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The story
The short version. Revenge, 30 episodes on YourChannel. Vivian walks in on William at a hotel and hears him sneer that she cannot have children, and that Scarlett is carrying his child.
The hotel room door swings open and Vivian catches William mid-lie, asking his lover on the phone when she is finally coming around. She has walked in on the lie with her own eyes. His defence is not shame: "you can't have kids, so what if I found another woman to give me one?" — and then the line that ends them: "Scarlett's is carrying my child." Vivian does not argue. She simply decides, "William, we're done."
The flashback that explains everything: a younger Vivian sitting across a desk from a cocky student, introducing herself as his new tutor while he warns he has already scared off three tutors. Seven years later that same boy tells his father, "Vivian is the only woman I'll marry." One reckless night between the break-up and the reunion becomes a pregnancy she never expected — three lines on the test — and the silent seven-year crush turns into a marriage vow he has every intention of keeping.
Her best friend Josie refuses to let her mope through the night. "Tonight you are not crying over that," she says, hauling Vivian to a club and promising she will forget that loser ever existed. The plan works too well: surrounded by men buying her drinks, Vivian is ready to call it a night when a man's voice cuts through the crowd and says, "Vivian, you're coming with me." It is Liam — the teenage boy she tutored years ago, now unrecognisable as a powerful CEO.
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