Chapter 1

In my previous life, I spent thirty loving years with my husband, Marcus.

When I turned fifty, he suddenly confessed that he had fallen in love with one of his students.

I thought it was just a moment of foolishness, so I refused to sign the divorce papers no matter what.

When the student failed to take my place, she left the country and soon news came of her marriage.

On her wedding day, Marcus was so distraught that he got into a car accident and became disabled.

I took care of him at his bedside for fifteen years.

Before he died, he grabbed my hand, his voice trembling:

"The biggest regret of my life was marrying you. If there's a next life, I'll be braver..."

Our children blamed their father's death entirely on me.

Later, I became paralyzed too. One was a company CEO, the other an elite returnee from abroad, yet they dumped me in the cheapest nursing home.

After I died, they casually scattered my ashes in a filthy ditch, looking relieved:

"If it weren't for you, Dad and Maria would have found happiness long ago. You vicious woman, you never deserved a good ending!"

When I woke up again, I had returned to the day Marcus confessed to me.