Mr. CEO's Substitute Bride-Chapter 850 - 846: He Will Not Tolerate Elizabeth White’s Deceit and Schemes

Actually, rumors about Elizabeth White getting close to the director have been circulating in the crew for a while now. There’s even speculation that a paparazzo took photos of Elizabeth leaving the director’s room late at night and used those photos to extort a significant amount of money from him...

Alexis Bailey doesn’t really care who is involved with whom, but Elizabeth’s audacity to bully others is just too much. Although she’s only a third-tier star, her special relationship with the director allows her to suppress others daily.

What infuriates Alexis the most is a particular scene where her character steals Elizabeth’s boyfriend and is slapped in return. Due to Elizabeth, the scene had to be reshot several times; she would either pretend it was a mistake or say it wasn’t realistic, demanding the director to redo it. As a result, Alexis got slapped five times by Elizabeth in that scene.

After wrap-up, Alexis’s face was still burning with pain.

A rising star in the industry, Alexis earned her spot not only for her popularity but also for her acting skills and dedication to her craft, establishing a solid reputation. Initially, she was told there would be two female leads in the drama, but as filming progressed, she became a supporting character.

She might not care about the role, but being oppressed by a third-tier minor celebrity is something she will not tolerate.

Watching Elizabeth and the director’s flirtatious moves, Alexis stood up and walked to another table, patting her assistant’s shoulder. The assistant understood and made space for her. Alexis sat next to Sister Lisa, eating and chatting proactively, showing no airs despite being a top star.

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Before the film’s release, the director led the main actors of the crew on a promotional tour for his new movie, and at the same time, Nicholas Croft notified his brothers about the news he just received.

Word got out from the crew that Elizabeth often entered the director’s room during filming. Her agent, Sister Lisa, once drunkenly revealed at a banquet that the child Elizabeth lost was, in fact, the director’s...

Upon hearing this news, Felix Shaw was utterly furious. He never imagined Elizabeth to be this kind of person—seemingly innocent on the surface, but secretly cunning and calculating.

He had always treated her well, yet she used the child in her womb to frame Mia Foster and wreck his marriage...

Felix vividly remembered Elizabeth holding his hand and tearfully complaining at the hospital, "Felix, your wife... somehow found out about it, came to the set to confront me, and caused us to lose our baby..."

Clenching his phone tightly, Felix’s eyes narrowed slowly, vowing not to let Elizabeth’s deceit and manipulation go unpunished.

He invested quite a bit in this movie; Mia had promised to give Elizabeth a ten percent cut from the film’s earnings as compensation for causing her miscarriage. But now...

Felix’s lips curled into a cold smirk. Since the film hasn’t been released yet, he could only pretend to know nothing for the time being. Because the actors’ every action influences the film’s success, he needs to first recoup the costs before taking any measures.

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Elizabeth White’s starring film was released during the National Day holiday, a period not particularly beneficial for a romance movie. However, with the director’s good reputation and intentional release of rumors about a conflict between the two main female leads, it attracted public attention—regardless of a movie’s quality, it needs a topic to capture the audience’s interest. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

On the first day of the film’s release, it achieved excellent results, ranking third in daily box-office sales. Elizabeth was quite pleased with the film’s success. Felix Shaw promised her a ten percent bonus, expecting a windfall of millions, and Elizabeth’s good mood was hard to conceal at the audience meeting. No matter what questions the audience had, she answered them all with good temper.