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Reborn As My Ex's Stepmom Ep
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00:09In my last life, Vivian had no patience for her husband's needs while pregnant,
00:16so she found her husband a mistress herself.
00:1930 maids knelt in the front of the grand entrance, each balancing a crystal bowl on their head.
00:25Inside each bowl coiled a small snake.
00:27Move even a fraction and it drops down your collar.
00:31My knees ached against the cold stone.
00:34One snake slithered over the rim and into my sleeve.
00:37I bit my lip bloody and didn't flinch.
00:40One by one, the others gave up.
00:43I didn't.
00:44I was the last one standing.
00:46That night they sent me to Ethan's room.
00:49A few months later, Vivian delivered twins, a boy and a girl.
00:54I was two months pregnant myself.
00:57Ethan, I have a good news.
01:01The assistant shoved me into the swimming pool.
01:04I struggled under the surface.
01:06Vivian has been nothing but devoted to me.
01:08I'm not letting some whore use a pregnancy to climb her way up.
01:11The assistant held me under until I stopped moving.
01:14After that, the two of them remained the picture of a perfect couple.
01:19Everyone admired them.
01:20No one asked about me or the child I was carrying.
01:24Then I opened my eyes.
01:26I was back before any of it happened.
01:30This time, I would rewrite everything.
01:33I knew his father, Marcus Hargrove, the CEO, had been alone since his wife died years ago.
01:40No girlfriend.
01:42No mistress in his private residence.
01:44I would find a way to get close to him.
01:47Get out. Security!
01:47Once I was his, not even Ethan and Vivian could touch me.
01:51By then, I was afraid they'll all start calling me mommy.
01:58Mr. Marcus will be back tomorrow.
02:01That's great.
02:02I'll tell Ethan right away.
02:06Marcus was Ethan's adoptive father.
02:09His father died on an overseas deal gone wrong.
02:13His mother didn't survive the grief.
02:16Ethan was only a child.
02:17Marcus took him in, gave him a home and a title within the company, raised him as his own.
02:24But Marcus had never named Ethan as his formal successor.
02:28Vivian was already instructing her personal maid, Sophie, to help her prepare to welcome Marcus home.
02:35Once you give him a grandson, he'll finally get Ethan named official heir.
02:39You'll be a billionaire's wife.
02:40Untouchable!
02:42I said nothing.
02:43I'm afraid she was going to be disappointed.
02:46In my past life, Marcus had gone straight to a dinner with the business partners the night he returned.
02:52Vivian waited all evening for nothing.
02:55This time was going to be different.
02:57But the outcome for her would be the same.
03:00I spent the rest of the day quietly.
03:02I had been saving for three years.
03:05I used every bit of it to find out which route Marcus' car would take back to the estate.
03:11After dark, I stood in the corridor he would pass through, wearing the thinnest blouse I owned.
03:16When a draft came through, I shivered.
03:19My nerve was failing me.
03:21Marcus Hargrove had turned down women from every level of society.
03:25There were rumors.
03:26Women had staged encounters before.
03:29All of them were let go.
03:31And they would probably never find a job in their lifetime.
03:35Marcus!
03:36I honestly didn't know what my chances of success are.
03:39But I had to do this.
03:41No other choice.
03:43I heard footsteps.
03:44He came around the corner and the moonlight caught him.
03:47Mid-30s.
03:48I let myself stumble.
03:50I fell against his chest.
03:52He was solid.
03:54It hurt.
03:55I made a small involuntary sound and my eyes watered.
03:59He looked down at me.
04:00Who are you?
04:04Who are you?
04:05Let go of me.
04:06My blouse was already thin.
04:08The struggle made it worse.
04:12Brave girl.
04:13Think you can play me?
04:16I was built for seducing.
04:18I had spent months with Ethan in my past life.
04:21I knew exactly what men responded to.
04:23I had downed two glasses of plum wine before coming.
04:27I let the wine do its work.
04:28Let the fear look like desire.
04:31Turned three parts drunk.
04:32Something that looked like seven.
04:34He didn't take me back to his room.
04:36He took me somewhere smaller.
04:38A guest suite on the far side of the estate.
04:41I didn't sleep until almost dawn.
04:43I slipped out before he woke and went straight to Vivian's wing to begin my morning duties.
04:49Ethan had stayed the night.
04:51The two of them were still in bed when I arrived, laughing softly.
04:56Since her pregnancy, he had barely visited.
04:58Something had shifted between them overnight.
05:01I noticed it immediately.
05:03The way Ethan looked at me had changed.
05:06Hotter.
05:06More urgent.
05:08When I helped him with his jacket,
05:09he caught my hand for just a moment.
05:12He smiled at me.
05:13It meant nothing good.
05:15Vivian watched from across the room,
05:17her fingers tightening around a handkerchief.
05:20Mr. Marcus is coming back.
05:22You carry a bowl of hot soup to him with me.
05:25The bowl was crystal,
05:27part of a set Marcus had been gifted by his friend.
05:29If I dropped it,
05:31no salary in the world would cover the cost.
05:33The handle was burning,
05:35but I didn't show it on my face.
05:37Halfway down the hall,
05:39Sophie turned on me.
05:40Look at you,
05:41walking around like that.
05:43Your blouse is practically indecent.
05:45You think we don't see what you're doing?
05:47You know Malevian here?
05:49Vivian told her to stop.
05:51Gently,
05:52sweetly,
05:53with a freak smile.
05:55Sophie's right to correct me.
05:57I'm grateful for it.
05:58Vivian's smile deepened.
06:00Sophie kept muttering.
06:01A wave of it hit the back of my hand.
06:05I stood completely still
06:07while my skin went red and then white.
06:10I did not put the bowl down.
06:12When we reached Marcus's wing,
06:15there were security staff stationed outside.
06:18Any progress finding her?
06:20Before anyone could answer.
06:23Mrs. Hargreth,
06:24right this way.
06:26I hadn't expected Marcus to still be home.
06:29In my past life,
06:30he had left early that morning.
06:32I kept my eyes down
06:34and followed Vivian inside.
06:36The moment I crossed the threshold,
06:38I felt it.
06:38A heavy,
06:39focused gaze.
06:41Targeted.
06:42I placed the bowl on the table
06:43and began to step back.
06:45Stop.
06:47Marcus was staring at me.
06:49Expression unreadable.
06:50Eyes steady.
06:52I had left before he woke up.
06:54He hadn't asked my name that night,
06:56and I hadn't told him who I really was.
07:02Mr. Hargreth,
07:03I'm so sorry.
07:06What is this about?
07:08Is something wrong, Marcus?
07:10Marcus stood.
07:11He walked toward me slowly.
07:12He stopped in front of me
07:14and said in front of everyone,
07:16So it's you.
07:17It's nothing.
07:19Look at her hand.
07:20She'd take a burn.
07:25Sophie stared after me
07:26with pure hate.
07:28Vivian's expression was composed,
07:30but her eyes were cold.
07:32Once my hand was wrapped,
07:34I followed Vivian back to her wing
07:36without a word from anyone.
07:37That night,
07:38Sophie hit me again.
07:40You are nothing!
07:42Marcus had said
07:43he would have had you removed
07:44from the estate,
07:45if not for Vivian's presence.
07:48I was heartbroke.
07:50He wasn't going to keep me.
07:52I had failed.
07:53Was I really going to end up
07:55in Ethan's bed after all this?
07:58Sophie made me kneel for two hours.
08:01It was Vivian who eventually stopped her,
08:03concerned that obvious marks
08:05would make Ethan think poorly
08:07of her management.
08:08She even had Sophie apply something
08:10to the swelling on my face and hand.
08:13By evening,
08:14my face had cleared up.
08:15Ethan arrived for dinner.
08:18I served alongside Sophie
08:20while Vivian and Ethan ate dinner.
08:22Ethan's eyes kept finding me
08:24across the table.
08:25The hunger in them turned my stomach.
08:28Vivian smiled throughout the meal.
08:30Sophie glared at me
08:31every time Ethan looked my way.
08:34Ethan set down his tableware
08:36and took Vivian's hand.
08:39What more could a man want
08:41with a wife like this?
08:43I watched the two of them
08:44perform their devotion
08:45and felt nothing but cold clarity.
08:48In my past life,
08:49I had mistaken that warmth for real.
08:52I had thought Vivian genuinely liked me.
08:54I had thought her graciousness
08:56was protection.
08:57The smile she wore tonight
08:59was the same one she wore
09:00when she watched me carry
09:01that burning bowl.
09:03It was the same one she wore
09:04at the bottom of the pool.
09:06Ethan grew restless
09:07after about 15 minutes.
09:09His eyes drifted back to me.
09:12That look.
09:13Urgent and adhesive.
09:15Vivian noticed.
09:18I wasn't feeling well tonight,
09:20but I had made sure
09:21the guest suite next door
09:22was prepared for you.
09:23Darling.
09:27Oh, you are always so thoughtful.
09:31Lily, show Ethan to the suite.
09:34I walked out ahead of Ethan,
09:36moving toward the east wing.
09:38We were almost at the door
09:40when he lunged forward
09:41and pulled me hard against him.
09:43I went rigid.
09:45What are you doing?
09:47Let go!
09:49Vivian gave you to me.
09:51You're mine tonight.
09:52Wait. Stop fighting.
09:54I shouted the only thing
09:56I could think of.
09:57No way!
09:58I already belong
10:00to Marcus Hargreth!
10:03The guest suite
10:04and Vivian's room
10:05shared a courtyard.
10:07Down carried.
10:08Vivian had not expected
10:09Ethan to make a move on me
10:11before even getting inside.
10:13She was already irritated.
10:15She heard what I said.
10:19I hate messes.
10:21She came out moments later
10:23with Sophie behind her.
10:25Ethan went still.
10:27He released me.
10:35Ethan's expression shifted
10:37to something dangerous.
10:39He looked at Vivian.
10:40Vivian had not expected this either.
10:43The gracious composure
10:44she maintained so carefully
10:46was visibly straining.
10:48What on earth
10:49you are saying?
10:50How dare you
10:50spout such nonsense?
10:52Sophie jumped in
10:52immediately.
10:53She told Ethan
10:54about that morning
10:55how I had apparently
10:56thrown myself at Marcus
10:58and been disciplined for it.
11:03Mr. Ethan,
11:04you have no idea.
11:05This grasping maid
11:06has no shame.
11:08Just this morning
11:09she actually
11:09threw herself
11:10at Mr. Marcus.
11:11She tried to seduce him
11:12and was heavily disciplined
11:14for her disgusting behavior.
11:15With Sophie's version
11:17of events on the table,
11:18the story wrote itself neatly.
11:20Vivian was the gracious wife.
11:22I was the grasping maid
11:23who had already tried
11:25to seduce the CEO
11:26and failed.
11:27Then tried to lie my way
11:29out of being handed to Ethan.
11:30Ethan wasn't Marcus'
11:32biological son.
11:33Marcus had never formally
11:35named him successor
11:36in the company charter.
11:37In my past life,
11:38after I died,
11:40he and Vivian
11:41had sat in their room
11:42and talked about
11:42getting rid of Marcus entirely.
11:44They resented him.
11:46They called him ungrateful.
11:47They called him a man
11:48with no loyalty
11:49who expected theirs.
11:51And something dark
11:52rose in him.
11:54He hit me across the face.
11:56I hit the floor.
11:58He told his staff
11:59to tie me up
12:00and lock me in a room.
12:01The staff moved toward me.
12:03I looked at Sophie's smirk.
12:05I looked at the ice
12:06behind Vivian's smile.
12:08In my last life,
12:09I went quietly.
12:10Not this time.
12:13Please!
12:13Talk to him, Vivian!
12:15You love him!
12:16You didn't want Ethan
12:17near other women,
12:18so you tried to use me
12:19to manage it.
12:20You sent me to Marcus
12:21because you saw that
12:22he'd already noticed me.
12:23You got jealous.
12:24You wanted me gone.
12:25But I know the truth.
12:27I am already his now.
12:29I belong to Marcus!
12:32Vivian's face went white.
12:33She started to speak.
12:35By then,
12:36Mr. Hayes appeared at the gate.
12:40I had come on Marcus' instruction.
12:44He was there to collect Lily.
12:46I exhaled and let myself go soft.
12:49My legs barely held me.
12:51I kept my head down
12:53to hide how relieved I was.
12:55I had gambled everything
12:56on one move,
12:58and it had paid off.
12:59The night before
13:00had been worth
13:01every sleepless hour.
13:03The staff member
13:05who had bandaged my hand
13:06that morning
13:06was Hannah,
13:08Mr. Hayes' daughter.
13:09I had let something slip
13:10to her casually
13:11while she worked.
13:12Just enough.
13:13The right words.
13:15By evening,
13:15Mr. Hayes knew
13:16that Vivian had planned
13:17to pass me to Ethan
13:18as a personal arrangement.
13:20As I walked out,
13:21Vivian looked at me
13:22one last time.
13:23You really are
13:24lucky, Lily.
13:26I owe it all to you,
13:28Mrs. Hargrove.
13:30Sophie spat on the ground.
13:32The venom on her face
13:34was almost satisfying.
13:35I moved into Marcus'
13:37wing of the estate
13:37that evening.
13:38Hannah was assigned
13:39to look after me.
13:40Marcus had left
13:41on urgent business
13:42and would be gone
13:43for several days.
13:44I had the quiet to myself.
13:46I used it.
13:47I learned his kitchen.
13:48I practiced the dishes
13:50he reportedly liked,
13:51going through three
13:52failed attempts
13:53at a black truffle broth
13:54before getting it right.
13:56I read everything
13:57I could find about him.
13:58Not the press profiles.
14:00The patterns.
14:01What he valued.
14:02What he ignored.
14:03When he returned,
14:05I brought soup
14:05to his private office.
14:06He looked at the bowl
14:08and then at me.
14:09He drank it
14:09without speaking.
14:11Are you bored here, Lily?
14:12When I wasn't cooking,
14:14I spent my time
14:15counting down the days
14:16until you came back.
14:18I had also been reading.
14:25Your cooking has improved.
14:28I have always admired you, sir.
14:30The chance to take care
14:31of you personally,
14:33it feels like something
14:33I have spent years
14:34working toward
14:35without even knowing it.
14:38Every bowl of soup
14:39I make for you
14:39feels like a privilege.
14:41He looked at me
14:42for a moment.
14:43Then he picked me up
14:46and carried me
14:47to the inner room.
14:48His heart was steady
14:49under my ear.
14:50His arms were very solid.
14:52I closed my eyes.
14:54That night was not gentle.
14:57The next morning,
14:58I spent the entire day in bed.
15:02Marcus was not a man
15:03who cared much about romance.
15:05He didn't keep women.
15:06He didn't pursue them.
15:08He came home from deals
15:09that would have destroyed
15:10lesser men.
15:11Now that he had discovered
15:13there was something
15:13worth coming back to him,
15:15he came back more often.
15:17But I was still
15:17just a household companion.
15:19Unofficial.
15:20Known within the estate.
15:22Not acknowledged outside it.
15:24There were others
15:25who tried to replicate
15:26what I had done.
15:27Word gets around
15:28in a place like this.
15:29Two women staged
15:30their own encounters.
15:32Marcus had them both
15:32escorted out
15:33with their NDAs
15:35and their luggage
15:35the same day.
15:37Two months passed.
15:38The East Wing
15:39where Ethan and Vivian lived
15:40was getting louder.
15:42The performance
15:43of a happy marriage
15:44had collapsed.
15:45Marcus' indifference
15:47to naming Ethan
15:47as his official successor
15:49had always been
15:50a source of bitterness.
15:52Now the bitterness
15:52had company.
15:54Sophie found out
15:54she was pregnant
15:55before I did.
15:56In this life,
15:57she told Vivian immediately.
15:59Still loyal
16:00even after everything.
16:01It was the last loyal thing
16:03she ever did.
16:04Vivian gave her something
16:05in a water.
16:07Sophie lost the baby
16:08and nearly her life
16:09in the same afternoon.
16:11By evening,
16:12Vivian had her removed
16:13from the estate.
16:15Even an elevated mistress
16:16is still staff.
16:18A principal's wife
16:19can terminate
16:20a contract for cause.
16:25Ethan came home
16:26to an empty room
16:27and a signed removal notice.
16:29He had a screaming fight
16:30with Vivian.
16:32Vivian went into
16:33early distress
16:33and almost lost
16:35the pregnancy.
16:36After that,
16:37Ethan started bringing
16:38other women
16:38into the estate.
16:40One after another,
16:41he stopped trying
16:42to keep it subtle.
16:44Two months
16:44after I arrived,
16:45my private doctor
16:46confirmed I was pregnant.
16:48Marcus didn't care much
16:49about an heir,
16:50but he acknowledged it.
16:52He gave me
16:53a formal household title,
16:54an allowance,
16:55and a suite of my own.
16:57If I carried this to term,
16:59Ethan would no longer
17:00be Marcus's only child
17:02in the household.
17:03If it was a boy,
17:04even a child
17:05without a formal
17:06succession claim,
17:07it changed the math
17:08entirely.
17:09A blood heir,
17:10however informal,
17:12standing next to
17:12an adopted VP.
17:14Ethan went to Vivian's
17:15room that night.
17:17They fought.
17:18He hit her.
17:19She went into distress
17:20again and spent
17:21the next week
17:22in bed recovering.
17:23Once she was on her feet,
17:25she came to see me.
17:26She was thinner.
17:27Her face was powdered
17:28heavily and it still
17:30wasn't enough.
17:31She smiled the whole time.
17:32She told me she had
17:34always known I was lucky.
17:35I smiled back
17:37and said I owed it
17:37all to her.
17:38She had one of her staff
17:40bring in a gift bag.
17:41Designer items.
17:43Supplements.
17:44A bracelet,
17:44cream-colored resin
17:46set in gold,
17:47described as a calming piece,
17:48something to wear
17:49close to the skin.
17:50She didn't stay long.
17:52Her eyes kept
17:53going to my stomach.
17:54After she left,
17:55I told Hannah
17:56to throw everything out.
17:57I had seen
17:58that bracelet before.
18:00In my past life,
18:01Vivian gave it to me
18:02when I became
18:03Ethan's companion.
18:04I wore it for months.
18:06It was only after
18:07it broke
18:07that I was able
18:08to conceive.
18:09Later I understood
18:10what it was.
18:11The resin had been
18:12soaked in a compound
18:13that interfered
18:14with pregnancy.
18:15Worn consistently,
18:16it prevented conception.
18:18In someone already
18:19pregnant it could
18:20cause a loss.
18:21She had come here
18:22to finish what
18:23the fight couldn't.
18:24I threw it all away.
18:26The supplements too.
18:27My pregnancy
18:28continued without incident.
18:30Five months in,
18:32Vivian went into labor.
18:34One of Ethan's
18:34newer companions,
18:36a woman he had
18:37brought in from a club
18:38with no understanding
18:39of how households
18:41like this operated,
18:42started a conflict
18:43with Vivian in the corridor.
18:45The stress sent Vivian
18:47into early labor.
18:48She was in the delivery suite
18:50for a day and a night.
18:52She came out with a daughter.
18:54The boy did not survive.
18:56Vivian collapsed.
18:58She was taken to her room
18:59and didn't come out again.
19:01Ethan did not visit.
19:03When I was five months along,
19:05my doctor told Marcus
19:06he believed the baby
19:08was a boy.
19:09Marcus was pleased
19:10in the restrained way
19:11he was pleased
19:12by most things.
19:13He was not a man
19:15who had spent years
19:16dreaming about fatherhood.
19:17He pulled my hand
19:19into his
19:20and said that
19:20if it was a boy,
19:22he didn't want me
19:23raising him soft.
19:24He wanted a son
19:26who could handle
19:26real pressure.
19:28Real stakes.
19:29The kind Ethan
19:30had never been
19:31willing to face.
19:32If my son grew up
19:34to be even a fraction
19:35of what Marcus was,
19:37I told him,
19:37I would consider
19:39my life well spent.
19:41Marcus laughed.
19:42Then he got quiet
19:44for a moment.
19:45You should know
19:46that I had no intention
19:47of naming any child mine
19:48as my formal successor
19:49in the company charter.
19:52The position
19:53had too much visibility,
19:55too much danger.
19:57Everyone who had
19:58ever been near
19:58that designation
19:59had spent their lives
20:01as a target.
20:02He would not do that
20:03to a child.
20:05I sat with that
20:06for a moment.
20:07In my past life,
20:08that was the reason.
20:09Not cruelty.
20:10Not indifference
20:11to Ethan.
20:13I understood.
20:14I would follow your lead.
20:15He looked at my stomach
20:17and said,
20:17I would give the boy
20:18everything I could teach him.
20:21What the boy did with it
20:22was his own affair.
20:23He wouldn't be writing
20:24his father's name.
20:30I pressed my hand
20:31over his
20:32and agreed.
20:33Some people
20:34could not accept this.
20:35The next day,
20:36Ethan came to
20:37Marcus's office.
20:38I was bringing soup.
20:40I heard them
20:41through the door
20:41before I could knock.
20:42I went to school.
20:43I was bringing you
20:43to my father's office.
20:43I was bringing you
20:43I just knew
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