Chapter 1The Last Ten Days

In the third year of Julian's infidelity, the long-lost system reappeared, telling me I could go home.

In the final ten days, I stopped arguing and fighting with him.

I let him spend nights out with his canary.

I let him give things I cared about to her.

On the day I left, it was my birthday.

He rushed in with the canary, knocking over my cake, strangling me and pinning me against the window.

Questioning why I harmed their child.

"When did you become so vicious?"

I smiled, too lazy to explain.

"Yes, I am that vicious."

"So, live well with her."

Then, under his gaze, I turned and jumped from the nineteenth floor.

Ending everything I had in this world.

* * *

When the long-lost system appeared and told me I could go home, I had just finished a heated argument with Julian Reed.

He had just returned home after being intimate with his kept canary, Bella White.

Seeing me lying on the bed, he leaned in and hugged me from behind.

His lips were warm, moving along my neck.

I sat up abruptly and instinctively slapped him.

"Julian, if you don't feel dirty, I do."

He was stunned for a moment, touching his face self-deprecatingly.

Then he suddenly pulled me up.

Pinned me in front of the bathroom mirror, one hand gripping my chin, eyes poisoned.

"You find me dirty?

Mia, look at yourself. Do you have any resemblance to your former self?"

I looked at myself in the mirror.

Hair messy, one strap of my pajamas hanging off my shoulder, like a madwoman.

The most beautiful eyes from the past were no longer lively and gentle.

Fine lines had quietly crept onto my face, and the youthful vigor was gone.

At that moment, Bella's youthful face flashed through my mind.

Those bright eyes, burning with desire and ambition, looked at me provocatively.

"So what, Julian? Is this your reason for cheating?"

I sneered, leaning against the wall, eyes moist.

He slowly approached me, his thumb gently wiping the corner of my eye.

"I've said it more than once, I'm just playing.

When I'm tired of playing, I'll come back.

Mia, I've always loved you."

Disgusting.

Uncontrollable disgust.

I screamed painfully.

Grabbed a bottle and smashed it into the mirror, shattering it.

"Get out, get out!"

After he left, I stood barefoot on the cold marble floor, looking at the huge model photo of Bella that Julian had projected on the LED screen outside the window.

A light mocking smile.

Confrontations like today's had played out countless times over the past year.

From the initial heart-wrenching pain to now, only despair and numbness remained.

I didn't belong to this world.

Eight years ago, I came to this world on a mission to save the miserable and paranoid youth, Julian Reed.

At that time, his father cheated, the family business went bankrupt, his mother committed suicide, and he was heavily in debt.

His eyes were dead silent.

It was I who came here, on a sunny morning, walking towards that humble and pitiful youth.

Later, I lived with him in the basement, ate bran and swallowed vegetables, and paid off all debts bit by bit.

He once asked me in confusion.

"Why are you so good to me?"

I smiled and held his hand, "Maybe it's an instruction from God."

He lowered his head and whispered, "Then that's really the best gift God has given me in my life."

On the day the mission was completed, he seemed to anticipate that I would leave, hugging me tightly from behind with red eyes, staying awake all night.

I softened and hugged him.

"Julian, I won't go home."

Since then, the system completely disappeared.

For five whole years, it never appeared once.

And during these five years, Julian cheated, right in the third year of our marriage.

He kept a young and beautiful model, Bella White.