Chapter 3

In my previous life, I was so naive I never signed a single real contract. Every collaboration was just a handshake deal, because "we were friends and I believed in you".

So when my songs got credited to someone else, I couldn't even sue.

I spent a whole week sorting through every song I'd written in college, melodies, lyrics, arrangement drafts, demo recordings, screenshots of the creation dates, and saved three separate backups, just in case.

One backup went on my hard drive, another to the cloud, and the third I burned onto a CD and mailed to my aunt…