Reborn to my engagement night by Baxter Walters

Chapter 1 Poison

The prison was chillingly cold, filled with a strong stench of blood.

“Why…” Madelyn was painfully curled up on the ground, the oversized prison garb enveloping her and accentuating her frail, emaciated body.

A violent coughing fit racked her body, and blood gushed out of her mouth.

The pain was unbearable.

It felt as though ten thousand knives were churning in her stomach, causing such intense pain that her vision started to darken.

The poison was terrifyingly potent, even piercing her guts.

“Why… Why are you treating me like this?” Madelyn mustered all her strength to lift her head, her eyes filled with deep-seated hatred as she stared at the prisoner before her.

“Hehe, are you asking why I poisoned your food?” The prisoner laughed cruelly, looking down at the woman kneeling on the ground with a mix of disdain and pity. “Someone paid me to kill you. Your very existence stands in the way of her happiness!”

“Who?” Madelyn braced her stomach with her knee, struggling to maintain a shred of consciousness.

“Fine, since you’re already on the brink of death, I’ll tell you who it is so you can rest in peace. Aren’t you going to marry Mr. Lockhart? That’s why she doesn’t want you around! Once you’re gone, they can be together…”

The excruciating pain coursed through her body, engulfing her nerve endings in torment.

Despite the agony, a woman’s face flashed through her mind, albeit fleetingly.

It’s her! It’s Janessa, that despicable woman! I can’t believe she actually stooped so low!

in agony, her tear-filled eyes reflecting an

her, causing her to be incarcerated. It was because of that woman, she had given up the best man

man once pampered and doted on Madelyn, but due to Janessa’s instigation, Madelyn used every trick in

imprisoned,

yet

darkness that enveloped the room through tear-filled eyes. She could no longer feel

eyes. The next second, her eyes, wide with anger and filled with hatred, were shut. All that remained was a beautiful face

then rose to his feet

was left was the pungent

and resentment intertwined, gradually engulfing Madelyn from head to toe like

let out a

suffering, utterly overwhelmed. Before she could muster a response, a

evoked a

the man’s domineering

what felt like an eternity, Madelyn opened her eyes laboriously, only to be stunned by the

yet plain, boring furnishings were exactly the same as those in the

incredulously turned her head to look at the person beside

scabbing over with a dark red tint. A subtle trace of a smile played at the corner of his

her mouth, muffling the uncontrollable

It’s

herself transported back seven years, to the night she had become engaged to him

in her memory, not solely because it was the night she lost her virginity, but also because her family pressured

formidable figure in both sides of the law, but also a hot-tempered man with a tendency toward cruelty. She was terrified, so she vehemently opposed the arranged marriage between their families. She even once suspected

she didn’t want to be touched by Sebastian. In her desperation, she blurted out that she was in love

had sparked Sebastian’s fury, causing him to forcefully