The Underworld King's Immortal Ex-Wife [Full Movie]

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00:00:00The moment my best friend learned the truth about my immortality and my enormous fortune,

00:00:05she hired a practitioner of dark sorcery and set a trap to have me killed and sent straight to the

00:00:09underworld. All so she could take my life essence for herself. On the rooftop of a Manhattan

00:00:15skyscraper, I sobbed so hard I could barely breathe. Please don't kill me! I'll give you

00:00:21everything! The trust fund, all of it, every dollar! I was terrified of dying. Truly, utterly

00:00:31terrified. Because my ex-husband, the one who ruled the underworld, had sworn the day I left him that

00:00:38if he ever saw me again, he would throw me into the lake of fire, peel my skin, tear me

00:00:43apart piece

00:00:43by piece. Vanessa, we've known each other for 10 years. I've always been good to you. Please just

00:00:51let me go! I'll transfer everything to you! Please! I dropped to my knees on the rough

00:01:00concrete of the rooftop. My dignity shattered, nearly smashing my forehead against the ground

00:01:05as I begged. Vanessa let out a cold laugh. The pointed tip of her designer heel tilted my chin up.

00:01:13I don't just want your money. She said, I want your endless life. Aren't we best friends?

00:01:19What's yours is mine. If you really care about me, then give it all to me. She shot a look

00:01:27at the

00:01:27black-robed sorcerer beside her. He understood immediately. Grabbing a fistful of my hair,

00:01:35he dragged me toward the edge. 33 stories below, a demonic-packed circle had already been drawn in

00:01:42blood. If I fell and died, everything would go exactly as they planned. I would not even have

00:01:48the chance at reincarnation. Vanessa had made sure of that. No revenge. No lingering spirit.

00:01:56She intended to erase me completely. The freezing New York wind slammed into my face as I struggled,

00:02:04clawing backward. But her grief had already spiraled out of control the moment she learned my secret.

00:02:09She rushed forward and, together with the sorcerer, kicked me over the edge. As I fell,

00:02:16the rushing air drowned out everything. My senses blurred into nothing. Then came the impact.

00:02:23A deafening crash exploded in my ears as my body hit the ground, reduced to a mangled ruin of flesh

00:02:29and blood. When I regained awareness, I was no longer alive. I was in spirit form, standing in the

00:02:37underworld. Two infernal guards stood beside me, each gripping a thumb-thick soul shackle.

00:02:43The other end was locked tightly around my neck. A heavy fog surrounded us, but the distant wails

00:02:50and screams were painfully clear. I had been here before. This was the entrance to the gates of hell,

00:02:56and I had my damned ex-husband to thank for that. Back when I tried to leave him, he had

00:03:03dragged me here

00:03:04himself. Eyes burning red, just to scare me. He never actually threw me in. But now,

00:03:11I was about to be erased for good. I was murdered. I cried, struggling not to be dragged forward.

00:03:18I didn't do anything wrong. One of the guards, a man with a thin mustache,

00:03:24pulled a barbed whip from his belt and lashed me without hesitation. The pain tore straight through

00:03:29my soul. I collapsed instantly, unable even to scream. He said coldly, I don't care where you're

00:03:36from. Once you're in our hands, you're done. If it was a choice between immediate damnation and

00:03:42taking a gamble, I would take the gamble. What if Lucian still remembered me? What if there was even

00:03:49the slightest chance? He'd show mercy? Anything was better than soul obliteration. My voice trembled as

00:03:56I forced the words out. I know you're lord of the undergaled. I know Lucian. I want to see him.

00:04:04The two guards exchanged a glance. Then the whip came down again. This time, I felt something inside

00:04:12me crack. A fracture ran through my very soul, and I couldn't speak another word. The mustached guard spat

00:04:19mad at me. You think you get to say his majesty the underlord's name just like that? I don't care

00:04:27how you learned it. Keep your head down unless you want more pain. Powerless, I was dragged forward like

00:04:33a dead animal. The other guard, who had been watching quietly, looked uneasy. What if she's

00:04:40telling the truth? What if something goes wrong? The mustached guard scoffed. What's there to be

00:04:47afraid of? That sorceress said she's no saint. There's no record of her in the Ledger of Souls.

00:04:52Picked up a few tricks of dark sorcery, that's all. Of course she'd know his majesty's name.

00:04:56You're too soft. If the higher-ups can't find her, then it's not our problem. We're getting paid.

00:05:03Let's move. No point dragging this out. At that point, I understood everything. They had been bought

00:05:10off by Vanessa and that sorcerer. Guards of hell, taking bribes to do something like this.

00:05:16When I saw the towering gates of hell ahead, carved with grotesque demonic figures, a deep,

00:05:22deep. Uncontrollable terror shook my soul. The guards cast a spell, and the massive gates began

00:05:28to open slowly. My heart sank into despair. Then suddenly, a voice rang out from behind us,

00:05:35drawing closer. New arrival? Has she gone through the judgment process yet? My heart lurched. I

00:05:43recognized that voice. Cole, a high-ranking reaper, and he knew who I was. I stared at the tall

00:05:52figure emerging from the mist, my heart pounding as I forced out his name. Cole? The moment I spoke,

00:05:58a hand clamped over my mouth. One of the guards dragged me behind a massive rock, silencing me

00:06:05before I could say another word. Through the haze, I watched as Cole was stopped by the mustached guard.

00:06:11Panic surged through me. I struggled wildly, only to be struck hard in the lower back. The blow

00:06:18knocking the air out of me. The mustache guard quickly pulled out a pack of Marlboros, his face

00:06:24breaking into a psychophantic grin. Lord Cole, what brings you here today? Got something good

00:06:29from the human world, strong stuff. Wanna try one? Cole brushed dust off his black coat, clearly

00:06:35irritated. Cut it out. I asked you a question. Has that wandering spirit gone through the judgment

00:06:42process? The guard swallowed, his confidence faltering. Yeah, of course. We wouldn't dare

00:06:49skip procedure. You and Selina have been swapped lately, right? Go ahead, take a break. Cole accepted

00:06:55the cigarette and lit it, saying nothing more. The fog was too thick for him to see me clearly.

00:07:03Desperation took over. I bit down hard on the hand covering my mouth. The guard yelped and let go.

00:07:09I bolted toward Cole, but before I could take more than a step, a heavy kick sent me crashing

00:07:16to the ground. A boot slammed onto my face, grinding me into the volcanic ash. It filled

00:07:22my mouth and throat. I couldn't spit it out. I couldn't make a sound. Thankfully, the commotion

00:07:29caught Cole's attention. He stepped closer. What's going on over there? The guard I had bitten

00:07:36pressed his foot down harder in retaliation, as if trying to crush my skull.

00:07:45Nothing serious, just a restless spirit. Still struggling even after getting this far.

00:07:51You know the type. None of them are innocent. No need to dirty your hands.

00:07:58Cole paused, then stopped approaching.

00:08:01Be careful. Every one of them was a criminal in life. No mistakes. Send her in.

00:08:08With that, he turned and disappeared back into the mist. And just like that, whatever hope I had

00:08:15left died with him. The moustached guard bowed and scraped until Cole was gone. The moment he turned

00:08:21back, his expression twisted with anger. He rushed over and kicked me several times, then raised his whip

00:08:28and lashed out again and again, venting his fury. It didn't take long before my soul was covered in

00:08:34wounds, barely holding together, unrecognizable. Finally, he grabbed my chin and forced my face up.

00:08:43You little bitch. Almost ruined everything for us. Don't worry. Once you're inside, I'll take real good

00:08:50care of you. I was thrown into the first circle of hell like a piece of trash. This level was

00:08:57reserved

00:08:57for the thousand-spike torment. Everywhere I looked, there were iron maidens and racks of torment.

00:09:04Souls were bound to them, each body pierced by thousands of steel needles, like grotesque.

00:09:09Human pin cushions. Here, souls were not allowed the mercy of destruction, which meant the screaming

00:09:16never stopped. A chill ran through me as I forced out the last of my strength, my voice shaking.

00:09:22I really do know, Lucian. If you treat me like this, and he finds out, he won't you get away

00:09:31with it?

00:09:31It was mostly a bluff. Lucian would not care whether I lived or died. If anything, he probably never wanted

00:09:38to see me again. Otherwise, he would not have given me ageless immortality. Leaving me alone in the

00:09:45human world, unable to age, unable to die. He was making sure I would never come back here and

00:09:54bother him. Once I crossed this threshold, the guards no longer saw me as a threat. The mustached

00:10:00guard patted my face mockingly. His grin cruel. What's wrong with you? Watch too many Hollywood

00:10:07dramas? You think someone like you gets to even think about his majesty, the Underlord?

00:10:11My head was knocked to the side. A wave of nausea hit me, and I coughed up a mouthful of

00:10:18black mist.

00:10:19My soul felt thinner, more transparent. They strapped me onto a rack of torment. The mustached guard

00:10:26grinned as he picked up a soul piercing spike. Each one as long as my forearm. Hang in there. There

00:10:33are

00:10:33seventeen more levels waiting for you. We've got plenty of time. He raised one of the spikes and drove it

00:10:39straight toward my thigh. No matter how tough you think you are, everyone breaks down here. The tip

00:10:45pierced half an inch into me. The pain tore through my soul like it was being ripped apart. My entire

00:10:52body

00:10:52shook uncontrollably. A voice cut through the air. The spike was yanked back out. I gasped, forcing my eyes

00:11:05open to see who had arrived. It was Harris, the Warden of the Pit for this level. I remembered him.

00:11:12Back when Lucian had dragged me to the gates of hell to scare me, Harris had been there, trying to

00:11:18calm him

00:11:18down. Your majesty, the Underlord, the Concert Queen is just being impulsive. There's no need to be so

00:11:24angry. You might hurt her. Hope flared inside me again. After all these years, maybe he still remembered.

00:11:32Harris? Warden Harris? It's me. Please, help me.

00:11:43After everything I had endured, I was completely drained. My throat felt raw, like it had been

00:11:49scraped against sandpaper. But I knew Harris had heard me. He stared straight at me, studying my face

00:11:56as if trying to place it. Then I saw it. The sudden contraction of his pupils. The flicker of shock

00:12:03and

00:12:03fear. He recognized me. Relief barely had time to surface before he looked away, avoiding my gaze.

00:12:10As if nothing had happened, he turned to the guards. We just received word from above. They want to

00:12:16witness this woman's soul obsturation in person. They're almost here. Hold off for now. I froze,

00:12:22disbelief flooding through me. Harris was in on it too. He had recognized me and still chose to do

00:12:29nothing. The last bit of hope I had left was extinguished. A bitter laugh slipped out of me.

00:12:35Lucien. So this is your Underworld. Your domain, where your subordinates take. Bribes, bend the rules,

00:12:43and do whatever they want without consequence. And Vanessa. I had underestimated her.

00:12:49I could not decide if she was bold or cowardly. Bold enough to come all the way here. Cowardly enough

00:12:56that she needed to see me destroyed with her own eyes, just to feel safe enjoying my endless life

00:13:00and my money. Soon, the mist ahead began to clear. Vanessa and the sorcerer arrived. They had used astral

00:13:08projection through dark sorcery, their souls temporarily separated from their bodies.

00:13:16At first, Vanessa looked uneasy. The instruments of torture, the endless screams, all of it made her

00:13:23cling tightly to the sorcerer, afraid to stray even a step. But when she saw how familiar he was with

00:13:28the

00:13:29guards and even Harris, exchanging knowing glances, her confidence returned. After all, she was the one

00:13:35paying. She walked toward me with arrogant ease, took a red-hot spike from one of the guards, her face

00:13:41twisted with excitement.

00:13:43Sarah Fana, I should thank you. Without you, I never would have experienced what it's like to live among

00:13:50the elite in the Upper East Side. Turns out money really can make anything happen. With enough of it,

00:13:57I can even walk through hell itself. And now I get to watch you, the untouchable heiress.

00:14:04Nailed down like a dog. You've lived long enough. I'll take it from here. Go quietly. That's the only

00:14:10way I can feel at ease. I looked at her, numb, forcing myself to endure the pain.

00:14:15Wasn't I good to you? Even as I said it, I knew how pointless the question was. If she had

00:14:21any

00:14:21conscience at all, none of this would be happening. Vanessa burst into laughter, almost hysterical.

00:14:27You think you were good to me? I worked as your assistant. Wore your outdated designer hand-me-downs.

00:14:35Stood next to you at parties like a prop. Even the way men looked at me. Like I was just

00:14:43an extension

00:14:43of you. And you call that being good to me? I said nothing. There was no arguing with someone like

00:14:51her. When I first met her, Chicago was in the middle of a brutal snowstorm. She had been standing

00:15:01there in a thin, worn-out jacket, shivering, on the verge of freezing. She had come from some remote

00:15:08town, couldn't afford rent, couldn't find a job, and was about to end up on the streets. I took her

00:15:14in.

00:15:15I never needed a personal assistant. I had long been used to being alone. I gave her the job out

00:15:21of sympathy. I treated her like a friend. Anything she wanted, as long as it wasn't unreasonable.

00:15:27I gave it to her. Her salary was higher than most senior professionals on Wall Street.

00:15:33Over time, she stopped seeing herself as an employee. She took more and more. She wore my

00:15:40limited-edition gowns without asking. Used my black card. I had been too lenient. She started

00:15:47to believe we were equals. Worse, that she could replace me. My real mistake was trusting her.

00:15:54One night, drunk, I told her my secret. My ageless immortality. My silence now only fueled her madness.

00:16:04She leaned in close, her eyes filled with venom. Nothing to say now, right? You agree with me,

00:16:11don't you? You never saw me as a friend. You were just handing out charity. Go to hell!

00:16:17She raised the spike and drove it down toward my heart. A wet, sickening sound echoed. She did not hold

00:16:24back. Harris and the guards exchanged uneasy looks. Destroying a soul core outright would cause serious

00:16:34disturbance. But none of them stopped her. They simply watched. Black mist poured from my mouth.

00:16:42My soul essence was leaking away. My body turned increasingly transparent. My thoughts grew.

00:16:49Sluggish. My vision blurred. Vanessa kept screaming, completely unhinged, stabbing spike after spike

00:16:59into me. My face was shredded, every wound leaking dark smoke. And then, through the thick haze,

00:17:06I saw him. Lucien. Walking toward me. He looked exactly the same. More striking than any Hollywood star

00:17:15I had seen in centuries. Time had left no mark in him. His black velvet robe was embroidered with dark

00:17:22gold patterns. A symbol of absolute power. His long dark hair flowed like a cascade. His features

00:17:29were sharp, flawless. His gaze carried a terrifying weight that made people want to fall to their knees.

00:17:35The kind of man you could not look away from. The kind of man you feared. Was this a hallucination?

00:17:42It had to be. A dying illusion. He would never want to. See me again. And yet, why had everything

00:17:51suddenly gone silent? The guards, Harris, even the arrogant sorcerer. All of them were trembling.

00:17:58And kneeling.

00:18:02Your majesty, the underlord. What brings you here in person? Harris was shaking uncontrollably,

00:18:09kneeling ramrod straight as cold sweat dripped. From his forehead onto the black stone beneath him,

00:18:15taking bribes from the living was already a grave offense. Allowing living souls to enter hell,

00:18:22and even carrying out unauthorized punishment, made it far worse. And now he had been caught red-handed

00:18:28by the ruler of the underworld himself. There would be no good ending to this. The sorcerer's face drained

00:18:34of color. He quickly yanked Vanessa away from me. Stopping her frenzied stabbing, and forced her down

00:18:41to her knees beside him, pressing, her head low. Lucien's gaze swept across everyone present. Cold.

00:18:49Cutting. Absolute. The air itself seemed to freeze under the weight of it. Behind him, the high chamberlain,

00:18:57Sebastian stepped forward and barked. His voice, thunderous. Outrageous. If his majesty had not come

00:19:06today, who knows how far your in arrogance would have gone. Have you all forgotten the laws of hell?

00:19:16The two guards who had dragged me here lowered their heads as far as possible, as if. They wished they

00:19:22could disappear into the ground. I wanted to speak. But my mind was slipping. The wounds in my chest and

00:19:30face tore at me with. Unbearable pain. All I could manage were shallow, broken breaths.

00:19:38Would he recognize me? And if he did, what then? Would he pull me out of this nightmare? Or would

00:19:45he do

00:19:45exactly what he once promised? Throw me into the lake of fire? Tear me apart and watch me suffer?

00:19:53At this point, it hardly mattered. I was already close to soul obliteration. My vision of him was

00:20:00starting to blur. Splitting into overlapping shadows. After a long silence, Lucien finally spoke.

00:20:08His voice was calm, slow, and colder than ancient ice. Harris, I entrusted the first circle of hell to you.

00:20:19This is how you carry out your duty? Allowing a living soul to enter my domain and administering

00:20:25private punishment on my ground? Harris slammed his forehead against the floor over and over,

00:20:31even harder than I had, when begging Vanessa earlier.

00:20:40I was wrong. I know I was wrong. It was those two guards. Greed got the better of them. They

00:20:47brought the living in. I had no idea. Before your majesty arrived, I was just about to drive them

00:20:53out. The two guards immediately snapped. Even in front of Lucien, they could not hold back.

00:20:59This is your territory. If a living person got in, that's your failure.

00:21:04Hmm. The mustached guard shot back. You took the bigger share of the money. How dare you turn

00:21:09on us now? Harris's face twisted with fury. You were the ones who came up with this scheme.

00:21:16You dragged me into it. Your majesty, please see the truth. I finally understood. Lucien was not here

00:21:25to save me. He had sensed something wrong with the barrier, realized his subordinates were

00:21:30breaking the rules and came to deal with it. I just happened to be here. An extra piece in

00:21:37someone else's disaster. At this point, I felt almost invisible. The sorcerer and Vanessa were

00:21:44at the center of the storm. As the three of them turned on each other, blaming and accusing Lucien

00:21:50and let out a quiet scoff. The sound struck like a hammer against every soul present.

00:21:57Enough. His voice carried finality. Since they are here, those two living souls will not be returning.

00:22:07Strip them of bodily perception. Detain them for judgment.

00:22:10He paused, then cast a cold glance at Harris and the two guards. As for you, you knew the law

00:22:17and broke

00:22:18it. You will be cast into the abyss of demons. You will become hellhounds for all eternity, burned by

00:22:26hellfire, never to rise again. Harris went completely still. Still kneeling, he collapsed backward, his face

00:22:34drained of all color, too stunned even, to beg. The two guards looked no different. Pure despair.

00:22:43Vanessa, slower to process, finally understood what not returning meant. She stared at her semi-transparent

00:22:50hands and panicked, scrambling to her feet. You can't do this. I'm not supposed to die yet.

00:22:57Don't you have rules in hell? I paid for this. She could not let go.

00:23:03Not of the life she had just stolen from me. Not of the endless wealth waiting for her in Manhattan.

00:23:09The sorcerer, terrified she would drag him down with her, grabbed at her leg and hissed under his

00:23:16breath. Are you insane? Get down on your knees. She shook him off violently and pointed straight at

00:23:23Lucian. I'm leaving now. Send me back. If you don't, you'll regret it. The sorcerer shut his eyes.

00:23:30He did not dare move. Vanessa grabbed him by the collar and shook him, her face twisted with rage.

00:23:37What are you doing? I paid you a million dollars. Do your job. I said I'm going back now.

00:23:44She had no idea. Lucian despised noise, and he had no tolerance for mortals who overstepped in his

00:23:51presence. The next second, he simply lifted a finger. Vanessa's soul was struck as if by an invisible

00:23:59hammer. Her body flew backward like a severed kite. As if fate itself were mocking her, she landed hard

00:24:06on a metal eagle covered with instruments of torture. More than a dozen red-hot soul-piercing spikes drove

00:24:13straight to her back. Her screen tore through the entire first circle of hell. Now she understood

00:24:19the pain. The pain. The horror. Her face twisted beyond recognition as she shrieked.

00:24:25Silence her. Sebastian raised a hand, his voice cold. Several high-ranking guards stepped forward

00:24:33immediately, forcing her down, covering her mouth as the spikes burned through her. When it was over,

00:24:40silence returned. Heavy. Absolute. Only then did Lucian slowly turn his head.

00:24:47And look at me. I could feel it. His gaze. Cold. Distant. Like he was looking at something

00:24:55worthless. Like I was nothing more than trash. Sebastian read the shift in Lucian's expression

00:25:03immediately and stepped forward, his tone sharp and authoritative. Who are you? State your name.

00:25:09Why were you brought here without going through the judgment process?

00:25:12Even after being sentenced, Harris clearly was not ready to give up. He was still trying to salvage

00:25:20something, anything. If it came out that I had been smuggled and through bribery, bypassing the

00:25:25proper process, his fate would only get worse. And if Lucian actually recognized me, he spoke first,

00:25:33rushing to cover it up.

00:25:35Your majesty. She's just a newly dead wandering spirit. No idea how she slipped in. Anyone who

00:25:40ends up here isn't innocent. She even tried to attack the guards just now. There's no need for

00:25:44you to concern yourself. I'll dispose of her immediately. Lucian's brow furrowed slightly,

00:25:48displeasure flashing across his face. His gaze cut toward Harris like a blade. Before he could say

00:25:55anything, Sebastian stepped in and kicked Harris to the ground. You were not addressed. Keep your mouth

00:26:00shut. One more word and you go to the abyss now. I tried to speak, tried to call out, but

00:26:09my throat

00:26:09only produced a hollow, rasping hiss. Black wisps of soul energy kept spilling from my mouth. When no

00:26:17clear answer came, Sebastian approached me himself. He examined my condition with visible disgust,

00:26:23then turned back to Lucian and shook his head.

00:26:28Your majesty. Her soul is severely damaged. It's on the verge of collapse. I'm afraid we won't get

00:26:35much out of her. Lucian had always been a ruler of order and strict law. He did not tolerate any

00:26:40disruption to the rules of the underworld. Verify her identity. If she does not belong here, stabilize

00:26:45her soul if possible. Then determine whether she should be returned to the living world or sent into

00:26:50the cycle of rebirth. Sebastian bowed. He immediately ordered someone to bring the ledger of souls.

00:26:59While they waited, Vanessa was still struggling on the ground, twisting and thrashing, trying to pull

00:27:05the spikes out of her body. She still did not understand what kind of existence she had just

00:27:10provoked. All she could think about was getting back to the living world. Back to my luxury penthouse.

00:27:17Back to spending my money, living the life she had always envied. Soon, a clerk hurried over,

00:27:24carrying a massive, faintly glowing ledger of souls. Sebastian took it and stepped closer to me again,

00:27:31looking down from above. Your name. I gathered what little strength I had left. From deep in my throat,

00:27:37I forced out a single word, barely more than a whisper.

00:27:44Sebastian did not recognize me. He must have taken this position sometime in the last few centuries.

00:27:51He began flipping through the ledger, his fingers moving quickly as he searched the records of the

00:27:56corresponding years. Seconds passed. Then minutes. His movements slowed. Something was wrong. A thin

00:28:05sheen of sweat appeared on his forehead. That's not possible. How could this be?

00:28:14Lucien's patient snapped. He was not known for tolerance, and even less for restraint. The temperature

00:28:20around him seemed to drop instantly. A dark, violent aura surfaced beneath his composed exterior.

00:28:27What is the delay? How long does it take to check a name?

00:28:33Sebastian dropped to his knees with a thud, raising the ledger above his head with trembling

00:28:38hands. Your majesty. Please forgive me. I have checked every record. This woman. Her name does

00:28:45not exist in the ledger of souls. A bitter smile flickered inside me. Of course it didn't.

00:28:52That had been Lucien's doing. His punishment. To erase my name. To leave me wandering the human world.

00:28:59Unable to die. Unable to enter reincarnation. He in hell. Me in the mortal world. Forever separated.

00:29:09Never crossing paths again. Lucien, however, did not make the connection. Too much time had passed.

00:29:18His first instinct was that someone had tampered with the ledger, daring to challenge his authority.

00:29:24Fury surged. Black energy roiled around him as he snatched the ledger from Sebastian,

00:29:30flipping through it himself.

00:29:33What is her name?

00:29:36Sebastian's voice trembled.

00:29:38She calls herself...

00:29:40Serafina.

00:29:42The moment the name left his lips, Lucien's hand froze.

00:29:46His pupils contracted sharply.

00:29:49For the first time, something cracked through that cold, untouchable composure.

00:29:55Shock.

00:29:56Disbelief.

00:29:57Something deeper.

00:29:59His gaze snapped up from the ledger and locked onto me.

00:30:02Pinned to the rack of torment.

00:30:05Broken.

00:30:06Barely holding together.

00:30:10In the blink of an eye, black mist surged.

00:30:14He appeared in front of me like a phantom, bringing with him a suffocating chill.

00:30:21His long, cold fingers shot out and gripped my chin, forcing my head up.

00:30:26His brows were drawn tight.

00:30:28His gaze sharp as a hawk's, as if he were trying to see through the ruin of my face and

00:30:33uncover who I really was.

00:30:34But there was nothing left to recognize.

00:30:37Vanessa had carved my face into a mess of crisscrossing wounds with those.

00:30:43Soul-piercing spikes.

00:30:45Black mist seeped from every cut.

00:30:48Whatever beauty I once have was gone without a trace.

00:30:51He stared at me for a long time.

00:30:54Something unreadable flickered in his expression, as if he was struggling to confirm what he was seeing.

00:30:59Is it really you?

00:31:00His voice was low, restrained.

00:31:04The pain made it impossible to breathe.

00:31:06I could only give the faintest nod.

00:31:09The moment he got his answer, his grip tightened.

00:31:12I felt my jaw creak under the pressure.

00:31:15His eyes darkened instantly.

00:31:17Did you forget what I told you when I let you go?

00:31:20A storm gathering beneath them.

00:31:22Of course I had not forgotten.

00:31:25Those words were carved into my soul.

00:31:27The day he released me, he had stood before the gates of hell, looking down at me with cold indifference,

00:31:34warning that if he ever saw me again, he would throw me into the lake of fire and personally tear

00:31:39me apart, leaving me to suffer for eternity.

00:31:42I had no strength left to argue.

00:31:45I could only curl my lips into a faint, broken smile, one that looked more like a grimace than anything

00:31:51else.

00:31:54It did not matter anymore.

00:31:59This shattered soul of mine would not last long enough for him to carry out that threat anyway.

00:32:04At any moment, I would disappear.

00:32:07Suddenly, he let go of me.

00:32:09With a look of disgust, he took out a black silk handkerchief and wiped his fingers, his voice cold and

00:32:14cutting.

00:32:15Pathetic.

00:32:16You insisted on leaving me.

00:32:17I thought you would make quite a life for yourself in the human world, and this is what you've become.

00:32:22What a disgrace.

00:32:23He sounded almost satisfied, seeing me like this must have fed his pride.

00:32:29When I left, I had walked away without looking back, proud and unyielding.

00:32:34Now, nothing had changed for him.

00:32:37He was still the lord of the underworld, standing above everything.

00:32:41And me?

00:32:43I was nothing more than a broken soul, betrayed by my own assistant, nailed to a torture rack, on the

00:32:50verge of being erased.

00:32:51He did not let me disappear.

00:32:55Instead, he turned sharply to Sebastian.

00:32:58Take her away.

00:32:59Find the best physician in the nether realm.

00:33:00Do whatever it takes to stabilize her soul.

00:33:02Without my permission, she is not to die.

00:33:04So he wanted to keep me alive.

00:33:07Of course, Lucien had always been vindictive.

00:33:10Petty, even.

00:33:12Being abandoned by a woman was not something he would ever let go.

00:33:16If he was going to settle this, he would do it personally.

00:33:20The treatment was worse than torture.

00:33:22Every drop of medicine poured onto my wounds felt like my soul was being torn apart and stitched back together

00:33:28again.

00:33:28I did not know if I had lost consciousness or if I was simply drifting in and out under the

00:33:33weight of the pain.

00:33:34That was when I realized something.

00:33:36Even a soul could dream.

00:33:38And the dreams felt terrifyingly real.

00:33:43I saw everything.

00:33:45From the moment I met Lucien, to the time we fell in love, to the day we tore each other

00:33:50apart.

00:33:51Back then, he had found the underworld unbearably dull and decided to wander the human world.

00:33:57On a freezing winter night, during the Great Depression in New York, he found me.

00:34:03I had been young, starving, on the verge of death.

00:34:07In those days, the economy had collapsed.

00:34:10People died on the streets every day.

00:34:13Lives meant nothing.

00:34:15And yet, somehow, I caught his attention.

00:34:18Lucky.

00:34:19Or perhaps terribly unlucky.

00:34:22He hid his identity, becoming a wealthy gentleman.

00:34:26He stayed by my side as I grew up, giving me everything.

00:34:30My first love was him.

00:34:32My first time was him.

00:34:34He became my entire world.

00:34:37He kept his secret flawlessly hidden.

00:34:39It was not until I fell ill and died that I learned the truth.

00:34:43When my soul was brought to the underworld, I saw him sitting on his throne.

00:34:48That was when I realized who he really was.

00:34:50At the time, he believed he had given me a great gift.

00:34:54A short but happy life in the human world, spent under his protection.

00:34:59We had been husband and wife.

00:35:01So naturally, in his mind, I should remain in the underworld, by his side forever.

00:35:07His obedient consort queen.

00:35:11At first, I thought the same.

00:35:14Love blinded me.

00:35:16But I was not made for that world.

00:35:19I was a modern woman.

00:35:21I wanted freedom.

00:35:23The rigid, ancient, suffocating rules of the underworld became unbearable.

00:35:27I could not accept that as the lord of the underworld.

00:35:31He had countless dark consorts, each more alluring than the last.

00:35:34I could not accept the way he stood at the top of power, issuing commands as if it were

00:35:39second nature, treating me not as an equal, but as something beautiful he owned.

00:35:45So I chose to leave.

00:35:46I wanted a new life.

00:35:49I wanted to drink the waters of oblivion and return to the human world, free.

00:35:54When he found out, he lost control.

00:35:57His eyes turned red with rage.

00:35:59He dragged me to the gates of hell, pointing at the boiling depths below,

00:36:03trying to force me to stay.

00:36:05I had been terrified.

00:36:07Crying uncontrollably, shaking, afraid he might actually throw me in.

00:36:12We stood there for a long time.

00:36:15In the end, he let go.

00:36:18Reluctantly, coldly, he allowed me to leave, but not without a warning.

00:36:23If he ever saw me again, he would not show mercy.

00:36:27At the time, I did not understand what he really meant.

00:36:30All I wanted was freedom.

00:36:33Rebirth.

00:36:36Only after I returned to the human world did I realize the truth.

00:36:41His punishment.

00:36:42He let me keep all my memories.

00:36:46He made it so I would never age.

00:36:49Never die.

00:36:50A living anomaly.

00:36:53He even arranged for me to be born into a powerful family,

00:36:57leaving behind a trust fund and immense wealth that could sustain me for centuries.

00:37:03That was when I understood.

00:37:05He never intended to see me again.

00:37:08Not just in anger.

00:37:09He had cut off my path entirely.

00:37:12No death.

00:37:14No return.

00:37:15No chance of ever entering the cycle.

00:37:18Of rebirth.

00:37:19I took it seriously.

00:37:21I lived carefully.

00:37:24Quietly.

00:37:25Watching everyone around me grow old and die.

00:37:28While I stayed the same.

00:37:30I was afraid of death.

00:37:33Afraid of accidents.

00:37:35Afraid of being dragged back here.

00:37:37Afraid he would make good on his promise.

00:37:41And yet, despite all that caution, I still fell.

00:37:46To the person I trusted most.

00:37:48The memories faded like a passing storm.

00:37:54A sharp pain pierced my head as I slowly came back to consciousness.

00:37:58The surroundings were familiar.

00:38:01Luxurious.

00:38:02Dark.

00:38:03This was the Obsidian Palace.

00:38:05Lucian's private domain.

00:38:11The bed beneath me was wide.

00:38:14Soft.

00:38:15Black.

00:38:16It carried his scent.

00:38:18Deep.

00:38:19Cold.

00:38:20Lingering.

00:38:23Like cedarwood burning in a winter fireplace.

00:38:26Mixed with the faint trace of ash.

00:38:28It was a scent I had never found on anyone else.

00:38:35Once, it had been comforting.

00:38:37Even now, wrapped in it.

00:38:39My tense soul relaxed for just a moment.

00:38:43But it did not last.

00:38:45As if he had been tracking me, the doors opened the instant I woke.

00:38:50Lucian walked in.

00:38:52I immediately shut my eyes, pretending to still be unconscious, trying to avoid facing him.

00:38:59It did not work.

00:39:01Stop pretending.

00:39:02Your soul's fluctuations are obvious.

00:39:05I know you're awake.

00:39:06I almost laughed.

00:39:09Back then, he could spend an entire night gazing at my face without getting tired.

00:39:13Now, he called me ugly without hesitation.

00:39:17Ugly.

00:39:18Wait.

00:39:19I lifted a hand and touched my face.

00:39:22Uneven.

00:39:23Rough.

00:39:24Completely ruined.

00:39:27Vanessa had not held back.

00:39:30Every strike had been meant to destroy.

00:39:32Maybe I really had become something hideous.

00:39:42I opened my eyes, dropping the act.

00:39:45I met his cold gaze and let out a faint, bitter laugh.

00:39:50So what now?

00:39:51You saved me just to throw me into the lake of fire yourself?

00:39:55Planning to tear me apart with your own hands?

00:39:57Not yet.

00:40:01Lucian stepped forward and yanked me off the bed without the slightest care.

00:40:07His grip was rough, almost punishing.

00:40:12What I granted you, and those worthless humans dared to covet it.

00:40:16They even used dark sorcery.

00:40:19You should witness for yourself what happens to those who anger the underworld.

00:40:24The darkness in his eyes made my spine go cold.

00:40:27So that was it.

00:40:29He was going to make an example of them in front of me first.

00:40:33And then deal with me.

00:40:35In the outer hall of the Obsidian Palace, the atmosphere was suffocating.

00:40:39Vanessa and the sorcerer were bound by heavy soul shackles locked around their bodies.

00:40:44Forced to kneel on the hard Obsidian floor.

00:40:47Nearby were Harris, pale as death, and the two guards who had dragged me in, trembling where they knelt.

00:40:53Everyone involved was here.

00:40:55No exceptions.

00:40:58The moment Vanessa saw me being let out by Lucian.

00:41:05Jealousy flashed across her face.

00:41:07She tried to lunge at me, only to be kicked back down by a high-ranking guard behind her.

00:41:14Seraphana!

00:41:15You liar!

00:41:16What the hell did you do?

00:41:18Why are you standing there?

00:41:19I was still too weak to respond.

00:41:22Even walking here had taken everything out of me.

00:41:25I could barely breathe, let alone waste energy on her hysteria.

00:41:29Lucian, on the other hand, seemed almost pleased.

00:41:34There was something dark in him.

00:41:37Something that thrived on this kind of moment.

00:41:41The faint curve of his lips carried a chilling edge.

00:41:47Seraphana!

00:41:47These rumen hurt you.

00:41:49What would you like done with them?

00:41:51I'll leave the decision to you.

00:41:52Me?

00:41:53I looked at him, stunned.

00:41:55He ruled this place.

00:41:57Life and death were his to command.

00:42:00Why ask me?

00:42:01For a fleeting second, it felt like the past.

00:42:05Back when we had lived in the human world, he had always been like this.

00:42:09Gentle.

00:42:11Respectful.

00:42:12Asking for my opinion on everything.

00:42:14No matter how small.

00:42:16A sharp, unnameable ache spread through my chest.

00:42:19I shook my head.

00:42:22Do whatever you want.

00:42:24Just follow the rules of hell.

00:42:28He frowned, clearly displeased with my answer.

00:42:31Without warning, he pulled me into his arms, locking me against him with one arm around my shoulders.

00:42:38What's wrong?

00:42:39Feeling soft now?

00:42:40Have you forgotten what happened to you just hours ago?

00:42:42How they killed you?

00:42:44How they nailed you to that rack?

00:42:50They've already confessed.

00:42:51Even your trust fund has been transferred.

00:42:54This is your chance to get even.

00:42:56Don't act like a coward.

00:42:59Seeing the closeness between us, something twisted in Vanessa's expression.

00:43:04Jealousy spilled over into pure madness.

00:43:06I knew it!

00:43:08I always knew you were that kind of woman.

00:43:10Clinging to men with money and power using that face of yours to get whatever you want.

00:43:14And now look at you, dead and still doing the same thing, even seducing someone here.

00:43:20You're disgusting!

00:43:22The temperature in the room dropped instantly.

00:43:26Lucian's expression darkened to something terrifying.

00:43:29His face was flawless, almost unreal, but the sheer violence in his gaze made it impossible to look at him

00:43:36directly.

00:43:38I knew exactly why.

00:43:41It was not just the insult.

00:43:43Vanessa had crossed a line.

00:43:46She implied I belonged to someone else.

00:43:49Lucian had always been possessive.

00:43:52Obsessively so.

00:43:54In his mind, once I had been his, that was permanent.

00:43:58Time did not matter.

00:44:00Life or death did not matter.

00:44:02I was his.

00:44:04No one else was allowed to touch me.

00:44:07Not even look at me.

00:44:09Fortunately, during the long century I spent back in the human world, I had lived cautiously.

00:44:14I stayed single, avoided relationships.

00:44:18Avoided attention.

00:44:19If I had not.

00:44:21I did not even want to imagine what would happen right now.

00:44:25The sorcerer, realizing Vanessa was pushing them both toward destruction, panicked completely.

00:44:30He slammed his head against the floor again and again.

00:44:34Your majesty, please show mercy.

00:44:36I was blinded by greed.

00:44:37She offered a fortune.

00:44:39I lost my judgment.

00:44:40I should never have interfered with fate or taken a life.

00:44:43I was wrong.

00:44:44She manipulated me.

00:44:45This was all her idea.

00:44:48Vanessa snapped.

00:44:49Like a feral cat, she lunged and slapped him hard across the face.

00:44:53Shut up!

00:44:54You took the money willingly, drew the circle, and now you want to pin everything on me?

00:44:59Not happening!

00:45:02Sebastian strode forward.

00:45:04Silence.

00:45:04His voice cutting through the chaos like a blade.

00:45:07The room fell still.

00:45:08You dare raise your voices here?

00:45:10His gaze swept over them coldly.

00:45:12Every one of you is guilty.

00:45:14None of you will escape.

00:45:15He paused.

00:45:16Then his tone turned even sharper.

00:45:18Do you even understand who it is you tried to harm?

00:45:23Vanessa's bloodshot eyes snapped toward me.

00:45:26Even now, she refused to back down, letting out a cold, stubborn laugh.

00:45:33She's just some freak who doesn't age or die.

00:45:37She's lived long enough, had more than enough.

00:45:40I took her life and her trust fund.

00:45:42So what?

00:45:45That's what I deserve!

00:45:47I spent ten years serving her like a slave.

00:45:51I had been too exhausted to argue before.

00:45:54People like her, cold and self-centered, never see kindness.

00:45:59They only see what they think the world owes them.

00:46:03But hearing her twist everything so shamelessly still made something in me snap.

00:46:08Vanessa, I said, my voice low but shaking with anger.

00:46:12Ask yourself this.

00:46:15If you hadn't met me in that snowstorm.

00:46:19Would you have had those ten years at all?

00:46:21You would have frozen to death on the street.

00:46:24And if I remember correctly, you were the one begging me to take you in.

00:46:28You said if you didn't make money, your father would force you back home to marry that drunk who beat

00:46:33his wife.

00:46:34A life trapped in poverty, in violence, raising a crying child in some run-down trailer park until it broke

00:46:43you, that was your future.

00:46:45Her face flushed as I exposed everything in front of everyone.

00:46:49For a moment, she faltered.

00:46:51Then, just as quickly, she doubled down.

00:46:56So what?

00:46:58You gave me a job.

00:46:59Paid me.

00:47:00I worked for it.

00:47:02I gave you my youth.

00:47:03I let out a short, disbelieving laugh.

00:47:06My voice trembling.

00:47:07Worked for it?

00:47:10You mean sending your cheap clothes to high-end dry cleaners on my account, ordering from five-star restaurants every

00:47:18day and charging it to me?

00:47:21Or taking my Porsche out to clubs under my name, trying to hook rich men?

00:47:27You were never grateful.

00:47:29People like you don't know how to be.

00:47:31You belong at the bottom, rotting there.

00:47:34The moment someone shows you kindness, you think you're entitled to everything.

00:47:39You think you can replace them?

00:47:41Vanessa opened her mouth to scream back, but Sebastian had had enough.

00:47:45His voice cracked through the hall like thunder.

00:47:48Enough!

00:47:52He stepped forward, his expression cold and severe.

00:47:57You blind, arrogant fool.

00:48:00Do you even know who she is?

00:48:02His voice rose, sharp and unforgiving.

00:48:05She is the ninth consort queen personally taken by Ajesty the Underlord.

00:48:09And you dared to scheme against her.

00:48:12You think someone like you can touch her?

00:48:16Vanessa froze.

00:48:17Her expression locked in place, as if her mind had simply stopped working.

00:48:24All this time, she had only seen the surface.

00:48:28My immortality.

00:48:30My wealth.

00:48:31To her, I was just a lucky anomaly.

00:48:34She had never imagined what stood behind it.

00:48:38Harris looked even worse.

00:48:39His face was drained of all life, his eyes unfocused.

00:48:43Back then, he had recognized me.

00:48:46He must have assumed that after centuries, Lucien and I had nothing to do with each other anymore.

00:48:53That I was no longer under his protection.

00:48:55So he took the risk.

00:48:58For money.

00:48:59Now, with my identity revealed, there was no escaping the consequences.

00:49:04I turned slightly and noticed Cole standing quietly in the shadows.

00:49:08He had not said a word.

00:49:10His expression was grim, weighed down with frustration.

00:49:14Out of everyone here, he was the only one who had done nothing wrong.

00:49:18He had carried out his duties faithfully, only to be dragged into this mess by corrupt subordinates.

00:49:25He had almost discovered me that day.

00:49:28Almost.

00:49:29The two guards and the sorcerer, upon hearing the words consort queen, collapsed.

00:49:34Completely.

00:49:35They did not even have the strength to beg.

00:49:38As for me, I felt nothing.

00:49:41No pride.

00:49:42No satisfaction.

00:49:44Just emptiness.

00:49:45I was nothing more than one of many in Lucien's long life.

00:49:49Just another woman who had passed through it.

00:49:53There was nothing to be proud of.

00:49:56And I knew better than to underestimate him.

00:50:00This was not just about avenging me.

00:50:02This was about maintaining the authority of the underworld.

00:50:06The ones who had harmed me were dragged away.

00:50:09Into the deepest parts of hell.

00:50:11They would suffer everything I had suffered.

00:50:14A hundred times over.

00:50:16Cole was punished as well.

00:50:18For negligence.

00:50:20For failing to notice what was happening under his watch.

00:50:23Lucien ordered him to the river Styx for a year of the harshest labor.

00:50:28As for me, the victim.

00:50:30Lucien took me back to the first circle of hell.

00:50:33And made me watch.

00:50:35The winds howled through the first circle.

00:50:38Vanessa was bound to the execution platform.

00:50:40Her limbs stretched out.

00:50:42Chained in.

00:50:43Place.

00:50:44Under the control of demonic executioners.

00:50:47Thousands of red hot soul piercing.

00:50:49Spikes drove slowly into her body.

00:50:52One by one.

00:50:53From every angle.

00:50:55She was turned into a screaming, writhing pincushion.

00:50:59The executioners were precise.

00:51:01Cruel.

00:51:02But control.

00:51:03They avoided her soul core.

00:51:05They wanted her alive.

00:51:07Alive enough to feel everything.

00:51:10So she would not die.

00:51:12Only suffer.

00:51:13Endlessly.

00:51:15At last.

00:51:16Fear broke through her madness.

00:51:19Her face was soaked with tears and mucus.

00:51:22Her voice was soaked as she cried out to me.

00:51:23Seraphina.

00:51:24Seraphina.

00:51:25I was wrong.

00:51:26I know I was wrong.

00:51:28I lost my mind.

00:51:31I shouldn't have done that to you.

00:51:33Please.

00:51:34Make him stop.

00:51:36I'm the worst.

00:51:38I'm not even human.

00:51:39I was jealous of you.

00:51:41Your looks.

00:51:42Your youth.

00:51:43Your life in Manhattan.

00:51:45All that money you could never spend.

00:51:47And me.

00:51:48Always depending on you.

00:51:51I didn't want to become a murderer.

00:51:54It was you.

00:51:56You told me your secret when you were drunk.

00:51:59Do you know how tempting immortality and welfare...

00:52:03No one could resist that.

00:52:05Not just me.

00:52:06Anyone would have done the same.

00:52:08You can't blame me for everything.

00:52:11Even now, she was still shifting the blame.

00:52:15I told you because I trusted you.

00:52:18Because I believed you were my friend.

00:52:20In all these centuries, I've seen how cruel people can be.

00:52:26I never told anyone else.

00:52:29You made your choice.

00:52:30My voice was calm.

00:52:32But heavy with disappointment.

00:52:34Her words caught in her throat.

00:52:37For the first time, she fell silent.

00:52:40Maybe, in the middle of all that pain, she finally understood.

00:52:49What she had thrown away.

00:52:51What she had destroyed.

00:52:53She had betrayed kindness.

00:52:55Betrayed trust.

00:52:57For greed that had no bottom.

00:52:59And now, this was the price.

00:53:01She deserved it.

00:53:03She took a life.

00:53:05Betrayed someone who saved her.

00:53:07She deserved hell.

00:53:09And worse, she had conspired with dark sorcery to steal my lifespan, defying the natural order itself.

00:53:16That made her crimes even greater.

00:53:19I watched as her body convulsed on the platform.

00:53:22And I knew.

00:53:23She would never leave this place.

00:53:25Not in this life.

00:53:27Not ever.

00:53:29What surprised me.

00:53:30Was how fragile a wicked soul could be.

00:53:33Vanessa did not even make it through a full round of punishment.

00:53:37Her soul was far too fragile.

00:53:39It collapsed completely before the first cycle was finished.

00:53:43In the end, she was.

00:53:45Dragged into the second circle of hell.

00:53:48Where the hellfire that burns away all sin.

00:53:51Reduced her to nothing but ash.

00:53:53Not even reincarnation remained for her.

00:53:56Among all of them, the one who lasted the longest was the sorcerer.

00:54:01He truly had some skill.

00:54:03His soul was unusually solid.

00:54:05Otherwise, he never could have.

00:54:08Activated that forbidden demonic pact circle and nearly transferred my life to.

00:54:13Vanessa.

00:54:14He endured layer after layer of torment.

00:54:17In the end, he met his fate in the sixth circle of hell.

00:54:21The abyss of demons.

00:54:23There was no light there.

00:54:25Only endless darkness and hunger.

00:54:28Ancient demons that had been trapped for countless centuries lurked in that abyss.

00:54:34Vicious and insatiable.

00:54:36The moment a soul with even a trace of energy entering its way.

00:54:40They'd swarm it instantly, tearing it apart and devouring it piece by piece.

00:54:45As for Paris and the corrupt guards, they were stripped of their ranks and cast into.

00:54:49The boiling tar pit of the fourth circle.

00:54:52They struggled and sank, over and over.

00:54:55Their bodies exploding under the scorching.

00:54:58The tar burned inside and out.

00:55:01None of them would ever return.

00:55:03When it was all over, Lucien turned to look at me.

00:55:07Under the dim, flickering glow of hellfire, his gaze burned with something.

00:55:12Complicated.

00:55:14You really are fearless.

00:55:17After seeing all this, you're not afraid at all.

00:55:20No wonder you walked away back then without hesitating.

00:55:23Even after everything I said.

00:55:25Hearing him bring up the past made my chest tighten.

00:55:28I lowered my head.

00:55:30My hair falling forward to hide my face.

00:55:33I did not want him to see what I had become.

00:55:36He knew better than anyone how much I cared about my appearance.

00:55:40Back in the human world, I had always been meticulous.

00:55:45Elegant.

00:55:46The center of.

00:55:47Attention wherever I went.

00:55:49That was why so many men had been drawn to me.

00:55:53Just like Vanessa said.

00:55:54That I attracted them all.

00:55:56But I never did it for them.

00:55:59I did it for myself.

00:56:01To make the long, endless years a little more bearable.

00:56:07What's the point of bringing that up now?

00:56:10Forcing my tone steady.

00:56:17The people who betrayed me are gone.

00:56:20So now what?

00:56:21Is it my turn?

00:56:24Something in my words struck him.

00:56:26Hard.

00:56:27His expression darkened instantly.

00:56:29With a cold snort, he turned and left without.

00:56:33Another word.

00:56:34His back rigid with anger.

00:56:36I stood there, confused.

00:56:39Wasn't he the one who had sworn to throw me into the lake of fire?

00:56:45Now I asked?

00:56:46And he got angry?

00:56:47After he left, Sebastian did not follow immediately.

00:56:52He paused, turned back to me, and let out a long, helpless sigh.

00:56:59My queen.

00:57:00Do you truly not understand his majesty's feelings, or are you pretending not to just to provoke him?

00:57:06I looked up, puzzled.

00:57:10Understand what?

00:57:12Doesn't he want me dead?

00:57:15Sebastian sighed again, as if the answer were painfully obvious.

00:57:18His majesty has never let you go, not once.

00:57:23He may seem cold, but he has always kept you in his heart.

00:57:27He could not bear the thought of you suffering through another mortal life.

00:57:32He could not bear to see you struggle in poverty again.

00:57:36That is why he gave you everything.

00:57:38These past years in the human world, you lived well, didn't you?

00:57:43I froze.

00:57:45And do you know, Sebastian continued, how he spent those same years without you?

00:57:50My heart skipped.

00:57:54He dismissed every consort in the palace after you left.

00:57:58Not one remained.

00:58:00And whenever he had time, he would go to the human world in secret, just to watch you.

00:58:07He is too proud to admit his feelings.

00:58:11And you?

00:58:12You never looked back.

00:58:15Not once in all these centuries.

00:58:17He paused, then his voice grew heavier.

00:58:20Do you understand what it means to erase a name from the ledger of souls?

00:58:26It violates the very laws of existence.

00:58:29The backlash alone is enough to bring divine punishment.

00:58:33And your endless lifespan.

00:58:36It did not come from nowhere.

00:58:39He used the power of his divine core of death to sustain it.

00:58:43Each word hit me like a blow.

00:58:46I stood frozen, unable to move, my thoughts spiraling.

00:58:50All this time, what I thought was punishment, was protection, sacrifice, before I could process it.

00:58:59Lucian's voice cut through the distance.

00:59:02Sebastian.

00:59:03Sharp.

00:59:04Irritated.

00:59:05Who do you serve?

00:59:07Get over here.

00:59:09Sebastian gave me a quick bow, said nothing more, and hurried after him.

00:59:13I was left alone.

00:59:16I wandered slowly along the shadow path.

00:59:19The air cold and filled with drifting spirits.

00:59:22But my mind was anything but calm.

00:59:29For the first time, I truly thought about what came next.

00:59:33Lucian was not going to kill me.

00:59:36That much was clear.

00:59:38But my body in the human world had already been destroyed from that fall.

00:59:43There was no going back.

00:59:45That left only two possibilities.

00:59:48Remain here as a soul.

00:59:50Or, reincarnation.

00:59:53But could I even be reborn?

00:59:55I was someone whose name had been erased from the ledger of souls.

01:00:00A being, outside the system itself.

01:00:03And then there was something else.

01:00:05Something I had not allowed myself to think about.

01:00:09After centuries apart, could what we had ever be restored?

01:00:13Back then, in that lifetime, we had been happy.

01:00:18Truly.

01:00:19But memories fade.

01:00:20Time changes everything.

01:00:23For hundreds of years, I had lived alone.

01:00:26Yes, the curse, or blessing, of immortality had made me think of him often.

01:00:32But was that love still there?

01:00:34That same intensity?

01:00:36I did not know.

01:00:38My thoughts were a mess.

01:00:39I had no answers.

01:00:41I walked without direction until exhaustion caught up with me.

01:00:45Eventually, I found a quiet corner and sat down against a cold stone.

01:00:51Staring into nothing.

01:00:52Then suddenly, a piece of black fabric edged with dark gold patterns appeared in front of me.

01:00:58I looked up.

01:01:00Lucien had come back.

01:01:04I looked up at him.

01:01:06He still stood there.

01:01:08Tall and commanding as ever.

01:01:10But the cold arrogance I was used.

01:01:13To was gone.

01:01:14Replaced by something.

01:01:15Awkward.

01:01:16Almost like a wronged golden.

01:01:19Retriever.

01:01:20Stubbornly refusing to admit it was hurt.

01:01:23What are you doing out here alone?

01:01:25He asked first.

01:01:26There was a hint of tension in his.

01:01:29Voice.

01:01:30Thinking about how to leave me again?

01:01:32I froze.

01:01:34I had never seen him like this.

01:01:36Like I was the heartless one who had abandoned.

01:01:40Something that loved me completely.

01:01:42I took a slow breath, forcing myself to look away from his eyes.

01:01:47If I wanted to leave, I asked calmly, could I be re-reborn?

01:01:51My name was no longer in the ledger of souls.

01:01:54I was an exception.

01:01:56No.

01:01:57His answer came without hesitation.

01:02:00Anyone not in the ledger does not enter the cycle.

01:02:03You cannot be reborn.

01:02:05I had expected that.

01:02:07If I could not return to the human world, and I could not reincarnate, then there was.

01:02:12Only one path left.

01:02:14Stay here.

01:02:16In the underworld.

01:02:17Seeing me fall silent, Lucian seemed to misunderstand.

01:02:21His eyes reddened slightly, his voice rising despite himself.

01:02:26You don't have any other choice.

01:02:29Even knowing that you still won't choose me?

01:02:31You'd rather wander as a lost spirit than stay by my side?

01:02:36Something in me softened at the sight of him like this.

01:02:39I opened my mouth, wanting to explain.

01:02:42But no words came.

01:02:47My hesitation only made things worse.

01:02:50He turned sharply, clearly furious, striding away in long steps.

01:02:55But even then, he stopped just long enough to throw one last warning over his shoulder.

01:03:01You do have another option.

01:03:03Stay here as a stray soul.

01:03:05Just hope no guard mistakes you for an escaped demon and throws you into the abyss.

01:03:12And don't expect me to save you.

01:03:15His threat was so childish that I could not help it.

01:03:18I laughed, quickly getting to my feet, I hurried after him and grabbed his sleeve.

01:03:24He stiffened, but he did not pull away.

01:03:28I'm scared.

01:03:29I said softly, tugging at him just a little.

01:03:32That part was not entirely true.

01:03:35That night, in the Obsidian Palace, he did not let me go.

01:03:40Centuries of longing and restraint finally broke loose.

01:03:43Lucian was like a starving wolf.

01:03:45Once he had me in his grasp, he refused to let go.

01:03:50My soul had not fully recovered.

01:03:52I could barely endure the intensity of him.

01:03:56More than.

01:03:57Once, in the overwhelming rush of sensation, I felt like I might shatter completely.

01:04:02Every time I tried to push him away, he had an answer ready.

01:04:06You are the consort queen.

01:04:09I have only you now.

01:04:14If you don't give me an heir soon, who is going to take over the underworld?

01:04:18I huffed in protest.

01:04:20Half breathless.

01:04:22I don't like it here.

01:04:24It's dark all the time.

01:04:26Cold.

01:04:27Empty.

01:04:28The human world is better.

01:04:30He pressed a kiss to my ear, his voice low and coaxing.

01:04:34Fine.

01:04:35Once we have an heir, I'll hand over the power.

01:04:39I'll go with you.

01:04:41Wherever you want.

01:04:42His promise stirred something in me.

01:04:45Memories of the life we once had.

01:04:47I wrapped my arms around his neck.

01:04:50Can we go back?

01:04:52I asked quietly.

01:04:53Live like we did before?

01:04:55Just normal people?

01:04:58Only then could I feel something real.

01:05:01Not the distance between ruler and subject.

01:05:04Just him.

01:05:05Just me.

01:05:06In the heat of the moment, he bit lightly at my neck, leaving his mark, his voice firm.

01:05:13Anything you want.

01:05:14I cupped his face, looking into those dark, intoxicating eyes, teasing him just a little.

01:05:21Didn't you say my name was erased?

01:05:23That I could never be reborn?

01:05:25He paused.

01:05:27Just for a second.

01:05:29Then his gaze flickered away.

01:05:31Caught.

01:05:32The next moment, he pulled me closer, more forceful this time, silencing me in his own way.

01:05:40After that, I stopped thinking, letting everything fade into the dark.

01:05:48Time passed.

01:05:50We spent years in the underworld.

01:05:52Long, quiet, unexpectedly warm.

01:05:56We even had children.

01:05:58Mischievous little ones who inherited his divine core of death.

01:06:02And in the end, he kept his promise.

01:06:04We returned.

01:06:06Back to the human world.

01:06:08Lucian used his power to create a new identity.

01:06:12He became the boy, next door.

01:06:15The one who had grown up with me under the California sun.

01:06:18We fell in love again.

01:06:20Got married.

01:06:22Bought a house by the ocean, with a garden full of flowers.

01:06:26We sat together on the porch swing, watching the sunset paint the sky in endless colors.

01:06:31One evening, as the light faded, he held my hand and told me quietly that during those.

01:06:38Centuries apart, he had watched countless sunsets like this.

01:06:42With me.

01:06:43Even when I did not know he was there.

01:06:46A breeze passed through.

01:06:48I leaned against his shoulder.

01:06:50We looked at each other and smiled.

01:06:52This time, we would never be apart again.

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