America 1987

Chapter 74 Understanding

"Of course, I've also seen 'The Color of Money.' Your performance was actually excellent. If you had more experience, you could have easily won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar that year."

David raised an eyebrow and smiled, "So, what happened to you last night? Why couldn't you get up?"

Mary didn't want to talk about it, so she coughed and changed the subject, "What's your name? I feel like I've seen you somewhere before?"

"Hmm, you can lie there and reminisce," David said, snuggling into the covers. "Last night was a bit rushed, you probably didn't get to enjoy yourself completely, let me help you."

"Hey, wait a minute," she said, reaching out to touch the man's broad chest. "What time is it? I have to get to the film set."

"The director gave the crew a day off today, so don't rush. Let me take some more time to get into the swing of things."

Mary had something else to say, but she quickly shut her mouth under the other party's pressure.

She wrapped her arms around the other person's neck, and although she didn't really want to show any initiative, her waist seemed to be taken over by instinct, and she kicked her legs involuntarily.

"Hmm... wait a minute," Mary couldn't help but groan, reaching out to pat the other person's thigh muscles.

"What's wrong?" After all, they were just casual acquaintances and didn't know each other very well, so David didn't dare to be too unrestrained. When he saw the other person slapping his thigh, he slowed down his pace in a regular manner.

"Do I remember who you are?"

Taking advantage of the lull, Mary gasped for breath and asked, "Aren't you the actor who played Sam in last year's 'Ghost'?"

"Hmm, good memory."

"Now I'll turn you around, and try to remember my real name without looking at my face."

"I...I can't remember." Mary actually did as he asked and searched her memory, finally giving an honest answer.

"David, David Ovitz."

"How's it going? Do you remember now?" He lay on the woman's back, panting. "It doesn't matter if you don't recognize me, as long as I recognize you."

Mary used her arms to lift the other person off her and create a little distance, then asked, "You just said the director announced a day off today, how did you know that? Do you know that tyrant?"

In fact, James Cameron's reputation as a "tyrant on set" began with this film—the entire shoot lasted nearly 5 months, and the high-intensity underwater work put enormous pressure on the actors and crew, leading the crew to jokingly suggest that the project should be renamed "Abuse".

Mary herself suffered from physical and mental exhaustion, and the male lead, Ed Harris—yes, the General Hammer from "The Rock"—couldn't help but break down in tears while driving after filming wrapped. Some actors even yelled on set, "We're not animals!" due to the pressure of filming.

That's why David speculated that the near-death experience Cameron himself might have been a deliberate act of revenge.

No wonder he produced so few films in the original timeline. It seems that in addition to his perfectionist spirit, he was also concerned about his own safety.

He knew a thing or two about these behind-the-scenes stories, and asking the other party was just to get closer to them.

"Really? You almost left the film crew the night before last?"

"It wasn't that I almost left, but that I left and then came back."

"Looks like I'm pretty lucky after all?" David propped his head up on one arm, looking down into the other's eyes. "If you really left, would we still have had that connection last night?"

"So I'm pretty lucky then?"

"I wouldn't call it luck, you're quite beautiful, and I'm doing this willingly."

David rolled out of bed and looked in one direction. "Hey, isn't there a toilet in your room? Why did you insist on going to the hallway outside last night? You weren't really there to ambush me, were you?"

"No, stop being so vain. I ran out of toilet paper in my room, so I went outside to use it."

"Hey, what are you doing? Didn't you just finish working?"

"A bath for two? Don't you know that taking a bath in the morning is good for your health? I see that some parts of your back are cracked, so you need to soak in warm water more often. Get up quickly, we still have to go out to eat after we finish bathing."

Do you do this often?

Mary said to David, feeling the shower gel spreading smoothly on her soft skin.

"Do you mean this, or last night?"

David drew a smooth circle around the curve and laughed, "I get massages all the time, but as for last night's chance encounter, it's actually the first time I've met someone I clicked with so well."

"Really?" Although the other person didn't say anything, their face clearly showed that they didn't believe it.

"Really," David said, lifting the other man's chin with his hands covered in shower gel foam, deliberately teasing him in a playful tone, "If the atmosphere hadn't been so perfect last night, I wouldn't have been able to get you into my body so easily."

As for the other party intentionally creating opportunities last night, he didn't mention a word about it. Except for a very small number, most women are still quite reserved, at least on the surface, and generally don't like to appear too proactive.

Based on her coy attitude last night and this morning, David was quite certain that Mary was not one of the very few.

"Actually, last night was also my first time doing that, if it weren't for..."

As he expected, the other party indeed began to maintain their reserved persona.

David couldn't believe that the first friend he made in this world was someone he knew by his face. He pondered this to himself as he rubbed shower gel all over the other person's body.

No wonder in Water Margin, Wang Po summarized Ximen Qing as "Pan, Lu, Deng, Xiao, Xian" instead of anything else.

It seems that good looks are indeed the primary condition for attracting women.

No wonder Xiao Li was able to date so many supermodels whose net worth was no less than his in the original timeline; he was just a model-making machine.

"Hurry up and shower, or we'll be going straight to lunch."

David didn't really care whether it was the first time the other person had been so relaxed last night, because he genuinely just considered last night a pure encounter of kindred spirits.

The other party was born in 58 and is exactly 30 this year. If she is not exceptionally gifted, then she is at the end of her golden age as a woman, so he naturally won't put too much effort into maintaining the relationship.

Women's puberty is much shorter than men's. With their natural endowments and a focus on maintaining their appearance, women can generally keep their looks intact until around 35 years old, and in rare cases, up to 40.

Like Princess Xu of the Eastern Continent, who can still maintain a youthful appearance even at 50, she is an old fairy among old fairies.

After 40, if you want to maintain your appearance, you basically have to rely on makeup, cosmetic procedures, or even cutting-edge technology.