Chapter 1

In my past life, my girlfriend's first love, Derek Shaw, pretended to be rich. After I exposed him, he furiously drove his car straight at me.

As I lay dying, my girlfriend's sister knelt and begged my girlfriend to save me, but my girlfriend remained unmoved.

"Ethan was the one who spread lies first! He should pay the price."

My girlfriend's sister knelt for three days and three nights, until Derek finally dragged her away and tortured her to death.

After being reborn, I am done being my girlfriend's lapdog.

After learning that Derek was impersonating a wealthy person, I immediately called my brother Alex.

"Someone is impersonating me out there. Find someone to deal with him."

"Also, I want to change the arranged marriage partner from Lucy Anderson to her sister."

All these years I have poured massive resources into the Anderson family, but all I have raised are ungrateful wolves.

I want to see how Lucy and her first love will act arrogant without me!

"Ethan! You embarrassed me in front of everyone tonight. You're going to regret this. Did you think you could expose me and get away with it? Did you ever see this coming?"

"You're just a nobody. Lucy doesn't even care about you. Even if I run you over right here and leave you in the dirt, she'll still protect me. You know it, don't you?"

Derek's all too familiar words hit my ears.

Before I could move, the blinding headlights were already upon me. I heard the engine roar, felt the crushing weight, and a sharp, white hot pain exploded through my body.

That's when I realized I'd been reborn.

Reborn to the moment when Derek deliberately ran me over with his car.

My shattered phone beside me had somehow dialed my girlfriend Lucy Anderson's number. Her voice came through, cold with disgust.

"Ethan, stop calling me. I know you're just jealous of my relationship with Derek, so you're making up reasons to drive us apart."

"Derek would never drive a car into you. That car costs tens of millions-it's not worth totaling it just to hit you. No matter what you say this time, I won't believe you anymore!"

After she finished, she went silent, as if waiting for my response.

But I didn't explain or beg for help like I did in my past life, trying to make her believe Derek's true nature.

Instead, after watching Derek drive away, I struggled to reach out and hang up, using the phone's last bit of battery to make another call.

After it connected, I endured the pain throughout my body and said, "Alex, save me."

My ears were ringing. I couldn't hear what he said in response, but I was certain Alex would come.

I'm Alex's most beloved brother, and one of the future heirs of the Yates family. The family's protection of me is strict.

Hiding my identity these years to date Lucy was already the limit of what they could tolerate.

If they found out someone dared to hurt me, they would definitely torture that person until death seemed like mercy, making them pay back a hundred or thousand fold.

I was dragging my body toward the edge of the road when I noticed Derek suddenly driving back.

The car window rolled down. He stared at me with dark, sinister eyes. "Lucy said you're not dead. Turns out it's true."

My heart sank. If he hit me again, I really wouldn't survive.

Just as he was about to floor the gas pedal, at the moment of despair,

A red car charged out from another direction and slammed hard into Derek's Maybach.

A woman got out of the car and ran toward me, calling anxiously, "Ethan, are you okay!"

It was actually Lucy's sister, Grace Anderson.

Remembering how in my past life she begged people desperately to save me, and was humiliated to death by Derek at my hospital bedside, my heart filled with mixed emotions-mostly guilt and gratitude.

I resolved that in this life, I would protect her and never let her get hurt again.

Before I could think about why she appeared here, I pushed her away.

"Don't worry about me, just go!"

But it was too late. Grace was suddenly grabbed by the hair from behind by Derek and yanked backward.

Without even letting her speak, Derek kicked her directly. "Filthy bitch, where did you come from?"

"Do you know who I am? How dare you get in my way! Do you have a death wish?!"

Grace was kicked hard in the stomach, breaking into an instant cold sweat from the pain.

Yet she mustered all her strength to bite down on his hand. Derek hissed, snatching up a rock to smash down on her.

Watching Grace get beaten bloody, my heart tore. I shouted, "Stop! She's Lucy's sister! Don't you think Lucy will make you pay for this?"