She Wants My Life

Chapter 1

My sister and I accidentally saved a rich lady from a car crash.

Knowing our family's financial struggles, she offered my sister and me each a life-altering opportunity as a token of gratitude.

One of us could marry her only son and inherit the family fortune. The other would receive a cool five million dollars in cash.

My sister, ever the opportunist, jumped at the chance to marry the son, even dumping her fiancé of many years.

In her eyes, a young, successful husband worth millions was far more valuable than a measly five million.

But what she didn't know was that this seemingly gentle and quiet man was a total psycho.

Within a year, he had tormented her so badly that she was mentally broken and wished she had never met him.

Meanwhile, I took the five million, studied abroad, earned a bunch of degrees, and returned home to start my own business.

I caught the wave, met the right people, and my career took off.

I even had a bunch of eligible bachelors chasing after me.

Then, I woke up, and there I was again, my sister and I sitting in front of Mrs. Van Derlyn.

Mrs. Van Derlyn smiled warmly, her handsome, quiet son sitting beside her. On the other side, there was a check for five million dollars.

"Hailey, Riley, who wants to choose first?"

My sister immediately raised her hand, pointing straight at the check for five million dollars.

In that moment, I knew she remembered everything too.

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"Hailey, Riley, I'm a straightforward woman, so I won't beat around the bush." Mrs. Van Derlyn began, her smile as bright as ever. "This is my only son, Xavier. He was hurt as a child, and has become rather introverted. He doesn't like to talk much, and he's not interested in going into business with me. So, I'd like to pick one of you to be my daughter-in-law, and eventually take over the company. As for the other, I can give you five million dollars upfront. Why don’t you two discuss how you want to choose?"

As Mrs. Van Derlyn finished her proposal, a flood of bloody memories rushed through my head.

I knew I had been given a second chance at life!

The last image from my past life was the sterile white walls of the mental hospital. Hailey, her hair a tangled mess, had suddenly pushed me off the seventh-floor balcony.

As I crashed to the ground, I could almost hear the blood and brain matter oozing out of my ears, mixed with Hailey's desperate screams.

"Why? Riley, why do you get to be so successful and live such a good life? That luck should have been mine. It’s because I made the wrong decision, and you reaped all the benefits!"

Hailey blamed all her misfortunes on me. But in the past life, she had been the one who chose to marry Mrs. Van Derlyn's son, wanting to be the wife of a wealthy family. She even dumped her long-term boyfriend for it.

Who knew that the seemingly gentle Mr. Van Derlyn was actually a total psycho? On their wedding night, he tied her to the bed and lectured her on Lagrange's equations all night long.

Afterward, he gave her proble...