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00:03I fought with wild dogs for food and prayed to them, but it was useless, and in the end, I
00:09still died.
00:10I was Manhattan's most spoiled heiress, until my award-winning actor brother sent me to a reality show called Rich
00:16Girls Reformed.
00:17I slept in a pig pen covered in manure for three months, fighting dogs for scraps of food.
00:23Any resistance meant being dunked in water tanks, or worse, electroshock.
00:28The only thing keeping me alive was the mute old man who delivered the meals.
00:32He'd snuck me medicine, listened to me cry, and begged my brother to save me.
00:37He even promised to help me escape.
00:39I swore that once I got out, I'd tell my brother I'd learned my lesson.
00:43Until that day, when my high fever triggered a heart attack, and I collapsed in the mud, convulsing.
00:49I saw the mute old man I'd clung to as my lifeline reach up and tear off his mud-caked
00:54wig and mask, revealing my fiancé's face.
00:58This is what you get for drugging Sophia, even if it was just a laxedent.
01:04These three months in the pig pet should make up for the scare you gave her.
01:08Director, cut the cameras. Sophia says she can't bear watching me act and suffer. She feels bad.
01:13I watched my fiancé walk away with his arm around the scholarship girl. My heart stopped beating.
01:19Sophia finally got what she wanted. From the moment we met, she made it clear.
01:24Girls like me didn't deserve what we were born into. Too rich, too spoiled, too empty-headed, in her words.
01:31One day, she said, she would take it all. And she did.
01:35It didn't take schemes or grand plans. Just two years of quiet performances.
01:40A stumble here, a trembling voice there, a well-timed tear.
01:44Every time, it ended the same. My brother at her side, my fiancé just behind him.
01:50Both looking at me like I was something rotten.
01:52All she ever had to do was make it seem like I hurt her.
01:56And really, who would believe otherwise?
01:58A rich heiress bullied by a scholarship girl who was gentle and hard-working?
02:03Of course not. In their eyes, it could only ever be the other way around.
02:08I floated above, looking down at myself lying in the filth.
02:11Covered in pig shit, fingernails caked with mud.
02:14Cut! Perfect! Absolutely perfect!
02:19That dying look in her eyes is incredible! Quick, get a close-up!
02:23A dozen cameras instantly zoomed in on my face.
02:26A pair of fancy leather shoes stopped beside my face.
02:29Lucas Carter, my fiancé.
02:32All right, stop pretending. The director called cut.
02:35Why are you still lying there? Getting addicted to acting?
02:37Seeing no reaction from me, he casually nudged my face with his foot.
02:41The corpse swayed with the force of his nudge, but didn't respond.
02:45Lucas frowned, then crouched down to check if I was still breathing.
02:48What the heck?!
02:52Vivian, are you holding your breath this long just to get sympathy?
02:56Looks like these three months in the pig pen weren't wasted. Your lung capacity's really improved.
03:00I'm not pretending!
03:02Lucas, I'm actually dead!
03:04Look at me!
03:12Look at me!
03:17If you didn't know better, you'd think she actually lived in the countryside.
03:20Applause came from nearby.
03:22My brother, award-winning actor Ethan Ashford, emerged from behind the monitors.
03:28Not bad.
03:30These three months weren't wasted.
03:32Use this fake death scene in the trailer.
03:35Title it,
03:36The Mean Girl's Repentance.
03:39This final scene,
03:40she acted better than she ever has before.
03:43I almost believed it.
03:44Ethan, this isn't acting.
03:47I'm really in pain.
03:49I'm really,
03:51really dead.
03:53Mr. Ashford,
03:54should we
03:54wake Miss Ashford now?
03:57Don't let her bring those filthy clothes into my car.
03:59It's disgusting.
04:01Sophia hasn't been feeling well lately.
04:03She can't handle the smell.
04:04Then,
04:05find a trash bag.
04:07Throw her in the trunk.
04:08Since she likes playing dead so much,
04:10let her play dead all the way home.
04:11At least it'll spare me from listening to her fake crying.
04:14Yes, sir.
04:15I watched two stagehands lift my stiff corpse
04:18and stuff it into a trash bag.
04:20Lucas was wiping raindrops from Sophia's hair.
04:23He didn't look at me once.
04:24The trunk slammed shut.
04:26The car started.
04:27A trail of blood silently drenched the bag.
04:30I floated nearby,
04:31almost wanting to laugh.
04:33I remembered when I was 18,
04:34I accidentally bumped my head in the car.
04:36Ethan didn't say a word.
04:38He smashed the slick ones.
04:39He'd said,
04:41Why keep something that hurt our Vivian?
04:43But now,
04:44my corpse was being knocked around in the trunk.
04:46Ethan,
04:47were you acting back then too?
04:49Or is it that once Sophia appeared,
04:51your own sister deserved to be thrown away like this?
04:54Ethan,
04:55do you think Vivian will be mad at us
04:56for putting her in the trunk when she wakes up?
04:58Ethan drove with a cold snort.
05:01She doesn't get a choice.
05:03Once we're home,
05:05I have ways to keep her from throwing a tantrum.
05:07Tomorrow's apology press conference is already arranged.
05:10If she dares to mess it up,
05:13I'll send her right back to these mountains
05:15for another three months.
05:16She'd better know her place.
05:19Sophia was hospitalized for three days
05:21because of that laxative.
05:23These three months of suffering
05:25barely make up for it.
05:26I floated above the car,
05:27watching these three people.
05:29I never put laxatives in that drink.
05:31Sophia stole my heart medication,
05:33then accused me of trying to poison her.
05:35No one believed me,
05:36and I can't explain anymore.
05:38The car bumped along the road,
05:40my corpse rattling in the trunk the whole way.
05:43Ethan got out without calling the servants.
05:45He opened the trunk
05:46and grabbed the trash bag with one hand,
05:48dragging it out.
05:49My head hit each step
05:51as he dragged me up the stairs.
05:52My soul trembled.
05:54I reached out to protect my head.
05:57Ethan, be gentle.
05:59That's my head.
06:01Really heavy.
06:02Playing dead pretty thoroughly.
06:04Not making a sound.
06:05He dragged the trash bag into the living room
06:07and dropped it on the rug.
06:09The zipper opened,
06:10revealing my mud-covered face,
06:12eyes closed, lips purple.
06:14All right, we're home.
06:17Stop pretending.
06:20Get up and wash yourself off.
06:22Don't dirty the carpet.
06:23Is she really unconscious?
06:25Her face looks so scary.
06:28That's special effects makeup.
06:30Weren't you there on set?
06:32She fakes passing out all the time to get out of work.
06:34The doctor said she's in perfect health.
06:35This level of cold won't kill her.
06:37Ethan lost his patience.
06:38He walked over to the thermostat
06:40and turned it down to the lowest setting.
06:42Want to play dead?
06:43Then lie there.
06:44No one gives her a blanket tonight.
06:45Let's see how long she can keep it up.
06:47With that,
06:48all three went to their rooms,
06:50leaving only the cold air blowing over my corpse.
06:53I floated in midair,
06:54looking at my body lying alone on the floor,
06:57watching the lividity spread across my neck
06:59and the back of my arms.
07:01Early in the morning,
07:02the Ashford family's styling team arrived.
07:04Today was the apology press conference
07:06Ethan had arranged for me,
07:08live-streamed to the whole country.
07:10The makeup artist touched my hand.
07:12Oh, Jesus!
07:13I'm so cold!
07:15She looked at Sophia.
07:16Miss White,
07:17Miss Ashford's temperature?
07:18Is she really okay?
07:19Oh, she spent three months freezing in the mountains.
07:22Of course she's cold.
07:24Plus, she trained herself to withstand cold
07:26for the pathetic effect.
07:27Don't make a fuss.
07:29Just put more blush on her.
07:31That complexion is awful.
07:32Put these purple marks on her skin.
07:34Those are bruises from falling in the mountains.
07:37Cover them with foundation.
07:38Today's theme is rebirth.
07:40Don't let people see her looking like a corpse
07:42and embarrass the Ashford family.
07:44The makeup artist didn't dare argue.
07:46She grabbed concealer
07:47and started smearing it on my face.
07:49I watched from the side,
07:50finding it almost funny.
07:52Concealer could cover lividity,
07:53but not the smell of death.
07:55This outfit reeks.
07:57Change her clothes.
07:58Put her in this one.
07:58It was the style Sophia had rejected.
08:01A size too small.
08:02Two assistants came over to help change my clothes,
08:05but there was a problem.
08:06Because of rigor mortis,
08:08my limbs were stiff.
08:09Mr. Ashford, Miss Ashford is too stiff.
08:12She won't cooperate.
08:13Like, she is dead.
08:16She won't cooperate.
08:18We can't bend her arms.
08:19Ethan's face darkened.
08:21Vivian!
08:22How long are you gonna keep this up?
08:24Won't even put on clothes?
08:25Do you want to apologize naked?
08:26The corpse naturally didn't answer him.
08:28Lucas frowned and strode over.
08:30Since she wants to be stubborn,
08:33don't blame me for not being gentle.
08:35He grabbed my stiff left arm
08:37and yanked it outward.
08:38I floated in midair,
08:40instinctively clutching my arm and screaming.
08:43Then I remembered.
08:44I was dead.
08:45My body couldn't feel pain anymore.
08:48Hmph.
08:50Strong grip.
08:52Playing the virtual murder?
08:53Hurry up and dress her!
08:54The assistants trembled
08:56as they pulled the pink dress onto my corpse
08:58to hide the twisted arm.
08:59They folded my hands across my abdomen.
09:01After all the manipulation,
09:03I'd been handled like a doll with no dignity.
09:05Lipstick covered my purple lips.
09:07Foundation hid my pallor.
09:09A ribbon bow concealed the dog collar marks on my neck.
09:12That's better.
09:13Looks like these three months weren't wasted.
09:16Knocked that nasty temper right out of her.
09:18As long as she doesn't talk,
09:21she's still the good little sister she used to be.
09:23When we get to the venue,
09:25if you dare mess up or say the wrong thing,
09:28I'll make sure you spend the rest of your life in a wheelchair.
09:30Don't worry, Ethan.
09:32I'll be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life anyway.
09:35And I'll never speak again.
09:37Let's go.
09:37Don't keep the reporters waiting.
09:39The sunlight was blinding, but I felt no warmth.
09:41The ballroom backstage was packed with reporters.
09:44Sophia had changed into a white haute couture gown.
09:47She had the makeup artist give her a pitiful victim look.
09:50While Ethan and Lucas were schmoozing with the media,
09:52Sophia walked over to my wheelchair.
09:55Vivian, you're so quiet today.
09:57I like it.
09:59Didn't you love calling me a bitch before?
10:00Why so quiet now?
10:01Running out of energy?
10:03Don't worry.
10:04There's an even bigger surprise waiting for you on stage.
10:06Seeing no reaction from me, Sophia pouted.
10:09You can really take it.
10:11But I guess you should behave.
10:13You're about to lose your engagement anyway.
10:15Lose my engagement?
10:16I jerked my head up to look at Lucas.
10:18He was standing in the spotlight,
10:19turning to say something to Ethan.
10:21I floated over and heard it clearly.
10:23Today's perfect.
10:24With the live stream, the whole country can witness it.
10:28I'm cutting this stain loose, completely.
10:30Ethan was silent for a moment, glancing at me in the corner.
10:33She brought this on herself.
10:35Can't blame anyone else.
10:36My soul felt that sharp pain again.
10:38So, in your minds, I'm not even worth a title.
10:41I don't even deserve basic human dignity.
10:43Three, two, one, action.
10:46The spotlight came on.
10:48I was wheeled onto the stage.
10:49Because I was strapped in, I sat perfectly straight.
10:52That's the Ashford heiress?
10:54She looks like a model.
10:55Heard she slept in a pig pen for three months, probably brain damaged.
10:58They say she was so arrogant before, even drugged the scholarship girl.
11:01Those vicious whispers drilled into my ears, every single one.
11:04Ethan picked up the microphone, his face full of regret.
11:07Ladies and gentlemen of the press, everyone online, hello.
11:11I'm Ethan Ashfield.
11:12Today's live stream has only one purpose, repentance.
11:16My sister Vivian, out of jealousy and selfishness, caused tremendous harm to our company's artist, Sophia White.
11:21After three months of reconformation, she's deeply recognized her mistakes.
11:25Today, she's here in front of the entire country to apologize to Sophia.
11:28The comments exploded.
11:30Ethan Ashford standing up to family.
11:32So inspiring.
11:33This is proper elite family discipline.
11:36Ethan turned around, walked up to me, blocking half the cameras.
11:39With his back to the audience, he hissed.
11:41Stop playing dead.
11:45Speak.
11:46Tell everyone what you did wrong.
11:48I didn't respond.
11:49So he reached out and pinched the soft flesh of my arm.
11:52The corpse swayed with the force.
11:55Ethan, don't be like this.
11:56She's probably too ashamed to speak.
11:58It's okay.
11:58I forgive her.
11:59She picked up a glass of red wine and forced it into my broken hand.
12:06Vivian, drink this.
12:08And we'll still be sisters.
12:09The wine glass tilted.
12:11Wine falling into the draft.
12:13I'm sorry.
12:14Sophia looked hurt toward the camera.
12:16I guess she still won't forgive me.
12:19Too much.
12:20Sophia's being so humble and she's still putting on airs.
12:22This woman's hopeless.
12:24Mr. Ashford, send her to a psych room.
12:27Lucas took the microphone and strode to center stage, standing beside my wheelchair.
12:32Since Miss Ashford insists on protesting with silence, I don't need to save face for you anymore.
12:39He pulled a velvet box from his pocket.
12:41For a moment, my heart flickered with hope.
12:44Was it our engagement ring?
12:45He opened the box.
12:47Inside was a brand new pink diamond ring.
12:49Lucas turned around, and in front of me, in front of tens of millions of viewers online, he knelt on
12:55one knee before Sophia.
12:57Miss Sophia White, for the past three years, you've been by my side.
13:02Your kindness, your purity, that's what the lady of the Carter family should be like.
13:08This vicious, unrepentant woman who only knows how to put on an act doesn't deserve to enter the Carter family.
13:15Every word lashed my soul.
13:17He stood beside my corpse and proposed to another woman.
13:20He trampled my dignity into the dirt in front of the entire country, then ground it in deeper.
13:27Lucas!
13:28The reporter started chanting.
13:30Lucas pulled out the simple engagement ring that had been mine.
13:33He casually tossed it.
13:34Clang!
13:35The ring fell into a nearby trash can.
13:37From today on, Sophia is my only fiancée.
13:40He took Sophia's hand and slid the pink diamond onto her finger.
13:44Then, he lowered his head and kissed her deeply.
13:48Three years ago, Lucas had knelt in the snow for three days and nights to propose to me.
13:56Vivian, this ring is my life.
13:58Once you wear it, my life belongs to you.
14:01Turns out your life is pretty worthless.
14:04After Sophia came along, you kept saying I'd changed.
14:07But I didn't change.
14:08You just gave her all the patience and love you used to give me.
14:11The ring in the trash, along with the Lucas who once said he loved me, both rotting here together.
14:16The number of online users is still rising and has already broken the platform record.
14:20The live stream had broken the platform's record for viewership.
14:23Hairpash Carter Luca public.
14:25Hairpash when Kuj refuses to apology.
14:27Ashwin Sophia White takes over.
14:29All three hashtags instantly dominated the top trending topics.
14:40Move! Everyone move!
14:42Get out of my way!
14:44It was Dr. William, the Ashford family doctor who'd watched me grow up.
14:49Dr. William, what are you doing here?
14:51Mrs. Ashford, she told me to check on Vivian.
14:54Why hasn't she moved at all? Is she sick?
14:57Sick? What sick?
14:59She's just pretending to sleep.
15:00I've seen this attention-seeking act a thousand times.
15:05Dr. William, don't let her fool you.
15:07Give her a shot and make her get up right now.
15:09Lucas, with his arm around Sophia, added,
15:12Perfect timing, Dr. William.
15:14Expose her act in front of everyone and let them see just how shameless this Miss Ashford
15:19can be clinging to an engagement.
15:21Dr. William froze, staring at the figure in the wheelchair.
15:25His face changed.
15:26I need to examine her first.
15:28Under pressure from Ethan and Lucas, Dr. William had no choice but to walk shakily onto the stage.
15:34Everyone waited to see the spectacle, to see the evil woman get jabbed with a needle and wake up humiliated.
15:40Dr. William approached the wheelchair and called out, no response.
15:44He reached out to feel the wrist resting on my abdomen.
15:47The moment he touched that ice-cold skin, his face turned white.
15:51His hands started trembling.
15:53He moved from the wrist to the pulse.
15:55No heartbeat.
15:56This, this, Dr. William couldn't believe it.
15:59What's wrong?
16:01Did you find her acting too convincing, even fooling you?
16:04Stop the act, Dr. William.
16:05Just give her the shot.
16:07Lost your voice?
16:08Speak.
16:08Tell everyone she's faking.
16:11Faking!
16:12She can't fake anymore!
16:14Mr. Ashfield!
16:15Mr. Carter, can't you see?
16:18She's already dead!
16:22This is liberty!
16:23This is rigor mortis!
16:25You, you've been forcing a corpse to apologize this whole time!
16:29Dead?
16:30Dr. William, you've lost your mind.
16:33Lucas let go of Sophia's hand.
16:35Stop playing along with Vivian's sick games.
16:37Livesey?
16:39I think she just put on special effects makeup.
16:42Vivian, stop pretending!
16:43Get off!
16:44Don't touch her!
16:45Are you blind?
16:47Feel her hand?
16:48Look at her eyes!
16:50What living person looks like this?
16:52Dr. William's tears fell as he untied the bow at my neck with shaking hands.
16:57Under the bow, a circle of purple-black ligature marks around my neck.
17:02As the concealer rubbed off, slight giant cell formation appeared on the side of my neck.
17:06A female reporter in the front row covered her mouth, dry heaving.
17:10The livestream chat exploded.
17:12Holy shit!
17:13That's actual lividity!
17:15I'm a forensic student, that's definitely not makeup.
17:18That neck.
17:19My god, what did she go through?
17:21Is Ethan insane?
17:22He made a corpse apologize on livestream.
17:25They killed her!
17:26The elites killed someone!
17:27Ethan stared at the black marks on my neck.
17:30No.
17:32Impossible.
17:34He staggered backwards, knocking over the champagne tower.
17:37She was alive yesterday!
17:39When I dragged her home yesterday, she groaned.
17:41I heard it!
17:41I really heard it!
17:42I floated above, watching him.
17:44Tears streaming, watching him.
17:46Ethan, that wasn't me groaning.
17:48That was the sound of air being forced from my lungs when my head hit the stairs.
17:53Someone call the police!
17:54Get an ambulance!
17:55Hurry!
17:56Workers sprang into action.
17:58Lucas, what do we do?
17:59If she's really dead, then we...
18:02Cut the livestream!
18:03Security!
18:04Get these reporters out!
18:05I dare anyone to move!
18:07Ethan Ashford, Lucas Carter, I think you need to come with us.
18:11He collapsed among the broken glass.
18:14He stared at my lifeless face.
18:15The sister he'd doted on for 20 years.
18:18Yesterday, he'd dragged her home like trash.
18:20Today, he'd forced her to kneel and apologize to someone else.
18:24And now the police were telling him she'd been dead all along.
18:27When the coroner took me away, Ethan tried to rush forward but was held back by two officers.
18:32Vivian!
18:33Vivian, don't sleep!
18:34I was wrong!
18:35Please open your eyes and look at me!
18:38My parents rushed back that night.
18:39When they saw the body in the morgue, my mom fainted on the spot and was rushed to the ER.
18:44Lucas and Sophia were detained in the interrogation room.
18:47The coroner paused, looking at Ethan.
18:50The deceased suffered severe external abuse.
18:52Stomach contents showed only small amounts of pig feed and mud.
18:56Most critically, we detected large quantities of powerful hallucinates in the deceased system.
19:01This drug makes people feel pain magnified 10 times while conscious.
19:05The deceased died of a heart attack caused by long-term malnutrition, extreme physical abuse, and massive doses of hallucinarians.
19:13Ethan's head snapped up.
19:15Blood shot eyes wide.
19:16What did you say?
19:18Hallucinotics?
19:19Yes, that's why her acting seemed so real when she was being tortured, because she was really in pain.
19:25In so much pain, she wanted to die, but didn't even have the strength to beg.
19:29What you thought was acting was her instinct to survive in hell.
19:34Ethan rushed to the toilet, violently vomiting bile.
19:42He remembered those three months.
19:45He'd sat behind the monitors, watching me convulse in the mud pit.
19:49Watching me get dunked in water tanks until I couldn't breathe.
19:53What had he been doing then?
19:55He'd been laughing.
19:57He'd clinked glasses with Lucas and said,
20:02Finally knocked some sense into the brat.
20:06She was just too spoiled before.
20:10Turns out it wasn't being spoiled.
20:13It was pain magnified 10 times over.
20:18It was also this.
20:19The captain walked in with a USB drive.
20:21We found this in the director's safe when we searched the production company, the unedited raw footage.
20:26Mr. Ashford, you might want to brace yourself.
20:30The projector turned on, casting images on the white wall.
20:33The screen showed a mountain pig pen.
20:36The instructor poured spoiled rice on the ground and stepped on it.
20:40Eat!
20:42Miss Ashfield, isn't this how you used to feed stray dogs?
20:45You can give it a try today.
20:47I was chained by the neck, crawling on the ground.
20:49I was so delirious with hunger, I crawled over and licked the rice off the ground with my tongue.
20:55The instructor laughed and kicked me in the ribs.
20:59Disgusting!
21:00If that Ethan saw you like this, his face would surely turn green.
21:04Ethan gripped the table edge so hard, his nails broke off, blood dripping.
21:08The scene changed to Sophia.
21:10She wore a hazmat suit, holding a cattle dog.
21:12Vivian, this electric current is a bit strong.
21:15Try to bear it, okay?
21:17I convulsed violently, foaming at the mouth.
21:20Sophia smiled.
21:21Oh, Lucas.
21:22Look how beautifully she dances.
21:23Record it?
21:24Send it to that idiot Ethan.
21:26Tell him she's practicing breakdancing.
21:28Lucas patted her head.
21:30As long as you're happy, play however you want.
21:33Ethan signed the liability waiver anyway.
21:35As long as she doesn't die, any torture counts as program content.
21:38The final scene showed my last moments before death.
21:41Ethan dropped to his knees, hands over his head, wailing.
21:46He'd lost his mind.
21:47He'd personally sent his sister to hell.
21:50Not only had he signed the waiver, he'd provided all the funding.
21:53He was the murderer.
21:55When police were clearing out my belongings,
21:58they found something hard in the lining of my cotton coat.
22:01It was a small recording pen,
22:03wrapped in three layers of plastic bags,
22:05and sewn into the deepest part of the garment.
22:08The detective captain pressed play in front of Ethan and my parents,
22:11who had just regained consciousness.
22:13After a crackling sound, Lucas and Sophia's voices came through.
22:17Sophia.
22:18Lucas, why won't she just die already?
22:20We already doubled the dose.
22:23Be patient.
22:25Once she's dead, the inheritance goes to Ethan.
22:27Then we follow the...
22:28What plan?
22:29The recording continued with Lucas's voice.
22:31That idiot Ethan sure is ruthless with his sister.
22:34Once Vivian dies, go comfort him through his grief for a few days.
22:36Then slip him some slow-acting neurotox.
22:38It's tasteless and odorless.
22:39It'll just make him look like he had a mental breakdown in grief.
22:42Aw, that's so sad.
22:45But for the Ashford family's billions,
22:47we'll have to sacrifice Ethan.
22:49He's just an actor anyway.
22:50He has no clue how to run a business.
22:53The Ashford Empire will be ours.
22:56As long as we get Vivian to sign that post to me as stock transfer agreement,
23:00Ethan becomes useless.
23:01I pretended to be the mute old man to give her hope,
23:03just to watch her fall from heaven into hell.
23:06Sorry.
23:06That's the fun part.
23:08The sound of kissing came through the recording.
23:10You are still the smart one.
23:12That frame job was brilliant.
23:13Taking laxatives to frame Vivian,
23:15that turned Ethan the sister complicate to our knife.
23:17If Vivian knew her brother sent her to die just to defend you,
23:20she'd never forgive him even as a ghost.
23:22Sorry.
23:23My dad clutched his chest,
23:25spat out a mouthful of blood,
23:26and collapsed.
23:27What a disaster.
23:29We invited wolves into our home.
23:32Invited wolves?
23:33Mom pounded on Ethan.
23:35It was you.
23:37You killed Vivian.
23:38She was protecting you.
23:40She stayed there to get evidence.
23:42You monster.
23:43Give me back my daughter.
23:45Ethan let mom beat him.
23:47He'd thought I was evil,
23:49jealous of Sophia.
23:50He'd thought he was educating me,
23:53reforming me.
23:54In reality,
23:55I was trading my life
23:57for a chance to expose their true faces.
24:00During those three months,
24:02every time they stepped on my face,
24:04every time Sophia jabbed me with the cattle prod,
24:07I repeated to myself,
24:09Hold on, Vivian.
24:11Just hold on.
24:12Once you get the recording,
24:15Ethan will be safe.
24:17I did it.
24:18I protected my brother.
24:19I protected the Ashford family.
24:22The price was rotting in the dirt,
24:24treated like garbage by the person I loved most.
24:28I'm a monster.
24:29Ethan suddenly started laughing,
24:31laughing while crying.
24:33He grabbed the fruit knife from the table
24:35and stabbed it toward his neck.
24:37Stop him!
24:37The captain shouted and knocked the knife away.
24:40Ethan collapsed on the floor,
24:43slapping himself over and over.
24:44Don't stop me.
24:45Let me die.
24:47Let me go apologize to Vivian.
24:49Let me die.
24:51Die?
24:52Death would be too easy for you.
24:54Your sister gave her life to protect the Ashford family.
24:58Instead of figuring out how to defend it
25:00and make the killers pay,
25:02you just want to die?
25:04Ethan Ashford,
25:05that life of yours belongs to your sister.
25:08You have to live with it and suffer.
25:11The evidence was irrefutable.
25:13When Sophia was arrested,
25:15she fought desperately.
25:17I'm innocent.
25:18Lucas forced me to do everything.
25:20I'm a victim.
25:21I have a heart condition.
25:23You can't arrest me.
25:24Heart condition?
25:25Ethan pulled out a document.
25:27Sophia White,
25:29your medical records from abroad
25:30show your heart is stronger than a bull's.
25:33Your so-called congenital myocarditis
25:36was completely fabricated for sympathy.
25:39Sophia's face went deathly pale.
25:42No, Ethan, let me explain.
25:45Don't call me that.
25:47Ethan's voice was hoarse.
25:49You don't deserve it.
25:50And that laxative.
25:51Ethan threw a restored surveillance video in her face.
25:55The footage showed Sophia putting laxatives
25:57in the yogurt herself,
25:58then drinking it.
25:59Vivian never tried to hurt you.
26:01Never.
26:02Each word was agonizing for Ethan.
26:04You were always the one hurting her.
26:06And I, I was your accomplice.
26:09Ethan suddenly reached out
26:10and grabbed Sophia by the throat.
26:12Help, help.
26:13Sophia rolled her eyes,
26:15clawing at Ethan's hands.
26:16Police rushed forward and pulled Ethan off.
26:18Mr. Ashford, the law will judge her.
26:21You can't take matters into your own hands.
26:23Sophia collapsed on the ground,
26:25gasping for air.
26:27Hair disheveled, makeup smeared.
26:29She was handcuffed and dragged to the police car.
26:31Before getting in, a rotten egg hit her face.
26:35It was thrown by one of Ethan's fans
26:36who used to curse me endlessly.
26:38Give Vivian Ashford back.
26:40You witch!
26:41Sophia screamed as she was taken away.
26:44Waiting for her was a murder conviction
26:46and the death penalty.
26:48To save the family business,
26:49Lucas's father issued an overnight statement,
26:52disowning his son and freezing all of Lucas's assets.
26:55But that wasn't enough.
26:56Ethan used every connection he had
26:58to get Lucas sent to the most violent cell block in detention.
27:01And he told the cell boss,
27:03this man loves abusing women
27:05and making people eat rotten food.
27:07On Lucas's first day inside,
27:09he was forced to eat a bucket of food
27:11scooped from the toilet.
27:12When he refused, they broke two of his ribs.
27:15He tried to call for help,
27:16but his voice had been poisoned mute.
27:18Ethan had sent in the extra meal.
27:21Just like the mute old man
27:22Lucas had pretended to be on the show,
27:24this time he really became mute.
27:26On trial day, Lucas was carried into court.
27:29He was skeletal.
27:30Old injuries layered with new ones.
27:33Seeing Ethan in the gallery,
27:34his eyes showed bleeding.
27:35He opened his mouth wide,
27:37making abba-abba sounds.
27:39But no one could understand.
27:40The judge announced the verdict.
27:42The defendant, Lucas Carter,
27:44with multiple counts,
27:45is sentenced to death with immediate execution.
27:48Hearing death penalty,
27:49Lucas's eyes rolled back and he wet himself.
27:52He was dragged out.
27:53Before execution,
27:55Ethan requested one final visit.
27:57Through the glass,
27:58Ethan held up my portrait.
27:59In the photo,
28:00I smiled brightly,
28:01eyes full of light.
28:03Vivian says she doesn't forgive you.
28:05Ethan looked into Lucas's terrified eyes,
28:07enunciating each word.
28:09She says hell is too cold.
28:11She wants you to go down there
28:12and be her dog.
28:13Lucas kowtowed frantically,
28:15head bleeding.
28:16But Ethan simply turned and left.
28:18In that moment,
28:19Lucas finally understood despair.
28:21Lucas died.
28:22Sophia got life imprisonment.
28:24The Ashford family built a memorial garden for me
28:27on the Mountain Village site.
28:28They planted it full of sunflowers I loved.
28:31Award-winning actor Ethan Ashford
28:33retired at his career peak
28:34and disappeared from public view.
28:36He moved into the basement of the mansion.
28:38It had been renovated into a one-to-one replica
28:41of the pig pen.
28:42Late at night,
28:43he would hallucinate.
28:44To experience my pain,
28:46he even injected himself
28:47with the same hallucinogens.
28:49Vivian,
28:50he murmured in his dreams.
28:52Forehead drenched in cold sweat,
28:54body convulsing in pain.
28:57It hurts so much.
28:59It hurt this much.
29:01How did you bear it?
29:03How did you bear it?
29:04He reached out,
29:05grasping at empty air,
29:07trying to grab my hand.
29:09I shouldn't have sent you away.
29:11I deserve to die.
29:12I watched his increasingly gaunt face.
29:15Watched the white hair appearing at his temple.
29:19I sighed.
29:20Ethan,
29:20I don't hurt anymore.
29:22Really.
29:23I tried to reach out,
29:25to smooth his furrowed brow.
29:27The instant my fingertips touched his forehead,
29:30Ethan's eyes snapped open.
29:32He stared at the empty space where I floated,
29:35his gaze focusing.
29:37Vivian,
29:38is that you?
29:39I smiled.
29:40Even though he couldn't see me,
29:41I still gave him a long lost smile.
29:44Just like when I was little,
29:45hiding behind him after getting in trouble,
29:47asking for help.
29:48Ethan,
29:49I'm leaving now,
29:50I said silently in my heart.
29:52This life was too painful.
29:53Next life,
29:54I won't be your sister.
29:55I want to be a cloud in the sky,
29:57wind in the mountains,
29:59free and easy,
30:00where no one can lock me up again.
30:02Tears streamed down Ethan's face.
30:04He knelt on the straw mat,
30:05kowtowing heavily to the empty air.
30:07Okay,
30:08he choked out.
30:09Next life,
30:10don't meet me.
30:11Don't meet our family.
30:12My soul grew lighter,
30:14rising bit by bit.
30:15Before fading away,
30:16I looked back one last time.
30:18Ethan was still kneeling there.
30:20The recording pen played my final words.
30:22Tell Ethan,
30:23I learned my lesson.
30:24It was a lie
30:25and my final punishment for him.
30:28For the rest of his life,
30:29he would live imprisoned in this lie,
30:31trapped in a cage of his own making
30:33until death.
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