I married an idiot. For three years, I spoon-fed him, bathed him, and gave him my entire world. Then, one day, he woke up. He was the CEO of a major company. He spent millions to propose to me publicly, across the entire city. After we married, I became the envy of everyone. He declared his love for me at every turn. But the moment his “true love,” Cassandra, appeared, he instantly kicked me out, leaving me with nothing, just to make space for her. With nowhere to go, I swallowed an entire bottle of sleeping pills. I had been in this world for twenty-five years, painstakingly trying to win over four different men, only to lose everything in the end. The system told me that if this body died, I could go home. But just before my consciousness faded, I heard someone desperately begging me to live. “Skylar, I know you’re awake. Couldn’t you have chosen any other time to off yourself? You just had to do it on the happy day Cassie returned?” “What, are you trying to fake your death to frame Cassie?” A cold voice sliced through the air. I opened my eyes to see Julian’s icy gaze, brimming with hatred. Julian, one of my targets, had once been the husband who loved me more than anything. When we first met, he was battling for his family’s inheritance and had been ambushed, leaving him mentally impaired. He clung to me, insisting we get married. For three years, I bathed him, did his laundry, took care of his every need, and truly gave him my whole world. Yet, when the family heirs had all but eliminated each other, he suddenly snapped back to his senses, becoming the sole successor. Turns out, he’d been faking his condition all along to avoid danger. And I was the real fool, the one he’d tricked. I turned to leave, but he knelt, begging me not to. He spent millions on a lavish, city-wide proposal. “Skylar, please don’t go. I can’t live without you, not really. I was faking it, but I genuinely fell for you.” Amidst a shower of rose petals, looking at the familiar face I’d woken up to every day, I said yes. But then Cassandra appeared, and his feelings changed. He started staying out for long periods, using work as an excuse. “Why can’t you be more understanding?” he’d say. “If I don’t work hard, where would your food and clothes come from?” I believed him. But soon after, I found him and Cassandra intimately tangled in his office. Used condoms lay scattered on the floor. When I confronted him, he demanded I leave the house with nothing. I refused. So Cassandra faked her own death, jumping into the ocean. She then posted a ten-thousand-word accusation against me on Ins, claiming I had been tormenting and abusing her, driving her to suicide. I was relentlessly cyberbullied. Julian took the opportunity to throw me out of the house. Even Finn, my own brother, wanted to disown me, calling me a wicked sister. No matter how I tried to explain, no one believed my innocence. I still didn’t know why Julian had brought me back to life, but his eyes were blazing with hatred. I forced out the last bit of air from my lungs, speaking with immense difficulty: “Kill… me.” Julian instantly let go of me, his eyes full of rage, and slapped me hard. “If you want to die, go somewhere else! Don’t you dare dirty my hands!” The blow left me dizzy and disoriented. When I finally regained my senses, his bodyguards had already dragged me out and dumped me on the road outside the villa. Julian stood with his arms crossed, his expression utterly cold, looking at me like I was trash. “If you hadn’t bullied and tormented Cassie, she never would have been driven to jump into the ocean. If you’re going to kill yourself, do it far away from me. Just looking at you makes me sick to my stomach.” I let out a bitter laugh. They were the ones slandering me, yet I was the one in the wrong! Did power and wealth really mean they could turn black into white? But he probably forgot that without me, he wouldn’t be where he was today! Fine then, I wouldn’t bother his sight anymore! I stumbled away, reaching a busy street. Watching the relentless traffic, I took a leap. Once this body died, I could finally go home. The next second, a screech of tires and a blaring horn filled the air. Someone grabbed my hair, dragging me back to the curb. “Skylar, what the hell are you doing?!” I looked at Julian, his face twisted in shock and anger, and quietly asked, “Why? I already stayed far away from you.” Despite his harsh words, I saw his body trembling. He used to tremble like that, shrinking behind me, whenever he was scared, back when he was my silly husband. What was he scared of now? Scared I’d die? But wasn’t I just giving him and Cassandra what they wanted? Julian slapped me again, harder this time. “What are you playing at? This is the only way for Cassie to get home! What if you die here and dirty her eyes?” I lowered my gaze, a self-deprecating smile on my lips. So that’s what it was. I walked obediently towards the river. Here, it wouldn’t dirty his precious Cassie’s eyes, would it?
I walked step by step into the river. The next moment, another hand grabbed me. I turned, confused, and saw Finn, my younger brother. He was holding a cake with Cassandra’s initials on it. It must have been a cake to celebrate Cassandra’s return after faking her death. Finn’s eyes were blazing with anger and hatred. “What are you doing here? Did you know I was bringing Cassie a cake, so you came to stop me?!” “Skylar, have you forgotten? I’ve already cut ties with you!” In this world, if anyone hated me more than Julian, it would be my own brother. But he wasn’t always like this. We lost our parents young, and I raised him alone, naming him Finn, hoping he’d be as resilient and free as a maple leaf. He dreamed of studying music, so I dropped out early, working three jobs to send him to the best training programs. Once, when our house caught fire, he ran barefoot into the flames, crying that if I died, he wouldn’t live either. We were each other’s only support in this world, the closest blood relatives. But everything changed after he met Cassandra. Just because Cassandra said she wanted something good to eat, he forced me, even when I was seriously ill, to cook a table full of dishes for her. When she didn’t eat, I couldn’t help but ask why, and he snapped back: “Your cooking is awful! How dare you yell at her!” With that, he dumped my hard-earned meal into the trash. Later, Cassandra and Julian conspired to frame me, faking her death by jumping into the ocean. Finn hated me to his core because of it, disowning me, watching coldly as I suffered, even pushing me deeper into despair himself. Thinking of this, I didn’t answer him. I slowly pulled my wrist from his grasp, inch by inch. Julian saw this and immediately sneered. “Cassie’s back. She was kicked out with nothing, so she probably can’t accept it and wants to kill herself.” Finn frowned, a cold laugh escaping his lips. “Someone as afraid of death as Skylar? She wouldn’t really kill herself. She’s probably just putting on a show.” “Great minds think alike,” Julian chuckled. “She just put on two shows for me.” After his mocking laugh, Finn looked at me with renewed hatred. “Skylar, a vile person like you? Even if you really died, no one would care!” “Now get out of the way. Don’t block me from finding Cassie.” I slowly lowered my eyes. “Fine, I’ll go.” The words were barely out before I plummeted into the rushing river. Finn’s face went white. The river was swift, and in the blink of an eye, I was swept over ten yards away. A sense of relief washed over me. This time, I really could die, couldn’t I? But then, with a splash, I was pulled out by Finn and thrown onto the muddy grass, disheveled and covered in grime. He was soaked, kicking me like a madman. “Skylar, are you trying to make everyone think I forced you to die, and ruin me?!” “You sicken me!” “You… when did you learn to swim?” I coughed violently, bitter water spewing from my mouth. Finn kicked me hard again, then sneered. “After Cassie jumped into the ocean, I went and learned to swim.” “What? Disappointed your plan didn’t work?” I couldn’t help but scoff. Love truly was amazing. I had tried countless times to teach him to swim. But each time, Cassandra stopped me. “With me around, Finn doesn’t need to learn to swim. I’ll always be with him, to save him if he’s ever in danger.” Finn would also coldly dismiss me: “Skylar, that’s the difference between you and Cassie. You only force me to do things I don’t want to. You don’t deserve to be my sister!” Later, Finn accidentally drowned, but Cassandra just watched coldly. It was me who jumped in and saved him. Yet he thought Cassandra had saved him, giving her all the credit, and even accused me of being heartless, watching my own brother drown without moving. Now, Finn, who had always been terrified of water, had learned to swim for Cassandra. “What does my taking my life have to do with you? You’re nothing but a stranger to me.” Hearing this, Finn’s face turned beet red. He swung his hand and slapped me. “If it weren’t for the vow I made after Cassie died, to accumulate good karma for her, do you think I’d save you, my biological sister whom I’ve disowned?” “Today, I’d save even a dog if it fell into the water!” I let out a self-deprecating laugh. “Biological sister? That’s a fresh one. What about Cassandra? Your ‘good sister’? But she’s marrying Julian.” Finn’s hand froze. The cake in his hand dropped to the ground as he stared at Julian. “Marrying?! Julian?” I was about to speak when another target, Dr. Beckett, rushed over, his words like a thunderclap: “Cassie’s gone missing!” “Skylar, did you hide Cassie?! Hand her over right now!”
Julian, who had been unperturbed until now, showed a hint of panic for the first time. “Cassie’s missing?” “Skylar! No wonder you’re acting so strangely today. You must have done something bad and are trying to fake your death to clear your name! Tell us, where did you take Cassie?!” Finn’s eyes instantly turned red. He slapped me hard. “Cassie just returned after so much hardship, and you dared to harm her! I should have just let you drown in the river earlier!” “Give her back to me right now! If she dies, I won’t live either!” The taste of iron filled my mouth. I parted my lips, and a few drops of blood trickled out. Cassandra had disappeared again. She truly couldn’t stand to see me have even a moment of peace. If that’s the case, I might as well grant her wish. I was about to speak when Dr. Beckett, who once claimed I was his only salvation, pressed a scalpel to my throat. “Talk! Where did you hide my Cassandra!” Dr. Beckett, one of my four targets, was a renowned surgical authority. Initially, someone tried to steal his family’s medical patent, leading to the murder of his entire family. I was the one who risked my life to save him. Perhaps it was witnessing his family’s murder. Dr. Beckett became extremely resistant to anyone getting close. I still have a scar on the web of my left hand, a bite mark from when he lashed out in panic. But I never abandoned him, staying by his side through that difficult period. Finally, Dr. Beckett recovered his sanity, determined to refine his medical skills and find evidence to avenge his family. Through countless silent struggles, I faced numerous life-or-death moments, personally helping him rise to power and take down all his enemies. That day, he cried, saying I would forever be his sister, his kin without blood. That day, I cried too, because he really reminded me of my brother from my other world. I missed my brother. But later, after Cassandra appeared, he gradually distanced himself from me. All because Cassandra said she didn’t like me calling him “brother.” He even declared that if I came within three yards of him, he would use a scalpel to slice my throat. The day he learned Cassandra had faked her death and jumped into the ocean, Dr. Beckett went mad. He used various medical procedures on me, making me suffer unimaginable torment, all to avenge Cassandra. “Cassie must have been tormented by you to such an extent to take her own life.” “If that’s the case, then every day from now on, you will suffer a hundred times worse than she did!” Seeing my silence, blood vessels popped in Dr. Beckett’s eyes. The sharp blade pressed against my throat, drawing a thin line of blood. “Not talking? It seems a few days without torment has made you forget our methods!” Dr. Beckett advanced with a chilling expression, knocked me unconscious, and took me to the dark room in Julian’s villa. He injected me with drugs that heightened nerve sensitivity, using various torture instruments to amplify the pain to an unbearable extreme. Julian and Finn didn’t stop him. Instead, they gnashed their teeth, glaring at me with furious hatred. I struggled ceaselessly, a dense, stinging pain spreading through my body, reaching deep into my bones, forcing a scream from my throat. But Dr. Beckett backhanded me, his voice sharp: “You can’t even handle this much pain? Don’t forget how you tormented Cassie!” “If you don’t tell me her whereabouts, I’ll return every single thing you did to her, one by one!” Hearing that, my eyes widened, as if I’d seen a glimmer of hope. I didn’t want to be tortured by them; I just wanted to die quickly. I just wanted to go home, to finally get some sleep! I cried, whimpering and screaming: “Your Cassandra is dead! I chopped her into pieces with a knife!” “Come on! Kill me!! Let her keep me company in death!” “Come on!!!” I screamed at them wildly. Dr. Beckett was probably too enraged. How dare I be so defiant even now? “Do you really think I won’t kill you? Cassie is dead, and you trash deserve to be buried with her!” He suddenly grabbed a scalpel and lunged, stabbing towards me. He used all his strength, probably expecting me to resist, but I just stood there, watching the tip of the blade plunge into my heart. Dr. Beckett froze, staring at the blood gushing from my chest, as if he couldn’t believe it. But I stretched my lips into a smile. Was I finally going to die?! As my consciousness began to fade. Cassandra’s voice suddenly came from the doorway: “Oh, why is everyone here? I’ve been looking for you all…”
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