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00:00In our third year of marriage, the doctors found something wrong with me.
00:03I had lost the ability to have children forever.
00:05I was devastated.
00:07Adrienne suggested we adopt a child from an agency.
00:10Together, we picked out one little girl, sweet and well-behavedly.
00:13I liked her very much.
00:14On the day we signed the papers, I saw a birthmark on the girl's hand,
00:19the size of a pea, and I said no.
00:22At once.
00:23But Adrienne insisted on adopting her.
00:27So I asked him for a divorce.
00:28Just because she has a birthmark on her hand?
00:32You divorce me over that?
00:34Yes.
00:35Because of that birthmark.
00:37It's ugly.
00:37But it's only the size of a pea.
00:39There's something wrong with your body.
00:42You can't get pregnant.
00:43The whole family came here with you to adopt, and now you back out?
00:47It's such a tiny birthmark.
00:49Find a doctor to take it off later, and it's done.
00:51What's the big deal?
00:52Exactly.
00:53We'll find the best doctor in the country to remove it.
00:55It's not a problem.
00:56The child's adorable.
00:57Didn't you like her too?
00:59Why be so petty over something this small?
01:02Fine.
01:03After we divorce, adopt whoever you want.
01:06Adopt as many as you like.
01:08I won't care.
01:09Everyone thought I was throwing away three years of marriage on a whim,
01:13all because of one tiny birthmark.
01:15But they did not know why I refused to adopt Lily.
01:18I had already learned the truth behind that birthmark.
01:24She's just an abandoned child.
01:26How can you be so heartless?
01:28Why do you care so much?
01:30Fine.
01:31Divorce.
01:32Ms. Ashford, Lily is the best behaved child here.
01:35She never cries, and she likes your family.
01:37Let's go home and talk it over.
01:40I flung his hand away without leaving him any dignity.
01:43No need.
01:44My lawyer will draw up the agreement.
01:46Remember to come sign it.
01:47Three years married and no baby.
01:50Now we offer you one and you refuse?
01:52Are you trying to leave this family with no heir?
01:55Whenever you wanted a midnight snack,
01:57my son got up and cooked it for you,
01:59no matter how late it was.
02:01He never complained once.
02:03You only liked cake from that one bakery downtown.
02:07He stood in line for an hour every single day
02:09just to buy it for you.
02:11Do you have any conscience?
02:12I only want a grandchild.
02:14If you can't give birth, what use are you?
02:17To all of them, I was the villain now.
02:19The cold, barren, ungrateful wife.
02:22None of them knew the real reason
02:23I refused to adopt this child.
02:27I picked up my bag to leave.
02:29The little girl ran up to me, calling out,
02:31Mama?
02:34I pushed Lily away.
02:36Cassandra rushed over and caught her in her arms.
02:38That's Cassandra, Adrian's sister
02:40and his assistant at the company.
02:43Phoebe, she's just a child.
02:45She only wants a home.
02:46What's wrong with her calling you Mama?
02:48If you like her, adopt her and let her call you Mama.
02:52Don't say such things.
02:55She's the child you and my brother are adopting.
02:57So you know it's me and your brother.
02:59Then why are you meddling?
03:01Watch how fast the panic flashed across her face.
03:04Enough!
03:05Sign the papers first.
03:06I've already asked everyone here.
03:08Don't embarrass me in front of them.
03:09I won't adopt her.
03:14They say a proud man never kneels.
03:16In three years of fights, he never once knelt for me.
03:19Now here he was, on his knees, for a child with no blood tied to me at all.
03:25Adrian, do you really like her that much?
03:27I looked at the girl hiding in Cassandra's arms.
03:29So pretty.
03:30So well behaved.
03:31And so much like someone.
03:33Vivi, I'll do whatever you want from now on.
03:35I'm begging you, please sign the adoption papers.
03:40Adrian's eyes reddened.
03:41He looked deeply humiliated.
03:44Somehow, I had become the villain.
03:46All because of a birthmark the size of a mung gene.
03:49I was even willing to throw away three years of love and get a divorce.
03:53Nothing you say will make any difference.
03:54Let's get a divorce.
03:56I walked out without looking back.
04:00I went home and had my lawyer drop her up the divorce papers.
04:04Adrian did not come home until late that night.
04:06They had brought Lily with them.
04:08Everyone was carrying bags full of gifts.
04:10Lily was surrounded like a princess.
04:15The director said Lily can stay a few days.
04:18I know you don't like her.
04:20I'll take her back soon.
04:21No need.
04:22Let her stay.
04:25Really?
04:26You've decided to adopt her?
04:30No.
04:31It's just that we're getting divorced.
04:35I'm sorry.
04:36If you don't want to raise her, we won't.
04:38Just don't divorce me.
04:40I can't lose you.
04:41Margaret yanks him back.
04:43Are you cheating on Adrian?
04:44Is that why you're so desperate to divorce him?
04:47Cassandra walks over with Lily and drops to her knees.
04:51Vivi, I know you were born into the wealthy Ashford family.
04:55We vases are just an ordinary family.
04:58You've never known what it's like to have nowhere to go.
05:01I have and I can't bear to see her live that way.
05:04I know you don't like me.
05:07If you're willing to adopt her, I'll leave the Vance family immediately.
05:10She made herself look so pitiful, it was heartbreaking.
05:13But I did not feel sorry for her at all.
05:16I even hated her.
05:20You know exactly why I won't adopt this child, don't you?
05:30A wave of dizziness swept over me, and tears slipped from the corner of my eye.
05:35I'm sorry, honey.
05:36I didn't mean to.
05:38Adrian rushed over to check my injury.
05:40I shoved his hand away, grabbed my bag, and started to leave.
05:43How dare you leave?
05:44If you walk out now, never come back to this house.
05:47If you insist on divorcing him, you won't get a single cent.
05:50I went back to my parents' home and told them everything.
05:53Mom wrapped her arms around me, heartbroken.
05:56I never imagined Adrian was this kind of man.
05:59How could he do something like this?
06:02My father wanted to storm over and confront them.
06:04I stopped him.
06:06A screaming match would be too easy on them.
06:08I would ruin Adrian's reputation.
06:10I would make sure everyone despised him.
06:13The next day, I went to the company for the papers.
06:16He and Cassandra were playing with Lily.
06:18I came for the divorce agreement.
06:20Honey, tell me what I did wrong.
06:22I'll change.
06:23I only want you.
06:25I have only one demand.
06:26Divorce.
06:28Impossible!
06:29Do I have to tell everyone about all the filthy things you've done?
06:32On the surface, he stayed calm, but I caught the panic that flashed across his face.
06:37Cassandra cuts in.
06:38Let her go.
06:38This ungrateful woman hasn't got a shred of conscience.
06:43I won't let you talk about Vivi that way.
06:46Apologize to her.
06:47You won't sign?
06:49Then I'll see you in court.
06:51At the company, people whisper among themselves,
06:53I heard the CEO wants to adopt a girl, but his wife disagrees.
06:57Now they're getting divorced.
06:58That child is the CEO's biological daughter.
07:00He said so himself.
07:04Cassandra heard the gossip and came out to stop it.
07:07We're on the clock.
07:08If you want to gossip, submit your resignation first.
07:11A few days later, all my things are dumped outside my door.
07:14My favorite teddy bear lies in the mud.
07:16It was our first keepsake.
07:18The night we officially got together, Adrian ran six miles to buy it.
07:24You're quite good at faking devotion.
07:26It wasn't me, honey.
07:27I would never do that.
07:29I didn't want to hear any more excuses, so I blocked him.
07:33That night, he stood outside my door in the pouring rain until morning, playing the devoted husband.
07:39The next morning, Cassandra rushes over, helping him up.
07:42Are you out of your mind?
07:43You left Adrian standing in the rain all night.
07:46What if he gets sick?
07:48Look at what you've done.
07:49Adrian may put up with you, but no one else will.
07:52It was Lily, crying to a reporter about how I despised her birthmark.
07:56The director backed her up.
07:57The video spread everywhere.
07:58The entire internet turned against me.
08:00Eggs were thrown at my front door.
08:02My family's company saw its stock price plunge.
08:04Overnight, I became the most hated woman in the world.
08:09Don't worry.
08:10At the press conference, I'll make them pay.
08:14The Vance family arrives.
08:16Cassandra holds Lily.
08:20Reporters surge forward.
08:21Mrs. Ashford, did you really refuse to adopt Lily over the birthmark on her hand?
08:30I did indeed refuse to adopt Lily because of that birthmark.
08:35I have three things to show all of you.
08:42I had the first report put up on the big screen.
08:45My own medical report.
08:46Mrs. Ashford, this report clearly states you can no longer have children.
08:50Is this why you wanted to adopt?
08:51Then why refuse Lily over the birthmark?
08:54What does it have to do with your report?
08:56Please answer us directly.
08:58The questions came one after another.
09:01The crowd watching below was arguing just as fiercely.
09:04Isn't this just a checkup report?
09:06What does it have to do with the child's birthmark?
09:08She can't have children herself, so she breaks down over a sweet little girl.
09:12It's probably some kind of jealousy.
09:14If you're that bitter, don't hold a press conference.
09:16Don't take it out on a child.
09:18Everyone sided with Adrian.
09:20Then Margaret stepped forward and played the victim for the crowd.
09:24Vivi married into this family three years ago.
09:27She couldn't have children, and I never once resented her.
09:31I treated her well at home.
09:33Now I'm old.
09:35I only wanted a granddaughter to hold.
09:37Blood or not, I didn't mind.
09:40And now all this?
09:43What did I do wrong?
09:44She stirred up their sympathy, and the cameras turned to her.
09:48No one noticed how tense Adrian and Cassandra had gone.
09:52A smile tugged at the corner of my mouth.
09:54Margaret, but you already have.
09:56A granddaughter by blood.
09:58Hold her whenever you like.
10:00You can have her call you Grandma.
10:03Right now.
10:06The room went still, then broke into confusion.
10:10What is she talking about?
10:12As they all guessed, a second report loaded onto the screen.
10:16It was a paternity test between Adrian and Lily.
10:19A 99% match.
10:21It proves the blood tie.
10:24Adrian
10:26is Lily's father.
10:28When I read it aloud, everyone was stunned.
10:31My God, she was cheated on!
10:33Lily is her husband and his mistress's child.
10:36He wanted her to raise it!
10:39Rich people really do play it this dirty.
10:44So sad.
10:46Cheated on, then nearly tricked into raising the mistress's child.
10:50He'd been cheating on her for ages.
10:52I looked over at Adrian.
10:53His face was pale as death.
10:56Cold sweat pouring down.
10:57Dozens of cameras swung to him.
11:00And the questions came flying.
11:02Mr. Vance, is what Miss Asheville said true?
11:05Mr. Vane, did you cheat?
11:06Is Lily your child with your mistress?
11:08His lips trembled.
11:09But not one word came out.
11:11I looked at him and felt nothing.
11:13I had loved him.
11:14I had mourned the child.
11:16I thought I could never give him.
11:17And this was what he'd done.
11:21When the doctor said I could never have children,
11:24Adrian pushed for adoption right away.
11:27In three years, I truly wanted to give him a child.
11:32I could see how badly Margaret longed for a grandchild.
11:36But he had never once pressed me about children before.
11:40The moment the test results came back, he started pushing for an adoption.
11:43I was drowning in the pain, certain my own body had failed me.
11:47I never saw the trap he had built.
11:50Every kind thing he did.
11:53After that report was to soften me up.
11:57For their child.
12:00Now the crowd began condemning Adrian.
12:05No wonder she's furious.
12:07Made to raise the mistress's kid?
12:11Honestly, he's lucky she didn't deck him.
12:15Good it came out in time.
12:18Who knows how long he'd have played her.
12:20I raised the microphone again.
12:22Adrian shoved the reporters aside and tried to charge the stage.
12:27But too many people boxed him in.
12:29He couldn't break free.
12:31And instead fell flat on his face in front of everyone.
12:35Bruised.
12:36He scrambled up and still clawed toward me.
12:40He must have known what I was about to say.
12:43And it terrified him.
12:48I had my bodyguards hold him back.
12:50Almost at once, the tears came.
12:52I watched him coldly.
12:54He really should have been an actor.
12:55Don't say it.
12:56I admit it.
12:57He begged me.
12:58Bitter and broken.
13:00Honey.
13:01Shh.
13:01We were husband and wife once.
13:04Don't say anymore.
13:06I'm begging you.
13:07Don't call me your wife.
13:09We're in divorce proceedings.
13:10You dared to do it.
13:12You should have known this day would come.
13:15You'll do these filthy things but not own them.
13:17Hearing that, the reporters lit up.
13:19Urging me to tell the whole story.
13:21Mrs. Ashfield, we're broadcasting live.
13:22Every word you say goes on the record.
13:24For weeks he had played the perfect husband.
13:26Now the whole country watched the mask fall away.
13:28I had waited weeks for this.
13:30I was not about to stop now.
13:31I held up one more test report.
13:33The reporters had caught on.
13:34Whatever came next would be the story of the year.
13:41This is another paternity test.
13:43Lily's mother is Siandra.
13:44Piandra is Adrienne's sister.
13:45The whole room gasped.
13:47For a moment it was dead silent.
13:49Two seconds later a roar of discussion broke out.
13:51This child was born of incest.
13:53Between a brother and a sister.
13:54Cheated on.
13:55Made to raise the mistress kid and the mistress is his own sister?
13:58Beyond sick.
13:59My god, these two are heartless.
14:01How could they do something like this?
14:02The reporters snapped photos like mad.
14:04Desperate not to miss a detail.
14:06Margaret stared.
14:07Wide-eyed at Cassandra beside her.
14:09Cassandra shook so hard.
14:11Her arms went limp.
14:12And Lily slipped from her grip and hit the floor.
14:15Wailing.
14:16They were not related by blood.
14:18But they had been raised as brother and sister.
14:20Flash bills kept firing at the Vounce family.
14:23A brother and a sister raised in the same house?
14:26How do you even do that?
14:28The perfect family they presented to the world was a lie from beginning to end.
14:33I looked coldly at Adrian, sprawled on the ground.
14:37After all this, what do you have left to say?
14:43Adrian crawled and scrambled to my feet, clutching at my pant leg.
14:47No, honey.
14:48I'm sorry.
14:49Don't divorce me.
14:50I was wrong.
14:51I deserve to die.
14:53I'm begging you.
14:54It was Cassandra.
14:55She seduced me.
14:56To land a good position at the company, she seduced me on purpose.
15:00I couldn't hold myself back for one moment.
15:02That's the only reason I gave in.
15:04He almost made me laugh.
15:06He actually had the nerve to say it.
15:08Did Cassandra force him into bed?
15:11If he hadn't wanted it, she never could have gotten anywhere.
15:15She could not have seduced a man who did not want her.
15:19He enjoyed every minute.
15:21Now that it's blown up, he turns his back and denies it all.
15:25The man who once ran across a city in the rain for me, was now selling out his own sister
15:30to save himself.
15:31His panic was almost funny to watch.
15:33Three years I gave this man.
15:35Three years.
15:36And this is who he really is.
15:38A coward who'd sell out anyone to save his own skin.
15:41Cassandra's face darkened.
15:42Rage bottled up inside her.
15:46Perhaps I should have noticed Cassandra's feelings for Adrian much earlier.
15:50From the day Adrian and I started dating, Cassandra had been scheming in the shadows.
15:55She tagged along on our dates.
15:57She threw a fit for a gift of her own every time he gave me one.
16:02After the wedding she was worse.
16:04Nagging him to hand her a job at the company.
16:07At first I didn't mind.
16:08They were not related by blood but they were still siblings who had grown up together.
16:12I never dreamed the two of them could be shameless enough to sleep together behind my back.
16:16The child is over a year old now.
16:18They'd been at it for a whole year.
16:22It was the night Adrian came home smelling of her perfume that I first grew suspicious.
16:29So I hid a camera in his studio.
16:31And I heard their entire plan.
16:33My husband and his sister.
16:34Plotting to trap me into raising the child from their affair.
16:37The two of them were even all over each other.
16:39Right there in the study.
16:40In that moment I wanted to throw the door open.
16:43And let his parents see their perfect son and daughter for what they were.
16:48Back in the room, Adrian was weeping.
16:50Honey, forgive me.
16:52I'll never dare again.
16:53This was my fault.
16:54Cassandra had me wrapped around her finger.
16:56I'm not even human.
16:58He slapped himself across the face.
17:00Over and over.
17:00Begging.
17:01Hearing all the filth flung at her.
17:03Cassandra's temper finally snapped.
17:05She pointed at him.
17:06So you've washed yourself clean?
17:07Don't you find it funny?
17:08Saying all that, you do all your thinking below the belt.
17:11I crook one finger and you come running like a dog.
17:13Even when I was pregnant and my belly was huge.
17:16You still wanted to have sex with me.
17:18You were never satisfied.
17:20And you kept saying your wife couldn't satisfy you.
17:23Have you forgotten already?
17:25You think I don't know about your other lovers?
17:28I did you a favor and kept my mouth shut.
17:30Her voice grew louder and louder until she had revealed everything between her and Adrian.
17:34He had betrayed her too.
17:35I just stood back and let the two of them tear each other apart.
17:38Adrian just knelt there and took it.
17:40No defense left in him.
17:43Enough!
17:45Margaret glared at Cassandra, clutched her chest, and collapsed.
17:48Mom!
17:48Cassandra ran to her and Adrian's father, Robert, shoved her away.
17:52She fell and her arms started to bleed.
17:54Robert's raised hand was trembling.
17:56This family has no daughter like you.
17:58As of today, you are no daughter of mine.
18:01He was so furious he could barely get the words out.
18:03Cassandra's tears spilled over.
18:04Dad, I was wrong.
18:05I'm sorry.
18:06Don't cast me out.
18:07Only now did she feel real fear, begging over and over.
18:10The mother who raised Cassandra as her own could not even look at her now.
18:13You've humiliated me.
18:14If you have any respect for the people who raised you, then leave now!
18:18Cassandra shook her head wildly, weeping.
18:20The Vance family was tearing itself apart in front of the whole country.
18:23They had spent years pretending to be the perfect family.
18:26It ended in a single afternoon.
18:27She had lost her brother, her mother, and her father all at once.
18:30Every lie they had built came crashing down on their heads.
18:35Adrian shoved her aside and shouted,
18:38Get mom to the hospital!
18:39What are you standing there for?
18:41The family scrambled to leave.
18:43I had my security block the doors.
18:45Have you lost your mind?
18:47Why are you stopping us?
18:48My mother collapsed.
18:49Can't you see?
18:50Are you really this heartless?
18:51His eyes were bloodshot and full of blame for me.
18:54Some in the crowd started taking his side.
18:56A life is at stake.
18:58However much you hate them, you can't let your mother-in-law die.
19:01That is a human life!
19:04I think I pity that I'm going to go.
19:06I'm vicious.
19:07Some even stood up and tried to drive my security off.
19:10The crowd took the moral high ground and condemned me.
19:13I didn't care.
19:14I had Margaret, and only Margaret, carried out through the crowd and into the ambulance.
19:22Adrian tried to follow and was stopped by my people.
19:25Satisfied now?
19:26Why won't you let me go?
19:28You destroyed my whole family.
19:29What more do you want?
19:31You destroyed me!
19:34I was shaking with rage, holding it down with everything I had.
19:38I hated that even now he was still trying to argue.
19:41I gripped a report, came down from the stage, and threw it at his feet.
19:46The pages scattered across the floor.
19:48My husband, Adrian, started drugging me two years ago.
19:51In the end, he left me unable to ever have children.
19:54The crowd rushed forward to read the reports.
19:57After reading them, they could not help speaking up for me.
20:01Oh my god, I don't even know what to say.
20:04This is horrible.
20:05Her own husband drugged her, and she thought she was the reason she couldn't get pregnant.
20:09He drugged her for two years just to make her raise the child he had with his sister.
20:13That man is heartless.
20:15I heard the Vance family's company only became successful because of the Ashford family's help.
20:22Adrian had become a scumbag the whole country hated.
20:26Just as I was about to go on, Adrian cut me off.
20:30You're slandering me!
20:33The evidence is right in front of you.
20:34What's left to deny?
20:36Do you think you're worthy of our child?
20:37His head snapped up, unable to believe it.
20:40What child?
20:41I fought to swallow the sob in my voice, unwilling to let him hear it.
20:46He grabbed a fistful of my clothes, his voice muffled.
20:49Say it!
20:50What child?
20:51Although I did not want to bring it up again, I had no choice now.
20:55I would make Adrian live with that guilt forever.
20:57Once, you and I had a child too, but those drugs made me lose the baby.
21:02That sentence was the last straw.
21:03He couldn't say another word.
21:06This was the deepest wound I had, the one I never let anyone see.
21:10I had carried it alone for two years, and he never even knew it existed.
21:14For two years, I believed my own body had failed me.
21:17I punished myself for it every single day.
21:19It was never my body.
21:21It was him, the whole time.
21:23But I would not cry in front of him.
21:25Not ever again.
21:27I had waited two years to say those words out loud.
21:32Adrian shook his head, muttering to himself, refusing to believe it.
21:36Impossible.
21:37You must be lying.
21:38You're lying to punish me.
21:39Yes, you're lying.
21:40How could this be real?
21:41Back then, he buried himself in work.
21:43He was exhausted every single day.
21:45I hid the pregnancy so I wouldn't add to his burden.
21:48Kept in the dark for two years.
21:49I always believed the fault was mine.
21:50I never imagined he had caused it.
21:52He gripped my arm hard.
21:53Say it's all a lie.
21:54You're only doing this to get back at me.
21:55If you won't believe it, nothing more I say will help.
21:57Just take it as a lie.
21:58I didn't want to be tangled up with him a second longer.
22:00The truth is out.
22:01This press conference is over.
22:02I had the reporters sent away, and the crowd streamed out.
22:05Adrian kept muttering the same words, until Robert finally slacked him back to his senses.
22:09Adrian, you did all this and you still have the nerve to stay here.
22:12Get home.
22:12He kept insisting I was lying.
22:14Maybe a lie was easier to live with than the truth.
22:18The press conference ended, but for Adrian, the story was only beginning.
22:22By that night, his name was the number one trend across the country.
22:25Every headline carried the same words.
22:27Cheater.
22:28Poisoner.
22:28A child with his own sister.
22:29On screens everywhere.
22:31Clips of the conference play on a loop.
22:32The livestream comments never stopped scrolling.
22:34I have never seen a man fall this far, this fast.
22:37Drugged her two years to make her raise his affair baby?
22:40Pure evil.
22:41And the company was never even his.
22:43He married into her money.
22:44Robert and Cassandra dragged him out of the venue, the whole family shielding their faces from the cameras.
22:49I watched the man I once loved become the most hated man in the country, and I felt nothing at
22:53all.
22:53For three years, they had built a cage around me, quietly, patiently.
22:58Now the whole world watched it all come crashing down on them.
23:01For weeks, he had painted me as the cruel, barren wife who tortured a child.
23:04Now every screen in the country told the real story, and there was no cutting it out of the video.
23:08He finally learned what it felt like to be judged by a crowd that had already made up its mind.
23:12The perfect husband the world admired had been a lie in a good suit all along.
23:18Days later, paparazzi camp outside the Vance mansion.
23:20They livestreamed the moment Cassandra was thrown out.
23:22A suitcase in one hand, Lily trailing behind her.
23:25Robert had meant every word.
23:26She was no daughter of his anymore.
23:27The woman who we once knelt and wept about having no home, now had no home again.
23:31Only this time, not one person felt sorry for her.
23:33The mistress who slept with her own brother?
23:34Let her figure it out on the street.
23:36Imagine dragging a little girl through all of this.
23:39That poor kid.
23:41Then the last piece dropped.
23:42The adoption agency had lied from the start.
23:45Lily was never an orphan waiting for a family.
23:48The sweet little girl, the tearful signing, the whole performance, all of it was staged.
23:52A trap, built to make me raise their child.
23:54The trap they built for me swallowed them whole instead.
23:57Cassandra walked off into the crowd with nothing left.
23:59Not even a name.
24:00The family that once looked down of me had nothing left to look down from.
24:03Every door that once opened for the Vance name slammed shut in a single week.
24:08She had traded a family that fed and raised her for a man who wouldn't even claim her.
24:16You would think that after all of it, Adrian would finally let me go.
24:22He didn't.
24:23He clung on, refusing to sign, dragging it out any way he could.
24:30A drowning man, grabbing at anything to stay afloat.
24:33But I was done waiting on a coward.
24:36I took him to court.
24:38I had more than enough evidence.
24:41The paternity tests.
24:42The drugging report.
24:43The recording from his study.
24:45Every lie he ever told me.
24:47Documented.
24:48Stamped.
24:49Undeniable.
24:49The man who married into money, had nothing left to bargain with.
24:54For three years he had made me feel small, powerless, grateful for scraps.
24:59Now I held every card, and he knew it.
25:02I gathered every page and walked in without a shred of doubt.
25:04This would be the last time I ever laid eyes on Adrian Vance.
25:07He had spent three years leaning on my name, my money, my patience.
25:12Now every one of them was gone.
25:15And he was left holding the wreckage.
25:19I almost pitied him.
25:21Almost.
25:28One month apart, and Adrian had wasted to a shadow.
25:32A gust of wind looked like it could carry him off.
25:35The polished CEO was gone.
25:37What sat across from me was a hollow, gray man.
25:40From the first word to the last, he never once defended himself.
25:44And what defense was there?
25:46Every claim I made, I could prove on paper.
25:50The court finds Mr. Vance the party at fault.
25:53He leaves this marriage with nothing.
25:55Nothing.
25:56The word suited him perfectly.
25:58He had come into my life with nothing.
25:59Married my money, and built a lie on top of it.
26:02Now he walked out exactly as he came in, empty-handed.
26:05I signed the last page, and my hand never once shook.
26:08Three years of my life, closed with a single signature.
26:12There were no reporters in the room now.
26:14No audience to perform for.
26:16Just a judge.
26:17A stack of evidence.
26:19And a man who had finally run out of lies.
26:21I felt the last thread between me snap.
26:24Quietly, for good.
26:27He opened his mouth once as if to speak, then closed it again.
26:31There was nothing to say.
26:36As I turned to leave, he called my name.
26:39The wind outside was so loud, I almost didn't hear him.
26:42Wait.
26:42A gift.
26:44For the child we lost.
26:45It was the same shape as the one he'd run six miles to buy me, years ago.
26:50But the stitches were crookied and clumsy, and his hands were wrapped in bandages.
26:55The factory closed long ago.
26:58I couldn't buy one anywhere.
27:00So I made it myself.
27:02Days of work, fingers torn raw, for a bear I never asked for.
27:06Once, a gesture like that would have undone me completely.
27:11Now all I saw was a man who could sew a bear by hand, but couldn't stop himself from poisoning
27:17his own wife.
27:18I looked at it for a long moment.
27:20Then I looked at him.
27:22No need.
27:23Keep it yourself.
27:25That was the last thing I ever said to Adrian Vance.
27:30He stood there holding that crooked little bear, waiting for me to soften.
27:35I didn't.
27:35Some things you can't stitch back together, no matter how torn your hands get.
27:42The rest, I heard about second hand.
27:45None of it was my concern anymore.
27:47The Vance group could not survive the storm.
27:50Clients fled.
27:52Partners vanished overnight.
27:54Within months, Adrian's company filed for bankruptcy.
27:57The family sold the mansion and moved into a cramped old apartment on the edge of the city.
28:02Robert, Margaret, Adrian.
28:03All of them crammed into a few rooms with paper-thin walls.
28:06The neighbors say the fighting starts almost every night.
28:09Screaming.
28:10Slam doors.
28:11Blame flung in every direction.
28:13Margaret finally got her wish.
28:14The whole family together, under one roof.
28:17Just never the way she dreamed it.
28:19Cassandra vanished somewhere with Lily.
28:21Another mouth to feed and no one left to help her.
28:23Adrian, the perfect husband who once had everything, ended with nothing.
28:27And no one.
28:28From what I hear, Adrian barely leaves his room anymore.
28:30The great CEO, the devoted husband, all of it gone with the money that was never his.
28:36Robert, who once threatened to leave me with nothing, now had nothing of his own.
28:41And me?
28:42While their world came apart, mine was finally beginning.
28:46My company grew stronger by the month.
28:49My name went up on the building.
28:51My own name.
28:53Ashford.
28:54The same reporters who once vilified me now lined up to cover my success.
28:58My parents watched from the front row, proud of me all over again.
29:02I lost a marriage.
29:03I lost a child.
29:05I lost time I will never get back.
29:08But I walked out with the truth.
29:10My company.
29:11And my own life.
29:12My name is Vivian Ashford.
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