14:48C'est partout pour vous.
14:50Si vous allez me divorcer,
14:52au moins que je me donne une raison.
14:54Si c'est pour moi
14:55ne pas te dire à tout le monde
14:56que vous avez écrit ces songs,
14:57je...
14:58Tu rememberes notre promise?
15:00Si vous voulez me divorcer,
15:01vous jouez me une pièce de piano.
15:03Vous voulez me divorcer
15:04juste parce que je jouais la pièce de piano?
15:07Ou est-ce que vous avez mis
15:09la relation avec Chloé?
15:11Je peux expliquer.
15:12Je n'ai qu'à ce que vous avez ici
15:13pour vous aider.
15:17Move on?
15:18Move on from you bringing
15:20that woman's daughter
15:21into my house to play piano?
15:22Move on from you forcing me
15:24to forgive those two?
15:26Liam stumbled back a step.
15:28Then he fell to his knees
15:29on the steps.
15:30People walking by turned to stare.
15:32Someone already had their phone out.
15:35I'm sorry.
15:36I really know I was wrong.
15:39Liam,
15:40do you know what happened
15:41the day my mother died?
15:44My mother stood in front of my father
15:46holding that woman's hand.
15:47and he told her
15:48to let them be together.
15:52My mother didn't say anything.
15:54She just said she wanted
15:55to hear me play a piano piece.
15:57When the last note finished,
15:59she jumped from upstairs.
16:00She died right in front of me.
16:05and now you brought
16:06that man's daughter
16:07into my house
16:08to play piano
16:09and you're forcing me
16:10to forgive him
16:11and his daughter.
16:14Do you really think
16:15I can forgive you?
16:17Sophia,
16:18Chloe said her mother
16:19never meant for things
16:20to turn out like that.
16:21She didn't want to hurt...
16:24I slapped him.
16:25Then I threw my tablet
16:26on the ground
16:27in front of him.
16:28On the screen
16:28were photos of him
16:29and Chloe together.
16:31Intimate ones.
16:32Now,
16:33sign it.
16:35You have ten minutes.
16:37Liam stayed on his knees.
16:40Do you hate me that much?
16:42Hate me enough to destroy me?
16:43And those songs...
16:44Those songs were never yours.
16:45I just didn't care before.
16:47I let you sing them for free.
16:48The copyrights
16:49have always been mine.
16:50Isn't that right?
16:52You set me up?
16:54I just never called you
16:55out in public.
16:58Are you two here
16:59for a divorce appointment?
17:01Liam suddenly grabbed my arm.
17:03His voice dropped low.
17:05What if I don't agree
17:05to the divorce?
17:09Tomorrow,
17:09the top treading topic
17:10will be photos
17:11of you and Chloe.
17:12The day after,
17:13all your partners
17:14will get lawyer letters
17:15about copyright infringement.
17:17Of course,
17:18if you're confident
17:18you can pay the penalties,
17:19pretend I didn't say anything.
17:23His schedule
17:24for the next two years
17:25was already fully booked.
17:26If he breached
17:27those contracts,
17:29he didn't want
17:29to think about it.
17:31Oh, and one more thing.
17:32Even if you can afford
17:33the penalties,
17:33every time you sing
17:34my songs anywhere,
17:35I will sue you.
17:36Including Brilliant.
17:38But if we get
17:38our divorce certificate today,
17:40as long as you pay
17:40me enough royalties,
17:41you can still sing
17:42the songs I wrote.
17:43Liam stood there
17:44like someone had
17:45ripped out his spine.
17:46When the marriage certificate
17:48was stamped void,
17:49Liam suddenly asked,
17:51What if I hadn't
17:52brought Chloe home
17:52that day?
17:53I neatly tucked away
17:54the divorce certificate.
17:56There's no what if.
18:00Walking out of family court,
18:01the autumn sun felt good.
18:03I stood on the steps
18:04and took a deep breath.
18:05I was free.
18:07Liam stood there,
18:08staring at the voided
18:09marriage certificate
18:10in his hand.
18:11He finally understood.
18:12Some mistakes,
18:13once made,
18:14can never be undone.
18:15The day Chloe found out
18:17the truth,
18:17she knocked her powder compact
18:19off the table
18:19in her dressing room.
18:20She stared at the news
18:21blowing up online.
18:23So,
18:23Liam was lying the whole time.
18:25He's not a singer-songwriter
18:27at all.
18:28I fought Sophia for nothing.
18:30All I won
18:31was a useless loser.
18:35But whatever.
18:36Sophia can write songs.
18:38So can I.
18:39She found Liam and smiled.
18:43Liam,
18:43I'll write better songs for you.
18:45A hundred times better
18:46than Sophia's.
18:48At first,
18:49Liam was touched.
18:50He'd hold the sheet music
18:52Chloe stayed up all night
18:53to write.
18:54He'd hug her in the recording
18:55studio at 3 a.m.
18:56When gossip media mocked him
18:58for being nothing
18:59without Sophia's songs,
19:00Chloe would throw the microphone
19:02on camera.
19:05What do you people
19:06know about music?
19:07Some diehard fans
19:08even made a compilation
19:09of these daddents
19:10called
19:11True Love in Hard Times.
19:13It got over a million likes.
19:15Until the day
19:16Chloe's song
19:17Glass Slipper flopped.
19:18Chloe watched
19:19the sales numbers tank.
19:21Her song didn't even
19:22break the top 10
19:22for new artists.
19:28Can you even
19:29fucking sing?
19:31You're blaming me?
19:33Look at the crappy song
19:34you wrote.
19:35Compared to Sophia,
19:36you're not even close.
19:37They started throwing dirt
19:38at each other.
19:39Chloe cried on a live stream
19:40that Liam stole her royalties.
19:42Liam immediately released
19:44a recording of her
19:45demanding luxury goods.
19:47The best part
19:48came late one night.
19:49Chloe used the studio
19:50account to post,
19:51Singer Liam
19:52has been lip syncing
19:53the whole time.
19:54The picture attached
19:55was a medical report
19:56showing Liam's vocal cords
19:57had atrophied.
19:5820 minutes later,
19:59Liam replied with his main account.
20:01All the scandals
20:02they had paid a fortune
20:03to bury resurfaced.
20:05Both of them
20:05got destroyed online.
20:06Liam got blacklisted
20:08from the entire industry.
20:09He lost all his endorsements.
20:11Chloe's fake degree
20:12got exposed
20:12and she got blacklisted too.
20:15One year later,
20:15I made my first public appearance.
20:17Miss Sophia,
20:18look over here!
20:19Is it true that Liam's
20:20entire clog was written by you?
20:22What do you think about Liam
20:23being stripped of his
20:24best singer-songwriter title?
20:25Questions came at me
20:26like a tidal wave.
20:27The cameras flashed even brighter.
20:29Over the past six months,
20:31ever since I started
20:31putting my real name
20:32on my work,
20:33there had been an earthquake
20:34in the music industry.
20:37Miss Sophia,
20:38some netizens think
20:39your new work
20:40contains metaphors about...
20:41The beauty of music
20:43is that everyone
20:44can hear their own story in it.
20:46But out of the corner of my eye,
20:48I saw a commotion
20:49at the end of the red carpet.
20:50I didn't look back.
20:51I just calmly turned
20:53and walked inside.
20:56The awards ceremony
20:57officially began.
20:58The winner of this year's
20:59best composer is...
21:01Sophia!
21:04I stood up gracefully.
21:08Out of the corner of my eye,
21:10I saw Liam
21:11in the very last row.
21:13This award belongs
21:14not only to me,
21:15but to all musicians
21:16who insist on originality.
21:18Your work might be stolen
21:19for a while,
21:20but true talent
21:21never stays buried.
21:24In the audience,
21:25my new partner,
21:26international superstar Dylan,
21:28sat in the front row
21:29and gave me
21:29an encouraging smile.
21:31The past year,
21:32he was the one
21:32who encouraged me
21:33to stand on stage
21:34and perform my own songs
21:35with my own voice.
21:37After the ceremony,
21:39Mamrazi caught Liam
21:40squatting alone
21:41in the parking garage,
21:42crying into his hands.
21:44On the big screen
21:45in front of him
21:46was a live feed
21:47of our victory party.
21:48Me and Dylan
21:49standing side by side,
21:51surrounded by colleagues
21:52coming to congratulate us.
21:54When he looked up,
21:55his eyes met a close-up
21:56of me on the screen.
21:57I was raising a glass
21:58and smiling.
21:59In that moment,
22:00he seemed to see the man
22:01from all those years ago,
22:03standing in the dim light
22:04backstage.
22:05Back then,
22:05he was a nobody.
22:07Your voice is really powerful.
22:09I really like it.
22:10The memory overlapped
22:11with reality,
22:12the same smile,
22:13but now it was shining on stage,
22:15no longer just for him.
22:17Only this time,
22:18he could never reach
22:19that light again.
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