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!

tear-filled eyes reflecting an overwhelming sense of

friend, had meticulously plotted against her, causing her to be incarcerated. It was because of that woman, she had given up the best

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

I ended up being imprisoned, and

spewed out yet another mouthful of

she gazed upon the darkness that enveloped the room through tear-filled eyes. She could no longer feel the gut-wrenching pain. Only profound regret engulfed her, so intense that even death couldn’t erase

his fingers over her eyes. The next second,

prisoner sighed lamentably, then rose to his feet and

was left was the pungent smell

engulfing Madelyn from

let

abyss of suffering, utterly overwhelmed. Before she could muster a response, a strange sensation surged through her body, shattering her

voice, coupled with palpable pain, evoked a

chance to ponder, the man’s domineering actions to claim her interrupted her train

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

same as those in the

to look at the person

bite, the wound scabbing over with a dark red tint. A subtle trace of a smile

covered her mouth, muffling the uncontrollable sobs that threatened to

It’s

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

remained deeply etched in her memory, not solely because it was the night she lost her virginity, but also because her family pressured her into marrying Sebastian, to which

not only a 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 that her father and stepmother harbored ill intentions, intending to throw her into

by Sebastian. In her desperation, she blurted out that she was in love with Christopher Gale and even declared that she wanted to save herself for

had sparked Sebastian’s fury, causing him to