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