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00:00At the mate selection ceremony, the Luna Queen herself announced me, the Alpha Prince's fated mate.
00:08Right then, my cousin Jade knelt down and held up a sketch.
00:11It showed a woman's bare back with a crescent birthmark on her waist.
00:16I love my cousin.
00:18Jade said through tears.
00:19But I cannot deceive the Luna Queen.
00:23Vera's purity is compromised.
00:25She is not fit to be the Alpha Prince's mate.
00:29In a single night, I became the most disgraced wolf in the entire pack.
00:35Afterward, Jade smiled and told me,
00:38If Aunt Miriam hadn't described that birthmark herself, no one would have believed it.
00:42It was my own mother who commissioned that sketch.
00:46Just so her beloved niece could take my place at the Alpha Prince's side.
00:50She handed my dowry to Jade and sent Jade to marry the Prince.
00:55Then, she poisoned me with a cup of deadly wine.
00:59Then, I opened my eyes.
01:01I was back.
01:03I had been reborn.
01:05I was in my own chambers.
01:06The day of the mate selection ceremony.
01:09Before any of it had happened.
01:12Miss, it's time to wake up.
01:14My maid's voice jolted me out of my dream.
01:16I touched the birthmark on my waist.
01:19I looked at the sunlight through the window and smiled.
01:22This time, no one gets to destroy me.
01:26When I came downstairs, Jade and my mother were already in the carriage.
01:30Jade was dressed in a gorgeous dress.
01:32Wearing the gold necklace left to me by my grandmother.
01:36Mother had kept it locked away all along.
01:38Claiming she was afraid I might ruin it.
01:40Now, it is worn around Jade's neck.
01:42Aunt Miriam said it suits me.
01:45You don't mind, do you, Vera?
01:47I said nothing.
01:49Vera, doesn't your father want you to be chosen as the Alpha Prince's mate?
01:52You're so lucky to have him.
01:55My parents are gone.
01:56No one fights for me.
01:58My mother immediately pulled her close.
02:00Vera, how many times have I told you?
02:02You know your sister has no parents.
02:04Must you upset her?
02:05I met her gaze.
02:08Mother, I have not said a single word.
02:11How did I upset her?
02:13Mom, you gave the gold necklace Grandma left me to Jade.
02:16I didn't say a word.
02:17All I ask is for the bare minimum of fairness.
02:21Auntie, it's my fault for being too sensitive.
02:24Here, you can have mine instead today.
02:28No need.
02:29Consider it borrowed for today.
02:30Please return it when we get home.
02:32Enough!
02:33That necklace was left to me.
02:34I decide who wears it.
02:37This necklace was left to me by Grandma.
02:39You have no right to decide what to do with it.
02:42You!
02:43Those invited to the ceremony were all personally chosen by the Queen of the Moon Goddess.
02:48Jade's invitation had been obtained by my mother, leveraging my father's name and rank.
02:53Once inside the royal grounds, the Luna Queen sent everyone to enjoy the gardens before the ceremony began.
03:00And I walked toward the back garden.
03:02A man wearing a crown sat at a table in the backyard with a pot of coffee on it.
03:07Watch out!
03:08My scream alerted the guards.
03:10They shot the arrows down.
03:12But as I walked forward, I accidentally knocked over the pot on the table and the hot tea spilled right
03:18onto my waist.
03:19The burn tore through me.
03:22Are you alright?
03:23Guards swarmed in and seized the attacker.
03:26Forgive us, your highness.
03:28This was the Alpha Prince.
03:30In my past life, he had been attacked here before the ceremony.
03:34This time I came early.
03:36This time, I would rewrite what happened.
03:38He steadied me.
03:40Get a healer!
03:41My maid stumbled over and whispered in my ear.
03:45Miss, you're burned this badly.
03:47What about the ceremony?
03:48The madam sees what you've done.
03:50She'll surely punish you.
03:52Enough!
03:52The Alpha Prince is still here.
03:54Watch your words.
03:56I took my maid and took my leave of the Alpha Prince.
03:59As I turned, I caught the Alpha Prince's expression.
04:02He was still watching me.
04:04I let the corner of my mouth rise.
04:06He was an honorable man, and he would help me through this.
04:09I had the healer wrap the burn, changed into my spare dress, then went to the main hall.
04:15The moon goddess queen was chatting with the noble ladies.
04:18Then she turned to me and held out the scepter.
04:21I have long heard that Duke Arden's daughter is elegant and gracious.
04:25The role of the Alpha Prince's mate belongs to no one but you.
04:29Then Jade stepped forward.
04:30Please, your grace, hear me.
04:32My cousin's purity is compromised.
04:34She is not fit to be the Alpha Prince's mate.
04:37When I was out wandering, I came across this bare sketch being sold by the roadside.
04:42The woman in the paint is my cousin.
04:44What is this?
04:45How do you know the female in this sketch is Vera?
04:47The Luna Queen's brow furrowed.
04:48Because my cousin has a Crescent moon birth hark in exactly that place.
04:52Murmuring broke through the hall.
04:53Eyes turned to me.
04:55A wolf with a ruined reputation could not be a pack leader's mate.
04:59But, I stepped forward.
05:01Jade!
05:02I said, clearly.
05:04A female's birthmark is a deeply private thing.
05:07How would you know about mine?
05:08Jade's face went red.
05:10Aunt Miriam told me!
05:11My mother would never share something so private about her own daughter with others.
05:17Aunt Miriam can confirm it!
05:19Jade insisted.
05:20Vera!
05:21The Luna Queen looked at me.
05:22Can you speak to this?
05:24Your grace, someone has gone to great lengths to shame me.
05:27I ask only for your trust.
05:29I trust you.
05:30She nodded.
05:31Duke Arden runs a strict house.
05:33His daughter would not do such a thing.
05:34Auntie, you know Vera best.
05:36Tell them.
05:37Vera, I am your mother.
05:39I cannot help you lie.
05:41How could you do such a thing?
05:43Your grace, my daughter does have a Crescent moon birthmark on her waist, exactly as described.
05:50Please choose someone more worthy for the Alpha Prince.
05:52Every eye in the room found me.
05:54Mom, why do it this way?
05:56I am your daughter.
05:57Are you truly willing to destroy me just for Jade's future?
06:01I let tears fall.
06:03Your grace, I ask you to witness.
06:06Let me prove my innocence.
06:08The Queen's lady-in-waiting helped me loosen the side of my gown.
06:11The hall went silent.
06:14Where the birthmark should have been was a wound raw.
06:18There was nothing to see.
06:20Jade's face turned white.
06:22That injury, how severe!
06:24Duke Arden's daughter was burned this badly and her mother didn't even notice?
06:28Is she truly her own blood?
06:30You did this on purpose.
06:32You burned yourself to erase the mark.
06:35Your grace, please, don't believe her.
06:37Ask Aunt Miriam.
06:39Vera is the female in that sketch.
06:41She has no integrity.
06:43She cannot be the Alpha Prince's mate.
06:45Jade, what did I ever do to you?
06:48Why do you want me dead?
06:50Jade, I have no birthmark.
06:53You have no proof.
06:54Aunt Miriam can confirm it!
06:56She is your aunt.
06:57She loves you.
06:58Of course she'd confirm it.
07:00That is not proof.
07:01Vera, you are full of lies.
07:04Your grace, I confess.
07:05The female in that sketch is me.
07:07My mother has said it.
07:08My cousin has said it.
07:09Who would believe me now?
07:10Take back the scepter.
07:12Choose someone better for the Alpha Prince.
07:15I would rather die than live with this false name.
07:17Vera!
07:18My mother stepped forward again.
07:20You dare accuse me!
07:21I am your mother!
07:22I can speak to this.
07:24Vera has no Crescent Moon birthmark.
07:27Alpha Prince Kale walked through the doors.
07:29The hall dropped to its knees.
07:31Your Highness.
07:32Kale crossed the floor and lifted me to my feet.
07:35Earlier today in the back garden, I was attacked by an assailant.
07:39Vera threw herself in front of me to block the arrow
07:43and got scolded by the hot tea from the pot.
07:48I've already sent our healer to tend to her injuries.
07:51She can confirm what she saw.
07:53A female stepped out from behind him.
07:55The healer who had wrapped my burns.
07:57She knelt.
07:59When I treated Miss Vera's injury, I saw no birthmark.
08:02There was nothing there.
08:04Impossible!
08:06She's lying!
08:07She is the royal healer.
08:09Vera, are you saying I am also lying?
08:11He looked at my mother.
08:13And I have never heard of a mother who testifies against her own daughter to benefit someone else's child.
08:19Mother, Vera is kind and brave.
08:21I will personally investigate who created that sketch and circulated it.
08:25He picked up the scepter.
08:27He walked to me and placed it in my hands.
08:30Let Vera be my mate.
08:32Scheming piece of work.
08:34And the mother.
08:36Not a single word in her own daughter's defense.
08:39Is Vera truly her blood?
08:42Someone with that kind of heart.
08:44Whoever ends up mated to her will have a miserable life.
08:47Jade and my mother stood there, listening.
08:50Growing paler by the second.
08:52We rode back to the Duke's estate.
08:54Auntie, I'm the laughingstock of the whole pack now.
08:57How am I supposed to show my face?
09:02Vera, are you satisfied watching your cousin suffer?
09:05Did you think about what would happen to me when you decided to have me killed?
09:09You are the Duke's daughter.
09:11Even disgraced, you have security.
09:13Jade has nothing.
09:15I want you to go back and persuade the Alpha Prince to take Jade as a second mate.
09:19She is clever.
09:19She could be of use to you.
09:21Mother, you have put in tremendous effort for Jade.
09:26Unfortunately, the Alpha Prince looks down on this kind of wolf.
09:31You insolent girl!
09:33How dare you speak about Jade that way!
09:36Vera, please!
09:38I'll do whatever you say!
09:41Please, just give me a place to exist!
09:44Besides, the Alpha Prince will take other females eventually.
09:47Wouldn't you rather have me near you than a stranger?
09:49Jade, you don't need me to give you anything.
09:52Mother will find you the best possible match.
09:54And if all else fails, she will take care of you herself for the rest of your life.
10:02What happened at the ceremony had spread through every noble house in the pack.
10:07My mother tried to arrange a marriage for Jade, but every inquiry was met with rejection.
10:13Jade locked herself in her room for two weeks.
10:16I heard she had smashed things.
10:19My mother bought her jewelry to make up for it.
10:22Jade started going out again.
10:24My mother then came to my room.
10:27You was now the Alpha Prince's confirmed mate.
10:29The estate should hold a celebration in your honor.
10:31Right.
10:31A few days before the celebration, a man arrived, claiming to be a distant relation of Jade's.
10:37My mother gave him a room in the outer wing.
10:41He has decent standing.
10:43A scholar's rank.
10:44If Jade agreed, it might not be a bad match.
10:47Whatever auntie thinks is best.
10:48The celebration was packed.
10:52Jade dressed simply and stood with my mother, greeting guests.
10:57Midway through, she walked to my side.
11:05Vera, I'm dizzy from the wine.
11:09Would you walk me back to my room, please?
11:12I had no choice but to help her up.
11:18Of course, Jade.
11:20Let me help you.
11:25But before we reach to room...
11:30Vera, I'm too dizzy.
11:32Your room is closer.
11:34Can I rest there a moment?
11:35My room?
11:36So that's the plan.
11:37She wants to stage her trap in my own territory.
11:40Are you sure?
11:41It's not far to yours.
11:43Please, just for a moment.
11:45I can't walk another step.
11:46All right.
11:48Let's go to my room.
11:49I agreed.
11:50I helped her to my room.
11:51Her maid appeared to brought hot tea.
11:58Miss Vera, you drank too.
12:00Have some tea to clear your head.
12:02The guests will come looking for you soon.
12:09Drink it, Vera.
12:10Vera, it will help.
12:11I drank it in front of her.
12:13Within moments, the room tilted.
12:23Jade rushed to my side.
12:26Vera, what's wrong?
12:27Lie down.
12:28Her knees buckled mid-sentence.
12:30She dropped.
12:31My head.
12:36Minutes later, Jade's maid slipped a man through the side gate.
12:42Go in.
12:43Do what we agreed.
12:55In the front hall, Jade's maid came running.
13:07Madam!
13:08Madam!
13:09Madam!
13:09Please, someone help!
13:11It's the master!
13:13What is this behavior?
13:14Pull yourself together!
13:15What happened?
13:16There's a male, a stranger, in Miss Vera's chambers.
13:20Please come quickly!
13:21Oh!
13:21Oh my god!
13:24What nonsense are you spewing?
13:26Who dares enter Vera's rooms?
13:28How did an outsider get into the inner wing?
13:30Could she be meeting someone secretly?
13:32She's about to become the Alpha's mate.
13:34How could she do something like this?
13:36The Alpha will have them both killed.
13:38A Duke's daughter behaving like this?
13:41It's utterly shameless.
13:44Follow me.
13:48If Vera has truly done something like this, I will deal with her myself.
13:54Today.
13:58The procession followed her toward my room.
14:01My room was locked.
14:03Oh my god.
14:06Standing outside, the women could hear sounds from within.
14:13Several turned red.
14:15The younger ones looked away.
14:16Under her own roof?
14:19Shameless.
14:20Absolutely disgusting.
14:23My mother set her jaw.
14:27Kick it open.
14:29Kick it open.
14:32The door burst in.
14:40Two figures tangled on the bed.
14:43Half the women covered their eyes.
14:45Several screamed.
14:46Who is that man?
14:47My mother lunged forward.
14:50Drag her out here!
14:51Now!
14:52Somebody tapped her shoulder.
14:54She turned.
14:56I was standing behind the crowd.
14:59If you're looking for me...
15:00I said pleasantly,
15:01I'm here.
15:07Jade said she was dizzy and wanted to rest in my room.
15:10Once she was settled,
15:11I went to the kitchen to have them make a sobering broth.
15:14I nodded toward the maid behind me,
15:16who was holding a tray.
15:17My mother shoved to the front of the crowd.
15:19Get her decent!
15:21No!
15:21But no one wanted to get close enough to separate them.
15:26My maid picked up the wash basin
15:30and threw cold water across the bed.
15:38Jade came to awareness all at once
15:44and screamed.
15:48Then fainted.
15:50She wept into my mother's arms.
15:54It was Vera!
15:56She did this to me!
15:59I was in the kitchen.
16:00You brought a man you invited into this house.
16:03And this is my fault?
16:05My friend stood up immediately.
16:07I heard you say you were dizzy
16:08and ask Vera to help you to your room.
16:11Vera is about to become the Alpha's mate.
16:13Why would she throw that away
16:15for a scholar with nothing to his name?
16:18Sounds like someone tried to trap someone else
16:20and fell into their own snare.
16:22This happened in your room.
16:24How can you claim you had nothing to do with it?
16:26She was alone in your chambers.
16:28You should have stayed with her!
16:30She's the one who asked to use my room.
16:32I looked at the man still sitting on the bed.
16:34How did you get into my room?
16:37He hung his head.
16:38A maid gave me a note.
16:40She said if I did what it seemed like,
16:42I'd have a good life ahead of me.
16:46That's not true!
16:48I didn't send that note!
16:49I'm not marrying you!
16:51I am meant for better than this!
16:53I am not mating a man with nothing!
16:56But no pack would take her now.
16:58She crawled to my feet.
17:01Vera, please.
17:03Just let me come with you.
17:05I'll be a servant.
17:08Just don't leave me here.
17:10Jade.
17:11The Alpha's residence is not a shelter for strays.
17:17Mother will provide for you.
17:19You'll be fine.
17:21My mother's hand again.
17:22The same cheek.
17:25You dare talk about Jade that way!
17:28The front doors of the estate open.
17:30Duke Arden.
17:31I hadn't seen him in years.
17:34Father.
17:35In my past life, my mother had told him I died by my own hand.
17:40He had gone gray overnight.
17:42He crossed to me.
17:44His hands cupped my face.
17:46His eyes were wet.
17:48Vera.
17:50I'm back.
17:53I know everything.
17:54No one will touch you again.
17:56He turned and looked at my mother.
17:58His hand came down across my mother's face.
18:01Miriam.
18:02You destroyed your own daughter's reputation to clear the path for your niece.
18:07My daughter, my house's heir, and you let her be treated this way!
18:10You hit me?
18:12I raised your daughter.
18:14You come back after years away and you hit me?
18:17Raised her?
18:19You raised your niece.
18:21My daughter survived despite you!
18:24You think I don't know what you've done?
18:29You misunderstand me.
18:31I only meant to teach Vera some humility.
18:34I never truly meant to harm her.
18:36My father's guard dragged someone through the door.
18:39An artist.
18:42Tell them everything.
18:44The Duchess paid me a hundred silvers!
18:48She gave me a likeness of the young me, young miss and told me draw a bare sketch!
18:53I'm just an artist!
18:54I swear I don't know anything else!
18:57No!
18:58No, it wasn't me!
18:59He's lying!
19:01He's trying to frame me!
19:03The bank's coat is untouched, my lord.
19:06And she gave me this necklace.
19:08It was Miriam's.
19:09I had seen her wear it.
19:11Now it was in the artist's hands.
19:14She collapsed into the chair.
19:16Nothing came out.
19:18My father looked at her with something past anger.
19:20You are not fit to be in this house!
19:21Get out!
19:23Take Jade with you!
19:27I was confused.
19:29One mistake.
19:30Vera is my daughter.
19:32You know I love her.
19:34I know exactly what you are.
19:37When you came to us, Vera's mother pitted you.
19:40She trusted you to care for Vera.
19:43She trusted only you.
19:48Miriam was not my birth mother?
19:55That is my failure.
19:56I should have told you.
19:59Uncle, please don't send us away.
20:01I won't take anything of Vera's again.
20:02I promise.
20:09The guards took them both.
20:11My father went to the Alpha King that day
20:14and confessed that his household had been in disorder.
20:17The Alpha King spoke well of my father,
20:19of the years he had given the pack.
20:20The Luna Queen heard the full story and shook her head.
20:24No wonder she was so cold to Vera.
20:26I had wondered how any mother could treat her own daughter that way.
20:29She sent Kale personally to escort my father home and to check on me.
20:34My relationship with Kale grows deeper and deeper.
20:37Kale brings me gifts every single time.
20:40Miriam came several times,
20:41only to be turned away by the gate guards.
20:44Eventually, she stopped coming.
20:46Three months later, my bonding ceremony with Kale arrived.
20:49The betrothal gifts were extraordinary.
20:52Among them, a pair of white wolves, living ones.
20:56Kale had tracked them himself.
20:57When they were brought in,
20:58my father laughed for the first time in years.
21:02He told everyone who would listen
21:04what a fine male the Alpha Prince was
21:06and how moved he was by the honor done to our family.
21:09On the day I left, my father packed half the estate into my dowry.
21:13The bonding ceremony drew the whole pack.
21:16Kale rode to the estate to claim me,
21:18straight back on a great dark horse.
21:20We were happy.
21:21I carried his pup within the year.
21:23He took me to the church on the edge of the forest
21:25to pray for the safety of me and our child.
21:27I caught sight of them at the edge of the forest.
21:30Miriam and Jade, plain gray robes,
21:32brooms in their hands,
21:34sweeping snow from the steps
21:35so that the worshippers coming to pray wouldn't slip.
21:38It was deep winter.
21:39Their robes were thin.
21:40When the Alpha Prince and his mate arrived,
21:43the crowd knelt on both sides of the path.
21:45They didn't look up.
21:46Whatever had happened to them since the day they left,
21:48it had not been easy.
21:50That was clear enough.
21:51I looked up at the statues and prayed for my child.
21:55Kale spoke quietly beside me.
21:56I had someone look into Jade's background.
22:00She's Miriam's biological daughter,
22:02born before Miriam came to your family.
22:05I looked at him.
22:05You investigated Jade's past.
22:08He looked down at me.
22:09Miriam treated you badly your whole life.
22:11I knew it hurt.
22:13I rested my hand on my stomach.
22:14A mother favoring her own child.
22:17That's not so strange.
22:18What's past is past.
22:20I'm about to be a mother yourself.
22:22Let it go.
22:23Kale took my hand and held it.
22:26Good.
22:27I'll be here.
22:28For you.
22:29For our pup.
22:31Every year.
22:32Every season.
22:32I'm not going anywhere.
22:34I never had Miriam or Jade killed.
22:36A life of duty, sweeping snow, burning incense,
22:40stripped of everything they had wanted.
22:41For women like them, who had always wanted more,
22:44that was punishment enough.
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