Last Chance is Mine

Ben frowned. “Enough.”

I thought he was going to speak up for me, but the next sentence was, “Get out. And don’t bother preparing breakfast anymore.”

Riley immediately showed a triumphant smile.

My hand froze for a moment, a sharp pain pierced my chest, and I turned to leave the office, but Riley followed me and blocked my way.

“Jennifer, don’t you feel ashamed, trailing behind Mr. Greenwood like a little shadow every single day?”

Her crimson nails suddenly clamped around my wrist, and the faint scar on her face came close to my eyes.

“Do you know how disgusted I feel every time I see Ben staring at you in a daze? I’m clearly the one who looks most like her!”

All the blood in my body instantly froze.

Under Riley’s wine-red curls, her side profile indeed overlapped with the photo of Mandy on the gravestone.

Riley suddenly yanked at her curled hair like a madwoman.

“Why? I ruined my face for him, I went into the operating room to turn myself into Mandy, but his eyes are still on you!”

She suddenly leaned in, her warm breath carrying a metallic scent.

“If it weren’t for all the surgeries, this scar wouldn’t even be here.”

“Use your system to fix my face. Otherwise...”

I flung her hand away and ran off.

I ran all the way home, since Ben never forgot his first love and considered Riley’s face more important than life itself, what did it mean that I stayed by his side all this time?

Late at night in the cemetery, I poured wine in front of the photo on the tombstone.

Moonlight fell on the gold-engraved words “Tomb of My Love Mandy Somerfield,” shining with a cold glow.

“I promised that I would take care of him for you...”

A metallic taste surged into my throat, I tilted my head back and drank the liquor.

“But he hates me now. If only I hadn’t made that wish back then. If only I had been the one who died.”

I looked up at her gentle smiling face.

Tears fell to the ground in sharp drops.

“My mom and I have let you down, I...”

“Jennifer!”

Ben’s gritted voice came from behind me.

“Who said you could come here? Didn’t I tell you not to disgust her?”

Ben grabbed my collar and hauled me up, dragging my wrist as he pulled me out of the cemetery.

Not far from the cemetery, there was a steep cliff.

He let go of my hand, his voice cold.

“Don’t you have a system? Jump. Kill yourself and heal the scar on Riley’s face. If you come back to life, then I’ll believe you really have that stupid system, and I’ll believe it truly can’t save her.”

Looking at his tense expression, tears streamed uncontrollably down my face.

“Ben, I’m almost out of wishes. This time I really will die. Please... don’t do this to me, okay? We used to be so happy together...”

He cut me off with cold precision.

“You’re mistaken, Jennifer. The past is gone. I’ve only treated you that way because you have some system.”

His mocking gaze slid across my face.

“I wish you and your mother would disappear forever.”

My mind buzzed blankly.

Looking at Ben’s face—filled with anger and hatred—I finally understood that we could never return to what we once were.

I lowered my eyes and looked toward the cliff.

My heart had gone completely still.

Maybe it was fine to die just like that.

I said nothing more, gathered all my strength, and—in the midst of Ben’s stunned expression—leapt.

The violent wind roared past my ears.

It drowned out Ben’s desperate scream.

I closed my eyes and silently made my wish.

“System, I want to use the last wish for myself. I wish to never love Ben again.”