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