After They Chose Her, I Chose to Leave This World

On the day my husband welcomed another woman into our home, my sons stood beside her—and watched me fall into the river without stopping me.

For eighteen years, I held this family together.

I changed a man’s fate, raised children not born of my body, and sacrificed everything to keep them from destruction.

Yet the moment she returned, my devotion became a crime, and I was cast as the villain who deserved to disappear.

When everything finally collapsed, the System told me I was allowed to leave this world.

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I leaned forward, letting myself fall into the icy, bone-chilling river.