Emperor who dropped everything and rushed to Bai Ying’s side alongside the royal physician.

By the time they got to the Emperor’s quarters, Bai Ying and entered a critical condition and the Emperor was told to wait outside while the physician tended to her.

Not long then, the physician came out to ask the Emperor the hardest wuiestion ever asked; his heirs or Bai Ying?

The King was saddened by the news. But he knew deep down who he wanted to hold in his arms the most. He requested for the physician to save Bai Ying. Even when he was told that Bai Ying may never conceive again, nothing swayed him from his decision. To the Emperor, a world without his Bai Ying wasn’t worth living in at all.

The news reached the Empress’s ear and she was dejected. She thought that by poisoning Bai Ying and making her lose her babies that the Emperor would finally detest Bai Ying and come back to her.

But this incident made her realize that the babies had nothing to do with the Emperor’s love for Bai Ying.

She recalled the moment when the Emperor had told her outrightly that he had fallen out of love with her and saw her as nothing more than a friend. She was the one who had forced him to marry her under the guise of escaping her family’s pressure. The Emperor never loved her in an intimate way but had always given in because he had never found the one person who could make his heart race. And he had found that person in Bai Ying. And she had made the most deadliest mistake ever.

She quickly stood up as she wanted to escape before he found out but the guards rushed into her chamber with a blazing Emperor following behind. The Emperor glared at her in disgust and asked the guards to lock her up with guards stationed against the entrance twenty four seven.

The Empress tried begging him. Even bringing in their years of friendship into it.

But the Emperor had held onto the almost dead Bai Ying. His entire memory corroded by her smiles, her pranks, her love. How was he to survive or even forgive the Empress if that light had seized to exist in his entire life? Looking at Bai Ying’s dried up blood stains still on his robe hardened his decision even more and left the Empress’s ward.

Everyone thought it had all ended till the Empress, who had gone insane found a way to outrightly kill Bai Ying by stabbing her in the heart. The Emperor who had witnessed Bai Ying’s death. Picked up the same knife after the Empress fled and killed himself, lying close to his beloved as he too left the world.

Such a tragic ending. But the kind of story that would move people.

“Lila you are on in three minutes”

“Sir what of the male lead? I can’t act the scene alone”

“Oh your male lead is here. He’s in his dressing room”

“Oh. Okay” I wondered who he was that the entire staff had their lips sealed about his identity.

I focused on my script as I fanned myself cause of the heat till I heard the excited murmurs from the set. Raising my head, I glanced at the commotion only to see Nicholas Cole. The winner of the most prestigious acting award for eight years straight. Nicholas was a god in the acting world. Even I was dazzled by his appearance. But why would the Nicholas, who had been rumored to be cold and standoffish take on this movie?

True to the rumors, he treated everyone coldly as he walked up to me.

“Are you Lila Monroe?”

“Yes” I replied in a confused daze. I watched his face morph into a soft look as he looked at me lik

e a golden retriever.

“Hello sister”

What the fck was happening?!!!