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Awaken The King - Ep
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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.
00:00:38My stepmother's face went white with rage. I tried to flee, but he locked my wrist, refusing to let go.
00:00:47I 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.
00:01:31She 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.
00:01:47If I'm so worthless, why did a hundred noble brides fail, and only I could wake him?
00:01:53Silence. Nobody could answer.
00:01:57And the king began to rise from his throne.
00:02:05He 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
00:02:40mark on my wrist.
00:02:41They had no idea who I really was.
00:02:46They sent me to break me with the hardest labor, but I walked out with my back straight, hiding the
00:02:52mark on my wrist.
00:02:53They 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.
00:03:04Then 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.
00:03:19I tried to give it back, but he pressed my hand still.
00:03:23My heart cracked open against my will.
00:03:26Then 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.
00:03:49He picked up the torn pieces and draped them back on me, even ruined.
00:03:54His eyes told her, touch what's mine again, and you'll regret it.
00:03:57I couldn't breathe.
00:04:03Serena tripped me on purpose, spilling tea across the nobles, then cried like a victim.
00:04:08A clumsy maid unfit to serve, they sneered.
00:04:12My stepmother moved to throw me out.
00:04:18I 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.
00:04:33His fingers covered mine on the cup.
00:04:35Then he drank the very tea they mocked before everyone.
00:04:39Her tea is served to me alone, his eyes declared.
00:04:42The hall fell apart.
00:04:48But my stepmother wasn't watching the crowd.
00:04:51She saw it.
00:04:52The moment our fingers touched, the deathly cold left his face.
00:04:56Her eyes narrowed.
00:04:57This maid is hiding something.
00:05:03He turned the humiliation into devotion, shielding me again.
00:05:08But her eyes crawled toward my hidden wrist.
00:05:11His love kept saving me, and dragging me closer.
00:05:14Closer 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.
00:05:34Our 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?
00:05:49I wasn't just the queen, he claimed.
00:05:51I was tied to something inside him.
00:05:54Some curse.
00:05:55Then 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.
00:06:11Then footsteps echoed down the corridor.
00:06:14Someone was coming.
00:06:19My stepmother appeared at the corridor's mouth, eyes sweeping for secrets.
00:06:25He 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.
00:06:39But he stayed cold as stone, furious.
00:06:42My 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.
00:06:56The 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.
00:07:09My stepmother walked closer, her eyes crawling toward my wrist.
00:07:13She wanted to know what made me so different.
00:07:21She reached for my wrist, but he stepped between us, freezing her hand mid-air.
00:07:26He 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.
00:07:41She burned with hate.
00:07:42And my stepmother, smiling coldly, was already planning her next move against me.
00:07:53Serena 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.
00:08:02I already knew the result.
00:08:07She copied the move flawlessly, but he stayed shut, cold as stone.
00:08:12She 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.
00:08:26But 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.
00:08:42Then my stepmother, furious, found a crueler punishment.
00:08:46Tomorrow 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.
00:09:09Serena wore the queen's gown and made me kneel, holding her train.
00:09:13A maid isn't fit to even look at it, she sneered.
00:09:17Then the door opened, and he walked in.
00:09:23He walked past her, stripped the queen's gown from Serena, and turned to me.
00:09:29He 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.
00:09:44I couldn't breathe.
00:09:45The man who woke for me now dressed me like a queen, before her burning eyes.
00:09:54Footsteps approached, my stepmother's voice drew near.
00:09:58I panicked, pushing him away, but he wouldn't let go.
00:10:01Then the door handle turned.
00:10:03Someone was about to walk in.
00:10:09He pulled me into the shadows behind the mirror as the door swung open.
00:10:14I pressed against his chest, holding my breath.
00:10:17And 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.
00:10:31He didn't move.
00:10:32Then she gestured for me, the maid, certain I would fail.
00:10:39I bowed to perform the rite, but he opened his eyes and reached out his hand for me.
00:10:45Only she lifts me, his look declared.
00:10:48Our fingers touched.
00:10:50The hall gasped again.
00:10:54He turned the test into devotion again, shielding me before everyone.
00:10:59Serena trembled with rage, but my stepmother wasn't watching the king.
00:11:04She was staring at my exposed wrist.
00:11:10The golden mark on my wrist glowed faintly.
00:11:14My stepmother's pupils shrank.
00:11:16Roll up your sleeve, she demanded.
00:11:18My blood ran cold.
00:11:20She was one breath from my secret.
00:11:26He 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.
00:11:46I'm only a maid.
00:11:47The crown belongs to Serena.
00:11:49Then I pushed him away.
00:11:51To survive.
00:11:56For 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.
00:12:11I fought to pull free, but he held tight.
00:12:14I fought to pull free, but he held tight.
00:12:14We struggled before the whole court.
00:12:16Then, under his grip, the golden mark on my wrist suddenly blazed for all to see.
00:12:26The royal mark blazed gold for everyone.
00:12:30My stepmother's pupils shrank in horror.
00:12:32She recognized it.
00:12:3420 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.
00:12:49He 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.
00:13:04Then Serena pointed at me, screaming I dared to spy on royal blood.
00:13:13I said nothing, just held my breath.
00:13:16Then he came striding over, shielding me with his shoulder, whispering, don't be afraid.
00:13:22She 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.
00:13:43I 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.
00:14:19The same intricate mark as the one I'd hidden for 20 years.
00:14:23My hand pressed my chest, trembling.
00:14:28He came closer, crouched beside me, and whispered,
00:14:32Let me see the pendant.
00:14:34My blood ran cold.
00:14:35I clutched my chest and backed away.
00:14:37He already knew, I could feel it.
00:14:44I backed against a pillar, my mind racing.
00:14:47He 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?
00:14:59My 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.
00:15:36You carry her scent.
00:15:38The queen from a hundred years ago.
00:15:40I couldn't move.
00:15:45He touched my pendant.
00:15:47This is her relic, and it recognizes you.
00:15:50Suddenly I understood.
00:15:51He woke only for me because of this blood.
00:15:54He leaned his forehead to mine.
00:16:00He kissed my brow, gentle and reverent.
00:16:03Tears blurred my eyes.
00:16:05For 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.
00:16:21His face darkened.
00:16:22Then a lantern's light flickered down the corridor.
00:16:26Someone 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.
00:17:02He 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.
00:17:12The hall froze.
00:17:17He held me close, his hand calming mine.
00:17:20But my stepmother smiled coldly and pressed.
00:17:24You gave it.
00:17:24Then dare you vouch for this maid's origins, with your own mouth?
00:17:31He opened his mouth to vouch, but I gripped his arm, begging him with my eyes, don't.
00:17:38Then she cut in first, declaring she'd investigate my origins, starting today.
00:17:46She announced it before everyone.
00:17:49At the family banquet, she'd dig out exactly where this maid came from.
00:17:54He shielded me, but the clock had started ticking toward my exposure.
00:18:03She announced it formally.
00:18:05Investigate this maid's origins, and keep her away from the king until proven.
00:18:10A death sentence dressed as an inquiry.
00:18:13He 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.
00:18:24He paused.
00:18:25Rare for him.
00:18:27The whole hall held its breath.
00:18:29I gripped his arm.
00:18:33I begged him with my eyes, don't.
00:18:36But he looked at me, certain, and spoke before everyone.
00:18:40I vouch.
00:18:41My blood froze.
00:18:42And my stepmother smiled.
00:18:44She'd been waiting for this.
00:18:48She cut him off, smiling colder.
00:18:51Then at the family banquet, before all of us, we'll uncover exactly where this maid came from.
00:18:57My deadliest trap had a date now.
00:19:03She'd set the trap.
00:19:04Certain she controlled everything.
00:19:06He 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
00:19:27to 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?
00:19:53She snapped.
00:19:54He didn't answer her.
00:19:55He only looked at me, gentle and certain, and asked, where do you want to sit?
00:20:05My eyes flicked to the queen's seat beside the throne, then, darted away.
00:20:09Sitting there meant more danger, more exposure, but he gestured to it, telling me, that's yours.
00:20:19I drew a breath, the terror in me hardening into resolve.
00:20:23He held my hand, silently supporting me.
00:20:26Sit, or retreat.
00:20:27Every eye waited.
00:20:29And I stopped being afraid to choose.
00:20:35Why does only you, a maid, get close to him?
00:20:39You seduced him, she pressed.
00:20:41I lifted my eyes, calm, and turned the rule on her.
00:20:45Let Serena wake him before everyone.
00:20:51Cornered, Serena bowed and performed the right on him perfectly.
00:20:54But he stayed shut, cold as stone.
00:20:57She tried again and again, panicking.
00:20:59The whole table watched her fail.
00:21:06I said it lightly.
00:21:08Credit can be awarded.
00:21:09But who he recognizes, you can't reward.
00:21:12The table understood.
00:21:13Serena went white.
00:21:15I'd taken back, I'd taken back the glory they stole from me.
00:21:21Humiliated, she slammed the table and ordered me out.
00:21:25I 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.
00:21:39She stood, trembling with disbelief.
00:21:42Then he turned to me, gentle and certain.
00:21:45The throne seat was about to change hands.
00:21:53She ordered me out, but he walked to the queen's seat where Serena sat, gestured for her to rise,
00:22:00then took my hand and led me toward it.
00:22:03Every eye locked on me.
00:22:07He seated me in the queen's chair himself, turned to the family, and declared,
00:22:13This seat is only for her.
00:22:15Then he bent to serve me food.
00:22:17The hall erupted.
00:22:23Serena broke down, screaming why.
00:22:26He 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, smiling coldly past her crying daughter,
00:22:43and ordered,
00:22:44Dig out this maid's adoption records from 20 years ago.
00:22:47My blood ran cold.
00:22:51She declared she'd investigate everything.
00:22:54He shielded me, silently at war.
00:22:57But behind my terror, a spark lit again.
00:23:00The adoption record was about to be opened.
00:23:02So would my secret.
00:23:08She spread the record and sneered.
00:23:1120 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.
00:23:27He followed, pressed me to the wall, took my shaking hand, and whispered.
00:23:31No matter where you came from, I claim you.
00:23:34My heart shook.
00:23:39He 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.
00:23:54He wiped my tear, forehead against mine, his silence promising to protect me.
00:23:59Then, outside the door, my stepmother muttered,
00:24:02This record is wrong.
00:24:04Who altered the intake?
00:24:08The intake record had been altered.
00:24:10For the first time, she looked afraid.
00:24:13And 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 before everyone to brand me nameless for good.
00:24:32The 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.
00:24:55Her 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.
00:25:10She slammed the record shut, masking her panic and announced,
00:25:14This entry is suspicious.
00:25:16Seal the archive vault.
00:25:17I'll investigate the old accounts myself.
00:25:20She was hiding something, badly.
00:25:25She gripped the altered record and hurried off, faster than ever.
00:25:29For the first time, dread overcame her cruelty.
00:25:33Twenty years, she'd buried it.
00:25:35Now I was digging it up.
00:25:41She crowned Serena first air and threw me into archive duty to crush my hopes, but I played along.
00:25:49This was my chance to find that altered intake record myself.
00:25:56I searched fast, closing in on the record.
00:25:59Just as I reached the altered page, the door burst open.
00:26:03She stormed in, snatched the file, and accused me of stealing royal archives.
00:26:11I didn't argue, but her panic told me everything.
00:26:15This archive hid what she desperately wanted buried.
00:26:18The harder she sealed it, the harder she sealed it, the more certain I became.
00:26:22The 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.
00:26:41I tucked that yellowed edge deeper into the bundle, my heart pounding.
00:26:46She'd sealed the vault, but missed this.
00:26:50Hidden 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, a royal family tree.
00:27:12One branch had been brutally inked out, yet beneath the smear, the strokes revealed a true royal line, deliberately erased.
00:27:21I froze.
00:27:22My hand flew to the pendant on my chest.
00:27:28The king appeared at the door.
00:27:31Serena moved to report me, but he stepped between us.
00:27:34Shielding me, and whispered,
00:27:36I'm here.
00:27:37I clutched the deadly page out of sight.
00:27:42He sensed I'd found something.
00:27:45Hidden 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.
00:27:58Footsteps rushed closer.
00:27:59He shielded me.
00:28:00I pressed the page hidden in my sleeve.
00:28:03The proof that a true royal line was erased 20 years ago, and I might be that blood.
00:28:14Alone 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.
00:28:32He 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.
00:28:51She'll kill me.
00:28:52The closer you come, the harder you push me toward death.
00:28:59You're sending me away, his eyes demanded, full of pain.
00:29:04I turned my face, refusing to answer.
00:29:07I had to push him far, to protect us both.
00:29:10Then I rose to flee.
00:29:13I walked toward the door, tears falling, refusing to look back.
00:29:18His hand reached out to stop me, then froze.
00:29:21Loving him would kill him.
00:29:23So I tore myself away.
00:29:30To 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.
00:29:40I 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.
00:29:51He charged forward, seized my wrist, demanding, what am I to you?
00:30:00He held my wrist, demanding answers.
00:30:03I bit back my tears, keeping the mask.
00:30:06Just a maid.
00:30:07He thought I'd betrayed him, but every cold word was tearing me apart.
00:30:15I forced back my tears and flung off his hand.
00:30:18I'm only a maid.
00:30:20I clung enough.
00:30:21Then I turned and walked away.
00:30:23He froze, his fist closing on empty air.
00:30:29I walked out, tears falling unseen, never looking back.
00:30:34He 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, I just want to be a maid again, nothing more
00:30:52between us.
00:30:54Then 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.
00:31:12He refused to let me go.
00:31:16We struggled, push and pull at its peak.
00:31:20My hand brushed his chest, and the pendant and the wrist mark blazed gold at once, for
00:31:25everyone to see.
00:31:27My deadliest secret, exposed.
00:31:31The pendant and the mark blazed together.
00:31:34My stepmother shot up, pupils shrinking.
00:31:37She recognized them both.
00:31:38The pendant, the mark I see now.
00:31:41Her 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.
00:31:53She'd locked onto the truth at last.
00:31:55The hunt for my blood had begun.
00:32:03She threw a grand engagement, crowning Serena the destined queen, and ordered me out of the
00:32:09palace today.
00:32:10Serena, wearing the crown, sneered.
00:32:13Leave now, while you still can.
00:32:18The officiant called for his vow.
00:32:21But he stood silent.
00:32:22His eyes passing over Serena, straight to me at the door.
00:32:26Everyone could see it.
00:32:27His heart wasn't with her.
00:32:33He 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
00:32:43head.
00:32:48He gripped the crown.
00:32:49This is on the wrong head.
00:32:51Serena went white.
00:32:52The destined queen denied before all.
00:32:55The 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.
00:33:07To me, he was destroying this engagement, for me.
00:33:11My eyes burned.
00:33:13What was he doing?
00:33:19He lifted the crown from Serena, and to gasps from all, walked past the entire hall, straight
00:33:25to me at the door.
00:33:27He stopped before me and declared, the one I want is her.
00:33:35He strode back, seized the engagement contract, and tore it to shreds before everyone.
00:33:41Paper rained down.
00:33:42Serena broke.
00:33:43Then he turned to me, reaching out his hand.
00:33:50I 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.
00:34:00Now 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.
00:34:50Behind the curtain, my sleeve brushed his, and a stack of papers spilled out.
00:34:56Investigation records on the maid's origins.
00:34:58Each one quietly buried by him.
00:35:01He'd been shielding me all along.
00:35:05This devotion was his cover, shielding me from every search.
00:35:10I touched his hand.
00:35:11I see.
00:35:12Wrong.
00:35:13His 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.
00:35:22He just closed his eyes, admitting everything.
00:35:25He'd known I was the true blood all along, and shielded me with his devotion, and his own fading life.
00:35:36I clutched the records, demanding the truth through tears.
00:35:39He held my hand about to speak the secret he'd buried for so long.
00:35:43Something terrible hid behind his fading face.
00:35:52He confessed.
00:35:53From the moment I caught the queen's scent on you, I knew you were the erased blood.
00:35:58The devotion was all a shield.
00:36:00Then he said something far worse.
00:36:07Every time I come near you, he whispered, I lose a year of the life my hundred year sleep bought.
00:36:13My blood froze, his paleness, all for me, and he said, it's worth it.
00:36:22I broke down in his arms.
00:36:24His fading was all for me.
00:36:26Then we can never be close again.
00:36:28I sobbed.
00:36:29Every time I accept your love, I'm killing you, and I shoved him away.
00:36:37He staggered, his pale face weakening, his steps unsteady.
00:36:41Yet he ignored his own body, lunging after me, seizing my wrist.
00:36:46He'd rather lose his life than let me go.
00:36:51He clutched my wrist, weak yet burning, choosing me over his own life.
00:36:57I wanted to push him away to save him, but feared he'd collapse.
00:37:01Loving him was killing him.
00:37:09To stop him from fading for me, I blamed myself before all.
00:37:13I clung to him.
00:37:14I schemed for power.
00:37:16Let him go.
00:37:17I'd smear myself to save his life.
00:37:23He pulled me into his arms before everyone and declared aloud, she didn't cling to me.
00:37:29I 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.
00:37:42But as we touched, his face visibly faded another shade, and the mark on my chest blazed gold.
00:37:52The mark blazed against his deepening pallor.
00:37:55He didn't care how much that kiss cost him.
00:37:58My stepmother locked onto the glow, her face hardening into a cold certain smile.
00:38:07She clapped slowly, smiling cold.
00:38:10Then at the coronation, I'll verify the bloodline before all, and purge every imposter.
00:38:17Is this maid true blood, or a filthy fraud?
00:38:20The death trap was set.
00:38:24To stop him fading, I turned cold, dodging him, declaring I'd keep my distance.
00:38:30My stepmother spread rumors he'd discarded me.
00:38:33Serena sneered.
00:38:34I swallowed the pain and said nothing.
00:38:39I kept my back to him, faking indifference.
00:38:42But behind the mask, my eyes burned red.
00:38:45My fingers shook.
00:38:47He watched from afar, and the doubt grew.
00:38:49This wasn't true coldness.
00:38:54Serena strode up, mocking me as the discarded, clinging maid.
00:38:59I bore it in silence.
00:39:01From afar, the king watched.
00:39:03Saw my trembling fingers behind the calm.
00:39:06She's lying to me.
00:39:10I turned to leave, faking indifference.
00:39:13My fingers shaking.
00:39:14He watched me go.
00:39:16The doubt hardening into certainty.
00:39:18He'd seen through my act.
00:39:20My coldness hid a secret.
00:39:23She stood alone in the mist, faking strength.
00:39:27Fingers trembling.
00:39:28From afar, his gaze sank, certain at last.
00:39:32He'd seen through it all.
00:39:34She's lying, to protect me.
00:39:36And he wouldn't allow it.
00:39:40She placed Serena to serve him closely, replacing me.
00:39:45See?
00:39:46Serena gloated.
00:39:47The maid's been swapped out, but he stayed ice cold to her.
00:39:51His eyes following only me in the corner.
00:39:55He ignored Serena, rose, and walked straight to me.
00:40:00I dodged again, faking cold.
00:40:02The more I fled, the more certain he became.
00:40:05My indifference was an act, hiding something.
00:40:11He cornered me against a pillar, his sharp eyes reading my trembling fingers.
00:40:16Then, hidden from view, he gently caught the wrist I kept pulling away.
00:40:21I couldn't escape his gaze.
00:40:26He leaned to my ear, hidden from all, and asked softly,
00:40:30You dodge me because every touch costs me a year of life, don't you?
00:40:35I shook all over.
00:40:37He'd seen everything.
00:40:41He'd named my hidden secret.
00:40:43I shook, tears welling, with nowhere to hide.
00:40:46He'd seen it all.
00:40:47My act, my sacrifice.
00:40:49The truth I'd buried could be hidden no longer.
00:40:56At midnight, he waited at my door, cutting off my escape.
00:41:01You fake coldness and dodge me.
00:41:04All so I won't lose my life, don't you?
00:41:07I turned my face away, denying it.
00:41:12You think faking coldness makes me believe you don't love me?
00:41:16He said, shattering my mask.
00:41:18My tears burst free.
00:41:20Don't come near me again.
00:41:22I sobbed, pushing him away.
00:41:27I shoved him, weakening.
00:41:29He stood still, gazing at me, gentle and unyielding.
00:41:33My love laid bare, his too.
00:41:36He wiped my tears.
00:41:38I still shook my head, pushing him.
00:41:42I pushed with my last strength, but he pulled me into his arms, refusing to let go.
00:41:48So I lose years, he rasped.
00:41:50Then let those years be all yours.
00:41:53I broke completely.
00:41:56I stopped pushing and held him back, our hearts finally bare.
00:42:01He rested his chin on my hair, cherishing it.
00:42:04Then, down the corridor, my stepmother's footsteps quietly stopped.
00:42:13She forced me to sign the exile papers, sealing my disgrace.
00:42:17With Serena already crowned and waiting, I raised the pen to sign.
00:42:21Then he stormed in.
00:42:29He snatched the exile papers and tore them apart before everyone.
00:42:33Then he took my hand, pulling me from the door of disgrace, straight to the side of the throne.
00:42:43He stood me beside the throne and declared to all, she is my only queen.
00:42:48Anyone who calls her discarded is my enemy.
00:42:51My eyes burned.
00:42:53He'd claimed me, openly, forever.
00:42:58He kissed my brow and turned to her, who is queen, the coronation will decide.
00:43:04Her face was stone.
00:43:06Then she smiled coldly.
00:43:07Then at the coronation, she said, we'll verify the blood.
00:43:13She declared the coronation would verify the blood, wrapping murder in sacred ritual.
00:43:18He shielded me, silently at war, yet his frame, wavered.
00:43:23He claimed me, and pushed us onto the killing stage.
00:43:30Humiliated, she played her final card, summoning the household.
00:43:34The coronation will verify every blood near the king, and purge all who falsely claim the queen's seat.
00:43:41The trap was sacred now.
00:43:45Once they verify the true blood, she can kill me as an imposter.
00:43:50Time was running out.
00:43:51I turned to him, paler than ever from claiming me, his hand trembling on the throne.
00:43:59Tears in my eyes, I gripped his icy, trembling hand.
00:44:04He'd faded for me, and I couldn't protect him.
00:44:06Then my fear hardened into resolve.
00:44:09This coronation, I will not lose.
00:44:14He froze, then held my hand back, his eyes full of trust.
00:44:19For the first time, he saw my strength.
00:44:23The maid crushed for twenty years would win this herself.
00:44:29She sealed the coronation decree, the death date set.
00:44:33I gripped his fading hand, my resolve blazing.
00:44:36This inevitable trap, I would overturn it myself, and win back everything that was mine.
00:44:46She draped Serena in forged inheritance rights, enthroned her, and let the court bow.
00:44:52Me, she branded a suspect maid, kneeling outside.
00:44:56You can't even enter, Serena sneered.
00:45:01He broke from the bowing line, came outside, and lifted me from my knees, whispering,
00:45:07Hold on a little longer.
00:45:08Then, his cold eyes swept to Serena on the throne seat.
00:45:15She announced the rule, at the coronation, whoever the relic recognizes is the true queen.
00:45:22Serena raised it, gloating.
00:45:24But as I stared at the relic, my pupils shrank.
00:45:27Something was wrong.
00:45:30The relic's mark was off, a fake.
00:45:33My hand drifted to my chest, where my pendant hid.
00:45:37Serena 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.
00:45:50But Serena held a fake.
00:45:52The true one, was on me.
00:45:54The day they verify the relic, that's when I overturn everything.
00:46:01She announced it.
00:46:03The relic chooses the heaven-blessed queen.
00:46:06Serena practiced with it.
00:46:07But I saw every flaw in its mark.
00:46:10A forgery.
00:46:12The 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.
00:46:24The verification day is when I win.
00:46:27But 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.
00:46:38But it never did.
00:46:39It was on me.
00:46:40That meant another buried secret.
00:46:42I had to find it.
00:46:48The secret of the unvaulted relic might lie in the long-sealed cellar.
00:46:53The 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, clutching the true relic.
00:47:07The secret she buried, why the forgery, why it never reached the vault, was waiting down there in the dark.
00:47:19I slipped into the sealed cellar, the old delivery room.
00:47:23Among the dust, the record revealed it.
00:47:25The true relic never entered the vault.
00:47:27It was thrown out with a baby, with me.
00:47:33I matched my pendant to the record, identical.
00:47:37The true relic never left me, not since birth.
00:47:40The king found me there, kneeling beside me, seeing the same earth-shattering proof.
00:47:49We both understood.
00:47:51When the true relic claims me at the coronation, that's our revenge.
00:47:55He pulled me close and kissed my brow, sharing the secret that would topple everything.
00:48:03As we shared the secret, lights flared outside the cellar door.
00:48:08I knew this maid would come here, came my stepmother's cold voice.
00:48:12My tracks had led her straight to me.
00:48:19The searchlights closed in.
00:48:21He shielded me, weak yet unyielding.
00:48:24I clutched the relic and the proof.
00:48:27The truth that would topple her.
00:48:29We were trapped, deep in the cellar.
00:48:34Terrified of the truth we found, she struck early, demanding my pendant be seized by force,
00:48:40and declared she'd execute me at the coronation as a fraud.
00:48:45Servants lunged for it.
00:48:46I clutched it, refusing to let go.
00:48:50He charged in, threw off the servants, and stood between us.
00:48:54Her pendant is my gift, he declared.
00:48:57To execute her, first strip my throne.
00:49:00The whole court froze in shock.
00:49:05He shielded me, ready to give up his throne.
00:49:08My eyes burned.
00:49:10He'd turned the cost entirely onto himself.
00:49:13I'd never let him sacrifice for me.
00:49:16But her eyes flashed cruel.
00:49:21Enraged, she swept the hall and sneered.
00:49:23The king won't even keep his throne for a maid?
00:49:26Then her cruelty deepened.
00:49:28At the coronation, it won't be only her we verify.
00:49:34She declared she'd execute the king too.
00:49:38Her cruelty boundless.
00:49:40Behind him, I clutched the true relic.
00:49:42My terror burned into resolve.
00:49:45I'd never let him die for me.
00:49:47Never.
00:49:51She turned on the king.
00:49:53The coronation will judge if this fool, bewitched by a maid, still deserves the throne.
00:49:58He declared aloud, I'd rather be a fool king.
00:50:01I claim her.
00:50:06He pulled me into his arms before the whole court and kissed me, ignoring every eye.
00:50:12As we touched, his face faded another shade.
00:50:15He was paying for this kiss with his life.
00:50:21As we touched, my pendant and wrist mark blazed gold at once, before everyone.
00:50:27He didn't care how much that kiss cost.
00:50:30My stepmother locked onto the glow, her face cold and certain.
00:50:36She locked onto the glow and his fading face and decreed,
00:50:40At the coronation, I'll execute you both, a fraud maid and a fool king.
00:50:45Then she sealed the death warrant.
00:50:51She sealed the death warrant for us both.
00:50:54He shielded me, certain yet fading.
00:50:56I clutched the true relic.
00:50:58Her fake can't claim the throne.
00:51:00The coronation is when I strike back.
00:51:06She set the trap.
00:51:08The coronation is a trial.
00:51:10Any false queen dies on the spot.
00:51:14My place of judgment stood at the very center.
00:51:17Serena sneered.
00:51:19That's where you'll be tried.
00:51:22Serena circled my place of judgment, mocking me.
00:51:26The king stormed in, lifted me from the center, and vowed close to me,
00:51:31I'll protect you to the end, even at the cost of my life.
00:51:38He'd risk his life for me, the fear of that crushed me.
00:51:41Later, alone in the dark hall, he sent everyone away,
00:51:45turned to me, and prepared to speak a terrible decision.
00:51:53In the dimming hall, he took my hand and spoke a decision that froze my blood.
00:51:58At the coronation, I'll spend every last year of my life,
00:52:02to break this trap for you.
00:52:07He said it calmly.
00:52:09He'd burn out his entire life to win for me.
00:52:12I froze, blood cold, tears welling, but I'd been crushed 20 years.
00:52:18If I win, I win it myself.
00:52:24In his chamber, he confessed the plan.
00:52:27Burn his hundred-year life to break the trap and crown me, even if it kills him.
00:52:32I shook, then said it firmly, no.
00:52:39I've been crushed 20 years, I said through tears.
00:52:43If I win, I win it back myself.
00:52:45For the first time, I firmly refused his sacrifice.
00:52:49He wanted to burn out.
00:52:53He pulled me into his arms, moved by my resolve.
00:52:57We held each other, both in tears.
00:53:00He couldn't bear to let me fight alone.
00:53:02I couldn't bear to let him burn out.
00:53:09Forehead to forehead, I told him.
00:53:11You only need to live, and watch me win.
00:53:14He froze, then truly saw my strength for the first time.
00:53:19The girl crushed for 20 years, unbroken.
00:53:23He saw my strength at last, and nodded, letting me win.
00:53:28This time, I'd overturn it all by my own will, and he'd only need to live.
00:53:33The true relic was my final card.
00:53:41She threatened, the relic and blood alone decide, and that maid dies if she dares appear.
00:53:47So I chose, I'd appear, and reveal the relic hidden for 20 years myself.
00:53:55I pressed his hand still, save your life to be crowned with me.
00:54:00Forehead to his, I vowed word by word.
00:54:03This time, watch me win.
00:54:06I'd lead, he'd stand beside me.
00:54:10We sealed the vow, forehead to forehead.
00:54:13I'd lead, he'd stand with me.
00:54:16He held my hand over the relic, trusting.
00:54:19Then a commotion erupted outside.
00:54:21She'd struck early.
00:54:24She'd struck early, raising my last identity paper and tearing it apart.
00:54:29This person no longer exists in this palace.
00:54:33At the coronation, she'll be executed outright.
00:54:36Her cruelty only steeled me.
00:54:40She decreed my execution at the coronation.
00:54:43I stared at my torn identity, then clutched the true relic, resolve blazing.
00:54:48She erased me, but the coronation is when I rise.
00:54:56Sensing I'd appear, she tore my last identity paper and decreed.
00:55:01Whoever this woman is, she dies on sight.
00:55:05Everyone expected me to break.
00:55:07Instead, I lifted my head.
00:55:11I declared it aloud.
00:55:13Then I'll stand at the center and let the whole court see who I am.
00:55:17I walked toward the place of judgment myself.
00:55:21No more hiding.
00:55:22No more enduring.
00:55:26I stood at the center of judgment, casting off twenty years of hiding.
00:55:31I clutched the relic, my final card.
00:55:34The king watched, trusting beside me.
00:55:37Her cold certainty turned to dread.
00:55:42Unnerved by my calm, she decreed.
00:55:45If the relic won't recognize her, execute her as a fraud.
00:55:49Along with that fool king, I met her cold decree, and I smiled.
00:55:56I smiled at her death decree, fearless.
00:55:59She froze, dread crossing her cold face.
00:56:03She couldn't read where my confidence came from.
00:56:05The relic was my card.
00:56:08The harsher her decree, the surer my strike.
00:56:13Under a thousand candles, I walked to the center of judgment.
00:56:17Every eye and every bed upon me.
00:56:20Serena waited with the forged relic.
00:56:22He stayed at my side, fading yet unmoving.
00:56:28Serena clutched her fake, certain, but the true relic was on me.
00:56:32He stood beside me, fading yet unyielding.
00:56:35I'd win it myself.
00:56:37He'd stay to the end.
00:56:39We stood as one.
00:56:43We stood as one.
00:56:45My lead and his vow sealed.
00:56:47From the high dais she looked down and decreed.
00:56:50Tomorrow she wears the crown.
00:56:53Or she's reduced to nothing.
00:56:55Then she sealed it.
00:56:58The candles dimmed at once, the hall sinking into shadow.
00:57:02I gripped the true relic, my resolve blazing brighter in the dark.
00:57:07The crown or nothing.
00:57:08And I would not lose.
00:57:12In the dark, I looked toward the throne seat, gripping the relic.
00:57:16And it glowed faintly.
00:57:18It recognizes the true blood.
00:57:20Tomorrow.
00:57:21Crown.
00:57:22Or death.
00:57:22He stood with me.
00:57:24And dawn was coming.
00:57:30Serena took the throne.
00:57:31The crown nearly on her head.
00:57:33She decreed my execution.
00:57:35The headsman advanced.
00:57:37Then, as the crown touched Serena, the relic in her hands violently shook.
00:57:44The crown touched her, and the relic refused, tearing from her grasp.
00:57:49Rising, floating past everyone, straight to me.
00:57:53The tea-carrying maid at the center.
00:57:55It glowed for me.
00:57:59The relic glowed before me.
00:58:01Everyone who'd called me an unworthy maid watched it recognize the tea girl.
00:58:07Witchcraft, she shrieked, snatching the death warrant.
00:58:10But I slowly raised my hand.
00:58:15No matter who it chose, this maid must die today, she shrieked, seizing the warrant.
00:58:20But I raised the pendant hidden against me for 20 years, identical to the floating relic.
00:58:29My pendant and the floating relic resonated, blazing with the same sacred light.
00:58:34Serena's fake died to scrap.
00:58:37The maid crushed for 20 years was about to prove her royal blood.
00:58:46The relic fell to me, resonating with my pendant in the same sacred light.
00:58:51Serena's fake died to scrap.
00:58:53She cried witchcraft, but I walked to the throne, throwing down the proof.
00:59:01The true relic never entered the vault, I declared, because it was always on me.
00:59:07I faced her, word by word.
00:59:09I'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, white as death.
00:59:21But I didn't stop.
00:59:22I turned to them all.
00:59:24I'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, ready to unveil the secret buried here 20 years ago.
00:59:39Every past humiliation was striking back now.
00:59:45I raised every proof, from the cellar, the archives, the relic.
00:59:50The maid crushed for 20 years, now held all the power.
00:59:54They would all see what happened here.
00:59:56The reckoning began.
01:00:01I unveiled the buried truth.
01:00:0320 years ago she erased the true royal line, reduced the surviving heir to a maid, and forged Serena's claim.
01:00:11I threw down proof after proof, all pointing at her.
01:00:16I threw down proof after proof.
01:00:19Serena began to shake, realizing her destined queen pride was all her mother's lie.
01:00:25She too upon.
01:00:26She broke down before everyone, a victim herself.
01:00:31Proof upon proof, she had no defense, her entire scheme collapsing.
01:00:37The more she'd erased and forged, the more completely she was exposed.
01:00:41Every humiliation I'd suffered struck back at once.
01:00:47She crumpled to the floor, screaming impossible.
01:00:50Her 20-year empire shattered.
01:00:53Then the king, fading at my side, slowly rose and reached out to me, holding the true queen's crown.
01:01:02Fading, he rose and reached out, holding the true queen's crown in his pale hand.
01:01:07He'd stayed to the end, burning out, to crown me, the true blood, with his own hands.
01:01:19The truth out, he carried the true crown past the whole court, just as he'd walked past a hundred brides
01:01:25to me on the day he woke, and placed it on my head.
01:01:33The queen.
01:01:35I waited a hundred years for, has only ever been her, he declared.
01:01:40The instant the true blood claimed it, his century-old curse shattered, his pale face flushing back to life.
01:01:48The true blood restored, didn't drain his life.
01:01:51It broke his curse.
01:01:53He flushed back to life.
01:01:55Our impossible love, finally free.
01:01:57He pulled me close and kissed me.
01:01:59The hall bowed.
01:02:03The crown on my head.
01:02:05The hall hailing me queen.
01:02:06I rose from his arms.
01:02:08My eyes swept to her, collapsed, and Serena, broken.
01:02:12This reckoning wasn't over.
01:02:14Now, I would pass judgment.
01:02:18Crowned, standing at the center, I looked down at her and Serena, and began to pass judgment.
01:02:24The tea-carrying maid, crushed for twenty years, now held all the power.
01:02:30This time, I decided.
01:02:35Crowned, I 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, and placed Serena, a victim who'd finally woken.
01:02:49I took back everything they'd stolen.
01:02:52My name, my dignity, my royal seat.
01:02:55Standing above all who'd shamed me, I turned to him, healed and whole, and reached out my hand myself.
01:03:05This time, not him claiming me, not him winning for me.
01:03:09I chose this throne, and I chose him, by my own will.
01:03:13He took my hand.
01:03:14You're a hundred years late.
01:03:20He led me up the steps, and we sat upon the throne side by side, as equals.
01:03:25I turned to him, smiling, but this time, I walked here myself.
01:03:30He bent and kissed me.
01:03:34We sat side by side on the throne, fingers laced, the curse gone, the court bowing low.
01:03:41The maid they crushed became the queen who walked here herself, a hundred years late, but home.
01:03:48glowed me,
01:03:49And it is true to me.
01:03:50We stand before.
01:03:50Why don't you.
01:03:50I hope.
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