Chapter 2

Mom had a severe hemorrhage during childbirth. It was highly dangerous.

She could have survived, but she chose to save me instead.

My mom was the heiress to the James Group. She was brilliant, beautiful, and the dream of countless men.

But she fell in love with my dad, who came from a poor, small town.

They dated for ten years before she finally convinced Grandfather to approve of the marriage.

They got married, had Pierre, and built a perfect life that everyone envied.

When I was born, I was just a tiny, wrinkled baby. Dad couldn't accept Mom's death. He jumped from the seventeenth floor of the hospital, crashing into a bloody mess.

And Pierre would stare at me in my crib night after night, trying to suppress the urge to strangle me:

"Why did Mom have to die instead of you?"