Chapter 1

The day my parents got divorced, I pushed away my loving mother and clung desperately to my cheating scumbag father's leg.

In my previous life, I chose my mother without hesitation.

But because the family wouldn't accept me, I dragged her down to a lifetime of scorn and suffering.

This lifetime, looking at my mother Diana Smith's heartbroken eyes, I left without looking back.

Five years later, I was gutting fish in a damp, stinking seafood market to make ends meet.

As I skillfully sliced open a dead fish's belly.

My mother walked over in high heels, carefully avoiding the dirty water on the ground.

She covered her nose in disgust, looking at my filthy clothes with a cold laugh:

"That disgusting fish stench that won't wash off—is this the result of abandoning me back then?"

"The crazy billionaire heir of the Godfrey family wants to form a marriage alliance with us now."

"As long as you kneel and beg me, I'll let you live the good life. How about that?"

"You know I always mean what I say."

Hearing the disdain in her words, I swallowed the bloody taste in my throat and put on a cheeky smile as I moved closer:

"Not only will I not kneel, but you have to kiss me first."

Even just once would be enough to get me through the remaining month.