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00:00En Sicily, il y a une tradition de bridesmatches.
00:03Un homme doit s'envoyer dans l'estate d'un couvert à la nuit,
00:07l'honne-t-elle sur sa tête, et l'honne-t-il.
00:103 ans...
00:10J'ai hâte de tous attendre Adrien.
00:13Et aujourd'hui, il s'envoie enfin,
00:16s'envoyer dans mon estate avec ses hommes.
00:19Je suis allé à partir de lui,
00:21quand j'ai entendu son voix lui donner des ordres.
00:24Quand il s'est chaotique,
00:25il s'envoie dans les rooms et prendre Bella.
00:27Elle est fragile.
00:28Je ne vais pas m'arrêter de la Romano playboy
00:30et rot dans ces mountains forever.
00:33As pour Serena,
00:34c'est fierce.
00:35Si elle s'envoie,
00:36elle s'envoie comme hell.
00:37Juste attention.
00:38Outside the door,
00:39ses men exchanged unheasy lips.
00:42Adrien,
00:43you sure?
00:44You and Serena already have that marriage certificate.
00:46If she finds out,
00:47she'll blow the roof off this place.
00:49Let her.
00:50It's dark.
00:50Mistakes happen.
00:51I'll just sweet-talk her later
00:53and smooth things over.
00:55Besides,
00:56you all know the marriage certificate between me and Serena
00:58is a fake.
01:01I promised Bella I'd take her to the city to live.
01:03For now,
01:04Serena will just have to swallow it.
01:06Behind that door,
01:07I heard every single word.
01:09No tears.
01:10No scene.
01:10I quietly stepped back inside.
01:12They thought when I realized the groom had been swapped,
01:14I'd put up a huge fight like always.
01:17Beat the kidnappers.
01:19Half to death.
01:21But I didn't.
01:29Luca Romano.
01:32A name the entire underworld fears.
01:36I just quietly climbed onto his back.
01:39Became the bride of the most feared dawn in the city.
01:49Back in my room,
01:50I numbly picked up my phone.
01:53The glare made my eyes sting.
01:56My friend's text was the last straw.
01:59She told me my engagement to Adrian had never existed.
02:03Something in my chest quietly broke.
02:06For three years,
02:08nothing I did was ever good enough for Carmen.
02:11In public,
02:12she never even said my name.
02:14I was just that little stray from the hillside estate.
02:19Move,
02:20you little stray.
02:23At every Russo family dinner,
02:25they stuck me at the far end of the table.
02:28Adrian sent me back to the Moretti estate
02:30and promised he'd bring me to Nova
02:32after the midnight bride-taking ritual.
02:35I believed him.
02:37Now I know.
02:38He just wanted me gone,
02:40so he could love Bella instead.
02:42the fragile girl he was always protecting.
02:52The courtyard outside was already deafening.
02:55Firelight stained half the sky red.
02:57All that celebration was for Bella.
02:59This wasn't my room.
03:00It was Bella's.
03:02This afternoon,
03:03Vera called me over,
03:04took my hand,
03:05and for once,
03:06spoke gently.
03:09Serena,
03:10stay in Bella's room tonight.
03:12With the midnight bride-taking ritual,
03:14they won't find you in that back room.
03:16And the Romano men coming for Bella play rough.
03:20You've always been tough.
03:22Bella's not.
03:23If she gets hurt,
03:24it'll be a mess.
03:26And Adrian doesn't know the estate,
03:28so stay in the front room
03:29and save him from tearing the whole place apart.
03:34I knew what she meant.
03:37In that ritual,
03:39the groom's side storms in,
03:41and the bride's side fights back.
03:42The punches and shoves are real.
03:45I went along with it.
03:47For Adrian.
03:49I even sent him my room.
03:53What I didn't know was,
03:55they were all setting me up.
03:57Vera wanted me,
03:59taking the hits for Bella,
04:00and Adrian used it to pull off his bride swap.
04:07The noise outside suddenly swelled.
04:10Cheers and firecrackers rattled the window frame.
04:13They got her!
04:14They got the bride!
04:15Get Adrian out of there!
04:16Some people were shouting.
04:18Some were laughing.
04:19I listened without moving a muscle.
04:22I knew who they'd taken.
04:26I could picture it.
04:28Adrian stumbling through the crowd
04:29with Bella on his back,
04:31his men covering him.
04:32And Bella fake struggling for a second,
04:34then soaking up the protection
04:36that should have been mine.
04:40Good for you.
04:41If you're so in love, then be together.
04:45A few minutes later,
04:47my door slammed open.
04:49Another bride-taking crew rushed in out of the dark,
04:52the Romano family,
04:53the biggest crime family in town.
04:55Bella was their target,
04:57but I didn't hide.
04:59I sat there and waited for fate
05:02to pass judgment again.
05:08The rules of the bride-taking ritual
05:11said that if the bride didn't resist,
05:13she accepted the marriage.
05:16Adrian used that rule
05:17to take someone else.
05:19So I would use it
05:21to leave him.
05:26A few men in black rushed into the dark room
05:28and grabbed for me without a word.
05:30No flashlights.
05:32No checking.
05:34Just rough hands yanking at me.
05:39The harder they hit the bride,
05:41the more it meant her family wouldn't let her go,
05:43and the harder the groom's side had to fight for her.
05:46That was the ritual resistance at the door.
05:48I didn't dodge.
05:50I didn't fight back.
05:51I let them shove me into the corner.
05:54At first it felt staged.
05:58Then it changed.
06:00The hits got real.
06:02Hard.
06:03And vicious.
06:04This wasn't ritual anymore.
06:07It was humiliation.
06:08They were taking all their anger
06:10at the Moretti family out on me.
06:16You've always been tough.
06:18Bella's not.
06:19If she gets hurt,
06:20it'll be a mess.
06:21Trust me.
06:22Once this blows over,
06:24I'll marry you properly.
06:26Every punch hurt.
06:28But not as much as realizing
06:30the man I loved had spent three years playing me
06:33with my stepmother's whole family in on it.
06:36Just as another man raised his fist to hit me again,
06:39a strong arm shot out of the dark and blocked it.
06:46Enough.
06:49He stepped in front of me.
06:51Tall and solid.
06:52Like nothing could move him.
06:55The others pulled back with awkward laughs.
06:58They were clearly wary of him.
07:03The man in front of me was tall.
07:04In the dim light,
07:05I could only make out the hard line of his face.
07:07There was something steady and imposing about him.
07:10Luca.
07:10It's the custom.
07:11The harder the ritual resistance at the door,
07:13the more it shows the bride matters.
07:15We're doing this for the heir's sake.
07:18Custom?
07:18What custom?
07:19Easy for you to say when it's not your wife.
07:21If she were the one getting beat like this,
07:22you'd just stand there and watch?
07:23Everything went quiet for a beat.
07:25The men just looked at each other,
07:26not daring to say another word.
07:28Then he glanced back at me,
07:29his eyes deep and calm.
07:31He crouched down with his back to me.
07:35I stared at those broad shoulders and froze for a moment.
07:40Don't be scared.
07:41I'm getting you out of here.
07:45I quietly leaned against his back
07:47and wrapped my arms around his neck.
07:52He ran hard, but steady.
08:00One arm tight under my knees so I wouldn't fall.
08:02Adrian thought I'd fight back
08:04once I realized they'd switched the groom.
08:06He had no idea I'd lie still on this stranger's back
08:08and become another man's bride.
08:13The night air was cool, rich with the smell of earth.
08:16When we crossed the first ridge,
08:18we ran into Adrian.
08:20The firelight flickered over a few familiar faces.
08:23Bella had her face buried in Adrian's shoulder,
08:25her arms locked tight around his neck.
08:27Kiss her! Kiss her! Kiss her!
08:29I lay still on Luca's back and watched them come closer.
08:33The firelight swept over my face.
08:36Adrian glanced over and stopped on me for a second.
08:40Just a second.
08:41He didn't recognize me.
08:43Bella murmured something in his ear
08:45and he turned to her with a smile that stung.
08:47All his patience, all his tenderness,
08:49belonged to someone else.
08:51I was just the sacrifice he could throw away.
08:56That blinding smile took me right back to three years ago,
08:59when he first came to the old estate to look for me
09:01with that same smile.
09:04Back then, he braved the mountain road and that downpour
09:07just to bring me my favorite pastries.
09:18I didn't want you waiting.
09:19A little pain's nothing.
09:20For my wife, gladly.
09:21He could have stayed safe and comfortable,
09:23but he came all the way out here for me.
09:26Holding that bag of pastries,
09:27I really thought he was the man I'd spend my life with.
09:31And now he had Bella on his back,
09:33smiling just like he used to.
09:35When did he change?
09:40Luca?
09:41Didn't expect to see you here.
09:42You doing the midnight bride-taking ritual too?
09:44Which family?
09:44The estate next door.
09:46Adrian looked at me again, then smiled.
09:47I could feel his eyes on my back so long,
09:50I almost thought he'd recognize me.
09:51Then Bella spoke.
09:52Adrian, my foot still hurts.
09:54Let's go.
09:55We still have to make it to the estate before dawn.
10:02Fine, let's go.
10:05Luca!
10:06Drinks are on me next time we're back in town!
10:10I used to tell him if he ever came for me,
10:12I'd jump on his back first.
10:15He'd laugh, ruffle my hair, call me a silly girl.
10:18But now I was on another man's back,
10:21and I couldn't even be bothered to look at him.
10:23I'm Luca, Luca Romano.
10:26My cousin was supposed to come for you tonight,
10:28but he ran off.
10:29When I came in, I was just trying to hide you
10:31so those idiots wouldn't hurt you.
10:34But you didn't fight me.
10:36By the rules, once you enter the Romano estate,
10:38you're my wife.
10:41If you don't want that, I'll take you back.
10:45I'm not going back.
10:47Okay.
10:48One word, okay.
10:49Then he just carried me, steady as ever,
10:52one step at a time.
10:53And in that moment,
10:55I knew anywhere was better than turning back.
10:58Bonfires blade across the Russo family compound
11:00as everyone celebrated the success
11:01of the Midnight Bride taking ritual.
11:04Off to the side,
11:05Adrian sat with his phone in his hand,
11:07still waiting for a message from me.
11:09He already had his excuses ready.
11:12He was just waiting for me to call furious,
11:15so he could soothe me.
11:17But this time, there was no accusation,
11:20no call.
11:21Waiting on Serena?
11:22Don't.
11:23She's probably too busy beating people up.
11:25With that temper, that spoiled Romano brat
11:27won't even recognize himself by tonight.
11:29Finally, too restless to sit still,
11:31he stepped aside and called Aunt Rosa.
11:33Rosa.
11:34Serena didn't make a scene, did she?
11:37A scene?
11:38She was quiet as could be.
11:40Luca carried her off without any trouble.
11:41We're packing her things now
11:43and sending them to the Romano estate.
11:50You say what?!
11:56The dead tone hit like a sledgehammer,
11:58smashing Adrian's smug certainty to pieces.
12:01No, that wasn't Serena.
12:03She would have fought.
12:04She'd never let another man carry her off.
12:06Adrian, have you lost your mind?
12:08It's your ritual with Bella tonight.
12:10The whole family is watching.
12:11Where the hell are you going?
12:20Let go of me!
12:21I'm going after my wife!
12:23This was a mistake!
12:25Serena was the one I was supposed to take!
12:29You took her so you finished the ritual,
12:31or you shamed the Russo family.
12:33Good riddance to that little stray
12:35from the hillside estate.
12:36Once Bella comes in properly,
12:38this blows over.
12:38But if you leave now,
12:40what happens to Bella's reputation?
12:42What happens to our family's name?
12:44Adrian's heart sank.
12:46He knew our marriage certificate
12:47had been fake from the start.
12:49Now he didn't even have the legal standing
12:51to come get me back.
12:52In the end,
12:54everything he took for granted
12:55had come back on him.
12:56Firelight flickered over the celebrating crowd,
12:59the cheers growing louder by the second.
13:01Adrian stood frozen,
13:03like he'd fallen into ice.
13:04Adrian,
13:06where are you going?
13:07I know you wanted Serena,
13:09but tonight,
13:10since I'm the one they took,
13:11can you let me be the bride?
13:13Just for one night?
13:14The family started shouting for them
13:16to drink the ritual bridal toast
13:18and seal the marriage.
13:19Bella lowered her head,
13:21lashes tremoring,
13:22looking meek and wronged.
13:25Wilson,
13:25he drank the wine and went through
13:27with the absurd ritual,
13:28but his eyes kept drifting
13:29to the road they'd passed.
13:31Then he remembered the girl on Luca's back.
13:33He drank the wine and went through
13:35with the absurd ritual.
13:36A hecho c'est la pièce de la panne
13:44C'est la pièce de la tête
13:47C'est la pièce de la tête
15:02By the rules, once I walked through that door, I became your wife. Luca, thank you.
15:09That night, the bonfire at the Russo family compound burned till dawn. For Adrian, every second was agony. He stared
15:16at the number he could never reach again.
15:19All he could hear were the words I said to him that day, sitting on that doorstep.
15:27If it were some guy I didn't want, no way I'd let him carry me off. I'd kick, bite, scratch,
15:33beat him senseless.
15:35What if it was me?
15:37If it were you, I'd fake a little struggle. If you came for me, I'd jump on your back myself.
15:44He thought I'd lose it, thought I'd wait for him to come back. But I was on another man's back,
15:50too numb to even struggle.
15:52When your heart's dead, you don't even have it in you to hate.
15:56It's dawn. I'm going after her.
16:01At first light, Adrian bolted out of the compound.
16:05Where's Luca's place? Tell me now.
16:07He thought if he ran fast enough, he could turn back time. He thought one explanation would make me forgive
16:13three years.
16:13He thought one explanation him like I had for the last three years.
16:16Serena! Come out! I know you're in there!
16:19Let me explain. I can get you a new engagement certificate.
16:24He stormed into my house and found no trace of me.
16:28Just a packet of dried herbs on the table.
16:31Three years ago, I burned my fingers making him herbal tea for the first time.
16:36He just said it was bitter.
16:38Only then did Adrian realize it had been over all along.
16:42He just refused to see it.
16:47Stop knocking. You're looking for Luca?
16:49He left for Nova early this morning with his new wife.
16:52Said there was some emergency at the company.
16:57They went back to Nova?
16:58Where in Nova?
16:59How would I know? Why would they report to you where they're going?
17:02Adrian stood on the empty porch, trembling as he tore through his contacts.
17:07Only to realize he didn't even have Luca's number.
17:10They were barely acquaintances.
17:12Just two men who'd nodded at each other at a few cocktail parties.
17:15For three years, he treated me like a dog he'd tied up and left waiting.
17:20He never cared what that did to me.
17:22Never thought I'd break free.
17:23But now, the dog is gone, the leash is broken, and he doesn't even know my address.
17:28Desperate, Adrian went back to the Morelli estate, picked up Bella, and drove back to Nova.
17:33They rode back in a tense silence.
17:36Adrian wouldn't speak, and Bella didn't dare push him.
17:38He still didn't know I'd never gone to his mansion in Nova.
17:41Once again, he came up empty.
17:44Adrian, now that the ritual's over, shouldn't we give Carmen an official answer?
17:50Then I can get ready to move in.
17:54Shut up.
17:55The ritual was fake, and so is any answer.
17:58Know your place, or I'll dump you on the highway.
18:01Bella went pale.
18:02She thought last night's ritual meant she could move right in.
18:05She had no idea Adrian had never hated her more.
18:08Across town, my new life was just beginning.
18:12Security's tight here.
18:13It's one of the Howard family's hidden properties.
18:15Adrian will never find you.
18:17What's your next move?
18:18My father left me his most closely guarded herbal and spice formulas.
18:22Three years under Carmen's contempt and Adrian's empty promises almost made me forget I was meant to build something of
18:28my own.
18:29I want to revive the Morelli family's herbal business.
18:32I'm taking back every I sliced, every year I lost.
18:35And I'm done depending on anyone.
18:37Good.
18:38I'll handle the funding and distribution.
18:40We're partners, and we're married.
18:42You can trust me to have your back.
18:43I met his eyes and nodded.
18:45This time, I chose the right partner.
18:47A few days later, Carmen stormed into Adrian's CEO office at Russo Group.
18:52You and Bella already went through the midnight bride-taking ritual.
18:56Settle down and live with it.
18:57Why are you still sending people after that runaway stray?
19:01Mom, she's my wife.
19:03She didn't run off with anyone.
19:04Luca took her in the chaos.
19:06So he took her.
19:07That's normal in the ritual.
19:09If she wanted you, why didn't she come back on her own?
19:12She changed her mind.
19:14Bella knows her place.
19:15She fits right into Nova's upper circle.
19:18And she knows how to please me.
19:20With that lofty contempt, Carmen tried to erase me from this family.
19:24She loved Bella's flattery and hated that I had a backbone.
19:27Under all that pressure, Adrian finally snapped.
19:29Enough!
19:30Why didn't she come back?
19:31Because she had no reason to.
19:39Mom, you said you'd only accept Serena if I never made it legal.
19:44That certificate I gave her was fake from the start.
19:54Mom, you said you'd only accept Serena if I never made it legal.
19:57That certificate I gave her was fake from the start.
20:00Carmen froze.
20:02Her proud face flashed with a hint of shock.
20:04She probably hadn't expected her son to resist in such a self-structing way.
20:09She's not my legal wife.
20:10If she won't come back, I have no standing to go after her.
20:14By Sicilian custom, she's Luca's wife now.
20:16I don't even get a say.
20:18That was your choice.
20:20If you didn't want to help Bella, why'd you take her?
20:23Now the whole family knows.
20:25If you dump her, what happens to the Russo family's face?
20:29Pride.
20:29Always pride.
20:31He lost me over it, and now it's the very thing chaining him down.
20:34He did this to himself.
20:36I cut my deal with Bella unilaterally two months ago.
20:39I can't be with her.
20:41I've already ruined Serena, so I can't ruin myself too.
20:44Late that night, Adrian sat on the couch, drinking in a trashed apartment.
20:49No one rang the bell.
20:50The door opened anyway.
20:52Adrian, you haven't been eating.
20:54Drink some milk.
20:56Carmen asked me to check on you.
20:58She said you're having a hard time.
20:59She thought Carmen's backing would finally get her where she wanted to be.
21:03Then she fed Adrian the most not-saving pitch yet.
21:06You got me legal status in Nova.
21:08You ran interferent with your mom.
21:10You said it was just to get me out of the old estate.
21:13But you didn't have to go that far.
21:16Just admit it.
21:18You do want me.
21:20I could help you keep your house in order.
21:22Serena only humiliates you.
21:24All she cares about is those herbs.
21:26There was nothing innocent left in those eyes.
21:28Just naked greed and ambition.
21:30In that moment, the lie he'd lived under for three years finally shattered.
21:35Looking at Bella, Adrian suddenly replayed the last three years in his head.
21:41What makes you think you're better than Serena?
21:43Sucking up to my mom?
21:44Playing pathetic so I'd pity you?
21:47Adrian finally saw through her.
21:49Every little thing he'd done for Bella had cut Serena deepest.
21:52And Bella was never some helpless step-sodder.
21:54She was a calculating parasite.
21:56You make me sick.
21:59More than that, I make myself sick for ever letting you get away with it.
22:05Get out of my house.
22:06Adrian, how can you say that?
22:08We went through the ritual.
22:09I'm your wife!
22:11She was still dreaming, thinking that ridiculous midnight bride-taking ritual could hold on to a man already losing his
22:17mind with regret.
22:19Shut up.
22:20It was all an act.
22:22Tomorrow, my lawyer cuts off every card tied to you and revokes your access to this apartment.
22:26Take your legal status and get out of my life.
22:29Bella went white.
22:30Her whole act fell apart.
22:32She dropped to the floor, finally realizing she was completely out.
22:36You'd better pray I find Serena.
22:38Otherwise, I'll make you pay back everything you stole from her these last three years with interest.
22:43While Adrian was drowning in regret, my career finally started to break through.
22:47With Luca's help, I locked down our hardest raw material supply line.
22:50After months of round-the-clock testing, Herbert Lee's first breakout soothing balm was finally ready.
22:55We passed QC. Everything hit top-level standards.
22:58Aurora Pharmaceuticals Procurement Manager is very interested in our samples.
23:02Perfect.
23:03If we land this Aurora Pharmaceuticals order, Herbert Taylor will finally have a real foothold in Nova.
23:09Perfect.
23:10If we land this Aurora Pharmaceuticals order, Herbert Taylor will finally have a real foothold in Nova.
23:15I wasn't that fool wasting three years at the estate anymore.
23:18I was taking my fate into my own hands.
23:21But nothing came easy.
23:24I'm sorry, Miss Moretti.
23:25Your ointment is excellent, but we just got orders to stop all talks with Herb Atelier.
23:30I knew exactly who was behind this.
23:32Carmen Russo.
23:33She thought she could choke off my resources, force me to bend, and prove I couldn't survive without them.
23:39Under the old Sicilian pact between the three families,
23:41the Moretti family has exclusive priority supply rights to all specialty spices.
23:45The core rights to the raw materials you're using are right here.
23:49Anyone who blacklists me loses their supply.
23:51Tell Carmen she played this Monopoly game wrong.
23:55I won that negotiation beautifully.
23:58Then, as we stepped out of Aurora Pharmaceuticals, it started to rain.
24:02You were never more beautiful than when you slapped that contract down.
24:06If Carmen really goes after us, aren't you afraid she'll drag the Romano family into it?
24:11The moment I carried you out of that estate, you became someone I protect.
24:15Anyone who touches you crosses the Romano family.
24:17He was controlled, strong, and steady in a way that made me feel safe.
24:22What began as a contract became something real as we fought side by side.
24:30Three years flew by.
24:32In that time, I built Herb Atelier into one of Nova's best-known brands.
24:43Serena's not this family's concern anymore.
24:46Those tea estates belong to Bella.
24:52Not this family's concern anymore?
24:54Vera, you forget whose name is still on this house.
24:57I threw the court's asset preservation order in Vera's face.
25:00Clean and final.
25:02With Luca beside me, I hit back hard.
25:04I protected everything my father built
25:06and pushed Vera and Bella out of the inner circle for good.
25:09No one will ever walk over me again.
25:15That fall, Nova welcomed its once-every-three-years
25:18Sicilian Culture and Artisan Expo.
25:20But for some people, those three years had been a living hell.
25:23Adrian used every overseas contact he had to find me.
25:25But I changed my name, closed my old accounts,
25:28and vanished without a trace.
25:33Stop looking.
25:34It's been three years.
25:35If she wanted to see you, she would have shown up.
25:37You can't even find the name of that Romano bastard.
25:40How are you going to find her?
25:45I lost her.
25:47I just want to tell her I'm sorry.
25:48But what good is sorry now?
25:50Once glass shatters, you can't make it whole again.
25:52Just when he'd given up, fate played one last cruel joke on him.
26:01I'm not that fragile girl who lived through a man anymore.
26:04I'm the woman running this brand.
26:12Today's turnout beat expectations.
26:14Carmen hasn't pulled anything else, has she?
26:16She's too busy cleaning up her own mess to bother with us.
26:19Ready for some big orders?
26:21At the other end of the expo,
26:23a dazed Adrian was practically dragged inside by Daniel.
26:27I'm not in the mood for this.
26:28I've got enough mess at the company already.
26:31Today's turnout beat expectations.
26:33Carmen hasn't pulled anything else, has she?
26:35I'm not in the mood for this.
26:37I've got enough mess at the company already.
26:38Hey, when you can't rid the shit out you,
26:40I cheat the weeping on, hey?
26:42That's just present your lead with that one ourselves.
26:48Today's turnout beat expectations.
26:51Carmen hasn't pulled anything else, has she?
26:53You've been shut in that office all day
26:55or at that empty estate waiting for someone who's gone.
26:58I heard this expo's got some good stuff.
27:01Come on, get some air.
27:04The expo hummed with noise
27:05as Adrian drifted past one booth after another.
27:08For three years, he'd searched everywhere.
27:11He never imagined I was right here,
27:14in the heart of the city he knew best.
27:17There's an herb booth over there
27:18with herbatelli on the sign.
27:20You want to check it out?
27:21The booth was mobbed.
27:23Behind it stood a man and a woman.
27:26The man was in a black shirt,
27:27head down, sorting herbs.
27:29And the woman?
27:32She wore a tailored Ingo suit,
27:34silver glimming in the sun.
27:36She was explaining something to a customer,
27:38smiling softly, perfectly composed.
27:42She was the woman he'd spent three years searching for.
27:45The booth was mobbed.
27:46Behind it stood a man and a woman.
27:48The man was in a black shirt,
27:49head down, sorting herbs.
27:50And the woman?
27:51She wore a tailored Ingo suit,
27:52silver glimming in the sun.
27:53She was explaining something to a customer,
27:55smiling softly, perfectly composed.
27:57She was the woman he'd spent three years searching for.
28:00The booth was mobbed.
28:01Behind it stood a man and a woman.
28:02The man was in a black shirt,
28:03head down, sorting herbs.
28:05And the woman?
28:05She wore a tailored Ingo suit,
28:06silver glimming a customer,
28:07smiling softly, perfectly composed.
28:08She was the woman he'd spent three years searching for.
28:11The noise around him dropped away.
28:13All Adrian could hear was his own pounding heart
28:15as he stumbled up to the herb atelier booth.
28:21Serena, it's me.
28:22He thought I'd be shocked, angry, that I'd fall apart.
28:25But I looked at him like he was just a stranger passing by.
28:29Sir, do I know you?
28:30Sorry, I'm bad with faces.
28:31You are...
28:34I studied him for a few seconds,
28:36then looked like I finally recognized him.
28:38There wasn't a hint of feeling in it.
28:41Oh, Mr. Russo.
28:42Long time no see.
28:43Looking for any herbs today?
28:45Adrian's shattered.
28:46How could he stand me talking to him like that?
28:48He'd always believed my whole life revolved around him.
28:53Stop pretending.
28:54You remember me.
28:55Do you have any idea I've been losing my mind
28:57looking for you these past three years?
29:01Mr. Russo,
29:02running into her today doesn't give you the right
29:04to harass the person in charge here.
29:08Luca, get the hell out of my way.
29:10She's my wife.
29:12Don't act like you give a damn.
29:13If you hadn't taken her in the chaos that night,
29:15she wouldn't be here.
29:18People started gathering around,
29:19whispering.
29:20Adrian was losing it,
29:22and Luca didn't even blink.
29:25Mr. Russo, let me introduce you.
29:27This is my wife, Serena.
29:29The words hit Adrian like a bomb,
29:31blowing apart the last shred of fantasy he had left.
29:38W-Wife?
29:40No.
29:40That ritual can't count.
29:42It was a mistake.
29:43He took the wrong woman in the dark.
29:45Adrian's voice cracks.
29:46The crowd starts murmuring louder
29:48as he stares at Luca
29:49and begs him in front of everyone,
29:51like it's his last chance.
29:54Luca,
29:55I'll give Bella back.
29:57I'll give it all back.
29:58Bella was the one you were supposed to take that night.
30:00Give Serena back,
30:01and we can start over, okay?
30:05He was begging for a do-over in public,
30:07passing women around like property.
30:10He'd only ever cared about what he stood to lose,
30:12never about respecting anyone.
30:16Start over?
30:18Adrian, do you think marriage is a game?
30:20You chose wrong,
30:21so now you get a do-over?
30:25Serena, let me explain.
30:27That night, it was just a mistake.
30:30I cut off his pathetic excuses
30:32and threw the truth about that night in his face.
30:35Every word went straight for the heart.
30:37A mistake?
30:39Explain what?
30:40That you set Bella up to be carried out in the chaos
30:42so she could take my place?
30:43Or that you left me in her room
30:45to take the beating at the door for her?
30:46You think I wouldn't find out?
30:53You heard all that?
30:55How-
30:55Or explain the fake engagement papers.
30:58You thought if I didn't cry or make a scene,
31:01a few pieces of jewellery would shut me up?
31:03All you ever gave me was lies and contempt.
31:06I saw through your whole plan that night.
31:12Adrian's mouth fell open,
31:14but nothing came out.
31:15His carefully spun lie
31:17had been ripped apart in public.
31:19Then Luca spoke
31:20and delivered the final blow.
31:22You think I came for Bella?
31:24No.
31:25My cousin was supposed to take her that night,
31:28but he bailed at the last minute.
31:32I went into that room
31:33to protect an innocent girl and hide her.
31:36I wasn't there to take anyone.
31:38Luca's words shattered Adrian's victim act.
31:40It wasn't fate.
31:41It was my choice all along.
31:44Enough.
31:44In old Sicilian families,
31:46if the bride doesn't want it,
31:47you can't carry her off.
31:49If Serena hadn't wanted me,
31:51she'd have thrown me out herself.
31:52She chose me, clear-eyed and trusting.
31:55We didn't take the wrong bride.
31:57That's right.
31:58I chose Luca.
31:59That's the truth Adrian will never accept.
32:02He thought I was taken from him.
32:04I walked away.
32:08No, no, that's impossible.
32:10Serena, you love me.
32:11How could you choose someone else?
32:13Please, Serena, give me one more chance.
32:15One more chance at the ritual.
32:17Adrian, the midnight bride-taking ritual isn't a game.
32:20You took the wrong bride.
32:22That was fate.
32:23Fate sent me with him, so I went.
32:26I looked at the man who once crossed half the city
32:28just to bring me dessert,
32:29and all I felt was pity.
32:32He never valued what he had until he lost it.
32:34You took Bella.
32:35I married Luca.
32:37We're even.
32:38From now on, stay away from my husband
32:39and don't dirty up my booth.
32:42I took Luca's arm,
32:43didn't look back,
32:44and walked deeper into the booth.
32:47Adrian stayed on his knees,
32:49hollowed out.
32:50Rain drenched him,
32:52running down his face like that night outside the estate.
32:56Let it pour.
32:58It can't reach me anymore.
33:00I know now.
33:03Someone will always shield me
33:04and walk me
33:07into a new life.
33:10In the car,
33:11watching the rain blur outside,
33:13I felt lighter than ever.
33:15The old estate,
33:16the lies,
33:17all of it was finally washed away.
33:19You were brave in there.
33:21No one gets to use your past against you again.
33:24I've let it go.
33:26I paid for that chapter with a hard lesson.
33:29Now I just want to make Herbitilier thrive.
33:31Those three years changed me.
33:34I stopped living off what others gave me
33:36and took control of my own life.
33:39Adrian can stay trapped in the regret he built,
33:41suffering in it every day.
33:45A few days after the expo,
33:47Aurora Pharmaceuticals' procurement director
33:49came in person
33:50and signed Herbitilier's
33:52biggest long-term supply contract yet.
33:57Pleasure doing business with you, Ms. Moretti.
33:59Your bomb's been a huge hit.
34:01And we're excited to work with you
34:03on a deeper level.
34:05The second that contract was signed,
34:07I knew I'd finally secured my place in Nova.
34:12I didn't have to answer to Carmen anymore
34:14or fear the Russo family.
34:18Congratulations, boss.
34:19You've basically taken over half the city.
34:22This isn't just my win.
34:25It's ours.
34:27Thank you for standing by me.
34:31Thinking back to that chaotic midnight bride-taking ritual
34:34three years ago,
34:35if I'd fought harder
34:36or if I'd forgiven them,
34:38I'd probably still be that stand-in in the mansion,
34:41living on their mercy.
34:43Fate rewards the ones who know when to walk away.
34:48The Russo family wasn't doing any better.
34:52Carmen sank a fortune into cutting off my supply lines,
34:55and it backfired.
34:57Even the family board turned on her.
34:59Your personal vendetta
35:00has left us at a complete disadvantage
35:02in the spice market.
35:04Adrian,
35:05as CEO,
35:06you bear full responsibility.
35:08He had no fight left.
35:12That break in the rain
35:13took the last of it out of him.
35:18He knew nothing he did
35:20would bring back the girl
35:21who once only had eyes for him.
35:23She's just that little stray
35:24from the hillside estate,
35:25and you let her scare you off?
35:28But no one listened to her anymore.
35:31When money was on the line,
35:33her arrogance meant nothing.
35:36After the meeting,
35:38Adrian walked out alone.
35:39He finally understood
35:40he'd lost more than a wife.
35:42He'd lost the only light in his life.
35:45It was another perfect weekend in Nova.
35:48Luca and I were at the
35:49Chamber of Congress charity gala.
35:51By now,
35:52I could stand shoulder to shoulder
35:53with Nova's business elite.
35:57Then I caught a familiar face
35:58out of the corner of my eye.
36:02I heard Adrian threw her out.
36:04She refused to crawl back
36:05to the old estate.
36:06So she started working
36:08every angle in Nova.
36:09But without the Russo family behind her,
36:12her little schemes stand a chance
36:14with predators like these.
36:18She thought stealing Adrian
36:20meant stealing my life.
36:23What she never understood was that
36:26my pride and my footing
36:28never came from any man.
36:30She's not even worth mocking anymore.
36:34Ignoring her says more than enough.
36:37You were the center of attention tonight.
36:39Everyone wanted to know
36:40what Herbert Tutier is launching next.
36:42That's all your credit.
36:44You built the channels.
36:46Looking out at the city lights,
36:47I felt a peace I'd never known.
36:50I used to think my world
36:51was just that old estate
36:52and a fake engagement.
36:53But once I stepped out of it,
36:56I saw how wide the world really was.
36:58There is no probing,
36:59no deception in this kiss,
37:01only full respect and charination.
37:04I finally found the person
37:05who is willing to hold me
37:06dearest to his heart.
37:08One morning a few years later,
37:10I was at the Bensau Workshop headquarters,
37:12signing off on the final M&A deal of the year.
37:15The Moretti family herbal business
37:17has not only reclaimed its former glory,
37:19but has also grown into
37:21the most prestigious brand
37:22across Nova and the entire East Coast.
37:24And every so often,
37:26I'd still hear Adrian's name.
37:29I heard he sold the mansion
37:30and moved back alone
37:31to the old house in the country.
37:35Every day, he drank
37:36and stared at old photos.
37:38He spent a lifetime
37:39tasting the bitter fruit
37:41of that absurd bride-snatching ritual.
37:44Babe, you all done with work?
37:46It's time to take a break.
37:47The pain was long gone,
37:49and on that sunlit morning,
37:51I stepped into the bright future
37:53that was finally mine.