d most of all, done with Chloe. I would walk into that marriage with Sofia Rossi, a woman I' d never met, a woman tied to the criminal underworld, just to escape the hell my life h

acticed for the cameras, while they told the world about their long-lost son. They had adopted me years ago from the foster system, the same as Liam. We grew up as brothers, always competing f

uirk of fate revealed that I, the overlooked adopted son, was actually their biol

ion felt hollow. It was all for show. They were more concerned with the family legacy and the story of their returned heir than with me as a person. For Liam, it was a cat

the culmination of this. He took a song I wrote for my high school graduation and passed it off as his own, winning a local competition. My parents praised his "natural talent." He found out about a smal

anufactured crisis. Mr. Preston would just tell me to be stronger, to learn to fight for what I want, as if this was some kind of corpo

t was on my side, the one relationship I treasured, was the most profound betrayal of all. I sat in my smal

new appeared. It wasn't a sound or a light, but a presenc

d. Host identifi

ssi. Objective: Secure her affec

g from a host with dark affinity will result in severe backlash. Chlo

he air, my heart pounding. A system

on rating was 7%. Her objective was to use your latent "good fortune" energy

ed. The system explained that she was a minor player in a shadowy organization, someone who used people with special auras, like me, to achieve her goals. My "good fortune" was the

g woman. The system revealed her true identity: she wasn't just a cunning college student, she was a known operative in the underworld, feared for

. I wasn't just a victim anymore. This system, what

ward: Complete separation from the

on my own terms. Chloe wanted to use me as a pawn? Fine. But she ha