Chapter 1

I was reborn at fourteen. My father, his voice soft, asked me, "Do you want to stay here with your mother, or go abroad, and I'll give you two hundred million dollars?"

In my past life, I cried, "I want my mom."

Then I watched him, clear as day, keep an executive as his mistress, hire a nanny, and have three illegitimate children, all to spite my mother. She spent half her life in misery, couldn't even get a fair divorce, and walked away with nothing.

As for me, I was manipulated, ridiculed, utterly destitute, and died alone in a foreign country. My friends had to pool money just to buy my flight ticket home.

This time, I smiled and signed the papers. "Two hundred million dollars, I'm taking it."

It wasn't that I was heartless. It was that I finally saw the truth: in this family, no one genuinely cared about my mother or me.

I refused to be that weak, pathetic girl again.

This life, I'd earn the money, I'd protect my life, and I'd orchestrate the whole game myself.

My mother? When I've won everything, when she no longer needs to beg anyone, I'll personally bring her home.