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Vivian Sinclair's Revenge of the Second Life - Hot
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00:00My parents were framed and died unjustly, and I was drowned in the sea by them.
00:06Our maid's daughter had always loved dressing up.
00:09Whenever there was an event, she had to outdress me, the actual heiress.
00:13In my last life, at my engagement banquet, she cut up every single one of my evening gowns.
00:18She showed up in full glam, became the center of attention.
00:22Everyone said she looked more like the heroine of than I did.
00:25My fiancé fell for her at first sight, and they secretly pledged themselves to each other.
00:30When I found out the truth, I forced them apart.
00:33In the end, my parents were framed and died unjustly, and I was drowned in the sea by them.
00:38When I got a second chance, I went back to the day the maid's daughter cut up my clothes.
00:46Miss, this is bad. Mia stole your couture gown you had made and snuck off in it.
00:51Langley told me every couture gown in my walk-in closet had been deliberately damaged to varying degrees.
00:57Just like last time.
00:58Langley, call 911.
01:02Mom, something happened.
01:04Someone broke into the house and stole-
01:06In my last life, Mia stole my gown and ruined every dress I had for formal occasions.
01:13By the time I ran into the ballroom, Mia was already being fawned over like a prom queen,
01:18and my fiancé Ethan and my brother Dylan were both hovering around her.
01:22I lost control.
01:23I made a scene in front of everyone.
01:25I still married Ethan afterward.
01:28Through we got married, he laundered money, engaged in insider trading,
01:31and then dumped every last crime onto my father.
01:34My father was charged with federal smuggling and sent to federal prison.
01:38My mother, Catherine, was so devastated that she lost focus while driving,
01:42got into a car accident, and moved away.
01:46My pathetic little simp of a brother Dylan was also framed by Ethan and Mia and thrown into prison.
01:51In the end, to be with Mia.
01:54You're not worth a single strand of Mia's hair.
01:56Marrying you was the most disgusting thing I've ever done in my life.
02:01I arrived at the banquet hall with the police.
02:04The scene in front of me was exactly the same as it had been in my last life.
02:09This time, I had warned them in advance and told them to stay calm and not move,
02:13so the two of them were simply sitting quietly in their seats,
02:15coldly watching everything unfold in the ballroom.
02:18Are you Mia Sullivan?
02:20Y-yes, I am.
02:21We received a report accusing you of theft and intentional destruction of someone else's property.
02:25You'll need to come with us for questioning.
02:28Vivian, how could you do this to me?
02:31What do you mean, how could I do this to you?
02:32Can you stop crying every time something happens like you're the only one in the world with tear dugs?
02:37Officer, this is all just a misunderstanding.
02:39My sister is joking with you.
02:41She and nonsense are you talking about?
02:42Shay's your sister.
02:43Somebody broke into my home and stole Longxi.
02:45What did your dad dare something about?
02:47Like, my Porsche really is gone.
02:49Every member of the staff says they never touched my car,
02:52and many of the clothes in my walk-in closet were deliberately damaged.
02:55I've already asked someone to pull the footage from the home security system.
02:58Once we review it, the truth about who did this will come out on its own.
03:03Mia burst into tears on cue.
03:05Vivian, I know you were born into privilege,
03:08but that doesn't give you the right to humiliate me whenever you want.
03:11I may be poor, but I still have my dignity.
03:15You can't humiliate me in front of everyone like this.
03:19Just because you have money,
03:21does that mean you get to trample other people and grind their dignity into the dirt?
03:24Enough!
03:25Can you stop talking for one second?
03:28So what if I have money?
03:30My parents worked hard for it.
03:32Since when is money a sin?
03:34Everyone in this ballroom comes from a family with money and status.
03:37Going by your logic, should all of us be apologizing to you right now?
03:40And besides, even if I were bullying you,
03:43who exactly made you the face of justice?
03:46Right now, you're wearing my dress,
03:48and you're standing way too close to my fiancé.
03:50Is that your idea of justice?
03:52I don't care whether you have self-respect or not.
03:54But before you talk about dignity,
03:56could you at least take off the couture gown you're wearing?
03:59I had it custom-made especially for tonight.
04:01It wasn't tailored so you could use it to make your grand entrance.
04:04Every eye in the room dropped to the dress she was wearing.
04:07No wonder something looked off about that dress.
04:09So she really did steal someone else's.
04:12I heard she's the daughter of the Sinclair family's maid.
04:15No wonder we've never seen her before.
04:17She didn't know whether to take the dress off or keep it on.
04:24That's enough.
04:25Vivian, you've gone too far.
04:28It's just a dress.
04:29I think Mia looks better in it than you do anyway.
04:32Why can't you be more generous and just give it to her?
04:35Sharing is caring.
04:37Today is such an important day,
04:38and you're the one insisting on turning it into a disaster.
04:43This is all just a mender standing.
04:45Thanks for making the trip, officers, but you can head back now.
04:49Are you the reporting party?
04:50If not, then step aside.
04:53Ethan was a bastard son,
04:54the accidental result of Hargrove patriarch Robert fooling around outside his marriage.
04:58After Robert's first wife died,
05:00he immediately brought Ethan and his mother back into the family home.
05:04That had been an open secret in our circle for years.
05:07In my last life, I was bewitched by him.
05:09Ethan, please!
05:10I chased after him like an idiot,
05:12listened to everything he said,
05:13and tried my best to satisfy every demand he made of me.
05:16And in the end, he still killed me.
05:19He didn't even leave my body behind.
05:21But I wasn't the same idiot from my last life any more than one who let love scramble her brains.
05:27My gaze fell on Robert and his current wife, Diane, who were standing behind the crowd.
05:32Uncle Robert, this is only an engagement.
05:36I haven't even married into the Hargrove family yet,
05:40and Ethan is already publicly taking another woman's side against me.
05:44Tell me, do you still think this engagement should happen?
05:48Ethan, the Hargroves were nowhere near the Sinclairs in status.
05:51They were new money trying to claw their way into old money circles.
05:55The gap between us was enormous.
05:57The reason Ethan and his mother, a woman,
05:59who clawed her way up from being a mistress,
06:01had the standing they did in the Hargrove family now
06:03was directly tied to his engagement to me.
06:07Apologize!
06:09I didn't do anything wrong.
06:11Why should I apologize?
06:13Who the hell do you think you are?
06:14If my daughter hadn't chosen you,
06:17what right would you have to even stand in this room today?
06:19Officer, we want this investigated to the end.
06:23Please take her away.
06:27Dad!
06:28Shut up.
06:29Look at you, absolutely spinless.
06:34You look like a dog wagging its tail, begging for scraps.
06:38You've disgraced me.
06:42Dylan could only stand there and watch as Mia was taken away by the police.
06:47The home security footage showed everything clearly.
06:50Mia walked into my walk-in closet and took my couture gown.
06:53When she appeared on camera again, she was already wearing it,
06:56and there was a pair of scissors in her hand.
06:58She opened the wardrobe where I kept my gowns
07:00and started cutting through them one after another.
07:02The garage camera also caught her slipping into my Porsche and driving it away.
07:06The evidence was airtight.
07:08Mia had no room left alone.
07:11Vivian, I know I was wrong.
07:12I just wanted to play a prank on you.
07:14I never meant to ruin your engagement banquet.
07:16Please forgive me, okay?
07:18I tapped a few things on my phone, then held it out in front of her.
07:22Adding everything up, the total comes to $530,000.
07:26Compensate me for my losses and I'll sign a non-prosecution statement.
07:29How does that sound?
07:30If you do something wrong, you pay the price.
07:33You understand that much, don't you?
07:36$530,000 was no small amount.
07:38Her mother worked as a live-in maid in my house and only made a few thousand a month.
07:42There was no way Mia could come up with that kind of money.
07:46Because of what had happened today, Robert had grounded Ethan,
07:49so she couldn't count on him to save her.
07:51And even if she could, Ethan is just a bastard son.
07:54He didn't have that kind of money.
07:56Except me, no one would lend him half a million dollars.
07:59But what I didn't expect was,
08:00A text notification popped up on my phone.
08:03The $530,000 had already been transferred.
08:09I signed the settlement agreement on the spot.
08:12I always keep my word.
08:13But the second I walked out of the police station, I regretted it.
08:16Now I knew how Mia had scraped together that kind of money so quickly.
08:20It all came from my darling little brother, Dylan.
08:22All Mia had done was cry into the phone and call out,
08:25Dylan!
08:25And that idiot transferred the money into her account without even thinking.
08:29The second I saw Dylan with his arm around Mia,
08:31I was so furious I could have breathed fire.
08:34What made it even worse was that he brazenly brought Mia right back to our house.
08:38The next morning, when I went down,
08:39Mia was clinging to Dylan like a leech in the dining room.
08:42Saw me come downstairs and turned away without even looking at me.
08:45She kept tidying up as if I didn't exist.
08:48I cleared my throat twice.
08:49She still ignored me, so I called Langley over.
08:52Langley!
08:55If she can't even manage to prepare breakfast,
08:57maybe it's time we hire someone else.
09:00Very good, Miss Vivian. I'll take care of it.
09:02Vivian!
09:03What gives you the right to fire my mother?
09:05Because I've been downstairs for almost ten minutes
09:07and still haven't even seen a glass of water.
09:10The Sinklins aren't a charity.
09:12I don't have enough goodwill to keep paying someone who refuses to do her job.
09:16Don't you have hands? Can't you pour your own water?
09:18Dylan, don't make me slap you first thing in the morning.
09:21She's a servant. She gets paid to work.
09:23If she won't do that, then what exactly are we paying her for
09:26to stand around like a decorative boss?
09:28And you, you're my own brother.
09:31You didn't even bother finding out what happened
09:32before taking an outsider's side against your sister.
09:35Is your brain broken?
09:37Miss Vivian, Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair are the ones who hired me.
09:40I don't take my pay from you.
09:41If anyone gets to fire me, it's them, not you.
09:44I've worked for the Sinclair family for over a decade.
09:46I've devoted years of my life to this house.
09:48I practically watched you grow up.
09:50Is this really how you're going to speak to me?
09:51Don't you think that's a bit lacking in manners?
09:55If Sullivan thinks my daughter has no manners,
09:57then maybe she should go find a household she finds more suitable.
10:01Mom stood on the second floor balcony, looking down from above.
10:04I've been upstairs watching this entire time.
10:05Since you clearly don't want to work in the Sinclair house,
10:07why not just resign?
10:09Sullivan hurried to explain.
10:11Mrs. Sinclair, that's not what I meant.
10:12I was only worried Miss Vivian might suffer outside, so I just...
10:17Exactly.
10:18Sullivan didn't do anything wrong.
10:19Vivian is the one who's being unreasonable.
10:22Dylan didn't notice the displeasure in Mom's eyes and kept defending her.
10:26Vivian always bullies Mia.
10:28If Mia hadn't been the bigger person, I would already...
10:33Dylan!
10:34Mom interrupted sharply.
10:35Dylan, go back to your room.
10:37Without my permission, you can stay in there for the rest of your life.
10:39Seeing Mom angry, he dared not argue further.
10:43He glared at me hatefully as he left for his room.
10:46Passing by me, he muttered under his breath.
10:49Vivian, this isn't over.
10:51I'll see you around.
10:54Sullivan wasn't fired after all.
10:56I pleaded with Mom to keep her.
11:01Give Sullivan another chance.
11:05Sullivan thanked me repeatedly, bowing low,
11:07but the hatred in his eyes didn't go unnoticed.
11:11That was exactly what I wanted.
11:13I wanted her angry and dissatisfied.
11:16The whole thing with Langley had only been meant to scare her.
11:19She and her daughter had ruined my life.
11:22How could I possibly let them leave that easily?
11:28The next day, Ethan showed up.
11:30Vivian, I seriously misjudged you.
11:32I had no idea you were this overbearing.
11:35Mia only wore your dress once, and now you're trying to drive her mother out?
11:40What exactly are you trying to do?
11:42If you don't apologize to Sullivan and Mia, then I absolutely will not marry you.
11:47That was almost exactly what I wanted to hear.
11:49Perfect.
11:50Then hurry up and go tell your parents we're calling off the engagement.
11:54I'll explain it to mine, too.
11:56We can both walk away clean.
11:58You go your way, I go mine.
11:59How about that?
12:01This had been my last life, and Ethan had said something like that,
12:04I would have run straight to Mia and apologized, begging for her forgiveness.
12:08But I wasn't the same person anymore.
12:10Now, I didn't just not want to hear him speak.
12:13I wanted him dead.
12:14When he heard what I said, he actually froze for a second.
12:19What the hell is that supposed to mean?
12:21Then he came back to himself.
12:22Vivian, don't play that hard to get crap with me.
12:25Go apologize right now, or I'm really going to get angry.
12:28I folded my arms and leaned against the doorframe.
12:30Let's see what that actually looks like.
12:35Vivian, don't push me past my limit!
12:40Are you getting angry or not?
12:42If not, I'm closing the door.
12:44Vivian, have I been too nice to you?
12:46Do you really think I won't...
12:47His finger was practically in my face.
12:50I really couldn't help myself.
12:52I grabbed it and twisted hard.
12:54A sharp crack sounded in my hand, and Ethan instantly crouched to the ground, clutching
12:58his broken finger in agony.
12:59Vivian, how dare you!
13:04His finger was practically in my face.
13:08Vivian, how dare you!
13:09For I drove my foot into him and kicked him so hard he rolled across the floor like a broken
13:13sack.
13:14Then I pulled out the baseball bat I had prepared in advance.
13:17Who the hell are you barking at?
13:19You want to break off the engagement?
13:21Fine, do it!
13:22If you're knowing a narrative, you're there!
13:24You're in!
13:25Why you cocky batat!
13:27Without worrying, you even Abe's and the Hargreets, Mocho, the Damers!
13:32So what if I hit you?
13:33What are you going to do about it?
13:34Call 911 if you've got the guts?
13:37You said I was pushing your limits?
13:39I'm not just pushing them!
13:40I'm snapping them in half today!
13:42Ethan curled up on the floor, shielding his head with one hand and clutching his broken
13:46finger with the other, screaming in pain.
13:50Get out.
13:51If you ever dare run your mouth in front of me again, I'll break your dig next.
13:57The moment I reached for the bat again, he limped away as fast as he could.
14:00Miss Vivian, if he really does call off the engagement, will you be able to bear it?
14:06What is there to bear?
14:08A dog that won't stay loyal is just a dog.
14:11If it has to be put down, then it has to be put down.
14:14If he really dares to call it off, I might actually respect him a little.
14:17The problem is, does he really have the guts?
14:24In the end, Ethan didn't dare bring up breaking off the engagement.
14:27He swallowed that beating hole.
14:29He told everyone he had fallen down an elevator shaft, so I turned my attention to Mia and
14:34her mother.
14:35When it comes to making other people's lives miserable, Langley is my right hand.
14:40Sullivan, tomorrow morning I want hand-rolled gnocchi start from the mashed potatoes.
14:44Every piece has to be pillowy, springy, and exactly the same size.
14:48Sullivan, at noon I want lobster bisque.
14:50The lobster has to be killed fresh.
14:51The meat needs to be hand-picked clean.
14:53I don't want to see a single shard of shell in the soup.
14:55Sullivan, tonight I want beef wellington.
14:57You will roll the pastry by hand, mince the mushroom duhetes by hand, and trim the steak
15:00so clean that there isn't a trace of fat or silver skin left on it.
15:02Oh, and one more thing.
15:03Vegetable oil is cheap.
15:05Go buy 10 pounds of duck fat and rend it down yourself.
15:06No burnt bits, no stray meat scripts, no impurities floating on the surface.
15:10Miss Vivian, you're doing this on purpose!
15:13Congratulations.
15:14You finally figured it out.
15:16Either do the job or leave.
15:18If you won't do it, there are plenty of people who will.
15:21But for that mother and daughter, this was only the beginning.
15:24And I also started ordering Mia around to do all kinds of chores.
15:28So from that moment on, Mia's nightmare began.
15:33Langley not only threw Mia out of the guest room next to mine, but also made her move into
15:37the laundry room downstairs.
15:39As for me, I started treating her like a servant and ordering her around openly.
15:43Mia, wipe down the table.
15:46Can't you see the garden needs turning over?
15:48What are you standing there for?
15:50Handwrite 20,000 thank you cards for the upcoming charity gala.
15:54I'm donating them to Overseas Earthquake Relief.
15:58I'm currently in negotiations with Lichtenstein to buy a nuclear submarine, so hurry up and
16:02clean out the pool in the yard so I can start training as soon as possible.
16:06I finally figured you out!
16:08You're just talking nonsense!
16:10And what was your first clue?
16:12Lichtenstein doesn't even Hayat have a coastline!
16:16Vivian, what right do you have to order me around?
16:18I'm not your maid!
16:19You're right.
16:20You're not.
16:21But your mother is.
16:24Don't think having a little money means you get to step all over other people.
16:28Money doesn't give you the right to bully everyone.
16:30Who do you think you are?
16:32Mia, I pay your mother to work in this house, not to have her bring in some extra freeloader
16:36to live off us.
16:37If you don't want to do the work, that's fine.
16:39I'm not holding a gun to your head.
16:40You and your mother can leave whenever you want.
16:44Vivian, I'm saying this one more time.
16:46I am not your servant!
16:47Mia, the Sinclair family has no obligation to provide you with room and bed, so if you
16:53can't exchange labor for what you're receiving here, then I'm afraid I have no choice but
16:57to inform you that you need to move out by tomorrow.
17:01But I'm family of the staff.
17:02Sorry.
17:03I don't like it when the staff bring their family to live in my house.
17:07By tomorrow, either that pool is sparkling clean, or you're gone.
17:13Dylan, who had been out having fun so much he practically forgot where he lived, finally
17:18came home.
17:19One look at his expression told me exactly what had happened.
17:22Mia had definitely hidden by the pool and called him to complain.
17:26He kicked my bedroom door open.
17:28Vivian, who gave you the dance?
17:31Then he froze.
17:33My father was holding a thick stack of photographs.
17:36Dad, what are you doing here?
17:38The second Dylan walked in, my father hurled them at his face.
17:41How did I give birth to such a useless piece of trash?
17:44Then he slapped him hard.
17:47Take a good look at what you've done!
17:50Dylan was completely stunned.
17:52He bent down, picked up the photos, and after one glance, looked straight at me with hatred
17:56burning in his eyes.
17:59You're the one who ratted me out to Dad?
18:01Vivian, I'm not letting this go!
18:03The photos showed him and Mia gambling together at an underground casino.
18:08In my last life, Mia dragged him into those gambling dens.
18:11Later, she even talked him into opening an illegal gambling house himself.
18:15That was what landed him in prison in the end.
18:17So this time, I hired a private investigator early and got the evidence before it was too
18:21late.
18:22I warned you long ago not to go down this road!
18:26My father was so enraged he was shaking.
18:28If Vivian hadn't found out in time, sooner or later you would have caused a disaster!
18:32And now you still have the nerve to blame her?
18:35He raised his hand and slapped Dylan again.
18:37I handed my father the same baseball that I had used on Ethan.
18:40He snatched it from me and barked,
18:42I'll break your hands today and see if you ever dare touch gambling again!
18:49Dylan's legs turned to jelly.
18:51He nearly crawled for the door on all fours.
18:55With nerves like that, he still dared mess with underground casinos?
18:59I really had overestimated him.
19:01I rolled my eyes inside.
19:03The male lead may have temporarily exited the stage, but the show had already begun.
19:07This game was only just getting started.
19:10Langley appeared at my bedroom door and tapped lightly.
19:13I was still gently patting my father's back to calm him down when I looked up.
19:16What is it, Langley?
19:19Mr. Sinclair, Mrs. Sinclair and sapphire earrings that missing a few days ago have been found.
19:24Good. Where were they found?
19:26I made my voice sound casual on purpose.
19:28In Sullivan's room, we also found Mrs. Sinclair's emerald ring and diamond bracelet that had gone misting earlier.
19:36In my last life, it was this woman who gave Ethan the idea to throw me into the ocean.
19:41It's finally time to wrap things up.
19:43By the time the police arrived, Sullivan was crying so hard she nearly passed out more than once.
19:48I went with my mother to the police station to give our statements.
19:52Because the stolen items were worth so much, charges amounted to felony theft.
19:56Sullivan was probably going to spend the next several years behind bars.
20:00Mia rushed to the station and saw Sullivan already in handcuffs.
20:03The reunion scene between mother and daughter was incredibly moving.
20:07So moving, in fact, that I had to excuse myself to the bathroom twice.
20:11How should I put it?
20:12Their acting was so watery it passed right through me.
20:15By the time I came back out of the bathroom, Mia had completely dropped the act.
20:19The way she looked at me made it seem like she wanted to tear me apart with her bare hands.
20:23Vivian, this isn't over. Just you wait.
20:27Your fiancé and your brother are both on my side.
20:29You're just a goopy trying to swim with sharks.
20:31What kind of wave do you think you're going to make?
20:33We'll see.
20:34Sooner or later, I'm going to make you pay.
20:38Oddly enough, that reminded me of something important.
20:41I'd badly damaged Ethan and Dylan, but not so badly that they couldn't recover.
20:45My situation still wasn't truly safe.
20:48So I bought an enormous bouquet of roses and went to visit Ethan.
20:59Ethan, I'm sorry.
21:01I went too far before.
21:03I can't live without you.
21:05I only went after Mia so hard because I care about you too much.
21:09I know I was wrong.
21:11Please forgive me, okay?
21:13I know Mia won't forgive me now, and I don't even dare hope she will.
21:17I'm a sinner.
21:18I'll spend the rest of my life making up into her.
21:21But Ethan didn't buy a word of it.
21:23Not until I pulled a black card out of my pocket.
21:26If you won't forgive me, that's okay.
21:28There are six million dollars on this card.
21:30It's all the spending money I have.
21:31You can take all of it.
21:33I did Mia wrong.
21:34Use it to buy her whatever you want.
21:36Think of it as me making up for at least a little of what I owe her.
21:40Ethan let out a cold laugh and snatched the card from my hand.
21:44Fine.
21:46Since you at least know how to make yourself useful, I'll let you off this once.
21:50I hurriedly put on a grateful expression.
21:52This is the key to where Mia is staying right now.
21:55Ethan, I know I wronged her.
21:56She definitely won't want to see me, so please go take care of her for me.
21:59His eyes lit up immediately.
22:01You're telling the truth?
22:02I nodded desperately.
22:04I swear!
22:05As long as you'll forgive me, I'll do whatever you want!
22:08That instantly put him in an excellent mood.
22:13Vivian, don't worry.
22:15I'll take good care of you from now on.
22:17Suppressing my nausea, I wrapped my arms around him.
22:20I know I have a lot of flaws.
22:22As long as you don't hate me, as long as you don't leave me, I'll do anything you want.
22:26Ethan, I can't live without you.
22:29Mm-hmm.
22:30I know.
22:35You don't know shit.
22:40Ever since Sullivan was arrested, Mia hadn't dared come back to Sinclair Manor.
22:44She hadn't even gone back for her own things.
22:46So my nuclear submarine training had to be postponed.
22:49The second Ethan got the black card and the key, he ran off to find Mia and relive the magic.
22:55What he didn't know was that Mia had already been taken by Dylan to his apartment on Greystone Avenue.
23:02That place had basically become their own private Eden by now.
23:05And in Eden, Adam and Eve are never dressed.
23:08The moment Ethan left, one of the household staff called Dylan right away.
23:14You don't say...
23:15Mr. Dylan, this is bad.
23:17Miss Vivian left the house with several bodyguards.
23:19I heard her say something about going to your apartment on Greystone Avenue,
23:22and she said she was going to make someone pay.
23:24You'd better get back there fast.
23:26Sure enough, my phone rang less than a minute later.
23:30Caller ID read,
23:31World's Biggest Idiot.
23:32I answered, and Dylan's enraged voice exploded through the line.
23:37What?
23:38Fuck!
23:41Vivian, if you so much as touch one finger on Mia...
23:45Mia, I'm not going to let this go.
23:47I'm your sister.
23:49What exactly do you think you can do to me?
23:52Dylan, I'm about to get to that little...
23:58Eat her black and blue today, then my name isn't Vivian Sninclair.
24:03Dylan's voice turned shrill.
24:06Vivian, if you've got a problem, come at me!
24:08Don't touch her!
24:09I barked in order to the non-existent bodyguards beside me upstairs.
24:15Get that bitch for me.
24:16I had already turned on a signal jammer outside Dylan's apartment, so he couldn't reach Mia by phone.
24:22Desperate, he had no choice but to race back in person.
24:25Then he rushed upstairs, ready to play the hero.
24:28Only to hear exactly what Ethan and Mia were doing in the bedroom the instant he pushed the door open.
24:37A horde of reporters swarmed outside Dylan's apartment on Greystone Avenue like sharks smelling blood.
24:42Dylan and Ethan beat the hell out of each other.
24:45The fight between them was brutal.
24:47Their cameras and microphones captured every glorious second of Dylan and Ethan beating each other to a pulp.
24:53Mia stood a short distance away.
24:55Stop fighting! Please stop!
24:57As for me, I wore a face full of tears and staggered into the car like a woman carrying the
25:01weight of the world.
25:02That got captured on camera too.
25:03So now everyone knew.
25:05The Hargrove bastard had cheated on his fiancée with her own brother's woman.
25:09And not just anywhere.
25:10In her brother's apartment.
25:11He hadn't just humiliated me.
25:13He gift wrapped a full-blown scandal and hand delivered it right into Dylan's face.
25:17Looking at the three of them trapped behind the wall of reporters and used a tissue to wipe away the
25:21flood of tears at my eyes.
25:22Langley's gaze met mine in the rear view mirror.
25:25Miss Vivian, that performance just now was Oscar worthy.
25:29I shut my eyes in fake pain.
25:32Oh my god.
25:34This onion is delicious.
25:38At this point, Ethan had completely offended the Sinclair family.
25:42Dylan publicly swore he was going to destroy the Hargroves.
25:47Vivian, you have to save me.
25:51If Dylan keeps pushing like this, my father is really going to throw me out of the family.
25:56Robert had always been cold-blooded and ruthless.
25:59He'd sell out his own mother for the sake of money, never mind a bastard son.
26:03I looked at Ethan with tears in my eyes, then slapped him hard across the face.
26:08I told you to go take care of her.
26:10Is this what you call taking care of her?
26:12Did I tell you to sleep with her?
26:13And now you still have the nerve to come crawling back to me?
26:16Do you have any idea what you've done to me?
26:18I became a joke in our entire social circle because of you.
26:21Your mess is all over the headlines.
26:23And everyone is saying my fiancé looks down on the Sinclairs.
26:26They're saying I'm so desperate that I threw myself at you and even paid for the privilege and you still
26:29didn't want me.
26:30They're saying I'm a joke.
26:31You're just a bastard, son.
26:33Without this engagement to me, you and your mother, the woman who clawed her way up from being a mistress,
26:38would never even have made it into the Hargrove family.
26:40How dare you treat me like this?
26:42With everything I've done for you, what did that make me?
26:44Ethan was so anxious, he was practically babbling.
26:47Vivian, you have to believe me.
26:50It was all that bitch Mia.
26:52She's the one who seduced me.
26:53Oh, please.
26:55It takes two to make that happen.
26:58If you weren't interested in her, how exactly was she supposed to seduce you?
27:02She drugged me.
27:03I couldn't control myself.
27:05I had no choice.
27:07Stop making things up.
27:08Do you even hear yourself?
27:11I lifted my chin, refusing to let the tears fall.
27:14If she seduced you, then go online and say it.
27:17Say Mia's a cheap whore who sleeps around.
27:19Say she drugged you and that you never even liked her.
27:21I, I...
27:25Tear slid down my cheek.
27:28Ethan, after everything that's happened, you're still lying to me?
27:32You're disgusting.
27:33We're done.
27:37On the phone screen, that blurry clip was spreading like wildfire.
27:41Someone edited the clip, titled it,
27:43Eris Rejects Pleading Bastard Fiance, and uploaded it online.
27:47It exploded across social media in an instant.
27:50Ethan was already in the middle of a public relations firestorm.
27:53Now, he had been shoved directly under a spotlight and made the internet's newest target.
27:58Online abuse crashed over him like a burst dam.
28:00As I scrolled through the venom in the comments section...
28:04Bastard son acting this wild?
28:06High society is filthier than Hollywood.
28:09He had to cheat too.
28:10He makes Tiger Woods look...
28:11His mother was a home wrecker.
28:14That's called genetics.
28:15Some people came for me too.
28:17That Mia girl is trash too.
28:19Double dipping whore.
28:20Vivian's an idiot for treating him like some fries while getting played this hard.
28:26Facing that tidal wave of online abuse,
28:28The Hargrove family instantly became a public target.
28:32Hargrove Industries stock price tanked,
28:34And several partners sent letters to mistress climbing her way up.
28:38Cheating scumbag.
28:39Those scandals clung to the Hargroves like stains that would never wash off.
28:43The entire family was in chaos.
28:45Robert was so furious he wound up in the hospital.
28:49Inside the family, everything was a mess.
28:52And all of that was just the beginning.
28:54The day after public opinion hit its peak,
28:56I called in a huge crowd of reporters and booked the ballroom at the Plaza Hotel for a press conference.
29:11Thank you all for taking time out of your busy schedules to come here today,
29:15Which have seriously violated the good faith principles of our engagement,
29:18And deeply hurt both me and Vivian Sinclair,
29:20And formally announcing the end of my engagement to Mr. Ethan Hargrove.
29:24The second those words left my mouth,
29:26The room erupted.
29:28Cameras flashed wildly.
29:29And reporters started shouting questions over one another.
29:32Representatives I lifted a-
29:33I lifted a-
29:33Vivian Sinclair and Ethan Harpore announced today
29:35That they have mutually and amigably decided to anail their engagement.
29:39Ethan Hargrove and I have no further relationship of any kind.
29:42And here, I sincerely wish Mr. Hargrove a lifetime of happiness,
29:46Enduring love, unwavering loyalty,
29:49Good health, great success in their careers,
29:50and many more brilliant achievements together in the years to come lifetime of happiness enduring
29:54love unwavering loyalty good health great success in their careers and many more brilliant achievements
30:00together in the years to come i bit off the last few words with extra clarity the smile in my
30:05eyes
30:06almost broke through the grief i had so carefully staged the moment i finished i didn't wait for the
30:11reporters to recover i took the handkerchief i had prepared pressed it to my face ignored
30:16every shouted question behind me and walked away in tears my miss vivian you were so convincing
30:22just now that even i almost believed you how else am i supposed to fool the reporters and the hargropes
30:29let's go home i want to see what kind of stunt our great romantic hero is going to pull next
30:35expression as always he had been with our family for decades of course he knew what was really going
30:41on behind the curtain vivian what the hell was that supposed to mean what do you mean wishing
30:48them a long and happy life together he grabbed my wrist so hard it felt like he was trying to
30:54crush
30:54the bones in it if they're supposed to ride off into the sunset together then what am i supposed to
31:00do
31:00did you do that on purpose were you trying to push mia into someone else's arms i yanked my hand
31:05out of
31:05his grip a bright red mark immediately bloomed around my wrist i looked at him like i was seeing
31:12him for the first time dylan are you insane are there no other women left on this planet mia slept
31:19with ethan on your bed and you still want her do you have a brain disorder don't you dare talk
31:23about
31:24mia like that ethan seduced her she was innocent the person she loves is me you don't understand you
31:29don't understand what we have no i don't
31:38all i know is that anyone who can forgive betrayal this easily has got to be mentally damaged my father
31:43who had been sitting on the sofa in silence smoking finally snapped he shot to his feet crushed his
31:49cigarette out in the ashtray strode over and kicked dylan hard enough to send him sprawling did she put some
31:54kind of spell on you is there anything in that head of your besides her you've disgraced the sinclair
32:01family stop hitting him there's no point trying to reason with him find someone and set him up on a
32:05date a good girl from a family that matches ours wealth class and common sense get him married as
32:10soon as possible maybe once he settles down he'll finally come back to his senses dylan climbed to his
32:14feet looking like he wanted to argue but one savage look from our father made him shrink back
32:18in the end he could only stomp his foot furiously spin around and storm back to his room slamming the
32:24door behind him
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