Bringing the Nation's Husband Home

XII | Damsel in Distress

"Good work!" the director shouted happily as the scene ended successfully. "For the next scene, the clothes are different. Crew, please assist the actors," the directed instructed while looking at what was next in the schedule.

Isabelle's attire was already prepared and hung in the dressing room. Upon the director's orders, Camila immediately brought Isabelle to the dressing room where her clothes waited.

Just as Camila was about to push open the dressing room's door, it was pulled open by the person inside. A young girl anxiously ran out and without daring to even look at Isabelle, she lowered her head, greeting Isabelle "Excuse me" before rushing off.

Due to a tight schedule, Isabelle and Camila didn't think much, entering the dressing room to change into the clothes and high heels that were prepared before returning to the filming location.

For this scene, the second male lead had found out that the second female lead was the one who had destroyed his relationship, hence he was coming to seek revenge.

The first scene was of Isabelle. She sat beside the pool under a parasol, reading a book quietly.

This was a static shoot, so Isabelle was required to stay at the same spot with the book while the cameraman shot from the different angles.

When the angle was chosen, under the director's signal, Alexander sat down in a sports car speeding towards Isabelle. Just before crashing into her, the car stopped and Alexander came out, slamming the car door shut, marching over.

Seeing that it was Alexander, Isabelle broke into a wide smile. Before she could shout out the second male lead's name, he snatched her book, throwing it to the ground. Turning to face Isabelle, he started to scream at her.

The TV series had gone on smoothly till here. The next scene, Alexander told Isabelle that he never wanted to see her again and turned to leave. Isabelle reached out to pull him back in a panic but was roughly pushed away from him.

She wasn't able to regain her footing and fell.

Alexander didn't actually use a lot of strength, he just acted as though he exerted a lot of strength. Isabelle had acted accordingly, letting go off Alexander's hand, falling.

She had indeed released Alexander's arm when he lifted his hand, but when she was prepared to fall, her high heels broke the instant she exerted some pressure on them, causing her to lose balance, falling into the swimming pool.

The swimming pool was two meters deep. Isabelle entered head first, making a large splash.

The incident was too sudden and the surrounding people were too stunned to react.

Alexander had pushed Isabelle away, leaving with a sunken face but after no more than two steps, he heard the sound of someone falling into the water. Subconsciously, he turned only to see the huge bubble formed where she had fallen in.

Isabelle couldn't swim, and since the swimming pool was in open air, it wasn't heated. Now that it was the middle of the night, the water's temperature must have been extremely low, and she had just recovered from a cold....

Alexander's face paled in an instance, and without any thinking, he jumped into the pool.

When Isabelle's head sunk under the water, she was still in a daze. The wave of cold water washed over her and she started to have difficulties with breathing. She tried desperately to shout for help, but that caused her to take in more water.

She struggled instinctively, but due to the momentum of falling into the water, she kept sinking. Yet just when she was about to reach the bottom of the pool, she felt someone hook an arm around her waist, bringing her into a warm embrace and dragging her upwards.