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Scarred Lady Returns, Three Kings desire my love
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00:00I'd waited three years for my wedding day.
00:02Then I was thrown into a snake pit by my fiancé and three elder brothers.
00:07Happy wedding, just so you know.
00:10I slept with your husband last night.
00:12In your bed.
00:13It was amazing.
00:15Rage blinded me.
00:16I slapped her.
00:17A second later, my new husband, Julian Thorne, slapped me back.
00:21Harper is sweet and easy.
00:24She gave up everything for you, and you still hate her?
00:28I'd rather marry anyone but you!
00:30Under their order, I was thrown into a snake pit.
00:33Day one, I thought they'd come back.
00:35Day three, I started counting the cracks in the wall.
00:38Day seven, I stopped.
00:40I was so tired.
00:41After seven days of hell, my three brothers came for me.
00:44Arthur, my oldest brother.
00:46A ruthless CEO.
00:48He kicked my leg until it broke.
00:52Harper cried all night.
00:54I've already moved all your assets to her.
00:57Silas, my second brother.
00:59An A-list actor.
01:00He twisted my arm until it dislocated.
01:03From now on, only Harper stays in the family trust.
01:07You?
01:08Never call yourself a Vance again.
01:10Declan, my youngest brother, a top surgeon.
01:13The cruelest of all.
01:14He pressed a scalpel into my stomach.
01:16Harper has kidney problems.
01:18You're giving her one of yours.
01:20Consider it payment.
01:21Before I could speak, he cut my organs out.
01:23I was awake the whole time.
01:24Then, through the pain, something shifted.
01:27Twenty years of fighting for scraps of love from people who never wanted me.
01:31Back at the orphanage, Harper locked me in the closet and stole my life.
01:34Let me out!
01:35Twenty years later, I was still paying for it.
01:37Maybe dying was the only way to finally be free.
01:40I stopped screaming.
01:42Despair and pain melted away.
01:44Now I just felt relief.
01:46Arthur and Silas were gone.
01:47Taking my kidney.
01:48In the damp, freezing snake pit.
01:51Only some...
01:54Declan frowned, annoyed, stitching me up in a hurry.
01:58If you'd just cooperated earlier, I wouldn't be doing this here.
02:01You're nothing but a hassle.
02:03One week ago, Harper got a tiny, barely visible paper cut.
02:06Declan called in his whole elite medical team, treated it like an emergency.
02:10He checked on her every three hours.
02:12Now?
02:13The hassle of closing the wound.
02:15He must have noticed I wasn't reacting.
02:17He leaned down, patted my pale cheek, and injected me with antibiotics.
02:22Stop faking.
02:23This is nothing.
02:24You really think this will make me choose you over Harper?
02:28You're so petty, Alara.
02:30Ever since you came back to this family, all you do is play these sad little games.
02:34In the past, words like that would have broken me.
02:36I would have fought back.
02:38Begged him to see I wasn't that person.
02:40Now I felt nothing.
02:41To me, death was the fastest way out.
02:44But Declan misunderstood completely.
02:46What the hell is that supposed to mean, Alara?
02:49You saying this messed up stuff just to make me feel bad?
02:52He jerked the suture hard.
02:54The raw skin tore tight.
02:56Dark blood gushed out.
02:58The pain was unbearable.
02:59When he saw me gasp, my forehead soaked with cold sweat.
03:03You're my blood sister.
03:05Do you know how long we spent looking for you?
03:07There's no way I'd let you die like this.
03:09If you weren't selfish, if you hadn't hit Harper, none of this would have happened.
03:14He finally numbed the wound.
03:17Promise you'll stop making trouble for Harper when we get back.
03:22Apologize to her, and I'll take you to the hospital.
03:26Best care.
03:27No more pain out here.
03:29Inside me, only cold, bitter mockery rose.
03:32Without a word, I lifted my hand and tore open my freshly stitched wound.
03:36Blood poured out.
03:38Alara, are you insane?
03:40You'll die!
03:43I stared at the tears in his eyes, and forced a weak smile.
03:48Death?
03:50That sounds perfect.
03:53Living even one more second makes me sick.
03:58My eyelids grew heavy.
03:59My head fell to the side.
04:01Everything went black.
04:03I didn't die.
04:05When I woke up fully, Arthur was there.
04:08You're finally awake.
04:10You're an adult, Alara.
04:12Why are you so reckless?
04:13Throwing a fit and threatening to give up over something so small.
04:17Where's your pride as a Vance?
04:19You're right.
04:21I'm a disgrace.
04:23I don't deserve to be here.
04:25His hand froze mid-air.
04:27The slap never landed.
04:29Alara Vance!
04:30Stop talking nonsense!
04:35I paid a huge price to get you out of there.
04:37Not so you can talk nonsense like this.
04:41The door opened.
04:43Declan walked in, carrying a bitter medicinal drink.
04:46Drink it.
04:48Don't make me hold you down and pour it in.
04:50No.
04:51It's a waste.
04:53You!
04:55He slammed the bowl onto the nightstand and checked my bandages.
04:59Just as I thought.
05:01The top-tier medicine really speeds up healing.
05:03Behave.
05:04If you tear this wound again, I'm not stitching you up a second time.
05:09Once I would have cried at this tiny scrap of kindness.
05:12Now I just found it deeply, profoundly ironic.
05:15I ripped my arm out of his grip, threw off the blanket, and clutched my wound.
05:19Are you out of your mind?
05:25Alara, what the hell are you doing?
05:27Leaving you.
05:29Letting me go is the best outcome for everyone.
05:32You're off the hook, and Harper can sit on her throne as the Vance Ernish.
05:37Do me a favor.
05:39Let me die quickly.
05:40My words hit a raw nerve in Arthur.
05:45I forbid it!
05:46You are the biological daughter of the Vance family.
05:51Who gave you permission to die?
05:53Declan panicked.
05:54He pressed my shoulders back against the mattress.
05:57Alara, stop.
05:59I know you're hurting, but if you just recover, I promise I'll do better.
06:04Okay?
06:04I stared at his begging eyes and found it utterly absurd.
06:07I closed my eyes.
06:08Declan tried to feed me the medicinal drink.
06:11Meanwhile, the door swung open again.
06:14Alara, thank God.
06:16You scared me half to death.
06:18When I'd first returned home, he took me out, bought me gifts,
06:20and tearfully told me how much the family had missed me all those years.
06:24His attitude flipped.
06:25Seeing him now just exhausted me.
06:27I turned my face away as he reached out to touch my cheek.
06:32Let me try.
06:33She might listen.
06:34For years I'd worshipped him, loved him with every part of me.
06:38The door opened again.
06:40Alara, I came to see you.
06:43Harper, you just had a transplant.
06:45You're still weak.
06:45Why are you up?
06:47It's all my fault.
06:49If I'd stopped you that day, none of this would have happened.
06:53I couldn't stop feeling guilty.
06:55I had to apologize.
06:58She took the bowl and sat on my bed.
07:01Alara, please.
07:02Don't be so hard on yourself.
07:04Drink your medicine.
07:05Everyone's worried.
07:06I know you blame me.
07:08But I never wanted to fight you.
07:10Everything in the Vance family is yours by right.
07:12Before the spoon touched my lips.
07:18Alara, how could you?
07:20I was only trying to help.
07:22Tears ready to fall.
07:24Alara, Vance, have you lost your mind?
07:27My hand moved to the phone hidden under my pillow.
07:30One bar of signal.
07:32Just enough.
07:33Arthur exploded.
07:34Harper came here out of kindness and this is how you repay her?
07:37Declan rushed to check Harper's reddened skin.
07:39Are you okay?
07:40Is it badly burned?
07:41Get a doctor here now!
07:43You've gone too far, Alara.
07:46Harper already apologized.
07:48When will you grow up?
07:51Can you stop being so unreasonable?
07:53You don't have to hurt her.
07:54All four crowded around Harper.
07:56Pressed against Arthur's chest.
07:59I'm fine.
08:00Please don't blame Alara.
08:01She's just upset.
08:04Once this act would have made me boil with rage.
08:06Now?
08:07I just thought it was funny.
08:09If you want to coddle her, get out.
08:11Don't ruin my room.
08:12All four stiffened in anger.
08:14You clearly haven't learned anything.
08:16Starting now, I'm cutting off your painkillers.
08:19Apologize to Harper properly, then I'll give you your medicine again.
08:23Good.
08:23Let her feel the pain.
08:25Maybe then she'll stop being so spoiled.
08:27I closed my eyes.
08:29Cut the painkillers?
08:30So what?
08:31Physical pain was nothing next to 20 years of misery.
08:34If anything, the pain would keep me awake while I waited to die.
08:37Seeing I didn't care at all, Declan stepped forward and yanked out my IV tube.
08:42The second, the excruciating pain crashed over me.
08:45My family and fiancé turned their backs.
08:48The door slammed shut.
08:49Not one of them looked back.
08:51I reached under my pillow and pulled out a small, sharp knife I'd hidden there.
08:55It's time.
08:56Get prepared.
08:57Only 15 minutes left.
09:00Out in the hallway, they'd walked far when Arthur stopped.
09:03You guys take Harper to treat her burns.
09:05I have a bad feeling.
09:06I'm going back to check Alara.
09:08Silas jumped in.
09:09Let me go.
09:10I'm closest to her.
09:11I'll talk sense into her.
09:12Are we not her real brothers?
09:13Alara needs a doctor right now.
09:14I'm going back.
09:17They're all going.
09:18As her fiancé, I have to too.
09:20Your burn's not bad.
09:21Get it bandaged.
09:22I'll check on you later.
09:22He jogged to catch up, but the second they pushed open the door, a thick, choking stench
09:28of blood hit them.
09:29I watched it on a screen, a big monitor mounted inside a moving ambulance, fed by the hidden
09:35camera Kyle had installed in my room weeks ago.
09:38The one who used to slide bread under the closet.
09:41He found me.
09:42He had gotten me out in time.
09:43A decoy in my place.
09:45Clean and quiet.
09:46The way he did everything.
09:48I lay on the gurney and watched the footage with cold, steady eyes.
09:52Arthur knelt on the floor, clutching my body.
09:55His face was soaked with tears.
09:57Alara, I'm sorry.
09:58I was wrong.
09:58Please come back.
09:59I'll do anything.
10:00Don't leave me.
10:01Please don't leave your brother.
10:02Silas crumpled to the floor.
10:03He said nothing.
10:05Just stared at my body with hollow eyes.
10:07Declan's legs gave out.
10:08He'd seen all kinds of gruesome scene, but he couldn't even step close.
10:12Alara, it's my fault.
10:14I ripped your kidney out with my own hands.
10:16I'm a monster.
10:18I deserve to die.
10:20Come back.
10:21Hit me.
10:22Curse me.
10:22Do anything.
10:23Just please don't leave me like this.
10:26Julian stood frozen, staring.
10:28Then he snapped.
10:29She's not dead.
10:31Alara isn't dead.
10:32This isn't real.
10:36She's breathing.
10:37Look, she's breathing.
10:38She's faking it.
10:38She's doing this to hurt us.
10:40She's not dead.
10:41It's not her.
10:42She's always held it against us.
10:44There's no way she'd just die like this.
10:46Don't you hate us the most?
10:47You want to see us suffer?
10:48Come out.
10:49Just then, Harper lingered at the back of the room.
10:51She slipped back two steps quietly and turned to flee.
10:55Stop.
10:55You.
10:56This is all your fault.
10:58Ah!
11:00Arthur.
11:01What are you saying?
11:03Alara's dead.
11:04I'm heartbroken too.
11:06How could you blame me?
11:08Something's not right about her death.
11:10You're not leaving.
11:11You're not going anywhere until we find out the truth.
11:14She tried to act innocent, but this time the three brothers looked at her with only suspicion.
11:19Not a single trace of pity remained.
11:21I didn't do anything!
11:22She killed herself!
11:23This has nothing to do with me!
11:25How you got adopted, or how Alara disappeared, we never dug deep.
11:28Now that she's dead, you think you can just walk away?
11:31Declan already had his phone out, dialing his security.
11:34I'm having my men keep an eye on you.
11:36Don't you dare try anything.
11:37The bodyguards closed in.
11:39Harper wanted to run, but didn't dare move.
11:42I had seen enough.
11:44Take me home.
11:46I woke up in an unfamiliar room.
11:48Clean.
11:49Quiet.
11:50The faint scent of gardenias.
11:52My body felt completely normal.
11:54No pain.
11:55No weakness.
11:56Kyle sat by the window.
11:57You've been unconscious for three days.
12:00I sat up and stretched.
12:01No surgical scars.
12:03No lingering aches.
12:04Declan's medicine, it turned out, had worked exactly as he'd promised.
12:08Twenty years of suffocating pain.
12:11And this whole time, someone had remembered me.
12:13I laughed softly and began to plan.
12:16I didn't rush.
12:17I thought it through carefully.
12:18Kyle took care of everything.
12:20A sturdy SUV.
12:22A high-rise condo right next to the city park.
12:25A new bookshelf.
12:27Easy care plans.
12:28Top quality cookware.
12:29I had never asked for any of it.
12:31He just knew.
12:32For the first time in my life, I had a real home.
12:35Sometimes I'd pull one out and read all afternoon.
12:38When I got tired, he'd come for me and take me for a walk.
12:41This time, I felt I wasn't alone.
12:44Kyle was always busy.
12:45I never asked him about his life.
12:47But it was clear.
12:48He was a powerful man now.
12:50A month later, he came to find me.
12:52He sat across from me at the kitchen table.
12:54Hands wrapped around a cup of tea.
12:56They're desperate to get you back.
12:58They'll stop at nothing.
13:00And innocent people are getting caught in the middle.
13:03How about let me handle this?
13:04I stared out the window for a long moment.
13:07I'll go back.
13:09I'll fix what they broke.
13:11This has to end.
13:13You know you don't have to do this.
13:15I know.
13:16But I need to end it properly.
13:18He looked worried, but finally agreed.
13:21Call me anytime.
13:23The guards are on standby.
13:24I was back.
13:26All three brothers rushed in.
13:27Hey, Laura!
13:28You're back!
13:29Don't you ever leave us again!
13:30Silas stood frozen by the bed.
13:32In his hands, a small tin of fruit drops.
13:34The exact kind I'd begged for at the orphanage, but could never buy.
13:38I locked that bitch Harper up.
13:40Everything she took from you, we're taking it all back.
13:43I got your kidney back.
13:45I had it transplanted.
13:46You're healthy again.
13:47Exactly like before.
13:53Is this about atoning for your sins?
13:56Or are you just scared I'll die on you again?
13:59They exchanged guilty, awkward looks.
14:01None could meet my eyes.
14:03A muffled scream came from nearby.
14:05The three of them tensed.
14:07We locked Harper, make her pray day and night, to repent for what she did.
14:11Declan walked over and pulled back a heavy curtain.
14:13Harper was chained to the wall on the other side.
14:20Alara, Vance, you're alive!
14:22They're only nice to you because you died.
14:23It's just a novelty!
14:24Give it a few months, they'll go back to choosing me.
14:27You'll always be the useless spare.
14:30Twenty years of hate and rivalry, all gone.
14:33It was just numbingly...
14:34Shut up!
14:35Alara, please stay.
14:36Everything the Vatres own is yours.
14:38The company, the estates, all of it.
14:40We'll obey your every order.
14:41We'll never let you hurt again.
14:42Alara, I was so wrong.
14:43Please, just give us a chance to make it right.
14:46From now on, we'll treat you a thousand times better than we ever treated Harper.
14:50I'll take care of you personally.
14:51I swear you'll live a long, healthy life.
14:53We know nothing can erase the past, but we'll spend our lives making it right.
14:57All these promises.
14:58This was exactly what I had begged for as a child.
15:01Back then, they'd searched the whole country for me, taken out newspaper ads, abandoned
15:07their careers, and then they gave me nothing but pain.
15:13My feelings for you weren't all fake.
15:15Harper's lies blinded me.
15:16She poisoned my ears.
15:18Said you were jealous.
15:19Said you never cared about the Vance family.
15:21The things I said at the wedding.
15:22I regretted them the second I spoke.
15:24Every day since, I've drowned in guilt.
15:26I stared at my fiancé like he was a total stranger.
15:29The man who'd slapped me two times in public.
15:33Who'd screamed he'd rather marry a dog.
15:35Now, standing here, saying his love was real.
15:39The biggest joke of all.
15:41We stood in tense silence.
15:43Then, Harper thrashed wildly.
15:45She slipped her wrists free, charged straight for me.
15:47Stop her!
15:48Bodyguards lunged, but Harper fought with a maniac.
15:51She pulled a switchblade from her clothes.
15:52If I can't have the Vance's, neither can you!
15:55Alara, I'll kill you!
15:59The blade sliced deep into his shoulder.
16:02Choked groaned.
16:03Blood poured down his shirt.
16:05Arthur!
16:08You mad woman!
16:10Don't hurt Alara!
16:11Declan and Julian rushed in, wrenched the knife away,
16:13slammed her down.
16:14The guards rushed in at once, tied her up again,
16:17and dragged her away.
16:18Arthur was still bleeding.
16:19Alara, I'm fine.
16:21As long as you're safe, I'm fine.
16:22Don't be afraid.
16:24She'll never hurt you again.
16:25I watched their show.
16:26I only found it funny.
16:27Harper was locked tight, chained in heavy cuffs.
16:30How did she slip free?
16:31She hid a switchblade?
16:32With the Vance's power and security?
16:34They must have known.
16:35You knew she'd escape.
16:36You knew she had a knife, didn't you?
16:38The three brothers froze.
16:39Their faces went stiff.
16:40You let her go on purpose, to stage a rescue.
16:42You wanted me to watch you bleed,
16:44to pity you, to believe you changed.
16:48We hurt you too badly.
16:49We just wanted to prove we mean it.
16:50We're scared to lose you again.
16:52I saw their guilt, maybe real, but it didn't touch me.
16:54The scars run deep.
16:55You do this to ease your own guilt.
16:57This isn't redemption, it's selfish.
16:59No, Alara, we care.
17:01We regret it all.
17:02Does regret fix anything?
17:03I cut him off coldly.
17:04Can regret ever fix what you did to me?
17:08Set Harper free.
17:09Hand her to the police.
17:10Let the law deal with her.
17:11She ruined you.
17:12You can't let her get away.
17:13I don't want your revenge.
17:14I want justice.
17:15She stole my life.
17:16That's decades in prison.
17:17You chain her, torture her.
17:19How are you any better?
17:20You're just different kinds of monsters.
17:22All right.
17:23Whatever you say.
17:27The Vance family's mess needs cleaning up.
17:29You should compensate every innocent person you've hurt.
17:32I want everything put back the way it was.
17:35That's the only reason I came back.
17:36Yes, we'll do it right now.
17:39Everything, exactly as you wish.
17:41I woke up in an unfamiliar room.
17:43Clean, quiet, the faint scent of gardenias.
17:46My body felt completely normal.
17:48No pain, no weakness.
17:50Kyle sat by the window.
17:52You've been unconscious for three days.
17:54I sat up and stretched.
17:55No surgical scars, no lingering aches.
17:58Declan's medicine, it turned out, had worked exactly as he'd promised.
18:02Twenty years of suffocating pain.
18:05And this whole time, someone had remembered me.
18:08I laughed softly and began to plan.
18:10I didn't rush.
18:11I thought it through carefully.
18:13Kyle took care of everything.
18:15A sturdy SUV.
18:16A high-rise condo right next to the city park.
18:19A new bookshelf.
18:21Easy care plans.
18:22Top quality cookware.
18:24I had never asked for any of it.
18:26He just knew.
18:27For the first time in my life, I had a real home.
18:30Sometimes I'd pull one out and read all afternoon.
18:32When I got tired, he'd come for me and take me for a walk.
18:35This time, I felt I wasn't alone.
18:38Kyle was always busy.
18:39I never asked him about his life.
18:41But it was clear.
18:42He was a powerful man now.
18:44A month later, he came to find me.
18:46He sat across from me at the kitchen table.
18:48Hands wrapped around a cup of tea.
18:50They're desperate to get you back.
18:52They'll stop at nothing.
18:54And innocent people are getting caught in the middle.
18:57How about let me handle this?
18:59I stared out the window for a long moment.
19:02I'll go back.
19:03I'll fix what they broke.
19:05This has to end.
19:07You know you don't have to do this.
19:09I know.
19:11But I need to end it properly.
19:13He looked worried, but finally agreed.
19:15Call me anytime.
19:17The guards are on standby.
19:19Bye-bye.
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