Chapter 1

On the night of our engagement ceremony, my fiancé's childhood sweetheart posted a photo of herself holding a silver dagger, threatening to self-harm.

Logan was desperate to go and stop her, but he was stopped by the Chairman.

"If you dare to not complete the engagement ceremony tonight, Moonstone will no longer have you as its heir!"

Logan ultimately relented, but the next day, news came that Sarah had slit her wrists and was hospitalized.

Logan's reaction to this was cold; he didn't even shed a single tear.

Twenty years later, when I was critically ill and bedridden, Logan and our son injected wolf poison into my body.

"Evelyn, if you hadn't been so desperate to marry into wealth, I would have been living a happy life with Sarah long ago!"

"Let me tell you the truth. The child… I bribed a doctor to implant one of Sarah's embryos in you! You've spent your entire life raising a child for the woman I love most!"

As the poison spread, I took my last breath in excruciating pain.

When I opened my eyes again, I had returned to the night of our engagement.

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"If you don't go through with this engagement tonight, you can forget about being the heir to Moonstone!"

The Chairman's stern words rang in my ears.

I was jolted from the searing pain of wolfsbane poisoning, my entire body wracked with tremors.

Gazing at the flower-adorned engagement venue around me, I finally knew for sure: I had truly been reborn!

Sensing my stare, he turned to me, his eyes red and swollen, and shot me a look brimming with hatred.

"Don't think trapping me here will ever make me love you. I will only hate you for the rest of my life!"

His voice, seething through gritted teeth, and his venomous glare seemed to transcend time and space, perfectly overlapping with the look on his face as he poisoned me in my past life.

In an instant, a cold sweat drenched my body, and my limbs began to tremble uncontrollably.

Just then, the Chairman happened to turn and look at me.

"Don't mind him. Logan is just being emotional."

"I groomed you myself. Your talent and character are impeccable—infinitely better than that Sarah!"

"You are the only one I can entrust Logan to. Only then can I truly be at ease."

The Chairman patted my shoulder, his expression kind.

"Keep Logan in line. The ceremony begins in half an hour."

The moment he left the room, leaning on his cane, Logan hurled a champagne glass right at me.

"A monster like you is still hideous even with makeup on. How dare you compare yourself to Sarah? You disgust me!"

The champagne flute smashed hard against my forehead. Shards of glass cut into my skin, and warm blood immediately gushed out.

Yet, I didn't let out a single cry of pain.

This physical pain was nothing compared to the blow my heart had taken.

Seeing the blood streaming down my face, Logan jumped, a flicker of guilt flashing through his eyes for an instant.

"Why didn't you dodge?"

Before I could speak, it was as if a thought struck him, and the look he gave me reverted to one of pure contempt and disdain.

"I get it. You did this on purpose, so you can go out with this injury and keep playing the victim in front of my father!"

"Evelyn, you're a despicable, ugly woman!"

Seeing the deep hatred Logan had for me, I suddenly realized how futile and ridiculous my devotion and sacrifices in my past life had been.

My parents were both employees at Moonstone. In a car accident, they saved the Chairman but were both killed in the process.

After the accident, at only five years old, I was adopted by the Chairman and brought into his home to live.

For the past twenty years, the Chairman and his wife have treated me like their own daughter. Logan, too, was very affectionate toward me at first, always following me around like a little shadow, calling me "sis."

Until Sarah appeared, her reckless abandon brought Logan an unprecedented thrill, leaving him increasingly captivated.