Chapter 1

Reborn and determined to escape the doomed marriage, I rejected Nathan Whitman, who got down on one knee to propose to me, signed the contract as a principal dancer, and spirited his mother, Jane Whitman, away without a second thought.

In my previous life, Jane perished in a car crash during Nathan's and my honeymoon abroad.

Nathan held me responsible for his absence in her final moments and spiraled into a deep depression since then.

To atone for a sin I didn't commit, I quit my job and became his stay-at-home wife.

However, all my doting care for Nathan ended up in him callously allowing his childhood sweetheart, Olivia Reed, to paralyze me, force me to miscarry, and even push me into the sea.

As the icy water choked my lungs and numbed my veins, I died with bitter resentment.

Then I woke up, only to find myself back at the proposal while Nathan, ring in hand, was gazing at me with adoration.

"Aurora! Nathan spent three months planning this proposal. He even booked tickets to Elysiland, your dream destination. Are you humiliating him on purpose?"

No sooner had I refused than Olivia emerged from the crowd to scold me.

Her familiarity with Nathan was laughable.

I'd always believed they were nothing more than close childhood friends, never imagining that Olivia had been harboring a long-standing crush on him.

I ripped up the tickets and tossed them in her face. "Since you care about him so much, be with him!"

"You!"

Olivia gritted her teeth, a faint blush staining her cheeks.

She bit her lip and glanced at Nathan.

He shot up and shielded her, staring at me in disbelief.

"Aurora, have you lost your mind? Nothing I do is good enough for you!"

The sight of them made me sick to my stomach.

I dashed to the restroom and threw up.

Gazing at my made-up face in the mirror, I finally confirmed I'd been reborn.