Chapter 1

Six months after my death, Liam called me. He cursed me for being unreasonable, ungrateful, and accused me of cheating.

Everyone advised me to initiate the divorce and even spoke up for the other woman, urging me to let them be together.

"Don't you all know? Our classmate, Nora, died in that accident."

Crash!

The glass in Liam's hand slipped and shattered on the floor, spilling red wine everywhere.

At a reunion, a college classmate revealed that I had died in a plane crash. Liam went mad, but I just laughed.

I came from a well-off family and was a firm believer in staying single. Having children was the furthest thing from my mind. But when a rival company dealt a severe blow to our family business, I had no choice but to become a sacrificial lamb in a business marriage.

Watching my father's hair turn increasingly gray, seeing the sudden wrinkles covering my mother's face, and witnessing my sister tirelessly drinking and negotiating business deals day and night, I finally nodded in agreement. A once-staunch single was about to be forced into marriage.

The marriage partner had been pre-selected by my parents. He was the new CEO of Anderson Group. In the past, Anderson Group wouldn't have been considered a match for us, but now that my family had fallen on hard times, a partnership with the Andersons could revitalize our family business.

I met the new female CEO of Anderson Group once before the wedding. It was then that I discovered she was actually Liam, a classmate from my university department. Apparently, after his mother passed away years ago, his father had also recently died, leaving him to take over the entire group.

Liam seemed to have known beforehand that I was his intended partner. He smiled at me, and the first thing he said was, "I've secretly liked you since university."

Because of this statement, I felt a little less resistant to this arranged marriage.