Chapter 1

My best friend's neighborhood was being bought out by a major developer. The city was handing out massive payouts based on the number of legal family members registered under each household.

She asked if she could borrow my husband.

She promised to give me five hundred thousand dollars once the deal went through.

In my past life, my mother was diagnosed with severe heart failure and urgently needed two hundred thousand dollars for life-saving surgery.

For the sake of the money, Logan—my husband—convinced me to agree to this absurd arrangement.

Chloe, my best friend, married him on paper. They successfully scammed an extra million dollars from the developer, but then she refused to get a divorce.

Whenever I confronted Logan, he would stutter, making up endless excuses for Chloe.

It wasn't until later that I found out they had already been sleeping together and she was pregnant with his child.

Once their secret was out, they stopped pretending. They hired a ruthless lawyer, stripped me of everything, and kicked my mother and me out of our own house.

My mother died tragically on the streets. Heartbroken and numb, I wandered by the river, slipped, fell into the freezing water, and drowned.

But when I opened my eyes again, I had traveled back in time. It was the exact day Chloe asked to borrow my husband.