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Ever since I could remember, I knew I wasn’t allowed to live for myself.
My parents brought me into this world as a tool to secure a marriage alliance with the powerful Alpha family, the Giorgio family.
In 10th grade, they enrolled me in the same school as Anderson Giorgio, the future Alpha.
They wanted me to charm Anderson, stand out among the crowd, and eventually become his Luna.
But back then, Anderson already had a girl by his side.
I watched him lower his eyes gently for her and watched him kiss her
forehead with devotion.
I witnessed their passionate youth unfold–and even after I married Anderson, those memories never faded.
I knew the boy I had was just someone who once shone in another girl’s youth.
So when life gave me a second chance, I chose to fight.
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I stuck a bandage over the cut on my neck, then turned to look at the row of villas behind me and let out a relieved smile.
Back from the dead, the first thing I did was threaten my parents with death to make them drop their plans for me.
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At the end, it came at a price.
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I had to sign a contract to repay them 150,000 dollars in “upbringing fees” before I turned 30.
But it was worth it. I got my freedom.
They pulled all their investments out of me, but agreed to cover my basic living costs until I graduate high school.
College tuition and living expenses? That’s all on me.
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Sitting in the classroom, I finally felt it. This was real. I had truly been reborn.
My eyes drifted to the boy in the seat up front to the left–Anderson.
A breeze came through the window, billowing through his loose white uniform shirt.
He radiated that reckless, bright energy only teenagers have.
He was smiling, eyebrows relaxed, his expression soft.
But all of that warmth was for the girl next to him.
Helen Clarence. His deskmate. His lover.
They were the perfect pair and had been everyone’s envy since Grade 10.
Who would’ve thought that even a love that deep wouldn’t last?
And in the end, it was me–the girl hiding in the shadows, watching their happiness–who ended up with him.
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I was even a little smug about it.
But after we got married, Anderson’s coldness hit me hard.
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Even when we shared a bed, he acted like he was just completing a task.
That’s when I finally realized—even if I had him, he was no longer the boy who once lit up my youth.
I fought with him, cried, and even made up my mind to divorce.
But he refused and said he would play the role of a husband.
When I threw fits, he just stayed silent.
He spent less and less time at home, practically living in his office.
In all my self–pity, I lost myself.
I became someone dark and joyless.
Then one day, on the way to the hospital for a checkup, we got into a car accident.
When that truck came barreling toward us, I felt no fear–just relief.
The impact crushed my consciousness in an instant.
In the haze, I thought I saw Anderson holding my bloody body, sobbing like his world had collapsed.
But I quickly pushed that image away.
I scoffed at myself. Why would he ever cry for me?
When I opened my eyes again, I thought I had survived.
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Turns out, I had been reborn–back in high school.
I looked at the two figures leaning into each other ahead of me, and whatever feelings I had left vanished.
Maybe this time, my youth should go a different way.
