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