This bruise had obviously been caused by the repeated kowtowing.

"Did you really just... do whatever they told you to do?"

For some reason, Lucas suddenly got angry.

"What else could I do?" Serenity responded. "Refuse them? In that case, I wouldn't get paid a single dime today."

He almost choked. He was fully aware that extras were the workers at the lowest rung of the hierarchy on set, and they basically had no bargaining power at all when they were demanded to do something.

"How much are you getting paid per day as an extra?" he asked in a muffled voice.

"I was initially promised 80 dollars," she explained, "but because there would be a kneeling scene, 50 dollars was added. Just now, when I had to demonstrate kowtowing alone in front of the others, I was given another 200 dollars."

He stared at her with roiling emotions. So, she had kept on kneeling and kowtowing over and over again, all just for 330 dollars?

Did this woman not know how to protect herself?!

"Are there any p