Cliffhanger

"Ahhhh!"

Lia screamed in frustration mixed with shock, rolling off her bed to turn on the lights.

"What the f*ck?!"

Clawing the thick comforter wrapped around her head restlessly, she screamed in frustration yet again.

She sat down on her newly bought fur mat and continued to stare at a corner seemingly lost in her thoughts for a whole three minutes.

After gathering all her thoughts to the present time, she rolled on top of the soft fur mat and began squealing and screaming, muffling the sound on her comforter.

After her non-stop thrashing and rolling around, she seem to have diminished the energy she had earlier. But after a few seconds, she started wailing without tears. Call it over-reacting because it is.

"Why?! Why a cliffhanger???" Lia started wailing her grief over the new targeted drama she just watched a while ago.

She wailed like a child for over a minuteafterwhich she stood up to go back in front of her laptop atop the bed with a thump.

She stared at it for a good while before smiling creepily at the paused picture.

"Hehehehe"

And do you know what she did?

From 4:32 a.m. to a good 6:20 she repeated the first episode, stopping by the 'ending scene' specifically for a few minutes. Pervert.

As stated before, Lia was watching a newly aired drama online. She woke up early morning, 4:00 on point just to watch this drama air online. She hated the idea of depriving herself out of sleep, having heavy dark eyebags staining her beaut face the next day, so she was ever so glad that the airing time is scheduled in the morning.

In fact, Lia is a very time-oriented, organized person due to the influence of her past job. So she always finished her job on time and even making advance planning on when she will finish a certain project and it will always go as what she originally planned to, or else she would be mad to herself and stack herself with more jobs and tasks to make up for it.

That's why due to her job it greatly influenced her daily lifestyle.

Anyways, back to rewinding on what just ahppened. Lia was casually scrolling the internet after her happy 'Me-Day Sunday', when she sees a new drama to-be aired soon. She got interested by the great visuals shown on the poster, so she proceeded to read the synopsis while she's at it.

The reason why she clicked on the drama was...First: To Learn.

Although she's quite confident on her foundation, that's just it. She has no training. Yeah, she had the drive and passion but she doesn't know where to start.

She wanted to learn from the actors and actresses in this world. Inspecting their acting style and how they express certain emotion and scenes. By watching dramas and movies, at least she can try and reenact some scenes in front of the mirror.

For the longest time, although Lia had been watching dramas and has been a book fan, she never really tried acting or joining drama clubs in her past life. Yes, she feels the emotion of the character sometimes but she doesn't quite know how to express it, artistically, like how artists do.

The same goes with 'Julia', although she wanted to be an artist, she had no trainings nor education whatsoever.

The reason? She had no money.

Besides, she had to prioritize finding jobs and surviving first. She worked hard for herself, and for the orphanage. But despite the hardships, she never forgot her dream. Even in the dark times when she would feel vulnerable and cry herself in the dark corner of her apartment, she would only lift herself up when she imagines herself standing on a bright stage, with her dream finally coming true.

Well, the second reason was: the story description was very similar to one of the novel she finished in her past life. VERY SIMILAR.

She was immediately absorbed on the first episode. Learning while also fangirling is another multitasking she did.

"That was great. I hope to see the next episode soon." Lia entered a comment underneath the video with an anonymous account. After making sure that her comment made it, she stretched her limbs, got off her bed, went to take a shower, and now...off to work.

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Dressing up in her chic black and white office clothes, she stared in satisfaction before going out.

Walking along the streets, she never ceased to stop looking around the streets while doing so. In order to familiarize herself, she always do this while walking to the bus station. It would be weird if people suddenly notice Lia not knowing places around her apartment when she already lives in the building for almost 4 years.

She wanted to be 'safe' to be exact. She doesn't want to expose herself in this city.

'Who knows what crazy experiments and scientists awaits me when I reveal this.' Yeah, she decided that she will bring this secret to her grave. Only kept inside her, no one else's.

She continued to look around, while of course.... NOT oblivious to the stares and glances sent in her direction.

Whenever, people do that, somehow Lia felt a tinge of pride to her 'work'. She didn't give it any attention in her past, she was already used to it. Of course, she was used to it now but she said 'It's a different feeling...starting on a new canvas and painting it with new colors while looking at people crowding over your piece has a new, different contentment and satisfaction to it.'

To other people's view, she looks like a fresh flower giving some refreshments to everyone's eyes, even the store owners selling bread in shops by the street would stop for a second to look at her.

For now because of her age and current visuals, she looks very fresh and new. She gives off that vibe that when you don't look at her you'll have regrets. Well, that's also thanks to Lia's skills that she was able to cover up some of 'Julia's' true beauty.

She doesn't want to reveal all her prowess just yet. Her beauty right now is just labeled as a fresh pretty face. A small perk of curve hung on her lips when the day comes when she finally can debut as an actress and people finds out the real and bomb beauty underneath all of this.

She specifically made multiple research and chose certain styles to hide some of the beautiful and potential features of her face.

For example, her hair she intentionally dyed it ash brown when she could have suited to black hair the most. Her eyes, she wore fashion glasses to cover them up. Her body, too, it was still rather skinny and unrefined according to Lia. Skinny due to not being able to eat properly because of overworking and financial problems.

'Damn, even though I was slightly workaholic in the past, I didn't lose weight so much like this.' Lia commented while trying out some dresses when she was shopping yesterday.

'Anyway, people will be surprised when I come out of the hole. Of course....it's still a long way to go. Now, I just have found the right place to grow my seed out.' Lia thought out in her mind while strutting towards the already near bus station, a smile hanging still on her lips.

"Oh, ain't that a familiar face?" Snapping out of her daydreams, she turned into the Lia who just caught sight of a prey.