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00:00I took an arrow from my husband. It pierced deep, damaged my organs.
00:04I got shipped off to a country estate down south to heal.
00:06Four years.
00:08When I finally came home, another woman was living my life.
00:11My son relied on her.
00:13My daughter adored her.
00:14My mother-in-law praised her.
00:16And my husband?
00:17He whispered her name in my ear when we were in bed.
00:20I snapped.
00:21I raised help.
00:22So they got rid of me.
00:23Clean and easy.
00:25Like I was the problem all along.
00:27And their perfect little family lived happily ever after.
00:30As a ghost, I watched them for 20 years.
00:32Watching what came for them in the end.
00:34And then I woke up.
00:36Right on the road home.
00:37I was back.
00:40Don't take me home yet.
00:41Take me to the palace.
00:42I'm seeing the queen mother first.
00:46My name is Olivia Shaw.
00:47I'm the orphan daughter of a fallen war hero.
00:50My dad died in battle when I was 9.
00:52The queen mother took pity on me.
00:54She brought me into the palace and raised me like her own.
00:57I got married at 16.
00:58By 18.
01:00I had twins.
01:01A boy and a girl.
01:02My marriage to Ethan Barone was perfect.
01:04Or so I thought.
01:06When the twins turned 6, I went on a royal hunt with Ethan.
01:09That day, the third prince pulled a bow on him.
01:11He smiled like it was a joke.
01:13But his eyes said something else.
01:15So I stepped in front of Ethan.
01:17The arrow hit me instead.
01:18It wrecked my insides.
01:20I was badly hurt.
01:21And yes, I used it.
01:23I cried in front of the king.
01:25I cried in front of the queen mother.
01:27I made sure they saw every bit of my pain.
01:29The third prince got hammered for it.
01:31My husband's family had backed the second prince for years.
01:34My injury lit a fire.
01:35The king turned cold on the third prince.
01:38My father's old men in the army also turned on him.
01:40The second prince's path to the throne got a whole lot cleaner.
01:44Olivia, that wound isn't healing anytime soon.
01:48The third prince hates us now.
01:50So let's finish this.
01:52Let's use this chance to bury him for good.
01:54I believed him.
01:55I thought we were one team.
01:57One name.
01:58One future.
01:59His win was my win.
02:01His shame was mine too.
02:02So for the bigger plan, I had to disappear.
02:05I had to stay far from London.
02:06Heal somewhere quiet.
02:10Three years.
02:11Maybe five.
02:12Long enough for the court to keep using my injury as a weapon.
02:15Long enough for the second prince's people to keep dragging the third prince through the mud.
02:19So I went.
02:20To the southern estate.
02:21And when the second prince was finally named heir.
02:24Ethan still didn't send for me.
02:26Not right away.
02:27That was when the dread hit.
02:28Something was wrong.
02:30And when I finally got home, I found out the truth.
02:32My place had already been filled.
02:34This time, after being reborn, I went to see the queen mother first.
02:37She was the only person in the world who had ever truly loved me.
02:40I'm better now.
02:42She took my hand and held it tight.
02:44That's all I wanted to hear.
02:46You're back.
02:47Come see me often.
02:49Don't leave me worrying like this.
02:50I won't.
02:53Before I left, I quietly slid the gold bracelet from my wrist.
02:56And tucked it deep into the cushions.
02:58Right into her favorite armchair.
03:00Her throne.
03:00It had belonged to my birth mother.
03:02The queen mother had put it on me with her own hands.
03:05She knew what it meant to me.
03:06She knew I never took it off.
03:08I got back to the Barone estate late in the afternoon.
03:10The sun was dropping.
03:12Golden light broke through the trees and scattered across the yard.
03:14My husband was there.
03:15My kids, too.
03:17They were all gathered around my mother-in-law.
03:21Every single face looked surprised.
03:23And behind them stood a woman in a soft lilac dress.
03:26Pretty.
03:26Gentle looking.
03:28Sweet in that careful, polished way.
03:30Olivia?
03:31Why are you home today?
03:33As she hurried over and grabbed my hand.
03:35The house manager never sent word.
03:38It's my home.
03:39I don't need a formal announcement to walk into it.
03:42Right, mum?
03:44Ethan stepped up next.
03:46Asked about the trip.
03:47Asked if the road was rough.
03:49Then my twins came over.
03:50Ten years old now.
03:51They greeted me properly.
03:53All polished manners and distance.
03:55Olivia.
03:56You haven't met her yet.
03:57This is Lana.
03:59I hired her to teach Sophie Needlework.
04:03My name is Lana Brooks.
04:05It's a pleasure to meet you, Mrs. Barone.
04:07She was my mother-in-law's distant niece.
04:09A widow.
04:10She'd come to stay after her husband died.
04:13She was amazing with embroidery.
04:15Even better in the kitchen.
04:16And with those two things, she had won over my entire family.
04:20No need to be so formal.
04:22Thank you for looking after Sophie while I was away.
04:25Mum!
04:26You have no idea how great Aunt Lana is!
04:29I gently smoothed her hair back.
04:31You can tell me all about it later, sweetheart.
04:33In my last life, I noticed it right away.
04:36How every person in that house had a soft spot for Lana.
04:38How none of them were really mine anymore.
04:40And I let it show.
04:42My face turned cold.
04:43The whole house froze.
04:44By the first night, everything had already gone bad.
04:47Not this time.
04:48This time, I smiled.
04:50I joked with them.
04:51I sat through dinner like nothing was wrong.
04:54After dinner, Ethan was clearly on edge.
04:56Restless.
04:57Distracted.
04:58Like his mind was somewhere else.
05:00I knew why.
05:01By now, he had already slept with Lana.
05:03And tonight?
05:04He wanted her.
05:05Not me.
05:06So I made it easy for him.
05:08I'm wiped out from the trip.
05:09I want to turn in early.
05:11Could I trouble you to sleep in the studio tonight, Duke?
05:14His face changed on the spot.
05:16He looked relieved.
05:17Thrilled.
05:18Almost.
05:20Of course.
05:21Get some rest, Olivia.
05:23I slept well that night.
05:24The next morning, I picked my moment.
05:26And then I blew it all up.
05:30At breakfast, Lana was there again.
05:32Still standing by my mother-in-law.
05:34Still serving her like she ran the house.
05:36We had barely finished eating when a servant rushed in.
05:39And announced that someone from the palace had arrived.
05:41That was my moment.
05:42I let the bowl slip from my hand.
05:44It smashed cardigans before.
05:46Everyone stared at me.
05:47My mother-in-law frowned.
05:49Ethan frowned too.
05:50Neither of them got it yet.
05:51I stood up and said it loudly.
05:53I'm the wife of this house.
05:55If my husband is taking a mistress, why was I the last to know?
05:58And if mom doesn't see me as her daughter-in-law anymore, then fine.
06:02Hand me divorce papers.
06:04I never should have come back.
06:06The whole room went dead.
06:07My son, Mason, spoke up like some tiny little judge.
06:11Mom, you smashed a bowl in front of dad and grandma.
06:14This is embarrassing.
06:16My daughter looked stunned.
06:17Mom, who's been filling your head with this stuff?
06:21You've got Lana all wrong.
06:23Olivia, you are way too spoiled.
06:25Is this really how the queen mother raised you?
06:28Only Ethan caught on fast.
06:29He walked over to me at once.
06:31Soft voice.
06:32Calm face.
06:34Olivia, maybe being home again feels strange.
06:36Maybe you didn't sleep well.
06:38It's just a bowl.
06:39That's nothing.
06:40Then he shot a look at the staff.
06:41At the same time, he tried signaling his mother and Lana.
06:44But they weren't quick enough.
06:46When did I say who the mistress was?
06:50That stopped them cold.
06:52Because that was the problem.
06:53Everybody in that house knew about Ethan and Lana.
06:56Everybody.
06:57Even my children.
06:58And right then, the queen mother seen your lady in waiting.
07:01Mrs. Gable walked in and saw the whole thing.
07:03I had people waiting at the front gate.
07:05The second the servant went to announce her, they let her right in.
07:09She stepped inside and looked around.
07:10What is going on here?
07:13My lady, were you wronged?
07:15Tears instantly sprang to my eyes.
07:17I didn't know someone else had taken over this household.
07:20Last night, my bedding was damp.
07:22I tried to have it changed, but I couldn't find anyone.
07:24I'm not used to being treated this way.
07:27So I barely slept.
07:29This morning, my hands gave out.
07:31And I dropped a dish.
07:32And now the Duke and Lady Barone think I'm throwing a fit.
07:35I swear I'm being framed here.
07:38Mrs. Gable looked at every face in that room.
07:40My mother-in-law wasn't stupid.
07:42Not really.
07:43She realized it then.
07:45It's all a misunderstanding.
07:47I took an arrow for my husband and left to recover.
07:51My mother-in-law wasn't in great health, so yes.
07:54Of course, I can understand bringing in help to run the house.
07:57But if she's been brought in as a concubine, why was I never told?
08:01Why keep it quiet?
08:02Why hide it from everyone?
08:05I took a shaky breath.
08:06I came home completely in the dark.
08:08If I hadn't seen the house keys on her, I would have thought she was just some guest.
08:12And once people call me jealous, who do they blame?
08:16They blame the Queen Mother for raising me wrong.
08:18Mrs. Gable, this is on me.
08:21I'm the fool here.
08:23Her face changed on the spot.
08:26Dark.
08:27Cold.
08:28Angry.
08:29And Ethan, my mother-in-law, and Lana all looked sick.
08:32Because now they were trapped.
08:34If Lana wasn't a mistress, why was she holding the house keys?
08:37Why was she acting like the lady of the house?
08:39And if she was a mistress, why had they kept the legal wife in the dark?
08:43I didn't keep screaming.
08:44I just cried.
08:46Then I went back to the palace with Mrs. Gable.
08:48Mrs. Gable had actually come that morning to return my gold bracelet.
08:51The Queen Mother knew I'd lost it.
08:53She'd worry.
08:54So she sent it over first thing.
08:56And that gave me exactly what I needed.
08:58A witness.
08:59Just my word alone would never have been enough.
09:01I learned that the hard way in my last life.
09:03Especially with Ethan.
09:05He was born to a sophist.
09:07He could twist the truth into a lie.
09:09If nobody from the Queen Mother's side spoke for me.
09:11Every ugly label would land on my head.
09:13Jealous wife.
09:15Unstable.
09:16Ungrateful.
09:17Before long, my name would be trash all over London.
09:19And after I died, people cheered.
09:22They praised Lana instead.
09:24Called her kind.
09:25Called her loyal.
09:26Said she and Ethan were perfect together.
09:28Now Ethan had to explain one thing.
09:30Why, after his lawful wife took an arrow for him and got sent away to heal,
09:34there was suddenly another lady of the house running his estate?
09:37I went with Mrs. Gable to the Queen Mother's palace.
09:39The second she saw me, she pulled me close.
09:42This time, she didn't say what she'd said before.
09:44She didn't remind me that I had chosen Ethan myself.
09:46She didn't say she'd never liked him much.
09:49She only said this.
09:50If you've been hurt, then stay here a few days.
09:53A daughter of the Shaw family does not get trampled by the baronies.
09:57In my last life, she told me to leave him.
10:00She told me to get a divorce.
10:01I refused.
10:03Divorce meant my husband didn't want me.
10:05My kids didn't want me.
10:06I couldn't swallow that.
10:08I had to fight.
10:09I had to beat them all.
10:10So I stayed, and it killed me.
10:13When I died, only one person truly cried for me.
10:15The Queen Mother.
10:17Back then, I never fully believed her love was real.
10:19She was ruthless.
10:21Sharp.
10:21The kind of old woman who could wipe out a whole bloodline and sleep just fine after.
10:25So how much could she really care about me?
10:27I thought it was politics.
10:29A show.
10:30A way to keep my father's old allies loyal.
10:32But after 20 years as a ghost, I watched her.
10:35And every time my name came up, she cried.
10:37People can get attached to a cat after enough years.
10:40Then what about me?
10:41I was beautiful.
10:43Obedient.
10:44Raised by her own hand.
10:45She really did love me.
10:49I asked for a divorce.
10:51And I wasn't leaving empty-handed.
10:52When I got married, endless chests filled with the finest treasures.
10:56Lustrous silks, exquisite jewelry, ornaments of gold and jade.
10:59Every last one bestowed by the Queen Mother herself.
11:02Try her best.
11:03Give me everything.
11:04I wanted all of it back.
11:06Every last piece.
11:07The Buranus shut that down fast.
11:09My mother-in-law went to the palace in tears.
11:12She said I had it all wrong.
11:14Lana is just a widowed relative with nowhere else to go.
11:17She is not a mistress.
11:18And Olivia, she wants a divorce.
11:20Just because she can't allow her husband another woman, she's also hurting her own reputation.
11:25In her mind, a good wife should help bring in more women.
11:28More women meant more children.
11:30More children meant a stronger family line.
11:32So no, according to her, that was not a valid reason for divorce.
11:35I lowered my eyes.
11:37Thought for a second.
11:39You're right.
11:40Ethan came to the palace himself and brought me home.
11:42The Buranus family sent Lana away.
11:44But after I came back, the whole house turned heavy.
11:47No one laughed.
11:48No one breathed easy.
11:50My mother-in-law even got so worked up that she fell sick.
11:53Then one day, my son, Mason, came to me and said,
11:56Mom, Grandma's sick.
11:57Go make her something to eat.
12:01I don't know how to cook.
12:03Aunt Lana always made good food.
12:04Grandma got better every time she ate what Lana made.
12:07Not just Grandma.
12:08When I got sick, Aunt Lena stayed by my bed.
12:11Where were you?
12:13I was out helping your father climb the ladder.
12:15I took an arrow for him.
12:17I let that injury become a weapon for the crown prince.
12:20Without the story of Lady Olivia was badly wounded and never fully healed,
12:23why would your grandfather's old military allies turn against the third prince?
12:26And why are they slowly moving towards the crown prince instead?
12:29My son froze.
12:31He was 10.
12:32He'd studied enough to understand a little about imperial power struggles.
12:35In my last life, I couldn't bear to tear the mask off his father in front of him.
12:40I never told him what kind of man Ethan really was.
12:42How hungry he was for power.
12:44How far he would go.
12:46So Mason blamed me instead.
12:47He said I was jealous.
12:49Small-minded.
12:50That I couldn't make room for another woman.
12:52What if Lana really had become Ethan's second wife?
12:55So what?
12:56In families like ours, men had women everywhere.
12:59Compared to other powerful men, Ethan already looked loyal.
13:02Already looked restrained.
13:03Why should he be expected to belong to me alone?
13:06But this life?
13:07I don't care anymore.
13:08How my son sees me means nothing now.
13:10So I told him the truth.
13:12All of it.
13:13His face went red.
13:14Don't use the royal family to make yourself sound important.
13:17I didn't even flinch.
13:18If you don't believe me, go to the estate.
13:21Ask the manager.
13:22Go ask what your father was doing while your grandmother was sick.
13:27Or if he was sneaking around with your precious Aunt Lana.
13:30He spun around and stormed out.
13:32My daughter, Sophie, took it even harder.
13:35She wasn't angry like her brother.
13:36She just looked hurt.
13:38Mom, I promised the Queen Mother I'd give her a lace embroidery piece.
13:42For her 50th birthday.
13:44You can't do it without Aunt Lana.
13:46Is she teaching you?
13:47Or is she doing it for you?
13:49She's teaching me.
13:50She's not the only person in the world who can do that.
13:53My daughter shook her head.
13:55But the one I'm making now is special.
13:57Only Aunt Lana knows this pattern.
13:59It's one of a kind.
14:00That's how I make the Queen Mother happy.
14:02I almost laughed.
14:04You're my daughter.
14:06You could hand the Queen Mother a scrap of old cloth.
14:09And she'd still be happy.
14:11If you weren't, you could stitch a miracle.
14:13And she still wouldn't care.
14:14The palace is full of master artist.
14:17You think she's lacking embroidery?
14:20Mom, you can't talk about Aunt Lana like that.
14:23When Lana talks herself up, you don't notice.
14:25But the second I tell the truth, suddenly I'm the cruel one?
14:28My son was foolish.
14:29My daughter was naive.
14:31Just like I used to be.
14:32So be it.
14:34Whatever bond one had with them, I leave it to fate now.
14:36I brushed the sleeve of my dress flap.
14:38Once the divorce is done, I'll leave instructions with the estate manager.
14:42He can look after the children here and there.
14:44I'll leave them enough money to live on.
14:46Enough to get them to adulthood.
14:48Enough to see them married.
14:49I'll do what a mother is supposed to do.
14:51They are still my children.
14:53But beyond that?
14:54I expect nothing.
14:55When I first left home, the twins were six.
14:58Old enough to know me.
14:59Old enough to remember.
15:01I had left trusted people behind to care for them.
15:03But by the time I came back, my people around them had been replaced.
15:06My mother-in-law did that.
15:08The people loyal to me had started clashing with the people loyal to her.
15:11And she was never going to let my side stay.
15:14So the people around my children changed.
15:16And then their hearts changed.
15:17But that's fine.
15:19I'm not clinging anymore.
15:20If this is all the fate I get with them, then that's all it is.
15:25I was waiting for the right reason to leave him.
15:27A reason no one could argue with.
15:29And I knew it was coming.
15:31Soon.
15:32Just like the last time.
15:33By the first day of September.
15:35I had been back at the Barone estate for three months.
15:38That morning, my mother-in-law got up early.
15:40And said she was going to the church to pray.
15:42She didn't ask me to come.
15:44Didn't ask the kids either.
15:45She only wanted Ethan to take her.
15:47The second they left, I called for my son and daughter.
15:50I'm taking you somewhere.
15:52My daughter was a little scared of me now.
15:54Her grandmother had been telling her.
15:56I was jealous and mad.
15:58And Sophie had believed it.
15:59Where are we going?
16:00Already sounding hostile.
16:02To pray.
16:02His face hardened.
16:04Grandma and dad just left for that?
16:05And now you suddenly want to go?
16:07What are you trying to do?
16:09I'm not going.
16:10You're full of trick.
16:11My daughter just stood there.
16:13Unsure.
16:13So I gave them a better reason.
16:15It's not just me going.
16:17Princess Anne will be there too.
16:19I thought I'd introduce you to her son.
16:21I heard you've been dying to learn spear work from him.
16:23Princess Anne was my older cousin.
16:25For years older than me, her son was everything boys his age dreamed of being.
16:29Built like he was born for battle.
16:30He trained with top masters.
16:32His spear work was famous.
16:34People talked about it all the time.
16:36He'd even beaten the royal marshal champion once.
16:38Or maybe the champion had thrown him a little glory.
16:40Either way, my son had wanted to know him for a long time.
16:43But while I was gone, Princess Anne's household barely gave Mason the time of day.
16:46Then I turned to my daughter.
16:48Sophie, do you want to meet Princess Anne?
16:50She's one of the Queen Mother's favorites.
16:53That got her.
16:54My son hesitated.
16:55Then finally nodded.
16:56Once we met up with Princess Anne, we all climbed into her massive carriage.
17:00It was huge.
17:01The kind only true royalty could get away with.
17:03And my son got exactly what he wanted.
17:04He saw the young lord he admired.
17:06And just like that, he was grinning.
17:08Then the carriage turned.
17:09Not toward the church.
17:11Toward the country estate.
17:14Olivia, where exactly are we going?
17:16There's an estate nearby that belongs to my family.
17:18We're just stopping by.
17:20I need to deal with with something.
17:21What kind of something?
17:22I leaned against her shoulder and smiled like I was still 16.
17:25Come on, Anne.
17:26Be nice to me.
17:27Your kids are practically grown.
17:30And you still know how to play spoiled.
17:32My daughter watched us and looked a little jealous.
17:34My son just stared at me, like he couldn't believe what he was seeing.
17:37He probably thought I meant nothing in the royal family anymore.
17:40That's what Ethan had told him.
17:42Then we reached the estate.
17:43We all got out.
17:44And walked straight into a private courtyard.
17:47The door opened.
17:48And there she was.
17:49A beautiful woman with the slightest roundness at her belly.
17:52Pregnant.
17:53My mother-in-law was holding her hand.
17:55Talking to her softly.
17:56And Ethan was standing right there beside them.
17:58Supporting her like she was something precious.
18:00Everyone froze.
18:02Everyone except me.
18:03I stepped forward and made my face go blank with shock.
18:05Lady Baron?
18:06Ethan?
18:06What's this?
18:07Then I reached for Lana's belly.
18:09Ethan reacted on instinct.
18:11He shoved my hand away.
18:12So I let myself fall.
18:14Hard.
18:14I cried out as I hit the ground.
18:16Inside my sleeve, I already had a shard of broken glass hidden and ready.
18:19The second I went down, I pressed it into my palm.
18:22It sliced right through.
18:23Princess and Rush to help me up.
18:25Then she turned on Ethan with fire in her eyes.
18:27Are you out of your mind?
18:28You lay hands on your lawful wife in front of me?
18:31Do you have any respect left for the king?
18:33And the queen mother!
18:36I acted like I couldn't take one more second.
18:39I stumbled to my feet and ran for the door.
18:41Princess and came after me.
18:42Her son stepped in front of Ethan and blocked him when he tried to follow.
18:45Back in the carriage, blood was pouring down my hand.
18:48The glass was still buried in the flesh.
18:50I clenched my jaw.
18:51Grabbed it.
18:52And ripped it out.
18:53Blood burst out fast.
18:55Like a faucet turned full open.
18:57Princess and watched me and said,
18:58You owe me for this.
19:00I looked up at her.
19:01I'll never forget what you did for me.
19:03She nutted.
19:04Divorcing him means you lose.
19:05If I were you, I'd stay.
19:07I'd drag every one of them through hell.
19:09I'd see who breaks first.
19:10You're being too soft.
19:11I gave her a bitter smile.
19:13Honestly, that's what most women would say.
19:15If you betray me, I'll burn everything down.
19:18You drown, I drown.
19:19Nobody walks away clean.
19:21But I already died once.
19:22This time, I choose to live.
19:24The only person who ever truly cared about me.
19:26I don't want her sitting there crying.
19:29Not every time my name comes up.
19:30I don't want the queen mother blaming herself.
19:33Saying she should have stopped me from marrying that piece of trash.
19:35Saying my whole life was her one mistake.
19:37She was fearless her entire life.
19:39And I was the one crack in all of that.
19:41My death only did two things.
19:42It broke the people who loved me.
19:44And made my enemies very, very happy.
19:48In my past life, when I came back to the house, I blew up.
19:52The Burana sent Lana away then.
19:54I knew where she was.
19:55At the country estate.
19:56And I knew she was pregnant.
19:58She made sure I knew.
20:00She had people leak it to me on purpose.
20:02I also knew that on September 1st, Ethan used the same excuse as before.
20:05He said he was taking his mother to pray.
20:08Instead, the two of them went to see Lana.
20:10Last life, I followed them in secret.
20:12The second I saw Lana's belly, I lost it.
20:15I wanted to drag that filthy pear straight to the queen mother.
20:17Then my mother-in-law panicked.
20:19She faked a fall.
20:21There was a broken piece of glass on the ground.
20:23Her hand got cut.
20:24And Ethan said I did it.
20:26In this kingdom, if a wife harms her husband's mother, she can be charged.
20:30So Ethan and his mother went to the queen mother first.
20:33They said they were willing to keep it a secret.
20:35As long as I stopped making a scene.
20:37The queen mother told me again to divorce him.
20:39I still said no.
20:40I wanted to fight.
20:42Back then, I was pure rage.
20:44I wanted to sink my teeth into them.
20:46Just to kill them.
20:47But rage makes people stupid, and stupid people lose.
20:50So this time, I changed the board.
20:52I asked Princess and to help me set the trap.
20:54I made sure my children saw the truth with their own eyes.
20:57And yes.
20:58I borrowed my mother-in-law's old trick.
21:00Now the whole city was saying one thing.
21:02Beat his lawful wife over a mistress.
21:08For days, the censor's office was buried in complaints against Ethan.
21:12In the previous life, Lana had that baby in secret.
21:15Outside the family.
21:16Later, they brought the child back under some fake title.
21:19An adopted son.
21:20Lana was never made a concubine.
21:22Never named a mistress.
21:24Not on paper.
21:25And after I died, Ethan married her.
21:27That was the real plan all along.
21:29Because by law, a concubine can't be raised to a wife.
21:32A mistress can't become the legal wife either.
21:34If he had tried that openly, he could have gone to prison.
21:37So no, they didn't protect Lana's status for my sake.
21:40They protected it for hers.
21:42I should have understood that from the start.
21:44People like that are not worth fighting to the death over.
21:46The censors hammered Ethan for two months.
21:48Even the king got sick of it.
21:50So he asked what I wanted.
21:52By then, I had already moved out of the Barone estate.
21:54I was living back at my old family residence.
21:57The Shaw estate.
21:58It had been kept up.
22:00A few elderly staff still guarded it.
22:01People who remembered me from before I was handed off as a bride.
22:05Ethan came to see me there.
22:06Once, he had been the kind of man girls fell for on sight.
22:09Tall.
22:10Polished.
22:11Beautiful in that cold, clean way.
22:13I fell for him fast.
22:14Now he looked stripped down.
22:16Gaunt.
22:17His cheekbones were sharp enough to cut.
22:21Olivia, can you stop doing this?
22:23I just looked at him.
22:25I'll make Lana a concubine.
22:26I'll hand her slave contract over to you.
22:28Is that enough?
22:29We're a family.
22:31That's your apology?
22:32Whether she becomes your concubine or gives birth to your bastard.
22:36Either way, it has nothing to do with me now.
22:39Then what do you want?
22:40A divorce.
22:40And I take every piece of property that came with me.
22:43You're not thinking about the children.
22:45Mason and Sophie are ten now.
22:46They'll be entering the marriage market soon.
22:49If you keep acting like this, who's going to marry into this family?
22:52Ethan, you really can talk.
22:54You slept with another woman.
22:56You hurt me.
22:57When you got into Lana's bed, did you think about their future then?
23:01Did I shove you onto her?
23:03That's not the same.
23:04Men take more than one woman.
23:05That's how the world works.
23:06I never said you couldn't.
23:08You're the head of that house, sure.
23:10But taking in a concubine doesn't only need your approval.
23:13It also needs mine.
23:15Did you ask me first?
23:16What exactly are you trying to do?
23:18He was angry now.
23:19Done pretending.
23:20My mother is sick because of this.
23:22I looked him dead in the eye.
23:23She raised a useless son.
23:25Of course she's sick.
23:26You do not get to talk about my mother like that!
23:31There you go again.
23:32Using your mother as a shield.
23:34When did I disrespect her?
23:36I was talking about you, Ethan.
23:38That was the end of that.
23:39He left angry.
23:41I let him.
23:42After that, the whole Burana started showing up one by one.
23:45My mother-in-law came first.
23:47She lasted maybe three sentences.
23:49Why she handed the household keys to Lana.
23:51Why she helped Lana buy my children's loyalty.
23:54And suddenly she had nothing left to say.
23:56Then the children came.
23:57I put on my mother voice and gave them one warning.
24:00If you won't stand with me, then don't call yourselves good children.
24:04If that's how you want it, maybe we should cut ties now.
24:07The last one to come was Lana.
24:08Her belly was flat.
24:10She looked pale.
24:11Fragile.
24:12Like grief itself.
24:13The second she saw me, she dropped into tears.
24:16My lady!
24:17I lost the baby!
24:19It's all my fault!
24:20I forgot my place!
24:22Please forgive the Duke!
24:24I'll go back to my hometown!
24:26I'll never show my face in front of you again!
24:30I looked at Lana in silence.
24:32She had that soft, harmless face.
24:34Round cheeks.
24:35Big doe eyes.
24:36The kind of face that made people drop their guard.
24:39But that was the trick.
24:40She knew exactly how to get inside people's heads.
24:43She was tough.
24:44Cold where it counted.
24:45And she never lost sight of what she wanted.
24:47She wanted one thing.
24:49To be the lady of the Barone estate.
24:51In my last life, I only found out the truth much later.
24:54She and Ethan had been in love as teenagers.
24:56But Ethan's mother thought Lana's family had fallen too far.
24:59No money.
25:00No status.
25:01No use.
25:02So she forced Lana's cousin to marry her off far away.
25:05That left a wound in Ethan.
25:06A deep one.
25:08It wasn't that he didn't like me.
25:09I was raised by the Queen Mother herself.
25:12Plenty of sons from powerful families wanted me.
25:14I was gentle.
25:15Sheltered.
25:16Easy to love on the surface.
25:18And yes, I was beautiful.
25:20What man wouldn't want me?
25:21Ethan wanted me too.
25:23In his own way.
25:24He loved me while still missing Lana.
25:26He played the devoted husband in one hand.
25:28Kept mourning his lost love with the other.
25:30And because of Lana, he even started resenting his own mother.
25:34Back then, the two of them were at each other's throats.
25:36The joke was on me.
25:37I had just married into that family.
25:39And I actually tried to fix their relationship.
25:42I thought I was helping.
25:43Lana was widowed first.
25:45That came before my injury.
25:47The second Ethan heard that her husband was dead, he was thrilled.
25:50He begged his mother to find a way to bring Lana back to the city.
25:53And just like that, he got two wins with one move.
25:56He told me to head south and recover after I got shot.
25:58Said the warmer air would help my wound heal.
26:01The second I left, his mother made her move to win back her son's heart.
26:04She used my daughter as the excuse.
26:06Said she was hiring a needlework tutor for Sophie.
26:09That was how she brought Lana into the house.
26:11Lana had lived a rough life with her late husband's family.
26:14She had already learned what it felt like.
26:16Live with no money, no power, no one backing you up.
26:19So she came back with one goal.
26:21Not to be some hidden woman.
26:22Not to be a mistress tucked out of sight.
26:24She wanted to marry Ethan for real.
26:26Right now, though, she had to play the long game.
26:29That meant getting rid of this baby.
26:31Even if it wrecked her body.
26:32Even if it meant she might never have another child again.
26:35She was still willing to do it.
26:37That was how ruthless she was.
26:38If I had even half that kind of nerve, I never would have let them kill me.
26:43Lana!
26:46I will never forgive Ethan.
26:48My lady.
26:50This is all my fault.
26:52I deserve whatever you do to me.
26:54I'll kneel.
26:55I'll beg.
26:56I'll knock my head on the floor if I have to.
26:58You could crack your skull open right here.
27:00And no one in this house would feel sorry for you.
27:02This is my family home.
27:04Everyone here answers to me.
27:06You could die on this floor and it still wouldn't buy you pity.
27:09Her lips trembled.
27:11Then she bit down on them.
27:12My lady.
27:14Please.
27:15Tell me what you want.
27:18If there's any way to solve, I'll do it.
27:21Can you turn back time?
27:24My lady.
27:25If time couldn't be reversed.
27:27Her apologies meant nothing.
27:29I already took the wrong road once.
27:30All I wanted now was to get back to the right one.
27:33You lost the baby.
27:34Do you really think Ethan won't blame me for that?
27:36If I go back now, that whole family will see me as the enemy.
27:41And you want me to go back into a house full of people who hate me?
27:44To live under their roof?
27:45To sleep among enemies?
27:48So one day if I end up dead, no one even asks why?
27:51Do I look that stupid to you?
27:54She flinched.
27:55This little act of yours?
27:57It's not for me.
27:58You're stepping back now so Ethan, his mother, will love you more.
28:01You want them to pity you.
28:03You want them to protect you.
28:05That's all this is.
28:06So all that pain, you wasted.
28:10I'm not changing my mind.
28:12I am divorcing him.
28:14Killing your own child just to clear the board.
28:16Look at my two kids, foolish and cruel.
28:18But even then, I never thought of throwing them away.
28:21That hit her.
28:22Hard.
28:23Her hands curled into fists so tight her knuckles went white.
28:25I kept going.
28:26This little sob story has gone as far as she's going to go with me.
28:29Take the tears back to Ethan and his mother.
28:31Go sell your tragedy to them still dumb enough to buy it.
28:35Don't waste another minute here.
28:37Then I called in two older housemates.
28:39I told them to take her back to the Barone estate carefully.
28:42No bumps.
28:43No bruises.
28:45No accidents.
28:46I didn't want anyone saying I touched her.
28:48At the same time, I sent someone to buy off the storyteller at the tavern.
28:52Where gossip spread faster than wildfire.
28:54I had them tell the whole thing under fake names.
28:57The great love story between Ethan Barone and Lana.
29:01The rich family.
29:02The old flame.
29:03The secret child.
29:04The betrayed wife.
29:06And that wife?
29:07That was me.
29:08The beautiful, loyal woman who took an arrow for her husband.
29:11The one who almost died for him.
29:13The one who spent four years healing while he was busy rebuilding his romance with another woman.
29:17They also talked about my father.
29:18A war hero.
29:20A good man.
29:21The kind that this country still respected.
29:23They talked about my looks.
29:25My innocence.
29:26My massive inheritance.
29:27And they shredded Ethan.
29:29People everywhere called him heartless.
29:31A traitor.
29:32A man who used love like a knife.
29:34The Barone name rotted in public for months.
29:36By the end of it, Ethan broke.
29:38He gave me the divorce.
29:39And he returned every property that came with me.
29:42The kids are not going with you.
29:43I smiled.
29:44Keep them.
29:45Take both of them.
29:45Once the love is gone, the weight is gone too.
29:47I don't waste my heart on people who never loved me back.
29:50This time, I'm choosing one thing.
29:52I'm staying alive.
29:53I'm staying alive.
29:53I'm staying alive.
29:54I'm staying alive.
29:54I'm staying alive.
29:55I'm staying alive.
29:55I'm staying alive.
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