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00:00From the day I was born, mom called me a liar, not because I was always telling lies, but because
00:06of the lie detection bracelet strapped to my wrist.
00:09Mom had always been a fanatic believer in tech parenting, so when my twin sister Ruby and I were born,
00:15she fastened these two bracelets around our tiny wrists.
00:19Telling the truth would light up green, but the moment you lied, it would flash a blinding red light and
00:25deliver a punishing electric shock.
00:26But Ruby's bracelet was always green, even when she shattered the expensive antique vase in the living room and blamed
00:33it on our cat, even when she snapped mom's pearl necklace and blamed it on our dog.
00:38Her bracelet would only glow that gentle green, but me, even if I just called out, mom, I'm hungry, the
00:45bracelet would instantly explode in red light, followed by searing electric shocks.
00:49I bit through my lip from the pain, yet mom only grew more disappointed with me.
00:54After seeing that red light flash time and time again, I tried to explain, mom, I'm not lying, I really
01:01am hungry.
01:02But mom would lock me in the attic in disappointment, saying,
01:05Machines don't lie, Lily. These punishments are to break you of your lying habit. Mommy's doing this for your own
01:12good.
01:12After thousands upon thousands of lie detections, I started believing I was just a hopeless liar by nature.
01:19On New Year's Eve, mom was planning to take Ruby downtown to watch the midnight fireworks.
01:25A sharp pain tore through my abdomen. I curled up on the hardwood floor, pleading,
01:30Mom, my stomach hurts so bad. Please help me. But the bracelet flashed red frantically.
01:35Mom looked down at me, drenched in cold sweat. Her eyes filled with nothing but coldness and disgust.
01:41Pretending to be sick just so you can come. Watch the fireworks with us? How ungrateful.
01:47I convulsed in pain. My fingernails scratching white marks across the floor.
01:52Not done with your tantrum yet? The fireworks are about to start. And Ruby's getting impatient.
01:59Mom, I called out weakly. Reaching one hand toward the doorway.
02:03Mom, it really hurts. It feels like my intestines are tearing apart.
02:07She glanced at the wildly flashing red light on my wrist.
02:11Mom crouched down, grabbed my chin, her voice angry.
02:14Lily Collins, how long are you going to keep this act up? You're such a compulsive liar.
02:20Just stay home and reflect on your behavior.
02:23Dad called from the doorway.
02:24Honey, hurry up. The fireworks are starting. If Lily doesn't want to come, so be it.
02:30Should we at least leave her some food? Mom stood up, brushing off her hands as if they were dirty.
02:36Leave what food? She's got a stash of snacks in her storage cabinet. The ones she bought at Target with
02:42stolen money last time.
02:44She won't starve. Lock the door. She doesn't come out until that bracelet turns green.
02:50But dad seemed to hesitate. But what? You always spoil her like this. Spare the rod. Spoil the child. Look
02:59how honest Ruby is. Her bracelet is always green.
03:02Lily's just rotten to the core. She needs to be corrected.
03:05But my cabinet was empty. Ruby had taken that money. Ruby had eaten those snacks. Ruby just stood there with
03:12her bracelet glowing gentle green. Saying, it wasn't me.
03:16And mom believed her. When I tried to defend myself. Saying I didn't take anything either. The red light flashed
03:23and I got shocked. I watched mom turn away.
03:26Ruby poked her head through the door crack. And made a face at me.
03:29Bye bye, sister. We're going to see the pretty fireworks.
03:33Her bracelet, so beautifully, brilliantly green. The door slammed shut hard. And I heard the lock click. The house fell
03:40silent. Just me and the saw blade grinding in my belly. It hurts so much. Mom was right, machines don't
03:47lie. The bracelet was red, so I must be lying. I wasn't in pain. I really wasn't in pain.
03:54I tried to hypnotize myself through my tears. I don't know how much time passed. But it really didn't seem
04:00to hurt as much anymore. I dragged myself to the desk with my last breath. I had to write a
04:05reflection letter. Those were the rules. Whenever the red light flashed. I had to write a thousand words of, I
04:11am a liar. Once I finished, mom would forgive me, right? She'd call an ambulance and take me to the
04:16hospital, right? With trembling hands, I opened that wrinkled diary. It was covered with densely written confessions from before.
04:23I used to write things like. I'm sorry, I was wrong, I won't lie anymore. But this time, I wanted
04:30to write the truth. My vision grew blurrier and blurrier. Through my tears. I used the last of my strength
04:36to write. Mom, I really love you. I really am in so much pain. Why won't you just believe me?
04:42Mom, please believe me just this once.
04:45After writing the last word. The sharp pain in my belly suddenly vanished. In its place came an unprecedented lightness.
04:52My body felt weightless, I was floating. I looked down and saw myself slumped over the desk. My hand dangling
04:58in midair, completely still. The bracelet on my body was still flashing that frantic red light. So I was dead.
05:05But I still hadn't learned how to be an honest child.
05:07I'm sorry, Mom. I was awakened by a burst of laughter. It was the voices of Dad, Mom, and Ruby.
05:15Tonight's fireworks were beautiful. Especially that smiley face one, just as cute as our Ruby.
05:20There was a tenderness in Mom's voice I'd never heard before. I floated in midair. Watching the front door open.
05:27Even as a spirit. I instinctively wanted to float over and greet them. To help them with their house slippers
05:33like I used to. It was my bone-deep instinct to please.
05:36Mom. I opened my arms. Wanting to hug that woman who was cold from the winter air. I don't hurt
05:42anymore. I'll be good from now on. Please don't be angry.
05:46But my hands passed right through her body. Like trying to grasp the wind. Mom shivered and frowned.
05:52Why is it so cold in here? Didn't we turn on the central heating?
05:56I froze in place, staring at my transparent hands. Right. I was dead. Dead people can't hug the living.
06:03Let's check on Lily. That girl didn't even come out for dinner. Don't want her actually starving.
06:08Dad mentioned casually. Dad was still kind. I looked at Mom expectantly. If she found me dead, would she be
06:15sad?
06:16Would she regret it? Mom snorted coldly. Slipping on her house shoes as she walked toward my room.
06:22Serves her right if she starves. That habit of faking illness for attention is just from being spoiled.
06:27She pushed open my door roughly. She didn't turn on the light. By the hallway light, she saw me still
06:34slumped over the desk.
06:35Motionless, as if sleeping.
06:37Oh, still sulking in there? Mom crossed her arms, her tone mocking.
06:42Think if you slump over that desk looking pitiful. I'll come carry you to bed?
06:47Lily, you're ten years old, not five.
06:50I floated beside my corpse, shouting.
06:52Mom! I'm not pretending to sleep. I'm dead. Look at me. Touch me. My body is cold.
06:59But Mom couldn't hear me. She only believed what she could see.
07:03Ruby ducked under her arm and proudly held up her wrist.
07:06Sister's such a lazy pig. Look, my bracelet is green and sister's is still red.
07:11Sister keeps lying. She's even lying in her dreams.
07:15Mom stroked Ruby's head. Our Ruby is such a good girl. Don't pay attention to that liar.
07:20Let her slump there. She can slump there forever for all I care.
07:24Dad peered in from behind.
07:25Maybe we should put her in bed. It's freezing tonight.
07:28Put her in bed? No way.
07:31Mom cut him off.
07:32Kids these days are just too pampered. Those Silicon Valley parenting experts said.
07:37This is when you need a cold treatment. Time out.
07:40She needs to realize her mistakes herself.
07:43Look at that red light. It means her psychological state is still extremely defiant.
07:48She hasn't reflected at all. Come on, let's go to sleep.
07:53We have to go to Grandma's for New Year's brunch tomorrow.
07:56Mom turned around decisively and shut the door again.
07:59Click. The lock fell into place.
08:01I floated beside my corpse. Watching that single point of crimson light in the darkness.
08:06Feeling a sorrow deeper than death itself.
08:09Mom, if you had just taken one step closer.
08:11If you had just touched my hand.
08:13You would have discovered I was already cold.
08:16But you didn't.
08:17You only trusted that cold.
08:19Heartless machine.
08:20Never the daughter you carried for ten months.
08:22Deep in the night, a mouse scurried out from the empty cabinet.
08:26I used to be terrified of mice.
08:28I'd scream whenever I saw one.
08:29But now I could only float near the ceiling.
08:32Watching it crawl all over my corpse.
08:34Go away.
08:35I tried weakly to shoo it away.
08:37But couldn't make a sound.
08:39The mouse bit through my toe.
08:40And a drop of dark purple blood seeped out.
08:43I couldn't feel pain anymore.
08:45How wonderful.
08:46Finally, no more pain.
08:48I said to that pitiful shell below.
08:50Don't be afraid.
08:51You can't feel pain anymore anyway.
08:53It'll all be over soon.
08:55The next morning.
08:56Winter sunlight fell across my corpse.
08:58Bringing no warmth.
09:00Clattering sounds came from the kitchen.
09:02Mom was making breakfast.
09:03The smell of frying bacon and pancakes.
09:06Crept through the door crack.
09:08Usually, this was the smell I craved most.
09:10But I was only allowed flavorless oatmeal.
09:13And boiled broccoli.
09:14Because mom said lying children didn't deserve meat.
09:17Today, she was deliberately making the pan extra loud.
09:20I knew she was trying to tempt me.
09:22Trying to make me unable to resist the temptation.
09:25And roll out to apologize.
09:27In the past, I might have really confessed to crimes.
09:30I didn't commit just for a piece of bacon.
09:32But now, I no longer needed food.
09:35Lily still hasn't come out?
09:37Dad sat at the dining table reading the New York Times.
09:40Nope.
09:41Stubborn as a mule.
09:42Mom slammed the plate down heavily on the table.
09:45Spoiled habit.
09:46Eat or don't eat, I don't care.
09:48Ruby was drinking her milk when her eyes rolled with mischief.
09:51She deliberately ran to my door and took a loud sniff.
09:55Then she started screaming dramatically.
09:57Mom.
09:58Sister's room stinks.
09:59Did she poop in her room?
10:01I floated by the door, watching Ruby bitterly.
10:03The heating was too high, after just one night.
10:06I was already starting to decay.
10:08And mom would hate me even more.
10:10Mom walked over with a frown.
10:12Lily.
10:13Mom pounded on the door, furious.
10:15Are you a pig?
10:16The bathroom is right next door.
10:19Are your legs broken?
10:20You actually defecated in your room?
10:23What a hopeless piece of trash.
10:25You'd throw away your dignity just to spite me?
10:28I remembered when I was little.
10:29Once I had acute gastroenteritis and
10:31couldn't make it to the bathroom in time,
10:34soiling my pants.
10:35Not only did mom refuse to help me clean up,
10:38she made me stand on the front porch as punishment.
10:40She pointed at me and told passing neighbors.
10:43Look at this child, dirty as a pig.
10:45Now she thought I was dirty again.
10:47Forget her.
10:48Mom waved her hand in disgust, like shooing flies.
10:52Let her stay in that stench.
10:54Let it suffocate her.
10:55Dad put down his newspaper, frowning deeply.
10:58The smell really is too strong.
11:00Let me check.
11:01Might be a dead right or something.
11:03Dad stood up and walked toward my door.
11:06My heart leaped.
11:07Dad.
11:08Hurry.
11:08Open the door.
11:09Look at me.
11:10I'm right behind the door.
11:12Just turn the handle and you'll see I'm not moving.
11:15You'll see my blackened face.
11:17I floated in front of dad, waving frantically,
11:20trying to get his attention.
11:21Dad's hand reached for the door handle.
11:23Ring, ring, ring.
11:25The urgent phone rang.
11:26It was dad's CEO from the Silicon Valley headquarters.
11:30Dad answered the phone, his face changing.
11:32What?
11:32The servers crashed.
11:34Okay, okay, I'm on my way.
11:36He hung up and grabbed his coat frantically.
11:39Honey, there's an emergency at work.
11:41I have to go right now.
11:43Might not be back for a few days.
11:45Wait, what about Lily?
11:48Mom's words were cut off as dad was already out the door.
11:51I was stunned too.
11:52So close.
11:53Just one more second.
11:55If that call had come just a little later, I would have been discovered.
11:59Maybe then I wouldn't have to keep rotting.
12:01In the afternoon, mom took Ruby shopping at the mall, leaving only my corpse at home.
12:06By evening, they returned loaded with expensive lobster and fancy gifts.
12:10The moment they walked in, the smell was even stronger.
12:14Mom covered her nose and actually dry heaved.
12:17Lily, are you trying to turn our house into a landfill?
12:20She wouldn't even open the door to scold me.
12:22As if looking at that room would contaminate her eyes.
12:25She found a roll of duct tape, crouched down, and viciously sealed the bottom of my door crack
12:30completely shut.
12:31Since you like stinking, just stink in there to your heart's content.
12:35Don't stink up the rest of us.
12:38Mom patted her hands with satisfaction after applying the last piece.
12:41Peace and quiet at last.
12:43She turned to go cook the seafood.
12:45I watched that sealed door, and the last spark of hope.
12:48In my heart suffocated along with the duct tape.
12:51It turned out that in mom's heart, my life and death mattered less than a seafood dinner.
12:56She'd rather seal me away than take one look.
12:58To see if I was dying inside.
13:00Mom, you won.
13:01I'll never bother you again.
13:03On the third morning, winter sunlight streamed into the living room.
13:07But couldn't dispel the gloom in this suburban house.
13:09The central heating was cranked up to 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
13:12The duct tape could no longer contain that smell.
13:15It was a nauseating, greasy stench of decay.
13:18Mom was trimming fresh flowers she'd just bought.
13:20But no matter how fragrant the flowers, they couldn't mask that putrid odor.
13:25Snap!
13:25Mom viciously cut through a rose stem.
13:28The thorns piercing her hand.
13:30She finally couldn't take it anymore.
13:32In her mind, I wasn't bathing.
13:34Was defecating in my room.
13:36Even hiding dead rats in there.
13:38All to disgust her.
13:39To rebel against her authority.
13:41Lily, you're ungrateful beyond belief.
13:44Mom stormed into the storage room.
13:46Grabbed a golf club, and marched toward my room furiously.
13:49I'm going to beat you to death today, you filthy pig.
13:52Looks like electric shocks can't cure you anymore.
13:55Time for some physical pain.
13:58I floated in front of Mom, watching her twisted face.
14:01Frantically waving to stop her.
14:03Don't go in.
14:04Mom, don't go in.
14:05I look terrible.
14:06I'm rotting.
14:07You'll be scared.
14:09Even though she didn't love me.
14:10I didn't want her to see my horrific appearance.
14:13But she passed right through my spirit.
14:15And ripped off the door's duct tape.
14:17Ryup.
14:17The sound of tearing tape was especially harsh.
14:20The spare key went into the lock and turned.
14:23Bang.
14:24The door was violently pushed open.
14:26A thick, tangible wave of death stench hit her.
14:29Like opening Pandora's box.
14:31Mom staggered backward, doubled over retching.
14:33God, what have you been doing?
14:36She looked up and saw me still in the same position.
14:38From three days ago.
14:40Slumped over the desk with my back to her.
14:42Completely motionless.
14:43In her mind, this was silent defiance, ultimate arrogance.
14:48Can't you hear me talking to you?
14:50Still playing dad?
14:51Mom was consumed with rage.
14:53Rushing forward with the golf club raised high.
14:56But she didn't strike immediately.
14:58She wanted to grab me first.
14:59To see what expression was on my stubborn face.
15:03Get up.
15:03Her hand grabbed roughly at my collar.
15:05Even catching my skin.
15:07The next second, her movement froze.
15:09The moment of contact.
15:11Time seemed suspended.
15:12Through my thin pajamas, mom's fingers felt not warm skin.
15:16Not soft flesh, but a piece of cold, stone-hard dead meat.
15:20That coldness penetrated to her bones.
15:22No warmth of life whatsoever.
15:24Ha?
15:25Mom paused, confused.
15:27But momentum made her continue pulling.
15:29My body was yanked backward by her force.
15:32Tumbling to the floor along with the chair.
15:34Crash.
15:35The chair hit the floor with a thunderous sound.
15:38My body fell like a rigid statue.
15:40Stiff and straight.
15:41My face was finally revealed.
15:43No longer the timid little girl she knew.
15:45My face was purple-black, eyes bulging.
15:48Features twisted together from the agony before death.
15:51Dried white foam and dark red blood still, hanging from the corners of my mouth.
15:55And on that blackened wrist, the honesty bracelet.
15:58That mom had been so proud of hung there, lifeless.
16:01The skin around my wrist was burned by electric current.
16:04Fused with a rubber band in a blackened mess.
16:07No more red light.
16:08No more green light.
16:10Only death-like silence.
16:12Plop.
16:13A soft sound.
16:14The diary that had been pressed under my arm slid out.
16:17When my body fell, landing at mom's feet.
16:19The book fell open, facing her directly.
16:22On that page, the shaky handwriting was like.
16:25Knives stabbing into her eyes.
16:27Mom, my stomach really hurts so bad.
16:29The bracelet is broken.
16:31I'm not lying.
16:32Don't shock me.
16:34Aww.
16:34That was a scream no human should be capable of making.
16:37Sharp, piercing, like a throat being torn apart.
16:40Mom stumbled backward, her lower back.
16:43Hitting the bookshelf behind her.
16:45Vases crashed to the floor in pieces.
16:47But she seemed to feel no pain.
16:49She stared wide-eyed at my corpse on the floor.
16:52Impossible.
16:53She shook her head frantically.
16:54Hair falling in disarray like a madwoman.
16:57Still acting.
16:58This is makeup.
17:00Hollywood special effects.
17:02Lily, get up right now.
17:04Mommy's not angry anymore.
17:06Stop scaring mommy.
17:08Her hand trembled as she reached out.
17:10Trying to grab my stiff arm.
17:11But the moment her fingertip touched that icy skin.
17:14She jerked back as if burned.
17:16That feeling was too real.
17:18It was the temperature of death.
17:20Mrs. Davis from next door called 911.
17:22She'd been frightened over by mom screaming.
17:25And collapsed on the porch when she saw the scene.
17:27Soon sirens wailed throughout the suburban neighborhood.
17:30Police cars arrived, followed by the medical examiner.
17:33Yellow crime scene tape was stretched around the area.
17:36I watched them going in and out.
17:38Watched camera flashes constantly lighting up my corpse.
17:41Mom was pulled to the living room sofa by a female officer.
17:45She was still babbling incoherently.
17:47Officer, she was faking illness.
17:50She's always lied since she was little.
17:52The bracelet was red.
17:53Machines don't lie.
17:55I was just disciplining her.
17:57It was for her own good.
17:59No one paid attention to her.
18:01Everyone looked at her like she was a monster.
18:03The medical examiner had trouble moving my body.
18:06That bracelet.
18:07Because it had been releasing high voltage current for so long.
18:10The heat had melted the rubber and my skin together.
18:13Like it had grown into my flesh.
18:14Damn it.
18:15The medical examiner cursed under his breath.
18:18He had to get tools to forcibly remove the bracelet.
18:21Ryup.
18:22That was the sound of flesh being torn.
18:24Even though I was long dead, my soul seemed to feel that pain.
18:27The bracelet was removed.
18:29Taking a piece of my skin and flesh with it.
18:31The police picked up the diary from the floor.
18:34Flipping through it with latex gloves.
18:36Their faces growing increasingly grim.
18:38Mom stared fixedly at that notebook.
18:41Suddenly lunging forward like a mad woman trying to snatch it.
18:43That's her reflection letter.
18:45It must be written in there.
18:47She admitted to lying.
18:49Look.
18:50She confessed herself.
18:52The police pushed her away and sealed the diary.
18:55In a clear evidence bag, looking at her with eyes cold as ice.
18:59Whether she was lying or not, we'll investigate.
19:01Just then, dad rushed back.
19:03He saw the black body bag being carried out.
19:06That long zipper that had closed off my entire life.
19:09Dad's legs gave out and he collapsed.
19:11Wetting himself on the spot.
19:13Ruby was crying nearby, scared.
19:16She didn't know what had happened.
19:17Just pointed at the bloody bracelet on the table asking.
19:20Mom, why is sister's bracelet black?
19:22Mine is still green.
19:24She held up her wrist, that green light still flashing.
19:27Like a giant mockery.
19:29Police began preliminary questioning in the living room.
19:32Mom clutched at that last straw like a drowning person.
19:35Pointing at the bloody bracelet, her voice shrill.
19:38Officer, check that bracelet.
19:40That bracelet can prove she was lying.
19:42Red light means lying.
19:44I only shocked her when the red light was on.
19:47I didn't abuse her.
19:48It was what the machine showed.
19:50I was educating her.
19:52The officer frowned at her like looking at a lunatic.
19:55Ma'am, the deceased has multiple old electrical burn injuries.
19:58Those were discipline.
19:59Education.
20:00Mom screamed, interrupting the police.
20:02To prove herself innocent, to prove she wasn't a murderer.
20:06She made an insane demand.
20:08You don't believe me?
20:09That machine is accurate.
20:11I'll wear it to show you.
20:13I'm not lying.
20:14If I wear it, it'll definitely be green.
20:17She struggled toward the table.
20:18Grabbing the bracelet still stained with my blood and flesh.
20:22Ignoring the gore.
20:23Trembling as she forced it onto her own wrist.
20:25I'll prove to you that I'm innocent.
20:28As long as it's green, it proves everything I said was true.
20:31With shaking hands, she fastened the bloody bracelet around her wrist.
20:36Click.
20:37Locked tight.
20:38The cold rubber pressed against her skin.
20:40Sticky.
20:40That was my blood.
20:42Mom took a deep breath, trying to calm herself.
20:45She desperately wanted to prove I deserved to die.
20:48Desperately wanted to prove her parenting methods were correct.
20:51She held up her wrist to the police.
20:53Her eyes even carrying a trace of mad certainty.
20:56Watch carefully.
20:57I am Evelyn Collins.
20:59I am Lily Collins' mother.
21:01This was fact.
21:02Absolute truth.
21:04However.
21:05Beep.
21:05A piercing alarm instantly sounded.
21:08That long silent red light exploded to life.
21:10Bright and glaring, crimson and demonic.
21:13In the dim living room, it was like a bloody eye suddenly opening.
21:16Mom froze.
21:18Her previously confident expression became fixed on her face.
21:21She slapped the bracelet hard.
21:23Like hitting an old TV with poor reception.
21:26What's wrong?
21:27Is it broken?
21:28I'm telling the truth.
21:30I am Evelyn.
21:31She started to panic, speaking faster.
21:34It must be broken.
21:35That medical examiner broke it.
21:37Let me try again.
21:39Let me try again.
21:40She swallowed and raised her voice.
21:42I didn't abuse my child.
21:44I was doing it for her own good.
21:47I love her very much.
21:49Beep beep beep.
21:50The red light flashed even more violently.
21:52The frequency so fast it became a solid sheet of red.
21:55Even detecting extremely abnormal heart rate.
21:58The bracelet automatically released a weak electric current.
22:01Zap.
22:02Mom's whole body shuddered from the shock.
22:04Her hand jerking spasmodically.
22:06So painful.
22:07Even just a weak current made her break out in goosebumps.
22:11She suddenly remembered.
22:12New Year's Eve.
22:13When I was hit by maximum current.
22:15I was curled on the floor.
22:17Biting through my lip.
22:18Not daring to cry out.
22:20So this was how much it hurt.
22:21Mom completely lost control.
22:23She screamed at the bracelet like a mad woman.
22:26Spittle flying.
22:27Why is it red?
22:28Why?
22:29I'm telling the truth.
22:31Turn green.
22:32You damn machine.
22:34You're framing me.
22:35No matter how she screamed.
22:37That red light kept flashing frantically.
22:39As if silently mocking her.
22:41You're a liar.
22:42You're a liar.
22:42Enough.
22:43A CSI technician nearby spoke coldly.
22:46He couldn't stand watching anymore.
22:48Stop trying.
22:49This thing's principle isn't a lie detector at all.
22:52The officer picked up the instruction manual found.
22:54During the search and slammed it on the marble coffee table.
22:57This is just a simple skin conductance and heart rate monitor.
23:00The principle is.
23:02When people are nervous, anxious, fearful.
23:04Or in pain, heart rate increases.
23:06Skin conductance increases and the light turns red.
23:09You're extremely panicked.
23:11Anxious with rapid heartbeat right now.
23:13Of course it's all red lights.
23:15The officer approached the collapsed mom step by step.
23:18Each word like a hammer pounding on her skull.
23:20Think about it.
23:21Your daughter had a ruptured appendix.
23:23She was rolling on the floor in pain.
23:25That's the agony of organ perforation.
23:28How fast must her heart rate have been?
23:30How terrified was she?
23:31In your eyes, the more pain she felt, the faster her heartbeat, the brighter the red light.
23:37You thought she was lying more.
23:38So you increased the current.
23:40The current caused more intense pain.
23:42Faster heartbeat, brighter red light.
23:44You personally turned her cries for help into instruments of torture.
23:48You electrocuted your daughter to death.
23:50While she was begging for help.
23:51Crash.
23:52Mom's world collapsed.
23:54She slumped on the floor.
23:56Staring vacantly at the flashing red light on her wrist.
23:59Finally understanding.
24:00For those 10 years, every red light for me was because I was afraid.
24:05Afraid of mom's anger.
24:06Afraid of being misunderstood.
24:08Afraid of the food on the table I didn't like.
24:10I was in pain.
24:12Pain that made my heart race.
24:14Pain that made me break out in cold sweats.
24:16I was longing.
24:17Longing for her embrace.
24:19Longing for her to hold me like she held ruby.
24:21Every signal of my heartbeat was interpreted by her.
24:24As evidence of lying.
24:26Awww.
24:27Mom suddenly let out a wail.
24:28She began frantically clawing at the bracelet on her wrist.
24:31Take it off.
24:32Take it off.
24:34It's red.
24:35I'm not a liar.
24:37I'm not.
24:38But the bracelet's clasp.
24:39Damaged from the earlier violent attachment.
24:42And previous damage was stuck.
24:44Couldn't be removed no matter how she clawed.
24:46Can't get it off.
24:48Can't get it off.
24:49Lily.
24:50Take the bracelet away.
24:52Mommy was wrong.
24:53It hurts too much.
24:55It hurts too much.
24:56This little pain and you can't take it, mom.
24:58I endured it for 10 years.
25:00To confirm details of abuse and determine sentencing.
25:03Police read aloud from that diary.
25:06Now, key evidence, in front of my parents.
25:09That book I'd used for 10 years.
25:11Filled with humiliation and bloody tears.
25:13The female officer's voice was soft.
25:16But every word was damning.
25:17February 14th, Valentine's Day.
25:20Mom gave me fried shrimp.
25:21I'm allergic to seafood.
25:23It makes my throat swell and I can't breathe.
25:25I said I couldn't eat it.
25:27That I felt sick.
25:28Because I was afraid of mom getting angry.
25:30My heart raced and the red light came on.
25:33Mom said I was picky and lying.
25:35Forced me to eat the whole plate.
25:37That night I vomited blood.
25:38My throat felt like it was on fire.
25:41Mom saw it but said I'd stolen cranberry juice and was faking illness.
25:45Then shocked me for 10 minutes.
25:46Mom covered her mouth, trembling violently.
25:49That night, she really had thought it was cranberry juice.
25:52She didn't even look closely at my vomit.
25:55Before turning to read Ruby a bedtime story.
25:57It was blood.
25:58Blood from throat swelling and rupture.
26:01The female officer turned a page and continued reading.
26:04October 31st, Halloween.
26:06Ruby cut up mom's dress.
26:08Ruby's heart rate was slow.
26:10Her light was green.
26:11I was anxious explaining, afraid of getting hit.
26:13All red lights.
26:15Mom shocked me for 10 minutes.
26:17Current set to level 5.
26:18I was in so much pain.
26:20But I didn't dare cry.
26:22Because crying would make my heart beat faster.
26:24Mom would think I was being defiant and shock me harder.
26:27I could only hold my breath.
26:29Pretend it didn't hurt.
26:30Mom said, look, she's not even crying out.
26:33Proves it doesn't hurt at all.
26:35Definitely faking.
26:36Dad finally couldn't listen anymore.
26:38This man who'd been invisible in this house for years.
26:41Who'd turned a blind eye to my suffering just to avoid.
26:43Trouble.
26:44Suddenly rushed over.
26:46Slap.
26:47A vicious slap across mom's face.
26:49You poisonous woman.
26:50Look what you've done.
26:51That was your own daughter.
26:53You raised her like livestock.
26:55Mom was knocked to the floor.
26:56Blood trickling from her mouth.
26:58But she didn't fight back or cry.
27:00She just stared vacantly, muttering.
27:02It wasn't me.
27:03It wasn't my fault.
27:05She suddenly pointed at Ruby cowering in the corner.
27:08Ruby's bracelet was always green.
27:10Ruby was the honest good child.
27:12I was misled by the bracelet.
27:14If it weren't for that green light as contrast, I wouldn't have believed the red light so much.
27:20All eyes focused on Ruby, that little princess.
27:23Who'd always been treasured.
27:25The police walked over.
27:26And removed the green bracelet from Ruby's wrist.
27:29Pulling out a screwdriver to pry it open on the spot.
27:32Crack.
27:33The plastic shell split open.
27:35Inside wasn't any complex sensor chip or heart rate monitor.
27:38Just two cheap LED lights and some button batteries.
27:41The circuit board was hardwired.
27:43As long as it had power, it only showed green.
27:46This is just a $2 plastic toy.
27:48The officer threw the broken pieces on the table.
27:50With a clear clattering sound.
27:52Your younger daughter's bracelet was factory set to constant green.
27:55No matter what she said or did, murder or arson, it would be green.
27:59Your so-called tech parenting was a complete, biased joke.
28:02Mom stared at those plastic fragments.
28:05The truth she'd believed in for 10 years.
28:07The evidence she'd used to condemn me to death.
28:10It was just a toy.
28:11I'd been controlled for 10 years by a toy.
28:14A game where only I lived in hell while Ruby lived in heaven.
28:17It turned out I wasn't a liar.
28:18I wasn't a bad child.
28:20Then what was the point of all my suffering?
28:22I laughed, then cried while laughing.
28:25It turned out souls could shed tears too.
28:27The diary's final page was opened.
28:29The female officer's voice choked up.
28:32The handwriting is messy.
28:33Must have been written before death.
28:35Mom, if I die, will the bracelet stop lighting up?
28:38Will you hug me then?
28:40I really wasn't lying.
28:41My stomach hurts so bad.
28:43Like knives twisting inside.
28:45Mom, next life don't put a bracelet on me, please.
28:49I want to be a normal child.
28:50I want to eat mom's pot roast.
28:53Mom looked at those plastic fragments.
28:55That honest green light, she'd trusted completely.
28:58Just a cheap toy.
28:59Because of this toy, she'd spoiled Ruby for 10 years.
29:03And because of that damned red light, she'd tortured me for 10 years.
29:07Ha ha ha.
29:08Mom suddenly started laughing.
29:10A harsh laugh more heartbreaking than tears.
29:12Fake, all fake.
29:14I killed my most honest child and spoiled a liar.
29:17She'd gone insane.
29:18This time, truly insane.
29:21My death became shocking news debated across America.
29:24Mrs. Davis was both kind hearted and a big mouth.
29:26She posted everything she saw that day on Twitter and Facebook.
29:30With the eye-catching headline,
29:32Girl electrocuted to death by pseudoscientific bracelet.
29:35The article detailed my corpse's horrific condition.
29:38And the bracelet fused into my flesh.
29:40It sparked immediate outrage.
29:42Public fury exploded across the internet.
29:45Mom's information was doxxed by netizens.
29:47Labeled, electric demon, murderer.
29:50This person doesn't deserve to be a mother.
29:52Countless curses flew like snowflakes.
29:54Red graffiti was sprayed on our front door.
29:57Covered with, murderer.
29:58Dad was also investigated by police for negligent homicide.
30:02And failure to provide care.
30:04Though eventually not sentenced harshly due to his alibi.
30:07He lost his job and reputation.
30:09The tech company fired him immediately to avoid association.
30:12The family went bankrupt.
30:14To pay astronomical legal fees and civil damages.
30:17They sold the house and cars.
30:19Dad couldn't stand living with this madwoman.
30:22He took what little money remained and left with Ruby.
30:24Even though Ruby was bad seed.
30:26She was still his only blood.
30:28Before leaving, Ruby wanted to take that green bracelet.
30:31Dad crushed it underfoot.
30:33What do you want this piece of junk for?
30:35Ruby was dragged away crying.
30:37Mom developed severe self-harm behaviors.
30:40Nearly electrocuting herself to death at home.
30:42Social workers and police forcibly intervened.
30:45Conducting mandatory psychiatric evaluation under.
30:48Mental health laws, 5150 hold.
30:52Psychiatric evaluation showed she suffered from.
30:55Severe schizophrenia and PTSD.
30:57She was released on bail, left alone in that suburban house.
31:01Filled with death and decay to await trial.
31:03Completely isolated, her mental state deteriorated further.
31:07She always felt I was still in the house.
31:09She refused to remove that red bracelet no matter what.
31:13Even becoming dependent on it.
31:14She discovered that only by wearing it and feeling those.
31:17Weak electric shocks could she slightly reduce her guilt.
31:20It was self-imposed punishment.
31:22I floated in the house, watching her daily madness.
31:25She'd set a full table and call to empty air.
31:28Lily, dinner's ready.
31:30No seafood today.
31:32All pot roast.
31:33Your favorite.
31:34Then she'd pick up a piece of meat, her hands shaking terribly.
31:38The anxiety made the bracelet flash red.
31:40Beep.
31:41She'd laugh neurotic.
31:42Mommy's heart is racing.
31:44Mommy is lying.
31:46Mommy doesn't deserve to eat.
31:48Liars must be punished.
31:50She put down her fork, grab the TV remote, remove the batteries and wires, and hold them
31:56to her own neck.
31:57Zap.
31:58Though the batteries were nearly dead, she somehow found new high-voltage ones to replace
32:02them.
32:03The strong current made her convulse and foam at the mouth.
32:05But she actually smiled with relief.
32:08It hurts.
32:09Hurting is good.
32:10Did Lily hurt like this too?
32:12I'm sorry.
32:13Mommy feels it now.
32:15She began mimicking the punishments from my diary.
32:17When I was shocked for not eating shrimp.
32:19She forced herself to eat spoiled leftovers.
32:22Ate until she vomited blood, still had to swallow it.
32:25When I was locked up, she'd lock herself in my room.
32:28Without lights, in the darkness, frantically banging her head.
32:32Against the floor in front of my photo.
32:34Again and again.
32:35Blood all over her forehead.
32:37Blood prints all over the hardwood floor.
32:39Late at night, she'd see the bracelet's red glow.
32:42Reflected on the wall, like my bloody eyes staring at her.
32:45On the back of the diary, she scrawled frantically with red marker.
32:49I'm sorry, Mommy was wrong.
32:51Red light is pain.
32:52Red light is love.
32:54Please come back.
32:55Cry out in pain one more time.
32:57Mommy will definitely save you.
32:59But unfortunately, I was already dead.
33:01Dead people don't cry out in pain.
33:03Mom was eventually sent to the state mental health center.
33:06Due to her severe self-harm, child protective services, and social services forcibly intervened
33:12and had her committed.
33:13She was the strangest patient in the facility.
33:16She'd found a red plastic ring somewhere.
33:18And wore it around her neck.
33:20Her homemade bracelet.
33:22Anyone who tried to remove it got bitten viciously.
33:24Like a rabid dog.
33:25Don't touch my light.
33:27Lily is watching.
33:29If you take it off, she'll be angry.
33:31She developed terrifying conditioned responses.
33:34Whenever nurses asked,
33:36Evelyn, have you eaten?
33:37She'd first touch her neck, then convulse all over, screaming.
33:41Red light.
33:42Red light.
33:43Don't shock me.
33:45I'll eat.
33:46I'll eat.
33:47Even if it was scalding oatmeal, she'd swallow it in one gulp.
33:50Burning her esophagus until it ulcerated.
33:53Never daring to spit it out.
33:54She was mimicking me before I died.
33:57Using this method to repeatedly experience my hell.
33:59Years later, Ruby grew up completely wrong.
34:02Without discipline and bearing such a reputation, she drifted through society's underbelly.
34:07When she ran out of money, she remembered the mother.
34:10Still in the mental hospital.
34:12She came for visiting, not for family ties, but for money.
34:16You old crazy woman, dad's dead.
34:18Give me the social security and trust fund money you hid.
34:21Ruby wore heavy makeup, face full of malice.
34:24Looking at mom's ghostly appearance, she spat in disgust.
34:27Disgusting, just like your dead daughter.
34:30If you don't give me money, I'll pull your life support and let you join her.
34:34Mom, who'd been in a daze, suddenly looked up at these words.
34:37Those cloudy eyes suddenly cleared for a moment when she saw Ruby.
34:41She remembered that toy bracelet that always showed green.
34:44That green light that had deceived her for ten years.
34:47It's you.
34:48Mom's voice was raspy like sandpaper.
34:50You lied to me.
34:51You're the fake green light.
34:53You killed Lily.
34:55Give Lily back to me.
34:56The last trace of maternal love transformed into vengeful fangs.
35:01Mom suddenly lunged at Ruby, clutching her throat with death grip.
35:04Die.
35:05You die.
35:06You should have died.
35:08Help.
35:09Help me.
35:10Ruby struggled in terror but couldn't break free from the madwoman's strength.
35:14Doctors rushed in and sedated mom before pulling her away.
35:18Ruby fled in terror.
35:19Crazy.
35:20All crazy.
35:21She rushed blindly out of the hospital.
35:23Bang.
35:24A speeding Ford pickup truck couldn't break in time.
35:27Ruby went flying.
35:28She didn't die, but both legs were shattered.
35:31She'd spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair.
35:33A complete invalid.
35:35And mom was strapped to a restraint bed.
35:37Staring at the ceiling through tears.
35:39In dreams she finally saw me.
35:41In the dream I was still ten years old.
35:44Not wearing any bracelet, dressed in white.
35:46Smiling as I ran toward her.
35:48Mom.
35:49She joyfully opened her arms to hold me, Lily.
35:52But discovered her hands were full of electric sparks.
35:55The moment she touched me.
35:56My body burned like paper, turning to ash.
35:59No.
36:00She woke crying from the dream, heart rate spiking.
36:03If she'd had that bracelet.
36:05It would definitely be blazing red.
36:07That was eternal pain.
36:08I stood in the void, watching it all.
36:11Watching mom suffering in the mental center.
36:13Watching Ruby begging with broken legs.
36:15Watching dad drinking himself to an early death.
36:18In my heart, surprisingly, I felt no satisfaction from revenge.
36:22Only calm.
36:23Calm as stagnant water.
36:25Beside me stood an old dog.
36:27Buster.
36:28My childhood pet that mom had thrown away.
36:30He was waiting for me in heaven.
36:32Buster nuzzled my leg and barked twice.
36:34As if saying, let's go, stop watching.
36:37Yes, time to go.
36:39This life was too bitter.
36:40Nothing worth clinging to.
36:42I floated to mom's hospital room.
36:44For one last goodbye.
36:45Mom lay in bed, gaunt and gray haired.
36:48She seemed to sense something.
36:50Her cloudy eyes looking at a point in the air.
36:52Exactly where I was standing.
36:54Lily?
36:55Is that you?
36:56She tremblingly reached out.
36:58Grasping at empty air.
36:59Mommy broke the bracelet.
37:01Mommy doesn't believe in that anymore.
37:03Come back, okay?
37:05Mommy will cook for you, no seafood.
37:08Mommy will buy you new dresses, not for Ruby.
37:11Tears slid down her cheeks, dripping onto the pillow.
37:14I glanced at the bloody marks around her neck and sighed softly.
37:17I reached out my cold finger and touched her forehead.
37:20This was my final mercy to her.
37:23Let her sleep.
37:23Sleeping, there'd be no more pain.
37:26She instantly quieted, her eyelids growing heavy as she fell into slumber.
37:30A breeze blew through.
37:32The tattered diary on the bedside table opened.
37:34It was evidence the police had returned to her.
37:37On the last page, besides my final words from years ago,
37:40were several new lines of shaky writing.
37:43Mom had written them during her lucid moments.
37:45Next life, let mommy wear the bracelet.
37:48Let mommy be the liar.
37:50You can punish me.
37:52Just don't reject mommy.
37:53Mommy will do anything.
37:55I looked at those lines without any emotion.
37:57Too late.
37:58All repentance seems so pale before death.
38:01Mom, I don't hate you anymore.
38:03I said softly.
38:04But I don't love you anymore either.
38:06Mom, let's never meet again in the next life.
38:09I turned around, taking Buster's paw.
38:11In the distance, a door of light appeared.
38:14The entrance to the next reincarnation.
38:16I raised my wrist.
38:17The bracelet that had existed in my spirit form.
38:20That nightmare that had bound my entire life.
38:23I squeezed hard.
38:24Crack.
38:25It shattered, turning into points of starlight.
38:28Dissolving into the air.
38:29I felt unprecedented lightness.
38:31No red lights, no electric current, no lies.
38:34Only freedom.
38:36I walked toward the light door without looking back.
38:38Morning sunlight streamed in.
38:40A nurse pushed open the door for rounds.
38:43Evelyn, time for medication.
38:45No response.
38:46The person in bed didn't move.
38:48The nurse approached.
38:49Evelyn clutched the broken diary tightly.
38:52A final crystalline tear hanging from her eye.
38:54On the life signs monitor nearby.
38:56The line representing life became a straight, flat line.
39:00Beep.