Chapter 1

The night before getting my marriage license, I had a dream.

A woman who looked exactly like me swallowed an entire bottle of sleeping pills with a pale face, then stared at me intently.

I asked her in a trembling voice who she was. The woman smiled grotesquely.

"I'm you seven years from now, Chloe. You're a complete fool! Played like a dog by Ethan and Lily, and you're willing to accept it all."

"The one Ethan really wants to marry is his foster sister. He's only with you because the Johnson family won't approve of them being together. Your marriage to him is fake, and you're still overjoyed, taking care of Lily with him."

"You couldn't even protect your own child, and ended up raising Lily's child for six years."

"In the end, when Ethan's parents died, they didn't need you as their shield anymore. They kicked you out without giving you a single penny, and you had no choice but to swallow pills and kill yourself like me!"

She finally coughed up blood that sprayed onto my face.

I jerked awake, my back soaked in cold sweat.