Chapter 1

I was drugged unconscious by my adopted brother, Mason Clarke, and dumped on a deserted island six thousand miles away.

When my childhood friend Lily Hayes found me, the fishermen had already tortured me beyond recognition.

She fought with everything she had to take me away, but in the end, the fishermen on the island beat her to death with sticks right in front of me, splattering blood all over my face.

I fell into complete despair, accepted my fate, stayed on the island, and had a child with a quiet, taciturn fisherman.

But I still could not forget her, and I jumped into the sea three times, wanting to leave with her.

The third time I was rescued, the fisherman’s wife who saved me pulled off her hood.

I looked at that face and instantly felt like I had fallen into an ice cellar.

It was Lily Hayes.

She burned the hood and smiled as she said to me,

“Throwing you onto the deserted island was something Mason and I planned together, because he wanted the top college entrance exam score, and I wanted you.”

“The fisherman who had a child with you was me, and the one who got beaten to death was a double I found.”

“I faked my death because I wanted you to let go of that hope, but I didn’t expect you to want to die so badly.”

“Now that the truth is out, you choose: live properly with me, or keep trying to die?”