Chapter 1

My boyfriend Leon Finch was broke and cheating on me. I'd had enough.

"You can't even afford a house," I snapped. "We're done, you loser!"

Leon blinked, then looked down. His voice was calm. "Okay."

I was still surprised by how easily he agreed when the comments suddenly appeared:

[Niya is so stupid. Eve Anderson barely had to lift a finger and she's already rushing to break up with Leon. Does she have any idea he's actually the heir to a billion-dollar fortune?]

[She dumps Leon, and the next day his biological parents find him and bring him home to inherit the family empire. She's going to regret this so much.]

[When Niya finds out she's pregnant and tries to use the baby to force Leon into marrying her, she doesn't even get to see his face before she gets hit by a car and dies. LOL.]

I am Niya.

And it turns out Leon wasn't cheating. He'd been set up. Someone was deliberately trying to tear us apart.

Leon looked at me, exhausted and at his wit's end. "What do you want from me?"

"What do I want?" I shot back, my voice cracking with rage. "I should be the one asking you that!"

"I've stood by you through everything, and this is what you do behind my back. Can you honestly look me in the eye and tell me you haven't wronged me?!"

Leon stared at me with that infuriating expression, like I was throwing a tantrum over nothing. "I'm sorry, what exactly did I do behind your back?"

"What did you do?" I laughed bitterly, grabbed his jacket off the chair, and dug into the pocket. I pulled out a red lace thong and threw it at his feet.

"You better tell me who this belongs to, or we are not done here!"

Leon looked down at it for a moment, then said with a completely straight face, "It's not mine. I don't have that kind of thing."

"...Are you serious right now?!"

[Leon actually thought Niya was accusing him of wearing women's underwear. It didn't even occur to him that she thought he was cheating. His brain works in a completely different way.]

[Leon is totally devoted to her. He genuinely didn't think about cheating at all.]

[That's not the point though, is it? The point is Niya just blurted everything out. Can they even break up smoothly now?]

Leon thought for a few seconds, and then it finally clicked. His expression shifted to something urgent. "I have no idea where that came from."

"I haven't been near any other woman today. There's no way I could have..."

And then he slowed down. His eyes moved to me, and something changed in them. Suspicion. Cold distance.

"I know things have been hard on you. If you want to break up, I won't beg you to stay. But there's no need to... do something like this."

It took me a second to understand what he was implying. I stared at him. "Do something like what?"

Was he seriously suggesting I planted that underwear in his pocket and then pretended to find it?

Leon closed his eyes. When he opened them again, they were completely empty.

"You're young and pretty. You deserve better options. Let's break up."

My eyes went wide. "What did you just say?"

Leon looked away. His voice was steady. "Let's break up."

My hand flew up before I could think. The slap landed hard across his face.

I regretted it the second it happened.

I opened my mouth to apologize, but Leon had already turned and walked away, his face completely unreadable.

I was still burning with anger. "Fine! If you want to break up, then we're done!"

Leon's steps faltered for just a moment. Then he walked faster, reached the front door, and slammed it shut behind him.

I stared at the closed door. My nose stung. The tears came before I could stop them.

[I thought Eve's plan had failed, but somehow it all worked out in the end. What a twist!]

[I mean, I kind of feel like what Eve did was wrong. Niya and Leon were happy together. She didn't have to destroy that just to take his place.]

[Are you forgetting that Eve was Leon's actual fiancée? If Leon hadn't been switched at birth, they would have been together all along.]

[And Niya spent her last life making everyone miserable once she got pregnant with Leon's baby. She went out of her way to provoke and humiliate Eve at every turn. Eve came back and got revenge. Seems fair to me.]

Fine. It's done.

So what?

I'm not going to fall apart over this.