Chapter 1

My sister and I were reborn on the day we were adopted from the Greyhaven Home for Young Vampires.

Two families stood inside the director’s office: the Ashcrofts and the Millers.

The Ashcrofts were the most powerful pureblood family in Greyhaven. They controlled most of the city’s blood products, night real estate, and private hospitals.

Mr. Ashcroft was not only the head of the family. His companies paid enough taxes to influence the entire city’s finances.

Mrs. Ashcroft was one of the best-known socialites in vampire high society.

As for their only son, Lucian, he was the sole heir to House Ashcroft.

Everyone in Greyhaven assumed that he would one day become its lord.

Beside them, the Millers looked especially shabby.

According to the director, they were low-ranking vampires employed by Night Academy. Mr. Miller repaired the school buildings and patrolled the grounds at night, while his wife worked as a cleaner.

In our previous life, Sylvia had chosen the Ashcrofts without hesitation.

She had always been prettier and more ambitious than the other children in the orphanage. She believed that with her beauty and intelligence, entering House Ashcroft would guarantee her the finest life imaginable.

This time, she refused to spare the three purebloods another glance.

As though terrified I might reach them first, she threw herself into Mrs. Miller’s arms and held on tightly.

“Mom, please take me home! I want to be your daughter. From today on, my name is Sylvia Miller!”

The Millers had clearly not expected such enthusiasm.

They stared at her for a moment before their faces lit up. Mrs. Miller gathered Sylvia into her arms and stroked her long, soft hair again and again.

As my sister spoke excitedly, I walked toward the Ashcrofts.

Lucian lowered his eyes and studied me with cool disdain. There was no welcome in his gaze, only open suspicion and disgust.

It was exactly how he had looked at Sylvia when they first met in our previous life.

I neither avoided his gaze nor attempted to win his favor.

I calmly took my place in front of Mr. and Mrs. Ashcroft.

Our choices were made, and the two families took us home.

As we left the orphanage, I heard the director murmuring behind us.

“How strange. Sylvia has always been so competitive. Whenever prospective parents arrived in ordinary clothes, she wouldn’t even agree to meet them. Now that a genuine pureblood family has come for her, why would she turn them down?”

The director could not understand my sister’s choice.

I understood it perfectly.