Forever After, Never Again

Episode 1

A neglected daughter makes a cold, clear decision: she will marry the Shaw family's comatose heir. Her father and stepmother are thrilled—until she names her price. She demands ten billion, and one more thing: that her bodyguard, Ethan Walden, be stationed at her stepsister's side. Her father balks, but she has already worked out why. She knows exactly why she's giving Ethan away. When asked, she answers flatly that he, like her father, only has eyes for her stepsister. The wedding must happen within two weeks, and she is done being the overlooked daughter.

Episode 2

Her pursuit of Ethan has lasted three years—over a thousand days—yet he never once looked her way. She thought he was simply aloof, until she caught him staring at her stepsister's photos and overheard a phone call. The truth lands hard: Ethan is no ordinary bodyguard. He is the Walden family's heir, and he loves her stepsister, not her. He admits he's taking things slow because her stepsister is insecure and he doesn't want to scare her. When someone suggests the stepsister flirts with him daily, Ethan dismisses the other woman entirely, saying she can't compare to the stepsister. That is the moment she stops liking him.

Episode 3

Ethan keeps his distance, cool and composed around the neglected daughter while he lights up at any mention of her stepsister. When the neglected daughter asks him to accompany her to an auction, he initially refuses—until he learns the stepsister will be there. Then he agrees instantly. The neglected daughter notes bitterly that he forgets every principle when the stepsister is involved, and promises to send him to her side soon. At the auction, the stepsister appears, greeting the neglected daughter with false warmth. The tension between the stepsisters is immediate, and the bidding is about to begin.

Episode 4

At the auction, the stepsister plays the doting sister while twisting the knife—thanking Ethan for braving the rain to bring her strawberry cake when she was sick. The neglected daughter points out he was drenched and gone for five hours, hardly "on the way." Then the stepsister turns on the neglected daughter, calling her a mistress's child and telling her to know her place. The bidding opens on a ruby necklace. The neglected daughter, about to marry into the Shaw family, needs to secure her own future. The stepsister wants the same necklace—and she's not about to let the neglected daughter have it.

Episode 5

The bidding war escalates until a representative reveals the truth: Mr. Walden's assistant has orders to buy everything the stepsister wants, no matter the cost. Piece after piece—a pink diamond, a porcelain tea set, a Monet painting, a green moonstone—all go to the stepsister. The neglected daughter is left with nothing, humiliated. She confronts Ethan directly, calling him out for his hypocrisy, then storms off toward the club, refusing to stay and watch.

Episode 6

In the car, the stepsister needles the neglected daughter about the ruby necklace and gloats over Mr. Walden's generosity, certain he must like her. The neglected daughter's patience snaps—she tells both of them to get lost, declaring this is her car. The stepsister plays the wounded victim, apologizing for disturbing her. Left alone with her bitterness, the neglected daughter mutters that all men seem to fall for fake women. Then a stranger approaches her, overly familiar and aggressive, refusing to back off despite her warnings. Someone suggests calling Ethan—but will he even come?

Episode 7

Ethan arrives, but his attention lands on the stepsister, not the neglected daughter. When the neglected daughter confronts him—asking why he protected the stepsister instead of her—he doesn't deny it. The stepsister blames herself for being there, but Ethan tells her he would make the same choice a hundred times over. The words cut deep. The neglected daughter is his charge, the one he's paid to guard, yet his loyalty clearly belongs elsewhere. The question hangs in the air: why does he keep choosing the stepsister, again and again, over the woman he's supposed to protect?

Episode 8

The neglected daughter wakes in the hospital and, still raw, decides to punish Ethan—ordering him whipped for failing to protect her. She taunts him about being the Walden heir, pointing out that no one would dare touch him, yet he hesitates now. She sees through it: he won't leave because leaving means losing his excuse to stay near the stepsister. Even as she raises the whip, Ethan refuses to move, insisting he deserves punishment. The stepsister interferes, taking the blame, and Ethan's protectiveness toward her only deepens the neglected daughter's humiliation.

Episode 9

The neglected daughter once dreamed of standing before Ethan in a wedding gown, but that dream is over. After the stepsister accidentally hits the neglected daughter, Ethan has someone beat the neglected daughter in retaliation—ninety-nine times over. Bruised and abandoned in the hospital, the neglected daughter watches other patients receive visitors while no one comes for her. She resolves to give up on Ethan, yet her heart still aches. Alone, she tells herself to stop crying, insisting no one will care. The cruelty she's endured has finally pushed her toward a breaking point.

Episode 10

At the stepsister's birthday party, the family gathers—and the neglected daughter's father drops a bombshell, asking her stepmother for a divorce and offering half his fortune. Chaos erupts as the stepsister begs her mother to explain. Meanwhile, the neglected daughter's friends tease her about her engagement to the comatose Shaw heir and press her on what she wants in a man. She lists her demands, including a rare rose from Moondeer Cliff. Then Mr. Walden's gifts arrive, and the room turns to see what the mysterious heir has sent.

Will the neglected daughter finally stop chasing a man who never saw her—or will Ethan's hidden identity and the stepsister's games pull her back in? Watch it and find out.