Chapter 1

Everyone in the department could hear Melody Thompson's inner thoughts, a woman with a deceptively sweet facade.

During our department's company-funded team-building trip, I requested to stay at the base camp due to severe altitude sickness.

Melody looked utterly torn.

[Should I tell everyone that Chloe’s altitude sickness is totally fake, and because of her lie, we’re all going to be punished and forced to hike up the mountain?]

Mr. Davidson, our department manager, heard her thoughts. He immediately canceled the mountain shuttle and ordered all employees to hike up.

After that, the entire department froze me out.

Months later, I had finalized a perfect project proposal and was applying for company seed money. Again, Melody's thoughts piped up.

[Chloe’s project is a guaranteed money pit. This loss will be in the millions, and every single one of us will be held accountable for her screw-up.]

Hearing this, everyone raised objections.

To get the project off the ground, I reached out to clients for investment. During one client meeting, I accidentally fell off a cliff.

In a critical moment, I used my work phone to call for help in the company group chat on WhatsApp.

I sent a photo of the cliff, but Melody’s inner thoughts just scoffed.

[Chloe totally wrecked millions of dollars worth of client equipment and now she’s just trying to trick someone into coming over to be a scapegoat for her.]

No one came to rescue me from the cliff. I clung on for two days and two nights, but I didn't make it.

I died without ever understanding why everyone was so cold.

Until I was reborn, back to that very team-building day.

This time, I finally heard Melody Thompson's inner thoughts too.