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My half-sister, Charlotte Shaw, publicly broke off her engagement to Edward Grant. She sneered, "Edward, have you even taken a good look at yourself? "You're just a disgraced official fresh out of exile. You think you're worthy of marrying the heiress of the Chancellor's Estate? "You'll never turn your life around in this lifetime." The guests all burst into snickers, backing up Charlotte and laughing at how Edward dared to dream. Edward just stood there, silent and stiff in his old, washed-out robe. But I knew the truth. This convicted official standing before me would, in just three years, shake the empire to its core, rise to unmatched power, and become the youngest Grand Chancellor in history. I also knew that Charlotte would pay with blood for the choice she made today. In my previous life, after Charlotte broke off her engagement, she immediately clung to the new scholar, Charles Sinclair. As for me, my father cast me aside as a worthless daughter and forced me to become Charles's concubine. At Sinclair Manor, Charles and Charlotte joined forces to torment me. They broke my leg and forced a drug that left me unable to speak down my throat. In the end, on the night before the New Year, they threw me out of the estate, leaving me to freeze to death in the snow. I was given a second chance and here I was, right on the day Charlotte called off her engagement.