Chapter 1

"It's time to get up, Alyssa Sawyer! The sun's already shining in the sky!"

I jolted awake at the sound of someone hammering on my door. Sweat drenched my back when I heard that familiar voice.

I scanned my surroundings and noticed that I was in my rented apartment. Only then did I realize that I had been reborn.

"I ordered delivery, Aly. Let's eat together."

I slowly got up from my bed as the voice resounded through the door.

Mira Bolton and I had moved into this apartment together after we graduated. She was my best friend. I treated her as if she were family, but she was also the one who sent me to my death.

I was nearly overwhelmed with the urge to tear her face apart with my bare hands when I looked at her innocent expression. Instead, I curled my hands into tight fists, digging my nails painfully into my palms.

Suppressing the hatred festering in my heart, I walked over to the dining table.

"Hurry and eat. The food's going to get cold soon," Mira said. "Oh, that's right. Can I borrow your ID, Aly? Don't you have an annual membership for entry into Mt. Dawnbreak? I want to go hiking, so I'd like to borrow your ID to enter the area."

My ID?

My heart throbbed when I heard Mira's request. I hastily pulled out my phone and looked at the date.

It was May 19th—three months before I met my demise at the hands of the three men in my past life.

It turned out that Mira had already started planning to impersonate me a long time ago.

In my past life, after I lent my ID to Mira, she returned it to me the next day after she was done with her hike. She disappeared for a long time after that.

It was only when I suddenly got the urge to visit my parents that I learned that the ID she returned to me was fake. When I presented my ID at the high-speed railway station, I was informed that my ID was fake because it didn't have a chip.

Not long after that, the heir of the richest family in Bayville and two other men found me. They accused me of being a liar. Not only that, but each of them had a marriage certificate that had my name on it. They even had my photos.

There was nothing else I could do but repeatedly explain myself to them. I told them that I wasn't a liar, and I was most definitely not married. In fact, I didn't even know them!

However, the three men ignored my explanations and ordered their bodyguards to abduct me. They broke my legs and removed one of my kidneys before leaving me in an unnamed village in the mountains to be tortured day in and day out.

Days of abuse turned into years.

As for Mira, she fled to another country and lived a carefree life after using my identity to trick the three men into giving her money.