Chapter 1

The year my family went bankrupt, I was forced to sell myself to my ex-boyfriend. Everyone thought Gideon and I would rekindle our romance.

Until the maid handed me a servant's uniform.

Gideon sat on the sofa with his legs crossed, looking down at me with superiority. "Sophia, don't you want to pay off your family's debts? Put this on and stay here for three years, and I'll help you."

Over those three years, I witnessed his tumultuous relationships with a dozen ex-girlfriends.

Every ex who broke up with him found ways to torture me—slapping me, throwing acid on me.

One even leaked footage of Gideon violating me to the media.

The media branded me the most promiscuous woman in the entire city.

I fell from being the most treasured princess of the Sullivan family to becoming Gideon's dog.

Through it all, I remained silent.

Until Gideon lost a bet and gambled me—drugged and helpless—to the neighbor boy who used to follow me around begging for attention when we were young.

Three days and nights.

My once-proud fingers were deliberately shattered. My face was disfigured.

Yet when I emerged, he brushed it off as just a joke.

I didn't laugh. Gideon threatened me again with the Sullivan family's debt.

But he seemed to have forgotten—this was already the third year of our contract.

In three more days, the Sullivan family's debt would be paid in full.