Now I felt nothing.
Not hatred.
Not love.
Just closure.
“You killed the man I used to be.”
She whispered:
“I never wanted you dead.”
I nodded.
“Maybe not.”
I looked at Daniel.
“But you didn’t care whether I survived.”
The investigation lasted months.
Daniel was exposed.
The financial scheme collapsed.
Chloe’s involvement became public.
Several people connected to the plan lost their positions.
But I didn’t destroy them.
I let the truth do it.
Then one morning, the System appeared again.
[Ding!]
[Primary Objective Complete.]
Original death successfully prevented.
Hidden conspiracy exposed.
Host’s fate has been permanently altered.
Then:
[Final Reward available.]
I waited.
[Choose one.]
1. $10,000,000.
2. Absolute business mastery.
3. Restore one lost relationship from your original life.
I stared at the choices.
Ten million dollars would change everything.
Business mastery would make me almost impossible to defeat.
But the third option stopped me.
One lost relationship.
My mother.
In my first life, I had spent so much time working for Chloe that I had barely been there for my mother.
She had died before I turned twenty-nine.
I had missed her final months.
I had missed her calls.
I had missed dinners.
I had missed everything.
I whispered:
“Three.”
