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Given a second chance at life, a brilliant lady walks away from her toxic marriage to build her own massive multi-billion dollar empire. #GlowUp
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00:01please let me see grandfather one last time you're the one who killed sienna but he had gone mad
00:07you're going to the grave with her sienna is my sister i would never kill her i tried to explain
00:13but hunter wouldn't listen i could only struggle desperately toward the shore yet hunter dragged
00:18me back in the end and tortured me to death when i opened my eyes again i was back on
00:29the
00:29day of the pearl draw those who drew a red pearl would become the first female commander of the
00:34royal title guard those who drew a white pearl would be sent to the abyss trench to serve as low
00:41ranking scouts in my previous life i drew red and married hunter sloan the son of the merman king
00:49what followed was 10 years of betrayal every night while i slept they tangled together in the guest
00:54chamber next to mine between my sister and me whose body do you prefer is that even a question
01:03come here baby later my sister was ambushed during a mission abyssal demons tore her scales apart
01:11hunter blamed me for choosing the red pearl claiming it led to her death he falsified a wartime report and
01:17sold me out the abyssal demons captured me and ripped my tail down then he used his family's power
01:25to frame my grandfather for treason my grandfather died in chains now staring at the two shells holding
01:32the pearls i already knew my answer lowering my head tail curled beneath me in the most respectful posture
01:38i said i choose the abyss let sienna be the commander my grandfather stared at me in shock giving up
01:45the command
01:45means giving up your marriage to hunter are you sure before i could answer the door was slammed open
01:51hunter slipped in without warning he pulled sienna straight into his arms sienna thank the gods you're
01:58alive hunter sloan's voice was hoarse he looked at her like she was a priceless relic he had nearly lost
02:03in front of my grandfather hunter dropped low tail coiled tightly beneath him his forehead touching the
02:09ground three times lord calloway the one i truly want to marry is sienna
02:15i know i'm already engaged to quinn but i don't love her please let me form a true bond with
02:23sienna
02:23that was when it hit me hunter had been reborn too even hearing it from his own mouth my chest
02:28still
02:29burned as if scorched by salt water i hid my shock and reached out to help him up he slapped
02:34my hand
02:34away his voice thick with disgust don't touch me i've only ever loved sienna don't get the wrong idea
02:41my grandfather cut in quinn is going to the abyss you two can set a date for the ceremony hunter
02:48froze
02:48for a moment then broke into a wide smile pulling sienna closer i can finally bond with you the
02:54tenderness in his eyes was so full it was almost overflowing i watched silently that warmth had once
03:00been mine fine it didn't matter i already had a better plan they'd see soon enough once the hall fell
03:06quiet i escorted my grandfather back to his room grandfather if i meet someone suitable on the
03:12front edges i'll marry there he was silent for a long time just stay safe he finally said that's all
03:19i ask i looked at his bent back and before i could stop it my eyes began to sting in
03:24my last life he'd
03:26kept me close after the wedding so he could look after me this time i was the one who was
03:31going to
03:31protect him i quickly completed my registration with the national guard on my way home i stopped
03:39by the coral market to buy my grandfather's favorite sweets and began planning what came next
03:44a war was about to erupt in the abyssal trench with heavy casualties i had to use my memories from
03:51my past
03:51life to change the outcome and the key to that was finding the fat shark working in the seaweed kitchen
03:56jess sheridan just as i was wondering how to locate him i ran into hunter and sienna at the open
04:02market
04:03when sienna fawned over the newest tide mirror he didn't complain once in my previous life i had begged
04:10him for weeks to come pick out a wedding dress with me every time he brushed me off saying he
04:15was busy
04:15serving the guard in the end i bought everything myself and carried it home alone yet here he was
04:22leisurely strolling through the market with sienna hunter nobles shouldn't show off but i love these
04:28veils so much what should i do hunter's expression was gentle without the slightest resistance sienna
04:35if you like them i'll buy them all i gave a bitter smile everything i had done for him before
04:41completely worthless i turned to leave but sienna spotted me she pulled hunter along a smug smile on
04:48her face quinn what are you doing here grandfather already picked the wedding date you're my sister
04:55you have to come i avoided looking at their clasped hands and kept my tone steady i still need to
05:00prepare
05:01for deployment i think if you don't come i'll burn your mother's memorial conquer my vision went dark
05:07sienna and i shared the same father but not the same mother after my mother died that conch was the
05:13only
05:13thing i had left of her sienna knew that that's why threatening it always worked i nodded just as i
05:20was about to leave she called out again her gaze flicked to the pearl pendant at my neck she smiled
05:25sweetly hunter doesn't quite have enough for the moon prism why not use your little pendant as
05:30collateral my face went cold my voice hoarse if you can't afford it don't buy it this pendant is old
05:37it's worthless hunter spoke up sienna we can use a shell harp instead same effect so hunter wasn't
05:46completely without feeling toward me he knew exactly what that pendant meant to me quinn are you upset
05:53because hunter and i are close but sienna's eyes welled with tears i just wanted a gift from you to
05:59bless our bond her voice trembling you can't even give me that she turned away shoulders trembling a
06:05heartbreaking sight hunter couldn't stand to see her upset his expression turned cold instantly
06:10ordered me give it to her i refused instinctively hunter lashed out with his tail striking my ribs
06:17i crashed into the coral he ripped the pendant from my neck and shoved it into sienna's hands
06:23a cold smile curled at her lips she opened it took out my mother's photograph and crushed it into powder
06:31right in front of me i lunged forward but it was too late my mother's image flickered in the current
06:37then scattered into nothing something inside me snapped i slapped sienna hard she clutched her cheek
06:44feigning shock then began spinning lies quinn why would you give me a memorial photo as a wedding gift
06:51i know you love hunter but you can't use something like that to sabotage us a crowd gathered as whispers
06:57pointing fingers she's after her own sister's fiance disgusting what kind of mermaid curses her sister's
07:04engagement day i heard none of it i collapsed to the ground scooping up the drifting dust with
07:09trembling hands hunter stood over me looking down don't think i'll pity you quinn you know what i'm
07:15capable of i didn't answer slowly i lifted myself into the water and addressed the crowd i quinn calavin
07:22swear here and now i have no feelings for hunter solon i'm going to the abyssal from this day forward
07:28we go our separate ways i went to a healer to have my wounds treated by the time i returned
07:34home sienna
07:36was already in the dining hall grandfather wasn't there he had gone to the sloan estate to handle
07:41the marriage arrangements sienna looked up at me as if nothing had happened she looked happy as though
07:47the scene she had staged at the market an hour ago didn't exist at all i walked straight back to
07:52my
07:52room the pearl cabinet stood open a sense of dread hit me instantly the conch was gone i lost control
07:59i rushed out grabbed sienna by the collar and slammed her to the ground my vision went black i punched
08:05her
08:05once twice again i screamed my hands clamped around her throat i wanted her dead where is my memory con
08:11burned it blood traced a thin line from the corner of sienna's mouth threw it into the seaweed furnace
08:16but her eyes gleamed with triumph your mother was such a kind woman even when she was dying she still
08:24lit fires to keep me warm rage flooded me why i've already given you everything it felt like my blood
08:32was burning what more do you want sienna shoved me off and gasped for air what i want do you
08:38want to know
08:39what i went through in my last life you deserve to suffer what i did 100 times over so she
08:45had been
08:45reborn too i spat out blood and glared at her last time grandfather didn't cheat you died because of
08:51your own stupidity still talking tough huh sienna forced out a twisted smile before i could react
08:57she yanked me closer and struck me hard across the face before i could pull back a kick slammed into
09:05my
09:05spine i crashed onto the reef a heavy stool came down on my head blood ran down my face hunter's
09:11eyes were bloodshot as he loomed over me cursing i couldn't hear a word he pulled sienna into his arms
09:17his hands trembling as he checked her injuries then he slammed a shell bowl onto the table pressed a
09:23jagged edge against my throat the dizziness faded at last i could hear him quinn don't fool yourself
09:29into thinking i still love you touch sienna again and i wouldn't mind killing you again i lay on the
09:35floor watching them cling to each other nausea churned in my stomach i crawled toward the furnace
09:40the seaweed flames had already gone cold hunter dragged sienna over and stomped hard on my already
09:46broken did i say you could leave apologize to sienna now the pain was unbearable i lifted my head
09:54looking at hunter's twisted face i muttered the bandage on my head was soaked through my
10:00conch he didn't hear me he just kept demanding that i apologize i gave up i collapsed darkness
10:06swallowed everything eventually hunter lost interest he left me in the ashes and swam away with sienna
10:12when i woke grandfather still hadn't returned i did everything i could to bandage myself then dragged
10:19my battered body into the current rushing toward the abyssal trench time was running out i had to
10:25find jess sheridan the current carried me to the trench outpost and then i blacked out again when i
10:31came around an ugly overweight shark man was sitting beside me my heart pounded as i called his name
10:36jess sharon the shark flinched its dark eyes fixed on me warily who are you how do you know my
10:43name
10:43catching my breath i told him about the coming war describing it as visions from a dream in my last
10:50life i had learned from sienna that he was the son of the sea god an accident had drained him
10:55of his
10:55power and sealed him inside the body of a shark man to keep him safe the sea god had arranged
11:01for him
11:02to blend in among the frontline kitchen crew while a solution was sought nobody here knew his true
11:07identity behind his back they called him fat finn or just the pudgy one right now the most
11:13important thing was to earn his trust and get him to take me to the true god of the sea
11:18will you
11:19marry me the moment the words left my mouth jess narrowed his eyes the next second he turned to
11:24call for the guards panicking i grabbed him and fell off the bed my wound split open but i didn't
11:30care
11:30my name is quinn calloway my mother was an ocean witch i know a way to restore your true form
11:37jess studied me with suspicion and put me through question after question until he was satisfied i wasn't an
11:42enemy agent i'll need to think about it a few days later sienna and hunter's wedding took place
11:48hunter sat in the room distracted constantly asking who had arrived after the guests had left he went to
11:55find grandfather trying to keep himself composed lord calloway where is quinn today is her sister's
12:01engagement ceremony why didn't she come grandfather looked around the empty hall and sighed
12:07you expect her to sit here and watch the man she loves being intimate with her own sister
12:12hunter's heart dropped he suddenly remembered that night the argument the way i had crawled toward
12:17the furnace before he could ask anything else a messenger fish rushed in waving a scroll wrapped in
12:24the current lord calloway official orders from the abyss command quinn is married hunter could hardly
12:31believe it he snatched the scroll who is married
12:39the little courier fish grinned innocent as ever why big sister quinn's there's a command seal on it
12:46and everything brother hunter what are the odds both your weddings on the very same day hunter felt
12:53his heart skip he turned the scroll over and over read that name again and again then collapsed onto
13:00the coral floor the girl who had once sworn she would never love anyone but him had turned around and
13:06bound
13:06herself to someone else he remembered that night me on the floor covered in blood dragging myself toward
13:12the seaweed furnace with a sickly look on my face and in a flash the image overlapped with one from
13:17his last
13:18life me on the ground my torn tail trailing behind me prostrating in front of him and begging she has
13:25someone she loves hunter sat there muttering to himself dazed how can she marry someone else hunter cut his own
13:33finger and sent the blood out a forbidden tracking spell but the ocean didn't answer he'd forgotten that i was
13:40the
13:40daughter of an ocean witch the forbidden tracking spell was one i'd taught him in our last life and i
13:46had long
13:46since erased my own traces and then while hunter sat there in despair he saw sienna sienna was drunk
13:52her eyes glassy she pulled him up off the floor with a soft voice what's wrong what are you doing
13:59sitting down there hunter stared at her dazed then something cool flickered in his eyes the next second
14:05his hand cracked his hand cracked across her face quinn's mother's memory conch where is it it can find
14:11quinn sienna sobered up instantly she held her cheek staring at hunter in disbelief what hunter i've never
14:21even seen that thing hunter knocked her hand away and slapped her again i'm asking you where the memory
14:25connock is where did you hide it sienna was speechless she covered her face tears poured down why would i
14:33ever
14:33touch anything of quinn's she said this place wasn't her home anymore she must have taken it with her
14:39hunter's vision blacked out he pressed a hand to his chest she she isn't coming back suddenly he
14:46staggered to his feet didn't even go back to the bridal chamber swam straight to the sloan estate
14:51grabbed a travel pack and tore off for the tideway station sienna chased after him in a daze and threw
14:57herself in his path hunter where are you going this is our wedding day hunter wouldn't even spare her
15:04at glance move i want to see with my own eyes who quinn married a flash of resentment crossed sienna's
15:10eyes she clamped onto his tail fin and refused to let go you're still thinking about her you regret
15:16marrying hunter shook her off impatiently i don't have time for this move when force didn't work sienna
15:22changed her face in a heartbeat and started packing his bag for him fine i'll go with you i was
15:29wanting
15:29to see quinn myself anyway at that hunter's face softened he let her come along but they'd barely
15:35reached the entrance to the tideway station when a squad in silver scale armor stopped them at the
15:41head of the squad was hunter's father general sloan himself the general's quiet authority made sienna
15:46shrink her tail back and even hunter didn't dare open his mouth go home i won't say it twice hunter
15:53didn't dare defy his father he and sienna had to slink back home frustrated soon after the front in the
16:00abyssal trench grew so unstable that they couldn't have gone even if they tried meanwhile jace and i
16:06were spending busy but fulfilling days down in the abyss in the beginning marrying jace really had been a
16:12partnership and nothing more it was the fastest way i could think of to earn the sea god's trust
16:17that war in my last life had killed half of our kind down here i had to save them marriage
16:23of
16:23convenience or not jace still gave me a grand ceremony after we wed i told the sea god every
16:29detail i remembered about the coming war he was skeptical at first but i correctly predicted
16:34several events in a row and eventually he chose to believe me in the end we won decisively
16:40after that battle i was made battalion commander of the northwest forces the sea god set up a coral
16:45cottage just for the two of us so jace and i could look after each other i took the risk
16:50of going down
16:51into a deep sea volcano to find a fairy herb that blooms only once every hundred years and i poured
16:57power into it using my witch's soul pearl day after day of treatment his shark seal broke and his sea
17:04god's power slowly returned i had never seen a more perfect male merman in my life that kind of
17:09sea witchcraft tears at the body especially hard and i took the backlash from treating jace i needed
17:15a full month of recovery to come back to myself through all of it jace stayed by my side day
17:21after
17:21day jace was careful and gentle the sea greens chowder he made tasted like nothing else i only
17:27learned later that he had been secretly feeding me a sacred elixir one meant only for the sea god
17:33under his care i grew stronger and my battlefield record kept getting better when we first married
17:39people at the front called us the beggar and the fat pig but no one laughed at us anymore now
17:45they all
17:45said we were meant for each other the nickname for jace had gone from fat shark to big bro i
17:51was still
17:51not entirely thrilled with that one but jace just laughed don't worry about them in my eyes you're a
17:57goddess quiet days like that went on for half a year until i happened to see hunter and sienna outside
18:02the outpost i just picked up medicine from the healer when i ran straight into the two of them
18:08prowling around outside the outpost our eyes locked hunter sprinted toward me at once he didn't spare a
18:15thought for the sienna right beside him he just pulled me into his arms quinn i knew you weren't married
18:21you still care about me sienna's face went dark in an instant hunter didn't notice a thing i stepped
18:28back quickly putting space between us sorry my husband is at home waiting i need to go hunter's
18:35body locked up he stared at me blank just then a few of my comrades swam past they spotted me
18:41and grinned
18:41throwing me casual salutes commander quinn who are these two big bro wasn't feeling well today so he
18:47wasn't in the kitchen i am dying for that sea greens chowder of his the moment sienna heard big bro
18:54she clapped a hand over her mouth like she'd seen a ghost sis your husband isn't the that fat shark
19:00from the seaweed kitchen is you i frowned watch how you speak he is not a fat shark sienna scoffed
19:07her
19:08eyes dripping with contempt quinn everyone knows there's a fat shark in the seaweed kitchen grinning
19:13like an idiot all day came out of nowhere some country nobody sure it stings that you didn't get
19:18to marry hunter but is it really worth degrading yourself like this my expression hardened the
19:24comrades who'd been passing by stopped walking they didn't look pleased and who exactly are you two how
19:29do you even know big bro these two are newlyweds they're happy together don't you think you're going
19:35a little too far watching everyone take my side sienna ground her teeth in fury hunter stepped forward
19:41his voice catching you really did marry someone else you're really not coming home i looked at
19:46his wounded little face and felt nothing at all hunter my parents are gone this is my home now
19:52you're the one who said you only ever loved sienna so what are you doing here last life in this
19:56life
19:57both he never knew what he actually wanted hunter clamped down on my arm and wouldn't let go just as
20:03we
20:03were locked in that standoff a comrade swam up supporting jace who was burning with fever when jace saw
20:09me hemmed in like that he tensed up at once and pushed his way over the jace of today had
20:14long
20:15since shed the bloated body the seal had given him he stood tall and lean sharp featured with a
20:20brilliantly shimmering tail i touched his still hot forehead my chest aching with worry you're sick
20:26and you're out wandering around sienna rushed up and stared at the tall broad-shouldered sharply
20:32chiseled jace so shocked she could barely speak who are you where's the fat shark jace fixed her with
20:40a wary stare and who are you you forced your way into the outpost you're crowding the battalion
20:44commander i am well within my rights to treat you as a spy sienna seemed to crack right there screaming
20:49in disbelief you're the battalion commander how are you the commander you should have been caught by
20:56the abyss demons torn apart broken how can you possibly be the commander everyone stared as sienna
21:02came apart her ranting growing more deranged their faces darkened hunter looked at jace standing beside
21:09me and turned green with jealousy quinn you my husband is sick you'll have to excuse us jenny could
21:17you deal with these two for me i'm taking jay home with that i took jace's hand and turned for
21:22home
21:22hunter tried to follow but the others closed in around them with practiced ease armed and ready
21:28mindful of his father hunter didn't dare push it back home i brewed up jace's medicine and fed it to
21:34him a careful spoonful at a time he blinked at me sneaking glances testing the words out before he spoke
21:40those two who came today are they relatives of yours my hand stilled i nodded yes my sister and her
21:46husband probably came up from back home jace hesitated but you said you didn't have any
21:51family i was quiet for a long moment those terrible scenes from my last life crowding back in i didn't
21:57know how to explain jace saw my mood drop just pulled me gently into his arms and told me it
22:03was
22:03all right i tilted my chin up and kissed the corner of his mouth thank god i have you right
22:08then a commotion
22:09broke out beyond the door i tucked him in and swam out to look the guards had let sienna and
22:14hunter
22:14into the courtyard both of them were looking at me with that smug tilt of the chin commander officer
22:21sienna says she'd like to see you it was only then that title registered sienna was in the royal tide
22:27guard now too hunter glanced toward the window then took up that won't be questioned tone again
22:32quinn you can't be eating well or sleeping hell in the abyss come home with me what good can a
22:39quarter
22:39man man from the seaweed kitchen possibly do for your career i'll talk to my father get you transferred
22:45back you'll live with us i looked at him in disbelief the whole thing was absurd i turned to walk
22:50away
22:51and sienna sidled up and gripped my wrist whispering against my ear mom's memory conch don't want it back
22:58anymore my gaze sharpened i turned my head and stared her down you said last time you'd burned it
23:04you were lying sienna straightened up and pitched her voice back to normal when you've made up your
23:09mind come to the black coral forest i'll be waiting whenever you're ready to come home sis she took
23:15hunter's arm to leave hunter cast a complicated look at me but in the end he followed sienna out i
23:21stood
23:22rooted there my thoughts running in a thousand directions i glanced back in at jace fast asleep
23:28dropped a soft kiss on his forehead and turned in the direction of the black coral forest the whole
23:33way there the water was empty hardly a soul in sight i gripped the trident jace had forged specially
23:39for me pushing forward by the moonlight filtering down through the surface every nerve tight i reached
23:45the mouth of the black coral forest still no one in sight just as i was about to turn back
23:51something heavy slammed into my tail fin my body twisted on instinct to dodge and i tumbled down
23:57into a wide coral pit i looked up and there was sienna that eerie smile on her face and the
24:03water blade
24:03spear she had leveled at me i made myself sound calm what do you think you're doing killing a fellow
24:10officer this close to command do you understand what they'll do to you sienna stared down at me the
24:16jealousy and disgust in her voice impossible to hide you should have been dead in the first place
24:21why is it that even with a second life everything still comes easy for you hunter is still thinking
24:27about you what is so special about you all i need is for you to die and everything is mine
24:34she swung the
24:35spear and the currents around her twisted hard fish scattered the water churned at the reefs and pulled
24:41itself into a blade that lanced toward me i twisted aside and stared at her in shock are you out
24:50of
24:50your mind doing this could pull the enemy right down on us i could see clearly now sienna's hatred for
24:57me had reached its peak the most important thing for me to do right now was get my mother's memory
25:02conch back i'll ask one more time where is the conca vienna laughed coldly and crouched down so she
25:09could look at me from above you actually believed that the conch was burned that very day oh and by
25:18the
25:18way i should mention grandpa hasn't been doing too well while you've been away hearing about grandpa
25:24made me see red this life i've given you everything you wanted why would you go and hurt grandpa sienna's
25:32face turned dark in an instant her eyes burning not enough you know what i was thinking right as i
25:38died last time if i can't be happy none of you get to be happy either so i used my
25:44last breath to write
25:45a forged letter to hunter i told him you and grandpa had been pulling strings together just to get the
25:53sloanen family to hand you a rank i told him the reason hunter's grandfather died expectedly was that
26:00you switched out his medicine sienna you've lost your mind is there one word of truth in your mouth
26:07sienna laughed almost manically so what if there isn't so what if i did it i was jealous
26:14i was jealous of you why should every single person love you and worry about you
26:21in any case hunter has always believed every word out of my mouth i listened to her rave
26:28my heart aching for the grandpa of my last life and pulled in a deep breath you think grandpa didn't
26:33know it was you you think general sloan couldn't have tracked you down if he'd wanted to
26:39grandpa specifically sent you to the abyss as a scout so the sloanes wouldn't be able to reach you
26:46and this is how you repay him you have no idea how much my father and grandpa left behind just
26:53to keep
26:54you alive you know nothing you haven't come home a single time to ask sienna listened slowly going still
27:02i was panting do you have any idea where hunter dragged grandpa in my last life to torture him
27:10how dare you she wrapped her arms around her head and shook it desperately but it didn't last
27:15she slid right back into that sneering look her eyes full of murder i don't care i never imagined jace
27:23would turn out so good looking this time around once you're dead i'll divorce hunter and marry him
27:30her water pistol leveled at the center of my forehead i raised my trident too our eyes locked
27:36sienna we're sisters does it really have to come to this she laughed wild and loud sisters fine
27:44then surely big sister wouldn't mind paving the way for her little sister the moment she said it the
27:52currents twisted again i shut my eyes tight but in the end i couldn't bring myself to strike her
27:59and yet the one who fell was sienna she crumpled stiffly into the coral pit blood spreading from
28:05between her scales like ink through water i stared frozen calling her name over and over
28:11but the one who pulled me up out of that pit was hunter
28:14you
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