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Vivian Sinclair's Revenge of the Second Life follows Vivian after betrayal destroys her first life. Given a second chance, she returns smarter, stronger, and determined to expose everyone who ruined her. With revenge, romance, and power colliding, Vivian fights to rewrite her destiny and reclaim everything stolen from her. Watch Vivian Sinclair's Revenge of the Second Life full drama packed with emotional twists, hidden schemes, billionaire intrigue, and a powerful female lead comeback.
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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. Someone 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.
01:28After 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 never left.
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.
02:41Shee, nonsense are you talking about?
02:42Shee's your sister.
02:43Somebody broke into my home and stole Dongsi.
02:45Would I your dad dare something about, like...
02:47My 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! Can 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.
03:55But 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.
04:18She 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,
04:46but you can head back now.
04:49Are you the reporting party?
04:50If not, then step aside.
04:52Ethan was a bastard son,
04:54the accidental result of Hargrove patriarch Robert
04:56fooling around outside his marriage.
04:58After Robert's first wife died,
05:00he immediately brought Ethan and his mother
05:02back 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.
05:17And 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
05:23any more than one who let love scramble her brains.
05:27My gaze fell on Robert and his current wife, Diane,
05:30who were standing behind the crowd.
05:32Uncle Robert,
05:34this 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,
05:45do you still think this engagement should happen?
05:48The 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,
05:59a woman who 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?
06:15If my daughter hadn't chosen you,
06:17what right would you have to even stand in this room today?
06:19Officer,
06:20we want this investigated to the end.
06:23Please take her away.
06:27Dad!
06:28Shut up.
06:30Look at you,
06:31absolutely spinless.
06:34You look like a dog wagging its tail,
06:36begging for scraps.
06:39You've disgraced me.
06:42Dylan could only stand there
06:43and 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
06:52and took my couture gown.
06:53When she appeared on camera again,
06:55she 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
07:04slipping into my Porsche and driving it away.
07:06The evidence was airtight.
07:08Mia had no room left for her.
07:11Vivian,
07:11I know I was wrong.
07:12I just wanted to play a prank on you.
07:14I never meant to ruin your engagement banquet.
07:17Please forgive me, okay?
07:18I tapped a few things on my phone,
07:20then held it out in front of her.
07:22Adding everything up,
07:23the total comes to $530,000.
07:26Compensate me for my losses
07:27and I'll sign a non-prosecution statement.
07:29How does that sound?
07:30If you do something wrong,
07:32you 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
07:41and 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,
07:48Robert had grounded Ethan,
07:49so she couldn't count on him to save her.
07:51And even if she could,
07:52Ethan had just a bastard son.
07:54He didn't have that kind of money.
07:56Except me,
07:56no 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,
08:15I regretted it.
08:16Now I knew how Mia had scraped together
08:18that kind of money so quickly.
08:20It all came from my darling little brother, Dylan.
08:23All Mia had done was cry into the phone and call out,
08:25Dylan!
08:25And that idiot transferred the money into her account
08:28without 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
08:36right 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
08:44without 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.
08:50So 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.
09:01I'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
09:14who refuses to do her job.
09:16Don't you have hands?
09:17Can't you pour your own water?
09:18Dylan, don't make me slap you first thing in the morning.
09:21She's a servant.
09:22She gets paid to work.
09:24If she won't do that,
09:25then 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
09:33before 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
09:59she finds more suitable.
10:01Mom stood on the second floor balcony,
10:03looking 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,
10:15so 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
10:24and kept defending her.
10:26Vivian always bullies Mia.
10:28If Mia hadn't been the bigger person,
10:29I would already...
10:33Dylan!
10:34Mom interrupted sharply.
10:35Dylan, go back to your room.
10:37Without my permission,
10:38you can stay in there for the rest of your life.
10:40Seeing Mom angry,
10:41he dared not argue further.
10:43He glared at me hatefully as he left for his room.
10:46Passing by me,
10:47he muttered under his breath,
10:49Vivian,
10:50this isn't over.
10:52I'll see you around.
10:54Sullivan wasn't fired after all.
10:57I pleaded with Mom to keep her.
11:01Give Sullivan another chance.
11:05Sullivan thanked me repeatedly,
11:07bowing low,
11:08but 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
11:17had 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,
11:29Ethan showed up.
11:30Vivian,
11:30I seriously misjudged you.
11:33I had no idea you were this overbearing.
11:35Mia only wore your dress once,
11:37and 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,
11:45then I absolutely will not marry you.
11:47That was almost exactly what I wanted to hear.
11:50Perfect.
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,
11:59I go mine.
12:00How about that?
12:01This had been my last life,
12:03and Ethan had said something like that,
12:04I would have run straight to Mia and apologized,
12:06begging for her forgiveness.
12:08But I wasn't the same person anymore.
12:10Now,
12:11I didn't just not want to hear him speak.
12:13I wanted him dead.
12:14When he heard what I said,
12:15he actually froze for a second.
12:19What the hell is that supposed to mean?
12:21Then he came back to himself.
12:22Vivian,
12:23don't play that hard to get crap with me.
12:25Go apologize right now,
12:27or 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,
12:36don't push me past my limit!
12:41Are you getting angry or not?
12:42If not,
12:42I'm closing the door.
12:44Vivian,
12:44have I been too nice to you?
12:46Do you really think I won't-
12:48His 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,
12:56and Ethan instantly crouched to the ground,
12:58clutching his broken finger in agony.
12:59Vivian,
13:00how dare you!
13:04His finger was practically in my face.
13:08Vivian,
13:08how dare you!
13:09For I drove my foot into him and kicked me so hard
13:11he rolled across the floor like a broken sack.
13:13Then I pulled out the baseball bat
13:15I had prepared in advance.
13:17Who the hell are you barking at?
13:19You want to break off the engagement?
13:21Fine!
13:21Do it!
13:22If you're knowing a narrative,
13:23you're therein'!
13:25Why, you cocky bat!
13:27Without worrying,
13:28you even Abe's in the heart,
13:29greats,
13:29mojo,
13:30the dammers!
13:32So what if I hit you?
13:33What are you gonna 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,
13:44shielding his head with one hand
13:45and clutching his broken finger with the other,
13:47screaming in pain.
13:50Get out.
13:51If you ever dare run your mouth in front of me again,
13:55I'll break your dig next.
13:57The moment I reached for the bat again,
13:58he limped away as fast as he could.
14:01Miss Vivian,
14:02if he really does call off the engagement,
14:04will 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,
14:12then it has to be put down.
14:14If he really dares to call it off,
14:15I might actually respect him a little.
14:17The problem is,
14:19does he really have the guts?
14:24In the end,
14:24Ethan 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.
14:32So I turned my attention to Mia and her mother.
14:35When it comes to making other people's lives miserable,
14:38Langley is my right hand.
14:40Sullivan,
14:41tomorrow morning I want hand-rolled gnocchi
14:43start from the mashed potatoes.
14:44Every piece has to be pillowy,
14:46springy,
14:46and exactly the same size.
14:48Sullivan,
14:48at 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,
14:56tonight I want beef wellington.
14:57You will roll the pastry by hand,
14:59mince the mushroom duhetes by hand,
15:00and trim the steak so clean
15:01that there isn't a trace of fat or silver skin left on it.
15:02Oh,
15:03and one more thing.
15:03Vegetable oil is cheap.
15:05Go buy 10 pounds of duck fat and rend it down yourself.
15:07No burnt bits,
15:07no stray meat scripts,
15:08no impurities floating on the surface.
15:10Miss Vivian,
15:11you're doing this on purpose!
15:13Congratulations.
15:15You finally figured it out.
15:16Either do the job or leave.
15:18If you won't do it,
15:19there are plenty of people who will.
15:21But for that mother and daughter,
15:23this was only the beginning.
15:25And I also started ordering Mia around to do all kinds of chores.
15:28So from that moment on,
15:29Mia's nightmare began.
15:33Langley not only threw Mia out of the guest room next to mine,
15:36but also made her move into the laundry room downstairs.
15:39As for me,
15:40I started treating her like a servant
15:41and ordering her around openly.
15:43Mia,
15:44wipe 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 Lechenstein to buy a nuclear submarine,
16:01so hurry up and clean out the pool in the yard
16:03so 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?
16:12Lechenstein doesn't even Hayat have a coastline!
16:16Vivian,
16:16what right do you have to order me around?
16:18I'm not your maid!
16:20You'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,
16:32I pay your mother to work in this house,
16:34not to have her bring in some extra freeloader to live off us.
16:37If you don't want to do the work,
16:38that's fine.
16:39I'm not holding a gun to your head.
16:41You and your mother can leave whenever you want.
16:44Vivian,
16:44I'm saying this one more time.
16:46I am not your servant!
16:48Mia,
16:49the Sinclair family has no obligation to provide you with room and bed.
16:52So if you can't exchange labor for what you're receiving here,
16:55then I'm afraid I have no choice but to inform you that 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,
17:08either that pool is sparkling clean,
17:09or you're gone.
17:13Dylan,
17:14who had been out having fun so much he practically forgot where he lived,
17:17finally came 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.
17:29Vivian,
17:29who gave you the den?
17:31Then he froze.
17:33My father was holding a thick stack of photographs.
17:36Dad,
17:36what are you doing here?
17:38The second Dylan walked in,
17:39my 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.
17:51He bent down,
17:52picked up the photos,
17:53and after one glance,
17:55looked straight at me with hatred burning in his eyes.
17:59You're the one who ratted me out to dad?
18:01Vivian,
18:02I'm not letting this go!
18:03The photos showed him and Mia gambling together at an underground casino.
18:07In my last life,
18:09Mia dragged him into those gambling dens.
18:11Later,
18:11she 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,
18:18I hired a private investigator early
18:20and got the evidence before it was too late.
18:23I 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,
18:30sooner 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.
18:41He snatched it from me and barked,
18:42I'll break your hands today
18:43and 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,
18:56he 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,
19:05but 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
19:15to calm him down when I looked up.
19:16What is it, Langley?
19:19Mr. Sinclair, Mrs. Sinclair and Sapphire earrings
19:22that missing a few days ago have been found.
19:24Good.
19:25Where were they found?
19:26I made my voice sound casual on purpose.
19:28In Sullivan's room,
19:29we also found Mrs. Sinclair's emerald ring
19:32and diamond bracelet that had gone misting earlier.
19:36In my last life,
19:37it was this woman who gave Ethan the idea
19:39to throw me into the ocean.
19:41It's finally time to wrap things up.
19:43By the time the police arrived,
19:45Sullivan was crying so hard
19:46she nearly passed out more than once.
19:48I went with my mother to the police station
19:50to give our statements.
19:52Because the stolen items were worth so much,
19:54charges amounted to felony theft.
19:56Sullivan was probably going to spend
19:58the next several years behind bars.
20:00Mia rushed to the station
20:01and saw Sullivan already in handcuffs.
20:03The reunion scene between mother and daughter
20:05was incredibly moving.
20:07So moving, in fact,
20:08that I had to excuse myself to the bathroom twice.
20:11How should I put it?
20:12Their acting was so watery,
20:14it passed right through me.
20:15By the time I came back out of the bathroom,
20:17Mia had completely dropped the act.
20:19The way she looked at me
20:20made it seem like she wanted to tear me apart
20:22with her bare hands.
20:23Vivian, this isn't over.
20:24Just 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,
20:39that reminded me of something important.
20:41I'd badly damaged Ethan and Dylan,
20:43but not so badly that they couldn't recover.
20:46My situation still wasn't truly safe.
20:48So I bought an enormous bouquet of roses
20:50and 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
21:07because 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,
21:15and I don't even dared 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
21:38for at least a little of what I owe her.
21:40Ethan let out a cold laugh
21:41and snatched the card from my hand.
21:44Fine.
21:46Since you at least know how to make yourself useful,
21:49I'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,
21:57so please go take care of her for me.
21:59His eyes lit up immediately.
22:01You're telling the truth?
22:02I nodded desperately.
22:05I swear!
22:05As long as you'll forgive me,
22:07I'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,
22:18I wrapped my arms around him.
22:20I know I have a lot of flaws.
22:22As long as you don't hate me,
22:23as long as you don't leave me,
22:24I'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,
22:42Mia 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.
22:50The second Ethan got the black card and the key,
22:52he ran off to find Mia and relive the magic.
22:55What he didn't know was that Mia had already been taken by Dylan
22:58to his apartment on Greystone Avenue.
23:02That place had basically become their own private Eden by now.
23:06And in Eden, Adam and Eve are never dressed.
23:08The moment Ethan left,
23:10one of the household staff called Dylan right away.
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,
23:27my phone rang less than a minute later.
23:30Caller ID read,
23:31World's Biggest Idiot.
23:32I answered,
23:33and Dylan's enraged voice exploded through the line.
23:37What?
23:38What the fuck?
23:42Vivian,
23:42if you so much as touch one finger on Mia,
23:45Mia,
23:45I'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,
23:53I'm about to get to that little...
23:58Eat her black and blue today,
24:00then my name isn't Vavilian Sninclair.
24:03Dylan's voice turned shrill.
24:06Vivian,
24:06if you've got a problem,
24:07come 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.
24:17I had already turned on a signal jammer outside Dylan's apartment,
24:19so he couldn't reach Mia by phone.
24:22Desperate,
24:22he had no choice but to race back in person.
24:25Then he rushed upstairs,
24:27ready to play the hero,
24:28only to hear exactly what Ethan and Mia were doing in the bedroom
24:31the instant he pushed the door open.
24:37A horde of reporters swarmed outside Dylan's apartment on Greystone Avenue
24:41like 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
24:51beating each other to a pulp.
24:53Mia stood a short distance away.
24:55Stop fighting!
24:56Please stop!
24:56As for me,
24:57I wore a face full of tears and staggered into the car like a woman carrying the weight of the
25:01world.
25:02That got captured on camera too.
25:04So now everyone knew.
25:05The Hargrove bastard had cheated on his fiance 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,
25:20and used a tissue to wipe away the flood of tears at my eyes.
25:23Langley'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,
25:39Ethan had completely offended the Sinclair family.
25:42Dylan publicly swore he was going to destroy the Hargroves.
25:46Vivian,
25:47you have to save me.
25:51If Dylan keeps pushing like this,
25:53my 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,
26:01never mind a bastard son.
26:03I looked at Ethan with tears in my eyes,
26:05then 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?
26:17I 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
26:28and even paid for the privilege and you still didn't want me.
26:30They're saying I'm a joke.
26:32You're just a bastard son.
26:33Without this engagement to me,
26:35you and your mother,
26:35the 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,
26:44what 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.
26:54Oh, please.
26:55It takes two to make that happen.
26:58If you weren't interested in her,
27:00how 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?
27:10I lifted my chin,
27:12refusing to let the tears fall.
27:13If she seduced you,
27:15then 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.
27:22I...
27:23I...
27:25Tears slid down my cheek.
27:28Ethan, after everything that's happened,
27:30you're still lying to me?
27:32You're disgusting.
27:33We're done.
27:37On the phone screen,
27:38that blurry clip was spreading like wildfire.
27:41Someone edited the clip,
27:43titled it,
27:43Eris Rejects Pleading Bastard Fiance,
27:45and uploaded it online.
27:47It exploded across social media in an instant.
27:50Ethan was already in the middle
27:51of a public relations firestorm.
27:53Now, he had been shoved directly under a spotlight
27:56and made the internet's newest target.
27:58Online abuse crashed over him like a burst down.
28:00As I scrolled through the venom in the comments section,
28:04Bastard son acting this wild?
28:06High society is real near than Hollywood.
28:09He had to cheat too.
28:10He makes Tiger Woods look fun.
28:12His father 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 more.
28:20Vivian's an idiot for treating him like some fries
28:23while getting played this hard.
28:26Facing that tidal wave of online abuse,
28:29the Hargrove family instantly became a public target.
28:32Hargrove industry's stock price tanked,
28:34and several partners sent letters
28:36to mistress climbing her way up.
28:38Cheating scumbag.
28:39Those scandals clung to the Hargroves
28:41like 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.
28:51And all of that was just the beginning.
28:54The day after public opinion hit its peak,
28:57I called in a huge crowd of reporters
28:59and booked the ballroom at the Plaza Hotel
29:00for a press conference.
29:11Thank you all for taking time out of your busy schedules
29:14to come here today,
29:15which have seriously violated the good faith principles
29:17of our engagement and deeply hurt both me
29:19and Vivian Sinclair,
29:20and formally announcing the end of my engagement
29:22to 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
29:31over one another.
29:32Representatives for Vivian Sinclair and Ethan Harpore
29:35announced today that they have mutually
29:36and amicably decided to annale their engagement.
29:39Ethan Hargrove and I have no further relationship
29:41of any kind.
29:42And here, I sincerely wish Mr. Hargrove
29:45a lifetime of happiness,
29:46enduring love, unwavering loyalty,
29:48good health, great success in their careers,
29:50and many more brilliant achievements together
29:52in the years to come.
29:53Lifetime of happiness,
29:54enduring love, unwavering loyalty,
29:56good health, great success in their careers,
29:58and many more brilliant achievements together
30:00in the years to come.
30:01I bit off the last few words with extra clarity.
30:04The smile in my eyes almost broke through the grief
30:07I had so carefully staged.
30:08The moment I finished,
30:10I didn't wait for the reporters to recover.
30:12I took the handkerchief I had prepared,
30:15pressed it to my face,
30:16ignored every shouted question behind me,
30:18and walked away in tears.
30:20My he-
30:20Miss Vivian, you were so convincing just now
30:22that even I almost believed you.
30:25How else am I supposed to fool the reporters
30:27and the Hargroves?
30:29Let's go home.
30:31I want to see what kind of stunt
30:32our great romantic hero is going to pull next.
30:51He grabbed my wrist so hard
30:53it felt like he was trying to crush the bones in it.
30:56If they're supposed to ride off into the sunset together,
30:59then what am I supposed to do?
31:00Did you do that on purpose?
31:02Were you trying to push Mia into someone else's arms?
31:04I yanked my hand out of his grip.
31:06A bright red mark immediately bloomed around my wrist.
31:10I looked at him like I was seeing him for the first time.
31:15Dylan, are you insane?
31:17Are there no other women left on this planet?
31:18Mia slept with Ethan on your bed,
31:20and you still want her?
31:21Do you have a brain disorder?
31:23Don't you dare talk about Mia like that!
31:24Ethan seduced her!
31:26She was innocent!
31:27The person she loves is me!
31:28You don't understand!
31:29You don't understand what we have!
31:31No, I don't!
31:38All I know is that anyone who can forgive betrayal this easily
31:41has got to be mentally damaged.
31:43My father, who had been sitting on the sofa in silence,
31:45smoking, finally snapped.
31:47He shot to his feet,
31:49crushed his cigarette out in the ashtray,
31:50strode over,
31:51and kicked Dylan hard enough to send him sprawling.
31:53Did she put some kind of spell on you?
31:57Is there anything in that head of yours besides her?
31:59You've disgraced the Sinclair family!
32:01Stop hitting him.
32:02There's no point trying to reason with him.
32:04Find someone and set him up on a date.
32:05A good girl from a family that matches ours.
32:07Wealth, class, and common sense.
32:09Get him married as soon as possible.
32:11Maybe once he settles down,
32:12he'll finally come back to his senses.
32:14Dylan climbed to his feet,
32:15looking like he wanted to argue,
32:16but one savage look from our father made him shrink back.
32:18In the end,
32:19he could only stomp his foot furiously,
32:21spin around,
32:22and storm back to his room,
32:23slamming the door behind him.
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