Chapter 1

To make some extra money, I went to a film studio to work as an extra.

Because my figure resembled the female lead’s, the director called me over to be her body double.

But only after signing the contract did I realize that this was an adults-only film.

The enormous breach-of-contract fee left me no choice but to agree.

And what I had to face was filming completely naked, with large, exaggerated movements in long shots.

And… Adrian Cole.

When the producer of When the Begonias Bloom found me, I was diligently lying on the ground pretending to be a corpse.

After the director called cut, he handed me a business card.

“Our production needs a body double for the female lead. We need to reshoot one scene. It won’t take long, and we’ll pay you five thousand dollars. Interested?”

I nodded frantically and signed the contract, afraid that someone else would snatch this lucky opportunity away if I hesitated.

It wasn’t as if I had never worked as a body double before; all I had to do was take the falls, get thrown around, and get beaten up.

Compared to lying dead on ground heated to forty degrees Celsius for an entire day for two hundred and fifty dollars, the job he offered was unbelievably good.

Five thousand dollars for being a body double…

At the time, I thought the production was simply loaded, until the producer took me to meet the director.

The director looked me over from every angle, then nodded in satisfaction.

“Take it off.”

I looked at the producer with a face full of question marks, wondering what exactly he wanted me to take off.

“Emily Bennett, you signed the contract yourself. It’s in black and white. Are you trying to back out?”

I had been too eager just now and had forgotten to read the contract carefully.

It really did say that I would be a body double for an intimate scene, and I was supposed to be completely naked.

A decent person had principles, and this was obviously something I couldn’t do!

“I’m sorry, Director, I really didn’t read it carefully just now. I didn’t know it was this kind of scene. I can’t…”

“A twenty-times breach-of-contract penalty.”

“There’s no way I can’t do it!” I forced a smile. “Don’t worry! I’ll do a great job as the double!”

I was just an ordinary college student who had come out to work as an extra because I needed money.

If I didn’t make any money and still had to pay a hundred thousand dollars, how was that any different from taking my life?

It was just a bed-double job, not an adult film!

I only had to close my eyes and open them again, and this whole life would be over.