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Two fiercely competitive modern corporate leaders enter a chaotic and dangerous shifted identity contract arrangement with complete subtitles. #RomCom
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00:00I'm going to Stanford. I'm leaving this town forever, and it all started with those first seven minutes in the
00:06closet.
00:06We just graduated. At the after party, the spin the bottle game picked us.
00:10Seven minutes in heaven. Before I could even blink, the crowd cheered and shoved us into this closet.
00:16The second the door shut, he went completely feral.
00:19He kissed me like a madman, but he wouldn't let me make a single sound.
00:24Baby, shh. Keep it down. For my sake. Help me hide just a little longer.
00:30Okay. You're the only one who truly understands me, Thea.
00:34He begged me. The star striker, the king of the school, was breathing heavily in the dark, begging for my
00:41cooperation.
00:42At school, Thea likes Beck is a joke everyone shares.
00:45But Beck is Thea's boyfriend? That's a secret only I'm keeping.
00:49Beck and I dated in secret all senior year. No one knew.
00:53At school, I was just his neighbor, the girl next door.
00:56He always kept his distance. He said it was to protect me.
00:59A nobody dating the star striker? The popular girls would destroy me.
01:03But when we were alone, he became a completely different person.
01:17Just hang in there a little longer, baby.
01:20Once we graduate, I'll tell the whole world you're mine.
01:23I obeyed for a whole year. I really thought, once we graduated, Beck to finally tell everyone about us.
01:31Stop overthinking, baby.
01:33Three, two, one.
01:34Once we leave this town.
01:39Yo, Beck. Seven minutes in the dark with the freak. You good? Need an ambulance?
01:47Bro, honestly, those seven minutes were the longest punishment of my life.
01:51I nearly choked in there.
01:53I knew it!
01:54As if Beck would ever downgrade like that.
01:57Seriously, Thea. Stop hallucinating. You're pathetic.
02:00Everyone was literally dying laughing.
02:03Like it was the funniest joke of the century.
02:05No one in that room knew.
02:06Just seconds ago, in the dark, he was whispering how crazy he was for me.
02:11But no one cared.
02:12Just like always.
02:13They treat me like I'm invisible and keep playing.
02:15Round two.
02:19Finally! Time to wash your eyes out with the real queen, Beck!
02:22Blair Kensington, the head cheerleader.
02:24Her family is the school team's biggest sponsor.
02:27And tonight, the bottle chose her.
02:33So, Beck, since when do you hang out in dark closets with nobodies?
02:37Did the school board squadronly pass a law making it mandatory to charity date the nerds?
02:44Come on, Blair.
02:45She literally cornered me in there and begged me to look over her physics homework in the dark.
02:50The cheers and whistles drowned me out.
02:51I guess that was my cue to leave.
03:07My whole body was shaking so hard I could barely breathe.
03:11I turned and walked away, digging my nails into my palms,
03:14trying to stop myself from mining right on the floor.
03:40Thea, sweetie, is everything okay?
03:43Why is it so dark over there?
03:45And where are your glasses, honey?
03:46Princess, you've been crying.
03:47Look at me.
03:48If anyone in that town made you uncomfortable tonight, you tell Dad right now.
03:52I can have our legal tumor.
03:53No, Dad.
03:54I'm completely fine.
03:56I'm at the graduation after party.
03:58That's why it's so crazy here.
03:59I took my glasses off because I was dancing.
04:02We're having so much fun.
04:04Everyone is celebrating.
04:05All right, sweetie.
04:07We just wanted to say, if you're still not ready to leave that town,
04:10if you still want to stay there for college, it's okay.
04:14Your happiness comes first.
04:15We won't force you to move to the Bay Area anymore.
04:18Mom, I'm coming.
04:19I want to go to Stanford.
04:20Oh, sweetheart.
04:22That's wonderful.
04:23You know what?
04:24Your dad's for our PhD student, Ethan, is actually in your town right now.
04:28I'll call him right now to drive to the old house and get you.
04:31I hung up the FaceTime call.
04:33I fought so hard to blink back my tears.
04:36I desperately needed to distract myself,
04:38so I opened my browser to search for the weather in the Bay Area.
04:41But instead...
04:52OMG, look.
04:53Beck and Blair just hard-launched.
04:55Literal power-couple ghouls.
04:57Wait, pause.
04:58Is that Thea in the background?
05:00Oh my god, someone already made her face into a meme?
05:02When you try to outclass your league, I'm dead.
05:04She seriously thought she had a chance?
05:06Six years of following him around like a lost puppy?
05:08Honestly, it's just sad at this point.
05:13Hey!
05:14What the hell?
05:30Standing in that dark and freezing hall,
05:32the rain felt like a funeral for the last six years.
05:36This house witnessed how Beck and I grew up.
05:38His initials were still carved right there into the wood.
05:41Once my ferret secret, now a pathetic scar.
05:44So I stepped right on it, stomping his name into the dirty water.
05:48It was time to erase him.
05:49The hot water burned, but the air inside my chest felt even tighter.
05:54Every spot on my skin where his hands had touched me in the dark,
05:57it felt like a brand of shame.
05:59I scrubbed until my skin turned a stinging pink.
06:02It hurt, but it was the only way to wash off his touch.
06:05To rip away the final, disgusting chapter of my six-year mistake.
06:13Thea!
06:14Thea!
06:19Found you!
06:20I heard you ran off crying tonight, Thea.
06:23Is it really worth throwing a tantrum like this?
06:25Blair's dad literally owns my career, okay?
06:28I'm just faking it with her.
06:29Once I make it to the big leagues, we'll get married and I'll take care of you.
06:33So just bear with me, Thea, can't you?
06:35He actually thinks it is the ultimate prize.
06:38He has no idea that his dream of making it to the big leagues
06:41is something my family could buy and crush with a single phone call.
06:48Come on, Thea.
06:49Don't look at me like I'm the bad guy.
06:51Tonight in the closet, I didn't want it to end like that either.
06:54Let's just stop fighting, okay?
06:56Come here.
06:58I would always forgive him, but right now, my body is screaming, no.
07:06Are you fucking crazy, Thea?
07:08I walked through a goddamn storm just to tell you I want to marry you,
07:11and you're acting like you're too good for me?
07:13Beck has completely lost his mind.
07:15He's desperately trying to prove that he's still the master in this relationship.
07:19I fight back with everything I have, but it's useless.
07:22The narrow walls of the bathroom are suffocating,
07:25and a cold wave of despair starts to take over.
07:35Who the hell are you?
07:36Let go of me!
07:38This is private property!
07:51Miss Thea, if you don't mind,
07:53please take my coat first.
07:56Go change into something comfortable.
07:58I will wait for you here.
08:03Thea!
08:04Is this your little revenge?
08:05You threw yourself at some rich guy from the city just because I gave Blair a little attention?
08:09You're pathetic!
08:15Mr. McAllister, right?
08:17The star striker of the local high school.
08:19I suggest you remember your words tonight,
08:21because tomorrow,
08:22you won't even have the chance to set foot on a pitch again.
08:25You threaten me?
08:26My coach loves me and Blair's dad is on the school board.
08:28Get the hell out of my town!
08:29Listening to his utterly ignorant nonsense,
08:32a wave of nausea washed over me.
08:33In that exact moment,
08:35a manic regret began to consume me.
08:37To think that for six whole years of my youth,
08:39I was hopelessly infatuated with a soul so barren,
08:43so ignorant,
08:44and so arrogant.
08:52Because of my parents' classified,
08:54high-stakes defense tech projects,
08:56they were ghosts in my childhood,
08:58always away,
08:59hidden behind non-disclosure agreements.
09:01I spent my life in this old house,
09:03raised by my grandma,
09:04and Beck was always just a window jump away.
09:07For a long time,
09:08I mistook dependency for destiny.
09:10I subconsciously treated him as my family,
09:12my only anchor in this lonely town.
09:14I tolerated his secrecy.
09:15Don't cry, Thea!
09:17The storm can't get you here!
09:18As long as I'm here,
09:20this house will never be dark again!
09:22His hot and cold games and his cowardice.
09:25All because I thought we shared a roots-deep bond.
09:27But tonight,
09:28he proved to me that some people don't want to be your family.
09:31They just want to be your parasite.
09:42Thea, you changed!
09:43God, you look-
09:44Listen to me,
09:45this guy is dangerous,
09:46you don't know who he-
09:49Beck,
09:50this slap is for your cursed seven minutes in the closet.
09:53Consider it the exit fee for my six years of blind you.
10:00I used to think you were the king of this school,
10:03but looking at you now,
10:04you're just a pathetic coward
10:05who has to sell his soul to a cheerleader's daddy
10:07just to stay on the pitch.
10:09From this second off,
10:10you don't even exist in my world.
10:11You think you've won, Thea?
10:13You found a city boy with a nice car to bail you out?
10:15Let me tell you,
10:16Blair's father dominates this entire district school board.
10:19One word from him,
10:20and your dad's little coding studio will be bankrupt by tomorrow!
10:22You'll both starve!
10:26Mr. McAllister,
10:27you seem to have a severe misunderstanding of who actually funds that school board.
10:32Cancel the venture capital for the Kensington Group immediately.
10:35And tell the school board,
10:37the main donor of Stanford University
10:38is withdrawing all high school athletic scout recommendations for this town's team,
10:42especially the striker.
10:44You're just putting on a show.
10:46Who the hell do you think you are?
10:47A phone call can ruin the Kensington's?
10:49You think you can block my college scout with a few words?
10:52Thea, where did you find this pathetic actor?
10:54Thea!
10:55You don't need to believe me, Mr. McAllister.
10:57You have exactly ten minutes before your coach calls
10:59to tell you that your athletic career is officially over.
11:02Thea!
11:03You're letting an outsider ruin my life?
11:05Over a stupid joke at a party?
11:07You loved me for six years!
11:08You can't be this heartless!
11:10You're wrong, Beck.
11:11He's not an outsider.
11:13He's my father's favorite student and my family's guest.
11:16As for your career,
11:18I didn't ruin it.
11:20Your cowardity and greed did.
11:32So, when Beck reached his hand out to you back then,
11:34he became your only anchor?
11:36Exactly.
11:37I subconsciously treated him as my family,
11:39my only safe harbor.
11:40Because that thorn was planted so deep in my childhood,
11:43I kept forgiving him through a heavy nostalgic filter,
11:45no matter how toxic or unrecognizable he became.
11:47But tonight, with that slap,
11:49I think I finally pulled the thorn out.
11:51Good.
11:52Professor Lawrence talks about you all the time.
11:54He always says his greatest pride isn't his patents,
11:57but his daughter,
11:57who is stronger than anyone could ever imagine.
11:59Father misses you terribly, Thea.
12:00For the road ahead, you have him, and you have me.
12:02From this moment on,
12:03nobody gets to make you cry again.
12:04No, I'm done crying.
12:06I spent six years shedding tears for a ghost.
12:07I'm not wasting another drop.
12:08But tonight, with that slap,
12:10I think I finally pulled the thorn out.
12:15With pleasure, Miss Thea.
12:17Since you're entering my territory,
12:19we have a lot of catch-up to do.
12:20Let's start with standing.
12:36You don't have to explain anything to me, Miss Thea.
12:42It's not some scandalous secret, anyway.
12:45I just finally figured out why I wasted six whole years on Beck.
12:49My parents' work is intense, right?
12:53Growing up, they were completely absent from every major milestone of my life.
12:59They were always locked away in some high-security lab.
13:03My 10th birthday, my graduation, even when my grandma passed away.
13:08I was always alone in that old house.
13:10When you're that young, you feel completely abandoned.
13:13So I learned to just grow wild on my own.
13:22Two months later, Stanford University.
13:25I didn't just leave that suffocating little town behind.
13:29I buried it.
13:31The nerd with the taped glasses and the oversized sweaters died in that thunderstorm.
13:36For six years, I walked with my head down,
13:38hiding behind a wall of books, terrified of being noticed.
13:42But here, I don't hide anymore.
13:45Because the world my parents built,
13:47the world I actually belong to,
13:49is finally wide open.
13:51In case we like care.
13:59Except for me.
14:06At Stanford, everyone is trying to general interest their way into the inner circle.
14:10Ethan Hayes.
14:12The infamous, cold-bloodied tech tycoon who tears apart tech proches for fun
14:18and standardly treats everyone like background doys.
14:24A week later, Stanford hosted the annual Ivy Plus Athletic Exchange.
14:30The campus was buzzing.
14:31But to me, it was just another noisy Tuesday.
14:35Until two ghosts from my past crashed into my new world.
14:39After Ethan liquidated the Kendingtons' venture capital,
14:42Blair's father had to spend half his fortune just to keep his own seat on the board.
14:47And Beck, he managed to crawl into a rival school's reserve team,
14:51entirely surviving on Blair's charity.
14:58Yo, look who it is!
15:00Isn't this the pathetic, desperate little shadow from our hometown?
15:04What's the matter, Thea?
15:05Did you seriously stalk Beck all the way to Stanford just to beg for his crumbs again?
15:14How did security even let a beggar like you slip it?
15:17Did you steal that dress just to pretend you belong here?
15:19Let me tell you!
15:21Let me tell you!
15:21A freak is always a freak, no matter what trash you put on!
15:25Looking at them now, I didn't even feel angry.
15:28I just felt a profound sense of irony.
15:31It turns out, when you finally stand on top of the mountain,
15:35the monsters that used to scare you in the dark look incredibly small.
15:42Thea, stop doing this to yourself.
15:45Even if you somehow manage to get into this school, it doesn't change anything between us.
15:50This place, it's not a playground for ordinary people like you.
15:55You don't belong here.
16:02When a frog in the well catches a glimpse of the ocean,
16:05it doesn't marvel at the vastness.
16:07It simply tries to drag the ocean back into its puddle.
16:25Chancellor, my father is...
16:30Ms. Lawrence, I am so incredibly sorry for keeping you waiting.
16:33On behalf of the entire Stanford board,
16:35I must express our profound gratitude for your father's $20 million donation
16:39to our defense tech lab this semester.
16:46Regarding the new luxury residential hall,
16:50Professor Lawrence mentioned you should have the final say.
16:54Do you have any specific preferences for the naming, Ms. Thea?
16:58No! That's impossible!
17:01Chancellor, you must be mistaken!
17:03Her parents are just nobody coders from a bankrupt small town!
17:07$20 million?
17:08She couldn't even afford a decent dress two months ago!
17:12She's a fraud! She's faking it!
17:16Security!
17:18Remove these uncivilized outsiders from the campus immediately.
17:21Cancel their school exchange passes and blacklist their names
17:25from all Stanford properties forever!
17:28No!
17:29No!
17:36No!
17:36No!
17:39No!
17:43No!
17:50Thea, please, tell them we know each other!
17:55Thea!
18:01No!
18:01That's impossible!
18:03Chancellor, you must be mistaken!
18:05She's a fraud!
18:06She's a charity case who couldn't even afford to replace her broken glasses two months ago!
18:10You are all being fooled by this bitch!
18:13The standard of education is just as fraudulent as their business.
18:26No wonder your family's firm has been fabricating its financial statements for three consecutive years.
18:31My group has officially terminated all investment and cooperation with the Kensington's as of ten minutes ago.
18:36Enjoy your bankruptcy, Ms. Blair!
18:46Let me formally introduce her.
18:48Thea, this is Thea, the sole heiress to the largest venture capital group in Silicon Valley.
18:55And me?
19:02I'm currently just a candidate for the position of her fiancé.
19:06Thea, I'm still working hard to get approved.
19:13In our hometown, Beck's jersey number was a symbol of absolute royalty.
19:18People chanted his name like he was a god.
19:22But true power doesn't need a crowded stadium to scream for it.
19:26True power is quiet.
19:44It's all your fault, you worthless piece of trash!
19:47If you hadn't pissed off Thea, my dad's company would never have gone bankrupt!
19:52You owe me my whole couture!
19:55You owe me my sports car!
19:57Pay me back!
20:12Thea!
20:13You did this on purpose, didn't you?
20:15You played me!
20:17You hid your background and pretended to be a nobody just to test me!
20:20You love me, Thea!
20:21You love me, Thea!
20:23You've loved me for six years!
20:27You're only with Ethan to make me jealous, right?
20:29You're using him to punish me!
20:32But you can't look at him the way you looked at me!
20:35You gave your first time to me, Thea!
20:37You belong to me!
20:38You can't just throw me away!
20:43My first time?
20:45Beck, you really have a gift for making everything sound so incredibly small.
20:50Do you honestly think a single night in a high school motel gives you a lifelong lease on my future?
20:55And don't you dare mention Ethan.
20:57He didn't just crawl into my father's world by playing games, he helped build it.
21:00While you were busy clastic trophies and begging Blair for a handout,
21:03Ethan was already running a multi-billion dollar fund.
21:05He is a predator, Beck.
21:06And you?
21:07You're just a nuisance.
21:08Thea, you bitch!
21:26You think you've won, Professor Hayes?
21:28You think she's your pristine little princess?
21:30Let me tell you a secret.
21:31Her first time, her first kitsch, her entire teenage years, they all belong to me.
21:35I had her when she was a nobody.
21:36No matter how expensive the dress you buy her now, she will always carry my mark!
21:46A mark?
21:47Mr. McAllister, you truly possess the narrow-minded intellect of a small-town amateur.
21:51To me, her past isn't a stain.
21:54It's the fuel that built her resilience.
21:56You think you took something from her?
21:58You were just a childhood disease she survived,
22:00a heavy mistake she made before she learned how to read a balance sheet.
22:03You got a few moments of her youth because she didn't know better.
22:05But me?
22:05I get her brilliance, her future, her ambition, and her entire life.
22:08You are a footnote.
22:09She's already erased, Beck.
22:10Do you really think a thief should brag about stealing a discarded wrapper?
22:13If your filthy hands or your disgusting mouth even drift in her direction again,
22:18I won't just ruin your career.
22:20I will make sure you and the Kensingtons disappear from California entirely.
22:23Am I clear?
22:49I'm sorry, Thea.
22:51I shouldn't have let you go alone.
22:53When I heard him say those words.
22:56When he brought up your past like that, I wanted to end him right there.
23:01Tell me the truth.
23:02Did his words hurt you?
23:04If you still feel even a shred of grievements from that town, tell me.
23:07I'll make sure they pay a hundred times over.
23:16Hey, look at me.
23:18I'm perfectly fine.
23:19When he was talking, I didn't feel anything but disgusted.
23:23Honestly, Ethan, your response was the sexiest thing I've ever heard.
23:28You crushed his entire existence in 30 seconds.
23:37Is that so, since Miss Lawrence thinks I was sexy?
23:41Don't you think my hard work tonight deserves a proper, exclusive reward?
23:49And what kind of reward does Professor Hayes have in mind?
23:52The exchange is boring anyway, and the grapes here are too warm.
23:56Let's go back to my place, and let me show you what a real first time should actually feel like.
24:00No rush, no hiding.
24:02Just you and me for the whole night.
24:27We aren't even home yet, Professor Hayes.
24:30What happened to the no rush you promised earlier?
24:37I overestimated my self-control, Thea.
24:40Seeing you look at me like that,
24:42and realizing that nobody can ever dynamically link to your future except me.
24:4630 minutes in the car is already the maximum limit of my patience.
24:49I porona is my self-control isn't for me.
24:52H Zoehouse.
24:53I've been there.
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