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He Faked Our Marriage For My Dying Sister
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00:00I found out I was pregnant.
00:01Mrs. Ashford, this marriage certificate isn't valid.
00:04With one sentence, my whole life cracked.
00:09I told myself the hospital had made a mistake.
00:12Mr. Ashford is legally married. His spouse of record is Vivian Whitmore.
00:19My half-sister, his first love.
00:22Four years ago, Viviana ran from her wedding, and I was pushed into her place.
00:28I cared for Gideon until cold poletness began to look like love.
00:32You really are impossible, aren't you?
00:35Your sister's dying. You need to step aside.
00:39The wedding will just be a show. You're my only wife.
00:43And I believed him, even as he married her in front of me.
00:51I went to Gideon for the truth, still hoping there was an explanation.
00:55Mr. Ashford is in a meeting right now.
00:59Wasn't your marriage to Celia fake from the start?
01:01You only agreed to let Celia marry you because you wanted to force me to come back.
01:05Yes. I never got over you.
01:09There had never been a marriage. There had never been a heart.
01:13So I would leave him to the woman he chose.
01:19Are you here for Miss Vivian Whitmore's exhibition? Right this way.
01:25The scar in that painting belonged to Gideon.
01:28Vivian had painted him again and again.
01:30On June 20th, while I starved behind a locked door, he cooked for her.
01:37On July 1st, while I bled alone, he folded her nightgown with our wedding ring on his hand.
01:44Every public defense had been theater.
01:46While I waited for him, he was already with her.
01:55I need to schedule a termination. One week from today.
01:58You'll leave in ten days. Think of it as a vacation.
02:02We just want Vivian to spend her last days in peace.
02:08I know. I'll go.
02:11I agreed because I no longer wanted Gideon or the family that kept erasing me.
02:16I packed every proof that I had once mistaken survival for love.
02:27He came home just as I was erasing him.
02:36Celia, what are you doing?
02:41Vivian's moving in, isn't she?
02:43I'm clearing things out.
02:46I'm just playing along.
02:48If I'd really wanted to marry her, I would have brought her back four years ago.
02:52He still thought I needed his lie.
02:55You know exactly who you wanted to marry at first.
02:59Something came up at work.
03:03Wake up.
03:04He doesn't love you.
03:06Can't you see?
03:07Yes.
03:07I saw it now.
03:09Gideon had never loved me.
03:16From that moment on,
03:17I stopped begging for scraps that had never been mine.
03:20He called it role play,
03:21but he still looked at her exactly as he had four years ago.
03:29Her life may be short,
03:31but she has a man who has never once left her side.
03:33In every family photograph,
03:35Vivian was loved.
03:36I was only a blur in the corner.
03:38Have those right from the screen.
03:39Then the screens changed.
03:43Vivian Whitmare should burn in hell.
03:46I had never written a word of it,
03:48but the trap had already closed.
03:52Vivian!
03:57He carried her away without looking at me.
04:00Vivian is dying,
04:01and you still had the nerve to curse her?
04:08It wasn't me!
04:09Bring her to the basement,
04:10and lock the door.
04:14Open the door!
04:15Please!
04:15Please let me out!
04:19When the door finally opened,
04:21I crawled toward the light.
04:27They told me blood would cleanse you.
04:29Please don't leave me in here.
04:31You know I'm afraid of the dark.
04:33You have to face the consequences.
04:36The man who once protected me from darkness
04:38handed me back to it.
04:40My stomach hurts.
04:41I think I'm losing the baby.
04:43Please take me to the hospital.
04:44How could you?
04:45You're not pregnant.
04:48I am.
04:49It's your...
04:50That's enough.
04:51I'll come back for you in three days.
04:57I couldn't hold on to him,
04:58the child,
04:59or consciousness.
05:00Gideon Ashford,
05:01this time,
05:02I finally saw what you were.
05:11You had a massive hemorrhage.
05:12A few minutes later,
05:13and we wouldn't have been able to save you.
05:17I survived.
05:19My child didn't.
05:22Your husband's phone kept going to voicemail.
05:27Don't tell him about the pregnancy.
05:30Whatever still connected me to Gideon,
05:32I wanted dead.
05:34He never came,
05:36but Vivian posted the tender Nanrens Vindis
05:38I once thought belonged to me.
05:44I had only been standing in another woman's place.
05:51I thought this wall looked cluttered.
05:53You don't mind, do you?
05:55Do whatever you want.
05:59Is that really the attitude you're going to give her?
06:05The Whitmans don't want you.
06:07Gideon doesn't want you.
06:09You and your pathetic mother
06:10were always extra weight nobody asked for.
06:16Are you afraid that somewhere in those four years,
06:18he actually started loving me?
06:19If he loved you,
06:20would he let me humiliate you?
06:22It no longer mattered.
06:23I was leaving tomorrow.
06:27I came to pray for the child I never held.
06:33He climbed the pilgrim path to pray for the woman he loves.
06:36He had never loved me enough to kneel.
06:40At dusk,
06:41I started down the mountain alone.
06:51Someone had been waiting for me.
07:00I didn't realize you were capable of trying to kill her!
07:03I didn't.
07:04Mr. Ashfield!
07:06We got her out!
07:07Gideon,
07:09I'm scared.
07:11I'm here.
07:12No one's going to hurt you.
07:15Take her.
07:17Except me.
07:18I was never included in his promise.
07:21Mr. Ashford said this is your punishment.
07:23He wants you to understand what Vivian went through.
07:29No signal.
07:30No rescue.
07:32If I stayed there,
07:34I would die.
07:35He would never choose me.
07:36So I chose myself and climbed.
07:42By dawn,
07:43I had dragged my broken body home.
07:47Get up!
07:53The curses weren't mine.
07:55I didn't push her.
07:56I don't have a daughter like you!
07:59At last,
08:00he said aloud what he had shown me all my life.
08:05Vivian's exhibit caught fire.
08:07Every painting was destroyed.
08:09That wasn't me.
08:11You can investigate.
08:12If I destroy this,
08:14you'll understand what it feels like
08:15to lose something that matters.
08:19No, please!
08:20Don't!
08:26My mother's ashes were so inside that doll.
08:29He burned the last thing she left me.
08:38You don't actually think I'm dying, do you?
08:40The diagnosis was a lie.
08:42And your marriage certificate?
08:43Fake.
08:44The real one has my name.
08:46Then I wish you a long and happy life together.
08:50When you come back,
08:51we'll deal with this properly.
08:56JFK.
09:00Gideon Ashfield,
09:01I hope you can live with the truth when it reaches you.
09:07Minutes after I left,
09:08proof of my miscarriage,
09:09and the first crack in Vivian's lie
09:11were already on their way to him.
09:15The day after I left,
09:17Vivian's began erasing me room by room.
09:26What are you doing?
09:27And when Celia comes back...
09:29I just want to spend whatever time I have left painting.
09:32Once Celia comes back,
09:34I'll give it back.
09:39Pack Celia's personal things and put them in storage,
09:42for now.
09:43You're so good to me.
09:45I said I would do something.
09:47I keep my word.
09:51She had the room,
09:52the title,
09:53and his pity.
09:54But she wanted every year I would never give her.
09:56Her diagnosis was a lie,
09:58and she knew Gideon was beginning to doubt.
10:04Sympathy was no longer enough.
10:06She needed a child.
10:10It's freezing outside.
10:12Drink this.
10:13I don't want you to catch cold.
10:18He drank it without a second thought.
10:21She had already decided what the night would become.
10:28The heat reached him before the suspicion did.
10:32What did you put in that tea?
10:39I don't have much time left.
10:41Can't you just give me this?
10:46Have you lost your mind?
10:50If I'm dying anyway,
10:51maybe I'd rather have one good night?
10:56She used his guilt,
10:57his body,
10:58and my shadow to trap him.
11:01Even in her bed,
11:02the face following him through sleep was mine.
11:11Don't go.
11:22There was not a trace of a dying woman in her.
11:30The board meeting starts in an hour.
11:33Come back early tonight?
11:42He left with doubt.
11:44She stayed behind,
11:45believing she had finally erased me.
11:47Mom, it worked.
11:54The hospital's already taken care of.
11:59Once whence you're carrying his child,
12:01let's see what Celia can do.
12:04My days are numbered.
12:06If I stop showing up now,
12:08I may never get the chance again.
12:15A real dying man looked as if life was already leaving him.
12:18They had both been given six months.
12:23Only one of them looked sick.
12:31Send me the records from your last hospital workup.
12:37My doctor is one of the best.
12:39You don't even want a second opinion?
12:41She sent the chart because refusing again would look worse.
12:44Tell me if anything looks unusual.
12:55Hello?
12:56I overheard staff talking about Mrs. Ashford.
12:58Celia,
12:59she asked the hospital not to contact you,
13:01but you have a right to the truth.
13:15Seven weeks pregnant.
13:17The truth I had begged him to believe
13:19was finally in his hands.
13:22He ran to the hospital too late to save anything.
13:25No!
13:37Yes, she was pregnant.
13:38We called her family.
13:40We called you.
13:41Repeatedly.
13:42No one answered.
13:51Mrs. Ashford was carrying your child.
13:53I don't understand how you could be this heartless.
14:01He had called my truth a performance.
14:08At last he understood.
14:10He had not merely abandoned me.
14:12He had killed our child.
14:21A woman protecting her unborn baby
14:23would never have risked it for revenge.
14:28For the first time,
14:30he saw that every accusation had been a lie.
14:48Tell me the truth
14:49and I'll let him live.
14:52Three,
14:53two,
14:54the curse!
14:55Video!
14:56The cliff!
14:57The gallery fire!
14:59It was all Lenara and Viviana!
15:01They states everything!
15:12The curse has to be nasty.
15:16Besides,
15:17I'm not actually dying.
15:19Drug Celia
15:19and get her to the cliff.
15:23Set the gallery on fire.
15:26I want Gideon
15:27completely done with her.
15:33I dumped him for a rich man overseas
15:35and the second I came back,
15:37he was taking me back anyway.
15:39Okay.
15:50Are you gonna let her walk away?
15:52Of course not.
15:54She will feel everything Celia suffered.
15:57No one speaks of this.
16:10It was a misdiagnosis.
16:14It was just a benign tumor.
16:28Have you told Celia?
16:33Perhaps it's time to make things clean with Celia.
16:44Fine.
16:45You'd really choose me over Celia?
16:49We're legally married.
16:51The only reason I married Celia
16:53was because of you.
16:59She took the title publicly.
17:02Gideon gave her money,
17:03luxury,
17:04and the performance she wanted.
17:12Good morning, Mrs. Ashford.
17:22Don't wear yourself out.
17:24Be home early.
17:25She had won the title.
17:27She still did not have his heart.
17:36You're going to be a father.
17:40She expected joy.
17:42He gave her silence.
17:49Celia's gone.
17:51Are you finally starting to miss her?
17:56Don't start.
17:57Stress isn't good for the baby.
18:09Every night,
18:10his thoughts returned to me.
18:13Simon sent one photograph a day.
18:17He did not come after me
18:18because apologies were all he had,
18:21and he knew they were worthless.
18:35Before facing me,
18:36he wanted everyone who hurt me to pay.
18:45Take her to the private clinic.
18:48Follow the plan exactly.
18:53I hope it's a boy.
19:09This is the clinic.
19:11Mr. Ashton arranged a private facility
19:14just for you.
19:23why did you lock it the same kind of darkness she built for me
19:29was waiting for her bucket after bucket
19:33the cleansing Gideon once watched them use on me
19:45your assistant locked me in tell him to let me out
19:48it wasn't my assistant I'm the one who locked you in
19:57when did you know you lied about cancer you framed Celia you made her lose the
20:03baby now you'll learn what it feels like to lose one yourself this is kidnapping
20:08it's a crime and what do you call everything you did to Celia
20:30Vivian answer me
20:38the first person to notice Vivian was missing was the mother who helped build
20:42every lie
20:54you work for me how dare you mr. Ashford knows everything when my mother got sick you
21:02held the bills over my head they've moved with bad then you use my son to cut this
21:08nonsense and let me go Eli don't do this
21:18I don't have to crawl for you anymore
21:33Conrad will tear you apart mr. Whitmer can barely save himself what matters more than meeting your own father-in
21:42-law
21:52you hear about the cash flow issue
21:57I can stop all you have to do is sign
22:09what is this supposed to mean the shares will be transferred to Celia
22:17your wife is Vivian what exactly is Celia to you
22:24Vivian is your daughter is Celia not you knew you turned a blind eye while they lied about
22:30cancer and went after Celia
22:37it wasn't like that you have to believe Celia was pregnant a woman who wanted to give her child safety
22:43and love would never attack anyone I have every recording every message do you want to hear them
22:50and if I refuse
22:59then in three months there won't be a Whitmer group left to sign over
23:08the father who raced me was about to lose everything bearing his name
23:15the attacks dame fawn and merciless against Gideon my father could not hold the line
23:29I'll sign where's the agreement
23:34the white more group is about to become a shell the transfer doesn't matter anymore
23:42after three days Vivian was alive but the child was gone
23:56nearly every bone in Lenora's body was shattered her mind never returned
24:06no allies no leverage he watched the family empire disappear piece by piece
24:24now the next person who must answer for what happened to Celia is me give me her address
24:31sir I'm sorry I lied to you
24:39the photos I sent were edited composites
24:43so where is she
24:49I don't know she only asked me to keep you calm
24:51she didn't tell you so you never thought to ask
24:57I was the one who shoved her over the cliff
24:59when she said she never wanted you to find her I said yes
25:17find her tear the world apart if you have to
25:20six months later I was alive under an open sky
25:29it's cold out here
25:34thank you
25:35your first book is officially out how does it feel
25:40unreal
25:41unreal
25:41like waking up inside someone else's life
25:57before Gideon I wanted to be a novelist
26:02on the ship I finally began writing again
26:14she said no walk away
26:18he noticed my boundaries before he asked for my story
26:22you write fiction
26:23guilty
26:25what kind of fiction
26:26if you really want to know I can show you
26:39he vanished for two days
26:41I assumed silence was kinder than telling me the book was bad
26:49I loved it
26:50I'd like to invest in publishing it if you're interested
27:00for the first time someone treated my words as worth protecting
27:09I'm not going anywhere
27:10thank you
27:11friends don't say thank you like that
27:23Celia I loved your book
27:27Celia I loved your book
27:28the life my family dismissed had become something strangers cherished
27:35a mysterious fan bought every copy
27:37he wants to invite you to dinner
27:43I thought an excited reader had made an extravagant gesture
27:50I didn't want to be rude
28:07the moment the door opened
28:09the room became too small to breathe in
28:23Celia
28:23six months of freedom
28:25and one voice dragged every wound back into the room
28:33I finally found you
28:37he sounded relieved
28:38I felt only danger
28:44I had the whole restaurant locked down
28:47you're not leaving
28:49you went to a lot of trouble to trick me here Mr. Ashvin
28:56Vivian
28:57Vivian framed you
28:58I know about the miscarriage too
29:04so
29:06what exactly are you trying to say
29:07I thought she was dying Celia
29:09what was I supposed to do
29:10whether she manipulated you or not
29:12the damage you did is still there
29:13even standing here ill with you makes me uneasy
29:22give me one more chance
29:33cornering a woman who doesn't want to see you isn't a great look
29:38we're still married
29:42married?
29:43when exactly were we ever married?
29:46the hospital told me the certificate was fake
29:48you and Vivianna were the legal couple
29:51you never loved me
29:52leave some dignity on the floor
30:04my body escaped Gideon
30:05my nightmares had not
30:12help me
30:14it wasn't me
30:17it wasn't me
30:18it wasn't me
30:19how are you feeling?
30:29better
30:30my fever broke
30:32the rest of me hadn't healed
30:34Gideon took over the Whitmore group
30:36he wants to sign it over to you
30:40no
30:42I don't want it
30:49are you sure you want to hand your family's company to him?
31:02can you help me with something?
31:12I don't want him showing up in front of me ever again
31:17I don't want him showing up in front of me ever again
31:22it's
31:22don't
31:23carry it alone
31:24let a friend help
31:30Celia
31:31for two weeks
31:32Bennett left left before sunrise
31:34and returned after dark
31:46I stayed away from the ship
31:48afraid Gideon was watching
31:58Ms. Witt here, something's happened to Mr. Vale
32:04what happened?
32:05it's hard to explain
32:05I'm sending the address
32:18what happened?
32:19it's hard to explain
32:19the villa looked less like a home than a private prison
32:27Gideon Ashford has Bennett
32:28he said if you refuse to see him, Mr. Vale will pay
32:36he lets Bennett go first
32:38once I see him alive, I'll go in
32:40I had spent years being used as a sacrifice
32:43this time, I entered on my own terms
32:59you're hurt
33:02who told you to come here?
33:05Gideon isn't thinking straight
33:07if you go in you're walking into a trap
33:10trust me
33:11I'll protect myself
33:22I'm going
33:24I'm going
33:24wait for me
33:26he let go because he respected the choice Gideon never had
33:34is this what you want Gideon?
33:36I only know I want you to stay
33:41you had so many chances to keep me
33:47I'll spend the rest of my life making it up to you
33:50sign Ashburn group over to Bennett
33:52and I'll consider giving you a chance to atone
33:56anything else, not that
34:01then there's nothing to discuss
34:12he searched the world for gifts as if Price could rewrite memory
34:18so I used the only freedom he had not taken
34:21my words
34:32sir, I think you should see this
34:41the heroine's life was mine, almost line for line
34:52chapter by chapter
34:54strangers assembled the truth both families had buried
34:57if we don't step in partners and investors may pull out
35:07don't touch it
35:12don't touch it
35:16he would fight Bennett for his empire
35:18but if I burned it down
35:20he intended to watch
35:37nearly half the company's value vanished
35:39Gideon did nothing
35:51then
35:52on a stormy night
35:54I found the man who once controlled
35:57everything sitting on the floor
36:01why didn't you stop me?
36:04this is what I owe you
36:08you know all I want is to leave
36:14if I die, you can walk out
36:23your heroine stabs the hero in the heart
36:26I'm giving you the chance
36:30Gideon are you insane?
36:32even his punishment
36:33became another wound
36:35he forced me to carry
36:36if I die by your hand
36:39maybe that counts as peace
36:47his blood stayed on my hands after the siren disappeared
36:56Celia
36:58don't be afraid
36:59I'm taking you home
37:05his arms hurt my ribs
37:07for the first time that night
37:09pain felt like safety
37:10the seven major syndicates have taken control of the market
37:14the court frozen every asset Gideon has left
37:17he has no leverage now
37:23how's your wound?
37:28I'm fine
37:29I'm fine
37:32one day, I hope you'll believe me when I say I can protect you
37:40quietly, I began reaching for warmth without fear
37:46making breakfast for a shuspelling author is an honor
37:54I booked the revolving restaurant
37:56we should celebrate
38:03I brought you something, go on
38:14the letters you wrote to your penmaid
38:16all forty-three
38:18I kept every one
38:19Z was the first person who made me believe I could become a writer
38:25then he disappeared
38:27and my family burned everything
38:34when I read your manuscript
38:37the voice felt familiar
38:38I compared it with every letter
38:40then I knew
38:51I'd like to spend the years ahead being the first person to read everything you write
39:01yes
39:03I'd like that
39:11there isn't an effective treatment
39:14don't build your life around hoping this changes
39:25Bennett said children changed nothing
39:28but could his family say the same?
39:34Celia, Celia
39:40it really is you
39:44what are you doing here?
39:47pancreatic cancer
39:48maybe two months
39:51you look so much like your mother
39:57don't say her name, you don't get to
40:00if you ever cared about me
40:02let this be the last thing I ask
40:13no
40:16what happened to them is consequence
40:18not tragedy
40:20the same goes for you
40:24everything between me and the Whitmills had finally run out of road
40:36six months later, I stood in white
40:40looking into a life I once believed was impossible
40:49wouldn't that be too soon?
40:50send me your location
40:51my parents want to meet you
40:52there you are
40:53dinner's almost ready
40:59come tell me if these pastries are any good
41:02Bennett funded the home himself
41:04the children there are wonderful
41:14our family has never cared about bloodlines
41:17Bennett wants you
41:18that's enough
41:21like it was made for you
41:28the frightened woman was gone
41:31Mrs. Vale
41:32it's time
41:35I stepped into a life where love made me softer
41:39not smaller
41:45another year passed
41:46I returned to pray
41:53not for what I had lost
41:54but for the children waiting at home
42:09then I saw a face that once ruled every nightmare
42:18he's brother Julian
42:20I heard he wronged the woman he loved and came here to repent
42:29for one heartbeat every old year returned
42:32then the feeling passed
42:43what are you looking at?
42:45nothing
42:45just someone who looked familiar
42:48clear your schedule
42:50let's take the children for a picnic
42:53done
42:57may every hurt remain in the past
43:00may each new day still find me able to smile
43:03no
43:03no
43:04no
43:04no
43:04no