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Vampire Revenge - The True Heiress
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00:02As a vampire, time should have meant nothing.
00:05But over 4,000 days of darkness is enough to drive even the most elegant noble mad.
00:11Juliana, my dear nemesis, drove a cursed silver pirk through my heart,
00:16imprisoning me in this coffin in the middle of nowhere for 13 long years.
00:20My skin has turned a translucent pale from extreme bloodthirst.
00:23The silver suppresses most of my power, leaving me unable to move.
00:27Until I met her.
00:28Rumor had it that the Earl of Blackwood once had a lost daughter.
00:33After she disappeared, the Counteness, overwhelmed by grief, adopted another girl to fill the void.
00:39Half a year ago, when the Blackwoods finally found their true heir, Evelyn,
00:44and sent someone to fetch her from the countryside, their carriage stopped here for a brief moment.
00:49I breathed a cold breast beside her ear.
00:52Give me something to eat, or let me drain every drop of your blood.
01:01You think I'm a beggar?
01:02I want what they're having.
01:04I haven't entered the manor yet.
01:06The Blackwoods do not feed idlers.
01:07This is my own ration.
01:09The Blackwoods were wealthy enough to rival nations.
01:11A few years ago, at a banquet in the Earl's Domain,
01:14I had seen the adopted daughter, Chloe.
01:16She was dripping with jewels, dancing across the ballroom like a princess.
01:20At that time, the Countess had wept in public.
01:22Yet, only a few years later, when her biological daughter was finally returning to the family,
01:27her only food was a piece of stale black bread.
01:30For those who are unloved, even returning home is just wandering to a different place.
01:35You are a lady.
01:36Have some dignity.
01:38Eating such lowly filth only shames the family.
01:40Look at this country buffer.
01:42She's worth less than the cat in Lady Chloe's room.
01:44The Earl and Countess knew where she was three years ago.
01:46They just didn't bring her back because she looked too filthy.
01:49If it weren't for the marriage alliance,
01:51who would bother fetching an orphan from a stable?
01:54Do you want to see them punished?
01:58Shall I go faster?
02:02Evelyn laughed through her tears.
02:04What is your name?
02:06When I've saved enough money, I'll find the best priest to grant you eternal rest.
02:10The holy silver spike has me pinned.
02:13Don't waste your breath.
02:14Just live.
02:15All I ever wanted was to live.
02:18I'll come back for you.
02:19But she didn't return for half a year.
02:22Then she appeared once again in the storm-sweeped wilderness.
02:25She looked terrible, thinner, drenched in mud,
02:28wearing nothing but a tattered rag of a dress.
02:30I didn't forget you.
02:32I just couldn't leave.
02:33No roasted chicken.
02:34Don't hate me.
02:35Even at death's door, I'm still thinking of you.
02:37Who pushed you to this?
02:39The Blackwoods?
02:40She gave a Blake smile.
02:42Rain and tears blurted together on her face.
02:44It's because I was too foolish.
02:46Too weak.
02:47The next second, she used her small knife to awaken the pap.
02:51Come here.
02:52Give me a hug.
02:55I forgot.
02:56You can't move.
02:57Let me hug you.
02:58What is your wish?
03:00I will grant it.
03:01I want to die, and you want to live.
03:05You are the only person who ever protected me.
03:08I give my life to you.
03:10Drag those demons to hell for me.
03:12A vampire's power is immense, but no one can save a heart that has already chosen to die.
03:18That night, the Blackwoods lost a daughter no one cared about.
03:22And inside that coffin, a demon was resurrected.
03:28Before returning to the Blackwood estate, I made a due tour to the holy monastery deep in the mountains.
03:34The queen mother lived there, the foster mother of the current king.
03:37In the past, she had no fondness with me.
03:40But now, after I revealed the truth behind her son's death, she took my side and would return to the
03:46palace with me to seek our revenge.
03:48I arrived back at the manor on the very day of the adopted daughter's coming-of-age ball.
03:52No one remembered that today was also Evelyn's birthday.
03:56These are the family hair heirlooms left by your grandmother.
03:59I wouldn't give them to anyone else, only to my Chloe.
04:04I knew mother loved me most of all.
04:07Sebastian the Blackwood heir stepped forward and offered a huge five-colored agnet ring.
04:11I spiffically requested this from Prince Hedrick.
04:14Only you are worthy of it.
04:18Hedrick?
04:19Now that was a pleasant surprise.
04:21Your father's gift is no less grand.
04:24I have petitioned the king.
04:26Once you come of age, the prince himself will officially announce your engagement.
04:30Then what about me?
04:31What gift do I get?
04:34How dare you return to this house?
04:37Do you have any idea how much Chloe suffered because of your disappearance?
04:40Sebastian, please don't.
04:42I've already forgiven Evelyn.
04:44Even though she pushed me into the lake.
04:47Even though she stole my jewels to run away with a stable boy.
04:50Even though she nearly cost me my life more than once.
04:53I choose to let it go.
04:54Evelyn, please.
04:55Just kneel and beg father and mother for mercy.
04:58Do not provoke them any further.
04:59The Countess gave a cold laugh and turned away.
05:02The last time Chloe tried to show her any affection, she was nearly drowned.
05:06If I let her apologize now, I might not live to see tomorrow.
05:09I have but one daughter and her name is Chloe.
05:13Do not sicker me with the presence of this creature.
05:17Evelyn, just apologize.
05:20What are you waiting for?
05:22Kneel!
05:25I stood exactly where I was.
05:27Everything she has.
05:28Don't I deserve it as well?
05:30You dare compare yourself to Chloe?
05:32You are a lowly slut who tried to seduce a stable boy.
05:34You are a stain upon this family.
05:36If Chloe hadn't been shielding you all this time, you would have been rotting in a ditch long ago.
05:40Who told you I eloped?
05:41Chloe kept that innocent look as she walked toward me.
05:44Evelyn, don't be afraid.
05:45Now that you're back, we will keep your secret.
05:47I've already destroyed that love letter you wrote to the stable boy.
05:51As long as you kneel and beg father and mother for forgiveness, we can still be a happy family.
05:55Look at your sister.
05:57You aren't worth her shadow.
05:59If you weren't my own flesh and blood, I would have left you to the wolves long ago.
06:03Her nails dug deep into my skin.
06:06You're quite lucky, bitch.
06:07I can't believe you didn't die out there.
06:10I could hardly believe it.
06:12This?
06:12This pathetic, low-class scheme was what drove the real Evelyn to her death?
06:17So it was you who spread the rumors about me and the stable boy?
06:21Sister, are you blaming me?
06:23I didn't mean to.
06:25I moved fast.
06:26I dislocated her jaw.
06:30Seize her!
06:31The fat, vicious maid beside Chloe charged first.
06:34I didn't even turn my head.
06:36A backward sidekick shattered her leg.
06:39Try me.
06:41Sebastian drew his sword to charge.
06:43Scream one more time and I'll cut out your tongue.
06:46Everyone backed away behind the earl.
06:48My boot came down hard on the wailing maid's chest.
06:52Tell me, how did your mistress really end up in the lake?
06:57Even if you kill me, I'll tell the truth.
06:59You were jealous of Lady Chloe.
07:00Chloe, you tried to murder her.
07:02You pushed her in.
07:03A practice liar.
07:05How entertaining.
07:06If it's the gifts you want, I'll give them to you.
07:08But if you dare harm my Chloe, I will never forgive you as long as I live.
07:12The silver knife skimmed past the Countess's cheek.
07:15It sliced through her magnificent hat.
07:18Next time I'll aim for your eyes.
07:20If they are blind to the truth, then they are of no use to you.
07:26I gave you a chance.
07:28You wasted it.
07:30Still refusing to tell the truth?
07:33I pressed the tip of the dinner knife into a cruel, hidden point beneath her shoulder.
07:38This kind of pain isn't immediately fatal, but it drags its victim straight into hell.
07:43Long ago, when I was an assassin at Alexander's side, helping him eliminate his political rivals, I studied countless ways
07:51to make people suffer.
07:52Stop! We'll give you whatever you want.
07:54Chloe's quarters?
07:56The inheritance?
07:57Even the Prince's engagement?
07:59Put down the knife, and we can gautiate.
08:02I'll tell you exactly what I want.
08:04He hesitated, then stepped closer.
08:06Before he could strike, my hand was already around his throat.
08:08Then came blow after blow, until his pride broke with his smile.
08:12Did I give you permission to speak?
08:14Idiot.
08:15Now, does anyone else have an objection?
08:18Do as she says.
08:20No one move!
08:25Now, tell the truth.
08:29Evelyn, returning from the countryside, was hated from the very moment she stepped foot in the manor.
08:35On her first day back, Chloe had deliberately cut her own arm to frame her.
08:40She destroyed the christening gown.
08:42She even laced the Earl's medicine with slow-acting poison, only to claim that Evelyn was the one trying to
08:49murder her own father.
08:50And when you were locked in the chapel for it, Chloe offered to bring you food,
08:54but she never brought a single scrap.
08:57Instead, she ordered the guards to terrorize you in the dead of night.
09:02And the elopement?
09:03She forged the love letters, saying you ran away with a servant.
09:07But in truth, she bribed bandits in the wilderness to kill you, to make you vanish forever.
09:12Take Chloe away.
09:15Derry shrewd her!
09:19The doors were violently thrown open.
09:22Templar knights in white gold armor flooded into the hall.
09:25At their head was Prince Hedrick.
09:27Evelyn, you despicable madwoman!
09:29You dare harm my betrothed?
09:31I will see you burned to ashes upon the pyre.
09:33Oh?
09:34To arrest the true-born daughter of this house within her own father's manor, have you asked for their consent?
09:39The Earl lowered his eyes.
09:41The Countess stammered for a while, then said nothing.
09:43Do you honestly believe that by ruining Chloe you can marry me?
09:46Ridiculous.
09:47I will make you pay for every sin you have committed.
09:49Kill her!
09:50I have only one sister, and that is Chloe!
09:53Even when faced with the truth, you still choose to shield her?
09:56The truth.
09:57As a prince, if I say Chloe's innocent, then she is innocent.
10:00And you? You are nothing but a murderer driven mad by jealousy.
10:04Take her away. Bring her to the High Tribunal.
10:07Tell the Lord Justice to ensure this venomous woman is to the full extent of the law.
10:11My apologies, Prince Hedrick. I'm afraid I cannot do that.
10:14Lord Justice Bell stepped from the shadows.
10:16He did not look at Hedrick. Instead, he knelt before me.
10:22So sorry, Your Highness.
10:24By order of the King, anyone in this room who seeks to harm me,
10:30is to be thrown into the dungeon.
10:34I granted you your revenge, did I not?
10:37Yet now you take the power I gave you and use it against my own son.
10:41King Alexander questioned me in displeasure.
10:43I lounged on the Velvet Shea, half as asleep in the sun, without looking at him.
10:48Your temperament.
10:50It grows more like hers.
10:52I recalled our meeting half a wonks ago.
10:54I had gone to the convent to see the Queen Mother.
10:57And there, I crossed paths with the King.
10:59In a single, fluid strike, I had unhorsed him.
11:02I stepped on his shoulder-blowed and caught his throat.
11:05The guards moved to kill me, but he waved them back.
11:07He said my movements in that moment reminded him of Lillian,
11:11his first love lost so many years ago.
11:13How absurd.
11:15I was Lillian, before his queen had me nailed into a coffin.
11:19Now, wearing Evelyn's face to play the part of my former self,
11:22it was, of course, a perfect reflection.
11:25Who better to play the ghost than the woman herself?
11:29He had fallen for me at first sight, demanding that I become his mistress.
11:34And the condition I set was simple.
11:37Kill Chloe for me.
11:39He must kill Chloe for me.
11:42Alexander had grown old.
11:44He had become mellow.
11:45His former ruthlessness weathered away.
11:47He no longer had the stomach to meddle in the private affairs of his ministers.
11:51He only commanded the Lord Justice to assist me.
11:54Whether I succeeded or failed depended entirely on my own hands.
11:58So, I chose a blood-soaked path for the interrogation.
12:02With the Lord Justice standing witness and the evidence irrefutable,
12:06they all broke and confessed.
12:08Then came Prince Hedrick,
12:09eager to vent his fury on behalf of his fiancée.
12:13He nearly died as a child, and the queen has cattled him ever since.
12:17To see Hedrack turn out like this, it is a profound disappointment.
12:21Just disappointment?
12:22I looked up at him, my gaze Lillian that just the look he loved most.
12:26Seeing me like that, his eyes softened.
12:29He was about to speak.
12:31Her Majesty! The Queen!
12:33My eyes lit up.
12:36Juliana, it has been a long time.
12:38I've waited so long for this moment.
12:41Queen Juliana looked perfectly composed.
12:46Then she passed me without a glance.
12:49Hedrick is still young.
12:50He was merely led astray by some wicked influence and acted out of impulse.
12:54As Queen, I have failed to guide the Crown Prince.
12:56I am willing to sequenced myself in St. Mary's Convent to repent for my failure.
13:00It was a calculated gamble.
13:02She wasn't begging for mercy.
13:03She was betting on power.
13:05The Normans, standing behind Juliana,
13:07controlled a third of the Empire's iron mines and its military.
13:09If she and Hedrick were penalized,
13:11the Normans would not take it lying down,
13:13and the cabinet would be thrown into a frenzy once more.
13:16Her Majesty has been ill for months.
13:18She nearly collapsed on the journey.
13:20My Lady, in the presence of the King,
13:22does a mere servant now have the right to speak?
13:26Alexander waved his hand.
13:29Lord Justice Bell immediately had the talkable lady-in-waiter dragged out.
13:33This wicked influence the Queen speaks of,
13:35does she mean me?
13:36Or is she referring to that woman of dubious origin, Chloe?
13:40You are the one I love.
13:41If you were wicked, would that not make me the Lord of Hell?
13:44Since this woman called Chloe is so insidious,
13:47manipulating the Prince's mercy
13:49and plotting to murder a member of the royal family,
13:52I shall sentence her to...
13:53No! Father!
13:56Prince Hedrick stumbled into the inner hall.
14:01Presumptuous!
14:03If you do not wake from that woman's spell this instant,
14:06I will personally send her to meet God!
14:08Mother, Chloe is innocent!
14:10She is as pure as an angel,
14:12merely framed by a wicked soul.
14:14Her face is already ruined.
14:15She has suffered more than enough.
14:16As the mistress of this kingdom,
14:18you should be protecting a fragile woman like her!
14:20Alexander looked at the Prince.
14:22His eyes filled with disgust.
14:24Since His Highness remains unconvinced,
14:26why not let him visit the Chamber of Incredation
14:28and witness the interrogation herself?
14:29The Queen's face changed.
14:31Her body trembled violently.
14:32The Chamber has 72 methods of torture.
14:35No one emerges alive.
14:36Hedrick has never seen such carnage.
14:38I fear it will shatter his mind.
14:41Instead of wasting your breath begging me,
14:43you would be better off educating your useless son.
14:46Continue to pamper him,
14:48and he will be fit for nothing but exile to the frozen woods of the North.
14:52I suppose this counts as me settling the score for you.
14:56I am not entirely satisfied.
15:00But since you stood up for me,
15:02I shall ensure you are satisfied as well.
15:08Three days later,
15:10the once-arrogant Prince Hedrick collapsed,
15:12broken by illness.
15:13Word spread that he had watched,
15:15paralyzed,
15:15as Chloe was torn apart,
15:17her blood slicking the stone floor.
15:19With her final Eubing strength,
15:20she clawed at his boots.
15:22Save me, Hedrick.
15:23He had fled the scene in pure, unambulterated terror,
15:26but he remained ignorant of the truth.
15:28The blade I used to mark Chloe
15:29had been dipped in a vampiric hallucinant.
15:31Now, every time he closes his eyes,
15:34he sees the spherical image of Chloe
15:35whispering at his bedside,
15:37You promised we would be together forever.
15:39I was not content with merely shattering
15:41a prince's insanity.
15:43I took the blood-crusted gown
15:45Chloe wore during her agony,
15:47sealed it within an exquisite gift box,
15:50and had it delivered
15:51to the Earl's Manor.
15:53I heard the Countess
15:54had coughed up blood
15:56and fallen into a coma
15:58on the spot.
15:59The Blackwoods,
16:00once steeped in glory,
16:02have become the premier laughingstock
16:03of the social season.
16:04That my air should be so utterly spinless.
16:07This shame is a fate
16:09far worse than death.
16:10The Queen happened to pass by
16:12and heard him.
16:13Her face twisted with fury.
16:15I watched her from the King's side.
16:17Then I gave her a provocative smile.
16:21Alexander sought Lillian's ghost within me
16:24with a fervory bordering on madness.
16:26He craved that specific reckless arrogance
16:28in my soul,
16:29that untamed defiance.
16:31He came to my chambers almost every day,
16:34heaping favor, jewels,
16:35and power at my feet like offerings.
16:37Lillian.
16:40Your Majesty.
16:42Look closely.
16:43I am Evelyn.
16:46True.
16:46She was never this submissive.
16:48If Juliana had dared to call her a witch,
16:50she would have slapped her right in front of me.
16:52I hadn't always been so overbearing.
16:54The only time I had struck Juliana
16:56was when she pointed at my swollen belly.
16:58You have spilled too much blood.
16:59You are not worthy of bearing royal seeds.
17:01Even if you carry it to term,
17:03there is no guarantee
17:04you will bring forth a living soul.
17:07The cost of that impulse?
17:09I was sentenced to kneel for a full night.
17:12In the cold,
17:13I lost the child
17:14that had been in my womb for eight months.
17:17Only much later did I learn
17:19that when Juliana approached me that day,
17:21she carried a scent
17:22infused with abortifections.
17:23From the very beginning,
17:25she had marked that child for death.
17:27My child died in her shadow.
17:29Thus, her son shall never know peace
17:31within these palace walls.
17:33What about Lillian?
17:35How did she die?
17:38Alexander's body went stujic.
17:39He drew his hand out of my hair.
17:41It is late.
17:44Sleep.
17:47I cannot sleep.
17:48My mind is haunted
17:50by the memory of my brother.
17:51The year Alexander went on his great campaign,
17:54Juliana's brother led the Holy Army
17:55to siege my estate.
17:57Juliana dragged my brother,
17:58whom I had hidden so carefully,
17:59and forced him before me
18:00to demand my surrender.
18:01You die, or he dies.
18:03Make your choice.
18:04My family, the house of Mortani,
18:06had been falsely accused
18:07by the late king.
18:08Every soul was slaughtered.
18:09Only my brother and I remained.
18:11I became Alexander's shadow,
18:12an assassin killing anyone
18:14whom he wished to eliminate.
18:15All for the day I could clear our name,
18:17and all to keep that boy alive.
18:18He was only seven then,
18:20just three years older than Hedrick.
18:21My brother,
18:22played, had already sworn an oath
18:23to reclaim our family's justice.
18:25Don't worry about me!
18:27Just run!
18:28Even with Juliana's blade
18:29at his throat,
18:29he remained...
18:30If she dares to flee,
18:31I will flay you alive.
18:33Seeing that I would not drop my blade,
18:35they hurt him with their bare hands.
18:36It doesn't hurt.
18:37I'm a man.
18:38I can take it.
18:39His leg was broken
18:40beneath her brother's boot.
18:42When Juliana's blade
18:43moved toward his eye,
18:44I threw down my knife.
18:46But at that same moment,
18:47a sword pierced me from behind.
18:49The one who struck me
18:50was my most trusted confidants.
18:52That woman still lives
18:54within these palace walls,
18:56quietly savoring her wealth and status.
18:59Her life is a debt
19:02that must now be paid.
19:07The palace held a grand autumn hunt banquet.
19:10Alexander held my hand tightly
19:12and seated me beside him.
19:13Juliana held on to her pride.
19:15Hatred clenched between her teeth.
19:17The goblet in Juliana's hand
19:19nearly shattered.
19:20I rose and left the banquet.
19:23Be careful.
19:26I have this.
19:28Don't worry.
19:31I walked to a secluded place.
19:33A rusty iron door opened.
19:36Selina stood trembling in the moonlight,
19:38waiting for me.
19:39Are they still alive?
19:40What more do you want from me?
19:42Neil.
19:44Yes, my lady.
19:46This place is a far cry
19:48from the grand courtyard
19:49you once inhabited.
19:51What's the matter?
19:52Has Juliana not been kind to you?
19:55I failed to bear the king a child.
19:58This is the life I have earned.
20:00What is it you want?
20:01Pay more frequent visits to the queen.
20:04Since her precious son is bedthrown,
20:06it is only fitting that you go
20:07and offer your compassion.
20:10If I do this,
20:12will you release my family?
20:14You are in no position to bargain with me.
20:16That year,
20:17she was the only one who had my brother's letter.
20:19The hand that sold us out belonged to her.
20:21Selina.
20:22Blood for blood.
20:23What made her think she had the right to negotiate?
20:25From the moment I delivered the keepsakes of her mother and brother into her hands,
20:29every day until her death,
20:31she would know no peace.
20:35On my way back to the banquet,
20:36Lady Aurora stopped me.
20:38You look remarkably like an old friend of mine.
20:40I know.
20:41The king told me.
20:42I'm just a stand-in for his first love.
20:44But with plenty to eat in the king's favor,
20:46why should I complain?
20:48The current situation is a golden opportunity for Prince Derek.
20:52The king is desperate for an able son.
20:54A chance like this won't come again.
20:55Compared to the queen's brittle hypocrisy,
20:57you seem far more genuine to me.
20:59The scales of power in the kingdom began to tilt entirely
21:02at the subtle agitation of my fingertips.
21:05Hedric collapsed under the weight of his own terror.
21:08The ambitious Derek finally had his moment
21:11to command the Round Table Council.
21:16His mother, Lady Aurora,
21:18had once been my favorite handmaiden at the estate.
21:20In those days, she trailed behind me like a fragile shadow,
21:23soft and obedient.
21:25Whenever I returned to the man after eliminating the king's enemies,
21:28she would be waiting at the end of the long gallery with warm water,
21:32ready to cleanse my wounds.
21:34The two people I had trusted most in that life,
21:36one was Aurora, whom I had elevated with my own hand.
21:39The other was Selina,
21:40the wretch I had plucked from the grave.
21:42But in the end, Selina traded my brother's life for a royal title.
21:45And Aurora,
21:46she drove a blade through my back
21:48to purchase a future for herself and her son.
21:50Neither shall escape the debt they owe.
21:55Now, armed with the evidence I provided,
21:58Aurora has seen a duke from the queen's lineage
22:01imprisoned for corruption.
22:02Derek tirelessly courts the masses,
22:04crushing the weakened Hedric under his thee.
22:06In the palace walls,
22:08Aurora openly flaunters our alliance,
22:09catching the queen completely off guard.
22:12Thank you for the gift, dear Evelyn.
22:15It is a pity the old duke went to his grave without implicating Hedric.
22:20The evidence is irrelevant.
22:22Rumors have a poison all their own.
22:25Prince Derek should understand that well enough.
22:27I rose and left.
22:30Aurora's smile vanished in an instant.
22:32She truly believes she is the hunter.
22:35She has no inkling that the deadliest predators
22:38always present themselves as the prey.
22:43Because I was pregnant,
22:45Alexander mobilized nearly the entire royal guard
22:47to encircle my chambers.
22:49This time,
22:50I will ensure that both mother and child survive.
22:53I hid the mockery at the corner of my mouth.
22:55A few days later,
22:57Selina joined me for afternoon tea.
22:59When Alexander arrived,
23:01I was already lying on the marble floor.
23:03Don't sleep, Evelyn.
23:05The physicians are coming.
23:07Stay with me.
23:08I will never leave your side.
23:10He was undoubtedly reliving the day Lillian lost her child.
23:15When he had carried her out of a similar scene,
23:18only to find the life within her gone,
23:20I mirrored the haunting,
23:22hollow-eyed stare Lillian once wore
23:24when she was broken.
23:26Selina's maid knelt on the floor and said,
23:28The Queen has been summoning Our Lady constantly.
23:30Before Our Lady came here,
23:31the Queen sent a message.
23:32Go in peace.
23:33I shall handle the rest.
23:35When the physicians declared
23:36that I had been ravaged by a lethal toxin,
23:39my body shattered.
23:40My womb rendered forever barren.
23:42He loathed the repetition of this tragedy even more.
23:45Alexander turned and stormed toward the Queen's palace.
23:50As Selina was dragged away,
23:52she shrieked for mercy,
23:54her eyes wide with desperate entitient.
23:56I knew what she wanted.
23:57She had played her part in my script.
23:59She expected me to spare her mother and brother.
24:01But my brother is dead.
24:03By what right does she still have hers?
24:05She was thrown into the deepest dungeon.
24:08I stood before her in a black cloak.
24:10You promised!
24:11You said if I did doing,
24:12they would live!
24:13You lost so much blood,
24:15yet you stand here now?
24:16You aren't human.
24:17What are you?
24:18I crouched down and looked at her with ice in my eyes.
24:21Years ago,
24:22I rescued her mother from a brothel
24:24and found her brother honest work.
24:27Yet,
24:27those two lured my brother out of hiding
24:29with lies of my peril.
24:31I am not Lillian's sister.
24:34Lillian never had a sister.
24:36So guess,
24:37why are my killing techniques
24:39exactly the same as Lillian's?
24:41Why do I have the same face as hers?
24:46When I returned to the palace,
24:48Alexander was sitting by the bed,
24:50reading.
24:52Come here.
24:53It's cold outside.
24:55I went to kill someone.
24:57She deserved it.
24:58You won't ask who?
25:00It doesn't matter.
25:01He was desperate to atone
25:02for his failures to Lillian through me.
25:04For a fleeting second,
25:05I almost faltered under the weight of his devotion.
25:08But then I remembered.
25:10The true executioner,
25:11the queen,
25:12had been forgiven.
25:13He had merely confined her to her chambers.
25:16When you have healed,
25:17I shall name you Duchess.
25:20No more schemes,
25:21all right?
25:22What if I want her life
25:23in exchange for my child?
25:25Evelyn!
25:26He was reminding me to behave.
25:27To be a graceful bird in a cage,
25:30not a predator seeking blood.
25:31Lillian died by her hand too,
25:33didn't she?
25:33Did you protect her back then the same way?
25:35Alexander froze.
25:36Or is it that you never truly loved Lillian,
25:39just as you never truly cared for me?
25:40Enough!
25:41I have spoiled you beyond reason.
25:43Who do you think you are?
25:44You are but a plaything I keep.
25:45From this day forth,
25:46you go nowhere!
25:49Alexander adored my wild defiance,
25:51yet he loathed my lack of submission.
25:54It was the same paradox he had with Lillian.
25:57He loved her for the blood she spilled in his name,
26:00yet condemned her for being too fierce.
26:02He preferred the queen's poise,
26:04Aurora's gentleness,
26:05and Selina's duplicity,
26:06quiet virtues that never challenged his ego.
26:09The truth was,
26:10he loved no one but himself.
26:11I offered you a thousand chances for redemption.
26:15You chose to look away.
26:17Do not blame me for the ruin that follows.
26:20Soon, the court was abuzz with a new scandal.
26:22The arrogant Evelyn had finally overstepped,
26:25becoming a cursed, discarded favor.
26:27No one rejoiced more than Aurora.
26:29She seized control of the internal palace affairs,
26:32while her son, Derek,
26:33began to dominate the council chamber,
26:35as if the crown were already his.
26:37Hedrick, shattered by the psychological horrors he had witnessed,
26:40was stripped of his authority,
26:42and sent to a monastery to converse it.
26:44Upon hearing of her son's ruin,
26:46Queen Juliana coughed up blood.
26:48From her sickbed,
26:50she begged for an audience with the king,
26:52only to have the doors slammed in her face.
26:55That day,
26:56I flew a giant falcon kite in the garden.
27:01Years ago, Lillian's brother had gifted Alexander a captured falcon,
27:05promising to guard the king just as an eagle guards the sky.
27:08When Alexander stood outside the palace and looked up at the circling falcon,
27:13I knew he was thinking of the boy who had died under the holy army's swords.
27:17The earl sent a messenger with a cold ultimatum,
27:20begged the king's forgiveness at once.
27:21For the sake of the family,
27:23I shall send a more subdisive daughter to the palace.
27:25Raise her child as your own.
27:27That shall be your only support.
27:29Understand this.
27:30Without the earlity,
27:31you are nothing.
27:32I placed the letter directly upon Alexander's desk.
27:35No monarch can tolerate a vassal attempting to pull the strings of his private life.
27:39Overnight,
27:39the earl's house was implicated in a treasonous conspiracy.
27:42Their lands were seized,
27:44their titles revoked.
27:45Men like him don't need excuses when they want to act.
27:48Did you not say you loved the untamed spirit within me most of all?
27:52The court is not a slaughterhouse.
27:55I will give you the means to protect yourself,
27:57but you must be mine to command.
27:59Only if you repay me for the child I lost.
28:03A simple request.
28:04There is a solution waiting in the monastery.
28:07He was a sickly, weak little prince named Theodore.
28:10His mother had died in childbirth.
28:12Come here, little one.
28:14Let mother see what my future king looks like.
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