Chapter 1

After traveling back in time, I voluntarily left the company I founded with my fiancé, William Kemp.

He came to me with a proposal, and I registered all the core patents.

He wanted to attract investment, so I swooped in and poached his angel investor.

I signed the talent he wanted to recruit with a high salary and options.

In my previous life, I accompanied him from starting a business in a garage to going public, working hard.

But when I was diagnosed with advanced stomach cancer and needed a lot of money for treatment, William was busy buying rival companies with his first love, Martha White.

While he threw a party on the yacht to celebrate the victory with our startup partners, I was all alone in the hospital, signing the critical condition notice.

I didn't want to live such a miserable and desperate life again.

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After completing the resignation procedures and returning all permissions and keys, I slowly exhaled.

Finally, I didn't have to be a grunt for William anymore.

No one knew that I had traveled back to the day I told William that I wasn't feeling well and wanted to take a long vacation.

In my previous life, my vacation was the beginning of him teaming up with Martha to kick me out.

In this life, I decided to resign before he took action.

I took the initiative to submit my resignation and gave up all my equity.

William probably thought I was throwing a tantrum and sending a message to show his fake consideration. [Stop the drama. The company can't live without you. I know I've neglected you recently. When I'm done, I'll take you to see the aurora.]

The Aurora was Martha's greatest wish. But not mine.

In my previous life, when I was lying in a hospital bed, I saw a photo of them hugging under the aurora on their social media.

The caption is: [The loving couple will eventually come to a happy ending.]

And I was a stepping stone on their way to success that had been drained of all value and kicked away in disgust.

I looked at the photo and deleted the "fuck off" I had typed.

Although in this life, I didn't want to have any more dealings with William, now was not the time.

A week later, on the day of his wedding party, I would fulfill him and his true love, and then leave him forever.

I replied to William: [Okay.]

Then I drove home.

Because our families were longtime family friends, William and I had been engaged since we were young.

But since I found out that William liked Martha, I had planned to fulfill him and cancel the engagement. But at the age of 18, William was retaliated against by his enemies.

To protect him, my ribs were broken. Therefore, the Kemp family had only recognized me as William's wife.

After my parents died unexpectedly, I moved to Silverlake with the Kemp family.

William's father, Franco Kemp, gave me all his shares before he died, in order to threaten William to get engaged to me.

If William hadn't married me, or if I had called off the wedding, all his shares would be transferred to my name.

William was moved and threatened to agree to marry me after I graduated from college at the age of 22.

In my previous life, Martha couldn't accept the fact that William married me, so she wanted to commit suicide.

William coaxed and accompanied her, and finally calmed her down.

And to be with William, I had to compete with Martha all the time.

But this became the catalyst for their relationship. The two of them got closer and closer, and Martha even got pregnant behind my back.

Martha was in poor health and had an accidental abortion, so she was unable to have children ever since.

William blamed me indiscriminately. He thought I was the one who made the accident happen because I was jealous.

I was speechless, and he forced me to remove my womb as an apology.

In my previous life, William loved Martha so much that he would abandon anything for her, his reputation, his proud career, and even his principle of never giving in, everything that he cared about the most.

The more I tried to get closer to him, the more I pushed William away.

I tried my best to force William to stay with me.

I didn't even want shame, money, or self-respect. All I wanted was for him to pay more attention to me.

But in the end, even if I had stomach cancer, he wouldn't spend a penny on me.

Martha showed up in the hospital room wearing my dream diamond ring. "You know what? Will said that saving you would dirty his money. He wants you to die quickly and not hinder us.

"Look, to celebrate your death, Will even specially customized this diamond ring for me."

Looking back, I still couldn't stop shaking.

So, in this life, I didn't want to be the villain who broke them up again.

I decided to fulfill them as well as myself.

In my previous life, I was blind and became a captive canary.

But in fact, I was originally an eagle who could soar in the sky.

Leaving William's company was my first step in leaving him.

In my previous life, the company's core technologies, business model, and management framework were all built by me.

But William was the "genius founder" standing on the stage, enjoying the flowers and applause.

In this life, I lived only for myself.

I wanted him to know who was inseparable from whom.