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00:00My stepbrother's little girl was snatched by a trafficker right before my eyes.
00:04Cold rain poured down on me.
00:05I witnessed it all, but I did not intervene.
00:08I stood frozen, letting her be taken as her weak cries vanished into the storm.
00:13Nathan collapsed.
00:14Please tell me what the guy looked like.
00:17I looked right through him and I hadn't seen anything.
00:19My fiancé, Lily, hated me for it after that.
00:21She threw herself into research instead.
00:24Five years later, she'd built a memory extractor.
00:26It only worked on people who were nearly dead.
00:28To read my memories, Lily hired someone to torture me for seven days straight.
00:33Damien, you sick bastard.
00:35You let Nathan's kid get taken because you were jealous of him.
00:38Nathan's been crying himself half-bide for five years.
00:42And you've been living your best life.
00:44I'm gonna let the whole world watch me pull the truth out of you.
00:47But when the extractor showed her the trafficker's face, Lily froze.
00:51Lily had set up the live stream in her own house.
00:54The moment it went live, Nathan stumbled in.
00:56His eyes were swollen almost shut.
00:59He was sobbing like something in him had broken clean through.
01:03Damien, please.
01:05Just tell me where Sophie is.
01:07She's all I have left.
01:09I said nothing.
01:10I turned my head away.
01:11Damien, if we'd known how rotten you were inside,
01:13we never would have brought you back from that backwater.
01:17You let his baby get taken just to get back at him.
01:21What kind of person does that?
01:25I sat there like I'd melted into the chair.
01:28Eyes half open.
01:29No fight left.
01:30But that look set the comments section on fire.
01:32He is still rolling his eyes after everything.
01:35He deserved to get switched at birth.
01:37He belongs back in whatever hole they found him in.
01:39He saw the trafficker take the baby and covered for the guy.
01:42Lied to the cops.
01:43Lock him up.
01:44Lily had her arm around Nathan.
01:46She was glaring at me like she wanted me gone from the earth.
01:49But when she looked at Nathan, she didn't hide it.
01:52Pure tenderness right there on her face.
01:54Something hollow opened up inside me.
01:56All this time, it had always been Nathan.
01:58I'd been brought home at 18.
02:00The engagement to Lily happened not long after.
02:03But Lily had told me straight out.
02:05I'm warning you.
02:06Don't go looking for trouble.
02:08I love Nathan.
02:09Nathan was tied to her sister, Claire.
02:11He'd had to bury what he felt and leave it there.
02:13Six years.
02:14Lily and I had slowly grown into something real.
02:17We acted like a normal couple.
02:18Then five years ago, Nathan's daughter, not even a year old, got taken.
02:25No matter who asked me about it, I just shook my head.
02:29In the end, I became the monster who protected a child predator.
02:34After that, when Lily looked at me, it was like looking at poison.
02:39Nathan's already lost his wife.
02:42Can you really stand there and watch him lose his daughter too?
02:47Damien, just tell us what the guy looked like and I'll get you to a hospital right now.
02:51If you keep this up, I'll use the extractor on live television and let everyone see exactly who you are.
02:56The machine will amplify every bit of pain you're feeling right now by a thousand.
03:01And it'll broadcast everything.
03:03I dragged myself across the floor to her like I was nothing.
03:06Please, please, don't, don't, don't.
03:12Regretting it now?
03:14Too late.
03:16Don't read my memories.
03:18You're going to regret it.
03:20He's still trying to wriggle out of it.
03:22Lily, just run the machine.
03:24I have to find Sophie.
03:29Lily.
03:30She nodded at the security guy.
03:33He grabbed me and pinned me back in the chair.
03:35They tied my arms down with rope the width of a man's forearm.
03:38I couldn't move.
03:39They covered my head in electrode pads and set the machine on top of me.
03:43The second, the extractor switched on.
03:45Tens of thousands of volts punched into my skull.
03:48My whole body seized.
03:49I was foaming at the mouth.
03:51The comments exploded.
03:55My memories started appearing on the extractor feed.
03:57The first memory was five days after Sophie was taken.
04:00I'd been in the interrogation room for 23 hours.
04:03They finally let me go.
04:04I walked out of the police station, and someone shoved me into a van and drove me out to an
04:09abandoned factory on the edge of the city.
04:11Nathan was waiting there.
04:12There was a furnace burning behind him.
04:14You piece of trash.
04:15You covered for the guy who took my kid.
04:17He'd lost his mind completely.
04:18He grabbed a branding iron and pressed it into my chest.
04:21I screamed.
04:23The smell of burning filled the room.
04:25That wasn't enough for him.
04:26He kept going until my chest was destroyed.
04:28Then he stopped.
04:30He dusted off his hands.
04:31His guys brought in a dozen bags of salt.
04:34You want to protect a predator?
04:35Then you're going to feel this.
04:40Before I could react, he poured the salt into the wound himself.
04:44I passed out from the pain.
04:45He had them throw water on my face to wake me up, over and over, a dozen times, until
04:51he got tired of it.
04:52Finally, he had them strip me and dump me on an empty street in the middle of nowhere.
04:56Some hikers found me hypothermic.
04:58They called it in.
04:59Still breathing.
05:00I made it home.
05:01Mom and dad threw me out.
05:03If you could let a child suffer like that, you've got no place in this family.
05:07I went back to the rural town I'd come from.
05:09Found a broken down shed.
05:10Survived somehow.
05:11The comment section loved it.
05:13Nathan went too easy on him.
05:15I would have finished the job.
05:16He got five more years he didn't deserve.
05:18That is practically a gift.
05:20Even mom and dad, watching from the side, looked satisfied.
05:23Lily's eyes caught something I couldn't quite rate.
05:26Nathan tugged on Lily's sleeve.
05:27His eyes were red.
05:28Lily, you don't blame me, do you?
05:32He lost Claire's only child.
05:34I still had some stupid hope left.
05:36I shook my head at her.
05:38Everything that's happened to you, you brought on yourself.
05:41Whatever Nathan did to you, you had it coming.
05:45You owe Nathan everything.
05:47Dying wouldn't even begin to make it right.
05:51Mom and dad nodded, like she'd said something wise.
05:55The comment section called her fearless.
05:57Lily's not protecting her own fiancé.
06:00That takes real integrity.
06:01But why is he showing us this memory?
06:03Is he trying to make us feel sorry for him?
06:06Can Lily keep it together and keep running the extractor?
06:08Or is she going soft?
06:10Lily saw the comments.
06:12Her eyes went to ice.
06:13She picked up a metal rod from beside her and hit me.
06:16I cried out.
06:17The extractor shifted to her.
06:20Sophie's hundred-day celebration.
06:21The room was full of warmth and voices.
06:24Claire leaning into Nathan, glowing.
06:26The two of them looking like everything had gone right.
06:29Beside them, Lily and I with our fingers laced together.
06:32Smiling.
06:33But underneath that smile I'd been scared.
06:35I'd quietly checked Sophie's pulse.
06:37Lily tensed watching that part.
06:39The night of the celebration,
06:40Claire left for a work trip and died in a car accident.
06:44Instantly, Lily cried that night.
06:46She made herself a promise to protect Nathan and Sophie.
06:49But Sophie had been taken right in front of me.
06:51The day it happened.
06:52The rain was coming down hard.
06:56Lily and Nathan stood in the downpour and demanded over and over that I tell them what the guy looked
07:01like.
07:01I didn't see him clearly.
07:04Nathan cried until he fainted.
07:06Lily caught him and held him.
07:07The way she looked at me then.
07:09I've never forgotten it.
07:10He grabbed my shirt and screamed right in my face.
07:13You showed Sophie's party, really?
07:14You think this makes me feel sorry for you?
07:16Dream on!
07:17The comment section wore.
07:18Keep going.
07:18Some were telling him to keep going.
07:20Punch him. Show us the real memory.
07:20I couldn't hold on anymore.
07:22Blood came up.
07:24Lily flinched and took two steps toward me.
07:27Nathan pointed at me and shouted.
07:29Props.
07:30He had a blood packet in his mouth.
07:31He planned this.
07:32Lily looked disgusted.
07:34Manipulative to the end.
07:35The comments piled on.
07:37Lily nodded at the guard.
07:39He turned the voltage up.
07:40A new memory goes to me.
07:45The day Sophie was taken, I was chasing the van down the road on foot.
07:49Sophie!
07:49Sophie!
07:50I ran until Lily got there.
07:52Then, I stopped.
07:53I fell against her shoulder and couldn't stop shaking.
07:56I kept saying she was gone.
07:57She was gone.
07:58Lily didn't know the truth yet.
08:00She held me and said they'd find her.
08:01They would.
08:02She drove me home.
08:03Mom and Dad took one look at me and didn't ask questions.
08:06Damien, this isn't your fault.
08:08I looked at them.
08:09I almost said something.
08:11I didn't.
08:11Back in my room, I pulled the covers over my head.
08:14The tears wouldn't stop.
08:16Sophie, please come back, okay?
08:18If you come back, I'll give up anything.
08:20Even my life.
08:20I could hear the recording of my own voice breaking.
08:23My eyes stung.
08:24The comment section slowed down.
08:26The pain in that memory looks real.
08:28What is going on?
08:29What if he genuinely didn't see who took her?
08:32Lily's face was hard to read.
08:33She was thinking.
08:34Nathan held up a medical report to the camera.
08:38He's performing.
08:40He let them take Sophie on purpose because he can't have kids.
08:46I'd known about that since the Jacobs family found me.
08:48No matter what season it was, they'd kept me in the shed out back.
08:52Years of winters had done damage.
08:54I couldn't have children.
08:55When my birth parents found out, they sold me to someone who ran an illegal operation.
09:01Useless.
09:02Can't even reproduce.
09:04What good are you?
09:05The night before the handoff.
09:07Mom and Dad showed up and got me out.
09:09Now Mom looked at the report and narrowed her eyes at me.
09:11You ruined someone else's child because God took that from you.
09:15Serves you right.
09:16The comments caught up fast.
09:18He sabotaged another man's kid because he is infertile figures.
09:22I am starting to think he arranged the whole thing.
09:24He is not just a witness.
09:26He is an accomplice.
09:28Lily's face darkened.
09:29Turn it to maximum.
09:30I want the truth.
09:31The voltage spiked before I could react.
09:34My memories started running on fast forward.
09:37The shed.
09:38The house.
09:39Me rocking Sophie to sleep.
09:40Laughing.
09:41I was already barely alive.
09:42I blacked out.
09:43The room went confused.
09:47Why isn't there a memory of him actually seeing the trafficker's face?
09:53Then the guard's voice cut through.
09:56He's out.
09:57We can't pull the memory.
09:58Lily's eyes snapped to me.
10:00He's out?
10:01She started to come over.
10:03Nathan stepped in front of her.
10:04Don't.
10:05He's faking.
10:06Lily looked at him.
10:07The worry behind her eyes got replaced with contempt.
10:09She went back to the extractor herself and turned the dial.
10:12You think you can pass on camera to hide the trafficker's face?
10:16Sophie wasn't even one year old.
10:18How did you live with yourself?
10:20The pain dragged me back.
10:22The first thing I heard was Lily's voice.
10:24It pulled me straight back to the day it happened.
10:26When she hadn't known the truth yet.
10:28When she'd asked me the same thing in the rain.
10:30Back then, everyone had wanted me to give them a name.
10:33Including Lily.
10:34But the day Nathan took me to that factory.
10:36I'd seen Lily watching from a distance.
10:39Later, she'd taken Nathan out of the country so he wouldn't have to sit in his grief.
10:43She hadn't known what was real.
10:45Before they left, she'd come to find me.
10:48Damien.
10:49I'm going to find out the truth.
10:54She did.
10:55Five years later, she came back with a machine she'd built herself.
10:58And to use it, she'd had people hurt me until I was almost gone.
11:01I could feel it.
11:03Not much time left.
11:05Lily wasn't letting up.
11:06She pulled out more electrode pads and pressed them against my neck.
11:09The guard hesitated.
11:11Miss Lily.
11:12He's at his limit.
11:13If you increase the current any further, he might-
11:15He didn't finish.
11:16Nobody needed him to.
11:17The comment section had no patience for it.
11:19He is fine.
11:20Keep going.
11:21We need to know who the trafficker is.
11:23Don't tell me you are going soft, Lily.
11:26I closed my eyes.
11:27My chest hurt in a way that had nothing to do with the machine.
11:30Nobody knew the truth.
11:31The extractor only worked on people who were dying.
11:34To pull my memories, Lily had taken me to the edge.
11:36Lily saw the comments.
11:38She pressed the button.
11:39This time, the current got into my brain.
11:41My heart skipped.
11:42The extractor kept playing back nothing.
11:44Lily's eyes filled.
11:45For the first time in five years, she dropped to her knees in front of me.
11:52Damien.
11:54Why did you do this?
11:56I spent five, five years in that lab building this machine just to clear your name.
12:01Why won't you let me?
12:03Don't you want the truth out there?
12:05Don't you want us to still have a chance?
12:06I knew she was working me.
12:08I chose to believe her anyway.
12:09I looked at her and held her face in my mind.
12:12I was out of strength.
12:13My eyes closed.
12:15The extractor screen jumped.
12:17The comment section lit up.
12:18Is that the trafficker?
12:20Lily looked up.
12:21She saw the face.
12:22And she stopped.
12:23Why does that silhouette look familiar?
12:24She said it under her breath.
12:26Mom and dad squinted at the screen.
12:28Nathan just looked confused.
12:29No matter how long he stared, he couldn't place who it was.
12:32He looked around at everyone else.
12:34Are you saying the person who took Sophie is someone we know?
12:37They all went still.
12:39That's impossible.
12:40The only person who saw the trafficker was Damien.
12:43He's right here, so he can't be the trafficker.
12:46At most, he's an accomplice.
12:48The comment section agreed.
12:50Right.
12:50Damien's just the accomplice.
12:52But why won't his memory show the face?
12:55What is he hiding?
12:56Lily scrolled the comments.
12:58They'd said exactly what she was thinking.
13:00She came and stood in front of me again.
13:07Damien, stop holding on.
13:09You've already let the memory start.
13:12Why won't you let us see the face?
13:15The security footage showed you saying goodbye to the trafficker, face to face.
13:21Nathan tightened his grip on Lily's sleeve.
13:23The comment section erupted.
13:25Lily, Sophie is all that's left of Claire.
13:29Are you really going to choose Damien over your own niece?
13:32He yelled at him.
13:33Then his legs gave out.
13:35Lily caught him.
13:36She looked at him in her arms.
13:37Whatever had been softening in her toward me was gone.
13:41Who's running the controls?
13:43I told you, Maximum.
13:45What are you doing?
13:46His eyes flicked to me for just a second.
13:49She caught it.
13:50You want to take his place?
13:51Feel free.
13:52Turning it to Max, right now.
13:55I shook so hard, the chair moved.
13:57The rope was the only thing keeping me in it.
14:03Lily, please.
14:04Talk to him just like before.
14:07When you apologized, the memory started moving.
14:09It happened.
14:10Do it again for Claire, please.
14:11Lily looked at the person she'd loved for years.
14:14Broken in front of her.
14:15She couldn't breathe.
14:19Damien, I was wrong.
14:21I shouldn't have said those things to you.
14:23But somewhere in the middle of all those years, I fell for you.
14:25Behind her, Nathan's eyes went to something dark and absolute.
14:29Mom's voice broke the silence.
14:31It changed.
14:32The memory changed.
14:34Lily spun around.
14:35The screen had shifted.
14:36But it wasn't the trafficker.
14:37It was us.
14:38Me and Lily.
14:38Every ordinary day between us.
14:40Our first date after the engagement.
14:42Lily hadn't wanted to go.
14:43It was Claire who'd pushed us together, told us to try.
14:45I'd sat in that coffee shop wound up tight with hope.
14:48Lily sat across from me with a look on her face like she'd rather be anywhere else.
14:52The comment section clocked it immediately.
14:54Honestly feel bad for her.
14:56Imagine being stuck across from someone like that on a first date.
14:59What was she thinking, agreeing to this?
15:01Nathan's always looked more like he belonged in that world anyway.
15:04Way more polished.
15:05But Lily wasn't reading the comments.
15:07She was watching the memory, lost in it.
15:09She remembered.
15:10She'd been cold to me at first.
15:12And I told her straight up I could keep my distance.
15:14You told me you love Nathan.
15:16I'm not gonna push you.
15:17But you have to respect me enough to play your part in this.
15:23She remembered the sting of that.
15:25Even after we'd set our ground rules, she'd started noticing things.
15:29Small things.
15:29And slowly, she'd fallen.
15:31The memory shifted.
15:32Our first real date.
15:33After she decided she wanted to be with me.
15:35She'd picked a Ferris wheel.
15:36I'd never been on one.
15:37When we got to the top, I was terrified.
15:39But I kept it to myself.
15:40I white-knuckled the handle and didn't say a word.
15:43Lily had watched me and laughed.
15:44Then she slid over and sat right beside me.
15:46She took my hand.
15:47Her eyes were straight and warm and completely open.
15:50Damien.
15:51I like you.
15:52Will you be with me?
15:53I'd barely processed it.
15:54She was already on her toes, kissing me.
15:57I'd been quietly in love with her for a long time.
15:59That was it for me.
16:00From that day, we were a real couple.
16:02Nathan watched the screen.
16:03His eyes went red.
16:05He grabbed a stand near the livestream equipment and smashed it.
16:07His back was to the camera.
16:10Nobody watching could see his face.
16:11But I could.
16:13That was jealousy.
16:14Clear as anything.
16:15I'd always known.
16:17After Lily and I got engaged, Nathan had come to my room late one night.
16:23Know your place, Damien.
16:25Yeah, you're the real heir.
16:27So what?
16:28You're still just a country kid who got lucky.
16:30This family needs me.
16:32Both of them belong to me.
16:33You go anywhere near Lily, I'll make you regret it.
16:35The comments section turned.
16:38Wait.
16:38Nathan said that.
16:39For real?
16:40He thought he could just have both sisters.
16:42Who does he think he is?
16:43Hold on.
16:44Lily's been this devoted to Nathan's kid for five years.
16:47What if the baby is actually Lily saw that comment and cut it off?
16:51No.
16:52That's not possible.
16:53The extractor shifted again.
16:55My memory went back to the day Sophie was taken.
16:57To the part the footage had caught.
16:59Me talking to the trafficker.
17:01The camera was steady.
17:02My face was visible.
17:04You have to take care of her.
17:05She can't come back here.
17:06The comment section forgot everything they'd been saying about Nathan 30 seconds ago.
17:10He sent her away on purpose.
17:13He actually arranged it.
17:14He is not just an accomplice.
17:16He is the one who set it up.
17:17Nathan lost it.
17:18He grabbed my collar and shook it.
17:20I knew it was you!
17:21Where is she?
17:22Give her back!
17:27I couldn't make a sound.
17:29I couldn't open my eyes.
17:30I had nothing left.
17:31You did all this just to get back at Nathan?
17:33Your own nephew's child?
17:35Even if you're our real son, the worst decision we ever made was bringing you home.
17:40You're a curse.
17:41That's what you are.
17:41I heard dad yelling.
17:43No reaction from me.
17:44Lily's response was different from everyone else's.
17:47The most furious person in the room had gone completely still staring at the screen.
17:51I forced my eyes open just for a second.
17:54Lily looked terrified.
17:56She'd recognized who the so-called trafficker was.
17:59Fine.
17:59Then there was no reason to hold back.
18:01I let go.
18:02Let the machine read whatever it wanted.
18:05The trafficker's face came through clearly.
18:07It was Lily's mother.
18:08When she saw it, Lily's voice was barely there.
18:12That is not possible.
18:13How is that my mom?
18:14After Claire died, she went abroad to recover.
18:17She would have called me if she came back.
18:19Danmaku in the comment section is popping up like crazy.
18:22Mom murmured to herself.
18:24How is this the truth?
18:25The comments had it right all along.
18:30Nathan heard that.
18:32His face drained.
18:33He rushed to the extractor.
18:35Stop.
18:35Turn it off.
18:36We know who it is.
18:37That's enough.
18:37Stop reading his memories.
18:39This time Lily saw it.
18:40The way he moved.
18:41The panic.
18:42She nodded at the guard.
18:43He stepped in front of Nathan.
18:45Lily's voice was careful when she spoke.
18:47Hold on, Nathan.
18:48I think we all need to see this.
18:50Nathan started to shake.
18:51He sank to the floor when the next memory hit the screen.
18:54I was pushing into Sophie's room.
18:56Sophie was screaming.
18:57Nathan was standing over her, something in his hand.
19:00What are you doing?
19:01Stop.
19:02She has a congenic heart condition.
19:04You'll kill her doing that.
19:05I pulled Sophie away from him and held her, talking her down.
19:09The crying slowed.
19:10Her face went from red back to something like normal.
19:13I checked her pulse.
19:14It was worse than before.
19:15I turned on Nathan.
19:17If you don't get her surgery soon, she has less than a month.
19:20Nathan laughed.
19:21Good.
19:22She's the only thing standing between me and Lily.
19:24The sooner she's gone, the better.
19:25I don't want to look at her.
19:27Every time I do, I feel sick.
19:28You taught yourself some basic medicine, right?
19:30If you're so smart, keep her alive yourself.
19:32Otherwise, she's done.
19:36The room went silent.
19:38Everyone stared at Nathan like they'd never seen him before.
19:41The comment section blew up.
19:43This can't be real.
19:44Total reversal.
19:46Damien was keeping her safe.
19:47He and Lily's mom worked together to get Sophie out.
19:50Everyone went quiet, holding their breath.
19:53Nathan had said it that same day.
19:55I reached out to Lily's mother that night.
19:57I sent her the photos I'd taken of Sophie's injuries.
20:00If you don't get Sophie out of there, she'll die.
20:03Do you really want Claire's only child to die with her?
20:06She answered on the first ring.
20:08She said yes.
20:09The day of Nathan found me in my room.
20:11Since you moved her, keep her gone.
20:13And Lily is mine now.
20:15If you tell her anything, what happened at that factory will be nothing.
20:19I heard the threat.
20:20I felt nothing.
20:21Not fear.
20:22Something closer to relief.
20:23Sophie was out.
20:24She was with someone who'd keep her safe.
20:26She'd have a good life.
20:28But everyone blamed me.
20:29And Nathan kept his eyes on me every time I thought about saying something.
20:35She'd kept her word.
20:37Five years later, she'd come back with a machine she built herself.
20:39And she'd nearly killed me to use it.
20:41The comment section had turned completely.
20:43Everything about Nathan was fake.
20:45He played the grieving father for five years.
20:48Lily's not innocent either.
20:49Her fiancé was Damien.
20:50She was all over Nathan the whole time.
20:52They're both rotten.
20:53Only Damien was real.
20:55Damien, don't die.
20:56I owe you an apology.
20:57In person.
20:58I was gone before they could give it.
20:59The ambulance reached the hospital.
21:01There were already people gathered outside from the stream.
21:04Open your eyes.
21:05I said things about you online.
21:06You don't get to die until I say it to your face.
21:09Damien, wake up.
21:12He pushed me into the trauma room.
21:14I stayed outside.
21:18Why didn't he just tell us?
21:20He carried all of that by himself.
21:23He must have been so alone.
21:26I let out a breath.
21:27When they brought me home at 18,
21:29I'd seen the way they looked at me.
21:30I knew, even if I was their real son,
21:32I was still just the kid from nowhere.
21:34Too rough.
21:35Too unknown.
21:36They'd always preferred Nathan.
21:37He looked the part.
21:39If I'd told them the truth,
21:40the best I'd have gotten was a lecture about not consulting them.
21:43They wouldn't have done anything to Nathan.
21:45I'll see you next time.
21:46No doubt.
21:46I'm glad you did.
21:48I'll see you next time.
21:48You
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