Chapter 1

To save my childhood sweetheart, Serena, who suffered from congenital heart disease, my wife Valerie tricked me into signing an organ donation agreement.

Then, she found a semi-truck and had me run over right outside the hospital.

As I was barely clinging to life, Valerie coolly removed my heart.

When my body was wheeled out of the operating room, Serena rushed to my side like a madwoman.

She saw the gaping, unstitched void in my chest and screamed, tears streaming down her face:

"I'm so sorry… I was too late… If there’s a next life, I won’t let you suffer like this again…"

Her tears landed exactly where my heart used to be, and I even felt a strange warmth.

She spun around and stormed into the operating room. When she emerged, Valerie and Dylan Hayes were lying in pools of blood.

Then, she slit her own wrist, taking her life for me. Before she died, she ordered them to bury us together.

When I opened my eyes again, I was reborn.

Valerie, dressed in a wedding gown and holding a bouquet, was proposing to me.

I immediately flung the bouquet in her face, then turned and embraced Serena in the crowd.

But after just a year and a half of marriage, she changed.

Valerie and Dylan Hayes became inseparable, openly letting him move into our home.

She even let him drive over my cat—my beloved cat that I’d raised for seven years—claiming its incessant meowing was disturbing his sleep.

I couldn’t believe this was the woman who had loved me so fiercely in my last life. My eyes burning, I demanded, “What the hell is wrong with you?”

But Valerie’s eyes were glacial. “Nothing. Just fell out of love.”