All Chapters of Replaced, Betrayed, Reborn: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

10 Chapters

Chapter 1

Right after the enemy finished making their threat, a string of strange floating text suddenly appeared before my eyes.[Scott, pick our girl! Let the wife die already!][Once the wife dies, she can go back to the modern world and get a huge transmigration bonus. Then you and Jennifer can finally be together!][I'm so sick of this kind of story where women suffer. Just give us a happy ending already!]Go back to the modern world…and get paid?Hanging from the city wall, I instantly felt a surge of excitement.I started shouting toward Scott Holden again, my tone full of forced eagerness."I'll die, I'll die! I'm totally willing! I love that rush you get from falling from high up, that adrenaline spike! Jennifer's hanging there, too. She must be so uncomfortable. Darling, my love, hurry up and pick her!"Scott's hands trembled. His eyes were bloodshot as he ground his teeth."Lillian, don't think acting like this will make me forgive you. Without my permission, you're not allow

Chapter 2

Just as I was about to struggle, those strange lines of text appeared again in front of me.[Wait, what am I even reading? Is this supposed to be a tragic historical romance or something way messier?][To be fair, the setting did mention that the Widow's Curse can be cured with a blood transfusion, but the person giving the blood has to die.][Why not have the villainess do it for our girl? If she dies, she can go back to the modern world anyway.][Come on. She's the evil side character…]I didn't read the rest.The words "go back to the modern world" had already hooked me completely.Scott saw the dazed look on my face and hesitated for a second before quickly letting go of me.I staggered toward the bedside, grabbed a dagger, and sliced it across my wrist. Beads of blood slipped down my pale skin and dripped into a porcelain bowl."What are you doing?" Scott shouted.I gave him a careful, ingratiating smile."I heard blood can help ease the poison. Mine should work as medi

Chapter 3

I was locked away in a side courtyard.Afraid Jennifer might feel lonely, Scott hired the best opera troupe in Kingsham. Their high, lilting voices carried across three courtyards, clear as day.Over here, all I had was the dry scrape of fallen leaves skittering across the stone steps.A maid shoved a bowl of cold oatmeal through the crack in the door, her tone impatient. "Lady Holden, just make do."I carried the bowl over and sat on the threshold. A thin film had formed on top, the oats so sparse that I could count them.Somewhere in the distance, a burst of applause rang out. That must've been the best part of the show.It reminded me of when I was a kid, hiding up in the attic, listening to the warmth of someone else's family downstairs.What a pointless life. I really wanted to go back.I found a length of rope in the corner of the room and tied it to the beam overhead, planning to loop it around my neck and swing for a bit.The second I kicked the stool away, a sharp pai

Chapter 4

While I was going over the design, I kept catching shadows flickering past the window.I knew they were Jennifer's people. I didn't bother with them.Until the day Scott stormed into my courtyard, his face dark as iron.Behind him, a trembling maid followed, holding a filthy cloth doll stuffed with silver needles. A slip of paper with Jennifer's birth details was pinned to it."General Holden… This was dug up from under the linden tree in Lady Holden's courtyard…"Her voice shook.Scott's gaze swept the room, then landed in the corner.The newly made bathtub sat there, long and deep. To anyone in this world, it probably looked super strange."What is that?"His voice was cold enough to freeze over.I hadn't even opened my mouth when Jennifer was helped inside, looking frail, as if she might collapse at any second.She glanced at the tub, then covered her mouth, her eyes filling with tears."That shape… I've seen it in old texts. It looks like something used for blood ritual

Chapter 5

The door slammed open with a deafening crash, and harsh light flooded the room.I had already become a drifting spirit, hovering above the bathtub.Below me, my body lay soaked in dark, thick blood. My wrist rested against the edge, the wound split open and ugly. My face was pale as paper, my damp hair clinging to my cheeks.It was honestly not a pretty sight.Scott stood in the doorway, his shadow stretched long behind him.All the anger he had come in with froze the second he saw the room.The letter slipped from his fingers and fluttered to the floor."Lillian?"His voice came out hoarse, as if it had to force its way up from his throat.Jennifer followed behind him, letting out a sharp gasp right on cue. She covered her mouth, tears spilling instantly as she leaned into him."Scott! Lillian… How did she… This is horrible!"Her face was buried against his chest, her shoulders trembling, but through her tears, her eyes stayed fixed on his expression.Scott didn't pull her

Chapter 6

Jennifer spoke softly, her voice fragile, "Scott… Why would Lillian do something like this? Why would she use such dark methods…""Dark methods?" Scott cut her off, his sharp gaze sweeping over her. "Whether it is or not, we'll wait for the royal physician to confirm."She flinched under his stare, her eyes filling with tears. "I was only worried…""Go back and rest." His tone left no room for argument. He didn't even look at her again. "You're pregnant. You shouldn't be around this."Jennifer bit her lip and let the maids help her out, glancing back every few steps.The royal physician arrived quickly. Even he was shaken at the sight of the tub full of blood and the body inside.Scott handed him the letter and the sketches of blood vessels.The physician studied them over and over, then examined the tub and the amount of blood. Finally, with trembling hands, he opened an old medical text he carried and searched through it for a long time."General Holden…"Sweat beaded on his

Chapter 7

Scott gripped the notebook so tightly that his knuckles turned white.His eyes kept returning to the words "go home."Holden Residence had never been her home.I hovered beside him, watching the number above his head flicker like it had lost control.It went from 70 to 75… 78…Until it finally stopped at 80.His affection for me, the "vicious wife" he hadn't even bothered to look at for three years, had shot up to 80.Jennifer couldn't sit still anymore. She couldn't stand watching his attention stay fixed on a corpse and a worn-out notebook.She changed into something simpler, no makeup, her eyes red and swollen, and came to the family chapel.For now, Scott had placed my body in an empty room in the side courtyard."Scott…"Her tears started falling before she even finished speaking."Lillian must have hated me so much to choose such a cruel, final way to make me live the rest of my life in guilt… She was so heartless…"Scott stood before the altar, lighting the candles

Chapter 8

All the color drained from Jennifer's face."One more thing," Scott said, his voice turning colder by the second. "Dr. Sarratt."The royal physician, who had been standing by, bowed. "Yes, General Holden?""When you examined Ms. Cross before, you confirmed it was the Widow's Curse?"Arthur Sarratt broke into a cold sweat."At the time, the symptoms Ms. Cross described, along with her pulse, which was rapid, unstable, and irregular, did resemble the records of the Widow's Curse by about 70%.""Resemble?" Scott seized on the word. "Then examine her again. Carefully."Arthur forced himself forward.Jennifer tried to pull back, but one look from Scott froze her in place.This time, Arthur took much longer. His brows drew tighter and tighter. After a while, he withdrew his hand and dropped to his knees with a thud, his voice shaking."General Holden… Ms. Cross's pulse is steady and strong. It's only slightly weak from stress. There is no sign of any curse. There's no sign of pregn

Chapter 9

Scott closed the ledger and shut his eyes.When he opened them again, they were bloodshot.He changed my clothes himself, dressing me in the finest outfit I had. Then he went to his private treasury and brought out a set of red gold jewelry set with rubies, clumsily fastening it on me piece by piece.The deep red stones reflected against my pale face, giving it a strange, almost haunting beauty."Do you like it, Lillian?" he spoke softly, as if he were talking to himself. "You look beautiful wearing this. Why didn't you ever wear anything like this before? I'm sorry…"Scott dropped to one knee in front of the coffin, his forehead pressed against the cold wood as he repeated it over and over."I'm sorry, Lillian… I'm sorry…"His shoulders trembled.This man, who had always been ruthless and unshakable on the battlefield, was now crying like a lost child.Too bad the person he was apologizing to could no longer give any reaction to him.I hovered above, watching everything with

Chapter 10

I smelled the sharp scent of disinfectant and heard the steady beeping of machines.My eyelids felt heavy, but I forced them open just a crack.I was greeted by a blinding white light."Doctor! Doctor! The patient in bed three is awake!"A nurse's excited voice rang out, followed by hurried footsteps.I lay on a stark white hospital bed, tubes running from my body. I was weak, but conscious."This is incredible. A true medical miracle!" The doctor in glasses clicked his tongue as he looked over my charts. "She's been in a coma for nearly a year, and the brain tumor has actually shrunk. All her vitals are improving."-It took me a few days to piece everything together.I had been in a car accident in the modern world. The head injury, combined with the malignant tumor I had already been diagnosed with, had left me in a vegetative state.During everything that happened in that other world, my real body had been lying here in the hospital the entire time.Three months later, I

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