Two people finished filming, and Lin Xiaoman returned to the makeup room. The afternoon’s scene involved the second personality. Now she sat in the chair, no longer having the energy to remove her makeup.
“Drive the car over, I’ll be right down,” she instructed Xiaobai, packing up the makeup bag on the table.
Just as she reached Jiani’s makeup room, she heard a sharp scream: “Ah, my face!”
Lin Xiaoman rushed into the room. Jiani was covering her face, her expression grotesque, with her disfigured face visible through her fingers.
Her assistant stood nearby, frozen in place.
“Quickly take her to the hospital,” Lin Xiaoman immediately ordered her assistant and walked over to comfort Jiani, “Don’t be afraid, we’ll go to the hospital.”
“Get away! You evil woman! I’ll haunt you even as a ghost! I will definitely kill you!” Jiani screamed hoarsely.
“Quickly take her to the hospital,” Lin Xiaoman stepped back, waved to her assistant, and called Xiaobai, “Jiani is coming down, take her to the hospital.”
After they left the room, Lin Xiaoman noticed the small sample she had given Jiani had fallen on the floor. She didn’t touch it but exited the room and instructed Director Qian, who had rushed over: “Don’t let anyone enter the room.”
Then she called the police.
After the police arrived and examined the scene, they discovered that the makeup remover in the sample had been replaced with sulfuric acid. Jiani had applied it to her face, resulting in disfigurement.
The police then questioned Jiani’s assistant and learned that Jiani had filmed a crying scene that afternoon. After finishing, she was preparing to remove her makeup but found the makeup remover missing. The assistant remembered the makeup remover in the gift box Lin Xiaoman had given and took it out for Jiani to use.
“My makeup remover couldn’t have been the problem,” Lin Xiaoman said firmly. “I have no reason to harm her.”
“I heard you had conflicts during filming,” the police said.
“But the makeup water had been with her for several days. It could have been switched by someone else.”
“Do you have any suspects?”
Lin Xiaoman shook her head.
She couldn’t figure it out.
