A Night with Her Cruel Mate novel Chapter 37

Jean was looking at Julia and smiled as she spoke. "I need to apologize to everyone here about my relationship with Terence."

She gave a bow as she continued, "Terence and I are just friends. He helped me choose a birthday gift for Director Guo.

The last thing I wanted was to cause this misunderstanding. So I would like to say that I am genuinely sorry. Please focus on the movie and not my personal life."

But despite her denial, her ambiguous attitude towards the relationship aroused the curiosity of the media more.

Jean was in the hot seat. They bombarded her with questions, but she was ready with her answers. This went on for a while until she was finally able to get rid of them.

The new movie offered a good distraction as they turned their attention toward Director Guo. As Jean stepped off the stage, Julia approached her.

"Jean, what’s going on?" Julia looked angry. "Director Guo said you recommended me to him. What does this mean?"

Jean chuckled. "Director Guo promised that he wouldn't tell you. Alas! He broke his promise."

"Spare me the hypocrisy!" Julia cut her off. "What the hell do you want, Jean?"

Jean smiled. "Yes, it was me. I recommended you to Director Guo. Why? Is something wrong?" she asked Julia.

"Why don’t you just tell me what the hell you want?" Julia didn’t believe that Jean would be kind enough to get her the gig.

Jean began to lose patience. "Look, I knew it would mean a lot for you to get an opportunity like this. And you’re my sister, so I recommended you for the part. Besides, I owe you one.

I know things are tough for you right now, and I’m just trying to help. I mean you’re single now, and I just can’t bear to see you struggle on your own like this."

Jean was smiling but her words felt like a knife in Julia’s heart.

"You’re the reason I am in this position," Julia muttered coldly

"Don’t be ridiculous," Jean retorted. "You can’t blame your failed marriage on me." Jean let out a reproachful laugh. "It’s your fault that you lost Terence. And it gave me a chance to get him. Things are going well between us, and you should know that we plan to get married soon. I hope that you will give us your blessing when the time comes. After all, you are my sister."

Jean’s smiled broadly. "You know that no one's blessing would mean more than yours."

"Just tell me what you want!" Julia hissed. Her face darkened.

"Stop worrying, Julia. I just want you to have a chance to act—no ulterior motives. Do you honestly think I would go through all the trouble to set you up?" Jean said coldly.

She could sense that Julia was still hesitant. "Look, no one's forcing you," Jean said as she was getting ready to leave. "You don’t have to accept it if you don’t want to."

Director Zhang was busy setting up the audition at the production house. Julia didn’t expect to see Samuel there.

It looked like the other actresses auditioning were equally surprised, and it made for good gossip as they waited. But Julia ignored them and focused on calming her nerves.

"Samuel? Why are you here?" It seemed that Director Zhang was also not expecting Samuel.

"Come on, you know I had to come." Holly smiled at the director. "Whoever gets chosen today is going to star opposite me. So I have to know who the supporting actress will be."

"Oh! You naughty boy!" Director Zhang laughed.

After making small talk with the director, Samuel headed straight to Julia. "How’s it going? Nervous?" he asked.

"A little," Julia said anxiously.

"Don’t be. I’m here for you." Samuel laid a comforting hand on Julia’s shoulder. "I’ll be watching you out there later. If you’re nervous, you can watch me go first. Got it?"

"Yeah, I got it." Julia smiled and gently shoved Samuel. "You’re becoming more and more indecisive, do you know that?"

He smiled. "I’ll go first."