Chapter 528

• In North Enterprise Film City, everyone in the crew was in position. The scene from “Long Gate Grief” being shot today was the one where the second female lead, Zhao Zijin, gets drugged, the young emperor rescues her, and her true identity as a woman is revealed.
• This scene mattered a lot. Emotion, line delivery, the cadence—everything put the actors’ skills to the test. The original text for Zhao Zijin had no less than five emotional shifts.
• Even though Zayla Steele had the script memorized backward and forward, she still wasn’t sure she could nail it.