After detoxifying my fiance, he threw me into a beggar's den for green plum

Anya is a siren whose rare allure was meant to cure Julian Hayes's hereditary fertility disorder. In her first life, she was chosen, drugged and tormented by Julian, then cast into a squalid alleyway to die when he claimed Serena was already carrying his child. She wakes back on the day she was drugged, and this time she swallows every antidote she can find, determined to keep her distance from Julian and Serena.

But men in black suits drag her into a secret room thick with aphrodisiacs, where women writhe in agony. A bowl of the drug is forced down her throat, and when Julian and Serena appear, Julian blames Anya for the women's suffering, kicks her, and locks her in with them. The women turn on her, tearing at her and forcing filth into her mouth.

When Julian returns, he accuses her of scheming for the Lady Hayes position and orders her to break off their engagement or he will send her whole village to a mine in Africa. Anya, bloodied, reminds him that his father once knelt in the rain for three days to bring her to the Hayes family, and asks how he dares threaten her village now.