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00:00:00Stop! Stop! Stop!
00:00:08Stop! Stop!
00:00:10Stop!
00:00:10Stop!
00:00:15Stop!
00:00:19Stop!
00:00:23Stop!
00:00:28Who are you?
00:00:35Come back to Adrian!
00:00:45Three years ago I took an arrow meant for my husband. He never saw my face.
00:00:49This arrow should have killed me. A masked warrior saved my life.
00:00:54I thought one day he might recognize the woman who loved him enough to bleed for him.
00:00:59Whoever she was, this kingdom owes her everything.
00:01:03And what does our hero owe his Duchess?
00:01:07Bring it.
00:01:13Sign it.
00:01:15I believe you married me for my title. Leave before you embarrass me again.
00:01:20I saved his life, and he still believes the cruelest thing anyone says about me.
00:01:25A commoner was never fit to stand beside a duke.
00:01:29Is that what you believe?
00:01:34The woman who took that arrow for you.
00:01:37You just threw her away.
00:01:45Your Majesty, the Imperial Guard of the capital.
00:01:47Why are they here?
00:01:49They're searching for someone they lost 18 years ago.
00:01:52He already decided who I was.
00:01:54Soon, the whole kingdom will know how wrong he was.
00:02:01For three years, I protected his life, his army, and his name.
00:02:14Your Highness.
00:02:16Not here.
00:02:17Crown Prince Lucian arrives at sunrise.
00:02:20The Empire has searched for you for 18 years.
00:02:28What did you mean in there about the woman who saved me?
00:02:32Exactly what I said.
00:02:42Adrian, you need to see this.
00:02:45Who is this addressed to?
00:02:48I've never seen it.
00:02:53You signed the divorce before asking me a single question.
00:02:56Your silence answered enough.
00:02:58No.
00:03:01My silence only gave you permission to believe the worst of me.
00:03:05Do not let her manipulate you again.
00:03:12At sunrise, Valeria comes for its princess.
00:03:17Then let them come.
00:03:23Three years as his wife, I leave with less than I brought.
00:03:27Because everything I gave him was something no one could see.
00:03:31Adrian said I could use it.
00:03:32She takes my place, my belongings, and his trust.
00:03:38Because he gives them to her before she even asks.
00:03:46This carriage is not safe.
00:03:48Must everything become a drama?
00:03:50Stop delaying your departure.
00:03:53I warned him about long bushes.
00:03:57I warned him about poison.
00:04:00He believed me only when he did not know the warning came from me.
00:04:16Adrian!
00:04:19Help me!
00:04:22That was the last time I called my husband's name.
00:04:27She is bleeding.
00:04:29Take her to the physician.
00:04:30You had that choice.
00:04:35Eleanor probably damaged it herself.
00:04:41Adrian carried me from the bridge.
00:04:44He didn't even look back at you.
00:04:46Then you got what you wanted.
00:04:49Does it hurt knowing he chose me?
00:04:52It used to.
00:05:00Eleanor! Stop!
00:05:02What did you do?
00:05:04Nothing.
00:05:05Even now you won't leave her alone.
00:05:08There is no after between us.
00:05:13Your Grace.
00:05:15That wound was not caused by the carriage.
00:05:18What caused it?
00:05:19A barbed war arrow.
00:05:25The arrow from Red Valley.
00:05:26Hundreds were injured at Red Valley.
00:05:29Eleanor worked among the refugees after the battle.
00:05:33Do not confuse coincidence with proof.
00:05:36Simply because she wants your attention.
00:05:40Of course.
00:05:43For one second he almost saw me.
00:05:46Then someone gave him an easier answer.
00:05:57She left in such a hurry.
00:06:00Perhaps she forgot which jewels she planned to steal.
00:06:07Keep them.
00:06:09Wearing another woman's jewels will not make you her replacement.
00:06:14You are not the Duchess anymore.
00:06:16Then stop searching the Duchess room.
00:06:18Like a servant looking for scraps.
00:06:23Why are you here?
00:06:25To collect the only thing in this house that ever belonged to me.
00:06:30I protected his kingdom in secret.
00:06:33Now they search my room as though I am the criminal.
00:06:44What is this?
00:06:45Give it back.
00:06:48Black Marsh.
00:06:50Winter Feast.
00:06:51Red Valley.
00:06:53Your victories.
00:06:56What are you implying?
00:06:58Nothing you would believe.
00:07:03Were you there?
00:07:05Say yes.
00:07:06Let him call you a liar one final time so you never hope again.
00:07:13She heard you tell those stories for years.
00:07:16Anyone could copy battle dates into a journal.
00:07:19And masks are sold in every market during victory festivals.
00:07:25This is not evidence.
00:07:28This proves nothing.
00:07:30Exactly.
00:07:34He came close enough to touch the truth and still chose the lie.
00:07:39Yes.
00:07:42Silver Phoenix silk.
00:07:44Woven exclusively for the Imperial House of Valonia.
00:07:48The angle, width and depth match the wound on her wrist.
00:07:58It was her.
00:08:01Before you accuse yourself of foolishness, hear the entire truth.
00:08:06It resembles Imperial silk.
00:08:08But counterfeit Phoenix flat has circulated through the capital for years.
00:08:13Anyone could create this story.
00:08:15Especially a discarded wife desperate to make you regret leaving her.
00:08:20And the wound?
00:08:21She knew you treasured that arrow.
00:08:24Perhaps she found a convenient scar and waited for you to connect it.
00:08:27Do not let guilt make you easy to manipulate.
00:08:33It is coincidence.
00:08:38If she is lying, I lose nothing by confronting her.
00:08:50If she is telling the truth.
00:08:53Eleanor!
00:09:03The journal.
00:09:05The mask.
00:09:06Your scar.
00:09:07Were you the masked warrior at Red Valley?
00:09:09Three years ago, I imagined this moment.
00:09:12I thought he would finally see me.
00:09:15If I say yes, will you believe me?
00:09:19I want to.
00:09:21That wasn't my question.
00:09:24Say it.
00:09:26Just once.
00:09:28Believe me.
00:09:29Choose to believe me instead of them.
00:09:32She cannot answer because the story is collapsing.
00:09:37Tell him what you discovered.
00:09:38The journal ink is recent.
00:09:40The entries could have been written after the war.
00:09:43Last night you said...
00:09:45I was mistaken, Your Grace.
00:09:47Another witness silenced by fear.
00:09:50Another lie he could choose to believe.
00:09:52Did you write it after the war?
00:09:56You already know which answer you prefer.
00:09:57Arrest her for stealing military records and conspying with Valeria.
00:10:02No one touches her until this is investigated.
00:10:06Then surrender your command.
00:10:10Take it.
00:10:12He would gamble his command on uncertainty, but never his pride to believe me.
00:10:24For years, I made myself smaller, so his enemies would not see me.
00:10:31I hid every wound.
00:10:33I let him take every victory.
00:10:35Because I believed loving him mattered more than being known.
00:10:40Your Imperial Highness.
00:10:42This woman is under arrest for espionage.
00:10:48Little sister.
00:10:51What did he call her?
00:10:57Your Highness.
00:11:04Her Imperial Highness, Princess Eleanor Valia, first heir to the Valonian Empire.
00:11:12Princess.
00:11:16That arrow struck my sister while she was protecting you at Red Valley.
00:11:20It was her.
00:11:22The woman who saved my life.
00:11:30It was her.
00:11:32Wife I called a liar.
00:11:34And the princess I cast into the street.
00:11:37Now he knows who I was.
00:11:39But the woman who waited for him no longer exists.
00:11:47She saved my life.
00:11:49And I repaid her.
00:11:51By destroying her life.
00:11:55I need to speak to her.
00:11:57You had three years.
00:11:59Eleanor!
00:12:00I imagined him calling my name like that countless times.
00:12:04As if losing me had finally made him afraid.
00:12:07I was wrong.
00:12:09About the arrow, about the journal.
00:12:11About you!
00:12:13Please let me explain.
00:12:16You already explained yourself at the banquet.
00:12:20Valeria's troops will withdraw from the northern border before sunset.
00:12:23Your Highness.
00:12:24Without Imperial support, the border cannot hold!
00:12:27Punish me.
00:12:28Not the kingdom.
00:12:30Your kingdom celebrated your victories.
00:12:33It can now survive without the woman who made them possible.
00:12:40Your Majesty!
00:12:41Enemy banners have been sighted beyond the northern watchtowers!
00:12:45Who protected all of us.
00:12:47And I sent her away.
00:12:50When we needed her most.
00:12:54I spent 18 years wondering why no one came for me.
00:12:58Now I have a family, a title, and an entire empire waiting.
00:13:03Yet all I can feel is the life I wasted begging one man to see me.
00:13:12Mother wrote one every year after you disappeared.
00:13:15She already knows we found you.
00:13:18An Imperial rider left at dawn.
00:13:20Come home with me.
00:13:22Not yet.
00:13:23The regent framed me, sabotaged my carriage, and manipulated Adrian.
00:13:27If I leave now, she will bury the truth with me.
00:13:34Give this back to her.
00:13:36She left it deliberately.
00:13:41The kingdom is under attack.
00:13:43She withdrew the Imperial army because she wants you to suffer.
00:13:47She spent years protecting this kingdom.
00:13:49We are suffering because she finally stopped.
00:13:52You believe her now?
00:13:55I believe I was a fool.
00:14:01He is turning against us.
00:14:05Then we remind the whole kingdom who caused its soldiers to leave.
00:14:18By tomorrow, she will no longer be a discarded wife.
00:14:25She will be a foreign enemy.
00:14:34Yesterday, they mocked me for having no name.
00:14:41Today, they fear the name they refuse to believe.
00:14:45Three northern villages have been attacked since Volovia withdraw.
00:14:49How many citizens must die before your revenge is satisfied?
00:14:53Imperial troops withdrew from royal command.
00:14:56Our physicians and supply conveys remain at the border.
00:15:01How generous.
00:15:05She warned us about the border for years.
00:15:11And now you defend her because guilt has made you weak.
00:15:25Recovered from the village.
00:15:27The attackers carried northern banners.
00:15:35This was forged in the royal armory.
00:15:37Are you certain?
00:15:39I inspected thousands of them during the war.
00:15:41Or she placed it there herself.
00:15:44Here we go again.
00:15:45As long as a lie is uttered loudly first,
00:15:48the truth must prove itself on its knees.
00:15:57The forge mark is real.
00:16:00The northern enemy did not attack those villages.
00:16:07Someone inside this palace did.
00:16:20The regent turned my marriage into a weapon against me.
00:16:25Now she is turning an entire kingdom into one.
00:16:32You surrendered your authority.
00:16:35Not my responsibility.
00:16:40Responsibility would have meant listening before people died.
00:16:44I know.
00:16:51Well.
00:16:59No one asks a problem.
00:17:07We are a black individual.
00:17:11The backstory of the furnace putting a weapon against her.
00:17:14The js downloadables kavgels are asked of.
00:17:15Who is a black individualonaires standing there?
00:17:26The letter.
00:17:27The Regent's seal.
00:17:31She framed you.
00:17:33You helped her.
00:17:43What?
00:17:47These men came from the palace.
00:17:55When I had no title, they dismissed every truth I spoke.
00:18:00Now I bring evidence to the throne, and still they expect me to beg to be believed.
00:18:05Royal guards attacked the village under northern banners.
00:18:08Their orders carried the same wax used to forge the letter found in my chamber.
00:18:16You cannot believe she found all of this by coincidence.
00:18:21No.
00:18:24I believe you planted the letter.
00:18:29Adrian!
00:18:30I believed you without evidence.
00:18:33I condemned my wife without allowing her to defend herself.
00:18:38He finally speaks for me after his silence cost me everything.
00:18:44Regret has made you desperate.
00:18:46A broken marriage is not proof of treason.
00:18:49This man prepared the carriage that nearly killed Princess Eleanor.
00:18:55Who ordered you to cut the axle?
00:18:59Lady.
00:19:04Lady Vivian.
00:19:26He chose me.
00:19:29Once.
00:19:30after years of choosing everyone else.
00:19:35This time, I saw it coming.
00:19:40Save your strength.
00:19:44You said that to me at Red Valley.
00:19:47I remember your voice now.
00:20:00How convenient.
00:20:02What are you suggesting?
00:20:04Adrian brings a witness who accuses Lady Vivian.
00:20:08Moments later, an Ashfield weapon strikes him while he performs a heroic rescue.
00:20:17This was staged.
00:20:24No.
00:20:31Duke Adrian Ashford is under arrest for conspiracy against the Crown.
00:20:44He was the target of the arrow.
00:20:48Or your willing accomplice.
00:21:00I once wanted him to understand how much I suffered.
00:21:03I never wanted him to bleed for the lesson.
00:21:08I once wanted him to understand how much I suffered.
00:21:16I never wanted him to bleed for the lesson.
00:21:20He stayed.
00:21:21The assassin wanted you silent.
00:21:23Keeping you alive is not forgiveness.
00:21:25That is what I tell myself.
00:21:27Because admitting I still care would feel like betraying the woman he destroyed.
00:21:32The bridge.
00:21:33You warned me, and I called you dramatic.
00:21:35Vivian fell, and I left you trapped.
00:21:38You told me the letter was false.
00:21:40I believed everyone except my wife.
00:21:43I am sorry.
00:21:46Remorse is not repair.
00:21:54No.
00:21:55But perhaps treason is.
00:22:02These were found inside the Imperial Embassy.
00:22:06The poison matches the capsule used by the assassin.
00:22:10You planted them.
00:22:13Just as you claimed I planted the letter.
00:22:19Arrest Princess Eleanor for attempting to assassinate a noble of the Crown.
00:22:28She saved me!
00:22:30Eleanor!
00:22:40As a commoner, they judged me without listening.
00:22:45As a princess, they simply found larger chains.
00:22:51The evidence was recovered from the Imperial Embassy.
00:22:55Princess Eleanor brought foreign soldiers into our capital,
00:23:00withdrew support from our border,
00:23:03and arranged an attack on Duke Adrian.
00:23:06Harm my sister, and Valeria will consider it an act of war.
00:23:10Threatening the court only proves my accusation.
00:23:15Do you have anything to say?
00:23:18You already know the verdict she wants.
00:23:20My words will not change which truth this court finds convenient.
00:23:27Until Valeria answers for these crimes,
00:23:30the princess will remain imprisoned.
00:23:40Release her.
00:23:41You should be under guard.
00:23:44The poison was planted.
00:23:48You cannot prove that.
00:23:54The Ashford cream was engraved after the weapon was forged.
00:23:58Whoever staged the attack used a royal engraving tool.
00:24:03Only three people have access to that room.
00:24:05The king.
00:24:08Myself.
00:24:11And Lady Vivian.
00:24:13He is lying for her!
00:24:17Yes.
00:24:18For the first time, I am standing beside my wife.
00:24:25Former wife.
00:24:33Then I am standing beside the woman I wronged.
00:24:39Then I am standing beside the woman I wronged.
00:24:45Then you have all made your choice.
00:24:48What?
00:24:49What?
00:24:49What are you doing?
00:24:54Ending this court's weakness.
00:24:56She never wanted to protect the kingdom.
00:25:08The king is no longer capable of protecting this kingdom.
00:25:17The king is no longer capable of protecting this kingdom.
00:25:26Under emergency law, I assume full authority until the foreign threat is eliminated.
00:25:36Beginning with her.
00:25:43Adrian, your wound!
00:25:48I have ignored your warnings long enough.
00:25:53Get out of my way!
00:26:03The old archive vault.
00:26:07Everything she has hidden is recorded there.
00:26:11Stop them!
00:26:21Your majesty!
00:26:23Go!
00:26:31You should have remained useful.
00:26:42I can walk.
00:26:44You are barely standing.
00:26:49I know every scar on his body.
00:26:52I learnt them while caring for him through wounds he never remembered receiving.
00:26:56He never once wondered who had stayed beside him.
00:27:00You do not have to help me.
00:27:05I am stopping you from bleeding to death.
00:27:08Do not mistake that for forgiveness.
00:27:13I won't.
00:27:20We should call the Imperial Army and take the palace tonight.
00:27:25If Vilonian soldiers storm the capital, the regent will tell the kingdom that I came to conquer it.
00:27:30She is holding their king hostage.
00:27:36Then we free him and expose her before the people choose her lie.
00:27:40The archive vault can be reached through the old chapel tunnels.
00:27:45How do you know?
00:27:46My father showed me the route when I became commander.
00:27:49I can take you there.
00:27:54You surrendered your command.
00:27:56I did not surrender what I know.
00:28:04They cannot have gone far.
00:28:10This tunnel reaches the western vault.
00:28:13The king's signet should open the final gate.
00:28:16We retrieve the records and return with the Imperial Army.
00:28:20We return with proof.
00:28:37As Adrian's wife, they called me a gold digger.
00:28:40As Valeria's princess, they call me an invader.
00:28:44The lie changes, but the purpose remains the same.
00:28:48Make people fear me before they ever hear me.
00:29:02Stay away from us.
00:29:09Go back to your empire!
00:29:15They need to know the truth.
00:29:18Not from a man they believe I have betwitched.
00:29:20I once hoped he would defend me in front of the entire kingdom.
00:29:24Now even his loyalty can become a weapon against me.
00:29:31By order of the regent,
00:29:33anyone who delivers Princess Eleanor alive
00:29:36will receive 1,000 gold crowns!
00:29:53No fighting here.
00:29:57No fighting here.
00:30:09Adrian Ashfield!
00:30:14The princess is not here.
00:30:18I stole the military records.
00:30:22I helped the Imperial delegation escape the palace.
00:30:26Adrian!
00:30:30Arrest me.
00:30:41By order of the regent, you are charged with treason.
00:30:44They will...
00:30:49Tire and Pompeov will receive therapy on a page and the legacy.
00:30:52save the Ripost蓋! But
00:30:59one sacrifice cannot erase three years of cruelty.
00:31:04And saving him now means finishing the truth he finally chose to defend.
00:31:16Denounce her before the court, and I can store everything you lost.
00:31:22Your command, your title, your future.
00:31:29You were never my future.
00:31:41It's just like the stories.
00:31:43Stay sharp. Stand back. I'm going to break the lock.
00:31:59Eleanor.
00:32:00She silenced witnesses, planted fabricated evidence, and twisted every narrative until the victims began to doubt their own sanity. Yet
00:32:09no matter how carefully power conceals its tracks, it always leaves a paper trail.
00:32:15If the princess disappears, the royal marriage between the two kingdoms will be called off, and the crown will still
00:32:23need me.
00:32:28She did more than no.
00:32:40I spent my childhood believing I had been abandoned.
00:32:44My mother searched for me every year, while the woman who stole me watched me grow up alone.
00:32:53Soldiers!
00:33:14The tunnel!
00:33:19Elanon!
00:33:20I've known abandonment, war, and a marriage that broke my sense of self-worth. The truth won't perish alongside me
00:33:28in this place.
00:33:35How did you...
00:33:37Vivian still underestimates me.
00:33:40Get down!
00:33:56The regent took you from Valeria.
00:34:01She took my family, my childhood, and every chance I had to know who I was.
00:34:11And I helped her take the rest.
00:34:19He finally understands that his cruelty did not begin my suffering.
00:34:26It simply became one more chapter, written by someone who thought I would remain silent.
00:34:54The ledger proves she ordered my abduction and financed the false border attacks, but half the names were destroyed.
00:35:01It is enough for Valeria.
00:35:05I need it to be enough for this kingdom.
00:35:12The wax, handwriting, and payment dates connect Vivian to the forged evidence.
00:35:19I should have examined the letter the night she gave it to me.
00:35:23You should have believed your wife before demanding proof of her innocence.
00:35:27Yes.
00:35:28I cannot change what I did.
00:35:30I can only make certain the truth survives me.
00:35:33He no longer asks me to forget.
00:35:36He no longer calls one apology enough.
00:35:40Somehow, that makes it harder to hate him as completely as I want to.
00:35:52The regent moved the execution.
00:35:55Adrian will be hanged at sunrise before she takes the crown.
00:36:02We attack before dawn.
00:36:06No.
00:36:07She wants Imperial troops at the palace gates.
00:36:11It will prove every accusation she made against me.
00:36:17We enter through the city.
00:36:20The entire capital is searching for you.
00:36:23Then the entire capital will hear the truth.
00:36:37What if Elinor comes for him?
00:36:49Then he will finally become useful.
00:36:56Stop delaying your departure.
00:36:59Do not confuse coincidence with proof.
00:37:03Duke Adrian Ashford betrayed his kingdom for a foreign princess.
00:37:10His death will mark the beginning of a stronger reign.
00:37:13They called me a hero for battles Elinor helped me win.
00:37:17If I die protecting her truth,
00:37:20it may be the first honorable thing I have done alone.
00:37:22Then allow the kingdom to hear why he betrayed you.
00:37:25They once watched my husband cast me aside without speaking.
00:37:29Today they will watch me stand before the woman who built her power from my silence.
00:37:35Arrest her!
00:37:38This ledger records payments for the false border attacks,
00:37:42the forged evidence against me,
00:37:44and the abduction of Valernia's missing princess eighteen years ago!
00:37:52The order bears the regent's seal.
00:37:54A burnt book carried by a foreign heir desperate for a throne.
00:37:58She is telling the truth!
00:38:02Truth will not matter once you are dead.
00:38:04He once watched while I stood alone before an entire court.
00:38:07Now his life hangs on whether I can make them listen.
00:38:13Do not fear her.
00:38:17One more word, and your king dies.
00:38:24Surrender the evidence and kneel.
00:38:37I swore I would never kneel for those who humiliated me again.
00:38:45But strength is not refuse you's every sacrifice.
00:38:50Sometimes it is choosing who is worth one.
00:39:12I don't know.
00:39:24They thought kneeling meant surrender.
00:39:28For years, they mistook my patience for weakness, too.
00:39:41The truth will not be buried. Not today.
00:39:45Your king confirmed the regent's seal.
00:39:53The records prove that she paid for the fake attack, kidnapped me, and bribed the royal soldiers.
00:40:02She brings foreign soldiers into your capital and calls herself innocent.
00:40:10The legger is genuine!
00:40:13The regent has committed treason against the crown!
00:40:22Archers.
00:40:32Those are your own citizens.
00:40:34Then they should have chosen their ruler more carefully.
00:40:42I spent years protecting a kingdom that never knew my name.
00:40:47I will not let its people die simply because their ruler finally learnt it.
00:40:55Fire.
00:41:08Shields forward!
00:41:10Protect the square!
00:41:14Anyone who follows him will hang beside him.
00:41:25Then forget my title.
00:41:27Remember the oath you swore to protect these people.
00:41:39He once used his power to silence me.
00:41:42Now he throws it away to make others listen.
00:41:45I wish that changed what happened between us.
00:41:49It does not.
00:41:54Now he throws it away to make others listen.
00:41:59The soldiers attacking your villages were paid from the regent's private treasury.
00:42:05The arrows blamed on the north were forged inside this palace.
00:42:10She created an enemy.
00:42:13So you would surrender your freedom to her.
00:42:27They sealed the palace.
00:42:30They sealed the palace.
00:42:45We storm the palace now!
00:42:50No.
00:42:51That is exactly what she wants.
00:42:59there is another way inside
00:43:05i once trailed adrian into danger without questioning whether he would stand by me in
00:43:10turn today he follows in my way i have no need of his guidance anymore
00:43:19the left tunnel reaches the throne wing the right leads beneath the regent's chambers
00:43:24we need the king alive and proof of what she plans next then we separate no
00:43:29no she has spent years isolating everyone who could expose her we do not make that mistake for her
00:43:43our men are positioned outside the western gate when the imperial army attacks enter under valerian
00:43:49hammers burn the lower district and leave no witnesses
00:43:54you said the city would be spared
00:43:56i said whatever kept you useful
00:44:01the king dies at sunset
00:44:05the poison will be found among eleanor's belongings
00:44:07she framed me as an unfaithful wife then as a foreign traitor
00:44:11now she will make me the woman who murdered a king and burned his people alive
00:44:16not yet
00:44:18we need vivian alive
00:44:26you have heard too much
00:44:40you promised i would become duchess after eleanor was gone
00:44:44you mistook being useful for being valued
00:44:52you will regret this
00:44:59you saved me
00:45:01do not confuse necessity with forgiveness
00:45:07you planted the letter in my room
00:45:10yes
00:45:13you ordered the carriage axle cut
00:45:20the regent said it would only frighten you into leaving
00:45:27i was trapped beneath the wreckage while you pretended not to breathe
00:45:40adrian always looked at you as though you were a burden
00:45:44i only gave him reasons to keep looking away
00:45:46she lied because she wanted my place he believed her because blaming me was easier than knowing me
00:45:52their choices were different but the wound they created was the same
00:46:02testify before the city council
00:46:09and if i do you answer for what you did but you live long enough to answer
00:46:26she knows vivian change sides
00:46:33i will testify
00:46:38she humiliated me before the court because she knew no one would defend a nameless woman
00:46:45today she will speak the truth before the same people who believed her lies
00:46:51lady vivian did princess elena conspire against duke adrian
00:46:58no i forged the letter accusing her of infidelity i staged my fall in the infirmary and ordered the carriage
00:47:04axle damaged
00:47:08the regent the regent told me eleanor was dangerous the truth is
00:47:13she feared what eleanor's identity would do to her power
00:47:18did the regent order the false attacks on the northern villages
00:47:23yes she also plans to poison the king and burn the western district under imperial banners
00:47:45the antidote
00:47:48the antidote
00:47:49the antidote
00:48:01she has less than an hour without the matching antidote
00:48:06without the matching antidote
00:48:06without the matching antidote
00:48:06she will die
00:48:09her confession was heard by hundreds
00:48:12we do not need her alive justice is not letting the regent silence another witness
00:48:18vivian helped destroy my marriage and nearly took my life
00:48:21saving her feels unfair perhaps that is why it matters
00:48:25i will not become cruel simply because cruelty was shown to me
00:48:30i know where the regent keeps restricted medicines
00:48:35you are still injured
00:48:39then i have less time to waste
00:48:54you're late
00:48:55i'm always exactly on time
00:49:00you once condemned elena because i asked you
00:49:04now you risk your life because she refuses to ask
00:49:11she should never have needed to ask me
00:49:17tell the princess i will exchange the antidote for the original abduction record
00:49:26when she comes alone
00:49:31once adrian made me prove my love by enduring whatever he chose to believe
00:49:37i will not repeat that mistake
00:49:40i am not here because suffering for him makes me worthy
00:49:46i am here because i decide who i am
00:49:54the record
00:49:59the antidote first
00:50:03consider this a chance
00:50:10it's real
00:50:12it's real
00:50:12elinor
00:50:13please release adrian
00:50:16you were promised an antidote
00:50:19not a husband
00:50:25do not give her the evidence
00:50:30the evidence
00:50:30vivian's testimony connects every crime
00:50:35her life matters more than one page
00:50:44you always were a fool for honesty
00:50:47a pity
00:50:48it would have made you a better puppet
00:50:50no
00:50:58now kill them both
00:51:13what is the meaning of this
00:51:16i gave you the original
00:51:20i never said
00:51:22it was the only copy
00:51:35fire
00:51:42my family lived in the western district
00:51:49i will not burn them for you
00:52:03one step closer
00:52:06and he dies
00:52:07once the threat of losing adrian would have made me surrender everything
00:52:12the regent expects that woman to return
00:52:17the regent
00:52:19do you trust me
00:52:21completely
00:52:43she still has the king
00:52:45she still has the king
00:52:49take this to vivian
00:53:05the capital knows the truth now
00:53:13truth is not victory while she still holds a crown and a hostage
00:53:29princess elinor an army is approaching the fortress
00:53:33the regent's mercenaries
00:53:37twenty five thousand soldiers
00:53:40she has promised them the capital
00:53:42and he promised them for keeping her on the throne
00:54:02twenty thousand enemy soldiers have reached the western fortress
00:54:08valeria attacks from the north
00:54:09the royal army strikes from the east
00:54:14the fortress was designed to survive attacks from both directions
00:54:18we would lose thousands before reaching the inner gate
00:54:24and
00:54:25then we do not attack the walls
00:54:27we make the enemy abandon them
00:54:30she promised him the capital
00:54:31but she also ordered her mercenaries to poison his army after the battle
00:54:38if he sees the order
00:54:39their alliance collapses
00:54:42someone must enter the enemy camp and deliver it directly to him
00:54:48i will go
00:54:51he knows your face
00:54:55that is why he will let me close
00:54:58he wants the man who defeated him at red valley
00:55:01he will torture you before he listens
00:55:03then i will make sure he listens first
00:55:06once he walked into war believing he could never lose
00:55:10tonight he knows exactly what it may cost and chooses to go anyway
00:55:20duke ashfield
00:55:22former duke
00:55:26your ally plans to murder you before you ever see the capital
00:55:34this could be forged
00:55:37then ask the regent why her poison wagons entered your camp tonight
00:55:45if this is true i will tear her kingdom apart
00:55:49it is not her kingdom
00:56:00why would she offer me the princess if the girl is worth more than the capital
00:56:04because eleanor is the only person who can prove the regent built her power on treason
00:56:11help her take eleanor
00:56:13and the regent will poison your army the moment eleanor is dead
00:56:17i will not fight for the regent
00:56:21but i will not fight for you either
00:56:24bring me the woman who ordered my death
00:56:27then my army leaves
00:56:35the regent's private chambers are above the western tower
00:56:39you should still be in the infirmary
00:56:41i spent years helping her build these traps i can help you survive them
00:56:44vivian once entered every room believing she deserved what belonged to me
00:56:48now she walks beside me knowing forgiveness is not promised
00:57:01eleanor
00:57:10i
00:57:11wondered which weakness would bring you here first
00:57:15family or betrayal
00:57:23you should have killed me when you had the chance
00:57:27i still can
00:57:31kneel princess or watch the two men you came to save die together
00:57:45remove your weapons
00:57:46remove your weapons
00:57:53release the king
00:57:54you are still negotiating as though you have power
00:58:02valeria's claim to me
00:58:03the alliance
00:58:05everything you feared
00:58:07take it and let them go
00:58:11do you truly believe this began with a necklace
00:58:14eighteen years ago your parents planned to unite valeria with this kingdom
00:58:20through your marriage to its future king
00:58:23once that alliance was complete the crown would no longer need me
00:58:32so i burned your carriage killed your escort
00:58:36and sold the surviving child to smugglers
00:58:42i expected you to disappear
00:58:44instead
00:58:46you crawled back into my court and married its greatest weapon
00:58:52fortunately he was vain enough to destroy you for me
00:58:56i was
00:58:59she did not force me to humiliate you
00:59:03she did not force me to sign the divorce
00:59:06those choices were mine
00:59:08you used my pride but i gave it to you willingly
00:59:14he finally names what he did without hiding behind her manipulation
00:59:18it does not erase the wound
00:59:21but it stops asking me to carry the blame for it
00:59:34vivian
00:59:42if i cannot rule this kingdom
00:59:49no one will
00:59:58kill the traitors who poisoned our camp
01:00:09do not waste time pretending i deserve saving
01:00:13you will answer for what you did while alive
01:00:16you always were crueler than you looked
01:00:27he once stood still while my life collapsed around him
01:00:31now he crosses the room without hesitation knowing exactly where the weapon will land
01:00:36do not look at me like that
01:00:38like what
01:00:40like you are about to forgive me because i am dying
01:00:48you are not allowed to make that decision for me too
01:01:04stop her
01:01:05the western tower controls the fortress powder stores
01:01:13go
01:01:14you may die
01:01:16then let the last thing i do be trusting you to finish this
01:01:29keep him alive
01:01:30keep him alive
01:01:36it ends tonight
01:01:49one spark and the mountain buries every army outside
01:02:10drop the weapon you lost the soldiers the court and the people there is nothing left to rule
01:02:17then i will be remembered as the woman who destroyed what refused to obey her
01:02:38without the empire you are still the nameless orphan adrian despised
01:02:47i was never worthless because you stole my name for years i believed surviving quietly was the same
01:02:55as strength it kept me alive but it also taught everyone that hurting me carried no consequence
01:03:08that ends tonight
01:03:32what are you doing here
01:03:37disobeying you one final time
01:03:56choose princess
01:03:59save the man who destroyed you
01:04:03or save yourself
01:04:10let go
01:04:11no
01:04:13elenos she will kill you
01:04:16i said no
01:04:17he once decided i was unworthy of his trust his protection and even the truth
01:04:22i will not let hatred make my choices now
01:04:28you were right
01:04:30i mistook being useful for being valued
01:04:47if i fall you all burn
01:05:13you are nothing without me to fight
01:05:18that is the difference between us
01:05:20i know who i am when no one is believe me
01:05:28did i finally do something right
01:05:30you told the truth when it cost you everything
01:05:33i am sorry
01:05:51the powder chamber is collapsing
01:05:58i am sorry
01:05:59i am sorry
01:06:06i am sorry
01:06:06i am sorry
01:06:11i am sorry
01:06:12i am sorry
01:06:12i am sorry
01:06:12i am sorry
01:06:12i am sorry
01:06:12i am sorry
01:06:12i am sorry
01:06:15i am sorry
01:06:21i am sorry
01:06:23Destroy the life I built.
01:06:26In the end, she gave her life protecting the woman she once envied.
01:06:32Redemption did not erase her crimes, but it allowed her final choice to belong to her.
01:06:47Lady Vivian confessed to forgery, attempted murder, and conspiracy against the Crown.
01:06:53She also exposed the Regent's treason and prevented the destruction of the Western Fortress.
01:07:02Duke Adrian Ashford, your title and command may be restored.
01:07:11No.
01:07:16My victories were built on sacrifices I never acknowledged.
01:07:21My title gave me the authority to humiliate an innocent woman before this court.
01:07:29I surrendered the Duke to Psy permanently.
01:07:32Then what do you ask in return for saving the kingdom?
01:07:41Nothing.
01:07:42That is the point.
01:07:53Your Imperial Highness, the Emperor has died.
01:08:01Father's final decree names you Empress of Valeria.
01:08:16Your coronation must take place within three days.
01:08:19Your coronation must take place within three days.
01:08:24Your majesty.
01:08:25Father's final decree names you Empress of Valeria.
01:08:47Valeria has waited 18 years for its daughter to return.
01:08:50I will not rule through fear, silence, or obedience disguised as loyalty.
01:08:55No person should have to disappear to make someone else feel powerful.
01:09:01Long live Empress Eleanor!
01:09:07Lucian tells me you refused an estate, a pension, and command of the Northern Army.
01:09:13Then why are you still here?
01:09:19Valeria needs guards along the eastern border.
01:09:22I applied for the lowest command available.
01:09:26You were once the most celebrated Duke in the kingdom.
01:09:32That man believed love meant being admired.
01:09:35I would rather learn what it means to be useful.
01:09:38I will not ask you to take me back.
01:09:41I will not ask you to forget.
01:09:44I only ask permission to spend whatever life I have left becoming someone who would have believed you.
01:09:51I loved him when I believed love required endless patience.
01:09:55I left him when I learned patience without respect was only another kind of prison.
01:10:02Forgiveness is not returning to who we were.
01:10:05It is deciding whether something different can begin.
01:10:08The eastern guard answers directly to the crown.
01:10:19You will begin as captain.
01:10:21Thank you, your majesty.
01:10:24Adrian.
01:10:29Walk with me.
01:10:43I wish I had known.
01:10:45I wish you had tried.
01:10:50The lost princess has taken her crown.
01:10:53Now let us see whether she can keep it.
01:10:58Let them come.
01:10:59Let them come.
01:10:59Let them come.
01:10:59Let them come.
01:11:01Let them come.
01:11:01Let them come.
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