Chapter 73 - 70 On Purpose

Nora had recuperated at home for a few days and her foot injury was almost healed.

This day was the official start of the commercial shoot for the Ice and Fire series.

Nora came to the studio half an hour earlier and checked with the staff to make sure the preparations were in place.

After a while, Annie, Bruce, and Julian all came on time.

"Is everything ready?" Nora asked the makeup artist after she had confirmed that there was nothing wrong.

The make-up artist nodded, "We are ready to do make-up."

"I'll go change first." Annie looked at Nora with no expression on her face as she asked, "Where are the clothes I'm going to wear for the shooting today?"

"Here it is." Nora took the bag containing the dress and handed it to Annie.

This dress was designed by her, the newest design from Leo Studio.

Nora had designed the dress to match the "Ice and Fire" jewelry collection.

Annie took the dress and walked to the changing room with her manager.

When Annie came out again, she was wearing the red dress that was designed by Nora herself and produced by Leo studio.

The gown with layers and layers of hemlines was like a custom-made dress for Annie and perfectly showed off her beautiful figure.

When Annie came out, she was like the brilliant fiery red sunshine, so beautiful that all the people could not take their eyes off her.

The effect was very beautiful and surprisingly stunning.

Nora was pretty satisfied with the effect. Since Annie's expression of "Ice" was not satisfactory, she could focus on "Fire".

Nora was about to ask the makeup artist to take Annie to get her makeup done when she heard Annie say in a cold voice, "Nora, are you going to let me wear a dress like this for the shoot?"

"What's wrong with that?" Nora wrinkled her brow, her eyes fell on Annie. The dress was obviously perfect.

Annie slowly turned around, and when all the people in the room saw her back, their eyes widened in surprise.

On the back of the dress was a row of neatly arranged diamond buttons that were dotted on the fire-red dress, sparkling and glittering.

But in the middle, only the biggest and most dazzling diamond button was missing.

How could this be? Everyone was confused.

Why was there a button missing in this most conspicuous position?

"Miss Smith, is this your work attitude? Why did you bring me such a dress for the shooting?" Annie looked directly at Nora with her cold and stern eyes as she spoke mockingly.

Nora knitted his brows. She had clearly checked the dress and there was nothing wrong with it a while ago.

It was the dress she had designed herself, with a total of ten diamond buttons in a vertical row on the back of it, as an embellishment.

She had specifically checked the dress just now and the ten buttons were all in place.

Seeing the frowning and pensive look of Nora, Julian stepped forward and asked, "Could it have been accidentally dropped in the fitting room when changing clothes just now?"

"No." Nora said with certainty.

Every dress produced by Leo Studio would be personally inspected by Nana to ensure that the quality was flawless.

And this dress was the one that Nora had specially instructed Nana to focus on, so the buttons of the dress would never loosen and fall off.

Moreover, if it was accidentally dropped off, there would definitely be threads left on it.

But now, in the position of that lost button, there was no trace of thread left.

The only explanation was that someone had deliberately cut the button off.

Julian frowned and asked his agent to go to the fitting room to look for it.

Not long after, the agent came out of the fitting room and said, "I can't find the button. Maybe it fell outside. I'll go look for it."

"No need to look for it!" Nora walked up to Annie and spoke in a deep voice, "Annie, please take this button out!"

Annie's face instantly changed, "Nora, what do you mean?"

Nora smiled sarcastically and said word for word, "I mean, this button was cut off by you on purpose!"

"What are you talking about?" A flash of panic passed through Annie's eyes.

It was true that she had cut off the button on purpose, just to set Nora up.

Brittany had told her that Asher was a man who was meticulous about his work, and whenever Nora made a mistake in her work, she would be punished severely.

If Nora had made such a low-level mistake in the commercial shoot, she might have been fired.

Therefore, Annie took the risk of cutting off the button to frame Nora.

She was not expecting Nora to figure out that she had cut off the button and expose her in public.

Annie pulled herself together. Since she had already thrown the diamond button down the toilet and flushed it down the drain, Nora would not have any evidence to prove that she had cut the button off.

Thinking of this, Annie's expression returned to normal as she raised her voice a bit and questioned, "I cut it off on purpose? Nora, you tell me, why did I cut off the button? I finally got an offer from the Hawn Group and this dress was custom-made for me by the Hawn Group to wear in the commercial. Would I cut off the button myself to ruin my own commercial?"

"I'm also curious to know why you did that." Nora narrowed her beautiful eyes, and her cold and stern gaze fell on Annie.

It was obvious that Annie was doing this against her.

But she had only known Annie for a few days, so why did Annie have such deep hostility towards her?

Was it just because she had criticized Annie on the day of the audition?

If Annie cut off the button just to get back at her, it would be too stupid of Annie.

As she said herself, the opportunity to be the spokesperson of the Hawn Group was given to her because of Bruce.

And by doing this now, she was destroying this opportunity with her own hands, and even more so, her own reputation.

"Honey, you have to help me." Annie pursed her lips aggrievedly as she pulled Bruce's arm, " It is clear that Nora made a mistake in her own work, but she wants to blame it on me while she is to be blamed."

Bruce opened his mouth and was just about to say something when he saw Julian speak with a sullen face, "Miss Annie, please don't speculate on others until you have proof."

Julian believed Nora unconditionally, who would definitely not make such a stupid mistake.

Since Nora said that Annie had cut it off on purpose, it was Annie who had done it.

Seeing that Julian was helping Nora, Annie seemed to be even more aggrieved and she looked at Bruce pitifully, "Honey, they're all bullying me."

The others in the room whispered, "Annie wouldn't have cut off the buttons herself, would she?"

"Yeah, there's no reason for her to do that."

"So, did Miss Smith really do it..."

Nora laughed mockingly. Annie was indeed a movie star. She acted like it was real that Nora had wronged her.

Nora was about to speak when a cold male voice suddenly came through, "What happened?"