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00:01I fought with wild dogs for food and prayed to them, but it was useless, and in the end, I
00:07still died.
00:08I was Manhattan's most spoiled heiress, until my award-winning actor brother sent me to a reality show called Rich
00:15Girls Reformed.
00:16I slept in a pig pen covered in manure for three months, fighting dogs for scraps of food.
00:22Any resistance meant being dunked in water tanks, or worse, electroshocks.
00:26The only thing keeping me alive was the mute old man who delivered the meals.
00:31He'd snuck me medicine, listened to me cry, and begged my brother to save me.
00:36He even promised to help me escape.
00:38I swore that once I got out, I'd tell my brother I'd learned my lesson.
00:42Until that day, when my high fever triggered a heart attack and I collapsed in the mud, convulsing.
00:47I saw the mute old man I'd clung to as my lifeline reach up and tear off his mud-caked
00:53wig and mask, revealing my fiancé's face.
00:56This is what you get for drugging Sophia, even if it was just a laxident.
01:02These three months in the pig pet should make up for the scare you gave her.
01:06Director cut the cameras. Sophia says she can't bear watching me act and suffer. She feels bad.
01:12I watched my fiancé walk away with his arm around the scholarship girl. My heart stopped beating.
01:17Sophia finally got what she wanted. From the moment we met, she made it clear.
01:22Girls like me didn't deserve what we were born into. Too rich. Too spoiled. Too empty-headed, in her words.
01:30One day, she said, she would take it all. And she did.
01:33It didn't take schemes or grand plans. Just two years of quiet performances.
01:39A stumble here, a trembling voice there, a well-timed tear. Every time, it ended the same.
01:45My brother at her side, my fiancé just behind him. Both looking at me like I was something rotten.
01:51All she ever had to do was make it seem like I hurt her. And really, who would believe otherwise?
01:57A rich heiress bullied by a scholarship girl who was gentle and hardworking? Of course not.
02:03In their eyes, it could only ever be the other way around. I floated above, looking down at myself lying
02:09in the filth,
02:10covered in pig shit, fingernails caked with mud.
02:13Cut! Perfect! Absolutely perfect! That dying look in her eyes is incredible! Quick, get a close-up!
02:22A dozen cameras instantly zoomed in on my face. A pair of fancy leather shoes stopped beside my face.
02:28Lucas Carter, my fiancé.
02:31Alright, stop pretending. The director called cut. Why are you still lying there? Getting addicted to acting?
02:36Seeing no reaction from me, he casually nudged my face with his foot.
02:40The corpse swayed with the force of his nudge, but didn't respond.
02:43Lucas frowned, then crouched down to check if I was still breathing.
02:47What the heck?!
02:50Vivian, are you holding your breath this long just to get sympathy?
02:55Looks like these three months in the pig pen weren't wasted. Your lung capacity's really improved.
02:59I'm not pretending! Lucas, I'm actually dead! Look at me!
03:06Don't be so harsh on her.
03:10She worked really hard this time to make it up to me.
03:14Look at her makeup. So dirty. If you didn't know better, you'd think she actually lived in the countryside.
03:19Applause came from nearby. My brother, award-winning actor Ethan Ashford, emerged from behind the monitors.
03:27Not bad. These three months weren't wasted.
03:31Use this fake death scene in the trailer. Title it, The Mean Girl's Repentance.
03:38This final scene, she acted better than she ever has before. I almost believed it.
03:43Ethan, this isn't acting. I'm really in pain. I'm really, really dead.
03:52Mr. Ashford, should we wake Ms. Ashford now?
03:56Don't let her bring those filthy clothes into my car. It's disgusting.
04:00Sophia hasn't been feeling well lately. She can't handle the smell.
04:03Then, find a trash bag. Throw her in the trunk.
04:07Since she likes playing dead so much, let her play dead all the way home.
04:10At least it'll spare me from listening to her fake crying.
04:13Yes, sir.
04:14I watched two stagehands lift my stiff corpse and stuff it into a trash bag.
04:19Lucas was wiping raindrops from Sophia's hair. He didn't look at me once.
04:23The trunk slammed shut. The car started. A trail of blood silently drenched the bag.
04:29I floated nearby, almost wanting to laugh.
04:31I remembered when I was 18, I accidentally bumped my head in the car.
04:35Ethan didn't say a word.
04:38He'd said,
04:39Why keep something that hurt our Vivian?
04:41But now, my corpse was being knocked around in the trunk.
04:45Ethan, were you acting back then too?
04:47Or is it that once Sophia appeared, your own sister deserved to be thrown away like this?
04:52Ethan, do you think Vivian will be mad at us for putting her in the trunk when she wakes up?
04:57Ethan drove with a cold snort.
04:59She doesn't get a choice.
05:02Once we're home, I have ways to keep her from throwing a tantrum.
05:06Tomorrow's apology press conference is already arranged.
05:09If she dares to mess it up, I'll send her right back to these mountains for another three months.
05:15She'd better know her place.
05:18Sophia was hospitalized for three days because of that laxative.
05:22These three months of suffering barely make up for it.
05:24I floated above the car, watching these three people.
05:27I never put laxatives in that drink.
05:30Sophia stole my heart medication, then accused me of trying to poison her.
05:34No one believed me, and I can't explain anymore.
05:37The car bumped along the road, my corpse rattling in the trunk the whole way.
05:42Ethan got out without calling the servants.
05:43He opened the trunk and grabbed the trash bag with one hand, dragging it out.
05:48My head hit each step as he dragged me up the stairs.
05:51My soul trembled.
05:53I reached out to protect my head.
05:55Ah!
05:56Ethan!
05:56Be gentle!
05:58That's my head!
06:00Really heavy.
06:01Playing dead pretty thoroughly.
06:03Not making a sound.
06:04He dragged the trash bag into the living room and dropped it on the rug.
06:07The zipper opened, revealing my mud-covered face.
06:11Eyes closed.
06:12Lips purple.
06:13Alright, we're home.
06:16Stop pretending.
06:18Get up and wash yourself off.
06:21Don't dirty the carpet.
06:22Is she really unconscious?
06:24Her face looks so scary.
06:27That's special effects makeup.
06:29Weren't you there on set?
06:30She fakes passing out all the time to get out of work.
06:32The doctor said she's in perfect health.
06:34This level of cold won't kill her.
06:36Ethan lost his patience.
06:37He walked over to the thermostat and turned it down to the lowest setting.
06:41Wanna play dead?
06:42Then lie there.
06:43No one gives her a blanket tonight.
06:44Let's see how long she can keep it up.
06:46With that, all three went to their rooms.
06:49Leaving only the cold air blowing over my corpse.
06:52I floated in mid-air, looking at my body lying alone on the floor.
06:56Watching the lividity spread across my neck and the back of my arms.
06:59Early in the morning, the Ashford family's styling team arrived.
07:03Today was the apology press conference Ethan had arranged for me.
07:06Live streamed to the whole country.
07:09The makeup artist touched my hand.
07:11Ah!
07:11Jesus!
07:12So cold!
07:14She looked at Sophia.
07:15Miss White, Miss Ashford's temperature?
07:17Is she really okay?
07:18Oh, she spent three months freezing in the mountains.
07:21Of course she's cold.
07:22Plus she trained herself to withstand cold for the pathetic effect.
07:26Don't make a fuss.
07:28Just put more blush on her.
07:29That complexion is awful.
07:31Put these purple marks on her skin.
07:33Those are bruises from falling in the mountains.
07:36Cover them with foundation.
07:37Today's theme is rebirth.
07:39Don't let people see her looking like a corpse and embarrass the Ashford family.
07:42The makeup artist didn't dare argue.
07:44She grabbed concealer and started smearing it on my face.
07:47I watched from the side, finding it almost funny.
07:50Concealer could cover lividity, but not the smell of death.
07:54This outfit reeks.
07:56Change her clothes.
07:57Put her in this one.
07:57It was the style Sophia had rejected.
08:00A size too small.
08:01Two assistants came over to help change my clothes.
08:04But there was a problem.
08:05Because of rigor mortis, my limbs were stiff.
08:08Mr. Ashford, Ms. Ashford is too stiff.
08:11She won't cooperate.
08:12Like, she is dead.
08:15She won't cooperate.
08:16We can't bend her arms.
08:18Ethan's face darkened.
08:20Vivian!
08:21How long are you going to keep this up?
08:22Won't even put on clothes?
08:24Do you want to apologize naked?
08:25The corpse naturally didn't answer him.
08:27Lucas frowned and strode over.
08:29Since she wants to be stubborn,
08:32don't blame me for not being gentle.
08:34He grabbed my stiff left arm and yanked it outward.
08:37I floated in mid-air,
08:39instinctively clutching my arm and screaming.
08:42Then I remembered.
08:43I was dead.
08:44My body couldn't feel pain anymore.
08:48Hmph.
08:49Strong grip.
08:50Playing the virtual murder?
08:52Hurry up and dress her!
08:53The assistants trembled as they pulled the pink dress onto my corpse.
08:57To hide the twisted arm,
08:58they folded my hands across my abdomen.
09:00After all the manipulation,
09:01I'd been handled like a doll with no dignity.
09:04Lipstick covered my purple lips.
09:06Foundation hid my pallor.
09:08A ribbon bow concealed the dog collar marks on my neck.
09:11That's better.
09:12Looks like these three months weren't wasted.
09:14Knocked that nasty temper right out of her.
09:17As long as she doesn't talk,
09:20she's still the good little sister she used to be.
09:22When we get to the venue,
09:24if you dare mess up or say the wrong thing,
09:26I'll make sure you spend the rest of your life in a wheelchair.
09:29Don't worry, Ethan.
09:31I'll be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life anyway.
09:33And I'll never speak again.
09:35Let's go.
09:36Don't keep the reporters waiting.
09:37The sunlight was blinding,
09:39but I felt no warmth.
09:40The ballroom backstage was packed with reporters.
09:42Sophia had changed into a white haute couture gown.
09:46She had the makeup artist give her a pitiful victim look.
09:49While Ethan and Lucas were schmoozing with the media,
09:51Sophia walked over to my wheelchair.
09:53Vivian, you're so quiet today.
09:56I like it.
09:57Didn't you love calling me a bitch before?
09:59Why so quiet now?
10:00Running out of energy?
10:02Don't worry.
10:03There's an even bigger surprise waiting for you on stage.
10:06Seeing no reaction from me, Sophia pouted.
10:08You can really take it.
10:10But I guess you should behave.
10:11You're about to lose your engagement anyway.
10:14Lose my engagement?
10:15I jerked my head up to look at Lucas.
10:17He was standing in the spotlight,
10:18turning to say something to Ethan.
10:20I floated over and heard it clearly.
10:21Today's perfect.
10:23With a live stream, the whole country can witness it.
10:27I'm cutting this stain loose, completely.
10:29Ethan was silent for a moment, glancing at me in the corner.
10:32She brought this on herself.
10:34Can't blame anyone else.
10:35My soul felt that sharp pain again.
10:37So, in your minds, I'm not even worth a title.
10:40I don't even deserve basic human dignity.
10:42Three, two, one, action.
10:45The spotlight came on.
10:47I was wheeled onto the stage.
10:48Because I was strapped in, I sat perfectly straight.
10:51That's the Ashford heiress?
10:53She looks like a model.
10:54Heard she slept in a pig pen for three months, probably brain damaged.
10:57They say she was so arrogant before, even drugged the scholarship girl.
11:00Those vicious whispers drilled into my ears, every single one.
11:03Ethan picked up the microphone, his face full of regret.
11:06Ladies and gentlemen of the press, everyone online, hello.
11:10I'm Ethan Ashfield.
11:11Today's live stream has only one purpose, repentance.
11:14My sister Vivian, out of jealousy and selfishness, caused tremendous harm to our company's artist, Sophia White.
11:20After three months of reconformation, she's deeply recognized her mistakes.
11:24Today, she's here in front of the entire country to apologize to Sophia.
11:27The comments exploded.
11:28Ethan Ashford standing up to family.
11:31So inspiring.
11:32This is proper elite family discipline.
11:34Ethan turned around, walked up to me, blocking half the cameras.
11:38With his back to the audience, he hissed.
11:40Stop playing dead.
11:44Speak.
11:45Tell everyone what you did wrong.
11:47I didn't respond, so he reached out and pinched the soft flesh of my arm.
11:51The corpse swayed with the force.
11:53Ethan, don't be like this.
11:55She's probably too ashamed to speak.
11:56It's okay.
11:57I forgive her.
11:58She picked up a glass of red wine and forced it into my broken hand.
12:05Vivian, drink this.
12:06And we'll still be sisters.
12:08The wine glass tilted.
12:10Wine falling into the draft.
12:11I'm sorry.
12:13Sophia looked hurt toward the camera.
12:15I guess she still won't forgive me.
12:17Too much.
12:18Sophia's being so humble and she's still putting on airs.
12:21This woman's hopeless.
12:23Mr. Ashford, send her to a psych room.
12:26Lucas took the microphone and strode to center stage, standing beside my wheelchair.
12:31Since Ms. Ashford insists on protesting with silence, I don't need to save face for you anymore.
12:38He pulled a velvet box from his pocket.
12:40For a moment, my heart flickered with hope.
12:43Was it our engagement ring?
12:44He opened the box.
12:46Inside was a brand new pink diamond ring.
12:48Lucas turned around, and in front of me, in front of tens of millions of viewers online, he knelt on
12:54one knee before Sophia.
12:56Ms. Sophia White, for the past three years, you've been by my side.
13:01Your kindness, your purity, that's what the lady of the Carter family should be like.
13:07This vicious, unrepentant woman who only knows how to put on an act doesn't deserve to enter the Carter family.
13:13Every word lashed my soul.
13:16He stood beside my corpse and proposed to another woman.
13:19He trampled my dignity into the dirt in front of the entire country, then ground it in deeper.
13:26Lucas!
13:27The reporter started chanting.
13:29Lucas pulled out the simple engagement ring that had been mine.
13:32He casually tossed it.
13:33Clang!
13:34The ring fell into a nearby trash can.
13:36From today on, Sophia is my only fiancé.
13:39He took Sophia's hand and slid the pink diamond onto her finger.
13:43Then, he lowered his head and kissed her deeply.
13:47Three years ago, Lucas had knelt in the snow for three days and nights to propose to me.
13:55Vivian, this ring is my life.
13:57Once you wear it, my life belongs to you.
14:00Turns out your life is pretty worthless.
14:03After Sophia came along, you kept saying I'd changed.
14:05But I didn't change.
14:07You just gave her all the patience and love you used to give me.
14:10The ring in the trash, along with the Lucas who once said he loved me,
14:13both rotting here together.
14:15The number of online users is still rising and has already broken the platform record.
14:19The live stream had broken the platform's record for viewership.
14:22Hairpash's Carter Luca public.
14:23Hairpash when Kuj refuses to apology.
14:26Ash when Sophia White takes over.
14:27All three hashtags instantly dominated the top trending topics.
14:39Move! Everyone move!
14:41Get out of my way!
14:43It was Dr. William, the Ashford family doctor who'd watched me grow up.
14:48Dr. William, what are you doing here?
14:50Mrs. Ashford, she told me to check on Vivian!
14:53Why hasn't she moved at all? Is she sick?
14:55Sick? What sick?
14:57She's just pretending to sleep.
14:59I've seen this attention-seeking act a thousand times.
15:03Dr. William, don't let her fool you.
15:06Give her a shot and make her get up right now.
15:08Lucas, with his arm around Sophia, added,
15:11Perfect timing, Dr. William.
15:13Expose her act in front of everyone and let them see just how shameless this Miss Ashford can be clinging
15:19to an engagement.
15:20Dr. William froze, staring at the figure in the wheelchair. His face changed.
15:25I need to examine her first.
15:27Under pressure from Ethan and Lucas, Dr. William had no choice but to walk shakily onto the stage.
15:33Everyone waited to see the spectacle, to see the evil woman get jabbed with a needle and wake up humiliated.
15:40Dr. William approached the wheelchair and called out, no response.
15:43He reached out to feel the wrist resting on my abdomen.
15:46The moment he touched that ice-cold skin, his face turned white.
15:50His hands started trembling.
15:51No heartbeat.
15:52He moved from the wrist to the pulse.
15:54No heartbeat.
15:55This, this, Dr. William couldn't believe it.
15:58What's wrong?
15:59Did you find her acting too convincing, even fooling you?
16:03Stop the act, Dr. William!
16:04Just give her the shot!
16:05Lost your voice?
16:06Speak!
16:07Tell everyone she's faking!
16:10Faking!
16:11She can't fake anymore!
16:13Mr. Ashfield!
16:14Mr. Carter, can't you see?
16:16She's already dead!
16:21This is liberty!
16:22This is rigor mortis!
16:24You, you've been forcing a corpse to apologize this whole time?!
16:28Dead?
16:29Dr. William, you've lost your mind.
16:32Lucas let go of Sophia's hand.
16:34Stop playing along with Vivian's sick games.
16:37Livesey?
16:37I think she just put on special effects makeup.
16:40Vivian, stop pretending!
16:42Get off!
16:43Don't touch her!
16:44Are you blind?
16:45Feel her hand?
16:47Look at her eyes!
16:48What living person looks like this?
16:51Dr. William's tears fell as he untied the bow at my neck with shaking hands.
16:56Under the bow, a circle of purple-black ligature marks around my neck.
17:00As the concealer rubbed off, slight giant cell formation appeared on the side of my neck.
17:05A female reporter in the front row covered her mouth, dry heaving.
17:09The livestream chat exploded.
17:11Holy shit!
17:12That's actual lividity!
17:13I'm a forensic student, that's definitely not makeup.
17:17That neck.
17:18My god, what did she go through?
17:19Is Ethan insane?
17:21He made a corpse apologize on livestream.
17:24They killed her!
17:25The elites killed someone!
17:26Ethan stared at the black marks on my neck.
17:29No.
17:30Impossible.
17:32He staggered backwards, knocking over the champagne tower.
17:36She was alive yesterday!
17:38When I dragged her home yesterday, she groaned!
17:40I heard it!
17:40I really heard it!
17:41I floated above, watching him.
17:43Tears streaming, watching him.
17:45Ethan, that wasn't me groaning.
17:47That was the sound of air being forced from my lungs when my head hit the stairs.
17:52Someone call the police!
17:53Get an ambulance!
17:54Hurry!
17:55Workers sprang into action.
17:57Lucas, what do we do?
17:58If she's really dead, then we...
18:01Cut the livestream!
18:02Security!
18:02Get these reporters out!
18:04I dare anyone to move!
18:06Ethan Ashford, Lucas Carter, I think you need to come with us.
18:10He collapsed among the broken glass.
18:12He stared at my lifeless face, the sister he'd doted on for 20 years.
18:17Yesterday, he'd dragged her home like trash.
18:19Today, he'd forced her to kneel and apologize to someone else.
18:23And now the police were telling him she'd been dead all along.
18:26When the coroner took me away, Ethan tried to rush forward but was held back by two officers.
18:31Vivian!
18:32Vivian, don't sleep!
18:33I was wrong!
18:34Please open your eyes and look at me!
18:36My parents rushed back that night.
18:38When they saw the body in the morgue, my mom fainted on the spot and was rushed to the ER.
18:43Lucas and Sophia were detained in the interrogation room.
18:46The coroner paused, looking at Ethan.
18:48The deceased suffered severe external abuse.
18:51Stomach contents showed only small amounts of pig feed and mud.
18:55Most critically, we detected large quantities of powerful hallucinates in the deceased system.
19:00This drug makes people feel pain magnified ten times while conscious.
19:04The deceased died of a heart attack caused by long-term malnutrition, extreme physical abuse, and massive doses of hallucinarins.
19:12Ethan's head snapped up, bloodshot eyes wide.
19:15What did you say?
19:17Hallucinotics?
19:18Yes.
19:19That's why her acting seemed so real when she was being tortured.
19:22Because she was really in pain.
19:23In so much pain, she wanted to die, but didn't even have the strength to beg.
19:28What you thought was acting was her instinct to survive in hell.
19:33Ethan rushed to the toilet, violently vomiting bile.
19:41He remembered those three months.
19:44He'd sat behind the monitors, watching me convulse in the mud pit.
19:48Watching me get dunked in water tanks until I couldn't breathe.
19:52What had he been doing then?
19:54He'd been laughing.
19:56He'd clinked glasses with Lucas and said,
20:01Finally knocked some sense into the brat.
20:05She was just too spoiled before.
20:09Turns out it wasn't being spoiled.
20:12It was pain magnified ten times over.
20:16It was also this.
20:18The captain walked in with a USB drive.
20:20We found this in the director's safe when we searched the production company, the unedited raw footage.
20:24Mr. Ashford, you might want to brace yourself.
20:28The projector turned on, casting images on the white wall.
20:32The screen showed a mountain pig pen.
20:35The instructor poured spoiled rice on the ground and stepped on it.
20:39Eat!
20:41Ms. Ashfield, isn't this how you used to feed stray dogs?
20:44You can give it a try today.
20:46I was chained by the neck, crawling on the ground.
20:48I was so delirious with hunger, I crawled over and licked the rice off the ground with my tongue.
20:54The instructor laughed and kicked me in the ribs.
20:57That's disgusting.
20:59If that Ethan saw you like this, his face would surely turn green.
21:03Ethan gripped the table edge so hard, his nails broke off, blood dripping.
21:07The scene changed to Sophia.
21:09She wore a hazmat suit, holding a cattle dog.
21:11Vivian, this electric current is a bit strong.
21:14Try to bear it, okay?
21:16I convulsed violently, foaming at the mouth.
21:18Sophia smiled.
21:19Oh Lucas, look how beautifully she dances.
21:22Record it, send it to that idiot Ethan.
21:25Tell him she's practicing break dancing.
21:27Lucas patted her head.
21:29As long as you're happy, play however you want.
21:32Ethan signed the liability waiver anyway.
21:34As long as she doesn't die, any torture counts as programmed content.
21:37The final scene showed my last moments before death.
21:40Ethan dropped to his knees, hands over his head, wailing.
21:45He'd lost his mind.
21:46He'd personally sent his sister to hell.
21:49Not only had he signed the waiver, he'd provided all the funding.
21:52He was the murderer.
21:54When police were clearing out my belongings, they found something hard in the lining of my cotton coat.
22:00It was a small recording pen, wrapped in three layers of plastic bags, and sewn into the deepest part of
22:06the garment.
22:06The detective captain pressed play in front of Ethan and my parents, who had just regained consciousness.
22:12After a crackling sound, Lucas and Sophia's voices came through.
22:16Sophia.
22:17Lucas, why won't she just die already?
22:19We already doubled the dose.
22:22Be patient.
22:23Once she's dead, the inheritance goes to Ethan.
22:26Then we follow the plan.
22:27What plan?
22:28The recording continued with Lucas's voice.
22:30That idiot Ethan sure is ruthless with his sister.
22:32Once Vivian dies, go comfort him through his grief for a few days.
22:35Then slip him some slow-acting neurotox.
22:37It's tasteless and odorless.
22:38It'll just make him look like he had a mental breakdown for grief.
22:41Aw, that's so sad.
22:44But for the Ashford family's billions, we'll have to sacrifice Ethan.
22:48He's just an actor anyway.
22:50He has no clue how to run a business.
22:52The Ashford empire will be ours.
22:55As long as we get Vivian to sign that post to be a stock transfer, then Ethan becomes useless.
23:00I pretended to be the mute old man to give her hope, just to watch her fall from heaven into
23:04hell.
23:04I'm sorry.
23:05That's the fun part.
23:07The sound of kissing came through the recording.
23:09You are still the smart one.
23:11That frame job was brilliant.
23:12Taking laxatives to frame Vivian, that turned Ethan the sister complicate to our knife.
23:16If Vivian knew her brother sent her to die just to defend you, she'd never forgive him even as a
23:20ghost.
23:21Sorry!
23:22My dad clutched his chest, spat out a mouthful of blood, and collapsed.
23:26What a disaster.
23:28We invited wolves into our home.
23:31Invited wolves?
23:32Mom pounded on Ethan.
23:34It was you!
23:35You killed Vivian!
23:37She was protecting you!
23:39She stayed there to get evidence!
23:41You monster!
23:42Give me back my daughter!
23:44Ethan let mom beat him.
23:45He'd thought I was evil, jealous of Sophia.
23:49He'd thought he was educating me, reforming me.
23:53In reality, I was trading my life for a chance to expose their true faces.
23:59During those three months, every time they stepped on my face, every time Sophia jabbed me with the cattle prod,
24:06I repeated to myself,
24:08Hold on, Vivian. Just hold on. Once you get the recording, Ethan will be safe.
24:15I did it. I protected my brother. I protected the Ashford family. The price was rotting in the dirt, treated
24:24like garbage by the person I loved most.
24:27I'm a monster.
24:28Ethan suddenly started laughing, laughing while crying. He grabbed the fruit knife from the table and stabbed it toward his
24:35neck.
24:35Stop him!
24:37The captain shouted and knocked the knife away.
24:39Ethan collapsed on the floor, slapping himself over and over.
24:43Don't stop me. Let me die. Let me go apologize to Vivian. Let me die.
24:49Die? Death would be too easy for you.
24:53Your sister gave her life to protect the Ashford family.
24:57Instead of figuring out how to defend it and make the killers pay, you just want to die?
25:02Ethan Ashford. That life of yours belongs to your sister. You have to live with it and suffer.
25:10The evidence was irrefutable. When Sophia was arrested, she fought desperately.
25:15I'm innocent. Lucas forced me to do everything. I'm a victim. I have a heart condition. You can't arrest me.
25:23Heart condition? Ethan pulled out a document.
25:26Sophia White. Your medical records from abroad show your heart is stronger than a bull's. Your so-called congenital myocarditis
25:35was completely fabricated for sympathy.
25:38Sophia's face went deathly pale.
25:41No. Ethan. Let me explain.
25:44Don't call me that. Ethan's voice was hoarse.
25:48You don't deserve it. And that laxative.
25:51Ethan threw a restored surveillance video in her face. The footage showed Sophia putting laxatives in the yogurt herself, then
25:57drinking it.
25:58Vivian never tried to hurt you. Never.
26:01Each word was agonizing for Ethan.
26:03You were always the one hurting her. And I, I was your accomplice.
26:07Ethan suddenly reached out and grabbed Sophia by the throat.
26:11Help. Help.
26:12Sophia rolled her eyes, clawing at Ethan's hands.
26:15Police rushed forward and pulled Ethan off.
26:17Mr. Ashford, the law will judge her.
26:20You can't take matters into your own hands.
26:22Sophia collapsed on the ground, gasping for air.
26:26Hair disheveled, makeup smeared.
26:28She was handcuffed and dragged to the police car.
26:31Before getting in, a rotten egg hit her face.
26:34It was thrown by one of Ethan's fans who used to curse me endlessly.
26:37Give Vivian Ashford back!
26:39You witch!
26:40Sophia screamed as she was taken away.
26:43Waiting for her was a murder conviction and the death penalty.
26:47To save the family business, Lucas's father issued an overnight statement disowning his son and freezing all of Lucas's assets.
26:54But that wasn't enough.
26:55Ethan used every connection he had to get Lucas sent to the most violent cell block in detention.
27:00And he told the cell boss,
27:02This man loves abusing women and making people eat rotten food.
27:06On Lucas's first day inside, he was forced to eat a bucket of food scooped from the toilet.
27:11When he refused, they broke two of his ribs.
27:14He tried to call for help, but his voice had been poisoned mute.
27:17Ethan had sent in the extra meal.
27:20Just like the mute old man Lucas had pretended to be on the show, this time he really became mute.
27:25On trial day, Lucas was carried into court.
27:28He was skeletal.
27:29Old injuries layered with new ones.
27:32Seeing Ethan in the gallery, his eyes showed bleeding.
27:34He opened his mouth wide, making ABBA ABBA sounds.
27:38But no one could understand.
27:39The judge announced the verdict.
27:41The defendant, Lucas Carter, with multiple counts, is sentenced to death with immediate execution.
27:47Hearing death penalty, Lucas's eyes rolled back and he wet himself.
27:51He was dragged out.
27:52Before execution, Ethan requested one final visit.
27:56Through the glass, Ethan held up my portrait.
27:58In the photo, I smiled brightly, eyes full of light.
28:02Vivian says she doesn't forgive you.
28:04Ethan looked into Lucas's terrified eyes, enunciating each word.
28:08She says hell is too cold.
28:10She wants you to go down there and be her dog.
28:12Lucas kowtowed frantically, head bleeding.
28:15But Ethan simply turned and left.
28:17In that moment, Lucas finally understood despair.
28:20Lucas died.
28:21Sophia got life imprisonment.
28:23The Ashford family built a memorial garden for me on the Mountain Village site.
28:27They planted it full of sunflowers I loved.
28:30Award-winning actor Ethan Ashford retired at his career peak and disappeared from public view.
28:35He moved into the basement of the mansion.
28:37It had been renovated into a one-to-one replica of the pig pen.
28:41Late at night, he would hallucinate.
28:43To experience my pain, he even injected himself with the same hallucinogens.
28:48Vivian.
28:49He murmured in his dreams.
28:51Forehead drenched in cold sweat, body convulsing in pain.
28:56It hurt so much.
28:58It hurt this much.
29:00How did you bear it?
29:01How did you bear it?
29:03He reached out, grasping at empty air, trying to grab my hand.
29:08I shouldn't have sent you away.
29:10I deserve to die.
29:11I watched his increasingly gaunt face.
29:14Watched the white hair appearing at his temples.
29:17I sighed.
29:18Ethan, I don't hurt anymore.
29:21Really.
29:22I tried to reach out, to smooth his furrowed brow.
29:26The instant my fingertips touched his forehead, Ethan's eyes snapped open.
29:31He stared at the empty space where I floated, his gaze focusing.
29:37Vivian, is that you?
29:38I smiled.
29:39Even though he couldn't see me, I still gave him a long lost smile.
29:43Just like when I was little, hiding behind him after getting in trouble, asking for help.
29:47Ethan, I'm leaving now, I said silently in my heart.
29:51This life was too painful.
29:52Next life, I won't be your sister.
29:54I want to be a cloud in the sky, wind in the mountains, free and easy, where no one can
30:00lock me up again.
30:01Tears streamed down Ethan's face.
30:03He knelt on the straw mat, kowtowing heavily to the empty air.
30:06Okay, he choked out.
30:08Next life, don't meet me.
30:10Don't meet our family.
30:11My soul grew lighter, rising bit by bit.
30:14Before fading away, I looked back one last time.
30:17Ethan was still kneeling there.
30:19The recording pen played my final words.
30:21Tell Ethan, I learned my lesson.
30:24It was a lie, and my final punishment for him.
30:27For the rest of his life, he would live imprisoned in this lie.
30:30He was trapped in a cage of his own making until death.
30:34He was trapped in a cage of his own making until death.
30:38Then we went to the cage of his own making.
30:38So, let's go on.
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