My Hollywood System

Chapter 95:

Chapter 95:

April Warden, who was engrossed in reading [Harry Potter: The Philosopher’s Stone] didn’t realise when the time ticked by as it was almost evening by the time she finished the manuscript. Her eyes were already a bit hazy because of her young body continuously reading for hours, but her face was lit up, and her expression spoke volumes of her excitement.

She stood up and put the manuscript between her hands as she ran off towards the living room. Her father, Terry Warden, was sitting on a sofa, doing something on his laptop. Terry Warden looked to be in his late 40s and had a white trimmed beard.

“Papa!”

April climbed the sofa from the side sneakily and threw herself at her fathers, strangling his neck with her arms as she happily rubbed her face against his.

“Oh, my little angel. How was your day today? Did you do your homework? You didn’t annoy your nanny, did you?”

Terry laughed as he said that. He immediately closed his laptop and stopped what he was doing. For him, his daughter mattered more than anything or anyone in this world. He took her in his arms and made her sit on his lap as he looked at her with affectionate eyes.

“Uh-huh. I was being a really good girl; you can ask Carla.”

April said as she stroked Terry’s beard with her little fingers while she held a manuscript.

“Is that so? What’s this? You were reading from the new manuscripts again?”

Terry asked as his gaze finally landed on this daughter’s other hand, which was holding a manuscript. He was well aware of his daughter’s interest and love of books and couldn’t be happier about it. He saw that she was holding one of the drafts that he would take home so his daughter, who loved books, could read it.

“Yes!! I came to ask for the second volume from papa. Please give me.”

April asked with puppy eyes that melted Terry’s heart.

“There is no second volume. It’s one of the unpublished drafts.”

Terry informed her, and April’s eyes shined like she had gained enlightenment. April was a very smart kid for her age and already knew the process of drafts being selected for publications or getting rejected. Her non-existent dog ears and tails wiggled as she snuggled onto Terry and asked.

“Papa, please publish this novel. Pretty please? I love you so much.”

Terry was surprised. Although he knew that April liked reading, he knew she was a very picky reader and mostly threw away these drafts after reading the first chap if they weren’t good enough. He would tell his junior editors to pay special attention to such books.

Although most of the work was done by the junior editors, this was the case with the drafts he brought home for April to read.

“Do you like this book?”

Terry asked to confirm once again, and April’s expression lit up again.

Will spoke out his thoughts. Jennifer was taking her job quite seriously, and although she was a senior agent, she was doing most of the things an agency head should be doing and keeping his eyes on. As she already had expertise in this field, she was obviously a better choice than Jeffrey, who was from a completely different faction of Hollywood.

“Lucas Amspoker? Alright, I will give him a proposal from you. I have wanted to work with him for a long time. Ahaha.”

Jeffrey seemed excited by the name that Will had given. After all, Lucas was an Oscar-nominated director. He was quite popular and hadn’t directed any movie this year.

“Take this too.”

Will handed over a document to Jeffrey, which he accepted with confusion in his eyes. But as he kept on reading, his eyebrows that were knit together slowly eased up, and soon his eyes were wide with surprise and excitement.

“T-this...?”

“It’s an analysis of the ways that [1917] can be shot in. The movie isn’t easy to shoot, so I would recommend reading what I have analysed so far for its cinematography.”

Jeffrey kept reading the document and his eyes just became wider and wider as he exclaimed.

“Will, this is genius!”

“Give a copy of this document to Lucas too. This might make him interested.”

Will said without reacting much to the praise.

“Will.... Don’t tell me you have a talent for cinematography too..”

Jeffrey acted as if he had sensed hidden danger and looked apprehensively at Will, to which Will just laughed.

“Don’t worry. I am not going to take over your job.”

“Yeah... you have much better and more important things to do. Phew.”

Jeffrey continued on with his fake act of apprehensiveness as he sighed in relief that Will wasn’t going to take over his job.

After a while, both Will and Jeffrey laughed together at his act. If anyone saw them right now, they would be genuinely perplexed seeing this friendship that transcended all social norms of age and levels.

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