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