My wife’s investment went bankrupt, and she begged me to fake my death to clear her debts. But on the day of the funeral, I watched in horror through the coffin’s viewing hole. My wife’s first love, Derek, was attending my funeral wearing my face. The priest’s prayer echoed in my ears: “Derek, may you rest in peace!” My blood froze, and a chill swept through my entire body. That’s when I realized—my wife actually wanted me dead! And she was replacing me with Derek. I tried to struggle, but the coffin had been nailed shut, and my mouth was sealed with tape. In my horror and despair, Derek mocked me through the viewing hole: “Gabriel, Rachel never went bankrupt at all. She deliberately set you up to die in my place!” I was buried alive and suffocated to death, the coffin lid covered with my desperate, bloody scratch marks. Meanwhile, Derek assumed my identity, took all my assets, and married my wife. When I opened my eyes again, I had been reborn—back to the night before the funeral.
“What are you standing there for? Get in the coffin!” My wife Rachel’s impatient voice suddenly rang in my ears. Looking at that familiar coffin, I suddenly realized—I had been reborn. In my previous life, my wife’s investment had failed. Even after I spent my entire fortune, I couldn’t fill that hole. With no other options, my wife had me sign a debt assumption agreement, trying to get me to fake my death to clear the debt. But on the day of the funeral, I discovered the truth. My wife was actually making me die under her first love Derek’s name! Remembering the painful despair of being buried alive in my previous life… I suppressed my rage and answered, “Okay.” Rachel’s face lit up with barely concealed joy, though her tone remained ice-cold. “Get used to it first. I made some chicken soup—I’ll go to the kitchen and bring it to you!” Rachel turned and left. I didn’t obediently lie down waiting to die like last time. Instead, I immediately covered my nose and mouth and sat up. I had thought that in my previous life, my wife had drugged me with the chicken soup. But having just lain in the coffin, I discovered something else. The coffin had been sprayed with high-purity ether. If I had stayed lying down for just another minute or two, I would have fallen into irreversible doom just like in my previous life! What vicious scheming. But I had seen through it. I followed my wife all the way to the kitchen. I originally planned to see what my wife was plotting. But I discovered that shortly after my wife went inside, increasingly loud moaning came from within. My expression instantly darkened. I quietly pushed open a corner of the window and discovered My wife was having an affair with her white moonlight! “Did that loser Gabriel get in the coffin?” “How could he not listen to me? He got in ages ago!” Derek laughed triumphantly. “That’s great, babe. He still stupidly thinks you’re really in debt. Little does he know you’re doing all this to help me get revenge on him!” As Derek’s movements intensified, my wife’s voice grew increasingly tremulous and coquettish. “You shouldn’t blame me for what happened back then.” “He caught us making love in bed.” “At the time, he had money and power. I had no choice but to say you raped me.” “But I never expected he’d refuse to let it go and make you spend so many years in prison.” “I sprayed the coffin with ether. He’s already unconscious.” “Go tie him up and nail the coffin shut.” “Tomorrow when he dies, everything he has will be yours!” As my wife reached her climax, Derek looked up with an evil smile. The moonlight’s cold glow fell on his face—and he looked exactly like me! I was burning with rage, filled with grief and indignation! So the rape case from years ago was just an excuse my wife made up after I caught them in bed! But for these three years, My wife had used the excuse that she was severely psychologically traumatized by this. She forbade me from sleeping with her, beat and cursed me constantly, and bankrupted my company. I was tormented physically and mentally, but I always endured it silently because I felt sorry for her. Even when she told me she owed massive debts and begged me to fake my death to clear them… I still agreed to sacrifice everything I had, agreeing without hesitation! But I never imagined— My sincerity! My devotion! My wealth! Everything was just a tool for my wife to get revenge for her white moonlight! Watching Derek’s figure heading toward the memorial hall, My eyes turned cold as I followed him. You want to escape through deception? Then I’ll make Derek’s funeral come true!
Derek entered the memorial hall. He didn’t immediately open the coffin. Instead, he stood beside it, mocking with hatred. “Gabriel, in court that year, I got down on my knees begging you to let the judge give me a lighter sentence.” “But you insisted the judge give me the maximum penalty, making me waste so many years of my youth!” “Now that I’ve gotten you killed, it’s exactly what you deserve!” He threw his head back laughing, his expression sinister and mocking. “Since I pity you, I’ll tell you something.” “That one time Rachel let you touch her in these three years—I ordered her to do it.” “You were so lucky—you got her pregnant with a baby boy right away.” “But guess why the baby ended up miscarried?” “Of course it’s because when I was out on parole, Rachel aborted it just to make me happy!” Hiding in the shadows, I bit down hard on my teeth, my eyes filled with vicious bloodshot veins. So this was the truth about the miscarriage! How hateful that I always thought it was because I didn’t take good care of her, and I’d felt guilty for years! But even a tiger doesn’t eat its cubs! Why were you so vicious?! “Too bad you’ll never hear this truth. You’re about to die!” Derek lifted the coffin lid with a mocking sneer. But the coffin was empty! His pupils contracted sharply, his expression instantly tense. “Where… where is he?” The surroundings were deathly quiet, terrifyingly silent. He unconsciously swallowed, then suddenly turned around. And came face to face with my violent, bloodshot eyes. He stumbled back a step in fear, terror filling his eyes. “Gabriel… why… why aren’t you in the coffin?” The rage I’d been holding back for so long exploded like a volcano in my chest! I grabbed his hair and brutally slammed his nose against the coffin! A crisp sound of breaking bone rang out. Blood gushed from Derek’s face. I didn’t give him a chance to speak. As he stared at me in shock—
I wrapped tape around his mouth, tied up his hands and body, and locked him directly in the coffin. Derek struggled desperately, making muffled shouts. The coffin lid couldn’t hold him down for a moment. In the midst of the struggle, my wife’s scolding suddenly came from behind me. “Gabriel?!” I turned to look. My wife stood at the door holding a hammer, her face cold as frost. Derek was incredibly agitated, his eyes filled with venomous hatred as he stared at me. As if to say he was saved, and I was finished! But I didn’t even glance at him. Instead, I slapped him with my backhand and said with a calculated tone, “I’m Derek!” My wife paused, then suddenly approached and took my arm. “I made you look so much like him, I didn’t recognize you for a moment!” Derek’s body stiffened, staring at me in disbelief! His muffled sounds became even more frantic! But my wife, extremely annoyed, struck him with the hammer! “Shut up!” The sound of cracking bone rang out. Derek curled up in the coffin like a shrimp thrown into boiling water, writhing in pain. My wife looked at him coldly, speaking without emotion. “Gabriel, I was going to use ether to knock you out so you could leave without suffering. Why didn’t you understand my good intentions?” My lips were smiling, but my heart grew colder. I knew perfectly well— My wife mistook Derek for me, which is why she directly smashed his jaw with the hammer! My wife expressionlessly pulled out a tissue and pressed it against Derek’s face. Derek, who had been struggling, instantly calmed down. My wife turned and smiled at me. “Close the coffin lid so I can nail Gabriel in!” Watching my wife unhesitatingly hammer nail after nail, sealing Derek inside the coffin— My eyes grew increasingly cold. In my previous life, this is how she did it—tricking me into lying in the coffin, sealing off all my escape routes, burying me alive. But in this life, she didn’t know she was sealing in her beloved white moonlight. I very much looked forward to seeing just how wonderful my wife’s expression would be when she discovered the truth!
The funeral was held in the memorial hall next to the crematorium. When Rachel and I arrived, The memorial service was nearly over. There wasn’t much sad atmosphere at the scene. The few relatives who came to pay their respects to Derek clearly knew the inside story. When they saw Rachel and me, they even smiled and greeted us. “After today, you two will be a real married couple!” “That bastard Gabriel really delayed you for so long!” Rachel looked at me happily, unconsciously tightening her grip on my hand. “We can finally be together. Aren’t you happy?” I fell silent, then suddenly smiled and asked. “Have you ever thought there’s really no need to be so extreme?” “If you just told Gabriel you wanted a divorce, he wouldn’t refuse.” Rachel frowned. “Come on, stop being angry.” “Are you still holding a grudge about me accusing you back then?” “I didn’t divorce him precisely to help plan to give you everything he has as compensation!” As Rachel spoke, she pulled out a gold card from her bag and handed it to me. “Here, take this. This is what I’ve secretly transferred from Gabriel’s account over these three years.” “Happy now?” I took the card with trembling hands. I smiled and smiled until a tear slid down from the corner of my eye. So happy, Rachel! These three years, I’m so happy about my own stupidity! Stupid enough to believe in love, never once suspecting why you, Rachel, spent so much money. I just assumed you were engaging in revenge spending because you felt psychologically uncomfortable after being raped. I even sold my family’s ancestral home for your so-called debt scam. But do you know? Before my grandfather died, he warned me over and over again, Saying that ancestral home was the root of our family, and I must never sell it no matter what. But for you, Rachel, I’d rather bear the reputation of being unfilial, yet I still chose to sell it without hesitation! But what did I get in return? Your naked betrayal and humiliation! My chest burned with rage as I stared at Derek in the coffin and said, “I forgive him.” “We won’t bury him alive. Let’s throw him in the cremation furnace!” Violent trembling suddenly came from inside the coffin. The people around exchanged glances but chose to act as if they hadn’t noticed. A loud response suddenly came from behind. “Burning him is right! A rapist deserves this kind of punishment!” I turned around in surprise. My father-in-law had actually come too. He walked alone to the coffin and said, “This animal caused my daughter so much harm. Dying this easily is too good for him!” Although my father-in-law was cursing Derek, From the way he was winking at me, I could tell he was also an accomplice! He was actually cursing me, Gabriel! But I didn’t understand why he hated me?! I’d never offended him before. In fact, I’d been good to him, treating him like my own father! Just then, my father-in-law unconsciously pushed the coffin. His angry expression turned startled, and he pushed again uncertainly. “Why does the weight of this coffin seem a bit off?!” Hearing this, the coffin began trembling violently, as if a great injustice had been revealed and someone was extremely agitated. My father-in-law’s expression was filled with doubt and uncertainty. He looked at me, then at the coffin, and suddenly asked a shocking question. “Could the person in this coffin not be Gabriel?” Everyone present was startled and unconsciously looked at me. Rachel anxiously whispered, “Dad, what are you talking about? I personally locked him in last night. How could there be a mistake?!” “You know Derek is my savior. If I really locked him in a coffin and killed him, how could I go on living?!” But the doubt in my father-in-law’s eyes didn’t diminish at all. “I made this coffin myself. I tricked Gabriel into lying in it before to test it, and now the weight is clearly wrong…” My father-in-law’s gaze hardened, insisting on opening the coffin to verify the body.
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