Defying Fate: The Unstoppable Eileen

Chapter 110

The rehearsal was over, but Eileen wasn’t ready to leave just yet. Her eyes darted around the room, lingering on the laptop nearby.

Egbert, with an icy expression, grabbed the laptop and flipped it open. NôvelDrama.Org content rights.

Eileen quickly walked over, excitedly saying, “Let me have a look!”

Egbert shot her a glance, made some changes on the code right in front of her, and then handed her the laptop. “Here you go.”

Eileen held the laptop close. The desktop was neat, and the video website isn’t accessible. She blinked, let out a small laugh, and feigned disappointment, “Oh no, you’ve deleted everything and I can’t even open the website. What a shame. Can I borrow your laptop for the night? I don’t have one/ I’ll return it tomorrow.”

Egbert frowned at her innocent act.

Eileen eagerly asked, “Can I? Can I?”

In the end, Egbert agreed..

“I’ll be off then, bye.”Eileen finished and quickly left.

A few minutes later, Egbert started to feel suspicious. The two computers were linked. He took out the other laptop and remotely checked its background operations. Suddenly, a video of a man and woman getting intimate popped up on the screen.

In the room next door, a blushing Janice was dragged by Eileen to watch the video. Janice didn’t really want to watch, but her curiosity got the better of her, “Wow, how can she bend like that…”

Eileen nodded in agreement, “Impressive, right?”

Suddenly, the screen went black. Janice was shocked and shrieked, “Oh no, are we going to get caught?!”

Eileen reassured her, “It’s okay, it’s just Egbert.” With that, she hacked into the laptop’s system.

Two minutes later, the laptop was back up and running, and Eileen resumed watching the video.

But less than a minute later, the screen went black again. Eileen was pissed, “What a party pooper, Egbert!”

Janice was scared now. She suggested, “Let’s just stop, Eileen.”

With Egbert keeping an eye on them, they didn’t have much of a choice. Eileen shut down the laptop angrily, “Fine, we won’t watch then.”

A few minutes later, there was a knock on Egbert’s door. He opened it. Unsurprisingly, Eileen was on the other side. She angrily handed him the laptop, her face full

of discontent.

Egbert took the laptop, his tone indifferent, “You’re quite good with computers.”

Eileen rolled her eyes, “And you’re quite interesting. Didn’t expect you to be so talented.”

Egbert calmly responded, “Ms. Lopez, you’re quite talented yourself.”

Ignoring him, Eileen turned and walked away.

Egbert closed the door and returned to his sofa. His laptop still had a file on it. It was a file he had looked over before, Eileen’s personal information.

What Egbert was looking at now was the last line.

“Ms. Camille Thomas of the Howard family was a commissioner of the national anti-missile research and development project before retirement. Every summer, Eileen Howard would spend her holidays with Ms. Camille in the lab, sometimes even receiving help from senior lab technicians for her summer homework.”

Egbert tapped his fingers on the table and chuckled.

The next day, the shooting was scheduled for the morning.

Eileen was a bit upset with Egbert for not letting her watch the porn the day before, but Egbert brought her breakfast. It wasn’t the usual set breakfast provided by the crew, but a pricey muffin he bought himself. Eileen was no longer angry, and she started to warm up to him again.

Today, Eileen and Egbert stood in the shooting scene. Upon the director’s cue of “Action,” the male lead’s kiss fell.

Eileen received it passively. She remembered the rehearsal from last night. She controlled her breathing, reliving everything from yesterday, including the tears that welled up in her eyes due to lack of oxygen.

“Cut!” Galen called for a halt.

Eileen turned her head and looked at Galen.

Galen shook his head, paused, and then said, “It’s acceptable, but it’s still early, and I see you guys are in good form today. Let’s go again.”

To go again meant that the shot was acceptable, but they could try again, and maybe the next take would be better.

The makeup artist came over to touch up their makeup.

Eileen quietly said to Egbert, “Galen is too strict.”

Egbert looked at her rosy lips and whispered, “That’s just how he is.”

After the touch-up, the second take began. Then the third, fourth, fifth. That morning, Eileen and Egbert shot five takes in total. In the end, Galen chose the fifth video.

“This shot is the best. Everything is on point.” Galen was delighted.

Eileen was almost exhausted. She slumped in her chair, struggling to ask, “Can we eat now?”

Galen announced, “Everyone, let’s eat.”

Finally, it was time to eat.

Eileen, like a starving ghost, lined up for food. When it was her turn, she immediately told the staff who was serving the meal, “You look really pretty today.”

The staff shyly brushed her hair and gave Eileen a lunchbox with two chicken legs. Eileen almost hugged and kissed the staff; she quickly went to a corner to eat.

Janice took a while to find Eileen. She finally found her eating at the back stairs.

Janice hurriedly said, “Eileen, there’s trouble.”

Eileen was gnawing on a chicken leg, “What’s up?”

Janice handed her the phone, “You and Egbert were caught on camera holding hands yesterday.”

Eileen took a glance at the phone, it was on the trending topics page. The hashtag #EgbertEileenHolding Hands was trending tenth and steadily rising.

Eileen blinked, paused, and then said, “The director asked us to build some chemistry.”

Janice was getting anxious, “But the netizens won’t see it that way. Look at the comments. So many people are livid…”

Janice’s words trailed off abruptly. Seeing the look of horror on Janice’s face, Eileen couldn’t help but scoff, “That scared you, huh? Let me tell you, my blacklist is chock-full of people who’ve cussed me out. More than you’ve ever seen.”

Janice opened her mouth, paused for a moment, then stuttered, “No, it’s not that… Eileen, this comment… it might not be one we engineered, right?”

“What comment?” Eileen asked, leaning in curiously.

“E&E?” Teresa, sitting in a shabby lounge, was utterly baffled as she looked at the trending comments from the whistleblower account. “What’s this? A fan club?”

Teresa’s assistant answered awkwardly, “It seems so. Egbert and Eileen have been on two reality shows together, and they even filmed a movie together. Rumor has it, some fans really dig their love- hate relationship…”

Teresa snapped, “Is that what I asked to see? Where are the haters? Didn’t we buy any? They should be tearing Eileen apart.”

The assistant hurriedly replied, “We did, but…”

“But what?” Teresa glared.

The assistant was sweating bullets, “But… our bought haters can’t compete with Eileen’s organic haters. They’re saying we might just have to get a refund.”