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!

out in agony, her tear-filled eyes reflecting an overwhelming sense

friend, had meticulously plotted against her, causing her to be incarcerated. It was because

on Madelyn, but due to Janessa’s instigation, Madelyn used every trick in the book

realize she had been manipulated by Janessa. I’m such a fool. I ended up being imprisoned, and

spewed out yet another mouthful of

room through tear-filled eyes. She

couldn’t help sighing in pity. He stepped forward, gently brushing his fingers over her eyes. The next second, her eyes, wide with anger and filled with hatred, were shut. All that remained was a

sighed lamentably, then rose to his feet

the pungent smell of blood

engulfing Madelyn from head to toe like a rising

Madelyn let

Before she could muster a response, a strange sensation surged through her

deep voice, coupled with palpable pain, evoked a sense of familiarity that left her feeling

man’s domineering actions to claim her interrupted her train

eyes laboriously, only to be stunned by the sight

those in the

to look

over with a dark red tint. A subtle trace of a smile

covered her mouth, muffling the uncontrollable sobs that threatened

It’s really

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

was the night she lost her virginity, but also because her family pressured her into marrying Sebastian,

a tendency toward cruelty. She was terrified, so she vehemently opposed the arranged marriage between their families. She even once suspected that her father and stepmother

Sebastian. In her desperation, she blurted out that she was in

had sparked