The three had to persuade Arthur not to buy the swimming shorts. Keegan glanced at Stella, who could not stop yawning, and frowned. "Did you really have to shoot the drama all night yesterday?"Last night, Stella told him she was going to the set to film Jurisdiction. Keegan thought she would return after a while, but she did not return until it was 5:00 a.m.Stella yawned again and again on their way to the cruise ship. "Do you hear yourself? We can't film night scenes in the day, can we?"Before Keegan could speak, Stella put on her earplugs and said, "I'll take a quick nap. Wake me up when we arrive." She then closed her eyes after she said that. Keegan did not say a word and frowned in dissatisfaction. He had pushed back so much of his work just to accompany her, yet she only wanted to sleep.When Stella woke up, they had already arrived at their destination. The cruise ship that they were about to board suddenly appeared in front of her eyes. It was as tall as a six or seven-s
'Seriously?' Stella thought.Out of awkwardness, Marshall scratched his forehead with his finger and said, "I tried my best to negotiate with them, but they said they don't have any food because it's not mealtime yet. They did say they could give us the ingredients if we wanted to cook for ourselves, though."'No way. I'm here to have fun on the cruise, and I still have to cook my own meals?'"I'll just wait for mealtime."Unhelpfully, her stomach grumbled right after she spoke.Stella smoothed out her clothes, as she was slightly embarrassed. Then, she said, "Let's just leave.""Wait," Marshall said as he took off his suit. "Can you help me hold this for a while?"Stella was confused, but she took his suit from him.Marshall folded up the sleeves of his white shirt. He then added water to the pan that the chef had given him and swiftly lit the stove.Stella was astonished. "You want to cook something yourself?"Marshall nodded. "Is spaghetti fine?"Stella wanted to nod too,
Keegan got her a birthday gift; +10000 points.Keegan's first love was not her; -100 points.Keegan called out another woman's name when he had a fever; -10000 points.Keegan did not like her; -100000 points.In the end, after all of the adding and subtracting, disappointment was the only thing left in the equation.Marshall did not look at Stella. He gently stirred the noodles in the pan and said, "You were only twenty-something at the time. Why did you want to get married so early?"Stella was reluctant to talk about the complicated matters that took place in her family. She jokingly replied, "I've never gotten married before, so I wanted to see what being married is like."Marshall smiled. "What is it like, then?"Stella sneered and said, "Not as fun as being single."Stella did not want to go further on this topic. Hence, she steered the conversation away and asked, "Mr. Moore, do you have a girlfriend?"Marshall replied calmly, "Given how my body is, if I get a girlfrien
Marshall followed Stella's gaze to see Bella cheerfully chatting with someone else.It was windy on the deck. Yet, despite being quite chilly, Bella's outfit was rather revealing.She wore a long light gray sleeveless mesh dress. The dress complimented her well, as the bright lights on the deck illuminated her dress with a soft shine. She had an eye-catching glow.Bella had put effort into her makeup. Her long hair was in a loose updo with strands of her bangs strewn in front of her forehead, which made her seem quite graceful. With the addition of Bella's professionally curated facial expressions as an actor, even Stella, who disliked Bella, had to admit that Bella looked pretty that night."Maybe she was hired by the organizers to take part in the play," Marshall guessed.There was a huge theater on the cruise that held three plays daily. It was possible that Bella was one of the performers."Are the organizers rich enough to hire her?"The theaters on cruises would normally h
"Is the food not good?" Keegan noticed Stella's unusualness."No, it's quite tasty." It was rare for Keegan to be nice for a change, and Stella was aware of that. However, she was too full to eat anything, so she murmured quietly, "I'm just not that hungry."Apparently, Keegan did not believe her. "Maybe you're too starved, and you're worried that you'll wolf down your food and embarrass yourself in front of me with your terrible table manners?Seeing that Stella was silent, Keegan replied with a straight face. "I've seen the way you insisted that I take your pants off for you to go to the toilet when you were drunk. Would I care if you have embarrassing table manners?"Keegan's mouth twitched at his statement."Can you not talk about something so disgusting while we're eating?"Keegan stopped his actions and replied, "Isn't this Mama Fly's line?"'I'm already too full to eat, yet this bastard is making things worse by reminding me of the joke I told him before. I've lost my app
Arthur proceeded to take out another handful of chips from his other pocket, and another from the pockets of his trousers. He even had a pile of chips in his undershirt pocket.Stella watched as Arthur pulled out chip after chip from his pockets like a cartoon character until a small mountain of chips was piled up in front of them.Stella was stunned and looked at Keegan, who was unfazed. "I told you, his luck is not too bad."'Not too bad? It looked like he hadn't lost a game for the whole afternoon!" Stella screamed internally.After tipping the dealer and paying for other surcharges, the chips had added up to a little over one million and seven hundred thousand dollars.Stella suddenly felt jealous, as the amount was more than what she earned from acting. 'If I had known, I would have gambled along with great-grandpa!'Stella was interested in Arthur's technique of winning money from gambling. She kept asking him about how he guessed correctly every single round.Arthur told
"The 'Jurisdiction,' right? My kid would stay in front of the television once he finished school. He said it was a task given by the school. After watching it, they have to write a review about it. I also joined them and watched a few episodes. If you didn't say anything, I wouldn't have thought that it was Mrs. Kane."Regardless of whether the compliment was sincere or fake, the show "Jurisdiction" went viral. Stella chuckled and said, "I was just helping Mrs. Lowe. Her unit was in charge of the show, and they couldn't find an actor. She saw that I looked decent, so she allowed me to substitute. I merely acted freely.""Saw that I looked decent..." This form of posing immediately made the madams unwilling to speak further.How could Stella be considered only decent? Her face would even be considered a blessing from God. Thankfully, Keegan had married her. Otherwise, everyone would have felt a sense of danger. Just with her face, she would not even need to curl her fingers, and men
If they had spoken privately about not having any awards in their acting career, Bella would not have felt that she was embarrassing herself. She initially did not pursue the path of a professional actress. But, the numbers on her films broadcast would leave other same-generation actresses in the dust. She was very confident of her own commercial value.However, Stella had stabbed her right where it hurt and directly hit her Achilles heel with one swing. Seeing her not responding for a long while, Stella smiled through her eyes. "Ms. Young, why aren't you speaking? Is it because you have so many awards that you can't think of one with the heaviest weight on you?"Bella squeezed out a smile and said, "I don't really care about these vain credits. If the masses think it's good, then it's good. Each judge has a different opinion on acting, so you can't just use awards to weigh the ability of someone's acting.""Oh," Stella nodded her head. "I instead feel that the judge's insights are