My Ninth Life: Breaking Free

Chapter 2

Word Count: 557 | Released on: 16/06/2025

tairs, the sweet wind of near-freedom

again, Leo?

irking beside her. The hope I felt mom

r tone deceptively casual. "That silver locket your parents le

the last thing I had of them. In past loops, I' d clung

locket from under my shi

h a theatrical "oops," he let it slip. It clattered onto the m

g with false remorse. "It just slipped. My goodness, were y

dare you try to curse De

e signaled to two burly security gua

es. Teach him a lesson

brutal beating with a ridin

mirk. Caroline turned her back, already cooing over Derek, fussing a

trike was accompanied by Caroline's voice in my memory, or sometimes her

ungratefu

ting Derek

isting.

Eventually,

d. It was dark, smelling of earth and decay. This was m

He was just a dog, an animal, but in Caroline's eyes, he

I closed my eyes, a wave of hopelessness washing ove

light flooding in, blinding me. Caroline sto

t u

elf to a sitting po

low and dangerous. "He thinks you put somethin

d it, of course. I didn't even have the energy to

, don't you?" she hisse

she grabbed my hair,

pered, then slammed my head

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My Ninth Life: Breaking Free

Qian Mo Mo Modern

“I' d died eight times already, each a brutal end, all thanks to Caroline Hawthorne. Now, I was on my ninth life, cold in a dusty attic room, a flat digital voice repeating its impossible command inside my head: "Secure Caroline Hawthorne's genuine, exclusive romantic devotion." But this wasn' t just about winning her love; it was about survival itself. This time, the System' s chilling ultimatum echoed with no emotion: "Failure in this iteration will result in permanent dissolution." No more chances. My tormentor, Caroline, then entered, pregnant with her fiancé Derek' s child, and immediately imposed her latest cruelty: I was demoted to the gardener' s shed, while Derek' s prize-winning show dog got my warm room. She kicked me. Memories of my past deaths, stark and agonizing, flooded me: freezing in a wine cellar, drowning after being pushed overboard, a shank in prison, botched medical procedures where she watched me bleed out. I' d endured skin grafts from my own thigh because Derek faked an injury, been forced into life-threatening blood transfusions for his "recovery," and suffered public humiliation at her hands. Her blind devotion to Derek was absolute, her cruelty towards me boundless. I was broken, tired of the endless loop of torture and failure. Why did I have to suffer endless agony for a devotion she clearly didn't deserve, a woman who treated me as less than human? I just wanted it all to end, for oblivion to claim me. My silence became defiance against her rage. That yearning for freedom, once a desperate wish for death, hardened into something cold and resolute: revenge. If the System demanded her "devotion," or her "permanent removal from the equation," then I would choose freedom. After her last threat-to harm the only person who cared for me-I knew what I had to do. This time, I wouldn't just survive; I would ensure her downfall, and finally, truly break free.”