Chapter 1

On May Day, my cousin had a wedding. I specifically turned down several major clients.

I cleared out the top-floor banquet hall of our family's five-star hotel to host her wedding reception for free.

Who knew that during the toasting ceremony, her mother-in-law would die from suffocation after suffering an asthma attack without her medication.

My cousin's family immediately spread rumors that our hotel's wild mushroom soup contained poisonous mushrooms.

They claimed the old lady ate them, had hallucinations, and then fell ill, demanding we pay them a million dollars in compensation.

The incident made it to the top of the local trending topics, and the hotel was shut down by the authorities.

After my family of three went bankrupt and ended up homeless, we were hit and killed by a car.

Those relatives who had been drinking wine worth tens of thousands of dollars per bottle at the wedding banquet even cursed me in the comments, saying I deserved to die.

When I opened my eyes again, I had returned to one week before May Day.

My parents were discussing:

"Lily, your cousin suddenly decided to get married on May Day. It's hard to book a venue. Should we reserve a few private rooms for her at our hotel?"

I put down the ledger. "No need. Don't even reserve a single table."

My parents froze. "But everywhere is fully booked for May Day, and her in-laws are so stingy..."

I let out a cold laugh. "What the hell does that have to do with me!"