Reborn from Betrayal, I Cut Every Tie

At an orphanage, a boy named Lawrence fights a stray dog for moldy bread when wealthy visitors arrive to claim a long-lost heir. Glowing messages tell him the elegant couple, Flavia Grady and Ambrose Grady, are his true parents, and the poised girl beside them, Catherine Murphy, is his fiancée. He clutches his chocolate and runs, knowing they have come only for the fake heir, Erik Sanders.

Flavia offers him a second chocolate, but Ambrose snatches it away, and Catherine later slaps him, handing his locket to Erik as if it were stolen. Lawrence understands they know Erik is a fraud yet choose the deception, because he has been reborn and remembers their past cruelty.

When he defies them, Ambrose has him beaten and dragged away to serve as a guard dog in their home, where Erik's false kindness hides fresh cruelty. Lawrence resolves to cut every tie, yet escape may cost him everything.