The Beauty and the Brain

Chapter 124

Before the words were spoken, the sword pierced the shoulder. Sasha bit the blood bag in her mouth,

and before she could speak, her senior, Jasper, slapped Cassius away, embraced Sasha, and leaped

out of the hall.

The wire was suspending two people in midair, but it got stuck halfway. Marie suddenly had a bad

feeling. Before she could speak, the wire in the air snapped, and Sasha and the male actor playing

Jasper fell straight down!

At that moment, Darwin and Sabrina rushed out of the hall. There should have been more lines, but

upon seeing this scene, the two immediately ran over, trying to catch them.

Sabrina only had time to push away the obstacles on the ground. Sasha and the male actor brushed

against half of her body and crashed to the ground, making a heavy sound.

The actor who played Jasper was named Christopher Zeller, a talent from Global Medias. Although he

remained in a tepid state in the entertainment industry, his acting skills were quite good.

Just now, when they fell, he protected Sasha by landing first with her in his arms, so Sasha ended up

falling on top of him.

The production team had already called an ambulance. Darwin carried the unconscious Sasha outside,

his voice trembling, “Sasha, Sasha, hang in there…”

Sasha had blood on her, but it was unclear whether it was from the blood bag earlier or from falling and

getting injured. It looked somewhat frightening.

Others carried Christopher, and some helped Sabrina onto the ambulance to go to the hospital.

Shirley looked a bit frightened, but Marie didn’t have time to deal with her and went to the hospital

together.

Who would have thought that a perfectly fine performance, with so many uses of wires, would have

issues? Sasha and Christopher just fell straight down.

At the hospital, Dennis called Marie with a sense of urgency, “Marie, where are you?”

“Sasha got injured, and Darwin and I are at the hospital,” Marie’s voice was as calm as possible, trying

not to worry Dennis.

After hanging up the phone, it wasn’t long before the doctor came out and said, “It’s nothing serious,

fortunately the height wasn’t too high. The man has a broken arm and some concussion, while the lady

cushioned her fall and is just unconscious. She will wake up soon.”

Marie and Darwin let out a sigh of relief, thanked the doctor, and went to Sasha’s hospital room.

In just a few months, Sasha had fallen into a coma twice, and Marie didn’t know whether this time it

was intentional or an accident.

Sabrina walked in with her right hand bandaged and hanging around her neck. She reached out to

push an obstacle, dislocating her arm in the process. Otherwise, Sasha and Christopher wouldn’t have

fallen to the flat ground and would possibly sustained more severe injuries.

Marie turned to her and asked, “Is your arm alright?”

Sabrina shook her head, looking at the unconscious Sasha on the hospital bed, and asked, “How is

Sasha doing?”

Marie patted Sabrina’s shoulder and said, “The doctor said she would wake up soon, don’t worry.”

Sabrina walked up, while Darwin sat in front of the hospital bed, staring motionlessly at Sasha, as if

the moment he blinked, Sasha would run away.

Sabrina put

fine.”

her hand on Darwin’s shoulder and comforted him, “Darwin, don’t worry, Sasha is

Darwin patted Sabrina’s hand and said, “Yes, she’ll be alright.”

Marie returned to the production team and headed straight for the office. Ignoring the attempts of

several staff members to stop her, she slammed Sasha’s medical report on the table and asked, “There

have been two accidents in the production team involving my people! Two! Concussions! Can someone Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.

tell me why a perfectly good wire would break?”

She was really angry. To her, Sasha was her best friend, confidant, and a partner who accompanied

her in her career struggles. Now that Sasha had been hurt several times, how could she not be angry?

“Ms. Spence, Ms. Spence, please calm down.

Must have been a staff mistake; the wire wasn’t secured properly, which led to this accident,” the event

staff tried to appease Marie.

“Mistake? A small mistake can explain it? If the wire had been hung high enough, Sasha would have

lost her life today! Which staff member made the mistake, and where are they?”

Marie was furious, thinking of Sasha lying in the hospital bed, she wished she could blow up the

production team.

“Ms. Spence, this isn’t really a big deal, is it? Besides, so many people touch the wire every day, who

knows which one accidentally loosened the lock?” Lawrence Larson said casually, with his legs

crossed.

In his opinion, nothing serious had happened to Sasha; she had just fallen and the little girl, being

weak, had fainted. Was there really a need for such an uproar?

Moreover, he didn’t even want Sasha to act in the first place. If it wasn’t for the pressure from the

investors, he would have chosen Olive alread

Olive was beautiful, sexy, and good at

sweet-talking, unlike Sasha, who was wooden and only knew how to act.

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Marie laughed and turned to Lawrence, a hint of a cold smile on her lips, “Mr. Larson, there’s nothing

wrong with Sasha? Do you think something would only be wrong if she were dead?”

“Ms. Spence! What kind of talk is this? Sasha was so weak, yet insisted on acting. It’s not

necessarily the production team’s fault if she fainted. It could be anemia, you should look into it!”

Lawrence said.

Sasha got injured, but it wasn’t a serious injury. If the production team could avoid taking the blame, of

course they wouldn’t take it. Who would want to pay compensation?

Marie stared at him and asked, “How many benefits did Olive give you? What made you look down.

on Sasha so much?”

Lawrence blinked nervously and said, “What benefit? What benefit could I possibly have from Sasha

getting hurt?”

“You didn’t have it, but Shirley did. I’ll check one by one, and I’m sure I’ll find it on Shirley’s head!”

Marie said.

Lawrence was a bit flustered, as Olive had repeatedly told him to take care of Shirley. He had often

helped Shirley by speaking up for her and ridicule Sasha. This time, he didn’t know if it was Shirley who

had taken action or not.

However, Olive did treat him well. Lawrence became unhappy. “Ms. Spence, you can eat whatever you

want, but you can’t just say anything. By slandering Shirley like this, if the media finds out and says our

production team is not getting along, will you take responsibility? Besides, you know who Shirley’s

backer is, so why make things difficult for us?”

“Backer? Mr. Larson, it seems that I was too low-key last time, and you still want to talk to me about

being a backer?” Marie sneered.

Lawrence couldn’t help but mock her, “Ms. Spence, not to be rude, but just because you have some

connections with Darwin’s family, it doesn’t mean the CEO of Global Medias can interfere with our

production team’s affairs, right?”

“Yeah, it’s time for me to step in…” Marie nodded, took out her phone, dialed a number, and coldly

looked at Lawrence. Speaking into the phone, she said, “Withdraw the investment from The Autumn

Tragedy production team! Withdraw it immediately!”

After hanging up the phone, Lawrence shook his head helplessly, “Oh, Ms. Spence, who are you trying

to scare? Which investor of our production team is under your control? If you really want to go this far,

then Sasha shouldn’t come either!”

Suddenly, the phone on the table rang. Marie smiled, pursed her lips, and said, “Answer the phone, Mr.

Larson.”

Lawrence picked up the phone. “Hello? Oh, Mr. Cullen! Wow, it’s been a long time since we last met.

You… What? Withdraw investment? Mr. Cullen, how can you just withdraw from such a good

collaboration? Our show is definitely going to go extremely viral! Hey! Mr. Cullen! Mr. Cull-

The expression on Lawrence’s face gradually changed from flattery to shock. He didn’t understand

how a good investment had disappeared. Moreover, the news of Sasha’s injury hadn’t spread yet.

Lawrence looked up at Marie, in disbelief, “It was you… you did it?”

Marie laughed, sitting in the chair immensely proud, “Mr. Larson said that one of our production team’s

investors is under my management. Coincidentally, I know someone named Cullen too. I

just don’t know if it’s the same Mr. Cullen that Mr. Larson mentioned.”

Before Lawrence could speak, Marie took out her phone and called Cullen, saying, “Cullen, only

transfer the investment money to the production team after I find out who damaged the wire.”

Lawrence finally realized that the biggest investor wasn’t targeting Darwin and Sasha, nor were they

targeting The Autumn Tragedy production team; they were targeting Marie!

Marie was the biggest investor!

And what did he just do? He mocked Marie like a fool!

He even wanted to drive Sasha away and also hoped to have another meal with Olive, that top-notch.

beauty!

“Ms. Spence… Ms. Spence… I’m ignorant… Please be the bigger person and don’t argue with me…

The production team can’t operate without investment…”

Lawrence panicked. According to Marie, if they couldn’t figure out who messed with the wire, the

production team couldn’t even start working!

Marie reached out her hand, tapped the table, and laughed, “Mr. Larson, don’t beg me, go beg Olive

and Shirley. Don’t they have a lot of backers?”

“No, no, Ms. Spence, I was just talking nonsense. Who could compare to you? Please don’t joke

around, could you transfer the investment back?”

Lawrence forced a smile, knowing that if the company found out their film’s investor had bailed halfway

through, he would have to bear the consequences of his own actions.

“Joking?” Marie sneered, “I wasn’t joking at all. I said, when we find the culprit, that’s when we’ll start

filming!”

“What if… what if it was just an accident?” Lawrence asked.

Marie ignored him, stood up, and left the office. Her intuition told her that this was not an accident.

While passing by the studio, she heard Shirley talking with her assistant.

“Shirley, that was really scary just now, wasn’t it? Thankfully it wasn’t too high, or else Sasha would

have fallen to her death, right?” the assistant whispered.

“What’s so scary? Haven’t you seen this kind of thing in the entertainment industry before? If you

dare to become famous, don’t be afraid of death. If you don’t die from a fall today, you’ll be hit by a car

tomorrow. Does she think she’s so great? She’s just afraid of dying,” Shirley mocked as she touched up

her makeup.

The assistant was removing Shirley’s hair accessories and said, “That’s true, there have been so many

cases like this. I heard Ms. Spence was really angry…”

Shirley rolled her eyes and said, “Who does she think she is? Just a little girl with petty quarrels, and

she really thinks she can compete with Olive for inheritance and status?”

“But I heard that Ms. Spence is really protective of her people, and if she really starts to investigate,

we’ve been giving Sasha a hard time secretly…” The assistant was a bit scared.

“So what? Even if I went to the hospital tomorrow and killed Sasha, Marie wouldn’t dare do anything to

me. I have Olive protecting me, and if that’s not enough, there’s also Noel. Anyway, our studio won’t go

down.” Shirley packed up her makeup and got up to leave.

Upon turning around, they faced Marie’s sharp, knife-like gaze, staring straight at them, her eyes pitch

black and seemingly bottomless.

Marie walked up to Shirley, raised her hand, and without hesitation, slapped her across the face.

Shirley’s face was struck to the side, and the assistant came over to stop Marie. “Ms. Spence! What

are you doing!”

“Get lost!” Marie pushed the assistant away, walked up to Shirley, grabbed her collar, and shoved her

against the wall. She said, “Shirley, I really underestimated you! How did I not see this ruthless. side of

you before?”

“Let go of me! Let go of me! I’m calling the police!” Shirley screamed. Marie’s gaze was terrifying,

as if she wanted to strangle her.

“Shirley! Weren’t you trying to kill Sasha? I’d like to see who dies first – you killing her, or me killing

you!”

Marie pushed her away, and Shirley, unable to keep her balance, fell to the ground miserably.

“Marie, are you crazy?” Shirley exclaimed, rubbing her arm.

“Ha!” Marie laughed, “Wait until I kill you, then you’ll know if I’ve gone crazy or not!”