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00:00In our third year of marriage, the doctors found something wrong with me.
00:03I had lost the ability to have children forever.
00:05I was devastated.
00:07Adrienne suggested we adopt a child from an agency.
00:10Together, we picked out one little girl, sweet and well-behavedly.
00:13I liked her very much.
00:14On the day we signed the papers, I saw a birthmark on the girl's hand,
00:18the size of a pea, and I said no.
00:22At once.
00:23But Adrienne insisted on adopting her.
00:27So I asked him for a divorce.
00:28Just because she has a birthmark on her hand?
00:32You divorce me over that?
00:34Yes.
00:35Because of that birthmark.
00:36It's ugly.
00:37But it's only the size of a pea.
00:39There's something wrong with your body.
00:42You can't get pregnant.
00:43The whole family came here with you to adopt, and now you back out?
00:47It's such a tiny birthmark.
00:49Find a doctor to take it off later, and it's done.
00:51What's the big deal?
00:52Exactly.
00:53We'll find the best doctor in the country to remove it.
00:55It's not a problem.
00:56The child's adorable.
00:57Didn't you like her too?
00:59Why be so petty over something this small?
01:02Fine.
01:03After we divorce, adopt whoever you want.
01:06Adopt as many as you like.
01:08I won't care.
01:09Everyone thought I was throwing away three years of marriage on a whim,
01:13all because of one tiny birthmark.
01:15But they did not know why I refused to adopt Lily.
01:18I had already learned the truth behind that birthmark.
01:24She's just an abandoned child.
01:26How can you be so heartless?
01:28Why do you care so much?
01:30Fine.
01:31Divorce.
01:32Ms. Ashford, Lily is the best behaved child here.
01:35She never cries, and she likes your family.
01:37Let's go home and talk it over.
01:40I flung his hand away without leaving him any dignity.
01:43No need.
01:44My lawyer will draw up the agreement.
01:46Remember to come sign it.
01:47Three years married and no baby.
01:49Now we offer you one and you refuse?
01:52Are you trying to leave this family with no heir?
01:55Whenever you wanted a midnight snack,
01:57my son got up and cooked it for you,
01:59no matter how late it was.
02:01He never complained once.
02:03You only liked cake from that one bakery downtown.
02:07He stood in line for an hour every single day
02:09just to buy it for you.
02:10Do you have any conscience?
02:12I only want a grandchild.
02:14If you can't give birth, what use are you?
02:17To all of them, I was the villain now.
02:19The cold, barren, ungrateful wife.
02:22None of them knew the real reason
02:23I refused to adopt this child.
02:27I picked up my bag to leave.
02:29The little girl ran up to me, calling out,
02:31Mama.
02:34I pushed Lily away.
02:35Cassandra rushed over and caught her in her arms.
02:38That's Cassandra, Adrian's sister
02:40and his assistant at the company.
02:43Phoebe, she's just a child.
02:45She only wants a home.
02:46What's wrong with her calling you Mama?
02:48If you like her, adopt her and let her call you Mama.
02:52Don't say such things.
02:54She's the child you and my brother are adopting.
02:57So you know it's me and your brother.
02:59Then why are you meddling?
03:01Watch how fast the panic flashed across her face.
03:04Enough!
03:05Sign the papers first.
03:06I've already asked everyone here.
03:08Don't embarrass me in front of them.
03:09I won't adopt her.
03:14They say a proud man never kneels.
03:16In three years of fights, he never once knelt for me.
03:19Now here he was, on his knees, for a child with no blood tied to me at all.
03:25Adrian, do you really like her that much?
03:27I looked at the girl hiding in Cassandra's arms.
03:29So pretty, so well behaved, and so much like someone.
03:33Vivi, I'll do whatever you want from now on.
03:35I'm begging you, please sign the adoption papers.
03:40Adrian's eyes reddened.
03:41He looked deeply humiliated.
03:44Somehow, I had become the villain.
03:46All because of a birthmark the size of a mung gene.
03:49I was even willing to throw away three years of love and get a divorce.
03:52Nothing you say will make any difference.
03:54Let's get a divorce.
03:56I walked out without looking back.
04:00I went home and had my lawyer drop her up the divorce papers.
04:04Adrian did not come home until late that night.
04:06They had brought Lily with them.
04:07Everyone was carrying bags full of gifts.
04:10Lily was surrounded like a princess.
04:15The director said Lily can stay a few days.
04:18I know you don't like her.
04:19I'll take her back soon.
04:21No need.
04:22Let her stay.
04:24Really?
04:26You've decided to adopt her?
04:30No.
04:31It's just that we're getting divorced.
04:35I'm sorry.
04:36If you don't want to raise her, we won't.
04:38Just don't divorce me.
04:40I can't lose you.
04:41Margaret yanks him back.
04:43Are you cheating on Adrian?
04:44Is that why you're so desperate to divorce him?
04:47Cassandra walks over with Lily and drops to her knees.
04:51Vivi, I know you were born into the wealthy Ashford family.
04:55We Vases are just an ordinary family.
04:58You've never known what it's like to have nowhere to go.
05:01I have and I can't bear to see her live that way.
05:04I know you don't like me.
05:07If you're willing to adopt her, I'll leave the Vance family immediately.
05:10She made herself look so pitiful, it was heartbreaking.
05:13But I did not feel sorry for her at all.
05:15I even hated her.
05:20You know exactly why I won't adopt this child, don't you?
05:30A wave of dizziness swept over me, and tears slipped from the corner of my eye.
05:34I'm sorry, honey.
05:36I didn't mean to.
05:37Adrian rushed over to check my injury.
05:39I shoved his hand away, grabbed my bag, and started to leave.
05:43How dare you leave?
05:44If you walk out now, never come back to this house.
05:47If you insist on divorcing him, you won't get a single cent.
05:49I went back to my parents' home and told them everything.
05:52Mom wrapped her arms around me, heartbroken.
05:56I never imagined Adrian was this kind of man.
05:59How could he do something like this?
06:01My father wanted to storm over and confront them.
06:04I stopped him.
06:05A screaming match would be too easy on them.
06:08I would ruin Adrian's reputation.
06:10I would make sure everyone despised him.
06:13The next day I went to the company for the papers.
06:16He and Cassandra were playing with Lily.
06:17I came for the divorce agreement.
06:20Honey, tell me what I did wrong.
06:22I'll change.
06:23I only want you.
06:24I have only one demand.
06:26Divorce.
06:27Impossible!
06:28Do I have to tell everyone about all the filthy things you've done?
06:32On the surface, he stayed calm.
06:33But I caught the panic that flashed across his face.
06:36Cassandra cuts in.
06:38Let her go.
06:38This ungrateful woman hasn't got a shred of conscience.
06:43I won't let you talk about Vivi that way.
06:46Apologize to her.
06:47You won't sign?
06:49Then I'll see you in court.
06:50At the company, people whisper among themselves,
06:53I heard the CEO wants to adopt a girl, but his wife disagrees.
06:56Now they're getting divorced.
06:58That child is the CEO's biological daughter.
07:00He said so himself.
07:03Cassandra heard the gossip and came out to stop it.
07:06We're on the clock.
07:07If you want to gossip, submit your resignation first.
07:10A few days later, all my things are dumped outside my door.
07:14My favorite teddy bear lies in the mud.
07:16It was our first keepsake.
07:17The night we officially got together, Adrian ran six miles to buy it.
07:23You're quite good at faking devotion.
07:26It wasn't me, honey.
07:27I would never do that.
07:29I didn't want to hear any more excuses.
07:31So I blocked him.
07:32That night, he stood outside my door in the pouring rain until morning,
07:36playing the devoted husband.
07:38The next morning, Cassandra rushes over, helping him up.
07:42Are you out of your mind?
07:43You left Adrian standing in the rain all night.
07:46What if he gets sick?
07:47Look at what you've done.
07:49Adrian may put up with you, but no one else will.
07:52It was Lily, crying to a reporter about how I'd despised her birthmark.
07:55The director backed her up.
07:57The video spread everywhere.
07:58The entire internet turned against me.
08:00Eggs were thrown at my front door.
08:01My family's company saw its stock price plunge.
08:04Overnight, I became the most hated woman in the world.
08:09Don't worry.
08:10At the press conference, I'll make them pay.
08:14The Vance family arrives.
08:16Cassandra holds Lily.
08:19Reporters surge forward.
08:21Mrs. Ashford, did you really refuse to adopt Lily over the birthmark on her hand?
08:29I did indeed refuse to adopt Lily because of that birthmark.
08:34I have three things to show all of you.
08:42I had the first report put up on the big screen.
08:44My own medical report.
08:46Mrs. Ashford, this report clearly states you can no longer have children.
08:50Is this why you wanted to adopt?
08:51Then why refuse Lily over the birthmark?
08:53What does it have to do with your report?
08:56Please answer us directly.
08:58The questions came one after another.
09:00The crowd watching below was arguing just as fiercely.
09:04Isn't this just a checkup report?
09:05What does it have to do with the child's birthmark?
09:07She can't have children herself, so she breaks down over a sweet little girl.
09:11It's probably some kind of jealousy.
09:13If you're that bitter, don't hold a press conference.
09:16Don't take it out on a child.
09:18Everyone sided with Adrian.
09:20Then Margaret stepped forward and played the victim for the crowd.
09:23Vivi married into this family three years ago.
09:27She couldn't have children, and I never once resented her.
09:31I treated her well at home.
09:33Now I'm old.
09:34I only wanted a granddaughter to hold.
09:37Blood or not, I didn't mind.
09:39And now all this?
09:42What did I do wrong?
09:44She stirred up their sympathy, and the cameras turned to her.
09:48No one noticed how tense Adrian and Cassandra had gone.
09:51A smile tugged at the corner of my mouth.
09:54Margaret, but you already have.
09:56A granddaughter by blood.
09:58Hold her whenever you like.
09:59You can have her call you Grandma.
10:02Right now.
10:06The room went still, then broke into confusion.
10:10What is she talking about?
10:12As they all guessed, a second report loaded onto the screen.
10:16It was a paternity test between Adrian and Lily.
10:19A 99% match.
10:21It proves the blood tie.
10:23Adrian
10:26Is Lily's father.
10:28When I read it aloud, everyone was stunned.
10:31My God, she was cheated on!
10:33Lily is her husband and his mistress's child.
10:36He wanted her to raise it!
10:39Rich people really do play it this dirty.
10:43So sad.
10:45Cheated on, then nearly tricked into raising the mistress's child.
10:49He'd been cheating on her for ages.
10:52I looked over at Adrian.
10:53His face was pale as death.
10:55Cold sweat pouring down.
10:57Dozens of cameras swung to him.
10:59And the questions came flying.
11:01Mr. Vance, is what Miss Asheville said true?
11:04Mr. Vane, did you cheat?
11:06Is Lily your child with your mistress?
11:08His lips trembled.
11:09But not one word came out.
11:11I looked at him and felt nothing.
11:13I had loved him.
11:14I had mourned the child.
11:15I thought I could never give him.
11:17And this was what he'd done.
11:21When the doctor said I could never have children, Adrian pushed for adoption right away.
11:27In three years, I truly wanted to give him a child.
11:32I could see how badly Margaret longed for a grandchild.
11:36But he had never once pressed me about children before.
11:39The moment the test results came back, he started pushing for an adoption.
11:43I was drowning in the pain, certain my own body had failed me.
11:47I never saw the trap he had built.
11:50Every kind thing he did.
11:52After that report was to soften me up.
11:56For their child.
12:00Now the crowd began condemning Adrian.
12:04No wonder she's furious.
12:07Made to raise the mistress's kid?
12:10Honestly, he's lucky she didn't deck him.
12:15Good, it came out in time.
12:17Who knows how long he'd have played her.
12:20I raised the microphone again.
12:22Adrian shoved the reporters aside and tried to charge the stage.
12:26But too many people boxed him in.
12:28He couldn't break free.
12:30And instead fell flat on his face in front of everyone.
12:35Bruised, he scrambled up and still clawed toward me.
12:39He must have known what I was about to say.
12:43And it terrified him.
12:47I had my bodyguards hold him back.
12:49Almost at once, the tears came.
12:52I watched him coldly.
12:53He really should have been an actor.
12:55Don't say it! I admit it!
12:57He begged me, bitter and broken.
12:59Honey, we were husband and wife once.
13:04Don't say any more. I'm begging you.
13:06Don't call me your wife.
13:08We're in divorce proceedings.
13:10You dared to do it.
13:11You should have known this day would come.
13:14You'll do these filthy things but not own them.
13:17Hearing that, the reporters lit up, urging me to tell the whole story.
13:20Mrs. Ashfield, we're broadcasting live.
13:22Every word you say goes on the record.
13:23For weeks he had played the perfect husband.
13:25Now the whole country watched the mask fall away.
13:28I had waited weeks for this.
13:29I was not about to stop now.
13:31I held up one more test report.
13:33The reporters had caught on.
13:34Whatever came next would be the story of the year.
13:40This is another paternity test.
13:42Lily's mother is Siandra.
13:43Piandra is Adrienne's sister.
13:45The whole room gasped.
13:46For a moment it was dead silent.
13:48Two seconds later a roar of discussion broke out.
13:50This child was born of incest.
13:52Between a brother and a sister.
13:53Cheated on.
13:54Made to raise the mistress kid and the mistress is his own sister?
13:57Beyond sick.
13:58My god, these two are heartless.
14:00How could they do something like this?
14:01The reporters snapped photos like mad.
14:04Desperate not to miss a detail.
14:05Margaret stared.
14:07Wide-eyed at Cassandra beside her.
14:09Cassandra shook so hard.
14:10Her arms went limp.
14:12And Lily slipped from her grip and hit the floor.
14:14Wailing.
14:15They were not related by blood.
14:17But they had been raised as brother and sister.
14:20Flash bills kept firing at the Vounce family.
14:23A brother and a sister raised in the same house?
14:26How do you even do that?
14:27The perfect family they presented to the world was a lie from beginning to end.
14:32I looked coldly at Adrian, sprawled on the ground.
14:37After all this, what do you have left to say?
14:43Adrian crawled and scrambled to my feet, clutching at my pant leg.
14:47No, honey.
14:48I'm sorry.
14:49Don't divorce me.
14:50I was wrong.
14:51I deserve to die.
14:52I'm begging you.
14:53It was Cassandra.
14:54She seduced me.
14:55To land a good position at the company.
14:57She seduced me on purpose.
14:59I couldn't hold myself back for one moment.
15:01That's the only reason I gave in.
15:03He almost made me laugh.
15:05He actually had the nerve to say it.
15:08Did Cassandra force him into bed?
15:10If he hadn't wanted it, she never could have gotten anywhere.
15:14She could not have seduced a man who did not want her.
15:19He enjoyed every minute.
15:20Now that it's blown up, he turns his back and denies it all.
15:25The man who once ran across a city in the rain for me, was now selling out his own sister
15:29to save himself.
15:30His panic was almost funny to watch.
15:33Three years I gave this man.
15:34Three years.
15:35And this is who he really is.
15:37A coward who'd sell out anyone to save his own skin.
15:40Cassandra's face darkened.
15:41Rage bottled up inside her.
15:45Perhaps I should have noticed Cassandra's feelings for Adrian much earlier.
15:49From the day Adrian and I started dating, Cassandra had been scheming in the shadows.
15:54She tagged along on our dates.
15:56She threw a fit for a gift of her own every time he gave me one.
16:01After the wedding, she was worse.
16:04Nagging him to hand her a job at the company.
16:06At first I didn't mind.
16:07They were not related by blood but they were still siblings who had grown up together.
16:11I never dreamed the two of them could be shameless enough to sleep together behind my back.
16:15The child is over a year old now.
16:17They'd been at it for a whole year.
16:21It was the night Adrian came home smelling of her perfume that I first grew suspicious.
16:28So I hid a camera in his studio and I heard their entire plan, my husband and his sister,
16:34plotting to trap me into raising the child from their affair.
16:36The two of them were even all over each other.
16:38Right there in the study, in that moment I wanted to throw the door open
16:42and let his parents see their perfect son and daughter for what they were.
16:47Back in the room, Adrian was weeping.
16:49Honey, forgive me.
16:51I'll never dare again.
16:52This was my fault.
16:53What? Cassandra had me wrapped around her finger.
16:55I'm not even human.
16:57He slapped himself across the face, over and over, begging.
17:00Hearing all the filth flung at her, Cassandra's temper finally snapped.
17:04She pointed at him.
17:05So you've washed yourself clean?
17:06Don't you find it funny?
17:07Saying all that, you do all your thinking below the belt.
17:10I crook one finger and you come running like a dog.
17:13Even when I was pregnant and my belly was huge.
17:15You still wanted to have sex with me.
17:17You were never satisfied.
17:19And you kept saying your wife couldn't satisfy you.
17:22Have you forgotten already?
17:24You think I don't know about your other lovers?
17:27I did you a favor and kept my mouth shut.
17:29Her voice grew louder and louder until she had revealed everything between her and Adrian.
17:33He had betrayed her too.
17:35I just stood back and let the two of them tear each other apart.
17:37Adrian just knelt there and took it.
17:39No defense left in him.
17:42Enough!
17:43Margaret glared at Cassandra, clutched her chest, and collapsed.
17:47Mom!
17:47Cassandra ran to her, and Adrian's father, Robert, shoved her away.
17:51She fell, and her arms started to bleed.
17:53Robert's raised hand was trembling.
17:55This family has no daughter like you.
17:57As of today, you are no daughter of mine.
18:00He was so furious he could barely get the words out.
18:02Cassandra's tears spilled over.
18:03Dad, I was wrong.
18:04I'm sorry.
18:05Don't cast me out.
18:06Only now did she feel real fear, begging over and over.
18:09The mother who raised Cassandra as her own could not even look at her now.
18:11You've humiliated me.
18:13If you have any respect for the people who raised you, then leave now!
18:17Cassandra shook her head wildly, weeping.
18:19The Vance family was tearing itself apart in front of the whole country.
18:22They had spent years pretending to be the perfect family.
18:25It ended in a single afternoon.
18:27She had lost her brother, her mother, and her father all at once.
18:30Every lie they had built came crashing down on their heads.
18:34Adrian shoved her aside and shouted,
18:37Get mom to the hospital!
18:38What are you standing there for?
18:40The family scrambled to leave.
18:42I had my security block the doors.
18:44Have you lost your mind?
18:46Why are you stopping us?
18:47My mother collapsed.
18:48Can't you see?
18:49Are you really this heartless?
18:50His eyes were bloodshot and full of blame for me.
18:53Some in the crowd started taking his side.
18:55A life is at stake.
18:57However much you hate them, you can't let your mother-in-law die.
19:00That is a human life!
19:03I think I'd pity her when I needed to go.
19:05I'm vicious.
19:06Some even stood up and tried to drive my security off.
19:09The crowd took the moral high ground and condemned me.
19:12I didn't care.
19:13I had Margaret, and only Margaret, carried out through the crowd and into the ambulance.
19:20Adrian tried to follow and was stopped by my people.
19:24Satisfied now?
19:25Why won't you let me go?
19:27You destroyed my whole family!
19:28What more do you want?
19:30You destroyed me!
19:32I was shaking with rage, holding it down with everything I had.
19:37I hated that even now he was still trying to argue.
19:40I gripped a report, came down from the stage, and threw it at his feet.
19:45The pages scattered across the floor.
19:47My husband, Adrian, started drugging me two years ago.
19:50In the end, he left me unable to ever have children.
19:53The crowd rushed forward to read the reports.
19:55After reading them, they could not help speaking up for me.
20:00Oh my god, I don't even know what to say.
20:03This is horrible.
20:04Her own husband drugged her, and she thought she was the reason she couldn't get pregnant.
20:08He drugged her for two years just to make her raise the child he had with his sister.
20:12That man is heartless.
20:14I heard the Vance family's company only became successful because of the Ashford family's help.
20:21Adrian had become a scumbag the whole country hated.
20:25Just as I was about to go on, Adrian cut me off.
20:30You're slandering me!
20:32The evidence is right in front of you, what's left to deny.
20:34Do you think you're worthy of our child?
20:36His head snapped up, unable to believe it.
20:39What child?
20:40I fought to swallow the sob in my voice, unwilling to let him hear it.
20:45He grabbed a fistful of my clothes, his voice muffled.
20:48Say it!
20:49What child?
20:50Although I did not want to bring it up again, I had no choice now.
20:53I would make Adrian live with that guilt forever.
20:56Once, you and I had a child too.
20:58But those drugs made me lose the baby.
21:01That sentence was the last straw.
21:02He couldn't say another word.
21:05This was the deepest wound I had.
21:07The one I never let anyone see.
21:09I had carried it alone for two years, and he never even knew it existed.
21:13For two years I believed my own body had failed me.
21:16I punished myself for it every single day.
21:18It was never my body.
21:20It was him.
21:21The whole time.
21:21But I would not cry in front of him.
21:24Not ever again.
21:25I had waited two years to say those words out loud.
21:31Adrian shook his head, muttering to himself, refusing to believe it.
21:35Impossible.
21:36You must be lying.
21:37You're lying to punish me.
21:38Yes, you're lying.
21:39How could this be real?
21:40Back then, he buried himself in work.
21:42He was exhausted every single day.
21:44I hid the pregnancy so I wouldn't add to his burden.
21:46Kept in the dark for two years.
21:48I always believed the fault was mine.
21:49I never imagined he had caused it.
21:50He gripped my arm hard.
21:52Say it's all a lie.
21:53You're only doing this to get back at me.
21:54If you won't believe it, nothing more I say will help.
21:56Just take it as a lie.
21:57I didn't want to be tangled up with him a second longer.
21:59The truth is out.
22:00This press conference is over.
22:01I had the reporters sent away, and the crowd streamed out.
22:04Adrian kept muttering the same words, until Robert finally slapped him back to his senses.
22:08Adrian, you did all this and you still have the nerve to stay here.
22:11Get home.
22:11He kept insisting I was lying.
22:13Maybe a lie was easier to live with than the truth.
22:17The press conference ended, but for Adrian, the story was only beginning.
22:21By that night, his name was the number one trend across the country.
22:24Every headline carried the same words.
22:26Cheater.
22:26Poisoner.
22:27A child with his own sister.
22:28On screens everywhere.
22:29Clips of the conference play on a loop.
22:31The livestream comments never stopped scrolling.
22:33I have never seen a man fall this far, this fast.
22:36Drugged her two years to make her raise his affair baby?
22:39Pure evil.
22:40And the company was never even his.
22:41He married into her money.
22:43Robert and Cassandra dragged him out of the venue, the whole family shielding their faces
22:47from the cameras.
22:47I watched the man I once loved become the most hated man in the country, and I felt nothing
22:51at all.
22:52For three years, they had built a cage around me, quietly, patiently.
22:57Now the whole world watched it all come crashing down on them.
22:59For weeks, he had painted me as the cruel, barren wife who tortured a child.
23:03Now every screen in the country told the real story, and there was no cutting it out of
23:06the video.
23:07He finally learned what it felt like to be judged by a crowd that had already made up its mind.
23:10The perfect husband the world admired had been a lie in a good suit all along.
23:16Days later, paparazzi camped outside the Vance mansion.
23:19They livestreamed the moment Cassandra was thrown out, a suitcase in one hand, Lily trailing
23:23behind her.
23:23Robert had meant every word.
23:25She was no daughter of Liz anymore.
23:26The woman who we once known wept about having no home, now had no home again.
23:29Only this time, not one person felt sorry for her.
23:32The mistress who slept with her own brother?
23:33Let her figure it out on the street.
23:35Imagine dragging a little girl through all of this.
23:38That poor kid.
23:39Then the last piece dropped.
23:41The adoption agency had lied from the start.
23:44Lily was never an orphan waiting for a family.
23:47The sweet little girl, the tearful signing, the whole performance, all of it was staged.
23:51A trap built to make me raise their child.
23:53The trap they built for me swallowed them whole instead.
23:56Cassandra walked off into the crowd with nothing left.
23:58Not even a name.
23:59The family that once looked down of me had nothing left to look down for.
24:02Every door that once opened for the Vance name slammed shut in a single week.
24:07She had traded a family that fed and raised her for a man who wouldn't even claim her.
24:15You would think that after all of it, Adrian would finally let me go.
24:21He didn't.
24:22He clung on, refusing to sign, dragging it out any way he could.
24:29A drowning man, grabbing at anything to stay afloat.
24:32But I was done waiting on a coward.
24:34I took him to court.
24:37I had more than enough evidence.
24:39The paternity tests, the drugging report, the recording from his study.
24:44Every lie he ever told me.
24:46Documented, stamped undeniable.
24:49The man who married into money had nothing left to bargain with.
24:52For three years he had made me feel small, powerless, grateful for scraps.
24:57Now I held every card, and he knew it.
25:00I gathered every page and walked in without a shred of doubt.
25:03This would be the last time I ever laid eyes on Adrian Vance.
25:06He had spent three years leaning on my name, my money, my patience.
25:11Now every one of them was gone.
25:14And he was left holding the wreckage.
25:17I almost pitied him.
25:20Almost.
25:27One month apart, and Adrian had wasted to a shadow.
25:31A gust of wind looked like it could carry him off.
25:33The polished CEO was gone.
25:36What sat across from me was a hollow, gray man.
25:39From the first word to the last, he never once defended himself.
25:43And what defense was there?
25:45Every claim I made, I could prove on paper.
25:49The court finds Mr. Vance the party at fault.
25:52He leaves this marriage with nothing.
25:54Nothing.
25:54The word suited him perfectly.
25:56He had come into my life with nothing.
25:58Married my money, and built a lie on top of it.
26:00Now he walked out exactly as he came in, empty-handed.
26:03I signed the last page, and my hand never once shook.
26:07Three years of my life, closed with a single signature.
26:10There were no reporters in the room now, no audience to perform for.
26:14Just a judge, a stack of evidence, and a man who had finally run out of lies.
26:20I felt the last thread between me snap, quietly, for good.
26:26He opened his mouth once as if to speak, then closed it again.
26:30There was nothing to say.
26:34As I turned to leave, he called my name.
26:37The wind outside was so loud, I almost didn't hear him.
26:40Wait.
26:41A gift.
26:42For the child we lost.
26:44It was the same shape as the one he'd run six miles to buy me, years ago.
26:48But the stitches were crooked and clumsy, and his hands were wrapped in bandages.
26:53The factory closed long ago.
26:56I couldn't buy one anywhere.
26:59So I made it myself.
27:00Days of work, fingers torn raw, for a bear I never asked for.
27:05Once, a gesture like that would have undone me completely.
27:09Now all I saw was a man who could sew a bear by hand,
27:13but couldn't stop himself from poisoning his own wife.
27:16I looked at it for a long moment.
27:19Then I looked at him.
27:21No need.
27:22Keep it yourself.
27:24That was the last thing I ever said to Adrian Vance.
27:29He stood there holding that crooked little bear, waiting for me to soften.
27:33I didn't.
27:34Some things you can't stitch back together, no matter how torn your hands get.
27:40The rest, I heard about second hand.
27:43None of it was my concern anymore.
27:46The Vance group could not survive the storm.
27:49Clients fled.
27:50Partners vanished overnight.
27:52Within months, Adrian's company filed for bankruptcy.
27:56The family sold the mansion and moved into a cramped old apartment on the edge of the city.
28:00Robert, Margaret, Adrian.
28:02All of them crammed into a few rooms with paper-thin walls.
28:05The neighbors say the fighting starts almost every night.
28:07Screaming.
28:08Slam doors.
28:09Blame flung in every direction.
28:11Margaret finally got her wish.
28:13The whole family together, under one roof.
28:15Just never the way she dreamed it.
28:17Cassandra vanished somewhere with Lily.
28:19Another mouth to feed and no one left to help her.
28:22Adrian, the perfect husband who once had everything, ended with nothing.
28:25And no one.
28:26From what I hear, Adrian barely leaves his room anymore.
28:29The great CEO.
28:30The devoted husband.
28:32All of it gone with the money that was never his.
28:35Robert, who once threatened to leave me with nothing, now had nothing of his own.
28:39And me?
28:41While their world came apart, mine was finally beginning.
28:45My company grew stronger by the month.
28:48My name went up on the building.
28:50My own name.
28:51Ashford.
28:52The same reporters who once vilified me now lined up to cover my success.
28:57My parents watched from the front row, proud of me all over again.
29:00I lost a marriage.
29:02I lost a child.
29:04I lost time I will never get back.
29:06But I walked out with the truth.
29:08My company.
29:09And my own life.
29:11My name is Vivian Ashford.
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