Rob quickly sensed that something was wrong. Although shivering after being rained on was a normal physiological phenomenon, and Demi was also wrapped in a blanket shivering constantly, Hugo's condition was truly too severe, making even Rob feel somewhat worried.Joseph had originally been worriedly monitoring Hugo's condition, preparing to pull Hugo away to change out of his wet clothes, but when he half-rose, he inadvertently caught Alej's gaze. The schadenfreude in that look was not just the state of "enemies meeting with intense hatred," but more like a "you deserve it" state.As an agent, in addition to his outstanding interpersonal skills, Joseph also possessed an excellent ability to carefully grasp surrounding matters. He immediately recalled the situation when Hugo was being rained on earlier, and he couldn't help but frown. He turned his head and gently shook Hugo, "When you were being rained on earlier, was it cold water or warm water?"Hugo's brain was a bit mushy at this moment, and he only felt his head burning unbearably, but he still retained a sliver of clarity. He frowned and said, "Cold water, what's wrong? Is there a problem?" He obviously didn't understand the trickery behind this.Joseph stood up abruptly, "Rob, why was the water Hugo was rained on with earlier cold water?" Although the director and producer are the biggest on set, and Hugo is currently not a top-tier big name without enough power to confront the director, on matters of principle, as an agent, Joseph would definitely not concede.While questioning Rob, Joseph walked toward the bathtub where Hugo had been rained on earlier. His gaze remained locked on Alej, and that intimidating look made Alej feel somewhat terrified.Only then did Alej remember that he had been too busy watching the fun earlier and had actually forgotten to drain all the water in the bathtub. This was bad. However, Alej immediately comforted himself, thinking he had already prepared a fallback plan to push the responsibility onto other Staff Member, claiming some errors occurred during the preparation process.Rob's expression was also very poor at this moment. Before this scene was filmed, Joseph had given instructions that Hugo had not been feeling well recently—and had implied that Hugo's current condition was due to drugs. This matter was no secret in the industry, so Rob was not surprised. Therefore, Joseph had requested that warm water must be used to avoid any issues with Hugo's physical functions that would affect the crew's filming schedule, and Rob had readily agreed.Rob naturally did not want such a situation to occur. In fact, he was still quite satisfied with Hugo. An Actor who has talent and is willing to put in the effort is very welcome to any director. Setting aside the filming schedule, even out of concern for Hugo's personal health, Rob did not want any problems to arise. Moreover, the original plan was to use warm water.But now, Rob had been told that the water used when Hugo was rained on earlier was cold water, and this was after he had given instructions a thousand times over. This was an unforgivable mistake.Rob followed closely behind Joseph to the side of the bathtub, saw Joseph reach his hand into the bathtub to touch it, and then turn back to look at Rob with a tense face, "You must give me an explanation." At such a moment, if an agent cannot fight for their artist's interests, then there is no need for the agent to exist.Moreover, Joseph had watched with his own eyes how hard Hugo tried to prove himself with his strength after entering the a few good men crew. Facing the crew's indifference, Hugo had never complained or made excuses, but Hugo had always been silently proving his ability through actual actions. Just looking at the crew Staff Member's attitudes toward Hugo now, one could tell how hard-won all of this was.Now, however, this situation had arisen. Whenever Joseph thought of the effort Hugo had put in behind the scenes, he felt this was unforgivable!Rob's expression was very ugly. He walked forward quickly and reached out to touch the water temperature in the bathtub. As soon as his fingers touched that icy liquid, Rob immediately shivered. This temperature was like ice water mixed with ice cubes; even in summer, it would make people feel completely chilled, and now it was March, when spring had not yet fully arrived. Imagining Hugo bathing under this water temperature for as long as five minutes earlier, Rob felt his own blood was about to freeze.After standing up, Rob suddenly thought of something, then turned his head and shouted to the back, "Was the fire truck warm water earlier?" Because the fire truck and the water in the bathtub were from the same system, and this was also something Rob had specifically instructed before filming started.But the answer given by the Staff Member in the back was "warm water," which was also the expected result, because Demi, who was filming in the rain curtain created by the fire truck, had absolutely no complaints.Rob's expression immediately turned dark. This situation was truly as obvious as it could be; this was someone deliberately targeting Hugo, specifically turning the water in the bathtub showerhead into cold water. This was unforgivable. To actually use dirty tricks behind the scenes to bully the movie's male lead?In fact, Rob, as the director, naturally knew about the crew's attitude toward Hugo. The reason he hadn't intervened to manage it was, on one hand, because every crew has its own way of operating, and on the other hand, because Rob also wanted to see how Hugo would cope. Subsequently, Rob had been carefully observing. Since filming began, Hugo had been using his strength to win the approval of the crew's Staff Member bit by bit, so Rob had also clearly seen the crew gradually warm up from rejection and indifference. Although the crew was still not enthusiastic, at least everyone was no longer making things difficult for Hugo, which was a very obvious change.But who could have imagined that under such circumstances, there would still be someone deliberately targeting Hugo, even coming up with such vicious means to make Hugo suffer in silence? This made Rob also very angry.Rob only needed to conduct a simple investigation to know that it was Alej who was responsible for the warm water arrangement today. He immediately summoned Alej over to ask about the situation. Meanwhile, Joseph also took Hugo back to the nearby lounge, let Hugo change his clothes, wipe his body clean, and then roll in a blanket and drink hot water to start recovering his body temperature.Actually, Hugo had just caught a chill. His current physical health condition could not be called good. First, he was drenched by cold water for five minutes, then he kept filming for nearly forty minutes in a soaked state, and finally, he was rained on for twenty minutes. It could be said that Hugo was soaked through and through, and the whole person had been in a cold state. After filming ended, Hugo's body began to heat up, and he felt dizzy.It wasn't necessarily a big problem, but even a cold has a huge impact on an Actor, especially with Hugo's weak physical condition, which made Hugo even weaker. Hugo soon drifted into a hazy sleep, running a low fever, his cheeks flushed like a stove.Joseph watched the cold sweat on Hugo's forehead, his brows tightly knitted together. Although he had gained a brand new understanding of Hugo over these three months, the desperately hardworking Hugo before his eyes still made him look at him with new eyes again.Taking a deep breath, Joseph left the lounge and walked toward the crew. The surrounding Staff Member all stopped the work in their hands, gathered in twos and threes, discussing in whispers. Seeing Joseph walking over, they immediately shut their mouths, and then watched Joseph's furious back. No one dared to speak, fearing that if they angered Joseph, they would be affected.At this moment, Rob was pressing Alej for answers, but obviously, Alej had no way to give a reasonable explanation. Although Alej shirked responsibility, saying that an accident occurred when arranging the warm water, which led to only cold water being used, and subsequently, he had done his best to carry out emergency treatment, which allowed the fire truck to spray warm water; however, Rob did not buy this explanation, but in the short term, he also had no evidence to prove that this matter was related to Alej.When Joseph came out, Rob was thinking about how to handle this matter, and then he saw Joseph striding over in a rush to stand in front of Alej. Before Alej could react, Joseph closed in on him, pressuring Alej with the momentum of Mount Tai pressing down on the top.Joseph was a big guy; both his height and weight were two levels higher than Alej's, so Joseph was almost suppressing Alej from a commanding height, making it very difficult for Alej to make an effective reaction. Then Joseph said in a deep voice, "Do you dare to look me in the eye and say: today's matter has nothing to do with you?"Although Joseph did not raise his voice, his words, heavy as a thousand pounds, weighed heavily on everyone's hearts. And Alej, facing Joseph's thunderous rage, was almost unable to breathe, only feeling that the nightmare before his eyes could swallow him at any moment."N... no." Alej could barely squeeze out the words of denial, only squeezing out a tiny bit of a groaning tone. But Joseph heard Alej's intention to deny it. His brows gathered toward the center, and with a fierce glare, in an instant, it made Alej feel his legs go weak.Alej's spirit inevitably collapsed a bit, and the black shadows in his heart began to spread with bared fangs and brandished claws. He gritted his teeth and steeled his heart, and his resentment toward Hugo began to erupt like a volcano, "So what if I did it! I just wanted to teach that guy a lesson, to tell him not to get carried away, to tell him not to act like a big shot and play tricks. He is just a winner of the Golden Raspberry Awards, and he has no capital at all to show off in front of us. He is just a pathetic wretch who relied on some dirty means to get an opportunity that shouldn't belong to him. Look at those actions of his in the crew; he is completely a disgusting clown. I was just telling him not to be self-righteous; there was no malice at all. If I really had malice, the water coming out of the showerhead would have been scalding hot, not cold water; it might have destroyed that useless pretty face of his."Alej's breakdown exposed his true face unscrupulously in front of everyone. Many Staff Member on the scene were shocked by this bloody hatred of Alej's. However, thinking back to the first day Hugo joined the crew, when Alej had arranged a show of force only to end up suffering a loss instead, today's outburst was not surprising.Hearing Alej's words, Joseph laughed out of extreme anger. He gritted his teeth and squeezed the words out from between his lips, "The real clown should be you. You should stand in front of a mirror and look at that pathetic, ugly face of yours." After speaking, Joseph paused, appreciating Alej's face, which was distorted by extreme anger, and then continued, "Take a good look around here, because this will be your last day on the crew!"
