The Ultimate Reborn Heiress (Scarlett) novel Chapter 368

Chapter 368 The Look She Didn’t Give Him

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In the script, Princess Mona was supposed to smile at the crown prince and leave him with one final smile, the deepest mark he would carry in his heart for the rest of his life.

But Scarlett didn’t smile. She closed her eyes instead, hiding the understanding, despair, and release in them.

For the first time, Princess Mona’s face showed something more complicated than brightness, admiration, shyness, fear, and the despair of being separated from the crown prince.

But Emmett didn’t catch Scarlett’s change. He walked toward her, saw the look in her eyes in that final instant, saw her close them, and was so shaken that he froze.

“Cut!” Calvert’s excited shout finally broke the spell.

Only then did everyone seem to come back to themselves.

Calvert stared at Scarlett, visibly stirred. Yes, she had changed the scene at the very last moment. But actors sometimes developed their own understanding of a role or a script, and in performance, that could lead to something better.

What mattered was whether the actor opposite them could catch it. It required instinct. It required responsiveness in the moment.

What Calvert hadn’t expected was that it would be Emmett who failed to keep up with Scarlett.

Personally, Calvert thought Scarlett’s change in the final moment was excellent. It was as if some blocked line of thought had suddenly opened in his mind.

When he had first read the script, Mona had always felt to him like something not quite human, more like a spirit that had fallen into the mortal world. Her personality and presence had both seemed a little too thin. Innocent, pure, ethereal–those were the only labels attached to her.

But when Scarlett closed her eyes in that final moment, hiding the understanding, despair, and release in them, she gave Mona a real human feeling. She gave the character a deeper layer.

It was as if, by the time Mona closed her eyes, she already knew who wanted her dead.

In both official and unofficial histories, people had only speculated that it was Augustus’s mother who sent someone to kill Mona. As for the truth, probably only Mona herself, or the person who murdered her, had

ever known.

Mona had also been famous throughout history for her beauty.

And when Calvert saw Scarlett close her eyes, he felt that only in that moment did Mona truly become a living person. Everything about her suddenly turned vivid and whole.

And it was that one closing of her eyes that gave the role that depth. That was rare beyond words. It was something deeper than acting.

Emmett still stood there in a daze. He hadn’t caught the scene.

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Chapter 368 The Look She Didn’t Give Him

+5 Pearls

For him, the meaning of that moment had originally been simple. The first love buried deepest in his heart had died before his eyes, and what he was supposed to deliver was the look of despair that erupted the instant he saw Mona dic.

But when he saw Mona close her eyes, it felt like that moment held something more. Mona seemed to know who wanted her dead.

Because even in the drama, it was never revealed in the end who had actually ordered her murder.

And Mona closing her eyes meant she didn’t want to see the crown prince rushing toward her.

She had clearly loved him, so why, in the moment of death, didn’t her gaze follow the man she loved?

Because her death might have had something to do with the crown prince too.

Even Calvert had read that possibility in Scarlett’s final movement.

Yvonne and Willard had followed them over as well. They had wanted to see how Scarlett handled her first scene, and they found themselves reaching almost the same conclusion as Emmett.

Perhaps Mona’s death was connected to the crown prince after all.

And Mona clearly knew it. She wasn’t merely innocent and pure. She was intelligent too.

As for Maggie and Ivy, they were full of pure, unquestioning praise.

“Scarlett, you were amazing!”

Some of the other staff and actors hadn’t quite picked up on that interpretation.

“Scarlett changed the scene at the end, didn’t she?”

“Yeah, she must have. In the script, Princess Mona was supposed to look at the crown prince in the final moment, but Scarlett closed her eyes.”

“Doesn’t it kind of feel like Emmett didn’t catch her scene?”

“Why did Scarlett suddenly change it?”

“I don’t know, I actually thought the change was amazing. It hit really hard. It gave me this strange feeling. like she knew in her heart why she was dying.”

“Now that you mention it, that really does feel right. Mona isn’t just simple and one–dimensional anymore.

She’s smart too.”

“So Emmett really didn’t catch the scene?”

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