Chapter 1
Luna Parker collapses helplessly to the ground, surrounded by searing flames. She followed her childhood boyfriend, Zach Benson, with her eyes, who was currently holding her stepsister, Kate Parker, in his arms. "Bitch!" Luna stared angrily at the pair of dogs in front of her. "Sis, you've been in jail, you're out, you have no future, your mother is dead, and no one cares about you. There is no point for you to live." Kate said coldly. "You put me in jail, killed my mother, and now you want me dead!" Luna was weak, but her eyes were red with rage. "You brought this on yourself." Zach said calmly, "If you hadn't died, you would have told everything. I'm not going to let you ruin what we have now." "Sis, don't worry. Dad knows about this, and he's already prepared a grave site with excellent feng shui for you. You've done so much for the Parker family, and he knows in his heart that he will never treat you poorly after you die." Kate said gently. "Hahahahahahahahahaha!" Luna's eyes filled with crazy laughter, this was her real father, for Kate, even his own daughter would die! The two most important people in her life, her real father and her childhood friend, her father only loved Kate, and Zach treated Kate like a baby and despised her. And now, both of them want her dead! Luna saw the shard of glass in her hand, raised her hand and pressed on it, the piercing pain sobered her up. She gritted her teeth to endure the pain, and suddenly lunged at Kate. "Ah!" Kate screamed, being pounced by Luna. "Luna, let her go!" Zach screamed urgently, rushing towards Kate. With all her strength, Luna dragged Kate into the circle of flames as well, opening her mouth and biting Kate's ear. "AHHHH!" Kate screamed in agony. Blood flowed out from between Luna's teeth, "You want me to die, then die together!" "Don't! Let me go! zach help me!" Kate screamed in panic, while the flames had started to spread to her and Luna. Zach lunges, the burning closet suddenly slams down on him, and Luna sees Zach's horrified, twisted face, pinned underneath the closet. The flames reddened Luna's face, "You're all going to die!" With her last strength, she pushed Kate into the fire. *** Luna Parker opened her eyes with a splitting headache, feeling as if she had just walked through hell. When she saw what was happening in front of her, she froze. In this hotel suite, four or five steps away on the carpet, there was a man lying in a pool of blood. This scene was all too familiar to Luna, because she had experienced it before. However, it seemed like it was years ago, so long ago that it seemed like a lifetime ago. In her last life ...... she recalled how she had been buried in the fire, but now, how was she still alive? She raised her hands, and realized that her right hand was still holding a blood-stained table lamp, and hurriedly threw it away in panic. Her hands and arms were intact, her skin was tender and smooth, without a trace of injury. Looking at the man on the ground again, seeing his face, Luna was finally convinced that she was back, back to the year she was 22 years old. At that time, Luna had already been Kate's assistant, and Kate had entered the show business at the age of 16, and by the age of 20, she had become a popular actress. Luna's dream was never to enter the entertainment industry, let alone become an assistant, she wanted to become a fashion designer. But when Kate, who is two years younger than her, wants to be an actress, Logan Parker, her real father, invests in a movie company and forces Luna to take time off from school to work as Kate's assistant in order to make Kate a star, resulting in a company that only knows Kate as the Parker family's daughter, but knows nothing about Luna. Well, she was the real Parker's daughter, her father's daughter, and Kate was just a stepdaughter who followed her stepmother's footsteps and took her place. She never cared because she had to cure her mother, and what would happen to her if she left in a fit of pique? The man lying on the carpet is a famous director, and Kate is here to talk to him about a lead role in his movie. In this hotel room, Kate herself knows what will be discussed, the director can not even invite Logan, Parker's family is rich, but the social status of the family is far from the same. Kate asked Luna to come with her, but within a few words, the director started to make passes at Kate, and even tried to involve Luna in the conversation, so Kate wanted Luna to stay with the director, and left herself. Luna, of course, refused and pushed and pulled with Kate. In order to get rid of her, Kate raises a lamp and hits Luna, who is knocked unconscious. Luna is knocked unconscious, but when she swings it, the tip of the lamp accidentally cuts the director's neck, and blood gushes out, Luna counts the time, and in less than two minutes, someone will come to catch her, and her lifelong nightmare begins. She had to escape! Luna tried to climb out of the window when she suddenly saw the lamp lying beside her. In her last life, Kate had wiped off her fingerprints and replaced them with her own while she was unconscious. In this life, Luna woke up earlier than before, and when the hotel staff came in, she was still unconscious, and the lamp in her hand became the evidence that she had hurt someone. This time, Luna also wiped off the fingerprints on the lamp meticulously, and looked around carefully to make sure there were no traces of herself. With less than a minute left, she climbed out of the window without hesitation.
Chapter 2
Almost as soon as Luna Parker jumped out the window, there was the sound of the door opening. But at the moment, Luna didn't have time to pay attention to that. Luckily, the balcony that she could rely on outside the window gave her a safe place to land. Through the window, she saw that the people inside seemed to be preparing to search the balcony as well, and Luna hurriedly looked both ways and was surprised to find that the guest room window on her right was open. Fighting back the fear of the height below her feet, she crawled quickly to the next balcony and squeezed through the window, almost as if she were crawling. "With a plop, she fell directly onto the soft carpet and rolled a few times before stopping. In front of her eyes appeared a pair of big feet wearing slippers. They were obviously much larger than hers, and were undoubtedly male. The toenails were cleanly trimmed, and she moved her gaze upward to see his long, smooth calves, which seemed longer than average in the light. When she looked up again, she realized that he was only wearing a towel, under which she could see a piece of obvious abdominal muscles, a slender waist, and broad shoulders, which made people want to jump on him. But when Luna saw his face, the whole person is like a thunder like frozen. This ...... is not Ethan Hayes! In her previous life, she never had the chance to observe him up close, only because he was Kate's sister's assistant, and occasionally glimpsed him from afar on some occasions. But Ethan, the president of Hayes Media, was always in the media. His charming face has made countless romance-seeking girls see him as the man of their dreams, but he has never been rumored to be involved with any female celebrities. Why is he here? Did he live next door to her in her previous life? At that time, did he see her being taken away by the police? "I've seen people trying to impress others, but this is the first time I've seen someone climb through a window to get closer." Ethan Hayes looked at her teasingly. He bent down slightly, and Luna's eyes were drawn to the towel around his waist, which seemed to be in danger of falling off at any moment as he moved. In the next second, his long fingers clamped her chin, "Jumping down from a 26-story building, you really put up a fight." Just as Luna wanted to retort, a clamor came from outside the balcony. "How can there be no one? It's running away from the balcony, isn't it?" The voice made Luna's body instantly freeze. She would never forget that voice. It was the voice of her boyfriend, Zach Benson, the scumbag who would later become Kate's fiancé! In that time, the director wasn't dead, just seriously injured, and Luna was sentenced to eight years in prison for intentional assault because of the severity of her injuries. Immediately after the accident, the man announced to the media that he had already broken up with her and had nothing more to do with her. If that was all, she wouldn't have hated him, but would have felt blind. However, when she was released from prison, she realized that he had become Kate's fiancé, and they were a perfect match, envied by the world. They'd been having an affair long before her accident, when Kate had run away from a murder, and it was Zach Benson who'd told Kate to blame Luna for everything, and to erase all traces of her. It's no wonder that when she was in trouble, her pleas for help went unanswered, because he was the one who started the whole setup! When Zach saw her after her release, he was full of contempt, "Look at yourself now, even if you were not worthy of me before, now you are even more worthless." Then, like a beggar, he took ten dollars out of his pocket and threw it at her feet.
Chapter 3
Luna Parker pressed her lips against Zach Benson's, so she went straight for the jugular and gave him a long, passionate French kiss. When her lips parted, her heart pounded and her cheeks flushed. Her eyelashes gently covered her gaze, inadvertently catching the deep, dangerous light in Ethan Hayes' eyes. Out of an unspeakable urge, Luna gently touched his lips again. Ethan's eyes narrowed slightly, and a strong, possessive light appeared in them. The palms of his hands, which had been hanging quietly at his sides, suddenly clasped onto her waist. She could feel the warmth of his palm, only separated by a towel, and knew that she was not wearing anything underneath, and was not just pretending. This man, what are his intentions? Ethan hadn't figured it out yet, when a roar came from outside the door, "Luna!" Luna turned around and tried to let go of Ethan, but Ethan held her tightly. His palm was still firmly pressed against her lower back, which was now as hot as if it had been burned with a hot iron. Luna looked up, right into Zach's angry, red eyes, "Luna, what do you mean, why are you here?" "What do you mean I'm here, can't you see that?" Luna sneered, lifting her chin slightly. Zach knew it in his heart! Ethan was only wearing a towel, and so was she, so what did it matter if it was obvious? "You betrayed me!" Zach pointed angrily at Luna, "For how long!" Luna let out a soft laugh, "Longer than you and Kate." The hotel GM and the waitresses all looked at Kate curiously. Kate was now a hotshot, and everything she did was in the news, not to mention her love life. So Luna's point is obvious - Kate is with Zach! "You're full of shit!" Zach's face hardened. Nervousness flashed across Kate's face as well; she didn't mind her affair being exposed, but never at a time like this. Otherwise, she would be labeled as a mistress. "I'm bullshitting?" Seeing that Ethan wouldn't let go of her hand, Luna simply leaned in his arms, her hands climbing on his shoulders, her posture charming like a seductive siren. In any case, taking advantage of Ethan, really is not a loss. Luna lifted her chin and said mockingly, "My dear sister has the love necklace you gave her hanging around her neck, the back of the pendant is engraved with your names and the date of your love, do you want to go and take a look?" Thinking about her last life was really stupid. These two people have countless tricks on them, but she is like a blind man who can't see it. Now that she knows everything, she realizes that Zach was so stupid to leave her with such obvious evidence. In her past life, she had been set up by such a fool, so she was not wronged at all. Seeing the panic and anxiety in Zach's eyes, Luna's anger spilled out. She and Zach had been childhood friends, otherwise there was no way she could have been with Zach given her position in the family and the reality that her father only saw her as a stepdaughter. Her mother was friends with Zach's mother and they were very close, so when she was a child, she used to bring Zach home with her. Gradually, the two of them developed a relationship. Even when Logan had an affair with Kate's mother, Summer, and divorced her, Zach didn't leave her, but took pity on her and cared for her even more. It is because she always remembers how good he was to her that she is always immersed in those memories and never thought Zach would betray her.
Chapter 4
Luna Parker sneered, Kate Parker's mother, Summer Reynolds, had been the mistress, destroying her family, and now Kate was a mistress herself, stealing her boyfriend. But now, Luna didn't care about such despicable people, and the ones she'd lost weren't worth regretting. She just wants them to pay the price for their past schemes and traps! Zach Benson listened to Luna's words, becoming more and more weak, Luna looked at him sarcastically, "Since you two hooked up, I thought we had broken up, but you still have the face to talk about betrayal with me here?" "Don't you bloody talk!" Kate hurriedly defended. If not for the presence of other people, she wouldn't have minded using Zach to irritate Luna. But now that Luna didn't care about Zach at all, she couldn't allow herself to carry the reputation of being a mistress. "It's obvious that you're the one who climbed up the ladder, and when you were caught in the act, you came back to slander us!" "Slander?" Luna suddenly let go of Ethan, and this time, Ethan didn't hold her tightly, Luna grabbed the towel with one hand to prevent it from falling off, and took a step forward, directly in front of Kate. She didn't wait for Kate to react, but she reached out and yanked the necklace off Kate's neck. Kate was surprised and unprepared for this move, Luna held the necklace pendant and showed them, "Thanks to Zach's efforts, the engraving is still in Chinese." On the back of the pendant, Zach and Kate's names were engraved, and a heart was circled. The fact is displayed in front of the eyes, no matter how Kate and Zach sophistry is meaningless. People can't be so stupid as to think that brother-in-law and sister-in-law will carve each other's names for fun, right? "You guys have your own personal problems." A police officer said, then turned to Luna and asked, "Ms. Luna, have you been here the whole time?" "Yes." Luna replied, turning around and returning to Ethan's side, wrapping her arms around his waist. Strangely, Ethan didn't expose her lie, he just looked down at her with a smirk or a laugh, Luna smiled at Ethan, grateful that he had done her a favor, no matter why he hadn't caught her in the act. "What happened?" Luna asked. She wasn't here earlier, it made sense to ask. The policeman explained, "A guest next door was seriously injured, and is now in the hospital." "I don't know, I've been here the whole time, if you don't believe me, you can check the CCTV." Luna said so because she knew that the surveillance had been destroyed long ago. In her previous life, Kate had gone to Zach right after the accident, and the hotel was Zach's family business, so Zach could do whatever he wanted at the drop of a hat. He called the police only after he gave Kate a chance to make amends. The director is lucky to be alive after such a long delay. Now, Luna is playing the game, hoping for a repeat of her past life. Seeing that the police officer was not looking right, Luna immediately realized that her bet had been won. "I don't understand, why are you guys looking for me after what happened next door?" Luna asked with a puzzled face. Before the police officer answered, Kate said first, "Wasn't it you who told me that you wanted to find the director?" Luna smiled coldly, Kate had obviously decided to use her as a scapegoat. Stealing her father, stealing her boyfriend, it wasn't enough, she also had to push her into a desperate situation. "I don't get it, I'm an assistant, why do I need a director? Do I still want to earn a role for myself?" Luna said, while raising her hand, the cell phone she was holding looked heavier and heavier.
Chapter 5
Luna tapped twice on the screen, and it brought up a WeChat dialog box, "This is the message Kate sent me, Mr. Policeman, you can check it to make sure it's Kate's WeChat." The policeman took her phone, and checked the message on the screen. Kate: I have an appointment with the director to meet him in his room later, you come with me. Luna: It's not a good idea to go to the director's room this late. Kate: That's why I'm asking you to come with me, in case something happens, you'll block for me. Luna: But I have something to do tonight, I can't go, you'd better not go. Kate: I told you to come with me, so you have to go, what's the big deal! Luna didn't reply again. She remembered the scene in her previous life, Kate forced her to accompany her there, that time she finally followed Kate to go. Just now when she hurried to the restroom to change clothes, she confirmed that she had not replied to Kate's message. Luna breathed a sigh of relief, in this life, everything seemed to be in her favor. In fact, it was the same in her previous life, now she was just retracing her steps. And this time, she'd been able to get through it, and besides the fact that she'd already known how things were going to turn out, they'd worked out in her favor, making it easy for her to get out of it. In her last life, she had been so stupid that she had wasted many opportunities in her favor. "Ms. Luna, please show us your cell phone." The police officer said to Kate. Kate instantly panicked, because Luna showed the police their conversation, which was clearly her WeChat account. It seems that this makes Kate even more suspicious and has nothing to do with Luna. She hesitates a little, and the police officer's gaze grows cold on her. "Ms. Luna, please cooperate with us." The policeman said again. Kate had no choice but to hand over her cell phone, after the police checked it, it was indeed Kate's WeChat account. The two people's conversation records were exactly the same, without any trace of deletion. "Ms. Luna, please come with us to the police station, there are still some things we need to ask you in detail." The police said. Kate panicked and pointed at Luna, "Luna, you're lying, you're obviously the one who went with me!" Luna raised her eyebrows and smiled contemptuously, "Didn't you just say that I went by myself, why have you changed?" The policeman's face changed, and his eyes became more serious as he stared at Kate, whose expression suddenly changed, and she looked at Zach in panic. But at this point, what could Zach do? He could only figure it out after the fact. Luna said firmly, "You keep saying I went to the director, where's the proof? I've listed all the evidence, if you want to testify against me, bring the evidence!" The police are also nodding secretly, obviously trusting Luna, who said she didn't go, provided an alibi, and took out the chat logs, confirming that she's not available tonight. Kate, on the other hand, said she was in the room at the beginning, but then she was hit by Luna's evidence, and in a panic, she said she went to the director's room with Luna. Now it seems that Kate is in a worse position, and Luna is just implicated by her. "When the injured man wakes up, if there's anything else, we'll come back to you, and we'd like your cooperation then." The police said to Luna. "Of course." Luna responded blandly. In contrast to Luna's blithe attitude, Kate's behavior seems more suspicious. The police asked Kate to come with them to the police station again, but Kate was reluctant to do so. Zach gently reassures her, "Don't be afraid, you didn't do anything wrong, I'll be there for you." Kate nodded her head pale, looking very helpless, causing much pity. Before leaving, Zach turned around and glared at Luna, "Luna, you're despicable, you did this to your sister, you can't get away with it." Luna laughed in anger, she was the one who had been wronged, all along, and Zach was accusing her of the same thing. A man like that, who had treated her with such compassion, promising to take care of her, not to let her suffer like her mother. Now he's helping the daughter of the woman who ruined her relationship with her mother, setting her up! She began to lose all recollection of their previous memories, only remembering Zach looking at her with hatred, and saying coldly, "Bitch. Bitch!" Luna took a deep breath, her heart feeling overwhelmed, a bitch. A bitch. Luna took a deep breath. After Zach and the others left, she finally breathed a sigh of relief. "Ethan, thank you so much for tonight." Luna said politely, no longer as flamboyant as she had been earlier. Trying to get out of Ethan's arms, but Ethan still didn't let go. "I'm sorry to bother you, I'll be on my way." Luna forced a smile. "You want to leave after using me?" Ethan's eyes showed mixed emotions. Luna really didn't believe Ethan would do anything to her. With his status and looks, what kind of women would he want? She was fearless and put on a smile and asked, "What does Ethan want?" "Ethan, it was just a misunderstanding, how can a woman as inconspicuous as me be in your eyes." Luna responded.
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