Chapter 1

Liam, my childhood friend, had intense rage issues. He was prone to violent outbursts.

To stop me from being with that scumbag, Derek, he’d tie me up again and again.

Later, Derek and my so-called best friend, Valerie, conspired to set me on fire and kill me.

Liam avenged me by taking matters into his own hands and getting rid of those two scumbags. In the end, he even took his own life out of love for me.

When I opened my eyes again, I was back in college, the very day Valerie framed me for assault.

Liam had me tied up, trapped.

"Chloe, don't even *think* about leaving."

"If you dare to leave, I'll break your legs!"

“Chloe, my entire life is only for you.”

My soul floated beside Liam. I watched him write those words in his notebook, then swallow poison.

I frantically screamed for him to wake up, desperate to grab him.

But I forgot, I was dead too. He couldn’t hear me, and I couldn’t touch him.

When I woke up again, I had been reborn into my senior year of college.

And it was today that I was supposed to be burned alive.

Right now, someone was dragging me into the school’s equipment room. They threw me inside and locked the door.

Then, they casually grabbed a rope from a shelf.

The young man in front of me was incredibly handsome, his deep-set, phoenix-like eyes glaring fiercely at me.

“Chloe, don’t even *think* about leaving.”

“If you dare to leave, I’ll break your legs!”

His tone was vicious, his gaze ruthless. He was indeed that madman, Liam.

In my previous life, he tied me up like this too.

Back then, I was blindly infatuated with Derek, completely under his spell, loving him with every fiber of my being.

I was utterly blind to everything Liam did for me.

Today, Derek had asked me out, and I was thrilled.

But Liam forcefully tied me up, refusing to let me go.

He said, “Don’t go, someone will frame you.”

But how could I believe him? Back then, I thought he was just a lunatic who liked to kidnap me.

Who would have thought this lunatic, who kidnapped me again and again, did it only because he loved me and wanted to protect me?

Later, I managed to injure him when he wasn’t paying attention and escaped.

But little did I know, a group of thugs was waiting for me, and they assaulted me.

And it was all a plot by Derek and my best friend, Valerie.

They wanted my money, so they hired people to assault me, filmed it, and blackmailed me for cash.

I had no choice but to give it to them.

I thought they’d let me go, but instead, they burned me to death.

Snapping back to reality, I was already tied to a chair by Liam.

As he knotted the rope, I could tell he was using immense force.

I knew he was afraid I’d escape, afraid I’d go to confess my feelings to Derek.

“Liam, I won’t leave.”

He looked like he’d heard something unbelievable, staring at me for a few seconds.

“Did you take some kind of medication before you left today?”

I didn’t understand his words and looked at him confused, asking him what he meant.

His tone was flat, his face devoid of any expression.

“I thought maybe you took something today, that’s why your head’s so clear.”

“Usually, you’d be fighting to leave, cursing me as a freak.”

I froze. The old me truly was foolish, not knowing he was trying to save me.

I even thought he was trying to ruin my happiness, which made me hate him.

“Don’t worry, this time I absolutely won’t leave.”

“I won’t leave you.”

This time, I didn’t want to push away the most precious person in my life again.

When he heard me say that, his expression was utterly stunned, like he’d seen a pig fly.

Clearly, he didn’t believe me. Without a word, he bit me on the neck.

He bit down hard, as if releasing something.

I knew he hated my interactions with Derek, that’s why he was so angry.

So even though it hurt terribly, I didn’t resist him. I just endured it.

Honestly, if he hadn't tied me up today, I would have hugged him.

Because in my previous life, he suffered far too much for me.