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00:02I was gathering herbs. Then, I found a man bleeding in the woods. I took him home and nursed him,
00:08until his men came to retrieve him. Only then did I learn he was President's son.
00:14Staying here alone with you had ruined my reputation. That's my fault. I must protect you with a marriage vow.
00:23Confused, I followed him to the city, but I didn't know. He had a childhood sweetheart waiting for him. When
00:29she heard about us, she didn't say a word. She just gave me a fob watch. That was the token
00:34of love he once gave her.
00:35She helped me into my wedding gown and into the carriage. Soon after, she married a man chosen by her
00:41family. I thought they felt nothing for each other, that life would simply go on.
00:45But shortly after our wedding, he went to war. In the end, he died on the battlefield. He sent a
00:52final letter before he passed.
00:54Alina, I spent my life repaying your kindness. But I never married her. I owe her far too much. In
01:01the next life, may we both find peace and never meet again.
01:04Only then did I realize I was never the one he loved. Heartbroken and numb, I charged alone into the
01:11enemy camp and was cut down in the fray.
01:15Unexpectedly, I opened my eyes again to the day we first met. This time, I would give him exactly what
01:21he wanted.
01:22Using my memories, I found a signal flare on him. I lit it, then turned to leave. As the signal
01:28burst in the sky, I tossed the fuse aside.
01:31Soon, I heard horses in the distance. I closed my medicine chest and took one last look at his face.
01:37Charles, the president's son, my husband from my past life. I turned away, not a single regret in my heart.
01:44But as I stepped out, shadows materialized like specters.
01:48The gun was pressed right against my face in an instant. The leader's eyes were cold.
01:53Who are you?
01:54The one who saved him.
01:56Rafe looked at me warily. I lowered my medical bag with deliberate calm. His subordinate checked it quickly. A moment
02:03later, he put his gun away.
02:04Thank you for your kindness. Mr. Charles is lucky to be alive. Take this as payment. You'll get more reward
02:10when he's safely home.
02:11I don't do this for money.
02:13Then what do you want? A title? Power? Just name your price.
02:17What I want, you cannot give. A faint cough came from the side.
02:21Rafe's expression shifted. He rushed to Charles' side.
02:25Mr. Charles, you're awake!
02:26I stood there, completely calm. In this life, we owe each other nothing. But as I turned to leave, Rafe
02:34blocked my path.
02:35Mr. Charles wishes to see you.
02:37I took a deep breath and walked back inside. Charles was sitting up. He was pale, but his eyes were
02:43locked on me.
02:44You saved me?
02:45It was nothing.
02:46Being alone here with me could ruin your reputation.
02:50My reputation is mine to define. You are the president's son, the future of this nation. Besides, someone is waiting
02:57for you. She's the one who needs you. I don't.
03:00If you really want to thank me, then please, just forget about me. Forget everything that happened. Let's just pretend
03:07we never met.
03:08I thought I could just walk away.
03:10But after three steps, the gun was raised at me once again. This time, it was harsher and more final.
03:17Stop right there.
03:20I told you, we're even.
03:24Until Mr. Charles is fully alert and confirms you're no threat, you aren't going anywhere.
03:30And if I insist?
03:32Just as he moved to act, the rapid proof begins approached. It was her, Isolde Vos, the most gifted woman
03:39in the capital, his childhood sweetheart.
03:41Charles, how are you? You scared me to death.
03:45Charles didn't answer. He was staring intently at me. Isolde followed his gaze.
03:51Who is this?
03:52Miss Vos, this lady saved Mr. Charles' life.
03:55Isolde looked me up and down with a scornful gaze.
03:58Looking at my muddy straw shoes and my coarse plain clothes, her eyes filled with disdain.
04:05Ugh, just a local healer. Thank you for your work.
04:08Take this as a token of my thanks.
04:11No need.
04:13Is my jeweled bracelet not enough?
04:15I rely on my skills, not charity.
04:17You misunderstand me.
04:19I'm only showing gratitude.
04:22Or, do you want something more?
04:24I've heard some country girls trying to scheme their way into high society.
04:27She spoke softly, but her words cut sharp as a blade.
04:31The bodyguards fixed me with suspicious stares.
04:33I want no part of high society.
04:35My future is right here in these hills with every patient who depends on me.
04:40I won't spend my future confined to some man's backyard.
04:42Show some respect!
04:44Do you know who you're talking to?
04:46Do you know he is the president's son?
04:47Because he is president's son, he should stay away from me.
04:50Rafe.
04:52Let her go.
04:54Understood, Mr. Charles.
04:55I did not hesitate for a second.
04:58I pushed deep into the woods.
05:00No one tried to stop me this time.
05:03Three years have passed.
05:04I've passed through 16 towns and treated over 300 patients.
05:09My medicine bag grew heavy.
05:10I had grown out of that girl and become a true healer.
05:13I heard nothing of the president's son.
05:15By my calculations,
05:16he must have married long ago.
05:19He must be living happily with Isolde,
05:21just as it should be.
05:22We were from two different worlds,
05:24until that autumn,
05:26when war broke out on the border.
05:28The pass fell to the northern tribes.
05:31War swept across the land for months.
05:33More and more wounded came to me.
05:35I worked day and night without rest.
05:38My herbal stove never went cold.
05:41One day,
05:42just as the herbs finished,
05:43a man walked in.
05:45It was Colonel Harry,
05:46the local commander.
05:47Is there any way to save this soldier?
05:49The other doctors shook their heads.
05:51He's gone.
05:52There's nothing we can do.
05:53Prepare the funeral.
05:55I said nothing.
05:56I stepped forward in silence,
05:58removed his clothes,
05:59cleaned the wound,
06:00and stitched it up.
06:02If the fever breaks,
06:03he will live.
06:04What?
06:05How is that possible?
06:06Dr. Maeve,
06:07please come with me
06:09to be our chief medic.
06:10My boys are great soldiers.
06:12They can die charging the front,
06:14but I can't watch them
06:15rot away in pain
06:16inside a tent.
06:17His words hit me hard.
06:18He was right.
06:19Where am I needed more than the front?
06:21In the days that followed,
06:22I slept only four hours a night.
06:24My hands smelled of blood
06:26I could never wash away.
06:27I saved more people
06:28than I could count.
06:30I became known as the one
06:31who cheated death
06:32because I always stole lives
06:34back from death.
06:35I went from a simple village healer
06:37to the head of all medical staff.
06:39Dr. Maeve,
06:41hurry!
06:41Mr. Charles...
06:42I followed the bodyguards
06:43to a tent.
06:44As I stepped inside,
06:46the stench of blood and herbs
06:48washed over me.
06:49The personal physician
06:50were on their knees,
06:51completely helpless.
06:53I walked forward,
06:54looking at the handsome face
06:56from years ago,
06:57now pale and fragile.
06:59I unbuttoned his robe
07:00and saw that the wound
07:02had turned black.
07:03It reeked of death.
07:04The poison had already
07:06reached his heart.
07:07I need Snow Lotus
07:09to clear his veins
07:09or he won't last long.
07:11Snow Lotus?
07:12That's a holy herb
07:13on the highest cliffs.
07:14The mountains are snowed in completely.
07:16It's impossible to get there.
07:18I'll go get it,
07:19I said,
07:20turning to leave.
07:21Dr. Maeve,
07:22you're going on a suicide mission.
07:24No woman can handle that blizzard.
07:26I didn't look back,
07:27only I knew exactly
07:28where to find it.
07:29In my past life,
07:31this poison killed him.
07:32In this life,
07:33I won't let him die again.
07:34Not for love,
07:36but because this army
07:37needs its leader.
07:38I am a doctor.
07:39Saving lives is my calling,
07:41with a rope
07:41and a herb hoe.
07:42I vanished alone
07:44into the whiteout.
07:45I fell three times.
07:47At the most dangerous moment,
07:49I hung midair
07:50on a single dead vine,
07:51but when I saw it,
07:53that pure white blossom
07:54dancing in the gale,
07:55I smiled.
07:57I returned with the lotus.
07:58On the morning of the third day,
08:00I heard as old as sobbing.
08:02Charles, wake up!
08:04Look at me!
08:05I handed the lotus
08:06to a helper boy.
08:07Simmer it slowly
08:08over a low flame
08:10to make the medicine.
08:10I walked inside.
08:12Isolde froze,
08:13then snapped.
08:14Who are you?
08:16Do you know where-
08:17Not another word.
08:19Unless you want
08:20to watch him die.
08:22She trembled with rage,
08:23but stayed silent.
08:24I went to the bed
08:26and reached for his forehead.
08:27The moment my fingers
08:28touched his skin,
08:29his lips moved
08:30in a faint,
08:31mumbled whisper.
08:33Helena.
08:34I froze in my tracks.
08:36Had he returned
08:37from the past as well?
08:38The thought was like a snake,
08:40slithering into my mind.
08:42A cold shiver
08:43ran through me.
08:44Memories of my past life,
08:46the ones I tried to bury,
08:48came rushing back
08:49all at once.
08:50The distance
08:51on our wedding night,
08:52the cold stares
08:53from the bodyguards,
08:55Isolde's fake pity,
08:56and that final,
08:57soul-crushing letter.
08:58I yanked my hand back.
09:00I forced myself
09:01to stay calm.
09:02Whether he remembered or not,
09:04he was just my patient now.
09:05He was the hope
09:07of this army.
09:07My logic finally returned.
09:10I ordered the medics
09:11to prepare.
09:12The snow lotus was ready.
09:13Mr. Charles needs surgery now.
09:15The medics scrambled to help.
09:18Isolde stayed by the bed,
09:19sobbing while holding his hand.
09:21She looked so fragile today.
09:23I stepped forward
09:24and spoke softly.
09:25Miss Isolette,
09:26please move.
09:26I need to treat him.
09:28She looked up
09:28with teary eyes.
09:30Her worry was mixed
09:31with suspicion.
09:33Who exactly are you?
09:34She asked with a sharp gaze.
09:36I know every one
09:37of his personal physicians,
09:38but I have never seen you.
09:40I gave a short answer,
09:41without even looking at her.
09:43I am Dr. Maeve,
09:44the army's chief medic.
09:45I began preparing my tools.
09:49Elena.
09:49Isolde whispered the name.
09:51Her face suddenly turned pale.
09:52You're the local healer.
09:54The one who saved him back then.
09:56I cut her off.
09:58This is not the time for memories.
10:00This is a matter of life and death.
10:02Please, step aside.
10:04Isolde bit her lip
10:05and finally moved back,
10:07but she kept staring at Charles,
10:09her eyes full of complex emotions.
10:12The first treatment was done.
10:14I brought the lotus medicine,
10:16feeding him,
10:17drop by drop.
10:18His brow was locked in pain,
10:20as if he couldn't bear the agony.
10:22I whispered words of comfort,
10:24like soothing a small child.
10:26Isolde tried to help,
10:27but I refused her coldly.
10:29Black blood seeped from the wound,
10:31a sign the medicine was working.
10:33I cleaned the wound over and over.
10:36The process was dangerous.
10:38One slip could spread the poison.
10:40I was fully focused.
10:42Sweat beaded on my forehead,
10:44but I didn't dare to wipe it.
10:46Time passed slowly.
10:47The only sounds were the tools
10:49and the heavy beat of a heart.
10:51His breath was uneven,
10:53sometimes fast,
10:54sometimes weak.
10:55Twice his heart stopped,
10:57but I pulled him back
10:58for twelve long hours.
11:01I didn't leave his side.
11:03Isolde fainted halfway.
11:04The soldiers took her away.
11:07The other doctors waited,
11:09taking turns outside the tent.
11:10Only I stayed by the bed,
11:12watching over him alone.
11:14Late into the night,
11:15his high fever finally broke.
11:17He was still very pale,
11:19but the deathly gray faded.
11:21I checked his heart rate.
11:22It was almost back to normal.
11:24My nerves finally relaxed.
11:27An exhaustion washed over me.
11:29I leaned against the bed
11:30and fell fast asleep.
11:32In a daze, I woke up.
11:34I saw him staring at me.
11:36What a look in his eyes.
11:38The confusion quickly faded.
11:40It turned into pure shock,
11:42then into a deep, aching pain.
11:44He just kept staring at me,
11:46trying to say something,
11:47but no sound came out.
11:48That was not a look of thanks.
11:50Absolutely not.
11:51My heart sank to the bottom.
11:53His voice was raspy.
11:55Elena.
11:56The sound was like a blade,
11:57stabbing straight into my ears.
12:00Mr. Charles, you're mistaken.
12:01I am just an army doctor.
12:03His eyes were locked on me,
12:05as if carving my image into his soul.
12:07It really is you.
12:09I cut him off, my voice cold.
12:11You have just recovered.
12:13Your mind is still clouded.
12:16You are awake now,
12:17which means the treatment worked.
12:19Follow the doctor's orders.
12:20I will take my leave now.
12:22I turned to leave quickly.
12:24Don't go!
12:25He struggled to sit up,
12:27hissing as his wound pulled.
12:29I paused for a second,
12:31but I did not look back.
12:33Elena, don't leave.
12:34Rafe appeared at the entrance.
12:35He blocked my path.
12:37President Sun just woke up.
12:39He still needs your care.
12:41His gaze was sharp.
12:42He seemed to recognize me.
12:44I suppressed my irritation
12:45and spoke calmly.
12:47President Sun's condition has improved.
12:49A weak but firm command
12:51came from inside the tent.
12:53Let her stay.
12:55There was a trace of pleading
12:56in Charles' voice.
12:57In the end, I stayed.
12:59It wasn't because of the command.
13:01It was because I saw it.
13:03The flash of despair in his eyes.
13:05It was the look of a man
13:07grasping his last hope while dying.
13:09The snow lotus was truly a holy relic,
13:12working its magic deep inside his wounded body.
13:16With my care and the power of the sacred flower,
13:19his blackened wound slowly turned back to normal.
13:22Fresh pink flesh started to grow over the injury,
13:25but his gaze toward me made my chest feel tight.
13:28It was not thanks,
13:30nor was it simple curiosity,
13:31but something heavy, dark,
13:34and impossible to name.
13:35He would stare at me quietly for hours on end,
13:38especially when I gently changed his bandages.
13:41His eyes were so deep and full of unspoken things
13:45that I dared not meet them or look back at him.
13:48Isolde came to visit him nearly every single day,
13:51showing him perfect, gentle care and pure devotion.
13:54Her eyes were filled with warm love for Charles,
13:57but they held cold suspicion when they turned to me.
14:00One day, she walked in with a cup of warm nutrient drink
14:04and saw him gazing longingly at my quiet back.
14:07The cup slipped from her hand and crashed to the floor,
14:10and her voice shook with fear and sudden disbelief.
14:15Charles, have you two met each other before now?
14:18Charles stayed silent.
14:19His face was hard to read.
14:21After a long moment, he finally spoke in a low voice.
14:25Isolde, I don't know how to explain this to you.
14:29He did not deny it, not even a single little word.
14:33Isolde's face turned pale, as pale as a ghost.
14:36I let out a quiet sigh, deep inside my own heart,
14:40feeling the wheel of fate start to turn once again.
14:43No matter how hard I tried to change my own path,
14:46it all led back to the same sad old ending.
14:48Once Charles could walk, he started visiting my tent more often.
14:53He didn't say a word, just watched me quietly as I treated soldiers.
14:57Sometimes he would help with small tasks,
14:59or order supplies to be sent to me.
15:02Soon, rumors began to spread throughout the entire military camp.
15:06People were making up stories about a romance between the two of us.
15:10I couldn't take it anymore, so I decided to finally confront him.
15:14Mr. Charles, your wounds are healed, and I am resigning from my post.
15:19Charles swayed slightly, almost losing his balance as he stood there.
15:23You're leaving? To where?
15:25He asked me with a trembling voice.
15:27I avoided his gaze, looking away as I answered him.
15:31To where I am needed. You have fully recovered now.
15:35Isolde is devoted to you.
15:36And the soldiers need their leader here.
15:38I no longer belong in this place.
15:40It is time for me to go.
15:42Who says you don't belong?
15:44Elena, I know I owe you so much.
15:48I cut him off.
15:49The anger from two lifetimes finally exploding.
15:52You owe me nothing!
15:54In our past life, you only trapped me.
15:57You ended everything with that letter.
16:00Saying you owed her, not me.
16:03In this life, I saved you twice.
16:04And now we are finally even.
16:06Please just let me go.
16:08My words hit him like a bolt of lightning.
16:11Charles turned ghostly pale as the light in his eyes went dark.
16:15So you really are back?
16:17And you remember everything?
16:19His voice was trembling, with his eyes turning a deep red.
16:22I remained perfectly calm as I told him the cold truth.
16:26I remember every single thing.
16:29So I know how to choose now.
16:31In this life, I only want to heal people.
16:34And live as a free woman.
16:35Your power, your duties, and your love have nothing to do with me.
16:40He looked at me, his face filled with overwhelming pain.
16:44What if I told you that I only just realized...
16:48Don't say another word.
16:49Turning away to pack my bags.
16:52Whatever you want to say, it is already far too late.
16:57Our story ended when you wrote that letter, maybe even long before that.
17:00I picked up my luggage, walking to the entrance of the tent.
17:04I paused for a moment, but I did not look back at him.
17:08I hope you recover soon.
17:10Reclaim your power and grow old with Isolate.
17:12Then I lifted the flap, stepping out into the cold, dark night.
17:17This time, no one tried to stand in my way.
17:20I thought that I was finally free.
17:23I intentionally avoided the main roads, traveling through the quiet back roads.
17:28The war was not over yet, and wounded villagers were everywhere.
17:33I traveled around practicing medicine, but I no longer used my real name.
17:37I went by Dr. Maeve, living as a simple, local healer.
17:42About one year later, I stayed in a small town in the south.
17:46This place was untouched by war, and the local people were very kind.
17:51I settled down in a wooden cabin, right by the edge of a peaceful lake.
17:56I treated patients during the day, and studied herbs throughout the night.
18:00Life was supposed to be quiet, until one very rainy night.
18:03A sudden, urgent knocking started echoing loudly against my door.
18:08I opened the door.
18:10Two strangers were carrying a stretcher, and the person on the stretcher was covered with a cloak.
18:16Dr. Maeve, please save this traveling merchant!
18:19We found him outside town. His old wounds flared up.
18:21He is dying! Please help him right now!
18:23I told them to carry the man inside quickly.
18:25When I brushed away his wet, messy hair, my entire body froze in complete shock.
18:30It was Charles, looking thin and almost unrecognizable.
18:34His face was flushed with fever. His lips cracked.
18:38His breathing was so weak, it had almost stopped.
18:41Even in this mess, I could never forget that face.
18:44I snapped my head toward the men who brought him.
18:47One of them was Rafe, disguised but with familiar eyes.
18:51His voice was hoarse, filled with a desperate plea.
18:54I beg you, please save his life.
18:58No one else can save him except for you.
19:00Anger and helplessness washed over me all at once.
19:03I wanted to kick them all out of my house.
19:05But I am a doctor. I cannot ignore the dying.
19:09Everyone get out. I need quiet, quiet to examine him.
19:13After the checkup, my heart sank halfway down.
19:15Old wounds hadn't healed, and new ones were added.
19:18On top of that, constant worrying had drained him.
19:21It was a miracle that he even made it here.
19:24That night, I used everything I had ever learned.
19:27I poured precious medicines into his body like water, just to steal this man back from the grip of death.
19:33This man, whom I had once both loved and hated.
19:36I thought that we were already even.
19:38But by dawn, his fever finally started to drop.
19:42I was so exhausted that I felt like collapsing.
19:46Leaning against the wall, I watched Charles' sleeping face.
19:49Even in a coma, his brow was tightly furrowed.
19:52Why? Why are you doing this to me now?
19:57You failed me in our past life.
20:00So why must you torture me in this one, too?
20:03He didn't wake up until two days later.
20:05The setting sun shone through the window onto his face as he slowly opened his eyes to the world.
20:11His gaze was filled with a deep, silent emptiness.
20:15He turned his head to watch me mixing herbs, staring at me for a very long time.
20:20You still chose to save me, he whispered.
20:23His voice was raspy, but I didn't stop my work.
20:27I am a doctor.
20:28I know you hate me.
20:29I hate those memories, too.
20:32In my mind, I see your back as you left me.
20:35I see you sitting alone in the mirror on our night.
20:38I see your face when you read that final letter.
20:40His words came in broken pieces, like a blunt knife cutting my old scars.
20:45I thought I married you only for gratitude, and that what I felt for Islo was love.
20:50But in this life, when I saw the light fade from your eyes, I finally understood.
20:56Alina, it was a feeling for you that I was simply too afraid to admit.
21:01Back when you first saved me, during those days and nights, I loved you.
21:06But I carried too much responsibility, and I couldn't see my own heart clearly.
21:10So I masked my feelings with duty, calling it gratitude just to hide the truth.
21:15I thought making you my wife was the best way to repay your kindness.
21:21I never realized that for you, it was nothing more than a cage.
21:25His voice grew more and more excited, as a sickly red flush crept across his face.
21:31In this life, I wanted to make amends.
21:34But I realized I didn't even have the right.
21:37You left so firmly, choosing to walk away with absolutely nothing.
21:42I broke off my engagement with Isolid, spending every moment trying to find you.
21:47But I didn't know what to say.
21:49Sorry is too light, and I love you is a joke.
21:53This time, I got hurt on purpose.
21:55His voice was terrifyingly calm now, and I completely stopped mixing the medicine.
22:00I knew my old wounds hadn't healed, and I knew the enemy was waiting for me.
22:04I thought if I died right there, I would finally be free from this pain.
22:10Maybe then, I could finally stop torturing you once and for all.
22:13And I would not have to torture myself either.
22:16Rafe fought to the death to save me, he said with a bitter smile.
22:20But in my coma, I had only one thought.
22:22If I could see you just one more time, I would be willing to die right now.
22:27So they brought me here to find you, even if they had to use this desperate way.
22:33I am sorry, Alina.
22:35It seems that I have been selfish once again.
22:36I clenched my fists until my nails drew blood, feeling a heavy, suffocating pain in my chest.
22:43I didn't feel that much hatred anymore, only an endless, hollow sense of sorrow.
22:48He looked at me with eyes that were both clear and full of despair.
22:51Alina.
22:52I don't dare to ask for a second chance, because I know that I don't deserve it.
22:57I just wanted to tell you that I was a fool, never seeing my own heart in our past life.
23:01In this life, being able to see you again and telling you this in person is enough.
23:05I am a doctor, and I worked so hard to save you.
23:09I finally spoke, my voice sounding hoarse.
23:12I didn't save your life just to sit here and listen to you say your final words.
23:18He looked at me, a tiny spark of light flickering for a moment in his tired eyes.
23:22I know my own body very well, Alina.
23:25My heart and lungs are already failing me.
23:27I am only staying alive for a bit longer, by using medicine to drag out my remaining days.
23:34Every moment I spend looking at you now is time I have stolen away from death.
23:38His words felt like a cold, heartless sentence, and in my heart, I knew the truth as well.
23:44His time was indeed running out very fast, and even with all my skills, I was powerless.
23:49In the days that followed, the atmosphere was strange, but peaceful.
23:53Charles stayed inside my humble wooden cabin, as I did my best to keep him alive.
23:58We rarely spoke to each other anymore, leaving the room in a heavy silence.
24:03While I mixed medicine, he just quietly watched the lake or my back.
24:07Two bodyguards in disguise stayed nearby, hiding in the shadows to protect him.
24:12Isolde came to visit him, looking much thinner than she did before.
24:16Her expensive clothes could not hide how exhausted and broken she truly felt.
24:20When she saw the scene inside the house, the light in her eyes finally went out.
24:25She didn't make a scene or scream.
24:26She just stood silently by the door.
24:29She watched Charles from a distance, with tears streaming down her pale face.
24:33Charles looked at her with nothing but guilt, knowing he had caused her so much pain.
24:39Isolette, I am so sorry.
24:41I have wasted so much of your life.
24:44Please go back home now, and try your best to forget me.
24:48Isolde finally left the cabin in tears, realizing that Charles never belonged to her.
24:53Charles' health continued to get much worse, as he coughed up blood more often.
24:58He spent most of his time drifting in and out of a very long sleep.
25:02When he was awake, he seemed to have a bit more energy.
25:05He would chat about everyday things, carefully avoiding any heavy or painful topics.
25:11After a rainstorm one autumn afternoon, he suddenly seemed to feel much better.
25:17He leaned by the window, watching the rain wash the entire world clean.
25:22Helena.
25:22He called out to me softly, his voice barely louder than a whisper.
25:26Rather a next life.
25:28They're mine.
25:28Let's not have a next life.
25:29He smiled at me, and his smile was very gentle and kind.
25:33And if ending this life like this, it shouldn't make out what can't affect.
25:36He looked like the young man who first woke up in the mountains.
25:38I am so sorry.
25:40You have to watch me die again.
25:43I stopped mixing the medicine, my hands starting to tremble slightly.
25:47Don't cry.
25:48He whispered, looking at me with such gentle eyes.
25:51This time, please, do not shed any more tears for me.
25:54Only then did I realize that my tears were already falling down.
25:58He struggled to raise his hand, wanting to wipe the tears from my face.
26:02But before he could touch me, his arm fell back down without any strength.
26:06I reached out to grab his hand, and he used his last bit of power to hold mine.
26:10He took one final look at me, his gaze lingering for a long, quiet moment.
26:15Forget me, and go away.
26:18Be the free and great doctor you always wanted to be.
26:22His eyes slowly drifted shut, with a smile of true relief on his lips.
26:26All the life left his body, as he let go of the world forever.
26:30The rain tapped against the roof, and the damp air was filled with the scent of flowers.
26:34He had lost his very last spark of life, leaving me alone in the quiet room.
26:39I just sat there silently, holding his cold hand in mine.
26:43I let my tears fall without a sound, watching the man I once loved and hated.
26:48He finally got his wish, dying in a place where I was by his side.
26:52I watched him finish his journey, after traveling through two long lifetimes.
26:57The bodyguards eventually came inside, to take care of everything that was left.
27:01I didn't ask them where they would take Charles' body.
27:04Those things no longer matter to me, as I prepared to move on with my life.
27:08I thought that this was the end, but I realized that I was completely wrong.
27:12Three months after Charles passed away, news finally reached my small, quiet town.
27:18Mr. Charles had died from his injuries, and the entire nation was now in deep mourning.
27:24At the same time, a secret order reached my ears.
27:28Charles' younger brother became the new president, and he ordered a hunt for me.
27:32They called me a murderer, accusing the local healer of killing President's son.
27:37Charles' death caused a massive wave of shock throughout the entire nation.
27:42The congressman believed President's son was murdered, and I was the prime suspect.
27:47Isolde completely broke down after seeing that Charles was with me before he died.
27:51She claimed I poisoned President's son, out of a twisted sense of broken love.
27:56How incredibly ironic this was.
27:58In my past life, I died for him, heartbroken by his final letter to me.
28:04In this life, I was facing execution for the crime of trying to save him.
28:09Rafe found me and shouted,
28:11Dr. Maeve, you have to run now!
28:13They have already sent men to catch you.
28:14You must leave this place immediately.
28:16Where exactly could I go?
28:18The soldiers are everywhere now.
28:19Go to the northern desert, or even beyond the western seas.
28:22President's son ordered me before he died to keep you safe at any cost.
28:26This is the very last thing that he truly owes to you.
28:29There is no need.
28:31I am tired.
28:32Dr. Maeve!
28:33Thank you, but say no more.
28:35Your duty was to protect President's son, not to worry about me.
28:40Now that he is gone, you are finally a free man.
28:44He looked at me with complex emotions before turning and vanishing into the night.
28:50I did not try to run away.
28:53Three days later, the soldiers surrounded my small wooden cabin by the lake.
28:57Now I am just waiting to hear the final judgment against me.
29:01The charge was the murder of President's son, and I didn't say a single word to defend myself.
29:06I let them bind my hands tightly as they began the long journey back to the capital.
29:12On the road, I saw many familiar faces watching me from the sides of the path.
29:18Soldiers I once treated and local healers all stared at me with pity and confusion.
29:23Some people tried to step forward for me, but the soldiers quickly pushed them all back.
29:29The dungeon was cold and very damp, where I sat in a special cell awaiting my fate.
29:35Isolde came to visit me just one time, wearing a simple dress with red, swollen eyes.
29:41He asked me,
29:43Are you satisfied now?
29:44Her voice cold and filled with bitter resentment.
29:47Charles broke off our engagement for you, and he spent his days miserable and alone.
29:52In the end, he died because of you.
29:55Are you happy with what you have done?
29:57I looked at her with nothing but pity, feeling sorry for the woman standing before me.
30:02Do you truly love him as a man, or do you just love the title of the First Lady?
30:06Her expression changed instantly at my words.
30:08What kind of nonsense are you talking about?
30:11I asked her.
30:12If he wasn't President's son, would you still be this obsessed with him?
30:17If he were just a simple villager, would you have waited for him all these years?
30:23Isolde was speechless, unable to find an answer, while I remained perfectly calm in my cell.
30:28I loved him once.
30:30I told her quietly.
30:31I loved the man who was a wounded villager, and the boy with the clear, honest eyes.
30:37But that man died at that very moment that he chose to become President's son again.
30:42The man you love, and the man I loved, have never truly been the same person.
30:47Isolde backed away in a total daze, then turned and fled from the dark dungeon.
30:51I doubt you sometimes.
30:52But that man can't just hide away.
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