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🔥 Synopsis:
"The fastest way to a billionaire's heart is through his stolen bento box."
Frustrated that her delicious, home-cooked lunches keep disappearing from the office fridge, she sets a trap to catch the thief. To her absolute horror, the culprit is the company's cold, enigmatic CEO, who is addicted to her cooking! To keep his secret, he demands she become his personal chef... leading to a recipe for unexpected romance.
👉 Drama Details:
* Title: After The Lunch Was Stolen
* Genre: Rom-Com, Office Romance, CEO, Foodie, Sweet & Funny
* Format: Full Miniseries (Vertical Drama)
* Status: All Episodes Completed
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🔥 Synopsis:
"The fastest way to a billionaire's heart is through his stolen bento box."
Frustrated that her delicious, home-cooked lunches keep disappearing from the office fridge, she sets a trap to catch the thief. To her absolute horror, the culprit is the company's cold, enigmatic CEO, who is addicted to her cooking! To keep his secret, he demands she become his personal chef... leading to a recipe for unexpected romance.
👉 Drama Details:
* Title: After The Lunch Was Stolen
* Genre: Rom-Com, Office Romance, CEO, Foodie, Sweet & Funny
* Format: Full Miniseries (Vertical Drama)
* Status: All Episodes Completed
#AfterTheLunchWasStolen #ShortDramaFull #MiniSeries #WebDrama #ReelShort #DramaBox #ShortTV #EnglishSubtitles
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00:02while we were playing hide and seek i locked my daughter in the wardrobe where she was hiding
00:06and never opened it again hide well i'll come find you later
00:17then the rest of us zanes ran my wife helen my son erin and i moved away as quickly as
00:24we could
00:2820 years later i came back to bury her i stood in front of that damn wardrobe and then
00:47daddy daddy daddy daddy daddy
01:02it all started when erin was preparing to get married his future in-laws insisted that both
01:07families see a psychic before the wedding they believed the marriage should begin with a proper
01:11blessing so my wife and i went we thought it would be a formality but after the reading the psychic
01:17looked up at us with a grave expression and said you have another child don't you one who hasn't
01:23come home in years my stomach dropped i turned to helen she looked pale as hell she knew what i
01:32was
01:32thinking the psychic kept going a marriage like this needs the whole family present if someone's
01:38been left behind whatever is following them will follow the couple too what do you mean following
01:44them the old man just shook his head better not to ask you have a daughter don't you yes
01:52what it's her she's been begging to come home and she's become something powerful i was confused
01:58my daughter was dead dead for 20 years how could she want to come home how could she be powerful
02:05some spirits don't rest easy not when something was left unfinished your family has a missing piece
02:11that kind of absence doesn't stay buried go home make your family whole again then come see me we
02:19left faster than we had arrived back home helen sat on the couch trembling what do we do we moved
02:27we
02:27ran we left her there how are we supposed to bring her home now i ran my hands through my
02:34hair
02:34anxious aaron was engaged our future daughter-in-law's family was rich and prominent her people had money
02:41and influence more than we ever would aaron couldn't afford to lose a match like this
02:45i couldn't let the ghost of our daughter stand in the way i had to find a way to deal
02:49with it with her
02:55my daughter's name was katie if she were still alive she would have been 28 this year when katie was
03:01eight my wife helen and i decided to move to the city for work life was hard enough already and
03:07trying to start over with two young children felt impossible the day before we left helen suddenly
03:12said she didn't want to take katie with us she only wanted to bring her seven-year-old son aaron
03:17my parents were already dead there were no grandparents to leave katie with if we didn't
03:22take her there would be no one to care for her she doesn't need anyone to care for her we'll
03:27lock her
03:27in the house and act like she was never born i stared at her stunned but she didn't seem bothered
03:32in the slightest what's so shocking about that we can't afford to drag two kids into a new life
03:39one of them was always going to slow us down aaron comes with us katie stays but enough
03:48i've made up my mind just do what i say
03:54tomorrow i'll show you exactly what to do helen had always favored our son over our daughter
03:59and once she decided something there was no changing her mind the next day we packed as usual
04:04katie and aaron were both excited running back and forth stuffing their toys into the bags when it
04:10was almost time to leave helen gave me a look i knew exactly what she meant i hesitated for a
04:16long time but in the end i walked over to katie
04:25katie daddy's tired from packing want to play hide and seek katie frowned she never liked hide
04:31and seek much i don't want to play i want to help pack then aaron chimed in at exactly the
04:37wrong moment
04:38i want to play katie please play with us i rarely spent time playing with the children
04:43aaron was always eager for any scrap of attention from me under her brother's pleading katie finally
04:49gave in so i played along for a while fake smiles fake laughter pretending everything was normal then
04:56helen gave me another look the bags were packed everything was ready it was time last round this time
05:04katie hides and aaron and i will look for her katie you better find a really good spot
05:09helen joined in with a smile that made my skin crawl
05:14don't worry i know the perfect hiding place they'll never find you there come on sweetheart mommy will
05:21take you
05:24she led katie toward the storage shed no one but helen and i knew there was a cellar underneath it
05:29my great-grandfather had dug it years ago to store grain in case of famine later when life got better
05:35it was abandoned and left to rot there was an old wardrobe down there it had been there for as
05:40long
05:40as i could remember it was thick heavy and impossible for a child to open
05:51when helen led katie down into the cellar i saw the padlock in her hand a little while later helen
05:56came
05:56back up alone that same night we called the police and told them our daughter was missing
06:01back then child trafficking cases were all over the news and helen cried so hard in front of the
06:07officers that no one ever suspected us 20 years passed in the blink of an eye we went back to
06:12our
06:12hometown a few times after that but helen and i never spoke about what we had done we never went
06:17down into
06:18the cellar either but this time for aaron's wedding i had no choice the psychic had made it clear
06:24our family had a missing piece katie had never been laid to rest if i wanted nothing to interfere
06:29with my son's marriage i had to go back i had to find her and bury her properly helen said
06:35then go
06:37right now whatever you do don't let this ruin aaron's wedding i drove back to my hometown that night
06:45the house was an old single-story place i kept all the lights off the whole time afraid the neighbors
06:51might notice something strange i found the shed and the concrete slab covering the entrance the
06:57moment i lifted it i felt something was off a gust of wind came up from below cold sharp it
07:03hit me
07:04right in the face and that wasn't all the instant i opened it i heard a bang heavy dull solid
07:11like
07:11something had suddenly slammed into the wardrobe underground
07:17i held my breath and listened carefully a few minutes passed the strange sound didn't come
07:22again just a rat just a damn rat i went down to the basement same as 20 years ago empty
07:28dark
07:28flashlight swept the space only that wardrobe in the corner paint peeling padlock still locked no smell
07:3420 years had passed katie must have decomposed beyond recognition by now any smell would have long
07:40since faded i let out a breath then i took out the key helen had given me and reached for
07:45the lock
07:45suddenly my first thought was that someone had followed me who's there who's here i looked around
07:52carefully no one but in the corner i found a dried up carcass didn't matter i went back to the
07:57wardrobe
07:58took a deep breath tried to calm myself down i was too nervous that had to be this time i
08:04heard it
08:05clearly it came from inside the wardrobe right in front of me daddy daddy is that you i've been
08:13waiting for you for so long i'm right here in the wardrobe
08:21holy shit it really was katie's voice how is that possible daddy why aren't you talking to me
08:30open the door she still sounded like that same little eight-year-old girl how was that possible
08:36locked inside an airtight wardrobe for 20 years even if she hadn't suffocated she would have starved
08:41to death so what the hell was inside that wardrobe
08:52open the door i want help daddy
09:03the wind the thud the voice wayne are you making this up because you're too scared to bury katie
09:08how could something this creepy even be real i swear i heard her she's still in there fine
09:14if you're too much of a coward i'll do it myself she slammed the door and left i sat on
09:19the couch
09:19trying to process everything that just happened i cracked open a six-pack drank until my hands
09:24stopped shaking how how could a child survive in a sealed metal box for 20 years no air no food
09:30no
09:30water unless it was a ghost but how could a ghost be trapped inside the wardrobe why did it knock
09:35why did it sound like her with all these thoughts i passed out and woke up to screams helen was
09:41shaking
09:41me her hair was matted with dirt her jacket was torn her eyes were wide you went back i went
09:47down there
09:47i heard it that voice everything what did you do i opened the door
10:00i couldn't process what she had just said i slowly turned toward the door there she was
10:04wearing the exact yellow dress with tiny blue flowers her hair was tied into two neat ponytails
10:09it was as if she had only been gone for 20 minutes daddy i'm home my heart stopped it was
10:15definitely katie my daughter the one we had buried alive don't don't come closer she stopped just stood
10:22there obedient just like she had always been this is impossible she'd be dust she'd be gone
10:28what do you mean mommy i'm right here nothing sweetheart mommy is just upset
10:35wow is this where we live now i love it i want to stay here forever
10:41by the way daddy where's erin didn't he want to play hide and seek
10:52well he went out to take care of something helen evasively explained yeah i greased him something
10:59on me the python anymore
11:03lear kids don't have things to take care of
11:07katie sweetie daddy and i need to talk just for a minute helen was so overwhelmed she grabbed my arm
11:15and shouted you play for a bit helen didn't wait for her answer she shut the bedroom floor and whispered
11:23is she human how would i know you were the one who let her out
11:29oh god the crap like i know any better jesus let's just
11:35she took a knife out of the drawer
11:41no no you can't just kill her she's katie our little girl
11:51we already killed her once wayne what difference does it make this time
11:56i snatched the knife from her hand no not again
12:02we were poor and desperate back then now erin has grown and we can afford to raise an eight-year
12:09-old
12:09but i couldn't tell helen about this i really missed katie how i had tricked my little girl
12:14how i had betrayed her trust how she had looked at me with those innocent eyes
12:18and now she came back maybe maybe this was my second chance however i still had to figure out
12:25why she hadn't aged and what had happened to her all those years helen was still hesitating
12:29then she continued are you out of your mind if they they find out we buried her
12:34our son's son's life is over no job no future no grandkids
12:41suddenly an idea flashed into my mind
12:46i opened the drawer and took out a business card a private investigator's business card
12:53the one i'd found shoved under our door weeks ago
12:59helen frowned where did you even get this none of your business anyway he's our only shot
13:09she had been going out a lot lately and i had started to suspect she was cheating on me
13:14i dialed a young voice answered hello mr shaw
13:22yes how can i help you i told him everything the silence was long enough to make me think he
13:27had
13:28hung up finally he said doubtfully so you mean your daughter stayed in the wardrobe for 20 years
13:34she doesn't eat doesn't drink doesn't age just still ate well that's about it i've never heard
13:42anything like this very interesting i'll take the case but you better bring her to me i want to see
13:47this miracle with my own eyes i hung up walked back into the living room katie was curled up on
13:54the
13:54couch her head rested on her arm her eyes half closed she smiled when she saw me daddy are we
14:02going
14:02to see a friend yeah sweetheart just for a little while do you want to come with me
14:09she climbed right onto my lap just like she used to of course daddy i always want to stay with
14:17you
14:24i met jamie shaw a private investigator he poured me some tea and gave katie something sweet
14:30he chatted with her about normal kid stuff favorite books cartoons and games katie answered the same
14:36thing she would have answered 20 years ago after a while he pulled me aside mr zane it does seem
14:44that
14:44your daughter really came from 20 years ago this is the most unusual case i've ever seen in my career
14:50have you ever heard the theory that there are strange spaces in this world where time moves
14:54abnormally sometimes much faster sometimes much slower
14:58what something like that really exists
15:03out here 20 years in that wardrobe maybe only three days
15:10she didn't age because she never left and only locked her in
15:14he pulled an old newspaper clipping from the shelf
15:22he pulled an old newspaper clipping from the shelf
15:261892 a man was stranded on a remote island for 25 years
15:31when he was rescued aside for his grown-out beard he hadn't changed a bit
15:36my hands shook that that's real real enough to be recorded
15:40so she's not dead she's frozen this case is too strange so i've decided not to charge you
15:50i want to know what is really going on as well
15:53also i would suggest a paternity test from a biological standpoint it would tell you whether
15:59she's biologically your daughter how much would that cost
16:06two thousand but i know a lab that'll do it cheaper
16:10i thought of my son's wedding expenses everything cost money
16:18no need i know my own daughter
16:23all right then let's head to your old home now i'd like to run an experiment in that wardrobe
16:32the experiment was simple even a rough man like me could understand it
16:36jamie put a candle in the wardrobe
16:40this thing is big enough so there's plenty of air inside
16:44normally the candle should burn out in about two hours
16:46i'll light it now and come back tomorrow
16:48if it burns out our guess is wrong
16:50if it has barely burned down then time really does move slower in there
16:54to be safe he also put a popsicle inside as a second check
17:00after that i took katie home
17:05katie was tired she curled up on the couch right after we got home
17:11daddy my head is so itchy i want to wash my hair
17:18helen could you
17:19not mommy i want daddy to wash it
17:21i want daddy
17:23i froze for a moment as if i had gone back 20 years
17:26i was exhausted and a scolding almost slipped out
17:30but when i looked down into katie's dark eyes
17:32i swallowed the words
17:33i helped her wash her hair
17:35twinkle twinkle little star
17:38how i wonder what you are
17:42she looked up at me
17:45daddy do you like my song
17:48of course sweetheart i love it
17:51she giggled
17:52then
17:52daddy why'd you take so long to come find me
17:57i looked away
17:58i was busy
18:01but daddy i waited for you for so long
18:04why didn't you come find me
18:06just as i was about to lose my temper
18:08i suddenly cried out
18:09the daughter lying on my lap had somehow turned into a dried corpse
18:13her body was shriveled and yellow
18:15and her eye sockets had become two hollow pits
18:17but her mouth was still opening and closing
18:23daddy
18:24why didn't you come
18:28don't you want me
18:29to come home
18:32i screamed
18:33grabbed her
18:34and shoved her face into the water
18:36she thrashed and yelled
18:43she was a monster
18:45she was not my daughter
18:48helen stormed in
18:49i gasped
18:55i looked down and froze again
18:57the dried corpse in the basin had turned back into a normal child
19:05on her neck was a long red scratch from my nails
19:12didn't you say you were gonna treat her well
19:15i wasn't trying to hurt her
19:19katie sniffled
19:21is daddy drunk again
19:22shh it's okay mommy's here
19:29my eyes fixed on the mirror
19:31there she was in the reflection
19:32curled in helen's arms
19:34she looked pitiful as she cried in helen's arms
19:37but the corners of her mouth were curled into a dark eerie smile
19:44that night katie insisted on sleeping in our room
19:47not a chance
19:48i'd sooner stay awake till dawn than lie next to that thing
19:52so i took a blanket and camped out on the couch
19:55half awake all night
19:56one eye open
19:57listening for the slightest sound
19:59i told myself i only had to get through one night
20:02once jamie's results came in
20:04i'd take care of her
20:05i wasn't about to let a monster keep breathing under my roof
20:09the next morning
20:10the first news i got wasn't jamie's result
20:13it was that aaron was coming home
20:15my heart lurched
20:16no
20:17absolutely not
20:19aaron could not see katie
20:21i still didn't know what she was
20:23a child
20:24a ghost
20:24or something worse
20:26but if anything happened to aaron
20:27my whole life would go down with him
20:29katie was at the table eating breakfast when i waved her over
20:32that's enough
20:34come with me
20:34i was going to shut her in the guest room until i figured out the next move
20:38but the second i stepped toward her
20:40she drew back
20:41are you trying to make me hide in the wardrobe again
20:43i was already rolling up my sleeves
20:46ready to force her if i had to
20:48aaron's back
20:50did he call you
20:51katie lit up at once
20:52aaron's home
20:53before i could stop her
20:54she flew out the door barefoot
20:56what the hell is wrong with you
21:01why would you tell her aaron was back
21:03she shrank right in front of me
21:05instinctively throwing her arm over her head
21:07her forearm was a mess
21:09purple bruises
21:10yellowing marks
21:11old scars crossing over new ones
21:14i ran after katie
21:15by the time i got downstairs
21:17she was already at the building entrance
21:20aaron had just stepped inside
21:22and there he was
21:23rooted to the spot
21:24staring at her like the dead had come back wearing a child's face
21:28confusion
21:29disbelief
21:30and dread filled his eyes
21:32his lips trembled
21:33then
21:34barely audible
21:35he said
21:36beside him stood his fiancee
21:39katie
21:39get back here
21:41i was rattled now
21:43one suspicious look from sophia
21:45and aaron's marriage could be dead before it started
21:48and she was sharp
21:49sharper than i liked
21:51who is she
21:57she's aaron's sister
21:58sister
22:00since when
22:01aaron never said he had a sister
22:04she looks just like him
22:06there was no way i was letting sophia's family hear the truth
22:09then came the worst possible sentence
22:12wait
22:14is she his daughter
22:16no no of course not
22:18sophia come on
22:19she's my daughter
22:20how could she possibly be aaron's
22:22he's far too young to have a child that old
22:24so your family lied
22:25you told us aaron was an only child
22:27and now i'm supposed to find out like this that he has a sister
22:29you don't leave out something like that by accident
22:31if you were willing to hide this then what else are you hiding
22:34how am i supposed to trust any of you now
22:36then she looked at aaron
22:38disappointment written all over her face
22:39i'm going home to talk to my parents
22:43i i care about you
22:44but i can't be with someone who lies to me
22:46and just like that
22:47she turned and walked away but he didn't move
22:49what are you waiting for go after her
22:51forget it i was never an only child
22:53i didn't want to lie anymore
22:54i never really wanted to get married
22:56his face was calm
22:58if sophia decides to call it off
23:00maybe that's for the best
23:01i nearly lost my mind
23:03if we hadn't been standing in the middle of the building lobby
23:06i would have slapped him then and there
23:07that was aaron
23:08always aaron
23:09too soft
23:10too timid
23:11and never able to stand up for himself
23:13what had i raised him for
23:14to watch him throw away a good marriage without a fight
23:18are you really katie zane
23:20yes
23:21i'm your sister
23:25wow you got so tall
23:27i was only hiding for a little while
23:32how did you grow up so much
23:34the moment those words left her mouth
23:36something in aaron shattered
23:38i saw it
23:39his expression darkened
23:41his eyes went hollow
23:42like some old wound had split back open right in front of me
23:46and then he cried
23:48tears streaming down his face in front of everyone
23:50i clenched my fists so tight my bones ached
23:54that girl had already done enough damage
23:56now she was ruining aaron's marriage too
23:59she had to go back in the wardrobe
24:01if time really stopped in there
24:03then fine
24:04she could stay in the dark another 20 years
24:0730
24:08forever
24:09if that's what it took
24:10maybe i'd never let her out again
24:12if aaron could still marry sophia
24:14i'd be fine
24:15her family had money
24:17enough to make this whole mess go away
24:19as long as the marriage was still on the table
24:22there was still a way out
24:23so i pulled out my phone and called jamie for the test result
24:27he picked up right away
24:29i was just about to call you
24:30i'm at your old house
24:31you need to get over here and see this
24:40jamie brought in three massive work lights
24:42and the cellar lit up bright as day
24:44i'd already braced myself for the worst
24:46the second i saw it with my own eyes
24:49i was still stunned
24:51inside the wardrobe
24:52the white candle had barely burned
24:54it was almost completely intact
24:57even the popsicle was still frozen solid
25:00wayne
25:00looks like we were right
25:02time really does stop in there
25:04thank god
25:05that meant katie wasn't a ghost
25:07she really hadn't died
25:09dealing with a ghost would have been a pain in the ass
25:12controlling a little girl
25:14that was easy
25:15my son was about to get married
25:16so my daughter was just gonna have to keep staying in the wardrobe a little longer
25:20oh and one more thing
25:21can you help me out
25:23i need a clean story for why katie suddenly showed up
25:25something polished enough to calm sophia down
25:28shut the whole thing down
25:28and get her to go through with marrying my son
25:31we'll say she's a friend's kid
25:33no real connection to this family
25:35and back then because of some complicated situation
25:39i only pretended to be her father to protect her
25:42sure
25:43that part's easy
25:44i'm good at stuff like that
25:46and the price
25:48still free
25:50this isn't hard
25:51honestly
25:52i should be thanking you
25:53because of you
25:55i got to witness what this wardrobe can really do
25:58that pleased me
25:59he didn't look like much
26:00but there was more to him than i thought
26:03if katie had grown up
26:04and if the money made sense
26:06i might have even considered marrying my daughter off to him
26:09although
26:10i looked at him
26:11what
26:13wayne
26:14if i'm handling everything you asked for free
26:16the least you can do is show me a little respect
26:18i frowned
26:19what the hell is that supposed to mean
26:21how have i disrespected you
26:22you lied
26:23you
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