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00:00:00A hundred brides kissed him. Nothing. I was only the maid carrying tea, told to stay invisible.
00:00:12Then I tripped, and my whole life shattered at his feet.
00:00:20His eyes opened, past every jeweled bride, past every crown they prepared,
00:00:25he looked at me, the kneeling maid, and he rose, walking down only for me.
00:00:33He pulled me up, leaned to my ear, and the whole hall gasped.
00:00:37My stepmother's face went white with rage. I tried to flee, but he locked my wrist, refusing to let go.
00:00:46I tried to flee, but he locked my wrist, refusing to let go.
00:00:53My stepmother reached for me, and froze under his stare.
00:00:57For the first time, someone stood between them and me.
00:01:03A king claimed me before everyone, but my stepmother's eyes locked onto my wrist,
00:01:09where a secret mark hides. One kiss made me the most hunted girl in this palace.
00:01:30She forced me to my knees, calling me a filthy maid who seduced a king.
00:01:39The whole hall laughed, but I lifted my head, calm, ready to ask one deadly question.
00:01:46If I'm so worthless, why did a hundred noble brides fail, and only I could wake him?
00:01:54Silence. Nobody could answer.
00:01:56And the king began to rise from his throne.
00:02:04He walked down and lifted me up, then turned on her.
00:02:07I chose her, his look said, not your daughter.
00:02:11For the first time, a king defended a maid before all.
00:02:22He couldn't save me with words. She smiled and sent me to the cruelest labor.
00:02:27He nearly exploded, but I shook my head. Don't fight for me, not yet.
00:02:34They sent me to break me with the hardest labor, but I walked out with my back straight,
00:02:39hiding the mark on my wrist. They had no idea who I really was.
00:02:45they sent me to break me with the hardest labor but i walked out with my back straight
00:02:50hiding the mark on my wrist they had no idea who i really was they buried me in the filthiest
00:02:58labor to force me out but at midnight every heavy task was already done for me then he
00:03:04stepped out of the shadows he saw my raw blistered hands and his jaw tightened then he wrapped his
00:03:11own royal cloak around me servants froze staring a queen shouldn't do this his eyes said
00:03:18i tried to give it back but he pressed my hand still my heart cracked open against my will
00:03:25then serena turned the corner and her face twisted with hate serena ripped his cloak right off my
00:03:32shoulders and tore it apart a maid doesn't deserve his things her face screamed
00:03:42then he turned around and the air went ice cold
00:03:48he picked up the torn pieces and draped them back on me even ruined his eyes told her touch
00:03:55what's mine again and you'll regret it i couldn't breathe
00:04:02serena tripped me on purpose spilling tea across the nobles then cried like a victim a clumsy maid
00:04:09unfit to serve they sneered my stepmother moved to throw me out
00:04:17i knelt and picked up the broken pieces saying nothing then he came down from the throne
00:04:23walked through them all and took the tea straight from my hands
00:04:32his fingers covered mine on the cup then he drank the very tea they mocked before everyone
00:04:38her tea is served to me alone his eyes declared the hall fell apart
00:04:47but my stepmother wasn't watching the crowd
00:04:50she saw it the moment our fingers touched the deathly cold left his face her eyes narrowed
00:04:57this maid is hiding something
00:05:02he turned the humiliation into devotion shielding me again but her eyes crawled toward my hidden wrist
00:05:10his love kept saving me and dragging me closer to death
00:05:18to break free of him i buried myself in the hardest night labor but he found me sharing the load
00:05:25again
00:05:25he looked paler than ever and i didn't know why
00:05:33our fingers brushed and his deathly pale face flushed back to life the cold left his brow
00:05:39i froze in horror when i touch him he heals what am i
00:05:48i wasn't just the queen he claimed i was tied to something inside him some curse then i looked
00:05:55down at my wrist and a golden royal mark was glowing there
00:06:04i slammed my sleeve over the glowing mark but he saw it and his eyes said he already knew
00:06:10then footsteps echoed down the corridor someone was coming
00:06:19my stepmother appeared at the corridor's mouth eyes sweeping for secrets he shielded me with his
00:06:25body but the mark on my wrist still burns and she's hunting for it
00:06:35she forced my stepsister to learn how to wake him
00:06:38but he stayed cold as stone furious my stepmother ordered me
00:06:43the maid to step up and show her
00:06:50the instant i touched his shoulder his eyes flew open locking onto me
00:06:55the whole hall gasped once again only the maid could wake the sleeping king
00:07:05a maid making a king open his eyes impossible my stepmother walked closer her eyes crawling toward
00:07:12my wrist she wanted to know what made me so different
00:07:20she reached for my wrist but he stepped between us freezing her hand mid-air he shielded me again
00:07:27yet her eyes never left me she'd made up her mind
00:07:36he turned away from serena his eyes only following me she burned with hate and my stepmother smiling
00:07:44coldly was already planning her next move against me
00:07:52serena called me a maid begging for attention forcing me to my knees to teach her the move
00:07:58i knelt and taught her every detail perfectly i already knew the result
00:08:06she copied the move flawlessly but he stayed shut cold as stone
00:08:11she tried again and again panicking the whole room watched her fail and she blamed me
00:08:22i lifted my head and said it calmly i can teach the move but who he recognizes
00:08:27that i can't teach the room understood and serena cracked apart
00:08:37she broke down and lunged at me he rose and froze her cold then my stepmother furious found a crueler
00:08:44punishment tomorrow the wardrobe and i would kneel
00:08:52she sentenced me to kneel and hold serena's gown tomorrow the king nearly erupted but i shook my head
00:08:58i would kneel one more time and then i would rise
00:09:08serena wore the queen's gown and made me kneel holding her train a maid isn't fit to even look at
00:09:15it she sneered then the door opened and he walked in
00:09:22he walked past her stripped the queen's gown from serena and turned to me he draped it over my
00:09:29kneeling shoulders this is what she should wear his eyes said
00:09:38he knelt and adjusted my collar himself his fingers brushing my neck i couldn't breathe
00:09:44the man who woke for me now dressed me like a queen before her burning eyes
00:09:53footsteps approached my stepmother's voice drew near i panicked pushing him away but he wouldn't
00:10:00let go then the door handle turned someone was about to walk in
00:10:09he pulled me into the shadows behind the mirror as the door swung open i pressed against his chest
00:10:15holding my breath and serena raised her hand to expose us
00:10:24my stepmother set a formal test hoping to disgrace me beside serena serena bowed first
00:10:30he didn't move then she gestured for me the maid certain i would fail
00:10:39i bowed to perform the rite but he opened his eyes and reached out his hand for me
00:10:44only she lifts me his look declared our fingers touched the hall gasped again
00:10:54he turned the test into devotion again shielding me before everyone serena trembled with rage but my
00:11:01stepmother wasn't watching the king she was staring at my exposed wrist
00:11:10the golden mark on my wrist glowed faintly my stepmother's pupils shrank roll up your sleeve she
00:11:17demanded my blood ran cold she was one breath from my secret
00:11:25he blocked her with his body freezing her in place she couldn't see the glow but her cold smile
00:11:32said it all she would dig out the truth of my wrist
00:11:41she was hunting my wrist so i dropped to my knees and confessed i'm only a maid the crown belongs
00:11:48to
00:11:48serena then i pushed him away to survive
00:11:55for the first time i pushed him away and his control shattered he charged forward and seized
00:12:02my wrist before everyone his eyes demanding say that again
00:12:10i fought to pull free but he held tight we struggled before the whole court then under his
00:12:16grip the golden mark on my wrist suddenly blazed for all to see
00:12:25the royal mark blazed gold for everyone my stepmother's pupils shrank in horror she recognized it 20 years
00:12:34buried and now my deadliest secret burned in plain sight
00:12:41she saw everything her cold smile spread as she gave the order find out exactly where this maid came
00:12:48from he shielded me but it was too late the hunt had begun
00:12:57she paraded serena as the true royal blood while i stood in the corner as a mere servant then serena
00:13:04pointed
00:13:04at me screaming i dared to spy on royal blood
00:13:12i said nothing just held my breath then he came striding over shielding me with his shoulder whispering
00:13:19don't be afraid she looks because i allowed it his eyes warned
00:13:28unwilling she ordered me to kneel and beg forgiveness before the late queen's portrait
00:13:34he nearly snapped but i shook my head and walked toward that towering painting
00:13:42i knelt before the towering portrait the whole hall watching me grovel
00:13:47forced to bow my head in shame i lifted my eyes and they landed on the late queen's pendant
00:13:57that pendant on the painted queen identical to the one i'd hidden against my chest for 20 years
00:14:03my hand flew to my heart the king's face changed what am i
00:14:14frozen on my knees i stared at the queen's pendant in the painting the same intricate mark as the one
00:14:20i'd
00:14:21hidden for 20 years my hand pressed my chest trembling
00:14:28he came closer crouched beside me and whispered let me see the pendant my blood ran cold i clutched
00:14:35my chest and backed away he already knew i could feel it
00:14:43i backed against a pillar my mind racing he looked at the painted queen then at me for the first
00:14:50time
00:14:50i dared to wonder was i tied to this royal blood
00:14:59my stepmother approached sensing something wrong
00:15:02he stepped between us shielding me
00:15:04i crushed the pendant back against my chest forcing the mask of a calm servant
00:15:13he leaned to my ear voice low and urgent
00:15:17that pendant is no ordinary thing his eyes told me
00:15:21now we shared a secret neither dared to speak aloud and she was watching
00:15:30he found me alone in the rain took my marked wrist and whispered through the storm
00:15:35you carry her scent the queen from a hundred years ago i couldn't move
00:15:44he touched my pendant this is her relic and it recognizes you suddenly i understood he woke only
00:15:52for me because of this blood he leaned his forehead to mine
00:15:59he kissed my brow gentle and reverent tears blurred my eyes for one breath i let myself feel it
00:16:07then terror struck and i shoved him away with all my strength
00:16:15if this is true my stepmother will never let me live
00:16:18i told him eyes burning his face darkened then a lantern's light flickered down the corridor someone was coming
00:16:30he pulled me behind a pillar into the shadows as the lantern drew near
00:16:34i pressed against his rain soaked back holding my breath we shared a secret that could get me killed
00:16:46a maid with a royal pendant stolen she declared ordering it seized servants lunged for the pendant on
00:16:54my chest i clutched it with both hands refusing to let go
00:17:01he stormed through the crowd threw off the servants and pulled me into his arms i gave her that pendant
00:17:07he declared to inspect it ask me first the hall froze
00:17:16he held me close his hand calming mine but my stepmother smiled coldly and pressed you gave it
00:17:24then dare you vouch for this maid's origins with your own mouth
00:17:31he opened his mouth to vouch but i gripped his arm begging him with my eyes don't
00:17:37then she cut in first declaring she'd investigate my origins starting today
00:17:46she announced it before everyone at the family banquet she'd dig out exactly where this maid came from
00:17:53he shielded me but the clock had started ticking toward my exposure
00:18:02she announced it formally investigate this maid's origins and keep her away from the king until proven
00:18:09a death sentence dressed as an inquiry he stepped up to defend me
00:18:17before he could speak she cut in unless you dare vouch for her with your throne itself
00:18:23he paused rare for him the whole hall held its breath i gripped his arm
00:18:32i begged him with my eyes don't but he looked at me certain and spoke before everyone
00:18:39i vouch my blood froze and my stepmother smiled she'd been waiting for this
00:18:47she cut him off smiling colder then at the family banquet before all of us
00:18:53we'll uncover exactly where this maid came from my deadliest trap had a date now
00:19:02she'd set the trap certain she controlled everything
00:19:05he shielded me silently declaring war but behind his back in my terror a spark lit i would not die
00:19:14kneeling
00:19:19she declared the credit of waking him belonged to serena made me serve dishes behind the seats
00:19:25and forced me to confess i'd falsely approached the king i lowered my head to comply
00:19:35he left his seat walked behind the chairs and took my hand before the whole family
00:19:41he lifted me from serving dishes and led the maid to the banquet table itself
00:19:50you'd disrupt the banquet for a maid she snapped he didn't answer her he only looked at me
00:19:56gentle and certain and asked where do you want to sit
00:20:04my eyes flicked to the queen's seat beside the throne then darted away sitting there meant more
00:20:10danger more exposure but he gestured to it telling me that's yours
00:20:18i drew a breath the terror in me hardening into resolve he held my hand silently supporting me sit or
00:20:26retreat every eye waited and i stopped being afraid to choose
00:20:35why does only you a maid get close to him you seduced him she pressed i lifted my eyes
00:20:42calm and turned the rule on her let serena wake him before everyone
00:20:50cornered serena bowed and performed the right on him perfectly but he stayed shut cold as stone she
00:20:56tried again and again panicking the whole table watched her fail
00:21:06i said it lightly credit can be awarded but who he recognizes you can't reward the table
00:21:13she said it short and uh Bible рассказыв it who you can't hear me who needs to be
00:21:14surprised or i held up so university to be able to find the place that's on your own
00:21:16the table and for me we know what's best to find i'm not supposed to be able to
00:21:26get to go but i'm just still not sure but i'll let you know what's best to find out
00:21:28about some of your livre's eyes you can't keep that he's on your own
00:21:34the table and he's on your own neck and he's on your own head i'm just
00:21:42he turned to me, gentle and certain. The throne seat was about to change hands. She ordered
00:21:53me out, but he walked to the queen's seat where Serena sat, gestured for her to rise,
00:21:59then took my hand and led me toward it. Every eye locked on me. He seated me in the queen's
00:22:09chair himself, turned to the family and declared, this seat is only for her. Then he bent to serve
00:22:16me food. The hall erupted. Serena broke down, screaming why. He froze her with a glare,
00:22:27but my stepmother wasn't even looking at her daughter. She was gripping a thick, yellowed
00:22:32adoption record. She gripped that yellowed record like a weapon, smiling coldly past her crying
00:22:42daughter, and ordered, dig out this maid's adoption records from 20 years ago. My blood ran cold.
00:22:51She declared she'd investigate everything. He shielded me, silently at war, but behind my terror,
00:22:57a spark lit again. The adoption record was about to be opened. So would my secret.
00:23:08She spread the record and sneered. 20 years ago you were a nameless foundling dumped at our gate.
00:23:15Such filth fit for the queen's seat? She'd cut my deepest wound open.
00:23:24I fled to the room, trembling. He followed, pressed me to the wall, took my shaking hand,
00:23:30and whispered, no matter where you came from, I claim you. My heart shook.
00:23:38He leaned close, certain, but I pressed his hand still, terror cutting through. The more you claim me,
00:23:45the harder she hunts my origins to death. He couldn't let go.
00:23:53He wiped my tear, forehead against mine, his silence promising to protect me.
00:23:59Then, outside the door, my stepmother muttered, this record is wrong. Who altered the intake?
00:24:08The intake record had been altered. For the first time, she looked afraid. And I understood.
00:24:14My origins hid something even she feared. The balance of power was beginning to turn.
00:24:24She ordered the adoption record laid out page by page before everyone to brand me nameless for good.
00:24:31The pages spread across the table. Her sharp eyes scoured every line.
00:24:39At one page, her hand froze. The intake date and handler bore a deliberately smeared mark,
00:24:46altered. Her face cracked, gripped by an old memory she thought she'd buried clean.
00:24:55Her fury turned to fear. For the first time, she truly looked at me, wondering who I really was.
00:25:02I met her gaze, unflinching. I'd found something even she dreaded.
00:25:09She slammed the record shut, masking her panic and announced,
00:25:13This entry is suspicious. Seal the archive vault. I'll investigate the old accounts myself.
00:25:19She was hiding something, badly.
00:25:24She gripped the altered record and hurried off, faster than ever.
00:25:29For the first time, dread overcame her cruelty.
00:25:32Twenty years, she'd buried it. Now I was digging it up.
00:25:41She crowned Serena first air and threw me into archive duty to crush my hopes, but I played along.
00:25:48This was my chance to find that altered intake record myself.
00:25:55I searched fast, closing in on the record.
00:25:58Just as I reached the altered page, the door burst open.
00:26:02She stormed in, snatched the file, and accused me of stealing royal archives.
00:26:10I didn't argue.
00:26:12But her panic told me everything.
00:26:14This archive hid what she desperately wanted buried.
00:26:18The harder she sealed it, the more certain I became.
00:26:21The truth was here.
00:26:26She ordered me to haul every scrap of waste file out.
00:26:30I obeyed, lifting the heavy bundles.
00:26:33Then, in one discarded roll, a strange yellowed paper edge caught the lamplight.
00:26:40I tucked that yellowed edge deeper into the bundle, my heart pounding.
00:26:46She'd sealed the vault, but missed this.
00:26:49Hidden in the waste files might be the crack she couldn't erase.
00:26:59Serena sneered, ordering the maid to haul the files out and crawl back to the kitchen.
00:27:04As I lifted one roll, a yellowed page slipped free.
00:27:07A royal family tree.
00:27:12One branch had been brutally inked out.
00:27:14Yet beneath the smear, the strokes revealed a true royal line, deliberately erased.
00:27:20I froze.
00:27:21My hand flew to the pendant on my chest.
00:27:28The king appeared at the door.
00:27:30Serena moved to report me.
00:27:32But he stepped between us, shielding me, and whispered,
00:27:35I'm here.
00:27:36I clutched the deadly page out of sight.
00:27:42He sensed I'd found something.
00:27:44Hidden behind him, I rolled the page into my sleeve.
00:27:48Our eyes met, sharing yet another secret.
00:27:51Then Serena ran out, screaming for her mother.
00:27:57Footsteps rushed closer.
00:27:59He shielded me.
00:28:00I pressed the page hidden in my sleeve.
00:28:02The proof that a true royal line was erased 20 years ago, and I might be that blood.
00:28:13Alone in the dark, I matched the page, the pendant, the mark on my wrist, all the same bloodline.
00:28:1920 years ago, she erased the true royals.
00:28:24The lone survivor was me.
00:28:28I crumpled to the floor, the truth crushing me.
00:28:31He came in, knelt, and reached to hold me.
00:28:34But terror snapped me awake.
00:28:36I jerked back and shoved him away.
00:28:39Don't touch me.
00:28:45His hand froze.
00:28:47If anyone learns I'm the true blood, I told him through tears, she'll kill me.
00:28:52The closer you come, the harder you push me toward death.
00:28:59You're sending me away, his eyes demanded, full of pain.
00:29:03I turned my face, refusing to answer.
00:29:06I had to push him far, to protect us both.
00:29:09Then I rose to flee.
00:29:13I walked toward the door, tears falling, refusing to look back.
00:29:17His hand reached out to stop me, then froze.
00:29:20Loving him would kill him.
00:29:22So I tore myself away.
00:29:29To cut all ties and protect us, I refused what he offered, turning cold.
00:29:35See?
00:29:36Serena sneered.
00:29:37The maid who clung to a king got dumped.
00:29:39I let her humiliate me.
00:29:44He didn't know I retreated to protect him.
00:29:47He only saw me push him away.
00:29:49His control shattered.
00:29:50He charged forward, seized my wrist, demanding,
00:29:54What am I to you?
00:30:00He held my wrist, demanding answers.
00:30:03I bit back my tears, keeping the mask.
00:30:06Just a maid.
00:30:07He thought I'd betrayed him, but every cold word was tearing me apart.
00:30:15I forced back my tears and flung off his hand.
00:30:18I'm only a maid.
00:30:19I clung enough.
00:30:20Then I turned and walked away.
00:30:22He froze, his fist closing on empty air.
00:30:28I walked out, tears falling unseen, never looking back.
00:30:33He stood frozen, drowning in the pain of being abandoned, a wound I built with my own hands, to keep
00:30:40him alive.
00:30:46To numb my stepmother, I declared before all, I just want to be a maid again, nothing more between us.
00:30:53Then I turned to leave, and his control finally shattered.
00:31:01He chased me down, blocked my path, and seized my shoulders before everyone.
00:31:06You're not going anywhere.
00:31:09You're not going anywhere, he roared.
00:31:10I fought to leave, he refused to let me go.
00:31:16We struggled, push and pull at its peak.
00:31:19My hand brushed his chest, and the pendant and the wrist mark blazed gold at once, for everyone to see.
00:31:26My deadliest secret, exposed.
00:31:31The pendant and the mark blazed together.
00:31:34My stepmother shot up, pupils shrinking.
00:31:36She recognized them both, the pendant, the mark I see now.
00:31:40Her eyes said, the truth was out.
00:31:46Her cruelty crushed the doubt, and a cold smile spread.
00:31:50He pulled me behind him, silently at war.
00:31:52She'd locked onto the truth at last.
00:31:55The hunt for my blood had begun.
00:32:03She threw a grand engagement, crowning Serena the destined queen, and ordered me out of the
00:32:09palace today.
00:32:10Serena, wearing the crown, sneered, leave now, while you still can.
00:32:18The officiant called for his vow.
00:32:20But he stood silent, his eyes passing over Serena, straight to me at the door.
00:32:25Everyone could see it.
00:32:27His heart wasn't with her.
00:32:32He wouldn't speak the vow, his eyes locked on me.
00:32:36In the dead silence, he slowly raised his hand, not to the contract, but to the crown on Serena's head.
00:32:47He gripped the crown.
00:32:49This is on the wrong head.
00:32:51Serena went white.
00:32:52The destined queen denied before all.
00:32:54The hall erupted.
00:32:56My stepmother shot up, her face turning to stone.
00:33:01He began to lift the crown from Serena's head, his cold eyes crossing the hall, to me.
00:33:08He was destroying this engagement, for me.
00:33:11My eyes burned.
00:33:12What was he doing?
00:33:18He lifted the crown from Serena, and to gasps from all, walked past the entire hall, straight
00:33:25to me at the door.
00:33:26He stopped before me and declared, the one I want is her.
00:33:35He strode back, seized the engagement contract, and tore it to shreds before everyone.
00:33:40Paper rained down, Serena broke.
00:33:43Then he turned to me, reaching out his hand.
00:33:49I stared at his hand, torn.
00:33:52He'd dragged everything into the open.
00:33:54He took my hand, led me to the center, and kissed my brow before all.
00:33:59Now there was no hiding.
00:34:03He stood, shielding me, his devotion now fully exposed.
00:34:08Then my eyes fell on his hand, paler, colder than the rainy night.
00:34:13He was paying some price for claiming me.
00:34:18I clutched his icy hand, my heart twisting.
00:34:21He didn't seem to notice his own paleness, only looked at me, certain.
00:34:27His devotion hit a price I couldn't yet see.
00:34:35She demanded before all, what makes a maid worthy of breaking a royal engagement?
00:34:41He took my hand and led me behind the throne's curtain, away from their prying eyes.
00:34:49Behind the curtain, my sleeve brushed his, and a stack of papers spilled out.
00:34:55Investigation records on the maid's origins.
00:34:58Each one quietly buried by him.
00:35:00He'd been shielding me all along.
00:35:05This devotion was his cover, shielding me from every search.
00:35:09Watch.
00:35:09I touched his hand.
00:35:11Icy.
00:35:12Wrong.
00:35:12His face, paler than ever.
00:35:15How long have you hidden this?
00:35:17Why are you fading?
00:35:20He didn't deny it.
00:35:21He just closed his eyes, admitting everything.
00:35:24He'd known I was the true blood all along, and shielded me with his devotion, and his own
00:35:30fading life.
00:35:35I clutched the records, demanding the truth through tears.
00:35:39He held my hand about to speak the secret he'd buried for so long.
00:35:43Something terrible hid behind his fading face.
00:35:52He confessed.
00:35:53From the moment I caught the queen's scent on you, I knew you were the erased blood.
00:35:58The devotion was all a shield.
00:36:00Then he said something far worse.
00:36:06Every time I come near you, he whispered, I lose a year of the life my hundred year sleep
00:36:12bought.
00:36:12My blood froze, his paleness, all for me, and he said, it's worth it.
00:36:21I broke down in his arms.
00:36:23His fading was all for me.
00:36:25Then we can never be close again.
00:36:27I sobbed.
00:36:28Every time I accept your love, I'm killing you, and I shoved him away.
00:36:36He staggered, his pale face weakening, his steps unsteady.
00:36:40Yet he ignored his own body, lunging after me, seizing my wrist.
00:36:45He'd rather lose his life than let me go.
00:36:51He clutched my wrist, weak yet burning, choosing me over his own life.
00:36:56I wanted to push him away to save him, but feared he'd collapse.
00:37:01Loving him was killing him.
00:37:08To stop him from fading for me, I blamed myself before all.
00:37:13I clung to him.
00:37:14I schemed for power.
00:37:16Let him go.
00:37:17I'd smear myself to save his life.
00:37:23He pulled me into his arms before everyone and declared aloud, she didn't cling to me.
00:37:28I begged her to stay.
00:37:30Then he bent down, ignoring every watching eye.
00:37:37He kissed me before all, refusing to let me smear myself away.
00:37:41But as we touched, his face visibly faded another shade, and the mark on my chest blazed gold.
00:37:52The mark blazed against his deepening pallor.
00:37:55He didn't care how much that kiss cost him.
00:37:57My stepmother locked onto the glow, her face hardening into a cold certain smile.
00:38:06She clapped slowly, smiling cold.
00:38:10Then at the coronation, I'll verify the bloodline before all, and purge every imposter.
00:38:19The death trap was set.
00:38:24To stop him fading, I turned cold, dodging him, declaring I'd keep my distance.
00:38:29My stepmother spread rumors he'd discarded me.
00:38:32Serena sneered.
00:38:34I swallowed the pain and said nothing.
00:38:39I kept my back to him, faking indifference.
00:38:41But behind the mask, my eyes burned red.
00:38:45My fingers shook.
00:38:46He watched from afar, and the doubt grew.
00:38:49This wasn't true coldness.
00:38:54Serena strode up, mocking me as the discarded, clinging maid.
00:38:59I bore it in silence.
00:39:00From afar, the king watched.
00:39:02Saw my trembling fingers behind the calm.
00:39:05She's lying to me.
00:39:09I turned to leave, faking indifference, my fingers shaking.
00:39:14He watched me go, the doubt hardening into certainty.
00:39:17He'd seen through my act.
00:39:19My coldness hid a secret.
00:39:23She stood alone in the mist, faking strength, fingers trembling.
00:39:28From afar, his gaze sank, certain at last.
00:39:31He'd seen through it all.
00:39:33She's lying, to protect me, and he wouldn't allow it.
00:39:40She placed Serena to serve him closely, replacing me.
00:39:44See?
00:39:45Serena gloated.
00:39:46The maid's been swapped out, but he stayed ice cold to her, his eyes following only me
00:39:52in the corner.
00:39:55He ignored Serena, rose, and walked straight to me.
00:39:59I dodged again, faking cold.
00:40:02The more I fled, the more certain he became.
00:40:04My indifference was an act, hiding something.
00:40:11He cornered me against a pillar, his sharp eyes reading my trembling fingers.
00:40:15Then, hidden from view, he gently caught the wrist I kept pulling away.
00:40:20I couldn't escape his gaze.
00:40:25He leaned to my ear, hidden from all, and asked softly,
00:40:30You dodge me because every touch costs me a year of life, don't you?
00:40:34I shook all over, he'd seen everything.
00:40:40He'd named my hidden secret.
00:40:42I shook, tears welling, with nowhere to hide.
00:40:46He'd seen it all, my act, my sacrifice.
00:40:49The truth I'd buried could be hidden no longer.
00:40:56At midnight, he waited at my door, cutting off my escape.
00:41:01You fake coldness and dodge me, all so I won't lose my life, don't you?
00:41:07I turned my face away, denying it.
00:41:12You think faking coldness makes me believe you don't love me?
00:41:15He said, shattering my mask.
00:41:18My tears burst free.
00:41:19Don't come near me again, I sobbed, pushing him away.
00:41:26I shoved him, weakening.
00:41:28He stood still, gazing at me, gentle and unyielding.
00:41:33My love laid bare, his too.
00:41:35He wiped my tears.
00:41:37I still shook my head, pushing him.
00:41:42I pushed with my last strength, but he pulled me into his arms, refusing to let go.
00:41:47So I lose years, he rasped.
00:41:50Then let those years be all yours.
00:41:52I broke completely.
00:41:55I stopped pushing and held him back, our hearts finally bare.
00:42:00He rested his chin on my hair, cherishing it.
00:42:04Then, down the corridor, my stepmother's footsteps quietly stopped.
00:42:13She forced me to sign the exile papers, sealing my disgrace.
00:42:17With Serena already crowned and waiting, I raised the pen to sign.
00:42:21Then he stormed in.
00:42:28He snatched the exile papers and tore them apart before everyone.
00:42:33Then he took my hand, pulling me from the door of disgrace, straight to the side of the throne.
00:42:43He stood me beside the throne and declared to all, she is my only queen.
00:42:47Anyone who calls her discarded is my enemy.
00:42:51My eyes burned.
00:42:52He'd claimed me, openly, forever.
00:42:58He kissed my brow and turned to her, who is queen, the coronation will decide.
00:43:04Her face was stone, then she smiled coldly.
00:43:07Then at the coronation, she said, we'll verify the blood.
00:43:12She declared the coronation would verify the blood, wrapping murder in sacred ritual.
00:43:18He shielded me, silently at war, yet his frame, wavered.
00:43:22He claimed me, and pushed us onto the killing stage.
00:43:29Humiliated, she played her final card, summoning the household.
00:43:33The coronation will verify every blood near the king, and purge all who falsely claim the queen's seat.
00:43:41The trap was sacred now.
00:43:44Once they verify the true blood, she can kill me as an imposter.
00:43:49Time was running out.
00:43:51I turned to him, paler than ever from claiming me, his hand trembling on the throne.
00:43:59Tears in my eyes, I gripped his icy, trembling hand.
00:44:03He'd faded for me, and I couldn't protect him.
00:44:06Then my fear hardened into resolve.
00:44:09This coronation, I will not lose.
00:44:14He froze, then held my hand back, his eyes full of trust.
00:44:19For the first time, he saw my strength.
00:44:22The maid crushed for twenty years would win this herself.
00:44:28She sealed the coronation decree, the death date set.
00:44:32I gripped his fading hand, my resolve blazing.
00:44:36This inevitable trap, I would overturn it myself, and win back everything that was mine.
00:44:45She draped Serena in forged inheritance rights, enthroned her, and let the court bow.
00:44:52Me, she branded a suspect maid, kneeling outside.
00:44:55You can't even enter, Serena sneered.
00:45:00He broke from the bowing line, came outside, and lifted me from my knees, whispering,
00:45:06Hold on a little longer.
00:45:08Then, his cold eyes swept to Serena on the throne seat.
00:45:15She announced the rule.
00:45:17At the coronation, whoever the relic recognizes is the true queen.
00:45:21Serena raised it, gloating.
00:45:23But as I stared at the relic, my pupils shrank.
00:45:27Something was wrong.
00:45:29The relic's mark was off.
00:45:32A fake.
00:45:32My hand drifted to my chest where my pendant hid.
00:45:36Serena holds a forgery.
00:45:38The true relic might be on me.
00:45:40The king and I exchanged a look.
00:45:45She stressed the rule.
00:45:47Certain Serena's relic secured the crown.
00:45:49But Serena held a fake.
00:45:51The true one, was on me.
00:45:54The day they verify the relic, that's when I overturn everything.
00:46:00She announced it.
00:46:02The relic chooses the heaven-blessed queen.
00:46:05Serena practiced with it.
00:46:07But I saw every flaw in its mark.
00:46:10A forgery.
00:46:11A forgery.
00:46:11The true relic was the one I'd hidden for twenty years.
00:46:17Serena's fake can never claim the throne.
00:46:19The true relic was always on me.
00:46:22I met the king's eyes.
00:46:23The verification day is when I win.
00:46:26But a chilling thought froze my spine.
00:46:32Why forge a fake?
00:46:34The true relic should have entered the royal vault years ago.
00:46:37But it never did.
00:46:39It was on me.
00:46:40That meant another buried secret.
00:46:42I had to find it.
00:46:47The secret of the unvaulted relic might lie in the long sealed cellar.
00:46:52The king watched, worried, held back by the right.
00:46:56I slipped out alone, into the deepening dark.
00:47:02I slipped toward the long sealed cellar.
00:47:05Clutching the true relic.
00:47:06The secret she buried.
00:47:08Why the forgery.
00:47:09Why it never reached the vault.
00:47:11Was waiting down there in the dark.
00:47:18I slipped into the sealed cellar.
00:47:21The old delivery room.
00:47:22Among the dust.
00:47:23The record revealed it.
00:47:25The true relic never entered the vault.
00:47:27It was thrown out with a baby.
00:47:28With me.
00:47:33I matched my pendant to the record.
00:47:35Identical.
00:47:36The true relic never left me.
00:47:38Not since birth.
00:47:39The king found me there.
00:47:41Kneeling beside me.
00:47:42Seeing the same earth-shattering proof.
00:47:48We both understood.
00:47:50When the true relic claims me at the coronation.
00:47:53That's our revenge.
00:47:55He pulled me close and kissed my brow.
00:47:57Sharing the secret that would topple everything.
00:48:03As we shared the secret.
00:48:05Lights flared outside the cellar door.
00:48:07I knew this maid would come here.
00:48:10Came my stepmother's cold voice.
00:48:11My tracks had led her straight to me.
00:48:18The searchlights closed in.
00:48:20He shielded me.
00:48:22Weak yet unyielding.
00:48:24I clutched the relic and the proof.
00:48:26The truth that would topple her.
00:48:28We were trapped.
00:48:30We were trapped.
00:48:30Deep in the cellar.
00:48:34Terrified of the truth we found.
00:48:36She struck early.
00:48:37Demanding my pendant be seized by force.
00:48:40And declared she'd execute me at the coronation as a fraud.
00:48:44Servants lunged for it.
00:48:46I clutched it.
00:48:47Refusing to let go.
00:48:49He charged in.
00:48:51Threw off the servants.
00:48:52And stood between us.
00:48:54Her pendant is my gift.
00:48:56He declared.
00:48:57To execute her.
00:48:58First strip my throne.
00:49:00The whole court froze in shock.
00:49:05He shielded me.
00:49:06Ready to give up his throne.
00:49:08My eyes burned.
00:49:10He'd turned the cost entirely onto himself.
00:49:13I'd never let him sacrifice for me.
00:49:15But her eyes flashed cruel.
00:49:20Enraged.
00:49:21She swept the hall and sneered.
00:49:23The king won't even keep his throne for a maid?
00:49:25Then her cruelty deepened.
00:49:27At the coronation.
00:49:28It won't be only her we verify.
00:49:34She declared she'd execute the king too.
00:49:37Her cruelty boundless.
00:49:39Behind him.
00:49:40I clutched the true relic.
00:49:42My terror burned into resolve.
00:49:44I'd never let him die for me.
00:49:46Never.
00:49:50She turned on the king.
00:49:52The coronation will judge if this fool.
00:49:55Bewitched by a maid.
00:49:57Still deserves the throne.
00:49:58He declared aloud.
00:49:59I'd rather be a fool king.
00:50:01I claim her.
00:50:06He pulled me into his arms before the whole court.
00:50:09And kissed me.
00:50:10Ignoring every eye.
00:50:12As we touched.
00:50:13His face faded another shade.
00:50:15He was paying for this kiss.
00:50:17With his life.
00:50:21As we touched.
00:50:22My pendant and wrist mark blazed gold at once.
00:50:25Before everyone.
00:50:27He didn't care how much that kiss cost.
00:50:29My stepmother locked onto the glow.
00:50:31Her face cold and certain.
00:50:35She locked onto the glow and his fading face.
00:50:39And decreed.
00:50:40At the coronation I'll execute you both.
00:50:42A fraud maid and a fool king.
00:50:44Then she sealed the death warrant.
00:50:50She sealed the death warrant for us both.
00:50:53He shielded me.
00:50:54Certain yet fading.
00:50:55I clutched the true relic.
00:50:57Her fake can't claim the throne.
00:51:00The coronation is when I strike back.
00:51:06She set the trap.
00:51:08The coronation is a trial.
00:51:10Any false queen dies on the spot.
00:51:13My place of judgment stood at the very center.
00:51:17Serena sneered.
00:51:18That's where you'll be tried.
00:51:22Serena circled my place of judgment.
00:51:24Mocking me.
00:51:25The king stormed in.
00:51:27Lifted me from the center.
00:51:29And vowed close to me.
00:51:30I'll protect you to the end.
00:51:32Even at the cost of my life.
00:51:37He'd risk his life for me.
00:51:39The fear of that crushed me.
00:51:41Later.
00:51:42Alone in the dark hall.
00:51:43He sent everyone away.
00:51:44Turned to me.
00:51:45And prepared to speak a terrible decision.
00:51:53In the dimming hall.
00:51:54He took my hand.
00:51:55And spoke a decision that froze my blood.
00:51:58At the coronation.
00:51:59I'll spend every last year of my life.
00:52:01To break this trap for you.
00:52:06He said it calmly.
00:52:08He'd burn out his entire life.
00:52:10To win for me.
00:52:12I froze.
00:52:13Blood cold.
00:52:14Tears welling.
00:52:15But I'd been crushed 20 years.
00:52:17If I win.
00:52:18I win it myself.
00:52:23For the first time.
00:52:24In his chamber.
00:52:25He confessed the plan.
00:52:26Burn his 100 year life.
00:52:28To break the trap.
00:52:29And crown me.
00:52:30Even if it kills him.
00:52:31I shook.
00:52:32Then said it firmly.
00:52:33No.
00:52:37No.
00:52:38I've been crushed 20 years.
00:52:41I said through tears.
00:52:42If I win.
00:52:43I win it back myself.
00:52:45For the first time.
00:52:46I firmly refused his sacrifice.
00:52:49He wanted to burn out.
00:52:50I wanted my dignity.
00:52:53He pulled me into his arms.
00:52:55Moved by my resolve.
00:52:57We held each other.
00:52:58Both in tears.
00:52:59He couldn't bear to let me fight alone.
00:53:02I couldn't bear to let him burn out.
00:53:09Forehead to forehead.
00:53:10I told him.
00:53:11You only need to live.
00:53:13And watch me win.
00:53:14He froze.
00:53:15Then truly saw my strength for the first time.
00:53:18The girl crushed for 20 years.
00:53:21Unbroken.
00:53:23He saw my strength at last.
00:53:25And nodded.
00:53:26Letting me win.
00:53:28This time.
00:53:29I'd overturn it all by my own will.
00:53:31And he'd only need to live.
00:53:33The true relic was my final card.
00:53:40She threatened.
00:53:42The relic and blood alone decide.
00:53:44And that maid dies if she dares appear.
00:53:46So I chose.
00:53:48I'd appear.
00:53:49And reveal the relic hidden for 20 years myself.
00:53:55I pressed his hand still.
00:53:57Save your life to be crowned with me.
00:54:00Forehead to his.
00:54:01I vowed word by word.
00:54:03This time.
00:54:04Watch me win.
00:54:05I'd lead.
00:54:06He'd stand beside me.
00:54:09We sealed the vow.
00:54:11Forehead to forehead.
00:54:13I'd lead.
00:54:14He'd stand with me.
00:54:15He held my hand over the relic.
00:54:17Trusting.
00:54:18Then a commotion erupted outside.
00:54:20She'd struck early.
00:54:24She'd struck early.
00:54:26Raising my last identity paper and tearing it apart.
00:54:29This person no longer exists in this palace.
00:54:33At the coronation.
00:54:34She'll be executed outright.
00:54:36Her cruelty only steeled me.
00:54:39She decreed my execution at the coronation.
00:54:42I stared at my torn identity.
00:54:45Then clutched the true relic.
00:54:46Resolve blazing.
00:54:48She erased me.
00:54:49But the coronation is when I rise.
00:54:56Sensing I'd appear.
00:54:57She tore my last identity paper and decreed.
00:55:01Whoever this woman is.
00:55:03She dies on sight.
00:55:05Everyone expected me to break.
00:55:07Instead.
00:55:08I lifted my head.
00:55:10I declared it aloud.
00:55:13Then I'll stand at the center.
00:55:14And let the whole court see who I am.
00:55:17I walked toward the place of judgment myself.
00:55:20No more hiding.
00:55:21No more enduring.
00:55:26I stood at the center of judgment.
00:55:28Casting off twenty years of hiding.
00:55:31I clutched the relic.
00:55:32My final card.
00:55:33The king watched.
00:55:35Trusting beside me.
00:55:36Her cold certainty turned to dread.
00:55:42Unnerved by my calm.
00:55:43She decreed.
00:55:44If the relic won't recognize her.
00:55:46Execute her as a fraud.
00:55:48Along with that fool king.
00:55:50I met her cold decree.
00:55:52And I smiled.
00:55:55I smiled at her death decree.
00:55:58Fearless.
00:55:59She froze.
00:56:00Dread crossing her cold face.
00:56:02She couldn't read where my confidence came from.
00:56:05The relic was my card.
00:56:07The harsher her decree.
00:56:08The surer my strike.
00:56:13Under a thousand candles.
00:56:14I walked to the center of judgment.
00:56:17Every eye and every bed upon me.
00:56:19Serena waited with the forged relic.
00:56:22He stayed at my side.
00:56:23Fading yet unmoving.
00:56:27Serena clutched her fake.
00:56:29Certain.
00:56:30But the true relic was on me.
00:56:32He stood beside me.
00:56:33Fading yet unyielding.
00:56:35I'd win it myself.
00:56:36He'd stay to the end.
00:56:38We stood as one.
00:56:43We stood as one.
00:56:45My lead and his vow sealed.
00:56:47From the high dais she looked down and decreed.
00:56:50Tomorrow she wears the crown.
00:56:52Or she's reduced to nothing.
00:56:54Then she sealed it.
00:56:57The candles dimmed at once.
00:57:00The hall sinking into shadow.
00:57:01I gripped the true relic.
00:57:03My resolve blazing brighter in the dark.
00:57:06The crown or nothing.
00:57:07And I would not lose.
00:57:12In the dark I looked toward the throne seat.
00:57:15Gripping the relic.
00:57:16And it glowed faintly.
00:57:17It recognizes the true blood.
00:57:20Tomorrow.
00:57:21Crown.
00:57:21Or death.
00:57:22He stood with me.
00:57:23And dawn was coming.
00:57:29Serena took the throne.
00:57:31The crown nearly on her head.
00:57:33She decreed my execution.
00:57:35The headsman advanced.
00:57:36Then.
00:57:37As the crown touched Serena.
00:57:39The relic in her hands violently shook.
00:57:44The crown touched her.
00:57:45And the relic refused.
00:57:47Tearing from her grasp.
00:57:49Rising.
00:57:50Floating past everyone.
00:57:51Straight to me.
00:57:52The tea carrying maid at the center.
00:57:55It glowed for me.
00:57:58The relic glowed before me.
00:58:01Everyone who'd called me an unworthy maid.
00:58:04Watched it recognize the tea girl.
00:58:06Witchcraft.
00:58:07She shrieked.
00:58:08Snatching the death warrant.
00:58:10But I slowly raised my hand.
00:58:14No matter who it chose.
00:58:16This maid must die today.
00:58:18She shrieked.
00:58:19Seizing the warrant.
00:58:20But I raised the pendant hidden against me.
00:58:22For twenty years.
00:58:24Identical to the floating relic.
00:58:28My pendant.
00:58:30And the floating relic.
00:58:31Resonated.
00:58:31Blazing with the same sacred light.
00:58:34Serena's fake.
00:58:35Died to scrap.
00:58:36The maid crushed for twenty years.
00:58:38Was about to prove her royal blood.
00:58:45The relic fell to me.
00:58:47The relic fell to me.
00:58:47Resonating with my pendant.
00:58:49In the same sacred light.
00:58:50Serena's fake.
00:58:52Died to scrap.
00:58:53She cried witchcraft.
00:58:54But I walked to the throne.
00:58:56Throwing down the proof.
00:59:01The true relic never entered the vault.
00:59:03I declared.
00:59:04Because it was always on me.
00:59:06I faced her.
00:59:07Word by word.
00:59:08I'm not a fraud.
00:59:09I'm the one you threw away twenty years ago.
00:59:15I'm the one you threw away.
00:59:17The court fell silent.
00:59:18She staggered back.
00:59:19White as death.
00:59:21But I didn't stop.
00:59:22I turned to them all.
00:59:23I'll let everyone know what happened here twenty years ago.
00:59:30I turned to face them all.
00:59:32The true relic glowing in my hand.
00:59:34Ready to unveil the secret buried here twenty years ago.
00:59:39Every past humiliation was striking back now.
00:59:45I raised every proof.
00:59:47From the cellar.
00:59:47The archives.
00:59:48The relic.
00:59:49The maid crushed for twenty years.
00:59:51Now held all the power.
00:59:53They would all see what happened here.
00:59:56The reckoning began.
01:00:00I unveiled the buried truth.
01:00:03Twenty years ago she erased the true royal line.
01:00:06Reduced the surviving heir to a maid.
01:00:08And forged Serena's claim.
01:00:10I threw down proof after proof.
01:00:13All pointing at her.
01:00:16I threw down proof after proof.
01:00:19Serena began to shake.
01:00:20Realizing her destined queen pride was all her mother's lie.
01:00:24She too a pawn.
01:00:26She broke down before everyone.
01:00:28A victim herself.
01:00:31Proof upon proof.
01:00:32She had no defense.
01:00:34Her entire scheme collapsing.
01:00:36The more she'd erased and forged.
01:00:39The more completely she was exposed.
01:00:41Every humiliation I'd suffered struck back at once.
01:00:46She crumpled to the floor.
01:00:48She crumpled to the floor.
01:00:48Screaming impossible.
01:00:50Her twenty year empire shattered.
01:00:52Then the king.
01:00:53Fading at my side.
01:00:54Slowly rose and reached out to me.
01:00:57Holding the true queen's crown.
01:01:01Fading.
01:01:02He rose and reached out.
01:01:04Holding the true queen's crown in his pale hand.
01:01:07He'd stayed to the end.
01:01:09Burning out.
01:01:10To crown me.
01:01:11The true blood.
01:01:12With his own hands.
01:01:18The truth out.
01:01:19He carried the true crown past the whole court.
01:01:22Just as he'd walked past a hundred brides to me.
01:01:25On the day he woke.
01:01:26And placed it on my head.
01:01:32The queen.
01:01:34I waited a hundred years for.
01:01:37Has only ever been her.
01:01:38He declared.
01:01:39The instant the true blood claimed it.
01:01:42His century old curse shattered.
01:01:44His pale face flushing back to life.
01:01:48The true blood restored.
01:01:50Didn't drain his life.
01:01:51It broke his curse.
01:01:52He flushed back to life.
01:01:54Our impossible love.
01:01:56Finally free.
01:01:57He pulled me close and kissed me.
01:01:59The hall bowed.
01:02:02The crown on my head.
01:02:04The hall hailing me queen.
01:02:05I rose from his arms.
01:02:07My eyes swept to her.
01:02:09Collapsed.
01:02:10And Serena.
01:02:11Broken.
01:02:12This reckoning wasn't over.
01:02:14Now.
01:02:14I would pass judgment.
01:02:18Crowned.
01:02:18Standing at the center.
01:02:20I looked down at her and Serena.
01:02:22And began to pass judgment.
01:02:23The tea-carrying maid.
01:02:25The tea-carrying maid.
01:02:26Crushed for twenty years.
01:02:27Now held all the power.
01:02:29This time I decided.
01:02:34Crowned.
01:02:35I didn't retreat behind him.
01:02:37I walked to the center and passed judgment on her.
01:02:40Twenty years of erased blood and forged claims.
01:02:43And placed Serena.
01:02:45A victim who'd finally woken.
01:02:49I took back everything they'd stolen.
01:02:51My name.
01:02:52My dignity.
01:02:53My royal seat.
01:02:54Standing above all who'd shamed me.
01:02:57I turned to him.
01:02:58Healed and whole.
01:02:59And reached out my hand myself.
01:03:04This time, not him claiming me.
01:03:07Not him winning for me.
01:03:08I chose this throne.
01:03:09And I chose him.
01:03:11By my own will.
01:03:12He took my hand.
01:03:13You're a hundred years late.
01:03:19He led me up the steps.
01:03:21And we sat upon the throne side by side.
01:03:24As equals.
01:03:25I turned to him.
01:03:26Smiling.
01:03:27But this time.
01:03:28I walked here myself.
01:03:30He bent and kissed me.
01:03:34We sat side by side on the throne.
01:03:36Fingers laced.
01:03:38The curse gone.
01:03:39The court bowing low.
01:03:41The maid they crushed became the queen.
01:03:43Who walked here herself.
01:03:45A hundred years late.
01:03:47But home.
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