Chapter 1

The excruciating pain of a blade ripping through my flesh finally faded.

I gasped, opening my eyes to find myself back in the spring of my senior year of high school.

I had been reborn.

Before I could even process the shock, I heard my roommate, Tyler, complaining about his online girlfriend.

"We’ve been e-dating for three months, and she won't even send me a revealing photo," Tyler grumbled, his face twisted in frustration.

"All she does is nag me to study and prepare for the SATs. It’s freaking ridiculous!"

Noticing I was awake, he grabbed my shoulder, his eyes lighting up with an idea.

"Hey, Ethan, aren't you e-dating someone too? Why don't we swap accounts?"

My eyes were calm, but my heart was screaming with the brutal lessons of my past life.

In my previous life, I had stupidly rejected his proposal.

My online girlfriend, Bella, was never the rich heiress she claimed to be.

She was a rebellious, drop-out high school girl who hated the world. She seduced me into skipping classes, wasting my potential, and eventually, I only got into a mediocre community college.

Later, she ran up identity fraud on my name, leaving me with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. I ended up dead on a rainy street, stabbed by her loan sharks.

Meanwhile, Tyler’s e-girlfriend, Chloe, was the school's resident genius.

She had pushed Tyler to study night and day.

She got into Caltech and dragged Tyler into a top-tier university with her.

They built a tech startup together, got married, and went public. But years later, Tyler’s scandals of cheating and embezzling company funds leaked.

He was eventually stabbed to death by his mistress.

Having seen the two completely different paths of destiny, I looked Tyler dead in the eye and said, "Sure. Let's swap."