Ch. 1681..1685: My Wife Is A Hacker Chapter 1681-1685

Chapter 1681

If it was not for her astute observation on how strong Chloe was, she would not have gotten that idea.

However, she had not expected her idea smite Nachelle's heart.

"Of course, I love it.Screenwriter, please come over here and change this scene according to what Nicole had said," Nachelle ordered.

"Okay!"

The screenwriter quickly came over to cross check the lines with Nicole while Chloe was still left perplexed.

‘what does this even mean? Her action scenes just changed...just like that? And now...she has to beat me up?!" she panicked.

Chloe was traumatized at the thought of reshooting the scene again.Her face still burned from the slap earlier.

"Let's go and get your face touched up, Miss Chloe."

Chloe's manager hurried her to have her makeup done upon noticing the mark of the palm on her face.

Nicole looked at Chloe's figure as the latter retreated, and the corner of her lips lifted by a little.

‘Fight me? She's too immature"

Nicole thought.

Twenty minutes later, the screenwriter had implemented the minor changes in the script, and Chloe had finished the touch ups to her face.

At this moment, Chloe felt a little uneasy when she saw Nicole.

Nicole smiled at Chloe.

"Chloe, don't be so nervous.I'll go easy on you.No worries."

Chloe looked at Nicole with an icy cold glint in her eyes.

She then lowered her voice and threatened Nicole, "Just you wait and see.I'll get back at you for this."

Nicole paused in her movements when she heard this remark.

"I just said I would be gentle, but since my lovely cousin here has decided to just threaten me like that, why don't you...hit me now and call it even?"

"How dare you?!"

Chloe roared angrily.

Unexpectedly, Nicole did not hesitate and went straight up for another slap to Chloe's face.

"Do you think I don't?"

The sound of the slap caused everyone's head to turn around.

Chloe's eyes widened in horror, taken aback by Nicole's sudden smack on her cheek before the filming had even started.

Chloe was about to burst into tears, but before she could, Nicole said, "Chloe, you should hurry up and file a complaint so that Nachelle can fire you on your first day.Then, you and I can stop.Don't you think?"

Chloe bit her lip.

She knew that Nachelle was already impatient with her and if she proceeded with a complaint now, she might really be fired.

In spite of how much Chloe hated Nicole, she could not risk getting fired.She wanted to get her position back.She had to already squeeze her way back into the filming crew, so she could not give up no matter what.

At that time, Nachelle, who sensed that the atmosphere was a bit off, asked in a low voice, "What's wrong with you two?"

Nicole looked at Nachelle and smiled, "It's nothing.We both were rehearsing a little."

"Oh."

Nachelle tilted her head indifferently, as if she had bought Nicole's lies.

It then dawned upon Chloe that no one in the filming crew was on her side and could support her.

She looked at Nicole with a grimace on her face.

When the filming started, Nicole delivered a few of her lines, got her sentences right, and gave Nicole a powerful slap on the face.

Her palm landed on Chloe's face with a thwack, causing the latter's vision to blur.

‘Why does it feel like this slap is more powerful than the last? Why does my face feel like it has swollen up?' Chloe gritted her teeth, but she did not stop.

She knew that if she stopped, Nicole would hit her again, so she did her best to cooperate and uttered her two lines, but all of a sudden, Nicole halted.

"Sorry, Nachelle! I forgot my lines. Can I start over?"

 

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Nicole's expression displayed nothing but sincerity.

Due to her exceptional acting earlier, everyone on set had no doubt that she had not done it on purpose.

Gently and kindly, Nachelle said, "It's okay.Since the script has been modified, you should get yourselves familiarized with it.Then, we'll go ahead and do another round."

"Okay"

Nicole nodded with a smile and turned to look at Chloe as that same smile vanished, replaced with a playful smirk.

"What do you think? Chloe, can you handle it?" she asked.

Chloe gritted her teeth in hatred.

"You did it on purpose!"

Nicole beamed, and candidly confessed, "Yeah, of course I did it on purpose."

At this moment, Chloe really wanted to rip Nicole's hair out, but she knew that if she did that, no one here would be on her side.

Thus, she gritted her teeth and swallowed down her anger.

"Nicole, are you ready?"

Nachelle shouted from behind.

"Ready!"

Nicole smiled and flexed her wrists.

Chloe felt her heart quivering, and after receiving two large slaps, Chloe was already traumatized.

"Wait, wait a minute!"

Chloe shouted, unable to withstand the smacks anymore.

She then raised her voice and shouted, "Nachelle...I need a stunt double!""

Nachelle immediately became angry.

"A stunt double? This is a modern -day drama, not an action scene.How could you still want a double stunt for things like this?"

Chloe was terrified when she was stared down by Nachelle, but compared to Nicole's slaps earlier, the reprimands felt numbing.

Chloe knew that if she was to be slapped by Nicole again, her face would be swollen for the next three days.

"Nachelle...my face is swollen, and I have to follow-up on the shooting later on..."

"It's only realistic when it's swollen, Chloe.Hurry up and get the shoot over with.I promise that this will be quick."

Nicole smiled innocently.

Meanwhile, Chloe had mentally given up.

And before Chloe could even protest, Nachelle shouted, "Start from the slap! Action!"

Chloe's eyes widened at once; she could only wait for Nicole's slap to approach her.She was trembling with fear, and soon enough, Nicole slapped her hard, and the thwack echoed through the room.

Chloe stumbled and took a step back before falling onto the ground.

The corners of her mouth then began to bleed.

Everyone on the set was surprised when they saw that Chloe's mouth was bleeding.

The cameraman immediately panned to a close up of Chloe's face.

By now, her face was numb from the pain.

However she had to hold back and maintain her current stance.

‘I have endured too much to film this sickening scene"

After the filming had ended, a cacophony of applauses erupted.

"Nicole's acting skills are pretty good! Yeah, Chloe's not a bad actress either.The scene looked too real!"

"Yeah! The fear on her face, and the blood at the corner of her mouth were truly believable!"

"When did the prop artist give you the fake blood? It looks too real.

W Everyone was buzzing about and giving applauses to them both.

Seeing this, Nicole could not help but to give Chloe a smile.

"Chloe, your acting skills are phenomenal.Everyone here is praising how well you are doing."

Chloe took a look at Nicole's pompous expression, which slowly faded into a devilish smile.

"Nicole...you, just you wait!"

Chloe gritted her teeth and wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, whereupon she hurriedly got up and lowered her head to prevent others from seeing her red swollen face.

Then, she quickly turned around and left.

"Chloe!"

Chloe's manager, who had seen her, quickly followed.

Nicole looked at Chloe's figure as she left, and mustered a cold smile.

'She still dares to talk back to me? Just you wait Chloe.You'll know who's waiting"

After filming was over, it was already late.

Nachelle went on to announce that the filming was over, but before she left, she told Nicole, Your acting skills are phenomenal.

Lloyd was right about you.The progress is much faster than I had anticipated.I will ask someone to arrange a few more scenes for you tomorrow, and then, we can restructure our progress."

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"Okay, thank you, Nachelle."

Nicole nodded and watched as the director left the scene.

The filming crew had also begun to pack their things.

After that, Lloyd came over and asked, "How are you? Tired?"

It was only then that Nicole realized Lloyd had been observing the filming on set.

There were a few scenes in which she and Lloyd were together, and she never thought that he had not left after his scenes were done.

"I'm not tired.I think it was quite fun, but why are you still here at this hour?" Nicole asked.

Lloyd smiled.

"I just wanted to stay back and watch you film for a while."

Nicole looked into his passionate eyes and attempted to avoid further eye contact.

"Oh well, I'm going to leave first if there's nothing else."

It was late, and Jared had said that he would come for a visit after he had finished his work.

"Let's go together."

Lloyd walked beside her with pursed lips.He had intentions to invite Nicole out for dinner again to make up for the mishap that had happened previously.

Nicole was not aware of his intentions, so she just trotted along beside him, feeling quite indifferent about it.

The two of them ambled out of the filming set, but just as he was about to invite Nicole out for dinner, her eyes lit up as a Rolls- Rovee rolled up in front of ther Nicole turned her head around and said, "This one is mine.I'll be off now."

"Oh...Okay.""

Lloyd was stunned for a moment as he swallowed his words.

He could only watch as Nicole quickly scrambled onto the car.

The car door opened, revealing Jared who was sitting at the back seat.

Both men then exchanged looks with each other, with Lloyd not being shy about it either.

After that, Nicole closed the car door and the vehicle drove off, leaving Lloyd standing there as they sped off into the distance.

Jared eyed him through the rearview mirror and snorted.

"wittingly pretending to be affectionate now, is he?"

Nicole raised her eyebrows, "Huh?"

Jared turned, saw Nicole's look of innocence, and sighed.

'Nicole is a natural at everything she does, but she's too chill.

She's always oblivious to the feelings that men have toward her"

"why does your face look like that" she asked.

‘why does he have the look of a father worrying about his teenage daughter?' Nicole thought.

Jared said helplessly.

Nicole shank her head, "Twill came with yau after the tilming is done god after I've cought the person who has stoleu the Brave."

Jared frowned.

"But what if you can't find time? You don't want to get married, then?"

Nicole frowned, thinking of the data she had provided him during the last meeting, and with her brows raised, she asked, "Why? What's wrong? Was it difficult for you to look into?"

Jared's eyes prew dark, "No, we've found some leads already, Lut you can't just hop right into the enemies den and spook them.

I've sent some men to fallow them."

Nicole knew that Jared had always been a cautious person, so she nodded discreetly.

"Which one of the three routes here is the real one?"

‘lam sure he already has discovered the whereabouts of the Brave" she thought.

"Mykoro."

""hat's pond to hear.

We've fot our men over there."

"Your people don't have to do anything, us now.Our enemies are too sneaky."

Jared was now trying to fish a shark out of a tank.

"Got it,"

Nicole said with a slight smile on her face.

"I feel much better with you by my side."

Nicole's reliance on Jared was rather comforting to him, as he was more than glad that he could be of service to her.

"That's good to hear," he said.

"I heard that you were almost beaten to a pulp during filming today?"

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Nicole raised her eyebrows.

"Right.You'd be the one to know everything."

"Of course.You're my number one priority.I'd like to know everything about you as soon as possible," Jared said in an assertive tone of voice.

Nicole smiled.

"Don't worry.It wasn't me who got beaten to pulp.It was Chloe. Her face should still be hurting right now."

Jared smiled, though he was struck with a pang of regret, as he did not get to witness it due to work holding him back, which had led to him waiting for her outside of the filming set.

"It must've been very interesting."

"It was very natural."

Nicole curled up her lips.

Jared casually wrapped his arms around her.

"Since it's the weekend, do come over and stay at my place."

Nicole was alerted.

"No, I'm very exhausted today and I have to film tomorrow too..."

‘Every time I go to his place, I would be eaten alive.I would rather go home and get some well- deserved rest" she thought.

"But I miss you very much.You've been heading straight to the filming set after school recently.What can I do?"

Jared looked at Nicole with a set of pitiful eyes.

And in the end, Nicole caved in.

"Okay, have it your way.You may drop the act now. I'll just go..."

In exchange for peace, it was all Nicole could offer.

Meanwhile, the crew had already been long gone as Chloe proceeded to leave the set.

Her face was swollen, and she had thick layers of makeup on before she could walk out in public.

Flashbacks of the incident that happened earlier in the day came back to her, and that was when her eyes darkened.

Chloe had checked tomorrow's airport scene, and though she had just two to three scenes with Nicole, she wanted to use that opportunity to get revenge.

She motioned for her manager as she thought about it.

"Go.Hurry up and do as I say!"

‘I will get my revenge on you! I've suffered enough of your bullying today!' ‘Chloe, you really wanted to do this?’ Her manager looked at her with uncertainty in her eyes as Chlae spoke to herself.

"Of course! Do t lank like a person who will let others pull me hy the strings?’ Chloe glared at her manager.

"As long as she's gone from this team, I'll be able to make a comeback."

Hearing that, her manager had no choice but to abide by her commands and find a cuple uf staff members du gel the job done.

"Just you wait, Nicole.I'll let you know the taste of your medicine tomorrow.I'll get rid of you once and for all!" she yelled.

At night, Nicole and Jared were swirling their wine glasses as they discussed the whereabouts of the Brave and the progress of their investigation.

After dinner, the two of them were engaged in some foreplay before falling asleep in each other's embrace.

The next day, Jared reluctantly dropped Nicole off at the set early in the morning.

"I'm free today.Are you sure you don't want me to watch?" Jared asked, as he really wanted to watch Nicole filming, but Nicole shook her head.

"It would be hard for me to act with you around on set," she replied.

Jared raised his eyebrows, "Are you shy? I thought you were not afraid of anything."

In response, Nicole gave him a blank look.

"I just don't want you to distract me.I'm leaving."

"Okay."

Jared nodded and walked her to the door.

Then, Max turned around and asked, "Mr.Johnston, where are we going?"

Jared smiled.

"I'm not going anywhere, I'm going to go watch her film."

Jared would feel uneasy if he did not enter the building to observe her while she was filming her scenes.He was worried that Lloyd might pull some moves on her.

"I thought Miss Riddle didn't want you to go in?" Max asked, as Jared had agreed that he would not go.

"I can go in if I want to," Jared argued.

He was, after all, one of the investors of this drama series, and so as long as he wanted to, no one would be able to stop him.

With that said, Jared got out of the car as soon as he had spoken.

Max then proceeded to park the car and followed behind Jared's footsteps.

Nicole had just arrived at the dressing room and was putting on some makeup when her phone rang.

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Nicole answered the call through her Bluetooth earphone.

"Hello? Nicole?" the voiced asked.

"Tkee"

It had since been a long time since Nicole had gotten a call from Ike, and yet, she instantly recognized his voice.

"Hello, Miss Busy.Do you still remember me? I heard not too long ago that you've entered the entertainment industry now."

Ike said on the other end of the phone, teasing Nicole with his feet propped up on his desk.

"I'm just helping a friend out with a favor. How are you doing?" Nicole asked.

"What else can I do? I'm continuing with the research after you've left, now that Scott Harmon has placed all the burden onto my shoulders," he replied.

"I'm sorry." Nicole sighed.

She had no reason to stay there.

"There's nothing to be sorry about.Scott was tremendously apologetic.When he came back and found out that you've quit, he fired two of the employees that had given you a hard time," he explained.

"Such a thing happened?"

Nicole asked, not knowing that Scott had gone back and fired those two employees.

"Well, it seems that Scott was a little too ashamed of himself to contact you personally, so he got me to do the honors instead," Ike said.

Nicole nodded.

"I understand. No hard feelings. Tell him that I'm not really bothered by the issue anymore."

Nicole was quite grateful.

Had it not been for the meddling of the two employees, she would not have returned to San Joto so soon and they would probably still have been stuck there trying to complete the project.

"However, Scott has heard that your research on manned flying cars is almost complete. Is it also equipped with an AI system?"

Ike went straight for the throat as he got serious.Nicole narrowed her eyes.How did you know?"

‘Logically speaking, none of the manned flying cars have been launched into the market yet, and the temporary addition of the AI system has been subject to constant changes, so… how did he find out?' she pondered.

On the other end of the phone, Ike was stunned.

"Scott told me that he was very concerned with the pace of your development, and you know for a fact that my speed is nowhere near to being comparable to yours..."

Nicole was kind of hurt when she heard that Scott had found out about her progress.

'Is it possible that he sent someone to spy on my work and progress?"

A suspicious feeling arose in her gut, but as far as she knew, Scott was not that the sort of person who would do that.

In addition, there was no likelihood that Ike would tell her lies. Her trust for them was the only thing that offered her relief at the moment.

"It doesn't matter. Scott's worry is valid. After all, if it goes public here it will affect his products down the line," she said.

"Yeah...but I still would like to have a look at your new product. When will you be hosting the launch?" Ike asked.

Nicole hesitated for a moment when she heard that Ike was eager to come along.

"Why? Will it be an inconvenience? I can promise that I only want to see your product, and not copy them."

Ike instantly explained when he noticed Nicole's hesitation.

Nicole noticed that Ike had thought that she did not want him to come due to the concern of plagiarism of her products, and so, she shook her head.

"No"

Nicole was not afraid that her technology would be stolen, as what she had in store only continue to develop.

"Forget it, you can come if you want. I'll send you the exact time and date later on."

Ike was also a researcher himself, and as such, it was normal for him to be intrigued by things like these.

"That's really great! Thank you, Nicole! I'll see you when I get back!"

Nicole nodded and hung up.

She stared blankly at her phone for a while before storing it away, her heart filled with minor doubts.

At this time, the makeup artist, who had done makeup, said, "Miss Riddle, you're gorgeous..."

"Yeah, the makeup today looks really good,"

Gwendolyn, who was standing at the side, said.

Nicole took a glance at herself in the mirror, and realized that she was looking better than ever.

"Thank you!"

"No problem!"

The makeup artist smiled.

Gwendolyn then guided Nicole onto the set to prepare for the filming of the next scene.

Lloyd was smitten by Nicole's beauty the instant he cast his eyes on her.

Nicole, you look amazing."