After years of searching for where she truly belongs, a young woman finally discovers the identity of her biological family. But the truth is far more devastating than she imagined. As greed, betrayal, and long-buried secrets come to light, the family that should have protected her becomes the source of her greatest pain. Determined to reclaim her life, she rises stronger than ever. Watch My Real Family Burned It All Down After I Learned the Truth, an emotional drama filled with family conflict, revenge, redemption, and shocking twists.
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00:00The night before I was supposed to marry Alexander Reynolds, two thugs dragged me into an alley.
00:06When I was found, both of my legs were broken.
00:10I was covered in blood, and I had lost the ability to ever have children.
00:15Photos from that night were plastered all over the city.
00:19Alexander looked at those photos and broke off our engagement that same day.
00:24Then he got together with the fake heiress, Emily Walker.
00:28My parents, convinced I was a disgrace, threw me out.
00:31The school where I worked fired me, claiming I had become a bad influence.
00:36Everyone despised me.
00:37In utter despair, I went to the rooftop of the tallest building I could find.
00:42Just as I was about to step off, my childhood friend Matthew Harrison appeared out of nowhere and pulled me
00:48back from the edge.
00:49He proposed to me.
00:50He swore he would believe me, love me, and cherish me for the rest of my life.
00:54He promised he would hire the best doctors in the world to heal me.
00:57But on the day I finally became pregnant with our child, after years of grueling treatments, I overheard him talking
01:04to my brother.
01:05My brother, Christopher, said...
01:08Matthew, I get why you had your guys ruin Scarlett's reputation back then.
01:13It was to clear the way for Emily and Alexander.
01:16I get it.
01:17But you didn't have to get involved yourself.
01:20You've done more than enough for Emily over the years.
01:22Now that you and Scarlett finally have a child on the way, why don't you just settle down and live
01:28a normal life with her?
01:29The Reynolds family has always looked down on Emily because she can't have children.
01:34If they find out Scarlett Miller got pregnant before her, they'll despise Emily even more.
01:40I will never allow Emily to be hurt because of Scarlett.
01:44I'm planning to stage a cheating scandal at Emily's birthday party tonight.
01:48And make sure Scarlett loses this baby.
01:51Once Scarlett is completely ruined and can no longer threaten Emily, I'll settle down and stay with her.
01:55Tonight, I need you to drug Scarlett's wine, just like last time.
01:59I stood outside the door and my heart didn't break.
02:02It turned to ash.
02:03So the brother I relied on most and the husband I trusted with my life, they were the ones who
02:08had sent me to hell.
02:10In that case, none of them deserved to live.
02:13That night, at Emily's party, I switched the glass laced with a potent animal estrus drug into Matthew's hand.
02:20That night, Emily's birthday bang
02:24Not because I was eager to celebrate, but because there was something I had to do.
02:28The ballroom was a sea of lights, flowers, and champagne.
02:32Emily wearing a custom pink gown was the center of it all, smiling like a prize rose.
02:36I watched her from a dark corner, thinking that once, not so long ago, I was the one they had
02:40all adored.
02:41How long ago had that been?
02:42When I was first brought back to the Walker family, I'd had a brief taste of happiness.
02:45My mother hugged me and cried.
02:46My father stroked my hair and said, we finally found you.
02:48My brother took my hand and showed me to my new room.
02:50But after Emily appeared, all that warmth melted away like snow in a thaw.
02:53I didn't bother making small talk.
02:55No one wanted to talk to me anyway.
02:56I went straight to the bar.
02:58Behind the bar was a server I had paid in advance.
03:00He gave me a subtle nod and pushed a glass towards me.
03:03Ma'am, Mr. Harrison had this prepared for you.
03:05I picked up the glass and sniffed it.
03:06Odorless.
03:07But I knew exactly what was in it.
03:08A drug designed for breeding livestock.
03:10Something that would make a woman lose her mind and throw herself at the nearest man.
03:13It was powerful.
03:14And the side effects were devastating.
03:15They wanted to use this glass of wine to humiliate me in front of everyone.
03:17Then have a strange man discover me in my room and ruin me completely.
03:20I poured the wine into a nearby vase.
03:22Then placed another drink back in its spot.
03:23That drink was just ordinary cherry juice.
03:25The drug I'd just poured out, it was already in Matthew's glass.
03:28When Matthew found me, he was holding two drinks.
03:30He handed one to me.
03:31Scarlet, don't worry.
03:32I already had them switch your drink to cherry juice.
03:34Come on, a tote.
03:35He looked at me with such deep affection.
03:37Every word crafted to sound like he was only thinking of me.
03:39If I hadn't heard that conversation this afternoon, I would have been moved to tears.
03:43I raised my glass and drank it all.
03:45Good?
03:46Delicious.
03:47He lifted his own glass and drained it.
03:49I saw the reliefs in his eyes.
03:50He thought his plan had worked.
03:52Matthew, I suddenly don't feel well.
03:53Why don't we go home?
03:54He glanced at Emily, who was still holding court in the center of the room, and smiled gently.
03:57Scarlet, your sister's party has only just begun.
03:59If we leave now, your parents will be furious.
04:01I'll take you upstairs to rest.
04:02When things are winding down, I'll come get you and we'll leave together, okay?
04:05Matthew, you'll really come get me?
04:06He lowered his head and kissed the corner of my mouth.
04:08Silly girl.
04:08If I don't come get you, who would I get?
04:10You're my wife.
04:11The one I love most in this world.
04:12Three years.
04:13He had whispered words like that to me for three years.
04:16And for three years, I had believed him.
04:18Okay, I'll wait for you.
04:19The drug began to take effect as soon as Matthew and I went upstairs.
04:23Except he hadn't drank cherry juice.
04:24He had drank the drug meant for me.
04:26By the time we entered the room, his hands had already started to tremble.
04:28He let go of my arm and braced himself against the wall, beads of sweat rolling down his forehead.
04:32His voice was becoming thick and ragged.
04:35I pretended to panic, reaching out to steady him.
04:37Matthew, what's wrong?
04:38Did you eat something bad?
04:39He shoved me away and staggered toward the bed, collapsing onto it.
04:41His face was flushed, a deep red.
04:43His breathing grew heavy, and his hands began tearing at his clothes.
04:46Matthew, you look terrible.
04:47I'll go get you some medicine.
04:48He grabbed my wrist, his grip so tight I thought the bones would snap.
04:52Don't go.
04:55Scarlet, don't go.
04:56I peeled his fingers off, one by one.
04:58I'll be right back.
05:24I didn't look back.
05:28Slipping out of the ballroom and into the shadows of the garden to wait.
05:31I waited for more than two hours.
05:34During those two hours, I thought about many things.
05:37I thought about that alley three years ago.
05:39I thought about the photos.
05:41I thought about my mother's face when she said, you don't deserve the walker name.
05:45And I thought about Matthew's tears as he held me on that rooftop.
05:48So those tears had been an act, too.
05:51I finally understood.
05:52In this world, no one loves you unconditionally.
05:55You can only rely on yourself.
05:56At last, I saw Emily leading a group of people out of the ballroom.
06:00Her eyes were red as she announced, with expertly feigned anxiety, that her pink diamond had gone missing.
06:05She asked everyone to help her look for it.
06:07My mother, Catherine, followed beside her, cooning to the guests.
06:10Even after losing something so precious, she's afraid of troubling everyone.
06:15A large group of people bustled upstairs.
06:17I watched from the shadows as they reached the room at the end of the hall.
06:20The sounds coming from under the door made several people blush.
06:23Whose room is this?
06:25Someone asked.
06:26Emily covered her mouth, her eyes wide with mock surprise.
06:29This seems to be my sister's room.
06:31But Matthew already left, didn't he?
06:34My mother's face darkened instantly.
06:35That shameless Scarlet!
06:37I knew she was a disgrace!
06:39It was bad enough she was sleeping around three years ago, but to do this at Emily's birthday party?
06:43I'll make sure she's ruined for good tonight!
06:46She kicked the door open.
06:47The lights flipped on.
06:49She froze.
06:50Everyone froze.
06:51On the bed were not me and some other man, but Matthew and two strangers.
06:56His legs were twisted at unnatural angles.
07:00His face was a mask of injuries.
07:02His body was covered in bruises and filth.
07:04He was unconscious.
07:06The scene was an exact mirror of me in that alley three years ago.
07:10Mr. Harrison, is that you?
07:12Someone cried out.
07:13And with men?
07:14My god, two of them?
07:15Where's Scarlet?
07:16Isn't this her room?
07:17My mother's face drained of all color.
07:20Her whole body trembled.
07:21She stood there, her mouth hanging open, unable to say a word.
07:24One of the guests was holding up her phone.
07:26The live stream had already been seen by hundreds of thousands of people.
07:30The live stream!
07:31Turn off the live stream!
07:32Emily screamed, but it was too late.
07:33I had already bought the trending carpet.
07:35The key word, Harrison Scandal Photos, shot to number one on Twitter within three minutes.
07:39At that moment, I finally smiled.
07:42Hundreds of thousands of people were witnessing Matthew's disgrace.
07:45I stepped out of the shadows and into the doorway.
07:50Her expression morphed from shock to pu-
07:55Not me.
07:56Do you really think you still have the right to hit me?
07:57You shameless whore!
07:59It's bad enough that you have to sleep around, but why drag your own husband into it?
08:02Look at what you've done to Matthew!
08:04I looked at her, and a bitter laugh almost escaped me.
08:07She had said the same thing three years ago.
08:09She had never once asked,
08:10Are you okay?
08:11She just sentenced me to death on the spot.
08:14Mom, you say I slept around?
08:16You say I caused this?
08:17If not you, then who?
08:19Then let me ask you.
08:20Three years ago, when I was left for dead in that alley,
08:23did you ever once ask me who did this to you?
08:26Did you ever look for the men who did it?
08:28No.
08:29The first thing you did was cut ties with me.
08:31You told the world I was a slut with a sex addiction.
08:34You didn't even investigate.
08:36You just destroyed me.
08:38Her mouth opened, but no words came out.
08:40Now that the same thing has happened to your precious son-in-law,
08:42you suddenly realize something is wrong?
08:44Scarlett!
08:45Don't call me Scarlett.
08:46As of tonight, I have severed all ties with the Walker family.
08:48I turned to the stunned crowd.
08:50Everyone, I am Matthew's wife, Scarlett Harrison.
08:53The Felice family will not let tonight's incident go unpunished.
08:56I ask all of you to be my witnesses.
08:58If I find out the Walker family was behind this,
09:00I will make every last one of them pay.
09:02My mother's face went completely white.
09:04Emily stood behind her, her lips trembling.
09:06A flicker of hope still in her eyes.
09:08My brother, Christopher, stood at the back of the crowd,
09:10his expression unreadable.
09:12He said nothing.
09:13He didn't come forward.
09:14He just stood there like a statue.
09:16The ambulance arrived, followed by the police.
09:18We were hired, and this has nothing to do with us!
09:21Christopher's face was deathly pale.
09:22He stood in the corner, his eyes darting around as if he were about to bolt.
09:25Emily, leaping crittily, threw herself into Alexander's arms.
09:28Alexander, I'm so scared.
09:29How could my sister become like this?
09:31Alexander patted her back, but said nothing.
09:34I glanced at him, then climbed into the ambulance.
09:38The hospital corridor was long.
09:43I sat on a.
09:47I whispered, mommy will protect you.
09:50Matthew was wheeled into the emergency room.
09:52The door swung shut, and the red light above them blinked on.
09:54I waited for a long time.
09:56Two hours later, the doctor came out.
09:57The patient's reproductive organs have been severely damaged.
09:59The tissue is necrific and must be removed.
10:01Both legs also suffered comminuted fractures,
10:03and the chance of recovery is extremely low.
10:06He will most likely be paralyzed for life.
10:07Removed?
10:08You can't remove it?
10:09My husband can't be without-
10:10I cried out, my voice cracking perfectly.
10:13This is the only option.
10:14Otherwise, his life will be in danger.
10:16I signed the consent form, my tears falling onto the paper.
10:19The pen was light, but my hand was shaking.
10:23Not from grief.
10:25From excitement.
10:28I had finally waited for this day.
10:31As I signed my name, I remembered the doctor telling me three years ago,
10:34you may never be able to get pregnant.
10:36I had laid alone in a hospital bed with no one beside me.
10:38No one signed a consent form.
10:40No one stayed with me through the surgery.
10:42No one asked if I was in pain.
10:43Now, it was Matthew's turn.
10:45The operation lasted six hours.
10:47I sat in the corridor the entire time.
10:49I didn't move an inch.
10:51Not because I was worried, but because I wanted to watch it all happen with my own eyes.
10:56At three in the morning, the surgery ended.
10:59The doctors wheeled Matthew out.
11:01His face was as white as a sheet, tubes snaking from his body.
11:04His lips were cracked, and his eyes were squeezed shut.
11:07I stood over him and looked down at his ruined form.
11:10Matthew, when you wake up, you'll find that the world is no longer the same.
11:16He did not respond.
11:18Matthew remained unconscious in the ICU for seven days.
11:23During those seven days, I did everything a good wife should do.
11:26I went to the hospital to see him every day.
11:29I cried at his bedside.
11:30I told reporters,
11:32I believe my husband is innocent.
11:34I will find out the truth.
11:35My tears were real.
11:38Not because my heart ached for him,
11:40but because I was finally too exhausted to keep up the act.
11:45I immediately halted all cooperation between the Felice Group and the Walker family.
11:49The Walker family's stock plummeted, hitting its trading limit day after day.
11:53More than half their market value evaporated within a week.
11:55I called every supplier connected to the Walker family.
11:58If you continue to work with the Walkers,
12:00you are making an enemy of the Felice family.
12:03No one dared to offend the Felice family.
12:05Within a day, the Walker warehouses were empty.
12:08Their production lines ground to a halt,
12:10and their employees began to strike.
12:12I went to the police station to give my statement,
12:15telling the police I suspected my husband had been deliberately framed.
12:18I met with the two hired men once.
12:20I didn't say much.
12:21I just had my people inside take good care of them.
12:24I wasn't threatening them.
12:26I was merely reminding them who could truly protect them.
12:29Soon, they confessed.
12:31It was Christopher Miller who hired us.
12:35He told us to ruin the person in that room.
12:37He didn't say if it would be a man or a woman.
12:40We swear, we didn't know it was Mr. Harrison.
12:43Christopher was taken into custody.
12:45That day, I stood at the courthouse entrance,
12:47and watched as he was escorted into a police car.
12:49He saw me and screamed,
12:51Scarlett!
12:51Little sister!
12:52Save me!
12:53I didn't hurt Matthew!
12:54Why would I hurt him?
12:55I didn't answer.
12:57The car drove away.
12:59The day after Christopher was arrested,
13:01my mother and father brought Emily to my door.
13:04They stood outside the gates of the Philly estate,
13:06looking as miserable as three beggars.
13:08My mother's hair was a mess,
13:10her eyes swollen and red.
13:11It was clear she'd been crying all night.
13:13My father stood behind her with his head bowed,
13:15saying nothing.
13:15Emily stood at the very back,
13:17wearing a white dress and flawless makeup,
13:18but she couldn't hide the panic in her eyes.
13:20Scarlett!
13:21Get out here!
13:22My mother shouted,
13:23pounding on the iron gate.
13:24You jinx!
13:25It wasn't enough for you to curse your own husband?
13:27Now you want to kill your brother too?
13:29I had the butler open the gate.
13:31Catherine, you need to understand something.
13:32Your son is the one who committed a crime.
13:34If you're here to beg, then act like it.
13:36If you keep this up,
13:37I won't hesitate to have you thrown out.
13:38My words choked her.
13:39She stood there, stunned.
13:41Please, forgive him.
13:42Mom can make it up to you.
13:43Didn't you always love Emily's room when you were little?
13:45Mom will give it to you.
13:46And the family shares too.
13:48I'll have your father give you the majority.
13:49I glanced at Emily.
13:50Her expression was so bitter,
13:52it looked like it might crack her face.
13:53I'm sorry, Catherine.
13:53I stopped caring about those things a long time ago.
13:55Then what do you want?
13:56You shouldn't be begging me.
13:57You should be begging the person who's really responsible.
13:59If the true culprit steps forward,
14:00your son will be fine, won't me?
14:01My mother froze.
14:02What do you mean?
14:03I looked past her, directly at Emily.
14:05Emily's pupils contracted.
14:06Mom, don't listen to her nonsense.
14:08She's trying to drive a wedge between us.
14:09My mother looked at me,
14:10then back at Emily,
14:11and a flicker of doubt crossed her face.
14:12She wasn't stupid.
14:13She had simply chosen not to think about it.
14:15But now, all the evidence pointed in one direction,
14:17and she had no choice but to face it.
14:19Emily, why would your brother harm Matthew?
14:21How should I know?
14:22I'm not a mind reader.
14:23And what about what happened to Scarlett three years ago?
14:25Did you know about that?
14:26Emily's face turned ghostly white.
14:27My mother looked at that face,
14:29and suddenly, she seemed to understand.
14:31Emily, tell me.
14:32You didn't know about what happened to Scarlett three years ago, did you?
14:35Emily said nothing.
14:36My mother's hands began to shake.
14:37I watched from the sidelines,
14:38feeling a grim satisfaction I couldn't describe.
14:40Three years.
14:40For three years,
14:41I had imagined what my mother's face would look like
14:43if she ever learned the truth.
14:44Now I knew.
14:44It was the face of utter collapse.
14:46Mom, you don't need to beg her.
14:47Emily finally said,
14:48her voice thick with tears.
14:49I have a way to get Christopher out.
14:50Scarlett, don't get cocky.
14:52Soon, I'll make sure you can't smile anymore.
14:54She dragged my mother away.
14:55I stood at the gate and watched them go,
14:56a small smile playing on my lips.
14:58Good.
14:59I'll be waiting.
15:00The next two weeks was incredibly productive.
15:03As the sole person in charge of the Felici group,
15:05I began to systematically dismantle the Walker family's empire.
15:08I cut off all their supply chains,
15:09bought out their minority shareholders,
15:11and left them unable to even repay their bank loans.
15:13Every night, I sat in the study,
15:14poring over reports and numbers,
15:15transferring the Walker family's assets
15:17into the Felici family's name,
15:19piece by piece.
15:20I wasn't just taking revenge.
15:21I was harvesting.
15:22Every transaction, every number
15:24felt like a drop of blood I had once wed.
15:26My brother Christopher called from prison every day,
15:29crying that the other inmates beat him,
15:31starved him, and wouldn't let him sleep.
15:33His voice grew hoarser
15:34and more desperate with each call.
15:36My mother cried every time she heard from him.
15:38After crying, she would call me
15:39and beg me to let him go.
15:41I blocked her number.
15:42She called back from seven different numbers.
15:44I blocked them all.
15:45My father called me once, too.
15:49Scarlet, dad is sorry,
15:50but he's your brother.
15:51You can't do this to him.
15:53Three years ago,
15:54when you told the entire school I was a thief,
15:56did you ever remember that I was your daughter?
15:58He was silent for a long time.
16:01So long that I thought he had hung up.
16:03Emily told me to say that.
16:06I know.
16:08Then why are you still...
16:09Because you're the one who said it.
16:13Of course, I didn't forget about Emily.
16:14I had my people leak rumors on social media,
16:17suggesting that Emily Walker was a fake heiress adopted by the Walker family,
16:20and that she had been secretly framing the real heiress, Scarlet, since childhood.
16:23The story spread like wildfire.
16:25Some people pitied me.
16:26Some cursed me.
16:28Some thought I was just chasing clout.
16:30I didn't care.
16:31I knew public opinion was a knife.
16:33I only needed to hand it to the crowd,
16:35and someone would eventually use it to stab her.
16:37There was movement on Alexander Reynolds' side, too.
16:39I heard the Reynolds family elders were furious.
16:42They believed Emily was dragging down their business,
16:45and demanded that Alexander divorce her.
16:47Alexander didn't refuse.
16:49I knew exactly what kind of man he was.
16:51If he could abandon me at my lowest point,
16:53he could certainly abandon Emily when she needed him most.
16:56He didn't love anyone.
16:57He only loved profit.
16:59One day, Alexander showed up at my office.
17:02He wore a custom suit, his hair perfectly coiffed.
17:05He looked exactly the same,
17:06but I knew he wasn't here to reminisce.
17:09Scarlet, you want Emily completely destroyed.
17:12I can help you.
17:14Why would you help me?
17:16Because I want to divorce her,
17:17but right now, she's the sympathetic party.
17:20If I initiate it, it will be messy.
17:22If you could make her file for divorce herself,
17:25or get her caught in some other scandal...
17:27Alexander, when you abandoned me back then,
17:30did you ever imagine there would come a day
17:31when you'd be asking me for help?
17:33His expression flickered for a moment,
17:35but he quickly regained his composure.
17:36That was business, not personal.
17:38With you, there's no difference.
17:40He didn't deny it.
17:41If you want my help, fine.
17:43But you have to do one thing for me first.
17:46What?
17:47He was silent for 30 seconds.
17:49Fine.
17:50And he did it.
17:52During a public interview,
17:53in front of a wall of reporters, he said,
17:55Three years ago,
17:56I believed certain false rumors
17:57and made the wrong choice.
17:58I am deeply sorry for the pain I caused,
18:01Miss Scarlet Miller.
18:02The clip was viewed over 5 million times.
18:06Emily completely broke down.
18:08She called me,
18:09screaming into the phone.
18:11Scarlet!
18:11Why are you doing this to me?
18:13I treated you like my own sister!
18:15How could you?
18:17You treated me like your sister?
18:19I laughed, the sound sharp and humorless.
18:21When you plastered my photos all over the city,
18:23did you think of me as your sister?
18:24When you had Christopher hire thugs to ruin me,
18:26did you think of me as your sister?
18:28When you stole my fiancé,
18:29did you think of me as your sister?
18:30She fell silent.
18:33Emily,
18:33do you know what karma feels like now?
18:35She hung up.
18:37On the day I was preparing to close the net
18:38on the Walker family for guests,
18:40the hospital called.
18:41Mrs. Miller,
18:41Mr. Harrison has woken up.
18:42I hung up the phone and smiled faintly.
18:44I was ready.
18:44I had been waiting for this day for a very long time.
18:47I sent a quick text.
18:47He's awake.
18:48Proceed as planned.
18:49Then I drove to the hospital.
18:50As soon as I entered the ward,
18:52two bodyguards grabbed my arms
18:53and twisted them behind my back.
18:54Scarlet,
18:55who gave you permission to bully Emily
18:56while I was unconscious?
18:57Matthew was sitting up in bed.
18:58Both his legs were locked in braces
19:00and his face was deathly pale,
19:01but his eyes were as vicious
19:02as a cornered animal's.
19:04His hair was a mess.
19:05His lips were cracked.
19:06There were still faint bloodstains on his neck.
19:08Stop your attacks on the Walker family immediately
19:10and get Christopher released!
19:11Before I could speak,
19:12he grabbed the water clasp from the bedside table
19:15and hurled it at my head.
19:16The glass shattered against my forehead.
19:18Warm blood trickled down my face,
19:21dripping onto my white dress
19:22like red flowers blooming on snow.
19:25Why is that bastard still in there?
19:28Someone!
19:29Get rid of it for me!
19:30Since Alexander can't protect Emily,
19:32I will!
19:33Let me tell you, Scarlet,
19:34only Emily is worthy of carrying my child.
19:37The two bodyguards released my hands
19:38and started toward me.
19:40I didn't struggle.
19:40I didn't scream.
19:41I just stood there,
19:42looking at Matthew,
19:43the corners of my mouth
19:44slowly lifting into a smile.
19:45The door burst open.
19:46Margaret Felice strode in.
19:48She wore a severe black suit.
19:49Her gray hair pulled back so tightly
19:51it seemed to sharpen the lines on her face.
19:52Behind her were four bodyguards
19:54and a lawyer.
19:55Useless thing!
19:56She walked up to Matthew
19:57and slapped him hard across the face.
19:59The sharp crack echoed
20:00through the silent ward.
20:01It's bad enough
20:01that you let yourself be used
20:03and humiliated,
20:03but now you want to kill
20:04my only grandchild?
20:05I should have drowned you
20:06the day you were born.
20:07Mom!
20:07Matthew covered his cheek,
20:09his eyes wide with disbelief.
20:10Shut up!
20:11She turned and kicked Emily,
20:12who had, at some point,
20:13knelt by Matthew's bed,
20:14crying crittily into his arms.
20:15Margaret's kick sent her sprawling.
20:17Emily screamed as she rolled,
20:18her forehead cracking
20:19against the metal bedbrain.
20:20Blood began to stream down her face.
20:21You little jinx.
20:23Your brother turned my son
20:24into this pathetic thing.
20:26And you still have the nerve
20:27to show your face?
20:29If I were you,
20:30I'd hurry home
20:31and have one last good meal,
20:32because soon the Walker family
20:34won't have any good meals left.
20:36Get her out of my sight.
20:37Two bodyguards grabbed Emily
20:39and dragged her from the room.
20:40Matthew, save me!
20:41But Matthew was helpless.
20:43He could only watch
20:44as she was hauled away.
20:45He collapsed back
20:46against the pillows.
20:47Mom, what did you mean?
20:49What do you mean, pathetic thing?
20:51I walked to his side,
20:52unlocked my phone,
20:53and played the livestream clip
20:53from the party.
20:54In the video,
20:55he lay on the bed,
20:55his legs twisted,
20:56his body covered in bruises,
20:57surrounded by a crowd
20:58of horrified onlookers.
20:59On the audio,
21:00some people were laughing,
21:01some were screaming,
21:01and some were asking,
21:02who is that?
21:03His face was captured
21:04in perfect clarity.
21:05Everyone could see it was him.
21:07After three seconds,
21:08his face turned
21:09from white to gray.
21:11This is impossible.
21:12That can't be me.
21:14Matthew,
21:15Christopher ruined you.
21:16He hired two men
21:17to do to you
21:18what was done to me.
21:19Now,
21:20not only are both
21:21your legs paralyzed,
21:22but the damage
21:23down there
21:24was so severe
21:25that the doctors
21:26had to remove everything.
21:27You'll never be a man again.
21:29No!
21:29The child in my belly
21:30is your only heir now,
21:32because I remembered myself
21:33three years ago,
21:34lying in a bed
21:35just like this,
21:35hearing those same
21:36kinds of words.
21:37Oh, Matthew,
21:38you're incomplete,
21:38but I don't care.
21:40I won't look down on you.
21:41I'll take care of you
21:41for the rest of your life.
21:42He stared at the video
21:43on my phone,
21:43his eyes unfocused,
21:44his lips trembling,
21:45his fingers twitched,
21:46as if trying to grasp
21:47the last dread of his family.
21:48Then he choked,
21:49spat a mouthful of blood
21:50onto the white sheets
21:50and collapsed.
21:51No one paid her any attention.
21:53Revise the company bylaws.
21:54From now on,
21:55all decision-making power
21:56belongs to Scarlett.
21:57After Matthew,
21:58he needs to rest.
21:59I knew exactly what she meant.
22:01Matthew was moved back
22:02to the ICU.
22:03Margaret stood in the hallway,
22:04making one phone call
22:05after another.
22:06She was mobilizing
22:07every resource
22:07at her disposal,
22:08preparing to launch
22:09an all-out war
22:10on the Walker family.
22:11She called their banks
22:11and instructed them
22:12to call in
22:13all outstanding loans.
22:14Called their lawyer
22:14and advised him
22:15to think carefully
22:16about his future.
22:17I stood beside her,
22:18saying nothing.
22:19I knew that from this day forward,
22:21I was no longer fighting alone.
22:22Margaret was a smart woman.
22:24She didn't like Matthew,
22:25but he was her only son.
22:26Now that her only son
22:27had been destroyed,
22:28she would use every weapon
22:29in her arsenal
22:30to get revenge,
22:30and I was simply
22:31going along for the ride.
22:33After hanging up
22:33the last call,
22:34she turned to me.
22:35Scarlett,
22:35is the child in your belly
22:37really Matthew's?
22:38Yes.
22:39Good.
22:40From today on,
22:41you are the head
22:43of the Felice family.
22:44Anyone who dares to touch you
22:46is making an enemy of me.
22:47Thank you, Mom.
22:49Don't thank me.
22:50I'm not doing this for you.
22:52I'm doing it for my grandson.
22:55The Walker family was finished.
22:57Under the combined pressure
22:58from Margaret and me,
22:59all of their businesses
23:00were liquidated within a week.
23:02The relatives
23:02who had once looked down at me,
23:04mocked me,
23:04and thrown me out of their homes
23:05now lined up to call
23:07and apologize.
23:08Scarlett,
23:08your great aunt knows
23:09she said some unpleasant things.
23:10Please don't take it to heart.
23:12Scarlett,
23:12your great uncle held you
23:13when you were just a baby.
23:14Do you remember?
23:15Scarlett,
23:15please talk to your mother-in-law for us.
23:17Tell her not to cut off our business.
23:18I blocked every single one
23:20of their numbers.
23:21Christopher was sentenced
23:22to ten years in prison.
23:24In court,
23:25he knelt before me,
23:26tugging at the hem of my pants
23:28like a dog.
23:29Little sister,
23:30please forgive your brother.
23:31It wasn't just my fault.
23:33I kicked his hand away.
23:34Just he had kicked mine away
23:36when we were children.
23:38If not you,
23:39then who?
23:40Do you really think
23:42I'll believe you now?
23:44Evidence!
23:44I have evidence!
23:46I paused.
23:48What evidence?
23:50What happened three years ago?
23:52Emily made me do it.
23:53I have a video.
23:55I have proof.
23:56I turned to look at him.
23:58He was shaking,
23:59tears and snot
24:00smeared across his face.
24:01He was truly terrified.
24:03Ten years in prison,
24:04plus the special care
24:05I had arranged for him,
24:07had already worn him down
24:08to a shadow of his former self.
24:09Where is the video?
24:10He hesitated,
24:12glancing over at Emily,
24:13who was sitting in the gallery.
24:14She shook her head desperately.
24:16Christopher!
24:17Don't fall for her trap!
24:18Matthew will save us!
24:20Christopher looked at her,
24:21then back at me
24:22and finally clamped his mouth shut.
24:24I didn't press him.
24:26I knew that video
24:27would fall into my hands
24:28sooner or later.
24:29I had plenty of patience.
24:31Matthew spent three months
24:33in a psychiatric hospital.
24:34His mental state
24:35had completely deteriorated.
24:37He couldn't accept
24:38that he had become a cripple,
24:39a eunuch.
24:40He spent his days
24:41smashing things in his room,
24:43cursoring at the staff,
24:44and crying out for Emily.
24:46He's too agitated.
24:48Increase his dosage.
24:50It will affect
24:50his cognitive function.
24:54Then increase it.
24:55Matthew grew sluggish.
24:57He spent his days
24:58sitting in a wheelchair,
24:59staring into space,
25:00drooling and muttering nonsense.
25:02But his condition stabilized.
25:04At least he no longer
25:05tried to harm himself.
25:07Margaret went to see him once.
25:08When she returned,
25:09she was silent
25:10for a long time.
25:13His life is over.
25:14I said nothing.
25:16Margaret's stomach cancer worsened.
25:17She lay in a hospital bed
25:18for a month,
25:19signing over every last
25:20company contract
25:20and handing all authority to me.
25:22Scarlet,
25:22she said from her bed,
25:23her hand gripping mine.
25:24I know you're not a simple woman,
25:25but I don't care.
25:26You just have to promise me
25:27one thing.
25:28Protect this family.
25:29Protect my grandson.
25:30I will.
25:31Swear it!
25:33I swear.
25:34She smiled.
25:35A faint, tired smile
25:36that made her look
25:37like an ordinary old woman.
25:39Three days later,
25:40she was gone.
25:41On the day of Margaret's funeral,
25:42I brought Matthew back
25:43from the psychiatric hospital.
25:44He had lost
25:45a great deal of weight.
25:46His hair had gone white
25:47and his eyes were dull.
25:48When he saw me,
25:49he stared blankly
25:49for a long moment
25:50before saying something
25:51that surprised me.
25:51Scarlet,
25:52I was wrong.
25:53I know that now.
25:54Let's just live a proper life
25:55from now on.
25:56I looked at his haggard face
25:57and felt nothing.
25:59Okay?
25:59But I knew it was a lie.
26:01I had only brought him back
26:03so he could see
26:03his mother laid to rest.
26:05I hadn't expected Emily
26:06to show up
26:06before the funeral
26:07was even over.
26:08She slipped in with Alexander.
26:09He wore a black suit,
26:10his expression so indifferent
26:12he could have been
26:12attending a stranger's funeral.
26:14Emily followed behind him,
26:15her stomach slightly rounded.
26:16She was pregnant.
26:17Sister?
26:18She stood before me.
26:19Long time no see.
26:19I looked at her
26:20without speaking.
26:21You must be dying
26:22to know why I'm here, right?
26:23She whispered.
26:24Alexander didn't divorce me.
26:26It's because I'm pregnant.
26:27Guess whose child it is?
26:28I looked at her smug face
26:29and suddenly smiled.
26:30Do you really think
26:31I still care?
26:32Her smile faltered
26:33for a second,
26:33then returned.
26:34You don't care?
26:35Then why did you ruin Christopher?
26:36Why did you destroy
26:37the Walker family?
26:38Sister,
26:39you can't fool me.
26:39You hate me.
26:40You hate that I stole
26:41everything from you.
26:42You're right.
26:43I do hate you.
26:45But I don't care
26:45whose child you're carrying
26:46because no matter
26:47whose it is,
26:49you won't be giving birth to it.
26:50What do you mean?
26:51That night,
26:52after the funeral,
26:54Emily didn't leave.
26:55She found me
26:56at the top
26:57of the grand staircase.
26:58Sister,
26:59do you think you've won?
27:01You think you've won,
27:03but you haven't won anything.
27:05The person Matthew loves
27:06is me.
27:06The person Alexander loves
27:08is me.
27:09Your parents might be
27:10afraid of you now,
27:11but in their hearts,
27:12they only have one daughter
27:13and that's me.
27:14You can't have anything.
27:16You're just a tool,
27:17an incubator
27:17to give them a grandchild.
27:19Are you finished?
27:20No.
27:21Do you know
27:22what I hate most about you?
27:23It's not that you're
27:24prettier than me
27:24or that you're the real heiress.
27:26It's that you never
27:27admit defeat.
27:28You were already
27:28trampled into the mud,
27:29but you still had to
27:30crawl your way back up.
27:31Why couldn't you just
27:31stay in the mud
27:32where you belong?
27:33Why did you have
27:33to keep fighting me?
27:34Because I don't accept
27:36my fate.
27:36Then go to hell.
27:38She smiled.
27:39Then she leaned back
27:40and threw herself
27:41down the stairs.
27:42Her scream echoed
27:42through the entire villa,
27:43a large pool of blood
27:44spread out beneath her,
27:45a grotesque red flower
27:46blooming on the marble floor.
27:47Scarlet!
27:48She pushed me!
27:49She pushed me!
27:50Help!
27:51Scarlet is trying
27:52to kill me!
27:53Alexander rushed out
27:54of a nearby room,
27:55followed by my parents.
27:57Even Matthew
27:57wheeled himself
27:58out of his room.
27:58When Emily saw Matthew,
28:00her eyes lit up.
28:01Matthew!
28:02Scarlet killed my baby!
28:03You have to kill her for me!
28:05I stood at the top
28:05of the stairs
28:06and looked down
28:07at the chaos.
28:08She says I pushed her.
28:09Are there any cameras here?
28:11No one answered.
28:12Oh right.
28:13There are no cameras here.
28:15Then I guess this has
28:15nothing to do with me.
28:17Emily miscarried it.
28:18The doctor said
28:19her uterus
28:20had suffered severe trauma.
28:21She would never be able
28:23to get pregnant again.
28:24Alexander stood outside
28:25her hospital room
28:26for a moment,
28:27then turned
28:28and walked away.
28:28The next day,
28:30he had a messenger
28:30deliver the divorce papers.
28:32Emily had been abandoned.
28:33At her weakest
28:34and most helpless moment,
28:35the man she loved most
28:37had walked away.
28:38I didn't visit her,
28:39but I did send
28:40a bouquet of flowers.
28:41The card read,
28:42Little sister,
28:43get some rest.
28:43When you get out,
28:44we still have so much
28:45to talk about.
28:46The bouquet was sent back,
28:48smashed to pieces.
28:49I smiled and had the butler
28:51throw it in the trash.
28:52Christopher finally broke.
28:54He mailed me a USB drive
28:56from prison.
28:58On it was the video
28:59I had been waiting
29:00three years for.
29:02It was another angle
29:03of the warehouse attack
29:04filmed from a dark corner
29:06of the room.
29:06In the video,
29:07I lay on the floor,
29:08covered in blood,
29:10while two men assaulted me.
29:11And in the corner
29:12stood two people,
29:14Christopher and Emily.
29:17Christopher,
29:18am I getting a good shot?
29:19When sister sees
29:21how beautifully
29:21I filmed her tomorrow,
29:22she'll be so happy.
29:24This is a masterpiece.
29:26I have to post it
29:27all over the city
29:28so everyone can see.
29:29You're so naughty.
29:32The video was only
29:33three minutes long.
29:35I watched it three times.
29:37The first time,
29:38my whole body shook.
29:40The second time,
29:41I burst into tears.
29:43The third time,
29:45I wiped my eyes,
29:46picked up the phone,
29:47and called my lawyer.
29:49I want to sue Emily Walker.
29:51The charges are
29:52intentional assault,
29:53illegal recording,
29:54distribution of obscene materials,
29:56and aiding and abetting a crime.
29:58Do you have evidence?
30:00I do.
30:01Emily was sentenced
30:02to 15 years.
30:04In court,
30:04she screamed and cursed,
30:05calling me a lunatic
30:06and swearing I would
30:07be a horrible death.
30:08The judge had to
30:09bang the gavel several times
30:11just to quiet her down.
30:12Christopher had another
30:13five years added
30:14to his sentence.
30:14The two men
30:15who had assaulted me
30:16were retried for perjury
30:17and had their sentences doubled.
30:19When the verdict was announced,
30:20I stood in the gallery
30:21holding a small pink diamond ring,
30:23a gift from my mother-in-law
30:25before she died.
30:26I remembered what she had said.
30:28Scarlet,
30:28protect this family.
30:30I think I've done that,
30:31I thought.
30:32On the day Emily was sentenced,
30:34my parents knelt
30:34outside my house.
30:35Scarlet,
30:36we didn't know Emily
30:37was so evil.
30:38We're so sorry.
30:39Please forgive us.
30:40You can have as much money
30:40as you want,
30:41as long as you still
30:42recognize us as your parents.
30:44I had the bodyguards
30:45drive them away.
30:46Later,
30:46I heard a rumor
30:47that they had been sold
30:48to a freak show in Thailand.
30:49The man dressed as a woman
30:51and danced.
30:52The woman dressed as a clown
30:53and juggled.
30:54The audience threw money,
30:55bottles,
30:56and cigarettes on something.
30:58I don't know if it was true.
30:59If it was,
31:00I thought it sounded
31:01like a fitting end.
31:02After living a life of glamour,
31:04they could still shine on stage
31:05in their old age.
31:06Not bad at all.
31:07On the day my son
31:08turned one month old,
31:09I threw a party at the estate.
31:11All the business partners
31:12of the Felice Group,
31:13along with the new allies
31:14I had made.
31:15No one mentioned
31:15the Walker family.
31:16No one mentioned Emily.
31:18No one mentioned Matthew.
31:19They raised their champagne glasses
31:20and smiled at me.
31:21To Scarlett,
31:22you're incredible.
31:23I smiled back.
31:24After the party ended,
31:25I carried my son
31:25down to the basement.
31:26Matthew lived in the basement.
31:28Not because he had done
31:28anything wrong,
31:29but because he was too fragile.
31:30He couldn't be exposed
31:31to light or people
31:32or the wind.
31:33I had his room redecorated.
31:34A new bed,
31:34a new quilt,
31:35new wallpaper.
31:36There was just one extra thing
31:37on the wall,
31:37a large television.
31:38It played the live stream clip
31:40of his assault on a roof.
31:40Matthew,
31:41I said,
31:42holding my son out
31:42for him to see.
31:43This is your son.
31:44Take a look.
31:45Matthew shrunk into the corner,
31:46shaking,
31:47his eyes wild and unfocused.
31:48No,
31:49don't make me watch.
31:50Turn it off.
31:51Please,
31:51turn it off.
31:51Why should I turn it off?
31:53Isn't this what you loved
31:54showing me?
31:55He cried.
31:56He cried like a child.
31:57I sat in a chair across from him,
31:59holding my son and watched him cry.
32:01Matthew,
32:02do you know?
32:03On that rooftop,
32:04you were the one who saved me.
32:05For the longest time,
32:06I was grateful to you for that.
32:08But it was only later
32:09that I learned you were also
32:10the one who pushed me
32:11onto that rooftop
32:11in the first place.
32:12You saved me,
32:13then you pushed me down again.
32:15You loved me,
32:16then you destroyed me.
32:17Did you ever love me,
32:18or was it always Emily?
32:20I don't really care
32:21about the answer anymore.
32:22I just think you should know
32:23whose fault it is
32:24that you ended up like this.
32:27Mine?
32:28It was my own fault?
32:30No.
32:30It was Emily's fault.
32:32And Christopher's.
32:33And your mother's.
32:34And mine.
32:34It was this family's fault.
32:36It was the world's fault.
32:37But the person you hate most
32:38is me.
32:39I don't hate you.
32:41I pity you.
32:43That night,
32:44I carried my son
32:45back to my room.
32:46He slept soundly,
32:48his tiny hand
32:49clutching my shirt,
32:51his breathing soft and even.
32:53As I looked at him,
32:54I thought of my mother.
32:55Not Catherine.
32:56My adoptive mother
32:57from the countryside.
32:58She had hit me,
32:59starved me,
33:00and called me a stray
33:00she'd picked up off the street.
33:02But she had also taught me to sing,
33:03sewed dresses for me,
33:04and stayed up with me all night
33:05when I had a fever.
33:06She wasn't a good mother,
33:07but at least she was real.
33:08Catherine was different.
33:09She gave me a beautiful dream
33:11and then smashed it to pieces
33:12with her own hands.
33:14I stroked my son's face.
33:16Baby,
33:16mommy will never lie to you.
33:18Mommy will never disappoint you.
33:20Mommy will protect you,
33:21no matter what.
33:22He slept on,
33:23oblivious.
33:24Outside the window,
33:25the moon was full and bright,
33:26just like it was
33:27three and a half years ago.
33:28But the story didn't end there.
33:29Three months after Emily
33:30was sent to prison,
33:31I received a letter from her.
33:32The paper was wrinkled
33:33and stained.
33:34I couldn't tell if it was
33:35from tears or something else.
33:37Sister,
33:37I know you hate me,
33:39but do you really think
33:40you've won?
33:41Do you think Matthew
33:42will just let you go?
33:43You're so naive.
33:44Before Matthew was sent
33:45to the psychiatric hospital,
33:47he made a phone call.
33:48You should find out
33:49who he called.
33:49I tore the letter to shreds
33:51and fed it to the shredder.
33:54But I didn't ignore it.
33:55I had my people
33:56pull Matthew's call records.
33:58Before he was committed,
33:59he had indeed made a call
34:00to a woman named Jennifer Stone.
34:02Who was Jennifer Stone?
34:03I did some digging.
34:05She was Matthew's
34:05college girlfriend.
34:06They had broken up
34:07years ago.
34:08I'd heard she had married
34:09and moved to New York.
34:10I had my team
34:11keep investigating.
34:13A week later,
34:14I had my answer.
34:15Jennifer Stone
34:16had divorced her husband
34:17three years ago
34:18and had recently returned
34:19to Los Angeles
34:20with a five-year-old boy.
34:21That boy's blood type
34:23was the same as Matthew's.
34:24I sat in my office,
34:25looking at the report
34:26and was silent for a long time.
34:28Matthew had another son.
34:29A five-year-old son.
34:31A son who was not mine.
34:33If Matthew died,
34:33all of his inheritance,
34:34including everything
34:35I now controlled,
34:36would automatically
34:37transfer to his next of kin.
34:38The first in line
34:39was his son.
34:40The second was his mother.
34:41But his mother was dead.
34:42So the only heir
34:43was that child.
34:44Matthew had called Jennifer
34:44to tell her to bring the child back
34:45and fight me for the inheritance.
34:47I laughed.
34:48Matthew, oh Matthew.
34:49Even locked away
34:49in a psychiatric hospital,
34:51you were still plotting
34:51how to hurt me.
34:52You really hadn't changed at all.
34:54I didn't wait for Jennifer
34:55to come to me.
34:57I went to her first.
35:00She lived in a small run-down apartment
35:02in East Los Angeles.
35:03Her son was named Benjamin.
35:05He was five years old
35:06and looked just like Matthew.
35:08The same gray eyes,
35:09the same thin face,
35:10the same narrow lips.
35:12I sat in her cramped living room
35:14and placed a document
35:15on the coffee table
35:16in front of her.
35:17This is the DNA test report
35:19for Matthew and your son.
35:20They are, indeed,
35:22father and son.
35:23Jennifer's face went pale.
35:26What do you want?
35:28I don't want anything.
35:29I just want you to understand
35:31that your son has a legal claim
35:34to Matthew's estate.
35:35Then you'll give it to him?
35:37No, I said.
35:40But I will give you a choice.
35:41I took out another document.
35:44This is an agreement
35:45to waive all inheritance rights.
35:48If you sign it,
35:50I'll give you five million dollars.
35:52You can take your son,
35:53leave Los Angeles,
35:55and never come back.
35:56Jennifer stared at the agreement,
35:58her hands trembling.
36:02And if I refuse?
36:04You will get nothing.
36:06Jennifer cried.
36:10Then she signed.
36:11I transferred her
36:13the five million dollars
36:14to her account,
36:14and she left with her son.
36:17The day after Jennifer left,
36:19I went to see Matthew.
36:20He sat in his wheelchair
36:21in the basement.
36:22His vacant eyes
36:23fixed on the television screen.
36:25The click of his assault
36:26was still playing on a loop.
36:27He must have watched it
36:28thousands of times.
36:29Matthew, I said,
36:30standing before him.
36:32Your other son is gone.
36:34He voluntarily
36:35gave up his inheritance.
36:37He said he didn't want a father
36:39who was locked away
36:40in a psychiatric hospital.
36:42Matthew's eyes flickered.
36:44Did you really think
36:45I didn't know you called Jennifer?
36:46I crouched down,
36:48bringing my face level with his.
36:49Did you really think
36:50you could still hurt me?
36:52Scarlet.
36:53His voice was a dry,
36:54rasping whisper.
36:55Why won't you just let me go?
36:58Because you don't deserve
36:59to be let go.
37:00I stood
37:01and turned the television volume
37:03to its maximum setting.
37:05Watch closely, Matthew.
37:07This is your masterpiece.
37:08You filmed me,
37:10and I filmed you.
37:11Now we're even.
37:13I walked out of the basement
37:14and locked the door.
37:16I could hear his sobs
37:18from behind the thick wood.
37:20Six months later,
37:21I got news from the prison
37:22about Emily.
37:23She had tried to slit her wrists
37:24with a sharpened toothbrush handle.
37:26The guards found her in time.
37:28She was no longer
37:29in danger of dying,
37:30but her mental state
37:31had shattered.
37:32She asked to see me.
37:33She lay on a hospital bed,
37:35gauze wrapped around her wrist,
37:37her face as white as the sheets.
37:39When she saw me,
37:40she smiled a strange,
37:41broken smile.
37:43Sister, you came.
37:45What do you want?
37:47I want to tell you a secret.
37:49She blinked, slowly.
37:51Do you know who introduced me
37:52to Matthew three years ago?
37:53I'm not interested.
37:54It was Alexander, she said.
37:57Alexander told Matthew
37:58that I needed someone
37:59to protect me.
37:59He arranged for us to meet.
38:01I froze.
38:02And do you know
38:03why Alexander did that?
38:04Emily smiled.
38:06Because from the very beginning,
38:07he never wanted to marry you.
38:09He thought you were
38:10too strong-willed,
38:11too hard to control.
38:12He needed a replacement.
38:14A weaker woman
38:15who could make him
38:16feel powerful.
38:17You're telling me this,
38:18because you want me
38:19to hate Alexander?
38:20No.
38:20I want you to know
38:21that everyone around you
38:22has lied to you.
38:23Matthew lied to you.
38:25Alexander lied to you.
38:26Your mother lied to you.
38:27Your brother lied to you.
38:29You beat them all.
38:30Did you really win?
38:32She didn't answer
38:33her own question.
38:35Instead,
38:36she closed her eyes.
38:38Go away, sister.
38:40I don't want to see you anymore.
38:41I walked out of the hospital
38:43and into the bright sunlight.
38:45What happened to Alexander?
38:47Later,
38:48he married the daughter
38:49of an oil tycoon.
38:50She was 15 years older than him
38:52and had two children
38:53from a previous marriage.
38:54He became a kept man,
38:56living a life
38:57that looked glamorous
38:58on the outside
38:58but was devoid
38:59of any real dignity.
39:01My mother and father?
39:03I never heard
39:04from them again.
39:05Some say they died
39:06in Thailand.
39:07Some say they were rescued.
39:08Some say they even
39:09came back to the States.
39:10I didn't care.
39:12Christopher contracted
39:13tuberculosis in prison.
39:14His health
39:15deteriorated daily.
39:16He applied
39:17for medical parole
39:18but his request
39:19was denied.
39:21Emily remained
39:21in the psychiatric hospital
39:23for a long time.
39:24She no longer
39:25recognized anyone.
39:26She spent her days
39:27sitting by the window
39:28staring at the sky
39:30and muttering
39:30sister, sister
39:32and Matthew.
39:33He lived in the basement
39:34for three more years
39:36his body wasting away.
39:38One day
39:38when I went down
39:39to see him
39:39he was already dead.
39:41He died quietly.
39:42No struggle.
39:43No final shouts.
39:45The coroner said
39:46it was sudden cardiac arrest.
39:47After he died
39:48I had his ashes
39:49scattered at sea.
39:49No gravestone.
39:50No eulogy.
39:51No visitors.
39:52As for me
39:53I took my place
39:54at the head of the company
39:56in the tallest building
39:57in the city.
39:58My son is three years old now.
40:00Smart and healthy.
40:02He knows who his father was
40:03but he never asks
40:05where did dad go
40:06because I've already told him
40:07dad went somewhere
40:08very far away.
40:10He's not coming back.
40:11Then mommy is my whole world.
40:13He says.
40:14I say.
40:15Yes.
40:16Mommy is your whole world.
40:18He says.
40:18He says.
40:18I say.
40:19He says.
40:19He says.
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