CHAPTER 1

“Hahh…hah…hah…” A young woman on her

edge of death laid down on her bloodstain. She gazed into the night sky with tears dripping from her eyes. It was then, her vision turned dark.

Lavanya Arein, a 23rd-century woman who believes love was

something pure and sacred. She was a faithful woman in the name of love.

Her first love experience was with her

schoolmate. She loved him so dearly and hoped that he would be her first and last love. But her hope was all in vain when they graduated from high school and attended different colleges, she found her boyfriend was cheating behind her with his college friend.

Two years later, a man came to her with all sweet manners. The wounds in her heart were subdued a bit by a bit. But it also didn't last long, she found out the man was cheating behind her with his ex-lover. The wounds that yet fully healed now had another wound.

After graduating from college, she ran her Boutique and Dessert Café business with all her heart. On her twenty-eighth birthday, she gained fame, popularity, and prosperity from her business. And then, a handsome man came to her. Having been broken twice by love, she did not really mind the handsome man at first.

Over time, she thought he might be different from the two men of her past. She decided to open her heart for him. Unfortunately, things were not going well. The handsome man left her all alone without a word and pretended as if he never met her in the very first place.

Arein, who believed love as a pure and sacred matter, started doubting its existence. She buried herself deep contemplating. She seeks the answers to all her questions, but no answers

come out.

“Why?! What have I done that makes me deserve this?! Why do I always end up like this?! Why?!!!!!!”

She screamed and smashed anything in front of her. She fell into a deep frustration and depression in spite of her fame. She grabbed her mobile phone and tried to call someone.

“Mom, are you at home?” She asked in a frustrated tone.

“I am. What is wrong with your voice? Are you okay?” Response a woman on another line in a worried tone.

“Mom…”

“Listen to me, everything will be alright. Okay?”

“I am sorry, Mom.”

“For what? What is happening? Will you come to me?”

“I’ll go.”

“Yes. I am waiting for you.”

She grabbed her car key and headed to the garage. With her wet eyes and chaotic mind, she left her apartment at a high speed.

She kept crying while driving the car. The more she cried, the more she increased the car speed until the wetness in her

eyes made everything become blurry. She could not focus on the road. She lost control over the car direction and ended up hitting the side road border at a high speed.

“Kyaaaaaaaa”

CRASH!

The front car was totally damaged. Arein’s head bumped to the steering wheel. The bubble shield cannot work well due to the hard crash. Her bones were cracked and blood flew all over her body.

She tried her best to keep breathing. She opened the car door with all the left strength on her body. She fell on the ground and crawled to avoid the car just in case it would explode. She crawled and crawled but her body was too heavy. With blood spraying from the mouth, she spoke her last words…

“God, if you really do exist, please let me be reborn…”

Those was her last words before she shut her eyes forever and the soul living her body that laid helplessly on the ground. A few seconds after that…

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“Hahh…hah…” Arein breathed so hard.

She opened her eyes so wide and sat down suddenly. Her eyes scanned all over the aesthetic room she was in. It was a so-wide room with a beautiful carved wall decorated with diamonds on every edge of the carve. There were many antique and exotic pieces of furniture. Everything was really like the castle in Barbie tales!

”Athe?!” Called the man.

Then, her eyes caught a blond-haired handsome man in his late-thirty who put a worried look on his face. He looked relieved yet full of anger.

“My Lady!!”

Her eyes wandered again for the voice, then she saw an old man in his black-neat black and white suit crying together with a girl dressed in maid attire behind him. She also saw five doctors standing up in line all over the big bed.

“Athe, you are back! Don’t worry, this father is here.” The man who claimed to be her father spoke again and hugged her tightly. She widened her eyes.

‘Huh? Father? I am sure my dad was dead when I was sixteen. And I am pretty sure that my dad wasn’t this handsome!!!!

What the hell is happening?!’ Arein screamed inwardly.

“Uhm…I am sorry. Who are you?” Arein said hesitantly as she lowered her head.

Hearing her words, the duke widened his eyes in shock as if being struck by thunder.

“My Lady...” Cried the maid. Arein fell dumbfounded.

“Wh…what the hell is happening to her? Why didn't she remember anything?!” The man urged the doctors.

“I beg your pardon, Your Grace. My Lady is experiencing memory loss.” The first doctor said.

“It is because the lady’s head bumped to the tree trunk hardly back then, Your Grace.” The second doctor adds.

“The hard bump in the head made the Lady’s brain-damaged and caused the memory loss, Your Grace” The third doctor continued.

“Your Grace, the injury wasn’t too severe. Fortunately, this type of memory loss is only temporary. The Lady would gain her memory back if we are working together.” The fourth doctor explained.

“We have to help the Lady recall her past memories and it takes a few months or less, Your Grace.” The fifth doctor said.

With the doctors’ explanation, the duke stared at Arein with a pitiful look and disbelief. He escaped a big sigh.

“Listen to me, I am Arlo Ein Harrigan, the Duke of this Empire and I am your father. You are Althea Ein Harrigan, my only daughter and the Lady of this house.” Said the Duke firmly with his violet eyes focused on hers.

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