The long eyelashes that framed over her phoenix eyes as dark as the ash mountain.Her jade like skin almost translucent.This girl isn't human but a goddess! The empress cleared her throat and asked for the girl's name. "Yun Xi your Highness" she replied in a timid voice.By now,Yun Xi was the focus of all the ladies in the room, though they did not look and seemed like they were minding their business and focusing on the embroidery frame in their hands,their ears and attention was on the empress and the girl named Yun Xi.For the empress herself to ask her name meant she was being considered and it did not sit well with most of the ladies who were very keen on becoming empress.How could they not when they could only be one empress but a thousand concubines? Some distinguished and some not.
Only a few who had been very well enlightened by their parents knew that the empress crown and title did not all well matter.All that mattered is the emperor's favour.A concubine, distinguished or not can have more power in the royal court than an empress if she has the emperor's favor.One way to do that is to give the emperor a strong and reliable son and to have a powerful background.
For Empress Shi, background did not matter as at that point.The next emperor deserved only the best to rule and reign by his side.Beauty comes before background and a woman's face is her greatest asset.What best is there other than the ethereal beauty Yun Xi.
Her son could choose concubines of his choices amongst the many other ladies.Yun Xi was already the empress.It did not matter if she was not as highborn as the others or whether she were to come last in the selection.The empress was overly satisfied and fascinated by the girl's beauty.Her son would no doubt be also.
Lady Yun Xi herself never wanted to partake in any of this.She already had a man she loved but her father,placing bets on and having hope in her beauty made her participate by threatening her with the life of the servant whom she was in love with and had them stop seeing each other believing on a rare possibility of her becoming the next empress to elevate their family wealth and status from the dregs.Yun Xi did not want a life as the empress.She saw it as being in a golden cage with a jade beaded padlock necklace around ones neck.That kind of life isn't for her.She had purposefully doodled on the embroidery frame and lagged behind in other task but was still noticed in the end by her Highness the empress.Yun Xi prayed to the heavens with all her heart to fail in the selection of the empress and not also be selected as a concubine.Only then could she go back to Wu Lin.Her love.A lone tear slid down her face as she thought of him.Her prayers weren't answered because it proceeded like she feared.
By the end of the day,Raina had filmed twelve of her scenes all in one take with pin point accuracy, with some of them nearly about ten minutes long.Even her emotions could be seen through her acting making her earn validation and respect from the assistant director himself.Raina took out her phone to make a call but saw a no-signal-sign.She held the phone up hoping for some signal but got non.Mira and some of the others went to buy some ingredients from a local seller nearby to fix something for everyone.So Raina was left alone,not that she herself liked Mira's presence or anything, just that it was awkward to be alone when everyone else were in bunches.Casper had a whole train-full of assistants to help him.No wonder he boarded an airplane to the location.There would have been no room for the others on the bus if he had chosen to ride with them.
Speaking of Casper,the guy is like a tyrant prince, similar to the role he plays in the movie.One person was massaging his shoulders, another his foot that was resting on another's back.One flipping through pages of a book for him and another holding a milkshake with a straw to his lips .Raina felt sorry for the poor assistants and wondered how they stomached his antics.Casper had pulled her hair harder than necessary on a scene where her character was being questioned by his on set.And how his lips had played into a hidden smirk like he was punishing her for talking in on his unfairness and brutality to his assistant earlier that day.
No.She shouldn't be thinking of a jerk like him! Raina felt dirty and wanted to take a bath.A happy smile formed on her face at the thought of swimming in the beautiful river.She opened her backpack to keep her phone when she caught sight of something strange that did not belong to her..... Heart shaped earbuds?