In my previous life, I was a stand-in, imitating the CEO's one true love for five years.
But no matter how convincingly I played her, Gu Huaian never deigned to spare me a glance.
“Lin Qingwan, know your place. You're nothing but her replacement!”
Heartbroken and disillusioned, I asked to leave.
Gu Huaian said I could.
But only after he found his true love would I be allowed to go.
Desperate to escape the man who treated me like a shadow, I chose to run.
I had barely made it outside when Gu Huaian's people locked down the entire city to hunt me down.
Then came the robbery he had arranged. I fought back, and they stabbed me to death in a filthy alley.
Not long after I died, Gu Huaian found his one true love.
He spent a fortune on a spectacular wedding and proclaimed his devotion to the world.
No one thought there was anything wrong with him having kept a girl imprisoned.
Whenever anyone mentioned me, his “stand-in,” someone would say:
“That woman was so ungrateful. She could have lived like a pampered canary, but instead she just had to go out and get herself killed.”
When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day Gu Huaian first brought me home.
I looked up at him.
“I can play her, but as payment, you have to give me a mansion in the city center first.”
