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Abandoned by all I Return as an Heiress ASD
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00:00Gate swung open.
00:02Grant Mercer.
00:03Under the porch light, Grant's icy stare flayed the drenched, trembling Avery.
00:09Fine. I'll give Blair the direct admit master slot the school offered me.
00:13See? If you'd listened from the start, you wouldn't have had to stand out there.
00:18He opened the umbrella, steered her inside with offhand authority.
00:22Avery. So good, so obedient, so brilliant.
00:26Those grades.
00:28That master slot?
00:30Not that important.
00:31Avery shook harder. Colder than the rain.
00:34At ten, the reeds took her into their grief-darkened house and molded her into a proper young lady.
00:39Always compared to Blair.
00:41Grant, her only light, refined and quiet, a flawless prince.
00:45The family's promise now shifted to her.
00:48Then Blair came back, and everything changed.
00:55In a few weeks, we should take a trip.
00:58In a few weeks, we should take a trip.
01:00Maldives, I'll take you diving.
01:02Avery froze. That was his trick.
01:04Tossing her sweetness just as she was about to give up.
01:09You're running a fever?
01:10Avery's mouth twisted bitterly.
01:12Of course she had a fever. He'd locked her out in rain.
01:16Grant carried her to bed.
01:27Grant, my stomach hurts so bad, I think I'm gonna die.
01:30Grant's face filled with panic.
01:31He strode out immediately, forgetting Avery.
01:33The villa fell silent.
01:36Avery lay burning, tears slipping down.
01:39She called the overseas number she'd refused so many times.
01:43I'm agreeing now.
01:46Give me half a month to wrap up my academic work here.
01:50Then I'll return to France and acknowledge the family.
01:59After the call ended, Avery Reed's head swelled with a dull, relentless ache.
02:06She spent the night alone in a sterile room.
02:08She entered the hallway.
02:11This is all my fault.
02:12I'm so weak.
02:13Just cramps and I turned it into this big thing.
02:15And you stayed all night.
02:16You went through too much.
02:18It's okay.
02:18I'm here.
02:20Grant, you stayed all night.
02:22Avery won't get mad, will she?
02:24She doesn't get to be mad.
02:25Eleven years of love.
02:27Three years as his girlfriend.
02:28In the end, all she got was that sentence.
02:31Then Finn, the Reed's own son, arrived.
02:33What are you doing here?
02:34What are you trying to do to Blair?
02:36You saw Blair with Grant and got jealous, right?
02:38Shouldn't I be jealous?
02:40Grant is my boyfriend.
02:41You took Blair's place.
02:42I lived a princess for eleven years.
02:44I didn't beg to come here.
02:45Your parents chose me.
02:47Now I'm willing to leave.
02:47Why won't you let me go?
02:49It's the family's reputation.
02:51That's it.
02:52So that was the truth.
02:56Her knees hit first, then the rest of her followed.
02:59The only thing she was allowed to keep was the pain.
03:02Avery spent three days in the hospital.
03:04No one visited.
03:05The villa had been a gift from Grant.
03:06Now it felt like an abandoned set.
03:10I came to thank you.
03:11That master's so generous.
03:13How did you get in?
03:14Grant gave me the key.
03:15He's been staying at my place.
03:16You can't swim?
03:17Who do you think Grant built this pool for?
03:19I've loved swimming since I was a kid.
03:20Even won championships.
03:21Swim all you want.
03:22At least you can do that.
03:28Mom!
03:28Dad!
03:29Avery was trying to push me in!
03:31We were gonna check on you, and this is what you do?
03:32What did Blair ever do to you?
03:34Trying to kill her?
03:36Unungrateful little brat.
03:40Two meters deep.
03:42Through the shifting surface, the words came,
03:44Let her learn what freezing water feels like.
03:51Are you done yet?
03:52Last time you nearly got Blair killed.
03:55Don't blame Avery.
03:59Then she lost even consciousness.
04:03When Avery stepped into the living room, the laughter died.
04:06She simply started up the stairs.
04:09Oh my god!
04:10My necklace is gone!
04:11Did it fall in the pool?
04:12Avery!
04:13You threw Blair's necklace in the pool?
04:15No!
04:16I didn't push her or throw her necklace!
04:18If it were cheap, I wouldn't care.
04:19But mom and dad gave it to me.
04:21When I was taken, I held on to it.
04:25Find that necklace, or I'm not letting this go.
04:29Put it on.
04:29Go down and find Blair's necklace.
04:31This is what you owe her.
04:39She moved inch by inch across the bottom, fingers scraping tiles.
04:45Five hours later, her fingers brushed something near the drainage gap.
04:52Her eyelids fluttered.
04:54The only thing she was allowed to keep was the pain.
04:59Avery spent two days alone in the villa, barely eating or sleeping.
05:02When she finally awoke with a clearer mind, she called her biological parents overseas.
05:07Don't do a short-term visa.
05:08Apply for permanent residency for me.
05:11She stepped out, folders stiffed with documents,
05:14shuttling to and from the French consulate.
05:15A red Ferrari roared down the street.
05:20She flinched, then turned away.
05:22He wouldn't notice her anyway.
05:25That night, Avery sat on the cold floor, TV blaring.
05:30What's wrong?
05:31I saw you at the French consul today.
05:33Why were you there?
05:34The lab is sending me to a conference.
05:36Paperwork.
05:38He smiled, stroked her hair, asked about a movie.
05:41Grant checked his watch, waiting for the moment he could leave without looking cruel.
05:44I'm tired. I'm going to bed.
05:49Tomorrow, Intercontinental Hotel.
05:50We're celebrating Blair's direct-admit spot.
05:52Pick out a gift.
05:53She would leave, without giving anyone the chance to stop her.
05:57If she walked in, the friendly mood would snap.
06:02Avery's experiment got results today.
06:04Major breakthrough.
06:06Everyone's congratulating her.
06:07She did it on purpose.
06:09Waited until today to announce, just to embarrass Blair.
06:12I've got a better idea.
06:15We say Blair did it.
06:16Let her take the credit.
06:18Straight into a PhD.
06:19That's genius.
06:20You're the best, Finn.
06:22She already took Blair's place for over a decade.
06:24Let her give this to Blair.
06:26Grant, what do you think?
06:28I'll talk to Avery.
06:29I'll have her give the results to Blair.
06:31She had known they didn't love her.
06:33Hearing this still felt like being skinned alive.
06:44Not this time.
06:45She refused to give him the satisfaction of seeing her break.
06:48Avery vanished into the lab.
06:50Phone off.
06:51Making herself smaller than the panic.
06:53The only place she'd breathe unwatched.
06:57You're still here this late?
07:00Avery, give this result to Blair.
07:02I lived in this lab.
07:04My hands peeled from the chemicals.
07:05Do you have a heart at all?
07:06You worked hard.
07:08So what?
07:09You're talented.
07:10You'll have other accomplishments.
07:11Blair isn't like you.
07:13You took Blair's place for over a decade.
07:14Making a small sacrifice now.
07:16Isn't that what you owe?
07:17Don't be an ungrateful leech.
07:19You want me to be grateful?
07:21Call me ungrateful then.
07:22But I'm not giving Blair my results.
07:24Not this time.
07:30Under the lab's dim light, the distance between them finally looked permanent.
07:35For days, no word from Grant.
07:38She returned to the lab, access denied.
07:41She called her advisor.
07:42The professor who once praised her sounded like a stranger.
07:45Starting today, you're no longer a member of this lab.
07:48The department group chat exploded.
07:50Someone posted...
07:51Then one message.
07:52Why does Blair's result look exactly like Avery's?
07:54Did she copy?
07:58Avery crossed campus.
07:59Eyes turned as she passed.
08:00Plagiarist!
08:01Voices drifted from all sides.
08:03She tried to explain.
08:04To scream.
08:04To run.
08:05Nothing worked.
08:05Her phone buzzed.
08:06Academic fares.
08:07She was expelled.
08:08The phone slipped from her hand.
08:09Absurd and heartbroken.
08:17It felt like the ground had vanished beneath her feet.
08:20And there was nowhere left to fall that wouldn't hurt.
08:31I didn't plagiarize.
08:32And whether the Reans acknowledge me or not, I won't acknowledge them anymore.
08:44She's been a problem since childhood.
08:46Cheating on exams.
08:48Lying without shame.
08:51Her phone wouldn't stop.
08:52Insults.
08:53Threats.
08:54Curses flooding the screen.
08:56This time, she didn't even cry.
08:57Avery pushed open the rooftop's heavy iron door.
09:01For a quiet moment, she felt the wind.
09:03A goodbye.
09:05The door burst open.
09:07Grant rushed out, panicked.
09:09Avery!
09:10Get down from there!
09:11She finally understood.
09:13Her life wasn't meant for a stranger who never knew her.
09:19Goodbye to everything here.
09:24He strode straight in and grabbed the patient by the arm.
09:27Where's Avery?
09:28A nurse rushed over.
09:30Sir, Miss Reed was discharged yesterday.
09:33Grant's brow furrowed.
09:35Discharged to where?
09:38If you're family, shouldn't you be the one who knows where she went?
09:41It wasn't quiet in the normal way.
09:43It was dead.
09:43Like a house that had stopped waiting for anyone to return.
09:46He grabbed the first house staff member he saw.
09:49Where's Avery?
09:51Miss Reed isn't with you?
09:52She hasn't been back in a long time.
09:54She paid our wages and let everyone go.
09:56Today's my last day too.
09:57The anger hit first.
09:58He turned.
09:59Saw a vase on a display shelf.
10:00And smashed it to the floor.
10:02Night fell.
10:02The bar was loud.
10:03Bright.
10:04And full of bodies.
10:05Finn Reed dropped into the seat beside him.
10:07What's going on with you?
10:07The manager says you've been here every night.
10:09Blair even asked me.
10:10She's been texting you.
10:11Why aren't you replying?
10:12I'll call Blair later.
10:13I'll explain.
10:13Have you seen Avery?
10:15Who?
10:15Avery?
10:17Avery's gone.
10:17I've been looking for her for a week.
10:19I can't find her.
10:19Why are you looking?
10:20You know what she's like.
10:21She's throwing a fit and playing disappearing acts.
10:23She's waiting for everyone to feel bad and go pegging.
10:25That's her whole thing.
10:26She's always been good at these little tricks.
10:28Don't drink so much.
10:29Show up early tomorrow.
10:30The next day, Blair Reed's birthday party looked exactly like it had the year before.
10:35Grant Mercer was the last to show up.
10:37The faint smell of alcohol still clung to him.
10:40Grant, you're finally here.
10:41I've been waiting.
10:43Sorry, Blair.
10:44I've been busy these past few days.
10:46I didn't even get you a gift.
10:48Blair swallowed her tears right away.
10:50A smile returned to her lips.
10:52When the banquet began, glasses clinked and laughter rose.
10:56Grant, come on.
10:56Let's wish Blair a happy birthday together.
10:58Come on, Grant.
11:00Happy birthday.
11:03Blair, this is your birthday.
11:05Say your wish.
11:06Whatever it is, Grant will make it happen.
11:10Grant, you already know how I feel.
11:12Blair just...
11:13I've always thought of you as a little sister.
11:15My girlfriend is Avery.
11:22The Reeds had always spoken poorly of Avery, but Grant found it unbearable.
11:26The next day, Blair was showing off her new designer pieces to her classmates when a call
11:30came in and told her to report to the research building for a meeting.
11:36What kind of meeting is so urgent they have to drag me in?
11:40At the head of the conference table sat a young man who looked barely out of his jeans.
11:44This is Logan Maddox.
11:46He is the appointed representative of Maddox Biopharma Group.
11:49So tell me, can you reproduce it?
11:51Blair's face went white.
11:52Her fingers shook as she pulled on gloves, then reached for a test tube.
11:55She started moving by instinct, copying motions she had seen before and hoping it would look
11:59convincing.
12:00It didn't.
12:00She hesitated at every step.
12:01She checked labels too long.
12:03She fumbled with measurements.
12:04Grant arrived to find a scene that made his blood run cold.
12:07A man in black gripped Blair's wrist.
12:10Logan's voice snapped through the lab.
12:12You don't know the basic order for adding reagents.
12:14And you still dare claim this result is yours?
12:17You, Blair Reed, and you.
12:19You stole Avery Reed's result.
12:22You buried her and called it procedure.
12:24Grant pushed forward, grabbed Logan's shoulder.
12:26You know Avery?
12:28Where is she?
12:29Did she send you?
12:30She's not coming back.
12:31Who I am doesn't matter.
12:33What matters is what you did.
12:36I'll collect every debt.
12:37One by one.
12:40He turned to leave.
12:42Reporters flooded in with cameras minutes later.
12:44By evening, the headlines spread.
12:46Reed's biological daughter accused of fraud.
12:48The Reed house descended into panic.
12:50The door slammed open.
12:51Finn Reed walked in with documents, his face tight with humiliation.
12:55Logan is the CEO's son.
12:56That daughter is Avery.
12:58He'll swallow our company whole.
13:01Finn, find Logan.
13:03We'll apologize in person.
13:05Outside the door of the top floor penthouse, the Reed family waited nervously.
13:09Logan reminded them coldly that Avery now has nothing to do with their family.
13:13Your contribution.
13:15You're contributing her as a substitute from the start.
13:18Mrs. Reed saw only the scenes she couldn't erase.
13:22You have no right to be here.
13:32Where is she?
13:35Let me see her once.
13:40I can take you there and I'm like my Thai grad.
13:42But whether she sees you is her choice.
13:46Grant felt the weight of this luxury, yet it didn't belong to him.
13:52In Logan's presence, his confidence felt flimsy.
13:55What was Avery's life like now?
14:02A French butler waited at the stairs, his presence flawless and practiced.
14:08Mr. Grant, welcome.
14:10They followed the coastline, climbing through trimmed lanes and vineyard slopes.
14:15Logan and 50 tellering to the head went to the Frastons.
14:18The for Grant's hypermigure raised Dean Roppel.
14:30Grant couldn't remember the last time Avery's face looked this light.
14:38He wanted to step back into her life without being refused.
14:48Grant's arms froze in midair.
14:50His smile held for a second too long, then stiffened into something awkward.
14:58Her expression stayed down the calm, almost detached, as if she had already placed this conversation at a distance.
15:03Grant stepped closer and did what he always did.
15:05He reached out and ruffled her hair.
15:08His gaze softened, careful and warm.
15:10Avery, I've missed you much.
15:12If you want to go somewhere, if you want to see someone, tell me.
15:14I'll go with you.
15:15I'll be there.
15:17Grant, hearing you talk like this makes my skin crawl.
15:19It sounds fake.
15:21Did you forget what happened?
15:22I'm sorry.
15:23I know you were hurt.
15:25I handled things badly.
15:26I ignored your feelings.
15:28Please forgive me.
15:29I'm tired.
15:30I'm leaving.
15:31I'm choosing myself.
15:33Avery turned toward the house.
15:34Grant stepped after her, still unwilling to accept it.
15:37At a jewelry auction a few days later, Avery stepped into the hall and immediately felt someone watching her.
15:41She followed the heat of that stain and found Grant standing across the room in a dark suit, posture straight,
15:45eyes locked on her.
15:46Grant rose with a calm that looked practiced.
15:48He offered a number that made the room go quiet.
15:50Avery, the host said an emerald bracelet symbolizes letting go and hope.
15:54Take it.
15:54Let's put the past down and start over.
15:56Please.
15:57Mr. Mercer, you're misunderstanding.
15:58I don't like this bracelet.
15:59I don't need to let go of anything.
16:00The past taught me what I needed to learn and I'm doing well.
16:04He's still there?
16:05He won't go.
16:06He keeps saying he needs to see you one more time.
16:12Avery remembered that night of endless rain.
16:14The roles had reversed.
16:18Send him away.
16:19I'm not seeing him.
16:21Grant's brand new suit was soaked.
16:23The cold made his hands ham stiff.
16:25He didn't care.
16:27All that mattered was seeing Avery.
16:29Avery?
16:30Where is she?
16:31Go.
16:32She won't see you.
16:36Grant finally understood Avery was not going to forgive him.
16:40She had every reason to hate him.
16:43He had lost her forever.
16:46Baby, why aren't you taking our calls?
16:49Why did you stop sending money?
16:59Dad.
17:00Mom.
17:02Finn, why are you home?
17:04Who are they?
17:05Why did they call you their daughter?
17:07You reeds really are trash.
17:10I shouldn't have handed my daughter over to you.
17:17Half an hour later, police arrived.
17:19They brought everyone to the hospital for a DNA test.
17:27The result came back fast.
17:29Blair was not related to the reeds.
17:32Your real daughter was taken by organ traffickers.
17:34She's probably dead.
17:50You lying bitch!
17:53You deceived me!
17:54You turned my family into a joke!
17:56My Blair is gone!
17:58My Blair is gone!
17:59Avery is gone too!
18:00I-I'll kill you!
18:02Mr. Reed stabbed the fake Blair and was arrested on the spot.
18:05When Grant returned to the States, the scandal had exploded everywhere.
18:09Scrub that again.
18:10You can't even do this right.
18:12And this food is disgusting!
18:13I want seafood!
18:14When Grant comes back, he'll take me away.
18:17He's easy.
18:18He believes whatever I tell him.
18:22Grant.
18:23You're back.
18:30What did you lie to me about?
18:31I'll talk!
18:32I'll tell you!
18:33Let go!
18:34The car accident wasn't Avery's fault.
18:36I planned it.
18:37Avery never did anything to me.
18:39I framed her.
18:39Grant listened without surprise.
18:41What he felt was disgust and self-loathing.
18:43I was the most ridiculous of all.
18:46He finally understood what she had needed all along.
18:49Trust.
18:50He had worn her down piece by piece.
18:52Then convinced himself it was normal.
18:54This wasn't a mistake he could apologize away.
18:56Blair ran.
18:57Grant stood in the rain-soaked alley, his anger unbroken.
19:01Two weeks later, Blair was handed over to debt collectors by her own father.
19:07Will you help get my father out?
19:09He brought this on himself.
19:11How can you be so heartless?
19:12You treated Avery badly when she was a kid.
19:15You took her work.
19:16You discarded her the moment Blair wanted the spotlight.
19:19How much better are you, Grant?
19:29We wronged Avery.
19:31We hurt her.
19:32It's all our fault.
19:37Meanwhile, in France, Avery was walking through a field of tulip.
19:42The sun shone brightly on her face.
19:45All the pain and darkness of the past were finally behind her.
19:47She had found the love and belonging she had always deserved.
19:56If you get the chance, apologize to Avery for me.
20:01Mom, we have to call Avery.
20:05Bonjour.
20:07Avery, it's mom.
20:09My mother is Mrs. Maddox.
20:11We were wrong.
20:12I'm sick.
20:15Please come see me once.
20:17I'll transfer money to your account.
20:20I have nothing to do with your family anymore.
20:23Mrs. Reed stared at the phone, tears streaming down her face.
20:26Meanwhile, in France, Avery closed her phone and smiled.
20:29She had finally broken free from the past that had chained her for so long.
20:32A new life, full of love and light, was waiting for her.
20:35Mrs. Reed broke down completely.
20:37She had lost both her biological daughter and the girl she raised for 11 years.
20:41Mom, I don't think it's over.
20:43Avery just transferred 10 million to us.
20:47We'll go to the media and clear Avery's name.
20:49You fly to France.
20:50Beg her if you have to.
20:50I'll make Avery feel our sincerity.
20:52Two days later, Finn boarded a flight to France.
20:58I'm sorry, Avery.
20:59I was wrong.
21:03Our aircraft has been struck by lightning.
21:06The cabin lights flickered, then died completely.
21:09Finn felt the sickening pull of weightlessness.
21:12Avery, I might never get to say it to your face.
21:16The news of the plane crash spread around the world within hours.
21:19In France, Avery received the news in silence.
21:25It's finally over.
21:30I'm very sorry.
21:32Your son was among the victims.
21:36The memorial service had only a handful of attendants.
21:39Grant arrived in black.
21:40The Reed company went bankrupt.
21:42Mr. Reed was sentenced to five years.
21:44Mrs. Reed lost her mind.
21:45Retribution.
21:50Grant applied to a graduate program in France to get close to Avery.
21:54On his first day, he saw Avery walking through the campus with her friends.
22:01He kept appearing at the edges of her life for three months.
22:10Grant, are you done yet?
22:11You're acting like a stalker.
22:13It's disgusting.
22:14I miss you.
22:15I can't eat.
22:16I can't sleep.
22:17Please, give me one more chance.
22:19You made this for my 20th birthday.
22:23Wake up.
22:24The ring is gone.
22:25So are we.
22:25He swam back and forth, searching for the ring in the cold water.
22:30The path was empty.
22:32Avery had left long ago.
22:35She's really gone.
22:36Exhausted and soaked, Grant searched the campus until his legs went mum.
22:42He spotted Avery at the library exit, walking with a tall, handsome guy.
22:46Avery, I found it.
22:48Doesn't that mean there's still a chance?
22:50No.
22:51This is my boyfriend, Ethan Caldwell.
22:59Thank you for being my shield.
23:00I should be the one thanking you.
23:02It's an honor.
23:03I like you, Avery.
23:05I don't care whether you were Avery Reed or Avery Madding.
23:08Someone was watching me all along.
23:10She had chased Grant for 11 years, never noticing the person beside her.
23:14I don't want to miss something real again.
23:16All the pain and heartbreak.
23:17Avery had finally found someone who saw her, loved her, and would never let her go.
23:23A new chapter of her life was about to begin.
23:26The Mercer family business collapsed.
23:28Grant quit school to save the company.
23:30He only saw Avery in the news now.
23:32The distance between them kept widening.
23:36Marry me.
23:37Yes.
23:38She said yes.
23:41Three years later, a wedding was held at the largest tunip estate in France.
23:45Ethan bought the entire estate and replanted it with Avery's favorite tulips.
23:48The sun set over the tulip fields.
23:50The love had finally come to an end.
23:52So I want to look for a little girl.
23:52It's open to a heart of the island but they bring in an air to the other.
23:52Bye.
23:52You
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