Chapter sixty- six

It was good publicity for Director Lee movie if Xi Wang won the award so when Director Lee took the chance to chatter at least fifteen minutes with Xi Wang when he calls to congrats her and ask her if she was prepared for the start of filming for his movie.

After all, even when a veteran actress is nominated for the golden dragon awards without winning is something to boast about in the entertainment world. Not to said Xi Wang is nominated for her first drama. It was with Director Lee's call that Xi Wang had realized her one month wedding holiday had passed.

Sigh, tomorrow is the start of her work again. Xi Wang also realized another issue, she is not a responsible person. Xi Wang realized that she never noticed the broadcast percentage points of her first drama. Well, if her role were nominated for the golden dragon awards, the broadcast percentage points will not be that bad.

Next day as usual, it was Xiang Ni who help her to change her clothes and completed her morning routine so that she could rest more. And today Xi Wang really need to rest more as she need to film one of the toughest scenes of the movie. just conveniently it was winter now, so Director Lee need her to film the outdoor scene where Ma Li escape from the comfort women house and walk barefoot through heavy snow towards the nearest town.

While still wearing a warm coat, Xi Wang pretend to take a pill from the coat pocket to eat. During that one-month holiday, Xi Wang had prepared all the necessary medicine in her system space so that she will not fall sick while filming. This pill Xi Wang ate is for her to keep warm and ensure that she will not fall sick while wearing tattered clothes of her role.

Although Xiang Ni knew fully well of the stress it will incur and Xi Wang audition acting proves that he is right. After all Tang Yan could get his company top directors or scriptwriters to tailor a drama for Xi Wang to ensure her chances at winning the next necessary award.

But Xiang Ni never choose to stop Xi Wang as he understood Xi Wang's desire to act such a stressful role. Xiang Ni knew that with the awkward status of comfort women in the world now. Xiang Ni knew that Xi Wang is confident and hoping that her acting will ignite even the smallest possibilities that it could help the status of the comfort women in the world today. And so, Xiang Ni forced himself to sit beside Director Lee silently so he could run to Xi Wang at the first moment. It was only the veins that were popping in his tightly clenched hands that betrayed Xiang Ni's anxiety and worries.

Action

It seems a decade had passed but in fact it was even less than ten minutes, but Ma Li do not know. Today, suddenly, all the comfort women were gathered by the soldiers of J country in the courtyard today.

Suddenly, bullets start to hiss around her, and Ma Li felt a bone scrooching pain in her knee, and she falls down on another comfort woman and she blissfully fainted. Ma Li opens her eyes to an extremely silent environment. After Ma Li ensured that the surrounding environment was silent which means there is no people.

Ma Li then began the torturous process of digging her way out one slow inch by one slow inch. Ma Li almost wants to fall on the ground when she saw that she was the only living comfort women. Why do heaven do not release her from this torture that is living. Sometimes death is a release that even when she begs, it was not granted to her. Ma Li saw a bayonet on the ground, and she wanted to just end her life with a slice across her neck.

But when Ma Li saw her friends lying on the ground, the desire for revenge starts to burn. The desire to see the fall of the soldiers of J country lets Ma Li release her hold on the bayonet and it falls to the ground with a loud screech. One slow torturous inch by one slow torturous inch, Ma Li limps her way through the deep snow with snowflakes falling on her face. It was when Ma Li could not see the comfort women house anymore when her body could not take it anymore and she once again fainted.

Of course, Ma Li never knew that the moment she walks out of the comfort women house, soldiers from A country had already started to pile into the house. Ma Li opens her eyes to see that she was lying on a hospital bed with the bullet wound in her leg attended to. Ma Li while laying on the hospital bed hears the conversation that rang around her and she realize that she was still in her country, it was just that she was in a different state.

Ma Li heard that there was a charity organization going to a nearby town where she could walk towards her village. So, Ma Li decides to beg the charity organization workers to let her hitch a ride towards the town and they agreed. Ma Li is worried about her family members as her last view of them was when she was pull apart in the crowd that was running away from the village where the soldiers of J country was on a rampage killing and kidnapping people.

But what Ma Li never expected when she successfully reaches her village, and her home is to see her parents pushing her out of their home in disgust. Ma Li run and limp her way out of the village to loud yells of why she never died when her younger brother had died, she should go and died because of shame that she was a broken slipper, dirty woman. The same people also threw cold mud at Ma Li while she walks out of the village. What hurts Ma Li the most is that this yell came from the parents and villagers that once lovingly raised her. Cold mud slid down Ma Li's face and she began to walk a reverse path towards the nearby towns where she hopes that she could began a new life where nobody knew her.