I lowered my head and drew circles on the ground.Life was a circle. Now, they had all said goodbye to me.Rebecca's child eventually grew up. When they greeted me, the magnolia tree creaked and swayed.I didn't know how many years I had been dead, but my soul slowly became transparent. Gradually, I lost my sense of direction."Rebecca! Becca, goodbye! You little rascal, goodbye! It's time for me to say goodbye, too."I waved at Rebecca. And just as I was about to disappear, I saw her with tearful eyes waving back at me."Goodbye, Frey! Let's be best friends again in the next life!"…Yoseph's POVI loved Freya. However, that love felt unbearably ironic now.Before the wedding, Sonia brought her parents and kneeled before me, begging me to marry her as a way to fulfill her dying wish. They flattered me, praised my generosity and decisiveness. They said Freya would understand my reasons.Out of impulse, I agreed to it.However, I forgot how Freya had always been the one to g
It was warm and bright, and everything had awakened. Buds even bloom on the trees.Spring was here.Rebecca came to the tree early today. She wore my favorite white dress and brought a cake to sit with me on the grass.I leaned gently against her with my eyes closed, quietly feeling her presence.Rebecca always smelled clean and pure, faintly of laundry detergent.She seemed to sense me and began talking to herself.She told me about the little frustrations of life, the amusing things that have happened, and updates from my family.Through her, I learn that Sonia and Boris were both in prison.Sonia's baby boy was left to Yoseph to raise.After a paternity test, it turned out the child wasn't Yoseph's.Yoseph's company went bankrupt, and he now lived an undignified life.Rebecca smiled, as if she had finally stepped out of the shadow of losing me."Rebecca, you're here early."Behind us, my parents and Yoseph arrived slowly. They also brought the very cake and delicious pa
Yoseph didn't dare to look toward the place where my urn was placed.The mourning hall was draped in white and black fabric, yet his eyes were red-rimmed.He was filled with regret. He regretted agreeing to help Sonia fulfill some ridiculous last wish, not cherishing me, and repeatedly being affectionate with another woman.He regretted that we could have grown old together, but now we were now forever separated by life and death.Someone cursed him from behind, but he didn't react. In his mind, every word of it was deserved—he was, indeed, scum.While everyone was busy with their own matters, a black shadow flashed by in a quiet corner unnoticed by anyone.Someone silently took the urn from the altar.It was still raining outside, and the urn was held tightly in that person's arms, so carefully as if they were afraid I might get wet.It was Rebecca.She didn't seem to be doing well lately either. Dark circles loomed under her eyes, and exhaustion radiated from within.The su
"Yoseph, don't listen to her lies! Boris and I already broke up, I'm being framed!" Sonia insisted.Upon hearing that, Rebecca let out a cold laugh and pulled out a thick stack of photos from her bag. All of them showed Boris and Sonia together in private, some even taken recently."Yoseph! Yoseph, listen to me!"Sonia tried to defend herself, but Mom slapped her hard, knocking her to the floor.…For days, Sonia was on edge. She even hid the necklace.Yoseph continued to give her the cold shoulder. Even when Sonia tried to apologize with a home-cooked meal, he didn't come back to have a meal.When the police told him that I had been pregnant for a month, Yoseph's screams and sobs echoed throughout the police station. His fists slammed into the floor until they bled.Meanwhile, my parents cried to the point that they almost collapsed. They no longer cared about Yoseph.Everyone was too overwhelmed by the grief of my sudden death. How ironic that what I never received in life,
Yoseph staggered and collapsed to the floor, mumbling over and over again, "This can't be true."As his phone fell to the ground, the screen shattered into pieces."Yoseph, what's going on? Get up!" Mom hurried over to help him up, but when she heard Yoseph saying I was dead, she exploded in rage.She shook him furiously and yelled, "What nonsense are you spouting? What happened to Frey?""Frey… she's dead."Without a word, the whole family rushed into a car and sped to the police station, praying all the way that it was a mistake.A lock of my light brown hair was visible under the white sheet.With his eyes bloodshot, Yoseph pulled the sheet back with trembling hands. My decaying corpse was revealed to them."Frey, you're scaring me. I was at fault. Please, wake up!"The cold morgue echoed with the cries of my parents. Finally feeling regretful, they shed tears for me.But none of it could change the fact that I was dead.Yoseph's knees gave out. He kneeled by my side, mot
Yoseph smilingly nodded, readily agreeing.No one at the dinner table mentioned my disappearance to keep Sonia happy.Just then, a series of urgent knocks sounded at the door.Yoseph's previously dim eyes lit up instantly. He rushed to the door ahead of everyone else to open it.He was full of hope, thinking that after learning Sonia was pregnant, I would let go of the past and come home so the whole family could celebrate joyfully together.But when he opened the door, the person standing there was not who he expected.It was my best friend, Rebecca South.Rebecca stood with her arms crossed, eyes sharply scanning Yoseph from head to toe. She asked bluntly, "Where's Freya?"Rebecca and I grew up together. She had a rough childhood. After her mom divorced and remarried, she was left to live with her alcoholic dad.That environment made her grow up like a tough boy, blunt and fiery. But with me, she was always gentle. She never hesitated to charge ahead and shield me from harm
Yoseph clearly knew how biased my parents were. He knew the unfair treatment I suffered as a child, and he knew how desperately I wanted him to choose me with certainty.And yet now, he had completely casted me aside because he was determined to be Sonia's savior.This study held so much of my hard work and dreams; every moment of success still echoed in my mind. But now, it was disappearing bit by bit as it was being slowly devoured.Soon, the study ceased to exist and was replaced by a brand-new walk-in closet—just like my life, which was gradually being overtaken by Sonia.A small photo of me was left behind in the corner of the study.Upon seeing that, Yoseph quietly walked over, picked it up, and carefully placed it into his wallet.Back at the office, an employee told Yoseph that I hadn't come to work for several days and hadn't submitted a single design draft for the signed project.Yoseph's expression immediately darkened with fury. He pulled out his phone and angrily tr
"Yoseph, do you think Freya is mad at me? She still hasn't called…" Sonia leaned weakly into Yoseph's arms, feigning frailty as she asked."How could she be? She's your sister, and you're seriously ill now. This is your only wish. She's not an unreasonable person. At worst, we'll just make it up to her later," Yoseph gently comforted her.Sonia nodded before quickly perking up and excitedly pulling Yoseph and my parents out to dinner.My parents couldn't fully enjoy the seafood dinner costing tens of thousands of dollars. Sonia, on the other hand, acted as if it were all completely justified.After dinner, I followed them back to the hotel.Yoseph turned down the nightgown-clad Sonia's flirtatious attempt and went to the balcony alone, silently smoking as he remained deep in thought.I turned and drifted toward my parents' room. My parents hadn't gone to bed yet; they were probably still upset about the expensive dinner. They sat on the bed, shaking their heads and sighing repe
My soul drifted in the air, coldly watching the wedding that was supposed to be mine take place.All eyes were focused on the center stage at the wedding venue.My sister, Sonia Quade, dressed in the wedding gown meant for me, was saying heartfelt vows to my fiancé, Yoseph Caldwell."Nia is finally happy now!" My parents kept murmuring in the audience as their eyes reddened with emotion. Amid the crowd's cheers, the newlyweds beamed with happiness as they shared what they claimed were cherished memories.Romantic encounters? Deep affection?My presence was completely erased in their stories as if I had never existed.The wedding dress that once felt tight and constricting on me now looked like it was tailored perfectly for Sonia.I drifted in the air, growing colder and colder.So this was it—from the very beginning, I was never meant to be the person to marry Yoseph today.That explained why Yoseph had seemed so distracted during the wedding preparations; he was constantly