Part 1Regret Came Too Late

It was supposed to be my wedding day, but my fiancé, Cade, stood in front of the limousine, blocking my way.

“I’m not here for you today.”

I froze, completely lost, as his groomsmen erupted in laughter behind him.

“Game over, boys,” Cade announced, a triumphant smirk on his face. “I won.”

“Damn, Cade, you actually did it. You tamed the ice queen.”

“Pay up,” Cade said to his friends. “Bet money and wedding gifts. I want every cent.”

Then, my sister, Lily, appeared. She was wearing a wedding gown identical to mine. Cade took her hand and helped her into the limousine.

The car sped away. I tried to run after it, but my family swarmed around me, forming a human cage.

My brother, a top-tier actor, blocked my path. “Cade is in love with Lily. He’s marrying her. This is their wedding day, so you will behave.”

My mother, a famous actress, clasped my hand. “Audrey, darling, your sister suffers from severe depression. She’s suicidal. Cade is the only one who can keep her stable. Just… let her have this.”

My father, a billionaire tycoon, just snorted. “You’ve already had eighteen years of the life that should have been hers. Letting her have one man is the least you can do. It’s a bargain, really.”

Then, they had their security drag me back to the house and lock me inside to prevent me from causing a scene at the hotel.

I didn’t cry. I didn’t scream. In fact, I could barely contain the smile spreading across my face.

* * *

As the bodyguards shoved me into the mansion, a calm, digital voice echoed in my mind.

Host, do you confirm you wish to exit this world via death?

“Confirm.”

Please select your method of death.

“I want to leap from a building. I want to die right in front of Cade and the Blackwood family. I want to scar them for life.”

Generating method of death… Method confirmed. Upon successful death, Host will be rewarded with one hundred million dollars. This selection cannot be changed.

“Confirm.”

This was my twenty-first year in this world, and the third year since Lily, the real heiress, had been found.

I’m a transmigrator. In this life, I was the “fake” daughter of a billionaire, swapped at birth with my “sister,” Lily. I was an orphan in my previous life, so when I first arrived here, I thought I’d won the lottery. I had a loving mother and father, and a brother who protected me from everything.

But that all shattered on my eighteenth birthday, the day my father brought Lily home.

Now, every door and window in the mansion was locked. They’d posted guards to watch me.

“Miss Audrey,” the housekeeper, Mrs. Gable, sneered, brandishing a baseball bat. “You’d best stay put. For your own good.” Her expression was menacing, like a wolf guarding a hen house.

I took two steps toward the door, and a searing pain exploded in my leg as she swung the bat. I collapsed, crying out.

“Miss Lily gave me specific instructions,” she said, looming over me. “If you misbehave, I am to break your legs.”

Suddenly, she screamed at the top of her lungs. “She’s trying to escape! She’s going to ruin the wedding! Stop her!”

Several burly security guards immediately advanced on me, clubs in hand.