Love or Die CEO’s Daily Dose of Swoon

Chapter 82

When the assistant director called cut, Cordelia’s fingers froze mid–melody, and the music stopped abruptly.

In the extras‘ seating area, Hayley was utterly perplexed by Cordelia’s sudden halt, but considering the distance and the piano’s orientation away from her, she hadn’t seen Cordelia’s hand movements. Unable to contain herself, Hayley snickered, “That’s hilarious. Are they even dubbing piano music now? Does that mean Cordelia hasn’t touched a key? How are they going to shoot the close–ups?”

The others around her couldn’t help but chuckle, too. It wasn’t out of malice. They just found the situation amusing.

Hayley continued to poke fun. “Juliana, doesn’t your family have a piano? Has she never pretended to play? It is like some funny pantomime act, right? Hilarious!”

Juliana turned even paler, her mouth agape with no words coming out. She just wanted to escape this place before she became the butt of everyone’s jokes.

Finding Hayley’s comments distasteful, Merry retorted with a pout. “So, what if Lia doesn’t play piano? No one can be perfect, right? She’s got to leave some room for the rest of us, don’t we?”

Hanley frowned and turned to Hayley, exhaling deeply. “We’re classmates here. We should help each other out. Why do you have to be so prickly all the time?”

Hayley wanted to argue, but looking at Hanley’s face, she was at a loss for words.

After a moment, Hanley turned to Juliana., “Why don’t you go up and give her a few pointers to make it look good? It should be simple enough.”

Juliana’s lips quivered, and she finally uttered, “She can play the piano.”

Unfortunately, her voice was so soft that neither Hanley nor Hayley could hear her. “What was that?” they asked.

Embarrassment and anger flushed Juliana’s cheeks. But before she could speak again, a crew member called out loudly, ‘Director, the music isn’t playing!”

Everyone was stunned. No music?

The assistant director was baffled. “No music? Then what was that just now…”

Mid–sentence, realization struck him, and he turned to Cordelia in disbelief. “God, you can play the piano?” The class looked at her incredulously, including the shocked Hayley and the bewildered Hanley.

was about to speak, a crew member’s voice echoed from the

in a white dress, Joy, stood timidly at the door,

of place. She preferred the quiet sanctuary of her home. But with its high status, the Collins family ensured she had the appropriate entourage when

who needs Miss Collins‘

to Cordelia before realizing, maybe, just maybe, they didn’t need her help after

the figure behind the piano, and

translator translated after a moment’s confusion, “Lia, it’s you? But why would you need piano guidance? Mr. Stanton wouldn’t dare to teach

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mentioned he composed a new piece and would like you to review it

the translator finished, the room fell into silence,

made

the renowned Stanton, Joy’s teacher, need plano guidance

but exclaim, “There must be some mistake in the translation, right?”

serious face, “I’m professional, and I’ve been serving Miss Joy for years. How could I make any mistakes? As the student of

reflexively. “How could she not? I heard when Stanton was choosing a student, Juliana stepped aside for Joy to have the opportunity to study under him. What’s so great about that?”

the Delaney family to select a student, there were four candidates. Miss Cordelia’s piano skills were so advanced that Mr. Stanton didn’t dare take her as a student. As for Miss Juliana and another girl, Mr. Stanton has dismissed them, and it was only on Miss Cordelia’s

classroom fell

Lia! You

What?

dumbfounded. They turned to Juliana.

had complicated looks. Finally, in a flushed state, she stammered, “1… L…”

with tears as she stood up and ran out of

was at least better at piano than Cordelia, but

now…

he have ever thought that making Juliana his fiancee was a good

monitoring the Greenmeadow International School forum. Sure enough, he stumbled upon

showed the post to Everard, silently marveling at how

interruptions during filming got her expelled from the set by the director.

exchange with Cordelia,