Introduction

It was supposed to be the biggest day of my life.

The day I, Alex Peterson, heir to a global empire, announced my engagement to Jess Vanderbilt, the perfect corporate alliance.

Expensive sheets, blinding penthouse sun – a picture of success.

But then, the memory hit me.

It wasn't a nightmare; it was my last life.

A life where Jess, the woman I thought I loved, and her charming snake of a lover, Ryan Miller, betrayed me.

They leaked Peterson Global's R&D secrets, framed me, shattered my father's legacy, and then laughed as I was locked away.

I died in that prison, lonely and broken, a stress-aggravated heart condition taking me.

The humiliation, the pain, it was all still fresh, seared into my soul.

How could I have been so blind?

How could the woman I showered with everything, who spoke of grand love, secretly despise me enough to ruin my life, accuse me of theft, and abandon me to rot?

The injustice was a searing fire in my gut.

And then, I woke up.

Here. Now.

Back on this exact day, hours before the press conference, a second chance.

They wanted me to choose Jess?

Fine.

I would choose.

But this time, the script would be spectacularly different.

I chose Sophia Chen.