My parents and fiancé framed me for all the crimes to to help my foster sister Victoria escape punishment. The victim's family blocked our doorway, holding a blood-written note, screaming for me to pay with my life. My parents and brother knelt before me, begging. "Victoria is still young; she can't go to prison... You're the older sister. Please, take the fall for her." I refused and fought to prove my innocence, but the next day they personally put me in a police car. And my fiancé, the powerful Sebastian Thorne, arranged everything and left me nowhere to escape. Before I went to prison, he made a final promise. "Emily Sterling, just endure these eight years. When you get out, I will marry you." But when he dropped to one knee before me eight years later, I no longer wanted it.

Chapter 1

Eight years ago, my parents' adopted daughter—my younger sister, Victoria Sterling—stabbed someone.

With my parents' help, Victoria successfully pinned the entire crime on me.

The victim's family blocked our doorway, holding a blood-written note, screaming for me to pay with my life.

My parents and brother knelt before me, begging: "Victoria is still young; she can't go to prison... You're the older sister. Please, take the fall for her."

I refused, I fought back, and I tried desperately to prove my innocence.

But the very next day, they put me into the police car with their own hands.

Once the news spread, my direct admission to a prestigious university was revoked.

And my fiancé, the immensely powerful business elite Sebastian Thorne, arranged everything.

He pulled strings to ensure I had nowhere to run.

Before I went to prison, he made a final promise:

"Emily Sterling, just endure these eight years. When you get out, I will marry you."

...

Eight years later.