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00:00:05Orton, you really disappointed me tonight.

00:00:08I thought you were tough.

00:00:09I thought you could take the hits, claw your way out of the muck.

00:00:12Never imagined you'd resort to cheap stunts just to drag everyone's eyes onto yourself.

00:00:16Lucy has already given back everything she once had to you.

00:00:18She lost her parents, her identity, even her place's heir.

00:00:21Why still refuse to let her go?

00:00:23Orton, how did you become like this?

00:00:55Marrying Cole Harrington beautifully.

00:00:59Because I had secretly loved him for many years.

00:01:03Half a year ago, Lucy was diagnosed with severe apathetic illness.

00:01:07Richard and Diana immediately underwent HLA matching, but the results were a complete mismatch.

00:01:13An urgent DNA test rose the secret.

00:01:1622 years ago, the Whitfield family housekeeper, Maggie Riddle, switched Lucy to me.

00:01:21She sent her own biological doll into the godfather's house, and took the true Whitfield bloodline back to a cramped

00:01:26staff apartment.

00:01:27After the truth came out, Maggie put a gun in her mouth in the underground wine cellar, leaving behind only

00:01:33a letter.

00:01:35The people here tonight were not ordinary relatives and friends, but representatives from families in New York, Chicago, and Boston.

00:01:42Some held wine glasses.

00:01:43Some had their fingers pressed against the inside of their jackets, close enough to touch a gun at any moment.

00:01:48A sharp king burned across my feet, and a drop of blood fell onto my snow white wedding dress.

00:01:54I touched my nose.

00:01:55It was warm.

00:01:57Cole, are you insane?

00:02:01At my wedding, my fiancé, Cole, slapped me hard in front of half of New York's underworld.

00:02:09Lucy almost put a gun in her mouth and killed herself.

00:02:12And all you care about is your wedding?

00:02:15Orton, do you even possess a shred of decency?

00:02:17The blow sent me stumbling, and I crashed into the five-tier wedding cake.

00:02:21Cream, strawberry coulis, and champagne mixed together, clinging to my expensive white wedding dress like dignity crushed under someone's heel.

00:02:29On our wedding day, my fiancé missed the merger ceremony between two major families because of a cry for help

00:02:34from my stepsister, Lucy.

00:02:36While everyone was frozen in a standoff, I called Ryan Black, the boy I had grown up with, and told

00:02:40him,

00:02:41If you come, I'll marry you.

00:02:44Orton, you really think too highly of yourself?

00:02:47Ryan, are you going to leave me too?

00:02:50Half an hour later, both men arrived at the church.

00:02:53One was the heir of the Harrington family, my fiancé in name, Cole.

00:02:57The other was my childhood friend from the staff building at Whitfield Manor, Ryan.

00:03:00They stepped out of black bulletproof cars.

00:03:02Behind them stood a line of black suit bodyguards with gun holsters concealed in their jackets, like a belated judgment.

00:03:07I had been struck to the floor.

00:03:09Covering my face, I instinctively looked toward Ryan.

00:03:13He stood coldly to the side with both hands in his pockets, a flicker of disgust crossing his eyes.

00:03:21Even my biological parents, Richard, head of the Whitfield family, and his wife Diana, came over from the main table.

00:03:29The alliance ceremony can be rescheduled any time, but if something happens to Lucy, we cannot afford to lose a

00:03:35single second.

00:03:36At that moment, I finally understood.

00:03:39Within this family, I was their long-lost biological daughter restored to them by blood, yet also the perfect bargaining

00:03:46chip.

00:03:46The people here tonight were not ordinary relatives and friends, but representatives from families in New York, Chicago, and Boston.

00:03:53Some held wine glasses.

00:03:55Some had their fingers pressed against the inside of their jackets, close enough to touch a gun at any moment.

00:04:00A sharp pain burned across my face, and a drop of blood fell onto my snow-white wedding dress.

00:04:05I touched my nose.

00:04:07It was warm.

00:04:09Cole, are you insane?

00:04:14If Lucy hadn't begged me through tears to come finish this ceremony, do you really think I would be here?

00:04:19After saying that, he pulled a glass from the bottom tier of the champagne tower.

00:04:23The bodyguards at the door tensed instantly.

00:04:25The banquet hall manager went deathly pale, but did not dare step forward.

00:04:28Cole grabbed a bottle of champagne, twisted off the cork, aimed it over my head, and let the cold golden

00:04:33liquid pour down.

00:04:35Didn't you want to marry into the Harrington family?

00:04:40Here.

00:04:42This is our champagne ceremony.

00:04:44The liquor ran from my lashes, down the bridge of my nose, and off my chin, drop by drop.

00:04:47I could no longer tell whether what fell onto my wedding dress was wine or blood.

00:04:50Satisfied now, my legal wife?

00:04:55In the banquet hall, my bridesmaid Grace stood frozen in place.

00:04:59At an ordinary wedding, someone would call the police, but on Whitfield territory, no one dared call 911.

00:05:05People here believed more in silence, hush money, and bodies encased in port concrete.

00:05:10My childhood friend, Ryan Black, stood in the shadows as if watching a play whose ending had never been in

00:05:15doubt.

00:05:15There was a commotion at the back door of the banquet hall.

00:05:18My biological parents came through the crowd.

00:05:21I thought they would finally ask if it hurt.

00:05:23But Diana did not even spare me a glance.

00:05:26Her voice shook.

00:05:27Where is my wife looking?

00:05:29She's emotionally unstable.

00:05:30How could you leave her alone in a safe place?

00:05:33If anything happens to her, I won't be able to live either.

00:05:37Richard took the microphone.

00:05:39He was the godfather of the Whitfield family.

00:05:42Always composed, always respectable.

00:05:45Even at a moment like this, he could announce to the room in an almost cruelly steady voice.

00:05:51My apologies, everyone.

00:05:53An emergency has come up within his family.

00:05:56Tonight's alliance ceremony is temporarily cancelled.

00:05:59All gifts and cooperation deposits will be returned in full to the original channels.

00:06:03Richard Whitfield owes you all an entertainment.

00:06:06After putting down the microphone, he looked at Cole.

00:06:09Lead the way.

00:06:10We're going to find Lucy.

00:06:12He did not look at me.

00:06:13I sat beside the collapsed cake, filthy and humiliated, like an old prop whose purpose had already been served.

00:06:27Dad, Mom.

00:06:30Lucy Whitfield stood in the doorway in an ivory dress.

00:06:33Her face streaked with tears, her steps unsteady.

00:06:35She had once been the little princess the Whitfield family had carefully raised for more than 20 years.

00:06:41Dad.

00:06:42Mom.

00:06:43Please don't leave me.

00:06:44Even when she cried, she looked like a fragile work of art.

00:06:47Everyone's eyes were pulled towards her.

00:06:49Lucy.

00:06:50Lucy.

00:06:51Don't be scared.

00:06:52Mom is right here.

00:06:55The man who could swallow three docks at a negotiation table without blinking opened his arms and held mother and

00:07:00daughter together.

00:07:02The scene was warm enough to look like a carefully staged movie, and I was the unnecessary person outside the

00:07:08frame.

00:07:09Cole seemed to finally breathe in relief.

00:07:11When he looked at Lucy, the tenderness in his eyes nearly overflowed.

00:07:15Ryan looked back at me and slouched his head.

00:07:18I ignored him.

00:07:20I held on to the overturned table corner and got to my feet, pain stabbing through my ankle.

00:07:26My wedding dress dragged across the floor, covered in cream, liquor, and shattered glass.

00:07:33Miss Reed, do you need to call Dr. Reed?

00:07:36He did not say call the police.

00:07:39Everyone here knew the Whitfield family's affairs could not be handed to the police.

00:07:44No.

00:07:47I limped toward the side door.

00:07:50I had barely taken two steps when someone yanked my wrist.

00:07:57Orton, you really disappointed me tonight.

00:08:00I thought you were tough.

00:08:01I thought you could take the hits, claw your way out of the muck.

00:08:04Never imagined you'd resort to cute stunts just to drag everyone's eyes onto yourself.

00:08:08Lucy has already given back everything she once had to you.

00:08:10She lost her parents, her identity, even her place's heir.

00:08:13Why still refuse to let her go?

00:08:15Orton, how did you run like this?

00:08:20Blood and champagne had dried on my dress, like a brand of humiliation burnt into my skin.

00:08:25Suddenly, I wanted to laugh.

00:08:27This wedding dress was the most expensive thing I had ever worn in my life.

00:08:31Before the wedding, I had touched it again and again with careful hands.

00:08:35It came from Milan.

00:08:36More than a thousand hand-sewn crystals covered the train, each one like the future I had naively believed was

00:08:42coming.

00:08:42I had looked forward to this day more than anything, to marrying Cole Harrington beautifully, because I had secretly loved

00:08:52him for many years.

00:08:54Half a year ago, Lucy was diagnosed with severe aplastic anemia.

00:08:59Richard and Diana immediately underwent HLA matching, but the results were a complete mismatch.

00:09:05An urgent DNA test exposed the secret.

00:09:0822 years ago, the Whitfield family housekeeper, Maggie Reed, switched Lucy and me.

00:09:13She sent her own biological doll into the Godfather's house and took the true Whitfield bloodline back to a cramped

00:09:18staff apartment.

00:09:19After the truth came out, Maggie put a gun in her mouth in the underground wine cellar, leaving behind only

00:09:25a letter.

00:09:26I have read that letter.

00:09:28Across two full pages, she did not mention my name once.

00:09:32Lucy could not handle the shock and was diagnosed with severe depression.

00:09:36To preserve the Port Alliance, Louie, Whitfield, and Harrington families, Richard made a swift decision and transferred Lucy's original engagement

00:09:44to me.

00:09:45The reason sounded grand and proper.

00:09:47The old Harrington family pact required both sides to be bound by legal marriage and legitimate direct heirs.

00:09:54Otherwise, the merger of the East River docks, arms routes, and money-laughtering network would all be void.

00:10:01Lucy was too fragile to withstand that kind of pressure, and I was healthy, mentally tougher, and more suited to

00:10:08bear this family responsibility.

00:10:10I did not hesitate.

00:10:11I agreed.

00:10:13Because Cole Harrington was a boy I had loved and served as a child.

00:10:17When I was little, I followed my foster mother Maggie to work in Harrington Manor.

00:10:23Lucy sat in the sunroom eating pastries.

00:10:26I was so hungry I could only stare, but I didn't dare come closer.

00:10:31Cole was the one who walked over and beckoned me to him.

00:10:35Lucy wrinkled her brows and said I was dirty, that I didn't deserve to touch her silver fork.

00:10:41But Cole placed a honey muffin in my palm.

00:10:43This country says everyone is equal on the surface, though we all know that's a lie.

00:10:47But at least at my table, you don't have to lower your head.

00:10:54From that day on, he became the light I hid in the deepest part of my heart.

00:10:59Every time I saw him, he would smile faintly at me, like a lamp suddenly lit in a dark warehouse.

00:11:04I was poor and timid, so I only dared watch him from afar.

00:11:08From age 12 to 22.

00:11:12On the day of the engagement banquet, he sat at the end of the long table while the elders raised

00:11:18glasses and discussed docks, containers, roots, and loyalty.

00:11:21He stayed silent for a long time, and then asked only one question.

00:11:25Is Lucy doing any better?

00:11:26At the mention of Lucy, everyone's expression softened.

00:11:32I shrank into a corner and said nothing.

00:11:36Cole gave me a cold glance.

00:11:38She's not suited for occasions like this.

00:11:41I heard it, and I remembered it.

00:11:44From that day on, I threw myself into upper-class etiquette.

00:11:48Learned to take a part in assembled guns.

00:11:52Studied family accounts.

00:11:55And learned how not to show fear in front of wolves dressed in evening wear.

00:12:00I wanted to be a good wife to him.

00:12:02I didn't want to disappoint him.

00:12:04But how did it end?

00:12:06It took me far too long to understand.

00:12:09This engagement had never been love from the start.

00:12:12It was a blood-stained agreement.

00:12:15The Harrington family needed the Whitfield docks.

00:12:17And the Whitfield family needed the Harrington arms line.

00:12:20And they needed a woman to sit on the altar and complete the final piece.

00:12:25Lucy was too precious to sacrifice.

00:12:29And I had conveniently returned.

00:12:32Suddenly, there was a perfect solution for both sides.

00:12:36Too bad I was the extra bargaining chip outside that perfect solution.

00:12:40Even Ryan Black quickly took Lucy's side.

00:12:43Even though, like me, he had grown up in the staff building at Whitfield Manor.

00:12:48Both of our mothers were employees of this family.

00:12:51Both of us had been bullied by Lucy.

00:12:53And both of us had sworn vows in the drafty winter staff quarters.

00:12:57When we were little, Ryan held my hand.

00:13:00One day, I'll climb above them.

00:13:03By then, Lucy Whitfield will never dare bully you again.

00:13:11Why did it become like this?

00:13:13I stumbled out of the church.

00:13:25Orton, you really disappointed me tonight.

00:13:28I thought you were tough.

00:13:30I thought you could take the hits.

00:13:31Claw your way out of the muck.

00:13:32Never imagined you'd resort to cheap stunts.

00:13:34Just to drag everyone's eyes onto yourself.

00:13:36Lucy has already given back everything she once had to you.

00:13:39She lost her parents, her identity, even her place's heir.

00:13:42Why still refuse to let her go?

00:13:44Orton, how would you become a nurse?

00:13:49Blood and champagne have dried on my dress.

00:13:51Like a brand of humiliation burnt into my skin.

00:13:54Suddenly, I wanted to laugh.

00:13:56This wedding dress was the most expensive thing I had ever worn in my life.

00:14:00Before the wedding, I had touched it again and again with careful hands.

00:14:03It came from Milan.

00:14:05More than a thousand hand-sewn crystals covered the train.

00:14:08Each one like the future I had naively believed was coming.

00:14:11I had looked forward to this day more than anything.

00:14:14To marrying Cole Harrington beautifully.

00:14:19Because I had secretly loved him for many years.

00:14:23Half a year ago, Lucy was diagnosed with a nuclear plastic pneumonia.

00:14:28Richard and Diana immediately underwent HLA matching.

00:14:31But the results were a complete mismatch.

00:14:34An urgent DNA test exposed the secret.

00:14:3722 years ago, the Whitfield family housekeeper, Maggie Reed, switched Lucy and me.

00:14:41She sent her own biological doll into the Godfather's house and took the true Whitfield bloodline back to a cramped

00:14:47staff apartment.

00:14:48After the truth came out, Maggie put a gun in her mouth in the underground wine cellar, leaving behind only

00:14:53a letter.

00:14:55The people here tonight were not ordinary relatives and friends, but representatives from families in New York, Chicago, and Boston.

00:15:02Some held wine glasses.

00:15:04Some had their fingers pressed against the inside of their jackets, close enough to touch a gun at any moment.

00:15:09A sharp ting burned across my face.

00:15:11And a drop of blood fell onto my snow-white wedding dress.

00:15:14I touched my nose.

00:15:16It was warm.

00:15:17Cole, are you insane?

00:15:21At my wedding, my fiancée, Cole, flapped me hard in front of half of New York's underworld.

00:15:30Lucy almost put a gun in her mouth and killed herself.

00:15:33And all you care about is your wedding?

00:15:35Orton, do you even possess a shred of decency?

00:15:38The blow sent me stumbling, and I crashed into the five-tier wedding cake.

00:15:42Cream, strawberry coulis, and champagne mixed together,

00:15:45clinging to my expensive white wedding dress like dignity crutch on her son's heel.

00:15:49On our wedding day, my fiancée missed the merger ceremony between two major families

00:15:53because of a cry for help from my stepsister, Lucy.

00:15:56While everyone was frozen in the standoff, I called Ryan Black, the boy I had grown up with, and told

00:16:01him to tell him.

00:16:01If you come, I'll marry you.

00:16:05Orton, you really think too highly of yourself?

00:16:08Ryan, are you going to leave me too?

00:16:11Half an hour later, both men arrived at the church.

00:16:13One was the heir of the Harrington family, my fiancée in name, Cole.

00:16:17The other was my childhood friend from the staff building at Whitfield Manor, Ryan.

00:16:20We stepped out of black bulletproof cars.

00:16:22Behind them stood a line of black suit bodyguards with gun hosters concealed beneath their jackets,

00:16:26like a belated judgment.

00:16:28I had been struck to the floor.

00:16:30Covering my face, I instinctively looked toward Ryan.

00:16:34He stood coldly to the side with both hands in his pockets,

00:16:37a flicker of disgust crossing his eyes.

00:16:42Even my biological parents, Richard, head of the Whitfield family, and his wife Diana,

00:16:47came over from the main table.

00:16:49The alliance ceremony can be rescheduled any time,

00:16:52but if something happens to Lucy,

00:16:54we cannot afford to lose a single second.

00:16:57At that moment, I finally understood.

00:17:00Within this family, I was their long-lost biological daughter,

00:17:03restored to them by blood,

00:17:05yet also the perfect bargaining chip.

00:17:07The people here tonight were not ordinary relatives and friends,

00:17:10but representatives from families in New York, Chicago, and Boston.

00:17:14Some held wine glasses.

00:17:15Some had their fingers pressed against the inside of their jackets,

00:17:18close enough to touch a gun at any moment.

00:17:21A sharp ting burned across my face,

00:17:23and a drop of blood fell onto my snow-white wedding dress.

00:17:26I touched my nose.

00:17:27It was warm.

00:17:29Cole, are you insane?

00:17:35If Lucy hadn't begged me through tears to come finish this ceremony,

00:17:38do you really think I would be here?

00:17:40After saying that,

00:17:41he pulled a glass from the bottom tier of the champagne tower.

00:17:43The bodyguards at the door tend to instantly.

00:17:45The banquet hall manager went deathly pale,

00:17:47but did not dare step forward.

00:17:49Cole grabbed a bottle of champagne,

00:17:50twisted off the cork,

00:17:51aimed it over my head,

00:17:52and let the cold golden liquid pour down.

00:17:55Didn't you want to marry into the Harrington family?

00:18:03The liquor ran from my lashes,

00:18:05down the bridge of my nose,

00:18:06knocked my chin drop by drop.

00:18:08I could no longer tell whether what fell onto my wedding dress

00:18:10was wine or blood.

00:18:11Satisfied now, my legal wife?

00:18:15In the banquet hall,

00:18:17my bridesmaid Grace stood frozen in place.

00:18:19At an ordinary wedding,

00:18:21someone would call the police,

00:18:22but on Whitfield territory,

00:18:23no one dared to call 911.

00:18:25People here believed more in silence,

00:18:27hush money,

00:18:28and bodies encased in Fort Conkrieg.

00:18:30My childhood friend, Ryan Black,

00:18:32stood in the shadows as if watching a play

00:18:34whose ending had never been in doubt.

00:18:36There was a commotion at the back door of the venue at all.

00:18:39My biological parents came through the crowd.

00:18:41I thought they would finally ask if it hurt.

00:18:44But Diana did not even spare me a glance.

00:18:46Her voice shook.

00:18:47Where is my Lucy?

00:18:49She's emotionally unstable.

00:18:51How could you leave her alone in the safe house?

00:18:52If anything happens to her,

00:18:55I won't be able to live either.

00:18:58Richard took the microphone.

00:19:00He was the godfather of the Whitfield family,

00:19:02always composed,

00:19:04always respectable.

00:19:06Even at a moment like this,

00:19:07he could announce to the room

00:19:09in an almost cruelly steady voice,

00:19:11My apologies, everyone.

00:19:13An emergency has come up within the family.

00:19:16Tonight's alliance ceremony is temporarily cancelled.

00:19:19All gifts and cooperation deposits

00:19:21will be returned in full through the original channels.

00:19:24Richard Whitfield owes you all an explanation.

00:19:27After putting down the microphone,

00:19:29he looked at Cole.

00:19:30Lead the way.

00:19:31We're going to find Lucy.

00:19:33He did not look at me.

00:19:34I sat beside the collapsed cake,

00:19:37filthy and humiliated,

00:19:38like an old prop whose purpose had already been served.

00:19:48Dad, Mom.

00:19:50Lucy Whitfield stood in the doorway in an ivory dress.

00:19:53Her face streaked with tears,

00:19:55her steps unsteady.

00:19:56She had once been the little princess

00:19:58the Whitfield family had carefully raged

00:20:00for more than 20 years.

00:20:01Dad.

00:20:02Mom, please don't leave me.

00:20:04Even when she cried,

00:20:05she looked like a fragile work of art.

00:20:07Everyone's eyes rolled up towards her.

00:20:10Lucy.

00:20:11Lucy, don't leave me.

00:20:13Mom is right here.

00:20:15The man who could swallow three docks

00:20:17at a negotiation table without blinking

00:20:19opened his arms

00:20:20and held mother and daughter together.

00:20:22The scene was warm enough

00:20:24to look like a carefully staged movie.

00:20:26And I was the unnecessary person

00:20:28outside the frame.

00:20:29Cole seemed to finally breathe in relief.

00:20:32When he looked at Lucy,

00:20:33the tenderness in his eyes nearly overflowed.

00:20:36Ryan looked back at me

00:20:37and slowly shook his head.

00:20:39I ignored him.

00:20:41I held onto the overturned table corner

00:20:43and got to my feet,

00:20:44pain stabbing through my ankle.

00:20:46My wedding dress dragged across the floor,

00:20:49covered in cream, liquor,

00:20:51and shattered glass.

00:20:53Hey, Miss Reed.

00:20:55Do you need me to call a doctor?

00:20:57He did not say call the police.

00:20:59Everyone here knew

00:21:00the Whitfield family's affairs

00:21:02could not be handed to the police.

00:21:05No.

00:21:07I limped toward the side door.

00:21:11I had barely taken two steps

00:21:13when someone yanked my wrist.

00:21:17Orton,

00:21:18you really disappointed me tonight.

00:21:20I thought you were tough.

00:21:21I thought you could take the hits,

00:21:23claw your way out of the muck.

00:21:24Never imagined you'd resort

00:21:25to keep stunts

00:21:26just to drag everyone's eyes

00:21:27onto yourself.

00:21:28Lucy has already given back

00:21:29everything she once had to you.

00:21:31She lost her parents,

00:21:32her identity,

00:21:32even her place's heir.

00:21:34Why still refuse to let her go?

00:21:36Orton,

00:21:36how did you become like this?

00:21:41Blood and champagne

00:21:42had dried on my dress,

00:21:43like a brand of humiliation

00:21:44burnt into my skin.

00:21:46Suddenly,

00:21:47I wanted to laugh.

00:21:48This wedding dress

00:21:49was the most expensive thing

00:21:50I had ever worn in my life.

00:21:52Before the wedding,

00:21:53I had touched it again and again

00:21:54with careful hands.

00:21:55It came from the land.

00:21:57More than a thousand

00:21:58hand-seared crystals

00:21:59covered the train,

00:22:00each one like the future

00:22:01I had naively believed

00:22:02was coming.

00:22:03I had looked forward

00:22:05to this day

00:22:05more than anything else.

00:22:06to marrying Cole Harrington

00:22:08beautifully.

00:22:11Because I had secretly

00:22:12loved him for many years.

00:22:15Half a year ago,

00:22:17Lucy was diagnosed

00:22:18with severe aplastical memory.

00:22:20Richard and Diana

00:22:21immediately underwent

00:22:22HLA matching,

00:22:23but the results

00:22:24were a complete mismatch.

00:22:26An urgent DNA test

00:22:27exposed the secret.

00:22:2922 years ago,

00:22:30the Whitfield family

00:22:31housekeeper, Maggie Reed,

00:22:32switched Lucy and me.

00:22:33She sent her own

00:22:34biological doll

00:22:35into the Godfather's house

00:22:36and took the true

00:22:37Whitfield bloodline

00:22:38back to a cramped

00:22:39staff apartment.

00:22:40After the truth came out,

00:22:41Maggie put a gun

00:22:42in her mouth

00:22:42in the underground wine cellar,

00:22:44leaving behind

00:22:45only a letter.

00:22:47I had read that letter.

00:22:49Across two communities,

00:22:50she did not mention

00:22:51my name.

00:22:52Lucy could not handle

00:22:53the shock

00:22:54and was diagnosed

00:22:55with severe depression.

00:22:57To preserve

00:22:58the court alliance

00:22:58between the Whitfield

00:22:59and Harrington families,

00:23:01Richard made a swift decision

00:23:02and transferred Lucy's

00:23:04original engagement to me.

00:23:05The reason sounded

00:23:06grand and proper.

00:23:08The old Harrington family pact

00:23:09required both sides

00:23:11to be bound by legal marriage

00:23:12and legitimate direct heirs.

00:23:14Otherwise,

00:23:15the merger of the East River docks,

00:23:17arms routes,

00:23:18and money-laughtering network

00:23:20would all be void.

00:23:22Lucy was too fragile

00:23:23to withstand that kind of pressure,

00:23:24and I was healthy,

00:23:26mentally tougher,

00:23:27and more suited

00:23:28to bear this family responsibility.

00:23:30I did not hesitate.

00:23:32I agreed.

00:23:33Because Cole Harrington

00:23:35was the boy I had loved

00:23:36in secret since childhood.

00:23:38When I was little,

00:23:39I followed my foster mother,

00:23:41Maggie,

00:23:41to work at Harrington Manor.

00:23:43Lucy sat in the sunroom

00:23:45eating pastries.

00:23:46I was so hungry

00:23:47I could only stare,

00:23:49but I didn't dare come closer.

00:23:51Cole was the one

00:23:52who walked over

00:23:53and beckoned me to him.

00:23:56Lucy wrinkled her brows

00:23:57and said I was dirty,

00:23:58that I didn't deserve

00:24:00to touch her silver fork.

00:24:01But Cole placed

00:24:02a honey muffin in my palm.

00:24:04This country says

00:24:04everyone is equal on the surface,

00:24:06though we all know that's a lie.

00:24:07But at least at my table,

00:24:08you don't have to lower your head.

00:24:15From that day on,

00:24:16he became the light

00:24:17I hid in the deepest part

00:24:18of my heart.

00:24:19Every time I saw him,

00:24:21he would smile fakingly,

00:24:22like a lamp suddenly lit

00:24:24in a dark warehouse.

00:24:25I was poor and timid,

00:24:26so I only dared

00:24:27watch him from afar.

00:24:29From age 12 to 22.

00:24:33On the day of

00:24:34the engagement banquet,

00:24:35he sat at the end

00:24:36of the long table

00:24:37while the elders

00:24:38raised glasses

00:24:38and discussed docks,

00:24:40containers,

00:24:40roots,

00:24:41and loyalty.

00:24:42He stayed silent

00:24:43for a long time

00:24:44and then asked

00:24:45only one question.

00:24:46Is Lucy doing any better?

00:24:47At the mention of Lucy,

00:24:50everyone's expression

00:24:51and softened.

00:24:52I shrank into a corner

00:24:54and said nothing.

00:24:56Cole gave me a cold glance.

00:24:59She's not saying

00:25:00for a case of surprise.

00:25:01I heard it

00:25:03and I remembered it.

00:25:05From that day on,

00:25:06I threw myself

00:25:07into upper-class etiquette,

00:25:09learned to take apart

00:25:10and assemble guns,

00:25:12studied family accounts,

00:25:15and learned how not

00:25:16to show fear

00:25:17in front of wolves

00:25:18dressed in evening wear.

00:25:20I wanted to be

00:25:21a good wife to him.

00:25:22I didn't want

00:25:23to disappoint him.

00:25:24But how did it end?

00:25:26It took me far too long

00:25:28to understand.

00:25:29This engagement

00:25:30had never been love

00:25:31from the start.

00:25:32It was a blood-stained agreement.

00:25:35The Harrington family

00:25:36needed the Whitfield docks,

00:25:38and the Whitfield family

00:25:39needed the Harrington arms lines,

00:25:41and they needed a woman

00:25:42to sit on the altar

00:25:43and complete the final piece.

00:25:45Lucy was too precious

00:25:46to sacrifice.

00:25:49And I had conveniently returned.

00:25:53Suddenly,

00:25:53there was a perfect solution

00:25:55for both sides.

00:25:56Too bad I was the extra

00:25:58bargaining chip

00:25:59outside that perfect solution.

00:26:01Even Ryan Black

00:26:02quickly took Lucy's side,

00:26:03even though,

00:26:04like me,

00:26:05he had grown up

00:26:06in the staff building

00:26:07at Whitfield Manor.

00:26:09Both of our mothers

00:26:10were employees

00:26:11of this family.

00:26:12Both of us

00:26:12had been bullied by Lucy,

00:26:14and both of us

00:26:14had sworn vows

00:26:15from the drafty winter

00:26:16staff quarters.

00:26:17When we were little,

00:26:18Ryan held my hand.

00:26:20One day,

00:26:21I'll climb above them.

00:26:23By then,

00:26:24Lucy Whitfield

00:26:25will never dare bully you again.

00:26:32Why did it become like this?

00:26:34I stumbled out of the church.

00:26:46Orton,

00:26:46you really disappointed me tonight.

00:26:49I thought you were tough.

00:26:50I thought you could take the hits,

00:26:51claw your way out of the muck.

00:26:53Never imagined you'd resort

00:26:54to kill stunts

00:26:55just to drag everyone's eyes

00:26:56onto yourself.

00:26:57Lucy has already given back

00:26:58everything she once had to you.

00:26:59She lost her parents,

00:27:00her identity,

00:27:01even her places in air.

00:27:02Why still refuse to let her go?

00:27:10Orton,

00:27:10pain had dried on my dress,

00:27:11like a brand of humiliation

00:27:13burnt into my skin.

00:27:14Suddenly,

00:27:15I wanted to laugh.

00:27:16This wedding dress

00:27:17was the most expensive thing

00:27:18I had ever worn in my life.

00:27:20Before the wedding,

00:27:21I had touched it

00:27:22again and again

00:27:23with careful hands.

00:27:24It came from Milan.

00:27:25More than a thousand

00:27:26hand-sewn crystals

00:27:27covered the train,

00:27:28each one like the future

00:27:30I had naively believed

00:27:31was coming.

00:27:32I had looked forward

00:27:33to this day

00:27:34more than anything,

00:27:35to marrying

00:27:36Cole Harrington beautifully.

00:27:40because I had secretly loved him

00:27:42for many years.

00:27:44Half a year ago,

00:27:45Lucy was diagnosed

00:27:46with severe apastic anemia.

00:27:48Richard and Diana

00:27:49immediately underwent

00:27:50HLA matching,

00:27:52but the results

00:27:52were a complete mismatch.

00:27:54An urgent DNA test

00:27:55exposed the secret.

00:27:5722 years ago,

00:27:58the Whitfield family housekeeper,

00:28:00Maggie Reed,

00:28:01switched Lucy and me.

00:28:02She sent her own biological doll

00:28:04into the Godfather's house

00:28:05and took the true Whitfield bloodline

00:28:06back to a cramped staff apartment.

00:28:08After the truth came out,

00:28:09Maggie put a good

00:28:10gun in her mouth

00:28:11in the underground wine cellar,

00:28:12leaving behind only a letter.

00:28:16The people here tonight

00:28:17were not ordinary relatives

00:28:18and friends,

00:28:19but representatives

00:28:19from families in New York,

00:28:21Chicago, and Boston.

00:28:23Some held wine glassy,

00:28:24some had their fingers pressed

00:28:26against the inside

00:28:26of their jackets,

00:28:27close enough to touch

00:28:28a gun at any moment.

00:28:29A sharp tang burned

00:28:31across my face,

00:28:31and a drop of blood fell

00:28:33onto my snow-white wedding dress.

00:28:35I touched my nose.

00:28:36It was warm.

00:28:38Cole, are you insane?

00:28:42At my wedding,

00:28:43my fiancée, Cole,

00:28:44slapped me hard

00:28:45in front of half

00:28:46of New York's underworld.

00:28:50Lucy almost put a gun

00:28:51in her mouth

00:28:52and killed herself.

00:28:53And all you care about

00:28:54is your wedding?

00:28:55Orton,

00:28:56do you even possess

00:28:56a shred of decency?

00:28:58The blow sent me stumbling,

00:29:00and I crashed

00:29:01into the five-tier wedding gate.

00:29:02Cream,

00:29:03strawberry coulis,

00:29:04and champagne

00:29:05mixed together,

00:29:06clinging to my expensive

00:29:07white wedding dress

00:29:07once dignity

00:29:08crushed under

00:29:09Tumlin' Peel.

00:29:10On our wedding day,

00:29:11my fiancée missed

00:29:12the merger ceremony

00:29:13between two major families

00:29:14because of a cry for help

00:29:15from my stepsister, Lucy.

00:29:17While everyone was frozen

00:29:18in a standoff,

00:29:19I called Ryan Black,

00:29:20the boy I had grown up with,

00:29:21and told him,

00:29:22If you come,

00:29:23I'll marry you.

00:29:25Orton,

00:29:26you really think

00:29:27too highly of yourself?

00:29:28Ryan,

00:29:29are you gonna leave me too?

00:29:31Half an hour later,

00:29:32both men arrived

00:29:33at the church.

00:29:34One was the heir

00:29:35of the Harrington family,

00:29:36my fiancée and name,

00:29:37Cole.

00:29:37The other was my childhood friend

00:29:39from the staff building

00:29:39at Whitfield Manor, Ryan.

00:29:41They stepped out

00:29:41of black bulletproof cars.

00:29:43Behind them stood a line

00:29:44of black suit bodyguards

00:29:45with gun holsters

00:29:46concealed beneath their jackets,

00:29:47like a belated judgment.

00:29:48I had been struck

00:29:49to the floor,

00:29:50covering my face

00:29:51I instinctively

00:29:53looked toward Ryan.

00:29:54He stood coldly

00:29:55to the side

00:29:56with both hands

00:29:57in his pockets,

00:29:57a flicker of disgust

00:29:59crossing his eyes.

00:30:02Even my biological parents,

00:30:05Richard,

00:30:05head of the Whitfield family,

00:30:06and his wife Diana,

00:30:08came over

00:30:08from the main table.

00:30:09The alliance ceremony

00:30:11can be rescheduled

00:30:12any time,

00:30:12but if something happens

00:30:13to Lucy,

00:30:14we cannot afford

00:30:15to lose a single second.

00:30:17At that moment,

00:30:19I finally understood,

00:30:20within this family,

00:30:21I was their long-lost

00:30:23biological daughter,

00:30:24restored to them

00:30:25by blood,

00:30:25yet also the perfect

00:30:26bargaining chip.

00:30:27The people here tonight

00:30:28were not ordinary

00:30:29relatives of friends,

00:30:30but representatives

00:30:31from families

00:30:32in New York,

00:30:32Chicago,

00:30:33and Boston.

00:30:34Some held wine glasses,

00:30:36some had their fingers

00:30:37pressed against

00:30:38the inside of their jackets,

00:30:39close enough

00:30:39to touch a gun

00:30:40at any moment.

00:30:41A sharp team

00:30:42burned across my face,

00:30:43and a drop of blood

00:30:44fell onto my snow-white

00:30:45wedding dress.

00:30:46I touched my nose.

00:30:48It was warm.

00:30:49Cole,

00:30:50are you insane?

00:30:55If Lucy hadn't begged me

00:30:56through tears

00:30:57to come finish this ceremony,

00:30:58do you really think

00:30:59I would be here?

00:31:00After saying that,

00:31:01he pulled a glass

00:31:02from the bottom tier

00:31:02of the champagne tower.

00:31:03The bodyguards at the door

00:31:05tense instantly.

00:31:06The banquet hall manager

00:31:07went deathly pale,

00:31:08but did not dare

00:31:08step forward.

00:31:09Cole grabbed a bottle

00:31:10of champagne,

00:31:11twisted off the cork,

00:31:12aimed it over my head,

00:31:13and let the cold

00:31:14golden liquid pour down.

00:31:16Do you want to marry

00:31:16into the Harrington family?

00:31:22Here.

00:31:23This is our champagne ceremony.

00:31:24The liquor ran

00:31:25from my lashes,

00:31:26down the bridge of my nose,

00:31:27and off my chin,

00:31:27drop by drop.

00:31:28I could no longer tell

00:31:29whether what fell

00:31:29onto my wedding dress

00:31:30was wine or blood.

00:31:31Satisfied now,

00:31:32my legal wife?

00:31:36In the banquet hall,

00:31:37my bridesmaid Grace

00:31:38stood frozen in place.

00:31:40At an ordinary wedding,

00:31:41someone would call the police,

00:31:42but on Whitfield territory,

00:31:44no one dared

00:31:45call 911.

00:31:46People here believed

00:31:47more in silence,

00:31:48hush money,

00:31:48and bodies encased

00:31:49in port concrete.

00:31:51My childhood friend,

00:31:52Ryan Black,

00:31:53stood in the shadows

00:31:53as if watching a play

00:31:55whose ending

00:31:55had never been in doubt.

00:31:56There was a commotion

00:31:57at the back door

00:31:58of the banquet hall.

00:31:59My biological parents

00:32:00came through the crowd.

00:32:02I thought they would

00:32:03finally ask if it hurt,

00:32:04but Diana did not even

00:32:05spare me a glance.

00:32:07Her voice shook.

00:32:07Where is my Lucy?

00:32:10She's emotionally unstable.

00:32:11How could you leave her

00:32:12alone in the safe house?

00:32:13If anything happens to her,

00:32:15I won't be able

00:32:16to live either.

00:32:18Richard took the microphone.

00:32:20He was the godfather

00:32:21of the Whitfield family,

00:32:23always composed,

00:32:24always respectable.

00:32:25Even at a moment like this,

00:32:28he could announce to the room

00:32:29in an almost cruelly

00:32:30steady voice.

00:32:32My apologies, everyone.

00:32:34An emergency has come up

00:32:35within the family.

00:32:37Tonight's alliance ceremony

00:32:38is temporarily canceled.

00:32:40All gifts and cooperation

00:32:41deposit will be returned in full

00:32:43through the original channel.

00:32:44Richard Whitfield

00:32:45knows you all

00:32:45an explanation.

00:32:47After putting down

00:32:48the microphone,

00:32:49he looked at Cole.

00:32:50Lead the way.

00:32:51I'm going to find your city.

00:32:53He did not look at me.

00:32:55I sat beside

00:32:56the collapsed cake,

00:32:57filthy and humiliated,

00:32:58like an old prop

00:32:59whose purpose

00:33:00had already been served.

00:33:08Dad, Mom.

00:33:11Lucy Whitfield stood

00:33:12in the doorway

00:33:12in an ivory dress,

00:33:14her face streaked

00:33:14with tears,

00:33:15her steps unsteady.

00:33:16She had once been

00:33:17the little princess

00:33:18to the Whitfield family

00:33:19who can't be raised

00:33:20for more than 20 years.

00:33:22Dad, Mom,

00:33:24please don't leave me.

00:33:25Even when she cried,

00:33:26she looked like

00:33:26a fragile work of art.

00:33:28Everyone's eyes

00:33:28were pulled towards her.

00:33:30Lucy, Lucy,

00:33:32don't be scared.

00:33:33Mom is right here.

00:33:35The man who could

00:33:37swallow three docks

00:33:38at a negotiation table

00:33:39without blinking

00:33:40opened his arms

00:33:40and held mother

00:33:41and daughter together.

00:33:43The scene was warm enough

00:33:44to look like

00:33:45a carefully staged movie,

00:33:46and I was the unnecessary

00:33:48person outside the frame.

00:33:50Cole seemed to finally

00:33:51breathe in relief.

00:33:52When he looked at Lucy,

00:33:53the tenderness in his eyes

00:33:55nearly overflowed.

00:33:56Ryan looked back at me

00:33:57and slowly shook his head.

00:33:59I ignored him.

00:34:01I held on to the

00:34:02overturned table corner

00:34:04and got to my feet,

00:34:05pain stabbing

00:34:06through my ankle.

00:34:07My wedding dress

00:34:08dragged across the floor,

00:34:09covered in cream,

00:34:11liquor,

00:34:11and shattered glass.

00:34:14Miss Reed,

00:34:15do you need me

00:34:16to call a doctor?

00:34:17He did not say

00:34:18call the police.

00:34:20Everyone here knew

00:34:21the Whitfield family's affairs

00:34:22could not be handed

00:34:23to the police.

00:34:25No.

00:34:28I limped toward

00:34:29the side door.

00:34:31I had barely

00:34:32taken two steps

00:34:33when someone

00:34:33yanked my wrist.

00:34:38Orton,

00:34:38you really disappointed

00:34:39me tonight.

00:34:41I thought you were tough.

00:34:42I thought you could

00:34:43take the hits,

00:34:44claw your way

00:34:44out of the muck.

00:34:45Never imagined

00:34:45you resort to keep

00:34:46stunts just to drag

00:34:47everyone's eyes

00:34:48onto yourself.

00:34:49Lucy was already

00:34:49giving back everything

00:34:50she once had to you.

00:34:51She lost her parents,

00:34:52her identity,

00:34:53even the place's heir.

00:34:54Why still refuse

00:34:55to let her go?

00:34:56Orton, how did you

00:34:57become of this?

00:34:58I'm afraid of you.

00:35:01Blood and champagne

00:35:02had dried on my dress

00:35:03like a brand of humiliation

00:35:05burnt into my skin.

00:35:06Suddenly,

00:35:07I wanted to laugh.

00:35:08This wedding dress

00:35:09was the most expensive

00:35:10thing I had ever

00:35:11worn in my life.

00:35:12Before the wedding,

00:35:13I had touched it

00:35:14again and again

00:35:15with careful hands.

00:35:16It came from the land.

00:35:17More than a thousand

00:35:18hand-sewn crystals

00:35:19covered the train,

00:35:20each one like the future

00:35:22I had naively believed

00:35:23was coming.

00:35:23I had looked forward

00:35:25to this day

00:35:25more than anything.

00:35:27To marrying

00:35:28Cole Harrington

00:35:29the beautiful.

00:35:32Because I had secretly

00:35:33loved him for many years.

00:35:35Half a year ago,

00:35:37Lucy was diagnosed

00:35:38with severe

00:35:39aplastic anemia.

00:35:40Richard and Diana

00:35:41immediately underwent

00:35:42HLA matching,

00:35:44but the results

00:35:44were a complete mismatch.

00:35:46An urgent DNA test

00:35:47exposed the secret.

00:35:4922 years ago,

00:35:51the Whitfield family

00:35:51housekeeper,

00:35:52Maggie Reed,

00:35:53switched Lucy and me.

00:35:54She sent her own

00:35:55biological doll

00:35:56into the Godfather's house

00:35:57and took the true

00:35:58Whitfield bloodline

00:35:58back to a cramped

00:35:59staff apartment.

00:36:00After the truth came out,

00:36:01Maggie put a gun

00:36:02in her mouth

00:36:03in the underground

00:36:03wine cellar,

00:36:05leaving behind

00:36:05only a letter.

00:36:07I had read that letter.

00:36:09Across two full pages,

00:36:11she did not mention

00:36:12my name once.

00:36:13Lucy could not

00:36:14handle the shock

00:36:14and was diagnosed

00:36:15with severe depression.

00:36:17To preserve

00:36:18the port alliance

00:36:19between the Whitfield

00:36:20and Harrington families,

00:36:21Richard made a swift decision

00:36:23and transferred Lucy's

00:36:24original engagement to me.

00:36:26The reason sounded

00:36:27grand and proper.

00:36:28The old Harrington family pact

00:36:30required both sides

00:36:31to be bound by legal marriage

00:36:33and legitimate direct heirs.

00:36:35Otherwise,

00:36:36the merger of the East River docks,

00:36:38arms routes,

00:36:39and money lottery network

00:36:40would all be void.

00:36:42Lucy was too fragile

00:36:43to withstand that kind of pressure,

00:36:45and I was healthy,

00:36:46mentally tough.

00:36:47and more suited

00:36:49to bear this family responsibility.

00:36:51I did not hesitate.

00:36:52I agree.

00:36:54Because Cole Harrington

00:36:55knew what I was loving

00:36:56for me since his childhood.

00:36:58When I was little,

00:37:00I followed my foster mother Maggie

00:37:01to work at Harrington Manor.

00:37:04Lucy sat in the sunroom

00:37:05eating pastries.

00:37:07I was so hungry

00:37:08I could only stare,

00:37:09but I didn't dare come closer.

00:37:12Cole was the one

00:37:13who walked over

00:37:13and beckoned me to him.

00:37:16Lucy wrinkled her brows

00:37:17and said I was dirty,

00:37:19that I didn't deserve

00:37:20to touch her silver fork.

00:37:22But Cole placed a honey muffin

00:37:23in my palm.

00:37:24This country says

00:37:25everyone is equal on the surface,

00:37:26though we all know

00:37:27that's a lie.

00:37:28But at least at my table,

00:37:29you don't have to lower your head.

00:37:35From that day on,

00:37:37he became the light

00:37:38I hid in the deepest part

00:37:39of my heart.

00:37:40Every time I saw him,

00:37:41he would smile faintly at me,

00:37:43like a lamp suddenly lit

00:37:44in a dark warehouse.

00:37:45I was poor and timid,

00:37:47so I only dared watch him

00:37:48from afar,

00:37:49from age 12 to 22.

00:37:53On the day of the engagement banquet,

00:37:55he sat at the end

00:37:56of the long table

00:37:57while the elders raised glasses

00:37:59and discussed docks,

00:38:00containers,

00:38:01roots,

00:38:01and loyalty.

00:38:02He stayed silent

00:38:03for a long time

00:38:04and then asked

00:38:05only one question.

00:38:06Is Lucy doing any better?

00:38:08At the mention of Lucy,

00:38:10everyone's expression softened.

00:38:12I shrank into a corner

00:38:14and said nothing.

00:38:17Cole gave me a cold glance.

00:38:19She's not suited

00:38:20for occasions like this.

00:38:22I heard it

00:38:23and I remembered it.

00:38:25From that day on,

00:38:26I threw myself

00:38:27into upper-class etiquette,

00:38:29learned to take apart

00:38:30and assemble guns,

00:38:33studied family accounts,

00:38:36and learned how not

00:38:37to show fear

00:38:38in front of wolves

00:38:38dressed in evening wear.

00:38:41I wanted to be

00:38:42a good wife to him.

00:38:43I didn't want

00:38:44to disappoint him.

00:38:45But how did it end?

00:38:47It took me far too long

00:38:48to understand.

00:38:50This engagement

00:38:51had never been love

00:38:52from the start.

00:38:53It was a pleasant

00:38:54and deplete.

00:38:55The Harrington family

00:38:57needed the Whitfield docks

00:38:58and the Whitfield family

00:39:00needed the Harrington arms line

00:39:01and they needed a woman

00:39:02to sit on the altar

00:39:03and complete the final piece.

00:39:06Lucy was too precious

00:39:07to sacrifice.

00:39:10And I had conveniently returned.

00:39:13Suddenly,

00:39:14there was a perfect solution

00:39:15for both sides.

00:39:17Too bad I was the extra

00:39:18bargaining chip

00:39:19outside that perfect solution.

00:39:21Even Ryan Black

00:39:22quickly took Lucy's side.

00:39:24Even though,

00:39:25like me,

00:39:26he had grown up

00:39:27in the staff building

00:39:28at Whitfield Manor.

00:39:29Both of our mothers

00:39:30were employees

00:39:31of this family.

00:39:32Both of us

00:39:33had been bullied by Lucy

00:39:34and both of us

00:39:35had sworn vows

00:39:36in the Dracky Winter

00:39:36staff building.

00:39:37When we were little,

00:39:39Ryan held my hand.

00:39:41One day,

00:39:42I'll climb above them.

00:39:44By then,

00:39:44Lucy Whitfield

00:39:45will never dare

00:39:46bully you again.

00:39:52Why did it become like this?

00:39:54I stumbled out of the church.

00:40:06Orton,

00:40:07you really disappointed me tonight.

00:40:09I thought you were tough.

00:40:10I thought you could take the hits,

00:40:12claw your way out of the muck.

00:40:13Never imagined you'd resort

00:40:14to cute stunts

00:40:15just to drag everyone's eyes

00:40:16onto yourself.

00:40:17Lucy has already given back

00:40:18everything she once had to you.

00:40:20She lost her parents,

00:40:21her identity,

00:40:21even her place's heir.

00:40:23Why still refuse to let her go?

00:40:25Orton,

00:40:25how did you become like this?

00:40:29Blood and champagne

00:40:31had dried on my dress

00:40:32like a brand of humiliation

00:40:33burnt into my skin.

00:40:35Suddenly,

00:40:35I wanted to laugh.

00:40:37This wedding dress

00:40:38was the most expensive thing

00:40:39I had ever worn in my life.

00:40:41Before the wedding,

00:40:42I had touched it again and again

00:40:43with careful hands.

00:40:44It came from Milan.

00:40:46More than a thousand

00:40:47hand-sewn crystals

00:40:48covered the train,

00:40:49each one like the future

00:40:50I had naively believed

00:40:51was coming.

00:40:52I had looked forward

00:40:53to this day

00:40:54more than anything,

00:40:55to marrying

00:40:56Cole Harrington beautifully.

00:41:00Because I had secretly

00:41:01loved him for many years.

00:41:04Half a year ago,

00:41:05Lucy was diagnosed

00:41:06with a year of five years.

00:41:08Richard and Diana

00:41:09immediately underwent

00:41:11HLA action,

00:41:12but the results

00:41:13were a complete mismatch.

00:41:14An urgent DNA test

00:41:16exposed the secret.

00:41:1822 years ago,

00:41:19the Whitfield family

00:41:20housekeeper, Maggie Reed,

00:41:21switched Lucy and me.

00:41:22She sent her own

00:41:23biological doll

00:41:24into the Godfather's house

00:41:25and took the true

00:41:26Whitfield bloodline

00:41:27back to a cramped

00:41:28staff apartment.

00:41:29After the truth came out,

00:41:30Maggie put a gun in her mouth

00:41:31in the underground wine cellar,

00:41:33leaving behind

00:41:34only a letter.

00:41:36The people here tonight

00:41:37were not ordinary

00:41:38relatives and friends,

00:41:39but representatives

00:41:40from families in New York,

00:41:41Chicago, and Boston.

00:41:43Some held wine glasses,

00:41:45some had their fingers

00:41:46pressed against

00:41:46the inside of their jackets,

00:41:48close enough to touch

00:41:49a gun at any moment.

00:41:49A sharp ting

00:41:51burned across my face

00:41:52and a drop of blood

00:41:53fell onto my

00:41:54snow-white wedding dress.

00:41:55I touched my nose.

00:41:57It was warm.

00:41:58Cole, are you insane?

00:42:02At my wedding,

00:42:04my fiancé, Cole,

00:42:05slapped me hard

00:42:05in front of half

00:42:06of New York's underworld.

00:42:11Lucy almost put a gun

00:42:12in her mouth

00:42:12and killed herself.

00:42:13And all you care about

00:42:14is your wedding?

00:42:16Horton, do you even possess

00:42:17a shred of decency?

00:42:19The blow sent me stumbling

00:42:20and I crashed

00:42:21into the five-tier wedding cake.

00:42:23Cream, strawberry coulis,

00:42:25and champagne mixed together,

00:42:26clinging to my expensive

00:42:27white wedding dress

00:42:28like dignity crushed

00:42:29under someone's heel.

00:42:30On our wedding day,

00:42:31my fiancé missed

00:42:32the merger ceremony

00:42:33between two major families

00:42:34because of a cry for help

00:42:35from my stepsister, Lucy.

00:42:37While everyone was frozen

00:42:38in a standoff,

00:42:39I called Ryan Black,

00:42:40the boy I had grown up with,

00:42:41and told him,

00:42:43if you come,

00:42:43I'll marry you.

00:42:46Orton,

00:42:46you really think

00:42:47too highly of yourself.

00:42:49Ryan, are you gonna

00:42:50leave me too?

00:42:52Half an hour later,

00:42:53both men arrived

00:42:54at the church.

00:42:55One was the heir

00:42:55of the Harrington family,

00:42:56my fiancé and name, Cole.

00:42:58The other was my childhood friend

00:42:59from the staff building

00:43:00at Whitfield Manor, Ryan.

00:43:01They stepped out

00:43:02of black bulletproof cars.

00:43:03Behind them stood a line

00:43:04of black suit bodyguards

00:43:05and gun bolsters

00:43:06considered beneath their jackets

00:43:07and a belated judgment.

00:43:09I had been struck to the floor,

00:43:10covering my face.

00:43:12I instinctively

00:43:13looked toward Ryan.

00:43:15He stood coldly to the side

00:43:16with both hands in his pockets,

00:43:18a flicker of disgust

00:43:19crossing his eyes.

00:43:23Even my biological parents,

00:43:25Richard,

00:43:26head of the Whitfield family,

00:43:27and his wife, Diana,

00:43:28came over from the main table.

00:43:30The alliance ceremony

00:43:31can be rescheduled anytime,

00:43:33but if something happens to Lucy,

00:43:35we cannot afford

00:43:36to lose a single second.

00:43:38At that moment,

00:43:39I finally understood.

00:43:41Within this family,

00:43:42I was their long-lost

00:43:43biological daughter

00:43:44restored to them by blood,

00:43:46yet also the perfect

00:43:47bargaining chip.

00:43:48The people here tonight

00:43:49were not ordinary relatives

00:43:50and friends,

00:43:51but representatives

00:43:51in families in New York,

00:43:53Chicago,

00:43:54and Boston.

00:43:55Some held wine glasses,

00:43:57some had their fingers

00:43:57pressed against the inside

00:43:58of their jackets,

00:43:59close enough to touch a gun

00:44:00at any moment.

00:44:02A sharp ting burned

00:44:03across my face,

00:44:04and a drop of blood

00:44:05fell onto my snow-white

00:44:06wedding dress.

00:44:06I touched my nose.

00:44:08It was warm.

00:44:10Cole, are you insane?

00:44:15If Lucy hadn't begged me

00:44:17through tears

00:44:17to come finish this ceremony,

00:44:19do you really think

00:44:20I would be here?

00:44:21After saying that,

00:44:21he pulled a glass

00:44:22from the bottom tier

00:44:23of the champagne tower.

00:44:24The bodyguards at the door

00:44:25tensed instantly.

00:44:26The banquet hall manager

00:44:27went deathly pale,

00:44:28but did not dare step forward.

00:44:30Cole grabbed a bottle

00:44:30of champagne,

00:44:31twisted off the cork,

00:44:32aimed it over my head,

00:44:33and let the cold,

00:44:34golden liquid pour down.

00:44:36Didn't you want to marry

00:44:37into the Harrington family?

00:44:42Here.

00:44:43This is our champagne ceremony.

00:44:45The liquor ran from my lashes,

00:44:46down the bridge of my nose,

00:44:47and off my chin,

00:44:48drop by drop.

00:44:48I could no longer tell

00:44:49whether what fell onto

00:44:50my wedding dress

00:44:51was wine or blood.

00:44:52Satisfied now,

00:44:52my legal wife?

00:44:56In the banquet hall,

00:44:58my bridesmaid Grace

00:44:59stood frozen in place.

00:45:00At an ordinary wedding,

00:45:02someone would call the police,

00:45:03but on Whitfield territory,

00:45:05no one dared

00:45:05call 911.

00:45:06People here believed

00:45:07more in silence,

00:45:08hush money,

00:45:09and bodies encased

00:45:10in Fort Conkney.

00:45:11My childhood friend,

00:45:12Ryan Black,

00:45:13stood in the shadows

00:45:14as if watching a play

00:45:15whose ending

00:45:16had never been in doubt.

00:45:17There was a commotion

00:45:18at the back door

00:45:19of the banquet hall.

00:45:20My biological parents

00:45:21came through the crowd.

00:45:22I thought they would

00:45:23finally ask if it hurt.

00:45:24But Diana did not even

00:45:26spare me a glance.

00:45:27Her voice shook.

00:45:28Where is my Lucy?

00:45:30She's emotionally unstable.

00:45:32How could you leave

00:45:32her alone in the safe house?

00:45:34If anything happens to her,

00:45:36I won't be able

00:45:36to live either.

00:45:39Richard took the microphone.

00:45:41He was the godfather

00:45:42of the Whitfield family.

00:45:43Always composed,

00:45:45always respectable.

00:45:46Even at a moment like this,

00:45:48he could announce to the room

00:45:49in an almost cruelly

00:45:51steady voice.

00:45:52My apologies, everyone.

00:45:54An emergency has come up

00:45:56within the family.

00:45:57Tonight's alliance ceremony

00:45:58is temporarily canceled.

00:46:00All gifts and cooperation

00:46:02deposits will be returned

00:46:03in full through

00:46:03the original channels.

00:46:05Richard Whitfield

00:46:05owes you all an explanation.

00:46:08After putting down

00:46:09the microphone,

00:46:10he looked at Cole.

00:46:11Lead the way.

00:46:12We're going to find Lucy.

00:46:14He did not look at me.

00:46:15I sat beside the collapsed cake,

00:46:18filthy and humiliated,

00:46:19like an old prop

00:46:20whose purpose

00:46:20had already been served.

00:46:31Lucy Whitfield stood in the doorway

00:46:33in an ivory dress.

00:46:34Her face streaked with tears,

00:46:36her steps unsteady.

00:46:37She had once been

00:46:38the little princess

00:46:39the Whitfield family

00:46:40had carefully raised

00:46:41for more than 20 years.

00:46:42Dad, mom,

00:46:44please don't leave me.

00:46:45Even when she cried,

00:46:46she looked like

00:46:47a fragile work of art.

00:46:48Everyone's eyes

00:46:49were pulled towards her.

00:46:51Lucy, Lucy,

00:46:52don't be scared.

00:46:54Mom is right here.

00:46:56The man who could swallow

00:46:57three docks

00:46:58at a negotiation table

00:46:59without blinking

00:47:00opened his arms

00:47:01and held mother

00:47:02and daughter together.

00:47:03The scene was warm enough

00:47:05to look like

00:47:05a carefully staged movie,

00:47:07and I was the unnecessary person

00:47:09outside the frame.

00:47:11Cole seemed to finally

00:47:12breathe in relief.

00:47:13When he looked at Lucy,

00:47:14the tenderness in his eyes

00:47:15nearly overflowed.

00:47:17Ryan looked back

00:47:18and slowly shook his head.

00:47:19I ignored him.

00:47:22I held on to the

00:47:23overturned table corner

00:47:24and got to my feet

00:47:25and the pain

00:47:26stabbing through my ankle.

00:47:27My wedding dress

00:47:28dragged across the floor,

00:47:30covered in cream,

00:47:31liquor,

00:47:32and shattered glass.

00:47:34Miss Reed,

00:47:36do you need me

00:47:36to call the doctor?

00:47:38He did not say

00:47:39call the police.

00:47:40Everyone here knew

00:47:41the Whitfield family's affairs

00:47:42could not be handed

00:47:43to the police.

00:47:46No.

00:47:48I limped toward the side door.

00:47:52I had barely taken two steps

00:47:53when someone yanked my wrist.

00:47:58Orton,

00:47:59you really disappointed me tonight.

00:48:01I thought you were tough.

00:48:02I thought you could take the hits,

00:48:04claw your way out of the muck,

00:48:05never imagined you resort

00:48:06to cheap stuff,

00:48:07just to drag everyone's eyes

00:48:08onto yourself.

00:48:09Lucy has already given back

00:48:10everything she once had to you.

00:48:12She lost her parents,

00:48:13her identity,

00:48:13even her place's heir.

00:48:14Why still refuse to let her go?

00:48:17Orton,

00:48:17how did you become like this?

00:48:22Blood and champagne

00:48:23had dried on my dress,

00:48:24like a brand of humiliation

00:48:25burnt into my skin.

00:48:27Suddenly,

00:48:27I wanted to laugh.

00:48:29This wedding dress

00:48:30was the most expensive thing

00:48:31I had ever worn in my life.

00:48:33Before the wedding,

00:48:34I had touched it

00:48:34again and again

00:48:35with careful hands.

00:48:36It came from Milan.

00:48:38More than a thousand

00:48:39hand-sewn crystals

00:48:40covered the train,

00:48:41each one like the future

00:48:42I had naively believed

00:48:43was coming.

00:48:44I had looked forward

00:48:45to this day

00:48:46more than anything,

00:48:47to marrying Cole Harrington

00:48:49beautifully,

00:48:52because I had secretly

00:48:53loved him for many years.

00:48:56Half a year ago,

00:48:58Lucy was diagnosed

00:48:58with severe

00:48:59aplastic anemia.

00:49:01Richard and Diana

00:49:01immediately underwent

00:49:03HLA matching,

00:49:04but the results

00:49:05were a complete mismatch.

00:49:07An urgent DNA test

00:49:08exposed the secret.

00:49:1022 years ago,

00:49:11the Whitfield family

00:49:12housekeeper Maggie Reed

00:49:13switched Lucy and me.

00:49:14She sent her own

00:49:15biological doll

00:49:16into the Godfather's house

00:49:17and took the true

00:49:18Whitfield bloodline

00:49:19back to a cramped

00:49:20staff apartment.

00:49:21After the truth came out,

00:49:22Maggie put a gun in her mouth

00:49:23in the underground wine cellar,

00:49:25leaving behind

00:49:26only a letter.

00:49:28I had read that letter.

00:49:30I had read that letter.

00:49:30Across two years,

00:49:31she did not mention

00:49:32my name once.

00:49:33Lucy could not handle

00:49:34the shock

00:49:35and was diagnosed

00:49:36with severe depression.

00:49:37To preserve the port alliance

00:49:39between the Whitfield

00:49:40and Harrington families,

00:49:42Richard made a swift decision

00:49:43and transferred Lucy's

00:49:45original engagement to me.

00:49:46The reason sounded grand

00:49:48and proper.

00:49:48The old Harrington family pact

00:49:50required both sides

00:49:52to be bound

00:49:52by legal marriage

00:49:53and legitimate direct heirs.

00:49:55Otherwise,

00:49:56the merger

00:49:57of the East River Dock,

00:49:58Arms Roots,

00:49:59and Money Lauder

00:50:00and Network

00:50:01would all be void.

00:50:03Lucy was too fragile

00:50:04to withstand

00:50:04that kind of pressure

00:50:05and I was healthy

00:50:07and mentally tough enough

00:50:08and more suited

00:50:09to bear this

00:50:10family responsibility.

00:50:11I did not hesitate.

00:50:13I agreed.

00:50:14Because Cole Harrington

00:50:16was the boy

00:50:16I had loved in secret

00:50:17since childhood.

00:50:19When I was little,

00:50:20I followed my foster mother Maggie

00:50:22to work at Harrington Manor.

00:50:24Lucy sat in the sunroom

00:50:26eating pastries.

00:50:27I was so hungry

00:50:28I could only stare

00:50:29but I didn't dare

00:50:30come closer.

00:50:32Cole was the one

00:50:33who walked over

00:50:34and beckoned me to him.

00:50:36Lucy wrinkled her brows

00:50:38and said I was dirty,

00:50:39that I didn't deserve

00:50:40to touch her silver fork.

00:50:42But Cole placed

00:50:43a honey muffin in my palm.

00:50:45This country says

00:50:45everyone is equal

00:50:46on the surface

00:50:47though we all know

00:50:47that's a lie.

00:50:48But at least at my table

00:50:49you don't have to lower

00:50:50your head.

00:50:56From that day on

00:50:57he became the light

00:50:58I hid in the deepest

00:50:59part of my heart.

00:51:00Every time I saw him

00:51:02he would smile faintly

00:51:03at me

00:51:03like a lamp suddenly

00:51:04lit in a dark warehouse.

00:51:06I was poor and timid

00:51:07so I only dared

00:51:08watch him from afar

00:51:09from age 12 to 22.

00:51:14On the day of the

00:51:15engagement banquet

00:51:16he sat at the end

00:51:17of the long table

00:51:18while the elders

00:51:19raised glasses

00:51:19and discussed

00:51:20docks, containers,

00:51:21roots and loyalty.

00:51:23He stayed silent

00:51:24for a long time

00:51:25and then asked

00:51:26only one question.

00:51:27Is Lucy doing any better?

00:51:28At the notion of Lucy

00:51:30everyone's expression

00:51:32softened.

00:51:33I shrank into a corner

00:51:35and said nothing.

00:51:37Cole gave me

00:51:38a cold glance.

00:51:42I heard it and I remembered it.

00:51:45From that day on

00:51:47I threw myself

00:51:48into upper class etiquette

00:51:50learned to take apart

00:51:51and assemble guns

00:51:53studied family accounts

00:51:56and learned how not to show fear

00:51:58in front of wolves

00:51:59dressed in evening wear.

00:52:01I wanted to be a good wife to him.

00:52:03I didn't want to disappoint him.

00:52:05But how did it end?

00:52:07It took me far too long

00:52:09to understand.

00:52:10This engagement

00:52:11had never been love

00:52:12from the start.

00:52:13It was a bloodstained agreement.

00:52:16The Harrington family

00:52:17needed the Whitfield dots

00:52:19and the Whitfield family

00:52:20needed the Harrington arms lines

00:52:21and they needed a woman

00:52:23to sit on the altar

00:52:24and complete the final piece.

00:52:26Lucy was too precious

00:52:27to sacrifice

00:52:30and I had conveniently returned.

00:52:34Suddenly

00:52:34there was a perfect solution

00:52:36for both sides.

00:52:37Too bad I was the extra bargaining chip

00:52:40outside that perfect solution.

00:52:42Even Ryan Black

00:52:43quickly took Lucy's side

00:52:44even though

00:52:45like me

00:52:46he had grown up

00:52:47in the staff building

00:52:48at Whitfield Manor.

00:52:50Both of our mothers

00:52:51were employees of this family.

00:52:53Both of us

00:52:53had been bullied by Lucy

00:52:54and both of us

00:52:55had sworn vows

00:52:56in the drafty winter staff quarters.

00:52:58When we were little

00:52:59Ryan held my hand.

00:53:01One day

00:53:02I'll climb above them.

00:53:04By then

00:53:05Lucy Whitfield

00:53:06will never dare

00:53:06bully you again.

00:53:13Why did it become like this?

00:53:15I stumbled out of the church.

00:53:26Orton

00:53:27you really disappointed me tonight.

00:53:29I thought you were tough.

00:53:31I thought you could take the hits.

00:53:33Claw your way out of the muck.

00:53:34Never imagined you'd resort

00:53:35to huge stunts

00:53:36just to drag everyone's eyes

00:53:37onto herself.

00:53:38Lucy has already given back

00:53:39everything she once had to you.

00:53:40She lost her parents,

00:53:41her identity,

00:53:42even her place's heir.

00:53:43Why still refuse

00:53:44to let her go?

00:53:45Orton

00:53:45how did you become a place?

00:53:50Blood and champagne

00:53:51had dried on my dress

00:53:52like a brand of humiliation

00:53:54burnt into my skin.

00:53:55Suddenly,

00:53:56I wanted to laugh.

00:53:57This wedding dress

00:53:58was the most expensive thing

00:53:59I had ever worn in my life.

00:54:01Before the wedding,

00:54:02I had touched it again and again

00:54:04with careful hands.

00:54:05It came from Milan.

00:54:06More than a thousand

00:54:07hand-sewn crystals

00:54:08covered the train,

00:54:09each one like the future

00:54:10I had naively believed

00:54:12was coming.

00:54:12I had looked forward

00:54:14to this day

00:54:14more than anything

00:54:15to marrying

00:54:17Cole Harrington beautifully

00:54:20because I had secretly

00:54:22loved him for many years.

00:54:24Half a year ago,

00:54:26Lucy was diagnosed

00:54:27with severe aplastic anemia.

00:54:29Richard and Diana

00:54:30immediately underwent

00:54:31HLA matching,

00:54:33but the results

00:54:33were a complete mismatch.

00:54:35An urgent DNA test

00:54:36exposed the secret.

00:54:3822 years ago,

00:54:39the Whitfield family

00:54:40housekeeper,

00:54:41Maggie Reed,

00:54:41switched Lucy and me.

00:54:43She sent her own

00:54:44biological doll

00:54:45into the godfather's house

00:54:46and took the true

00:54:47Whitfield bloodline

00:54:47back to a cramped

00:54:48staff apartment.

00:54:49After the truth came out,

00:54:50Maggie put a gun in her mouth

00:54:52in the underground wine cellar,

00:54:53leaving behind only a letter.

00:54:57The people here tonight

00:54:58were not ordinary relatives

00:54:59and friends,

00:54:59but representatives from families

00:55:01in New York,

00:55:02Chicago, and Boston.

00:55:04Some held wine glasses,

00:55:05some had their fingers

00:55:06pressed against the inside

00:55:07of their jackets,

00:55:08close enough to touch a gun

00:55:09at any moment.

00:55:10A sharp ting

00:55:11burned across my face

00:55:12and a drop of blood

00:55:14fell onto my snow-white

00:55:15wedding dress.

00:55:16I touched my nose.

00:55:17It was warm.

00:55:19Cole,

00:55:19are you insane?

00:55:23At my wedding,

00:55:24my fiancé, Cole,

00:55:25slapped me hard

00:55:26in front of half

00:55:26of New York's underworld.

00:55:31Lucy almost put a gun

00:55:32in her mouth

00:55:33and killed herself.

00:55:34And all you care about

00:55:35is your wedding?

00:55:36Orton,

00:55:37do you even possess

00:55:37a shred of decency?

00:55:39The blow sent me stumbling

00:55:41and I crashed

00:55:41into the five-tier wedding cake.

00:55:43Cream,

00:55:44strawberry coulis,

00:55:45and champagne

00:55:46mixed together,

00:55:46clinging to my expensive

00:55:48white wedding dress

00:55:48like seven years

00:55:49crushed under someone's heel.

00:55:51On our wedding day,

00:55:52my fiancé missed

00:55:53the merger ceremony

00:55:54between two major families

00:55:55because of a cry for help

00:55:56from my stepsister, Lucy.

00:55:58While everyone was frozen

00:55:59in a standoff,

00:56:00I called Ryan Black,

00:56:01the boy I had grown up with,

00:56:02and told him,

00:56:03if you come,

00:56:04I'll marry you.

00:56:06Orton,

00:56:07you really think

00:56:08too highly of yourself?

00:56:09Ryan,

00:56:10are you gonna leave me too?

00:56:12Half an hour later,

00:56:13both men arrived

00:56:14at the church.

00:56:15One was the heir

00:56:16of the Harrington family,

00:56:17my fiancé and name, Cole.

00:56:18The other was my childhood friend

00:56:20from the staff building

00:56:20at Whitfield Manor, Ryan.

00:56:22They stepped out

00:56:22of black bulletproof cars.

00:56:24Behind them stood

00:56:24a line of black-foot bodyguards

00:56:26with gun holsters

00:56:26kept looking into their jackets

00:56:28like a belated judgment.

00:56:29I had been struck

00:56:30to the floor,

00:56:31covering my face,

00:56:33I instinctively

00:56:34looked toward Ryan.

00:56:35He stood coldly

00:56:36to the side

00:56:37with both hands

00:56:37in his pockets,

00:56:38a flicker of disgust

00:56:40crossing his eyes.

00:56:43Even my biological parents,

00:56:45Richard,

00:56:46head of the Whitfield family,

00:56:48and his wife, Diana,

00:56:49came over

00:56:49from the main table.

00:56:50The alliance ceremony

00:56:52can be rescheduled

00:56:53any time,

00:56:53but if something happens

00:56:54to Lucy,

00:56:55we cannot afford

00:56:56to lose a single second.

00:56:58At that moment,

00:56:59I finally understood.

00:57:01Within this family,

00:57:03I was their long-lost

00:57:04biological daughter

00:57:05restored to them

00:57:06by blood,

00:57:06yet also the perfect

00:57:07bargaining chip.

00:57:08The people here tonight

00:57:09were not ordinary relatives

00:57:10and friends,

00:57:11but representatives

00:57:12from families in New York,

00:57:13Chicago,

00:57:14and Boston.

00:57:15Some held wine glasses,

00:57:17some had their fingers

00:57:18pressed against the inside

00:57:19of their jackets,

00:57:20close enough to touch a gun

00:57:21at any moment.

00:57:22A sharp ting burned

00:57:23across my face,

00:57:24and a drop of blood

00:57:25fell onto my snow-white

00:57:26wedding dress.

00:57:27I touched my nose.

00:57:29It was warm.

00:57:30Cole, are you insane?

00:57:36If Lucy hadn't begged me

00:57:37through tears

00:57:38to come finish this ceremony,

00:57:39do you really think

00:57:40I would be here?

00:57:41After saying that,

00:57:42he pulled a glass

00:57:43from the bottom tier

00:57:43of the champagne tower.

00:57:44The bodyguards at the door

00:57:45tensed instantly.

00:57:47The banquet hall manager

00:57:47went deathly pale,

00:57:48but did not dare

00:57:49step forward.

00:57:50Cole grabbed a bottle

00:57:51of champagne,

00:57:52twisted off the cork,

00:57:53aimed it over my head,

00:57:54and let the cold

00:57:55woven liquid pour down.

00:57:57Didn't want to marry

00:57:57into the Harrington family.

00:58:02Here.

00:58:04This is our champagne ceremony.

00:58:05The liquor ran

00:58:06from my lashes,

00:58:07down the bridge of my nose,

00:58:08and off my chin,

00:58:08drop by drop.

00:58:09I could no longer tell

00:58:10whether what fell

00:58:10onto my wedding dress

00:58:11was wine or blood.

00:58:12Satisfied now,

00:58:13my legal wife?

00:58:17In the banquet hall,

00:58:18my bridesmaid Grace

00:58:19stood frozen in place.

00:58:21At an ordinary wedding,

00:58:22someone would call the police,

00:58:23but on Whitfield territory,

00:58:25no one dared call 911.

00:58:27People here believed

00:58:28more in silence,

00:58:29hush money,

00:58:29than bodies and food

00:58:30to put in front of me.

00:58:32My childhood friend,

00:58:33Brian Black,

00:58:34stood in the shadows

00:58:34as if watching a play

00:58:35whose ending

00:58:36had never been in doubt.

00:58:37There was a commotion

00:58:38at the back door

00:58:39of the banquet hall.

00:58:40My biological parents

00:58:41came through the crowd.

00:58:43I thought they would

00:58:43finally ask if it hurt,

00:58:45but Diana did not even

00:58:46spare me a glance.

00:58:47Her voice shook.

00:58:48Where is my Lucy?

00:58:50She's emotionally unstable.

00:58:52How could you leave her alone

00:58:53in the safe house?

00:58:54If anything happens to her,

00:58:56I won't be able to live either.

00:58:59Richard took the microphone.

00:59:01He was the godfather

00:59:02of the Whitfield family.

00:59:04Always composed,

00:59:05always respectable.

00:59:07Even at a moment like this,

00:59:08he could announce to the room

00:59:10in an almost cruelly steady voice.

00:59:12My apologies, everyone.

00:59:15An emergency has come up

00:59:16within the family.

00:59:18Tonight's alliance ceremony

00:59:19is temporarily cancelled.

00:59:21All gifts and cooperation deposits

00:59:23will be returned in full

00:59:24through the original channels.

00:59:25Richard Whitfield

00:59:26owes you all an explanation.

00:59:28After putting down the microphone,

00:59:30he looked at Cole.

00:59:31Lead the way.

00:59:32We're going to find Lucy.

00:59:34He did not look at me.

00:59:36I sat beside the collapsed cake,

00:59:38filthy and humiliated,

00:59:39like an old prop

00:59:40whose purpose

00:59:41had already been served.

00:59:49Dad.

00:59:50Mom.

00:59:52Lucy Whitfield

00:59:52put in the doorway

00:59:53in an ivory dress.

00:59:55Her face streaked with tears,

00:59:56her steps unsteady.

00:59:57She had once been

00:59:58the little princess

00:59:59the Whitfield family

01:00:00that Carrie raised

01:00:01for more than 20 years.

01:00:03Dad.

01:00:04Mom, please don't save me.

01:00:06Even when she cried,

01:00:07she looked like

01:00:07a fragile work of all.

01:00:08Everyone's eyes

01:00:09were pulled towards her.

01:00:11Lucy.

01:00:12Lucy, don't be scared.

01:00:14Mom is right here.

01:00:16The man who could swallow

01:00:18three docks

01:00:18at a negotiation table

01:00:20without blinking

01:00:20opened his arms

01:00:21and held mother

01:00:22and daughter together.

01:00:24The scene was warm enough

01:00:25to look like

01:00:26a carefully staged movie,

01:00:28and I was the unnecessary person

01:00:29outside the frame.

01:00:31Cole seemed to finally

01:00:32breathe in relief.

01:00:33When he looked at Lucy,

01:00:34the tenderness in his eyes

01:00:36nearly overflowing,

01:00:37Ryan looked back

01:00:38at me and said

01:00:40I ignored him.

01:00:42I held onto

01:00:43the overturned table corner

01:00:44and got to my feet,

01:00:46pain stabbing

01:00:47through my ankle.

01:00:48My wedding dress

01:00:49dragged across the floor,

01:00:50covered in cream,

01:00:52liquor,

01:00:52and shattered glass.

01:00:55Miss Reed,

01:00:56do you need me

01:00:57to call the doctor?

01:00:58He did not say

01:00:59call the police.

01:01:01Everyone here knew

01:01:02the Whitfield family's affairs

01:01:03could not be handed

01:01:04to the police.

01:01:06No.

01:01:09I limped toward

01:01:10the side door.

01:01:12I had barely taken

01:01:13two steps

01:01:14when someone

01:01:14yanked my wrist.

01:01:19Orton,

01:01:19you really disappointed

01:01:20me tonight.

01:01:21I thought you were tough.

01:01:23I thought you could

01:01:24take the hits,

01:01:25claw your way

01:01:25out of the muck.

01:01:26Never imagined

01:01:26you'd resort to cheap stunts

01:01:28just to drag everyone's

01:01:29eyes onto yourself.

01:01:30Lucy has already

01:01:30given back everything

01:01:31she once had to you.

01:01:32She lost her parents,

01:01:33her identity,

01:01:34even her place's heir.

01:01:35Why still refuse

01:01:36to let her go?

01:01:37Orton,

01:01:37how did you become

01:01:38like this?

01:01:42Blood and champagne

01:01:43had dried on my dress

01:01:44like a brand of humiliation

01:01:46burnt into my skin.

01:01:47Suddenly,

01:01:48I wanted to laugh.

01:01:49This wedding dress

01:01:50was the most expensive

01:01:51thing I had ever

01:01:52worn in my life.

01:01:53Before the wedding,

01:01:54I had touched it

01:01:55again and again

01:01:56with careful hands.

01:01:57It came from Milan.

01:01:58More than a thousand

01:01:59hand-sewn crystals

01:02:00covered the train.

01:02:01Each one,

01:02:02like the future,

01:02:03I had naively

01:02:03believed it was coming.

01:02:05I had looked forward

01:02:06to this day

01:02:06more than anything.

01:02:08To marrying

01:02:09Cole Harrington

01:02:10beautiful.

01:02:13Because I had secretly

01:02:14loved him

01:02:14for many years.

01:02:17Half a year ago,

01:02:18Lucy was diagnosed

01:02:19with severe

01:02:20aplastic anemia.

01:02:21Richard and Diana

01:02:22immediately underwent

01:02:23HLA matching,

01:02:25but the results

01:02:25were a complete mismatch.

01:02:27An urgent DNA test

01:02:28exposed the secret.

01:02:3022 years ago,

01:02:31the Whitfield family

01:02:32housekeeper,

01:02:33Maggie Reed,

01:02:34switched Lucy and me.

01:02:35She sent her own

01:02:36biological doll

01:02:37into the Godfather's house

01:02:38and took the true

01:02:39Whitfield bloodline

01:02:39back to a cramped

01:02:40staff apartment.

01:02:41After the truth came out,

01:02:42Maggie put a gun

01:02:43in her mouth

01:02:44in the underground

01:02:44wine cell,

01:02:45leaving behind

01:02:46only a letter.

01:02:48I had read that letter.

01:02:50Across two full pages,

01:02:52she did not mention

01:02:53my name once.

01:02:54Lucy could not

01:02:55handle the shock

01:02:55and was diagnosed

01:02:56with severe depression.

01:02:58To preserve

01:02:59the port alliance

01:03:00between the Whitfield

01:03:01and Harrington families,

01:03:02Richard made a swift decision

01:03:04and transferred

01:03:05Lucy's original engagement

01:03:06to me.

01:03:07The reason sounded

01:03:08grand and proper.

01:03:09The old Harrington family pact

01:03:11required both sides

01:03:12to be bound by

01:03:13legal marriage

01:03:14and legitimate

01:03:14direct heirs.

01:03:16Otherwise,

01:03:17the merger of the

01:03:18East River docks,

01:03:19arms routes,

01:03:20and money-laughtering network

01:03:21would all be void.

01:03:23Lucy was too fragile

01:03:24to withstand

01:03:25that kind of pressure

01:03:26and I was healthy,

01:03:27mentally tougher,

01:03:28and more suited

01:03:30to bear this

01:03:30family responsibility.

01:03:31I did not hesitate.

01:03:33I agreed.

01:03:35Because Cole Harrington

01:03:36was the boy I had loved

01:03:37in secret since childhood.

01:03:39When I was little,

01:03:41I followed my foster mother,

01:03:42Maggie,

01:03:43to work at Harrington Manor.

01:03:45Lucy sat in the sunroom

01:03:46eating pastries.

01:03:48I was so hungry

01:03:49I could only stare,

01:03:50but I didn't dare

01:03:51come closer.

01:03:53Cole was the one

01:03:54who walked over

01:03:54and beckoned me to him.

01:03:57But Lucy wrinkled her brows

01:03:58and said I was dirty,

01:04:00that I didn't deserve

01:04:01to touch her silver fork.

01:04:03But Cole placed

01:04:04a honey muffin

01:04:04in my closet.

01:04:05This picture says

01:04:06everyone is in the world's service,

01:04:07but we all know

01:04:08that's a lie.

01:04:09At least in my table,

01:04:10you don't have to know

01:04:10what you're doing.

01:04:16From that day on,

01:04:18he became the light

01:04:19I hid in the deepest

01:04:19part of my heart.

01:04:21Every time I saw him,

01:04:22he would smile faintly at me,

01:04:24like a lamp suddenly lit

01:04:25in a dark warehouse.

01:04:26I was poor and timid,

01:04:28so I only dared

01:04:29watch him from afar,

01:04:30from age 12 to 22.

01:04:34On the day

01:04:35of the engagement banquet,

01:04:36he sat at the end

01:04:37of the long table

01:04:38while the elders

01:04:39raised glasses

01:04:40and discussed dots,

01:04:41containers,

01:04:42roots,

01:04:42and loyalty.

01:04:43He stayed silent

01:04:44for a long time

01:04:45and then asked

01:04:46only one question.

01:04:47Is Lucy doing any better?

01:04:49At the mention of Lucy,

01:04:51everyone's expression

01:04:52was softened.

01:04:53I shrank into a corner

01:04:55and said no.

01:04:57Cole gave me

01:04:58a cold glance.

01:05:00She's not suited

01:05:01for occasions like this.

01:05:03I heard it

01:05:04and I remembered it.

01:05:06From that day on,

01:05:07I threw myself

01:05:08into upper-class etiquette,

01:05:10learned to take apart

01:05:11and assemble guns,

01:05:14studied family accounts,

01:05:17and learned how not

01:05:18to show fear

01:05:19in front of wolves

01:05:19dressed in evening wear.

01:05:22I wanted to be

01:05:23a good wife to him.

01:05:24I didn't want

01:05:25to disappoint him.

01:05:26But how did it end?

01:05:28It took me far too long

01:05:29to understand.

01:05:31This engagement

01:05:32had never been loved

01:05:33from the start.

01:05:34It was a blood-stained agreement.

01:05:36The Harrington family

01:05:38needed the Whitfield docks,

01:05:39and the Whitfield family

01:05:41needed the Harrington arms lines,

01:05:42and they needed a woman

01:05:43to sit on the altar

01:05:44and complete the final piece.

01:05:47Lucy was too precious

01:05:48to sacrifice.

01:05:51And I had conveniently returned.

01:05:54Suddenly,

01:05:55there was a perfect solution

01:05:56for both sides.

01:05:58Too bad I was

01:05:59the extra bargaining chip

01:06:00outside that perfect solution.

01:06:02Even Ryan Black

01:06:03quickly took Lucy's side.

01:06:05Even though,

01:06:06like me,

01:06:07he had grown up

01:06:08in the staff building

01:06:09at Whitfield Manor.

01:06:10Both of our mothers

01:06:11were employees

01:06:12of this family.

01:06:13Both of us

01:06:14had been bullied by Lucy,

01:06:15and both of us

01:06:16had sworn vows

01:06:17at the Drafty Winter

01:06:17for staff orders.

01:06:19And I was a little

01:06:19Ryan held my hand.

01:06:22One day,

01:06:23I'll climb above them.

01:06:24By then,

01:06:25Lucy Whitfield

01:06:26will never dare

01:06:27bully you again.

01:06:33Why did it become like this?

01:06:35I stumbled out of the church.

01:06:37I did an apparition.

01:06:38I stole my hand.

01:06:461 day,

01:06:46I've been waiting

01:06:46or mathuca FINAN

01:06:47without duro

01:06:47I've been waiting for the

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