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He treated her like she was invisible and broke her spirit with his coldness. He thought she would always be there, waiting. But the night he finally realized his mistake, she was already gone. Watch Apologize to My Dead Body, a heartbreaking story of a man who found his soul only after he destroyed the woman who loved him. Now, his apologies are nothing but whispers to the wind. Is there a way to bring back a heart you've already killed? ✨🥀💔

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