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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, he looked at me,
00:00:27the 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, where a secret mark hides.
00:01:11One 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?
00:01:53Silence. 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.
00:02:08I 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.
00:02:24She 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, hiding the
00:02:39mark on my wrist.
00:02:41They 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, hiding the
00:02:51mark on my wrist.
00:02:52They had no idea who I really was.
00:02:56They buried me in the filthiest labor to force me out, but at midnight, every heavy task was already done
00:03:03for me.
00:03:03Then he stepped out of the shadows.
00:03:06He saw my raw, blistered hands, and his jaw tightened.
00:03:10Then he wrapped his own royal cloak around me.
00:03:13Servants froze, staring.
00:03:15A queen shouldn't do this, his eyes said.
00:03:18I tried to give it back, but he pressed my hand still.
00:03:22My heart cracked open against my will.
00:03:25Then Serena turned the corner, and her face twisted with hate.
00:03:30Serena ripped his cloak right off my shoulders and tore it apart.
00:03:35A 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.
00:03:53His eyes told her, touch what's mine again, and you'll regret it.
00:03:57I couldn't breathe.
00:04:02Serena tripped me on purpose, spilling tea across the nobles, then cried like a victim.
00:04:08A clumsy maid unfit to serve, they sneered.
00:04:11My stepmother moved to throw me out.
00:04:17I knelt and picked up the broken pieces, saying nothing.
00:04:21Then he came down from the throne, walked through them all, and took the tea straight from my hands.
00:04:32His fingers covered mine on the cup.
00:04:35Then he drank the very tea they mocked before everyone.
00:04:38Her tea is served to me alone, his eyes declared.
00:04:42The hall fell apart.
00:04:47But my stepmother wasn't watching the crowd.
00:04:50She saw it.
00:04:51The moment our fingers touched, the deathly cold left his face.
00:04:55Her eyes narrowed.
00:04:57This maid is hiding something.
00:05:02He turned the humiliation into devotion, shielding me again.
00:05:07But her eyes crawled toward my hidden wrist.
00:05:10His love kept saving me, and dragging me closer to death.
00:05:19To break free of him, I buried myself in the hardest night labor.
00:05:23But he found me, sharing the load again.
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.
00:05:38The cold left his brow.
00:05:40I froze in horror.
00:05:42When I touch him, he heals.
00:05:44What am I?
00:05:48I wasn't just the queen, he claimed.
00:05:51I was tied to something inside him.
00:05:53Some curse.
00:05:54Then I looked down at my wrist, and a golden royal mark was glowing there.
00:06:04I slammed my sleeve over the glowing mark.
00:06:07But he saw it, and his eyes said he already knew.
00:06:10Then footsteps echoed down the corridor.
00:06:13Someone was coming.
00:06:19My stepmother appeared at the corridor's mouth, eyes sweeping for secrets.
00:06:24He shielded me with his body, 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.
00:06:40Furious, my stepmother ordered me, the 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.
00:06:57Once again, only the maid could wake the sleeping king.
00:07:05A maid making a king open his eyes.
00:07:08Impossible.
00:07:08My stepmother walked closer.
00:07:10Her eyes crawling toward my wrist.
00:07:13She 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.
00:07:25He shielded me again.
00:07:27Yet her eyes never left me.
00:07:29She'd made up her mind.
00:07:37He turned away from Serena, his eyes only following me.
00:07:40She burned with hate.
00:07:42And my stepmother, smiling coldly, 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.
00:08:01I 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.
00:08:14The whole room watched her fail, and she blamed me.
00:08:22I lifted my head and said it calmly, I can teach the move.
00:08:25But who he recognizes, that, I can't teach.
00:08:29The room understood, and Serena cracked apart.
00:08:37She broke down and lunged at me.
00:08:39He rose and froze her cold.
00:08:41Then my stepmother, furious, found a crueler punishment.
00:08:45Tomorrow the wardrobe, and I would kneel.
00:08:52She sentenced me to kneel and hold Serena's gown tomorrow.
00:08:56The king nearly erupted, but I shook my head.
00:08:59I 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.
00:09:12A maid isn't fit to even look at it, she sneered.
00:09:16Then the door opened, and he walked in.
00:09:23He walked past her, stripped the queen's gown from Serena, and turned to me.
00:09:28He draped it over my kneeling shoulders.
00:09:31This is what she should wear, his eyes said.
00:09:38He knelt and adjusted my collar himself, his fingers brushing my neck.
00:09:43I couldn't breathe.
00:09:45The man who woke for me now dressed me like a queen, before her burning eyes.
00:09:53Footsteps approached.
00:09:55My stepmother's voice drew near.
00:09:57I panicked, pushing him away, but he wouldn't let go.
00:10:00Then the door handle turned.
00:10:02Someone was about to walk in.
00:10:09He pulled me into the shadows behind the mirror as the door swung open.
00:10:13I pressed against his chest, holding my breath.
00:10:16And Serena raised her hand, to expose us.
00:10:24My stepmother set a formal test, hoping to disgrace me beside Serena.
00:10:29Serena bowed first.
00:10:30He didn't move.
00:10:31Then she gestured for me, the maid.
00:10:34Certain 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.
00:10:47Our fingers touched.
00:10:49The hall gasped again.
00:10:54He turned the test into devotion again, shielding me before everyone.
00:10:59Serena trembled with rage.
00:11:01But my stepmother wasn't watching the king.
00:11:03She was staring at my exposed wrist.
00:11:10The golden mark on my wrist glowed faintly.
00:11:13My stepmother's pupils shrank.
00:11:16Roll up your sleeve, she demanded.
00:11:17My blood ran cold.
00:11:20She was one breath from my secret.
00:11:25He blocked her with his body, freezing her in place.
00:11:29She couldn't see the glow, but her cold smile said it all.
00:11:33She would dig out the truth of my wrist.
00:11:41She was hunting my wrist.
00:11:43So I dropped to my knees and confessed.
00:11:45I'm only a maid.
00:11:47The crown belongs to Serena.
00:11:49Then I pushed him away.
00:11:51To survive.
00:11:55For the first time, I pushed him away, and his control shattered.
00:12:00He charged forward and seized my wrist before everyone, his eyes demanding, say that again.
00:12:10I fought to pull free, but he held tight.
00:12:13We struggled before the whole court.
00:12:15Then, under his grip, the golden mark on my wrist suddenly blazed for all to see.
00:12:26The royal mark blazed gold for everyone.
00:12:29My stepmother's pupils shrank in horror.
00:12:32She recognized it.
00:12:33Twenty years buried, and now my deadliest secret burned in plain sight.
00:12:41She saw everything.
00:12:43Her cold smile spread as she gave the order.
00:12:46Find out exactly where this maid came from.
00:12:48He shielded me.
00:12:50But it was too late.
00:12:51The hunt had begun.
00:12:57She paraded Serena as the true royal blood, while I stood in the corner as a mere servant.
00:13:03Then Serena pointed at me, screaming, I dared to spy on royal blood.
00:13:12I said nothing, just held my breath.
00:13:15Then he came striding over, shielding me with his shoulder, whispering, don't be afraid.
00:13:21She 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.
00:14:04My hand flew to my heart.
00:14:06The king's face changed.
00:14:08What am I?
00:14:14Frozen on my knees, I stared at the queen's pendant in the painting.
00:14:18The same intricate mark as the one I'd hidden for 20 years.
00:14:22My hand pressed my chest, trembling.
00:14:28He came closer, crouched beside me, and whispered,
00:14:32Let me see the pendant.
00:14:33My blood ran cold.
00:14:34I clutched my chest and backed away.
00:14:37He already knew, I could feel it.
00:14:43I backed against a pillar, my mind racing.
00:14:46He looked at the painted queen, then at me.
00:14:49For the first time, I dared to wonder.
00:14:52Was I tied to this royal blood?
00:14:58My stepmother approached, sensing something wrong.
00:15:02He stepped between us, shielding me.
00:15:05I 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.
00:15:25And 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.
00:15:37The queen from a hundred years ago.
00:15:39I couldn't move.
00:15:44He touched my pendant.
00:15:46This is her relic, and it recognizes you.
00:15:49Suddenly I understood.
00:15:51He woke only for me because of this blood.
00:15:54He leaned his forehead to mine.
00:15:59He kissed my brow, gentle and reverent.
00:16:03Tears blurred my eyes.
00:16:04For 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, I told him, eyes burning.
00:16:20His face darkened.
00:16:22Then a lantern's light flickered down the corridor.
00:16:25Someone was coming.
00:16:30He pulled me behind a pillar into the shadows as the lantern drew near.
00:16:35I pressed against his rain-soaked back, holding my breath.
00:16:39We shared a secret that could get me killed.
00:16:47A maid with a royal pendant, stolen, she declared, ordering it seized.
00:16:52Servants lunged for the pendant on my chest.
00:16:55I 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.
00:17:06I gave her that pendant, he declared.
00:17:09To inspect it, ask me first.
00:17:11The hall froze.
00:17:16He held me close, his hand calming mine, but my stepmother smiled coldly and pressed.
00:17:23You gave it.
00:17:24Then dare you vouch for this maid's origins?
00:17:27With 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.
00:17:48At 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.
00:18:05Investigate this maid's origins.
00:18:07And keep her away from the king until proven.
00:18:10A death sentence dressed as an inquiry.
00:18:12He stepped up to defend me.
00:18:18Before he could speak, she cut in.
00:18:20Unless you dare vouch for her with your throne itself.
00:18:23He paused.
00:18:25Rare for him.
00:18:26The whole hall held its breath.
00:18:28I gripped his arm.
00:18:33I begged him with my eyes, don't.
00:18:35But he looked at me, certain, and spoke before everyone.
00:18:39I vouch.
00:18:40My blood froze.
00:18:42And my stepmother smiled.
00:18:44She'd been waiting for this.
00:18:48She cut him off, smiling colder.
00:18:50Then at the family banquet, before all of us, we'll uncover exactly where this maid came from.
00:18:56My deadliest trap had a date now.
00:19:02She'd set the trap.
00:19:04Certain she controlled everything.
00:19:05He shielded me, silently declaring war.
00:19:09But behind his back, in my terror, a spark lit.
00:19:13I would not die kneeling.
00:19:19She declared the credit of waking him, belonged to Serena, made me serve dishes behind the seats, and forced me
00:19:26to confess I'd falsely approached the king.
00:19:29I 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?
00:19:52She snapped.
00:19:53He didn't answer her.
00:19:55He only looked at me, gentle and certain, and asked,
00:19:58Where do you want to sit?
00:20:04My eyes flicked to the queen's seat beside the throne.
00:20:07Then, darted away.
00:20:09Sitting there meant more danger, more exposure.
00:20:12But he gestured to it, telling me,
00:20:14That's yours.
00:20:19I drew a breath, the terror in me hardening into resolve.
00:20:22He held my hand, silently supporting me.
00:20:25Sit, or retreat.
00:20:27Every eye waited, and I stopped being afraid to chew.
00:20:35Why does only you, a maid, get close to him?
00:20:38You seduced him, she pressed.
00:20:41I lifted my eyes, calm, and turned the rule on her.
00:20:44Let Serena wake him before everyone.
00:20:50Cornered, Serena bowed and performed the right on him perfectly.
00:20:54But he stayed shut, cold as stone.
00:20:56She tried again and again, panicking.
00:20:59The whole table watched her fail.
00:21:06I said it lightly, credit can be awarded, but who he recognizes, you can't reward.
00:21:11The table understood.
00:21:13Serena went white.
00:21:14I'd taken back the glory they stole from me.
00:21:21Humiliated, she slammed the table and ordered me out.
00:21:24I bowed to leave, but the king rose and walked straight to the queen's seat beside his throne.
00:21:34He gestured for Serena to rise from the queen's seat.
00:21:38She stood, trembling with disbelief.
00:21:41Then he turned to me, gentle and certain.
00:21:45The throne seat was about to change hands.
00:21:52She ordered me 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.
00:22:02Every eye locked on me.
00:22:07He seated me in the queen's chair himself, turned to the family, and declared,
00:22:12This seat is only for her.
00:22:14Then he bent to serve me food.
00:22:17The hall erupted.
00:22:22Serena broke down, screaming, why?
00:22:25He froze her with a glare.
00:22:27But my stepmother wasn't even looking at her daughter.
00:22:30She was gripping a thick, yellowed adoption record.
00:22:37She gripped that yellowed record like a weapon,
00:22:40smiling coldly past her crying daughter,
00:22:42and ordered,
00:22:43Dig out this maid's adoption records from twenty years ago.
00:22:47My blood ran cold.
00:22:51She declared she'd investigate everything.
00:22:54He shielded me, silently at war.
00:22:56But behind my terror, a spark lit again.
00:22:59The adoption record was about to be opened.
00:23:02So would my secret.
00:23:08She spread the record and sneered.
00:23:10Twenty years ago, you were a nameless foundling dumped at our gate.
00:23:15Such filth fit for the queen's seat?
00:23:18She'd cut my deepest wound open.
00:23:24I fled to the room, trembling.
00:23:26He followed, pressed me to the wall,
00:23:28took my shaking hand, and whispered,
00:23:31No matter where you came from, I claim you.
00:23:34My heart shook.
00:23:38He leaned close, certain, but I pressed his hand still, terror cutting through.
00:23:44The more you claim me, the harder she hunts my origins to death.
00:23:48He couldn't let go.
00:23:53He wiped my tear, forehead against mine,
00:23:57his silence promising to protect me.
00:23:59Then, outside the door, my stepmother muttered,
00:24:02This record is wrong.
00:24:03Who altered the intake?
00:24:08The intake record had been altered.
00:24:10For the first time, she looked afraid.
00:24:12And I understood.
00:24:14My origins hid something even she feared.
00:24:17The balance of power was beginning to turn.
00:24:24She ordered the adoption record laid out page by page
00:24:28before everyone to brand me nameless for good.
00:24:31The pages spread across the table.
00:24:34Her sharp eyes scoured every line.
00:24:39At one page, her hand froze.
00:24:42The intake date and handler bore a deliberately smeared mark, altered.
00:24:47Her face cracked, gripped by an old memory she thought she'd buried clean.
00:24:54Her fury turned to fear.
00:24:57For the first time, she truly looked at me, wondering who I really was.
00:25:02I met her gaze, unflinching.
00:25:04I'd found something even she dreaded.
00:25:09She slammed the record shut, masking her panic, and announced,
00:25:13This entry is suspicious.
00:25:15Seal the archive vault.
00:25:17I'll investigate the old accounts myself.
00:25:19She was hiding something.
00:25:21Badly.
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.
00:25:34Now I was digging it up.
00:25:41She crowned Serena first air and threw me into archive duty to crush my hopes.
00:25:47But 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.
00:25:59Just 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.
00:27:08A 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, but 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.
00:28:2020 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.
00:28:35But terror snapped me awake.
00:28:37I 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?
00:29:01His 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.
00:29:23So 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.
00:30:14I 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.
00:30:29I walked out, tears falling unseen, never looking back.
00:30:33He stood frozen, drowning in the pain of being abandoned.
00:30:38A wound I built with my own hands, to keep him alive.
00:30:46To numb my stepmother, I declared before all,
00:30:49I just want to be a maid again, nothing more between us.
00:30:53Then I turned to leave.
00:30:55And his control finally shattered.
00:31:01He chased me down, blocked my path, and seized my shoulders before everyone.
00:31:07You're not going anywhere, he roared.
00:31:10I fought to leave.
00:31:11He 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,
00:31:25for 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.
00:31:38The 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.
00:32:02She threw a grand engagement, crowning Serena the destined queen, and ordered me out of the palace today.
00:32:10Serena, wearing the crown, sneered, leave now while you still can.
00:32:18The officiant called for his vow, but he stood silent, his eyes passing over Serena, straight to me at the
00:32:25door.
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, the destined queen denied before all.
00:32:55The hall erupted.
00:32:56My stepmother shot up, her face turning to stone.
00:33:02He 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?
00:33:19He lifted the crown from Serena, and to gasps from all, walked past the entire hall, straight to me at
00:33:26the door.
00:33:26He stopped before me and declared, the one I want is her.
00:33:34He strode back, seized the engagement contract, and tore it to shreds before everyone.
00:33:40Paper rained down.
00:33:42Serena 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.
00:34:04He 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.
00:34:22He 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.
00:35:09I touched his hand.
00:35:11I see.
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,
00:35:27and shielded me with his devotion, and his own fading 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.
00:35:51He confessed.
00:35:53From the moment I caught the queen's scent on you,
00:35:56I 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,
00:36:09I lose a year of the life my hundred-year sleep bought.
00:36:13My blood froze.
00:36:14His paleness.
00:36:15All for me.
00:36:16And he said,
00:36:17It'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.
00:36:41Yet 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.
00:37:22He pulled me into his arms before everyone and declared aloud,
00:37:26She 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,
00:37:45and 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.
00:37:58My stepmother locked onto the glow,
00:38:00her face hardening into a cold, certain smile.
00:38:07She clapped slowly, smiling cold.
00:38:10Then, at the coronation,
00:38:12I'll verify the bloodline before all,
00:38:14and purge every imposter.
00:38:16Is this maid true blood, or a filthy fraud?
00:38:20The death trap was set.
00:38:23To stop him fading,
00:38:25I turned cold, dodging him,
00:38:27declaring 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.
00:38:38I kept my back to him,
00:38:40faking indifference.
00:38:42But behind the mask,
00:38:43my eyes burned red.
00:38:45My fingers shook.
00:38:46He watched from afar,
00:38:48and the doubt grew.
00:38:49This wasn't true coldness.
00:38:54Serena strode up,
00:38:55mocking me as the discarded,
00:38:58clinging maid.
00:38:58I 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,
00:39:11faking indifference.
00:39:12My fingers shaking.
00:39:14He watched me go,
00:39:15the 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,
00:39:25faking strength,
00:39:26fingers trembling.
00:39:28From afar,
00:39:29his gaze sank,
00:39:30certain at last.
00:39:31He'd seen through it all.
00:39:33She's lying,
00:39:34to protect me.
00:39:35And he wouldn't allow it.
00:39:40She placed Serena to serve him closely,
00:39:43replacing me.
00:39:44See?
00:39:45Serena gloated.
00:39:46The maid's been swapped out,
00:39:48but he stayed ice cold to her,
00:39:50his eyes following only me in the corner.
00:39:55He ignored Serena,
00:39:57rose,
00:39:57and walked straight to me.
00:39:59I dodged again,
00:40:01faking cold.
00:40:02The more I fled,
00:40:03the more certain he became.
00:40:04My indifference was an act,
00:40:06hiding something.
00:40:10He cornered me against a pillar,
00:40:13his sharp eyes reading my trembling fingers.
00:40:15Then,
00:40:16hidden from view,
00:40:17he gently caught the wrist
00:40:18I kept pulling away.
00:40:20I couldn't escape his gaze.
00:40:25He leaned to my ear,
00:40:27hidden from all,
00:40:28and asked softly,
00:40:30you dodge me because every touch costs me a year of life.
00:40:34Don't you?
00:40:35I shook all over.
00:40:36He'd seen everything.
00:40:40He'd named my hidden secret.
00:40:42I shook,
00:40:43tears welling,
00:40:44with nowhere to hide.
00:40:46He'd seen it all,
00:40:47my act,
00:40:48my sacrifice.
00:40:49The truth I'd buried could be hidden no longer.
00:40:56At midnight,
00:40:57he waited at my door,
00:40:59cutting off my escape.
00:41:00You fake coldness and dodge me,
00:41:03all so I won't lose my life,
00:41:06don't you?
00:41:07I turned my face away,
00:41:09denying it.
00:41:12You think faking coldness makes me believe you don't love me?
00:41:15He said,
00:41:16shattering my mask.
00:41:18My tears burst free.
00:41:20Don't come near me again.
00:41:21I sobbed,
00:41:22pushing him away.
00:41:26I shoved him,
00:41:28weakening.
00:41:29He stood still,
00:41:30gazing at me,
00:41:31gentle and unyielding.
00:41:33My love laid bare,
00:41:34his too.
00:41:35He wiped my tears.
00:41:37I still shook my head,
00:41:39pushing him.
00:41:41I pushed with my last strength,
00:41:44but he pulled me into his arms,
00:41:46refusing to let go.
00:41:47So I lose years,
00:41:49he rasped.
00:41:50Then let those years be all yours.
00:41:52I broke completely.
00:41:55I stopped pushing and held him back,
00:41:58our hearts finally bare.
00:42:00He rested his chin on my hair,
00:42:03cherishing it.
00:42:04Then,
00:42:04down the corridor,
00:42:06my stepmother's footsteps quietly stopped.
00:42:12She forced me to sign the exile papers,
00:42:15sealing my disgrace.
00:42:17With Serena already crowned and waiting,
00:42:19I 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,
00:42:34pulling me from the door of disgrace,
00:42:36straight to the side of the throne.
00:42:43He stood me beside the throne and declared to all,
00:42:46she is my only queen.
00:42:48Anyone who calls her discarded is my enemy.
00:42:51My eyes burned.
00:42:53He claimed me,
00:42:54openly,
00:42:55forever.
00:42:58He kissed my brow and turned to her,
00:43:00who is queen,
00:43:02the coronation will decide.
00:43:03Her face was stone,
00:43:05then she smiled coldly.
00:43:07Then at the coronation,
00:43:09she said,
00:43:09we'll verify the blood.
00:43:12She declared the coronation would verify the blood,
00:43:16wrapping murder in sacred ritual.
00:43:18He shielded me,
00:43:19silently at war,
00:43:20yet his frame,
00:43:21wavered.
00:43:22He claimed me,
00:43:23and pushed us onto the killing stage.
00:43:29Humiliated,
00:43:30she played her final card,
00:43:32summoning the household.
00:43:34The coronation will verify every blood near the king,
00:43:37and purge all who falsely claim the queen's seat.
00:43:41The trap was sacred now.
00:43:44Once they verify the true blood,
00:43:47she can kill me as an imposter.
00:43:49Time was running out.
00:43:51I turned to him,
00:43:52paler than ever from claiming me,
00:43:54his hand trembling on the throne.
00:43:59Tears in my eyes,
00:44:01I gripped his icy,
00:44:02trembling hand.
00:44:03He'd faded for me,
00:44:04and I couldn't protect him.
00:44:06Then my fear hardened into resolve.
00:44:09This coronation,
00:44:10I will not lose.
00:44:14He froze,
00:44:15then held my hand back,
00:44:17his eyes full of trust.
00:44:19For the first time,
00:44:20he saw my strength.
00:44:22The maid crushed for 20 years,
00:44:24would win this herself.
00:44:28She sealed the coronation decree,
00:44:31the death date set.
00:44:32I gripped his fading hand,
00:44:34my resolve blazing.
00:44:36This inevitable trap,
00:44:38I would overturn it myself,
00:44:39and win back everything that was mine.
00:44:45She draped Serena in forged inheritance rights,
00:44:49enthroned her,
00:44:50and let the court bow.
00:44:52Me,
00:44:52she branded a suspect maid,
00:44:54kneeling outside.
00:44:56You can't even enter,
00:44:57Serena sneered.
00:45:00He broke from the bowing line,
00:45:03came outside,
00:45:04and lifted me from my knees,
00:45:05whispering,
00:45:06hold on a little longer.
00:45:08Then,
00:45:08his cold eyes swept to Serena on the throne seat.
00:45:15She announced the rule,
00:45:17at the coronation,
00:45:18whoever the relic recognizes is the true queen.
00:45:22Serena raised it,
00:45:23gloating,
00:45:23but as I stared at the relic,
00:45:25my 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,
00:45:34where 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,
00:45:53was on me.
00:45:54The day they verify the relic,
00:45:56that's when I overturn everything.
00:46:01She 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.
00:46:11The true relic was the one I'd hidden for 20 years.
00:46:17Serena's fake can never claim the throne.
00:46:20The 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,
00:47:29with 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,
00:47:58sharing the secret that would topple everything.
00:48:03As we shared the secret,
00:48:05lights flared outside the cellar door.
00:48:08I knew this maid would come here,
00:48:10came my stepmother's cold voice.
00:48:12My 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.
00:48:29We 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.
00:49:04He shielded me,
00:49:06ready to give up his throne.
00:49:08My eyes burned.
00:49:09He'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.
00:49:28At the coronation,
00:49:29it 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.
00:49:47Never.
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
00:50:08before the whole court
00:50:09and kissed me,
00:50:11ignoring 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
00:50:24blazed gold at once
00:50:25before everyone.
00:50:27He didn't care
00:50:27how much that kiss cost.
00:50:29My stepmother locked onto the glow,
00:50:32her face cold and certain.
00:50:35She locked onto the glow
00:50:37and his fading face
00:50:39and decreed,
00:50:39at the coronation
00:50:41I'll execute you both.
00:50:42A fraud maid
00:50:43and a fool king.
00:50:45Then she sealed
00:50:45the death warrant.
00:50:50She sealed the death warrant
00:50:52for us both.
00:50:53He shielded me,
00:50:54certain yet fading.
00:50:56I clutched the true relic.
00:50:57Her fake
00:50:58can't claim the throne.
00:51:00The coronation
00:51:01is when I strike back.
00:51:06She set the trap.
00:51:08The coronation
00:51:09is a trial.
00:51:10Any false queen
00:51:11dies on the spot.
00:51:13My place of judgment
00:51:14stood at the very center.
00:51:17Serena sneered.
00:51:18That's where you'll be tried.
00:51:22Serena circled
00:51:23my place of judgment,
00:51:25mocking 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
00:51:46a terrible decision.
00:51:53In the dimming hall
00:51:54he took my hand
00:51:55and spoke a decision
00:51:56that froze my blood.
00:51:58At the coronation
00:51:59I'll spend every last year
00:52:01of my life,
00:52:01to break this trap
00:52:03for you.
00:52:06He said it calmly.
00:52:08He'd burn out
00:52:09his entire life
00:52:10to win for me.
00:52:11I froze,
00:52:13blood cold,
00:52:14tears welling,
00:52:15but I'd been crushed
00:52:1620 years.
00:52:17If I win,
00:52:18I win it myself.
00:52:23In 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,
00:52:34no.
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
00:52:47his 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
00:53:00to let me fight alone.
00:53:02I couldn't bear
00:53:03to let him burn out.
00:53:09Forehead to forehead,
00:53:10I told him.
00:53:11You only need to live
00:53:12and watch me win.
00:53:14He froze,
00:53:15then truly saw my strength
00:53:17for the first time.
00:53:19The girl crushed
00:53:20for 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
00:53:30by my own will
00:53:31and he'd only need to live.
00:53:33The true relic
00:53:34was my final card.
00:53:40She threatened,
00:53:42the relic and blood
00:53:43alone decide
00:53:44and that maid dies
00:53:45if she dares appear.
00:53:47So I chose,
00:53:48I'd appear
00:53:49and reveal the relic
00:53:50hidden for 20 years myself.
00:53:55I pressed his hand still,
00:53:57save your life
00:53:58to 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
00:54:16over the relic,
00:54:18trusting.
00:54:18Then a commotion
00:54:19erupted outside.
00:54:21She'd struck early.
00:54:24She'd struck early,
00:54:26raising my last identity paper
00:54:28and tearing it apart.
00:54:29This person
00:54:30no longer exists
00:54:31in this palace.
00:54:33At the coronation,
00:54:34she'll be executed outright.
00:54:36Her cruelty
00:54:37only steeled me.
00:54:39She decreed my execution
00:54:41at the coronation.
00:54:42I stared at my torn identity,
00:54:45then clutched the true relic,
00:54:47resolve blazing.
00:54:48She erased me,
00:54:49but the coronation
00:54:50is when I rise.
00:54:56Sensing I'd appear,
00:54:57she tore my last identity paper
00:55:00and decreed,
00:55:01whoever this woman is,
00:55:03she dies on sight.
00:55:05Everyone expected me to break.
00:55:07Instead,
00:55:07I lifted my head.
00:55:10I declared it aloud.
00:55:12Then I'll stand at the center
00:55:14and let the whole court
00:55:16see who I am.
00:55:17I walked toward the place
00:55:19of judgment myself.
00:55:21No more hiding.
00:55:22No more enduring.
00:55:26I stood at the center of judgment,
00:55:28casting off 20 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
00:55:37turned 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
00:56:03where my confidence came from.
00:56:05The relic was my card.
00:56:07The harsher her decree,
00:56:09the surer my strike.
00:56:13Under a thousand candles,
00:56:15I 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,
00:56:48she 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.
00:57:02I 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,
00:57:13I 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,
00:57:24and 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,
00:57:53the 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 for 20 years,
00:58:24identical to the floating relic.
00:58:28My pendant and the floating relic resonated,
00:58:31blazing with the same sacred light.
00:58:34Serena's fake died to scrap.
00:58:36The maid crushed for 20 years was about to prove her royal blood.
00:58:45The relic fell to me,
00:58:47resonating with my pendant in the same sacred light.
00:58:51Serena's fake died to scrap.
00:58:52She 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 20 years ago.
00:59:15I'm the one you threw away.
00:59:17The court fell silent.
00:59:18She staggered back,
00:59:20white 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 20 years ago.
00:59:30I turned to face them all,
00:59:32the true relic glowing in my hand,
00:59:35ready to unveil the secret buried here 20 years ago.
00:59:38Every past humiliation was striking back now.
00:59:45I raised every proof from the cellar,
00:59:48the archives,
00:59:49the relic.
00:59:49The maid crushed for 20 years,
00:59:52now 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.
01:00:0320 years ago,
01:00:04she 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,
01:00:21realizing her destined queen pride was all her mother's lie.
01:00:25She too upon.
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,
01:00:48screaming impossible,
01:00:50her 20-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,
01:01:20he carried the true crown past the whole court,
01:01:22just as he'd walked past a hundred brides to me on the day he woke,
01:01:26and placed it on my head.
01:01:33The 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,
01:02:06I 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,
01:02:25crushed for twenty years,
01:02:27now held all the power.
01:02:29This time,
01:02:30I 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.
01:02:55Standing 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,
01:03:05not 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,
01:03:37fingers laced,
01:03:38the curse gone,
01:03:39the court bowing low.
01:03:41The maid they crushed became the queen,
01:03:44who walked here herself,
01:03:45a hundred years late,
01:03:47but home.