The Altar of Regret Chapter 1

I transmigrated into this book just as the story was reaching its grand finale.

I was standing at the altar with the male lead, Harrison Sterling, surrounded by the cheers and blessings of the elite.

But after taking a single phone call, the color drained from Harrison's face.

He shoved me aside without a word and sprinted out of the church.

Oh, if I remembered the timeline correctly, the female lead had probably just "attempted" suicide and was currently being rushed to the ER.

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I had become the villainous "True Heiress" in a classic switched-at-birth melodrama.

I was the biological daughter; the female lead was the one who took my place.

Once the truth came out, I was brought back to the wealthy Vance family, and the female lead, Brianna, was supposedly cast out.

Everything that once belonged to her—the doting parents, the handsome billionaire fiancé, the vast Vance fortune—all fell into my hands.

Brianna went from a princess to a pauper overnight.

The parents who raised her for eighteen years turned their backs; the brother who once spoiled her called her a "thief" who stole my life; her childhood sweetheart fiancé broke off their engagement immediately.

Brianna spent the rest of the book trying to prove she wasn't a gold-digger. She claimed she never wanted to fight me for anything.

She just wanted "family."

She tried to work at the Vance Group to show her worth, but my father assumed she was trying to steal my inheritance and fired her.

她 gave me a gift to bridge the gap, but my brother Caleb thought she was trying to poison me and slapped her across the face.

She even showed up at my wedding to Harrison to offer her "blessings," only to be labeled a homewrecker by the guests and cyberbullied into oblivion.

Finally, at the peak of my wedding, a broken Brianna chose to end it all.

But her suicide was the catalyst for everyone else’s "awakening."

My parents suddenly remembered the eighteen years they spent raising her. Caleb remembered the sweet little girl who used to follow him around. Harrison remembered how hard she used to try to make him smile.

Suddenly, everyone was drowning in regret.

To make matters worse, Brianna’s "secret diary" was conveniently discovered after her death.

It was filled with her love for the Vance family, her pining for Harrison, and her guilt toward me.

She apologized to everyone, over and over, stating she never wanted the money—she just wanted to be loved.

The guilt consumed them. They vowed to spend the rest of their lives making it up to her.

After she recovered, she was welcomed back into the family with open arms. Harrison realized he truly loved her, and after a series of dramatic "pursuits," they got their happily ever after.

As for me, the "villainess," I became so consumed by jealousy that I tried to run Brianna over with a car.

In the end, she escaped without a scratch, and I was the one who died in the wreckage.