Chapter 1

After five years of marriage, my husband finally discovered that the woman at home was just an android.

He went utterly insane, tearing the city apart trying to find me.

Little did he know, I had already been dead for five years.

Five years ago, to save his life after a catastrophic car crash, I donated my spleen.

Yet when he woke up, he believed it was his childhood sweetheart who had saved him.

He despised me, convinced that I had abandoned him in his darkest hour without even a single visit.

So for five whole years, he never once came home. He cut off all contact with me.

Until today. Now a billionaire CEO, he returned home with divorce papers in hand.

Only to find an android whose battery had nearly run dry.

And the real me had died the very day I gave everything to save him.

I was dead.

To save my dying husband, Lucas, after his horrific car crash, I had willingly given him my spleen.

Back then, he was in critical condition. I didn't want him to hear of my surgical complications and lose the will to live.

So, using the last fading embers of my life, I finished programming the bionic android our company had spent five years developing. I made it look identical to me, leaving it in our home to keep him company.

After I passed away, my soul was somehow tethered to him—perhaps because a part of my body was now beating inside his chest.

I honestly thought Lucas would figure out the truth within three months.

It turned out I was only flattering myself.

Lucas was convinced I had deserted him the moment disaster struck.

He credited his miraculous survival entirely to the selfless devotion of his beloved sweetheart, Chloe.

Because of that bitter hatred, he hadn't stepped foot inside our house for five solid years.

Now, my ghost stood silently beside him, watching him lead Chloe to the center stage of our company’s grand IPO gala.

"Tonight, there is one person we must thank above all: Chloe," Lucas announced, his voice ringing through the banquet hall. "Without her, our breakthrough in bionic android technology wouldn't be taking us public today!"

I looked at Lucas, a wave of hollow sorrow washing over my soul.

Chloe tilted her chin up proudly, flashing an elegant smile. "Lucas, this is just a small milestone on our journey."

I let out a bitter, silent laugh. The core tech driving this entire IPO was my code, my research, my life’s work.

And Chloe had stolen every single bit of it.

Down in the crowd, a few veteran engineers murmured among themselves.

"Wait, where’s Mia? Why isn't our lead engineer here for the launch?"

"She hasn't been to the office in five years, right?"

Lucas scanned the room, his eyes cold as ice when he found no trace of me.

"Five years ago, when I was fighting for my life, Mia walked out without looking back," he said harshly. "Someone so cold-blooded and disloyal has no place in this company!"

Chloe’s lips curled into a subtle, smug smirk.

"He's right. As soon as Lucas had his accident, Mia pulled a vanishing act. To this day, she hasn't even shown the decency to apologize."

Several colleagues nodded along, siding with them instantly.

"Mia is nothing but an ungrateful hypocrite, abandoning the CEO at his lowest point!"

"A heartless monster! Without Lucas giving her a platform, what would she even be today?"

Lucas’s face hardened further.

"An ungrateful stray. Even a dog knows to stay by its master’s side after a few years of feeding."

Standing beside them, I felt my ghostly form freeze over.

Chloe had lied to him, poisoned his mind, and claimed my entire life as her own.

I threw a punch straight at her face with all the fury left in my soul, but my fist passed cleanly through her like smoke.