Relife The Heiress's Revenge - Full Episode (ENGSUB) is a thrilling rebirth revenge drama filled with betrayal, justice, and destiny. After suffering a tragic end at the hands of the people she trusted most, Clara awakens in the past with all her memories intact. Determined not to repeat the mistakes of her previous life, she carefully exposes the schemes of those who once destroyed her. As hidden conspiracies unravel and her enemies fall into their own traps, Clara transforms from a victim into a powerful heiress who controls her own destiny. Packed with emotional twists, revenge, romance, shocking revelations, and a strong female lead, this addictive short drama will keep viewers hooked until the final episode.
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00:00Someone had spiked my fiancé's drink.
00:02When he started tearing open Serena Blackwood's dress at the Blackwood Gala,
00:05I did not rush in to stop him the way I had in my last life.
00:08Back then, I had been terrified he would offend Marcus Blackwood,
00:11a man famous for protecting his own at any cost.
00:14I threw myself between them,
00:17drugged out of his mind, dragged me into a guest room, and raped me.
00:21From that night on, the entire pack's old mind circle said I had climbed into his bed on purpose.
00:25After I married him, the torment only got worse.
00:28In five years, I got pregnant seven times.
00:31Every baby was lost in another convenient accident.
00:34They called me a slut, a used-up whore,
00:36a woman who must have been passed around by half the men in town before she ever wore Evan's ring.
00:41My parents poured everything they had into making my life survivable in the Brooks household.
00:45They helped push Evan onto the council.
00:47And on the night I went into labor,
00:49Evan and Serena held me down and forced drug-laced water down my throat.
00:52I bled out on the birthing bag.
00:54If you hadn't stuck your nose in that night,
00:55Serena and I would have completed our mate-hand years ago.
00:57You ruined my fated mate.
01:00This is what you owe us.
01:02Then he smothered the baby I had nearly died delivering, right in front of me.
01:06Blood and tears soaked my face.
01:08When my last breath left me, there was nothing left in me but hatred.
01:11Then I opened my eyes again.
01:13I was back at the Blackwood Gala.
01:15Back on the day someone spiked Evan's drink.
01:17This time, I would let them finish the bond they had spent a lifetime blaming me for.
01:22Evan, please!
01:23Serena Blackwood's breathy, embarrassed moan slipped out of the Lakeview guest suite.
01:27It sounded soft enough to pass for refusal, and loud enough to be meant for everyone in the hall.
01:31I stood outside the door, and my stomach dropped.
01:34Through the crack, Evan Brooks' eyes were bloodshot.
01:37Evan Brooks' eyes were bloodshot.
01:39His bow tie hung crooked at his throat as he pinned Serena against the floor-to-ceiling window
01:43and tore open her custom silver-green gown.
01:45Clara, we have to go in and save her.
01:48Her knuckles white.
01:49Grace Miller grabbed my sleeve.
01:51I looked at the two tangled shadows inside.
01:53Then at Grace, who looked desperate to rush in on my behalf.
01:56I almost laughed.
01:57Save who?
01:58The woman who, in my last life, helped Evan drug me and leave me bleeding out on a birthing bed?
02:03Or the monster who smothered my child with his own hands?
02:05Evan comes from the minor pack branch.
02:10If he really hurts Serena tonight, Marcus Blackweald will never let him walk away.
02:14Clara, what are you waiting for?
02:15Did you forget what Mr. Ashford said?
02:17Evan's father had old ties with the Ashford's.
02:19You were supposed to look out for him.
02:21If Evan is ruined here, your father will blame you.
02:23Grace kept her voice low, but every word came faster than the last.
02:27She had wanted Evan for years.
02:29She could not wait for me to sign and make contract with him,
02:31just so she could follow us into the Brooks household and become his hidden mistress.
02:35In my last life, when I crawled toward the door covered in blood and tried to call for help,
02:39Grace was the one who pinned my hands and feet down.
02:41She stepped on my bleeding stomach again and again, smiling as she said,
02:45Every dose Evan told me to.
02:47How are you still getting pregnant?
02:49Your body is disgusting.
02:51I clenched my fingers and swallowed the urge to strangle her on the spot.
02:54I'll go in and hold him off.
02:56I lowered my eyes.
02:57My voice shook.
02:58I'll go in and hold him off.
02:59You go to the front hall and get my mother in security.
03:01Remember, don't alarm the other guests.
03:03Remember, don't alarm the other guests.
03:05The excitement in Grace's eyes almost broke through her act.
03:08She agreed at once and hurried away.
03:09She moved like someone who had just been handed an exclusive scandal.
03:12It had been the same in my last life.
03:14The whole thing could still have been buried by the Blackwoods.
03:17But Grace had dragged over the council spouses,
03:19old money heiresses, and donors from the front hall.
03:22They all saw me half-dressed, pinned under Evan on the bed.
03:25My mother fainted on the spot.
03:26My father spent half a lifetime building his reputation,
03:29and that night, it was dragged through the mud.
03:31Even the Ashford girls became cocktail hour gossip because of me.
03:35Since Grace was so good at gathering an audience,
03:37I would let her.
03:38Let every important guest in that front hall come watch the live sex show already waiting for them.
03:42And let my dear husband from my last life have exactly what he deserved.
03:46A ladder straight into the Blackwood family.
03:48I crouched outside the Lakeview guest suite,
03:50and a savage kind of relief ran through my whole body.
03:52Patricia Brooks had not yet forced my face toward the fireplace,
03:55and burned a scar into me that no powder could hide.
03:58I had not yet smelled infected flesh mixed with burned salve.
04:01My knees had not yet been ruined from kneeling on the Brooks household stone floor until the tissue died.
04:06The Brooks household stone floor until the tissue died,
04:08turning me into the crippled whore everyone whispered about.
04:11My belly felt lighter too.
04:12It was not aching every hour from baby after baby being taken from me.
04:16My nails dug into my palm.
04:18The sharp pain told me this was not a dream.
04:20When footsteps sounded down the hall,
04:22I lifted my hand and slapped myself hard across the face,
04:25again and again.
04:26This face, still untouched by the ruin of my last life,
04:30swelled red almost at once.
04:31I had been slapped so often in the Brooks household that even now,
04:35when I split my own lip and felt blood drip down my chin,
04:38it barely hurt.
04:38Clara, why are you still here?
04:40Grace came rushing over with a crowd of donor wives and council spouses in evening gowns.
04:45The moment she saw me still guarding the door,
04:47panic flashed across her face.
04:49I pinched the soft inside of my thigh as hard as I could.
04:51My eyes went red at once.
04:53Then I rushed forward with tears all over my face and threw my arms out in front of the sweet
04:57door.
04:58The corridor's crystal light spilled over me.
05:00The handprints on my face and the blood at the corner of my mouth landed clearly in every pair of
05:04eyes.
05:05The handprints on my face and the blood at the corner of my mouth landed clearly in every pair of
05:09eyes.
05:09One woman's champagne glass froze halfway to her lips.
05:12Someone cursed under her breath.
05:14The daughter of the Ashford family was an old blood heiress.
05:16On any other day, even a scraped finger would have been enough to send the whole family office into a
05:21panic.
05:22Now half my face was swollen and blood was still running from my mouth.
05:26Catherine Blackwood was the first to frown.
05:28Tonight was the Blackwood gala.
05:29If a guest was injured in her family's private wing, it was the Blackwoods who lost face.
05:33She had just started toward me when I pressed myself flat against the door.
05:36Don't go somewhere else. Don't go in. Please don't go in.
05:40The warmth Catherine had been wearing for the room went cold at once.
05:45Clara, this is the private wing of the Blackwood estate. It is not an Ashford doorway for you to guard.
05:49She lifted one hand, and two half-staff members immediately stepped forward to pull me away.
05:53I acted as if the lightest touch might shatter me.
05:56I was trembling hard, but I clung to the doorframe and would not let go.
06:00No, you can't go in.
06:02Half-staff and security came together to pry my hands loose.
06:04In the chaos, someone's stiletto came down hard on the back of my hand.
06:08Something in the bone shifted one.
06:10Something in the bone shifted one.
06:12I screamed before I could stop myself.
06:15Helena Ashford had stayed silent because this was the Blackwoods house,
06:18but now pain and fear broke across her face.
06:20She grabbed my arm.
06:22Clara, what are you doing?
06:23Making a scene at someone else's gala like this, what do you expect the Ashford family to do?
06:27I looked at my mother standing in front of me, alive and whole.
06:30Her hair not yet turned white overnight because of my scandal.
06:33Mom, don't make me...
06:34Tears flooded my eyes.
06:36I have a reason.
06:37I really can't let them go in.
06:39Helena's voice changed with panic.
06:41What are you even saying?
06:42My knees gave out, and I dropped directly in front of Catherine.
06:46Catherine, please.
06:46Don't.
06:47The whispers in the crowd finally broke loose.
06:50What is wrong with Clara Ashford?
06:51There isn't really something shameful behind that door.
06:54Is there?
06:55I curled up at the threshold, holding up the hand that was already swelling.
06:58My whole body shaking so hard I could not stop it.
07:01Catherine's face went completely dark.
07:03Very good.
07:05A perfectly decent Blackwood gala, and somehow Ashford's daughter is blocking my door.
07:10Since she has made this much of a scene, I will not be the only one deciding what happens next.
07:15Go to the front hall.
07:16Bring Marcus and Richard here.
07:19Go to the front hall.
07:20Bring Marcus and Richard here.
07:22I pressed down the smile tugging at my mouth.
07:25Those slaps had not been wasted.
07:27Alas, the scene was big enough.
07:29Tonight was the Blackwood Alliance gala.
07:31Marcus Blackwood and my father, Richard Ashford, were not the only powerful men in the front hall.
07:36Several Whitmore High Council candidates were here, too.
07:38Evan and I had been husband and wife for an entire lifetime, after all.
07:42This time, of course I had to make sure he and his beloved Serena had a full audience.
07:46Within minutes, Marcus arrived with a crowd of councilmen and donors at his back, security following close behind.
07:52Richard Ashford moved the fastest.
07:53The moment he saw me covered in mud and blood, guarding the door as if my life depended on it,
07:58his face changed.
07:59The next second, he lifted his hand and slapped me hard across the face.
08:03I've always known how to behave.
08:04Have you lost your mind tonight?
08:06The council spouses around us shook their heads.
08:09In the East Coast Pack Circle, I had always been the Ashford family's most proper daughter.
08:13Now I was crying and making a scene at the Blackwood Gala, blocking the private wing and refusing to let
08:18anyone through.
08:19Half the obedient reputation I had built over the years was already gone.
08:22Half the obedient reputation I had built over the years was already gone.
08:26Marcus's expression darkened.
08:28He gave me one cold glance.
08:30Then he simply raised his hand.
08:31The security men at his side stepped forward, lifted me away like they were removing an out-of-control guest,
08:37and threw me down near the rain-soaked edge of the lawn.
08:39It had rained two days ago.
08:41The Blackwood Estate stone path had been scrubbed spotless, but the grass beside it was still full of mud.
08:47The hem of my pale lavender gown sank into the muck, filthy enough to make me look as if I
08:51had crawled out of a service alley.
08:52Everyone walked around me and headed straight for the sweet door.
08:56Helena's tears fell in a rush.
08:57How are you supposed to stand and pack society after this?
09:00I wiped the muddy water from my face and smiled at her.
09:03The crowd had barely reached the door when every step stopped at once.
09:06A woman's moan, soft and sticky, slid through the crack, tangled with a man's low, restrained panting.
09:12The sound was so obscene it made heat crawl up people's faces.
09:16Then came the dull thud of a headboard hitting the wall, again and again.
09:19No one needed to go in to know exactly how lively it was inside.
09:22Several donor wives who had brought young daughters with them immediately covered the girls' ears and ordered house staff to
09:28take them away.
09:29Then the woman inside let out another honey-sweet sound.
09:31Her voice stretched thin and breathless at the end.
09:34The guests looked from one face to another, each expression uglier than the last.
09:38The Blackwoods had humiliated themselves completely tonight.
09:41In broad daylight, in a guest wing, doing something this lewd, an outspoken council wife clutched her evening back.
09:47Her voice was low, but every word landed clearly.
09:50The way everyone looked at Marcus and Catherine now carried an unmistakable edge of mockery.
09:54Marcus's face flushed dark purple.
09:56Beneath his beard, his jaw clenched tight, I pushed in from the edge of the crowd and caught his sleeve
10:01with trembling fingers.
10:02I shouldn't go in.
10:04At least think of the reputation of whoever is inside.
10:08Marcus's gaze cut quickly across the guests.
10:10The Whitmore heirs stood behind him in immaculate black formalwear.
10:13He was not afraid of offending some irrelevant guest.
10:15But whoever dared to do this at the Blackwood Alliance Gala had dragged the Blackwood name through the mud on
10:20purpose.
10:21There was no dignity left for him to protect.
10:23Marcus ripped the brass master key from the house steward's heavy key ring.
10:26The metal keys clattered hard against the doorframe.
10:29Move.
10:30His voice came out in a low growl.
10:31He shoved me aside without mercy and jammed.
10:34The brass key into the iron lock.
10:35With a violent crash, the frame of the Lakeview guest suite split open.
10:39Half the door hung crooked, then dropped hard onto the carpet.
10:42The sky outside had not gone fully dark, but the suite blazed with light.
10:45The white wall scouts lit up the mess on the floor.
10:47A kicked-a-side gown, a shirt, and a piece of red lace ongerary.
10:51The whole room reeked of sex and sweat, sharp and fishy like Bradford blossoms in spring, strong enough to tighten
10:56the back of the throat.
10:56Some council spouses covered their mouths, others cried out.
11:00Marcus was already past reason.
11:02He overturned the frosted glass screen with one brutal shove.
11:05On the king bed, Evan Brooks was completely naked, with a woman's bare thighs hooked over his shoulders.
11:10The red lace lingerie was still clenched in his hand.
11:13The air went dead silent.
11:15Even the sound of high heels sinking into the carpet seemed loud.
11:20Marcus?
11:21He fumbled for the comforter, trying to drag it over the woman beneath him and hide her from view.
11:26To Marcus, that looked less like shame than provocation.
11:31Evan might have been a rising PAC attorney this year.
11:33But in Marcus's eyes, he was still nothing more than a lower PAC legal associate, with no real power and
11:39no real bloodline.
11:41A scholarship-born climber like him would not even have been allowed near the Blackwood side door on an ordinary
11:45night.
11:46And now he had dared to turn the Blackwood guest wing into this kind of debauchery.
11:50It was uglier than spitting in Marcus Blackwood's face.
11:53Low-born trash!
11:55Marcus's eyes went bloodshot.
11:56He grabbed the iron poker from beside the fireplace and swung it down hard at the bedpost.
12:01Evan clutched the woman against himself and scrambled naked across the bed, trying to dodge.
12:05The sight of him stumbling bare in front of every important guest nearly drove Marcus and Catherine mad.
12:10One council space after another looked away, stepping back on their heels.
12:14Catherine's chest rose and fell with fury.
12:16She had no polished hostess mask left to wear.
12:19At this point, the Blackwoods had no dignity left to protect.
12:22I want to see which little slit dared go into heat in my house!
12:27Catherine, for my sake.
12:29I... don't...
12:31But Evan Brooks had no sake to speak of in the Blackwood house.
12:34Catherine let out a cold laugh and pulled with both hands.
12:37With one harsh rip, she tore the entire comforter away.
12:40A completely naked woman was exposed in front of everyone.
12:43She covered her face with both hands, her legs pressed tightly together, too afraid to lift her head.
12:48Several bright red hickeys stood out on her pale shoulders.
12:51Her hair was damp and tangled, as if she had just been dragged out of the sheets.
12:55The Blackwood female aides beside Catherine reacted first.
12:57They stepped forward, pinned the woman's wrists and ankles, and yanked her hair back, forcing her face up for everyone
13:03to see.
13:03Little slut, still trying to hide?
13:05And that beautiful, sweat-damp, painfully familiar face was shown to every person in the suite.
13:10A glass knocked against a serving tray with a bright, brittle sound.
13:13The entire room seemed to explode.
13:14Serena Blackwood was there, naked and exposed, helplessly displayed in front of every council witness.
13:19Catherine Black froze on the spot.
13:20She looked as if someone had struck her straight between the eyes.
13:23One hand flew to her head as she staggered back.
13:25The guests looked from the scandal pair on the bed to me.
13:28My eyes reddened, and tears rolled down my face at exactly the right moment.
13:32I did not need to say anything anymore.
13:34Everyone had already put the story together for themselves.
13:37I was an old-blood Ashvind heiress.
13:39Who would dare put a hand on me so easily?
13:41The answer seemed obvious.
13:43I must have stumbled onto Serena's filthy secret.
13:46Serena must have slapped me, and then she must have forced me to stand outside and guard the door for
13:50the two of them.
13:52He tightened his grip on the fireplace poker and brought it down hard across Evan Brooks' back.
13:57The iron edge scraped through flesh, and a long, ugly gash split open at once.
14:02I lowered my head and used the back of my mudsteed hand to hide the corner of my mouth.
14:06Evan Brooks, you deserve that one.
14:09A raw scream tore out of Evan's throat.
14:11He touched the torn skin on his back and tried desperately to explain.
14:15Marcus, listen.
14:16I was drugged.
14:17Someone set me up.
14:18Marcus was beyond listening.
14:19He raised the fireplace pinal again and swung it straight for Evan's neck.
14:24Marcus, stand down.
14:25He's still a licensed council attorney.
14:26We investigate first.
14:28I watched coldly, almost regretful.
14:30What a shame.
14:31One cleaner hit, and he might have died right there.
14:33No matter how furious Marcus was, he could not ignore the Whitmerts in front of them.
14:37Investigate!
14:38Tear the Blackwood estate apart if you have to.
14:40Bar logs, cameras, badge swipes, sweet access.
14:43I want everything!
14:45Evan let out a breath of relief, then swept one cold glance over me.
14:49That single look told me everything.
14:51He had come back too.
14:53Those were not the eyes of a newly admitted PAC attorney.
14:55They were Evan Brooks' eyes after years soaked in council politics in our last life.
14:59Still on his knees, he planted both hands against his thighs and slowly straightened his spine.
15:04However I was set up tonight, Serena's public standing is already ruined.
15:07I'm willing to sign a responsibility statement, acknowledge this mate bond scandal, and enter an alliance engagement with Serena.
15:12He thought that sounded noble.
15:14He thought Marcus and Catherine would be grateful that he was offering to clean up Blackwood's mess.
15:18Pete!
15:19You think you're what exactly?
15:21A no-pittage low-pack Kerr thinks he can crawl into the Blackwood bloodline?
15:24Evan squeezed his eyes shut.
15:26His entire face flushed red.
15:28In all his years, no one had ever humiliated him like this in public.
15:31After all, in my last life, whenever he dealt with Marcus, Marcus had always clapped him on the shoulder and
15:37called him promising.
15:38Marcus had even said he admired a man who climbed by talent.
15:42What a joke.
15:43In that life, Evan Brooks had been my husband.
15:45My father, Richard Ashford, was the PAC council's chief legal strategist.
15:49The respect Marcus gave him had never belonged to Evan.
15:52It had belonged to the Ashford family.
15:53I would snap my own daughter's neck and dump her in the Hudson before I let trash like you touch
15:58my bloodline!
15:59In a fresh burst of age, he kicked Evan hard enough to send him crashing into the low table.
16:06Evan coughed up a mouthful of blood on the spot.
16:08You touched a Blackwood daughter, and now you dare use her as your ladder?
16:13Security!
16:14Drag him out!
16:15Beat him until he can't open his mouth again!
16:17Evan had not even managed to get up before Blackwood's security prissed his arms and legs.
16:22They dragged him toward the door like a bag of rotting trash.
16:24No!
16:25No!
16:26This isn't how it was supposed to happen!
16:28Marcus!
16:28Serenarina!
16:29Save me!
16:29Marcus grabbed a whiskey tumbler and smashed it against Evan's head.
16:32Glass splattered.
16:33Evan's scalp slid open at once.
16:34Blood ran down his brow and dripped all over the floor.
16:37Gag him.
16:39A cur like him doesn't deserve to say Serenarina's name.
16:42Serenarina Blackwood was completely stunned.
16:44She kept her head down and did not dare say a single word for Evan Brooks.
16:48Marcus!
16:49You can't be this heartless!
16:51She is our daughter!
16:52She was harmed!
16:53How can you tell her to die?
16:55Of course Marcus had spoken in rage.
16:58Serenarina was still his own blood.
17:00He could not truly bring himself to kill her.
17:02But after saying so much in front of everyone, he could not simply let it go either.
17:06So he slammed one hand down on the coffee table.
17:08Are my investigators dead?
17:10Who dared touch the drinks at a Blackwood gala?
17:12Do I pay security to be useless?
17:14If you can't give me an answer, I will tear apart the entire staff chain.
17:17A security supervisor came in with his shoulders hunched, his voice shaking.
17:21Marcus, the badge log shows that Maya Ellis, Serenarina's personal aide, handled Evan's glass.
17:24The room broke into low, crackling murmurs.
17:26Every pair of eyes turned to Serenarina.
17:27A personal aide usually acted on her employer's instructions.
17:30No!
17:31It wasn't me!
17:32It was Maya!
17:33Maya wanted to hurt me!
17:35Maya Ellis looked less like a living person than a ghost.
17:38Trembling all over, she collapsed onto the floor.
17:41No.
17:43I didn't.
17:45She had just started to defend herself when she looked up and met Serenarina's eyes.
17:49The rest of the words died in her throat.
17:51If Maya told the truth, the Blackhilds had a hundred ways to strip her of her job and
17:55every clean reference she had left.
17:57Serenarina threw herself at Maya, sobbing as she beat her.
18:00Was I not good to you?
18:02Why would you stab me in the back?
18:03It was me.
18:05I thought Serenar favored Tessa Rowe and treated me unfairly.
18:08The guests looked at one another.
18:10The same faint mockery appeared on every face.
18:13That excuse was too weak to stand.
18:15But what else could they do?
18:17Serenarina was Marcus and Catherine's daughter.
18:19If they did not let Maya take the fall, were they supposed to admit Serenarina herself had
18:22gone into heat and dragged a man into bed?
18:25Marcus, who had been ready to beat someone to death a moment ago, suddenly looked as if
18:28a dirty rag had been shoved into his mouth.
18:30Serenarina was still hitting Maya and crying.
18:32Then, from the jacket draped over Serenarina's shoulders, a sealed clinic pouch slipped out.
18:36Maya had already been beaten weak.
18:38Her body tilted and she landed directly on top of the pouch.
18:41A small blood vial shattered under her weight.
18:43Fresh red spread instantly across the pale carpet.
18:45What is that?
18:46A private pack clinic label was stuck to the clear bag.
18:49Half a sheet of paper, already soaked at the edge with blood showed through.
18:52An ordinary gala guest might not have a clue.
18:55But among the council wives, healer donors and old money maidens here, who hasn't had
18:59to deal with a fertility scandal for the family?
19:00CG blood test results from a private clinic, a forged healer intake form and a fake bond status
19:05file.
19:05All that stuff is enough to rip the mask off Serena as the innocent, wronged Luna candidate.
19:09Most of the gogglers don't know the ins and outs, so they're craning their necks asking
19:12everyone around.
19:13Every time someone asks, Serena's face goes even peeler.
19:16Evan Brooks, beaten bloody and dragged back into the suite, saw the evidence explode at
19:20exactly the wrong moment.
19:21He was still a licensed council attorney.
19:24No matter how furious Marcus was, Blackwood security did not dare beat him to death.
19:28If this had been Evan before the last life, he would have been nothing more than a newly
19:32risen pack lawyer.
19:33A shattered blood vial and half a sheet of HCG paperwork might not have meant much to him.
19:37But he had lived an entire life already.
19:39In his last life, he had climbed high in council circles.
19:42Paternity fraud, forged healer files, backroom scandal cleanup.
19:46What had he not seen?
19:47One look at the blood on the carpet, the soaked clinic date, and he understood.
19:51Evan was barely holding together from the beating.
19:53Yet somehow he found strength.
19:55He forced himself up and lunged toward the king bed.
19:58With one hand, he ripped back the comforter.
20:00The white fitted sheet was clean.
20:02There was nothing there that could shove the pup in Serena's belly onto tonight.
20:05The truly glaring proof was the blood-soaked paper.
20:08Sample collected, four weeks before gala.
20:11Gestational estimate, five weeks.
20:13Sire pending.
20:14Everyone had just seen Evan naked and pressed over Serena.
20:17But the evidence told them Serena had already been pregnant before tonight.
20:20She had even prepared a forged healer intake in advance.
20:23Ready to frame herself as a Luna candidate ruined by this one night.
20:27Please, what a perfect little paternity trap.
20:29Too bad it had not closed neatly around Evan's throat.
20:32Even I had not expected the scene to turn this ugly this fast.
20:35In my last life, after I married Evan, I went to a private PAC clinic during my first pregnancy.
20:40There, I happened to see a woman in a hood quietly asking for abortion medication.
20:44The clinic healer warned her that she was already close to 16 weeks.
20:47If she forced determination at that stage, her body might not withstand it.
20:52The woman had wrapped herself up carefully.
20:54But when she passed near me, I still caught a faint trace of custom scent suppressor.
20:58Across the entire East Coast PAC circle, only Serena Blackwood loved that scent.
21:02At that point, three months had passed since the night at the Lakeview guest suite.
21:06Which meant that when Evan was drugged tonight, Serena already had a pup more than a month along.
21:10Who dared bring that filthy drug into the Blackwood Gala?
21:13The answer was suddenly obvious.
21:15Serena had wanted to find a public sire for somebody else's pup.
21:18And Evan Brooks was supposed to be the fall guy.
21:21Once I pieced it together, I could only think how ugly this world really was.
21:25In my last life, Evan and I had already been bound by the scandal.
21:28Trying to reopen the Blackwood incident from three months earlier would have been a joke.
21:32So I buried the truth and locked it away.
21:34This time my plan had been simple.
21:36Let Serena and Evan both get what they wanted.
21:38One would find a father for the pup in her belly.
21:40The other would climb the Blackwood old blood ladder at last.
21:43I had not expected Serena's own clinic evidence to tear open first.
21:47Evan's face looked as if someone had slapped him in front of the entire room.
21:50He threw himself at Serena and seized her shoulders.
21:53Serena Blackwood!
21:54Shaking her heart.
21:55You set me up!
21:56You told me you had no registered bond.
21:58You said you wanted me and no one else.
22:00You told me you couldn't hold back your scent.
22:02That you would break council protocol just to give yourself to me.
22:05You used me as a public seer for another man's pup!
22:08You pregnant little whore!
22:09Serena shook in his grip like a soaked silk scarf.
22:12As if she might fall apart at any second.
22:14Her mouth opened and closed.
22:16But not a single word came out.
22:18Marcus heard every word.
22:19And his brows drew tight again.
22:21But this time he had no ground to stand on.
22:24Even if he hated that a low pack liability like Evan had overstepped.
22:27He had no reason left to keep beating him.
22:29Evan Brooks had been beaten too badly.
22:31And the truth had struck him too hard.
22:33Blood surged up his throat and sprayed across Serena Blackwood's face.
22:36Then he fell backward and passed out cold.
22:39The room erupted into chaos again.
22:41No matter how unwilling Marcus was.
22:43No matter how badly he still wanted to kill someone.
22:45He had to call in the estate medic and the pack healer.
22:47Several council wives looked at me with pity and tenderness.
22:50How did she get dragged into something like this?
22:53Clara has suffered too much tonight.
22:55One after another, they sighed for me.
22:57They believed I was a young heiress with no registered mate bond.
23:01Dragged for no reason into a sex scandal this filthy.
23:03Even if I was innocent, it was still a stain.
23:06My pack reputation and alliance prospects would take a hit.
23:09After tonight, the main alliances open to me would probably drop by an entire tier.
23:13The Whitmore heirs, especially, would never consider me now.
23:16They had no idea.
23:18Compared with my last life, when I married Evan and was slowly ground down inside the
23:21Brooks household, this was already an escape from death.
23:24Later, I heard that when Evan was carried back,
23:27he looked as if he had been dragged out of a pool of blood.
23:29Blackwood security knew Marcus was still furious, so they had put their backs into it.
23:33From the ER surgeon, to the pack healer, to the spinal specialist.
23:36Every doctor who saw him only shook their head.
23:41Difficult case.
23:42The right leg is especially bad.
23:45Even if it heals, he may need a cane.
23:47If recovery goes poorly, he may never leave a wheelchair.
23:50Some said Evan was pitiful.
23:52A scholarship-born legal climber, ruined like this by the Blackwoods.
23:56Others said Evan deserved it.
23:57If he had not wanted to climb the Blackwood old blood ladder himself,
24:00he would never have suffered like this.
24:02The person who reacted most violently inside Ashford House was Grace Noah.
24:06Clara!
24:07If you had gone in and stopped it, Evan would never have ended up like this!
24:11He was perfectly fine and now he's lying in a bed, heartbroken!
24:15How can you still eat?
24:17I held a bowl of chilled almond porridge and took my time swallowing a spoonful.
24:22What reaction should I have?
24:24Should I go mourn at Evan's bedside like he's already dead?
24:28Grace's face flushed with anger.
24:29He is still alive, isn't he?
24:31How can you be so heartless?
24:34She realized she had crossed the line, her voice going soft at once.
24:38I only think Evan is pitiful.
24:40I didn't mean it that way.
24:42I looked coldly at Grace, the girl who had grown up beside me.
24:45If you pity Evan so much, then go take care of him.
24:48You don't need to enter my suite again.
24:50Grace snapped her head up as if she could not believe what she had heard.
24:53Marion, pull Grace's staff file, NDA, access badge, and housing agreement.
24:58Suspend her Ashford access immediately.
25:01The Brooks household needs a live-in aid, doesn't it?
25:04Send over her caregiving contract.
25:06If she refuses to leave, have security escort her off the property.
25:10Tell them the Ashford's and the Brooks go back years.
25:13We arrange someone specially to help care for Evan.
25:15After that, she does not come back.
25:19Only then did Grace seem to wake up.
25:21Clara, I was wrong.
25:22I shouldn't have said that.
25:23She crawled toward me, sobbing and begging.
25:25For the sake of all the years we grew up together, please forgive me this once.
25:29I almost wanted to forgive her.
25:31But when had Grace ever spared me for the sake of all the years we grew up together?
25:35It was not until the day I died in my last life, after hearing her words, that I finally understood.
25:40Why?
25:40After I became pregnant, after I had been careful and then more careful, I still lost
25:45one baby after another.
25:46With Grace at my side, altering my medication and my care records for Evan again and again.
25:50How could any child in my belly have survived?
25:53Of course she did not want to go to the Brooks household now.
25:55Of course.
25:56Evan and his mother, Patricia Brooks, lived in a worn down duplex outside town.
26:00They were so poor that all they had left was one aging aid.
26:03Now that Evan Brooks' leg was damaged, his council career was as good as over.
26:07On paper, no one could throw him out simply because he might need a cane.
26:11But after the sweet scandal at Blackwood Ridge, with a license review, an ethics complaint,
26:16and a DA inquiry pressing down layer after layer, who would dare put him anywhere near the public eye?
26:21Unless someone with real votes chose to protect him.
26:23And now, who would protect Evan Brooks?
26:25Ashford would not.
26:26Blackwood certainly would not.
26:28He had no family strong enough to lift him.
26:30He did have a handsome face, and at first, a few old money families had considered him as a potential
26:35son-in-law.
26:36Now, those heiresses probably thought he carried bad luck.
26:39Because the scandal touched the High Council's reputation, Eleanor Whitmore took a personal interest.
26:43The High Council and the DA liaison turned Blackwood Ridge inside out.
26:47As for the pup in Serena Blackwood's belly, no one could say for certain who had fathered it.
26:51The personal aides around Serena had tried to protect her at first.
26:54But once the perjury warnings and immunity deals came down, one after another, they cracked.
26:59A stable hand.
27:01Gate security.
27:02A procurement runner.
27:03A jewelry store sales guy.
27:05Serena had never been picky.
27:06As long as a man had a decent face, she dared drag him into her bed.
27:10After a while, the number of men she had slept with was not just 10 or 12.
27:14It was more.
27:15If the pup in her belly had actually been born, only a DNA panel could have sorted out the father.
27:20After a disgrace like that, how could Marcus allow her to give birth to another man's pup?
27:24I heard he found some dirty private clinic and forced Serena through a termination.
27:27At first, Marcus even wanted them to prepare an overdose of sedatives.
27:32Only after Catherine cried, begged, and nearly threw herself over a balcony was Serena's life spared.
27:37Her life was spared.
27:39The rest of her did not.
27:40After that forced termination, Serena's bleeding would not stop.
27:43Her periods never settled.
27:45She grew thin very quickly.
27:47Her face pale, her legs too weak to hold her steady.
27:50Marcus lost the old lift of his chin in council rooms.
27:53He had been proud his whole life, and now one daughter had dragged the Blackwood name through filth.
27:57People said he spent his days drinking himself senseless.
28:00When he finished drinking, he would go to Serena's room, smash whatever he could reach,
28:04and curse her until security came open.
28:07Every day, Blackwood Ridge was full of screaming, breaking glass, and the sound of guards' footsteps.
28:12Less than three months later Serena, driven past the edge, grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed her own father to
28:18death.
28:18A room full of aides and guards watched it happen.
28:21She could not run from that.
28:22Once the murder charge landed, it was enough to seal her fate.
28:25That same day, the High Council stripped her of every inheritance right.
28:29When the criminal court sentenced her, she was sent to a women's prison for life without parole.
28:34On the day Serena was sentenced, I was having tea at the newly opened Laurel Room in the city.
28:38Mrs. Ashfield, this is from a gentleman downstairs.
28:41He said he would like to see you and say a few words.
28:44A server brought over a hibiscus chestnut tea cake I had not ordered.
28:47I looked at the small pastry and suddenly found it funny.
28:50During my marriage to Evan, he had bought the same thing for me a few times.
28:53After I lost our first child.
28:55After Patricia Brooks forced me to kneel every few steps in the name of pack discipline
28:59until I passed out, until my knees split open and festered.
29:03Evan probably always believed that as long as he handed me this one sweet little cake,
29:07I should calm down.
29:08I should forgive him.
29:09I should make peace with him.
29:11But to me, it had never recorded comfort.
29:13It recorded every injury Evan and the Brooks household had dealt me again and again.
29:17Please return it to the gentleman downstairs.
29:20Tell him I don't dare eat it.
29:22I'm afraid there might be something in it.
29:23The server quickly carried the tea cake back, but Evan did not leave.
29:27When I stepped out of the Laurel Room, he was waiting at the entrance.
29:31Clara.
29:31His voice broke and he reached for the edge of my coat.
29:34Mr. Brooks, step back.
29:36Don't touch her.
29:37Harper Lane, the new aide at my side, immediately stepped between Evan and me.
29:41Evan's face twisted with misery.
29:43Clara, I treated you terribly before.
29:46I let people lie to me.
29:48I misunderstood you.
29:49I thought that scandal was something you set up so you could marry me.
29:52I never meant to hurt you.
29:54Evan, were you lied to or did you choose to lie to yourself?
29:57I am an old blood Ashford heiress.
30:00You?
30:01If I had wanted it, even the Whitmore line would have been within reach.
30:04Why would I need to scheme my way into marrying you?
30:07The color drained from Evan's already ruined face.
30:09He had once been handsome in a clean, refined way.
30:12After all these days of pain, he had wasted down until he was almost nothing but bone.
30:17Whatever dignity he once had was gone.
30:19He was lucky.
30:20Really, at least both legs had not been ruined.
30:22Only his right leg would never be steady again.
30:25From now on, he could not walk without a cane.
30:28My gaze swept once over his right leg.
30:30Evan immediately pulled it back.
30:31Maybe he remembered my last life, when he and Patricia Brooks had ruined my leg.
30:35Maybe he remembered how many times he had sneered at me and called me a crippled little liability.
30:40One of the Ashford House staff hurried toward me.
30:42Mrs. Ashford, we've been looking everywhere for you.
30:45Please return at once.
30:46The High Council just sent word.
30:48Sebastian Whitmore has been confirmed as High Alpha Elect.
30:51The Whitmore line has also filed a Maid Alliance statement.
30:54Once you personally confirm it, the Council will publicly recognize you as Luna Elect.
30:58Evan's mouth fell open.
30:59He looked as if he could not believe what he had just heard.
31:03In my last life, Sebastian had become High Alpha too.
31:05Only then, he had never publicly recognized a Luna.
31:08Even after he took full power, he never brought anyone to stand beside him.
31:12So that was why.
31:15Sebastian likes her, doesn't he?
31:17Evan muttered the questions to Grace Miller beside him.
31:19They were together already, weren't they?
31:21Bracing him like a cane, and Patricia had worn her down until she barely looked human.
31:26No secret dates, no private gifts, nothing improper, only…
31:32Only what?
31:34Only that every time Sebastian saw her, he smiled.
31:38For the decades that followed, Sebastian proved Grace right.
31:41He was a good husband. A very good one.
31:44As for Evan, I never saw him again for the rest of my life.
31:47The last time I heard news of him was before I moved into the Whitmore Council residence.
31:51I heard there was no path left for him back to the Council.
31:53He could not stay in the East Coast pack circle either.
31:56So he took Grace and Patricia back to that low pack hometown of his.
31:59Maybe Blackwood Ridge had damaged more than his leg.
32:02Later, Patricia arranged engagements for him,
32:04and pushed a few dependent girlfriends into his life.
32:07But in this life, no one ever carried his pup.
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