Blurb：
In this gripping tale of betrayal and second chances, Miranda finds herself back at the moment that changed everything. When her supposed best friend Kate Thompson beats her to purchasing the foreclosed property where a murder occurred, Miranda realizes they’ve both been reborn. This house holds a secret fortune – ten million dollars in cash and gold bars hidden in the ceiling cavity – that Kate now schemes to steal.
After being murdered by Kate in her previous life for inheriting this wealth, Miranda must outsmart her reborn rival in a deadly game of real estate and revenge. With the help of real estate agent Angela Shaw, Miranda navigates a world where foreclosed properties hold dark secrets and former friends become deadly enemies. Will Miranda reclaim what’s rightfully hers, or will Kate’s greed prevail once again?
This intense psychological thriller explores themes of reincarnation, betrayal, and the dark side of friendship set against the backdrop of property investment and hidden fortunes.
Content：
When I stand in the sales office and watch my best friend beat me to purchasing the foreclosed property I have my eye on, I finally know for sure that she has been reborn too.
In my previous life, both my best friend and I had some savings. She invested all her money in the stock market, while I decided to buy a house to live in.
Since I didn’t have much savings, I ended up buying a foreclosed property where a murder had taken place. But inside the ceiling cavity, I discovered a safe containing ten million dollars in cash and over a dozen gold bars.
Meanwhile, my best friend’s money was trapped in the stock market. She lost everything and even ended up in debt.
When she watched me move into a villa, drive luxury cars, and spend money extravagantly every day, my best friend flew into a rage. She lured me to a highway where an oncoming freight truck killed me.
After my death, my soul floated in the air as I watched her and my boyfriend deceive the police together. They claimed I had been drinking and ignored traffic rules, rushing onto the highway to my own death.
When I open my eyes again, I find myself back on the day I’m supposed to buy the foreclosed property.
Chapter 1
“I’ll take this one!”
Kate Thompson’s voice rang in my ears, and I stared at everything in front of me in shock.
The real estate agent, Angela Shaw, looked at me somewhat awkwardly, then said to Kate, “I’m sorry, miss, but she saw this property first.”
“So what? She hasn’t paid yet. I’ll pay first, so it’s mine.”
After looking at her determined expression, I understood. She had been reborn too.
“Miranda, I want this house too. Why don’t you look at some others? There are plenty of similar properties in this complex,” Kate said.
When she said this, her expression was somewhat probing. I knew she was trying to see if I had also been reborn.
I snapped out of it and frowned. “Fine then. If you like it, you can have it. I’ll look at others.”
Upon hearing me say this, Kate breathed a sigh of relief and prepared to make the deal with Angela.
Angela cleared her throat. “Ms. Thompson, I need to remind you that a murder had occurred in this house, which is why the price is so cheap. Are you sure you want to buy it?”
“Absolutely. The killer has already been caught, so what’s there to be afraid of? Besides, I’m not going to live…”
Kate stopped mid-sentence.
I smiled slightly, knowing what she meant. In my previous life, I had some savings and was tired of constantly renting, so I decided to buy a house to settle down. However, I didn’t have much money, and properties within my budget were few and far between.
Finally, Angela showed me a house where a murder had occurred. A married couple who had lived there got into domestic disputes, and the husband killed his wife. Later, the husband was arrested and sentenced to life in prison, but the house became a murder house that few people wanted to buy.
After understanding the situation, I decided to purchase the property. After all, no ghost could be scarier than being broke.
But later, I discovered enormous wealth in that house, while Kate fell into the lowest point of her life. So this time, she wanted to steal what originally belonged to me.
She flashed me a mocking smile. “You’d be better off taking your money to invest in stocks. Maybe they’ll skyrocket, and then you could buy a big house.”
I pretended not to understand her meaning and asked back, “This house still has several thousand dollars in monthly mortgage payments. Are you sure you can afford them?
“After all, you don’t have much savings, so making the payments might be difficult. If you need it, I could help you out.”
Kate had just enough money to cover the down payment. Provoked by my words and thinking about the enormous fortune awaiting her, her temper immediately flared.
“Who says I can’t? I’ll even pay in full cash. Don’t even think about competing with me. This is mine!”
Angela hadn’t expected her to be so passionate about this property. Full cash payment was naturally the best option, so she immediately set me aside and focused all her attention on serving her.
“Excellent, Ms. Thompson. How would you like to make the payment?”
Having already made the declaration, she naturally couldn’t take it back in front of me. Kate pulled out a card.
“I’ll pay part of it now, and I’ll give you the rest in three days. That should be fine, right?”
Angela took the card and nodded happily. “Of course, there’s no problem. Let’s go sign the contract then.”
Since that was the case, I had no reason to stay there any longer. I turned around and left, returning to my rental apartment.
Chapter 2
That evening, just as I lay down on my bed, I received a call from my boyfriend, Jarred Russo.
He said to me without mercy, “Let’s break up, Miranda. I’m tired of this. Don’t come bothering me anymore.”
I listened to his voice expressionlessly. After he finished speaking, I could faintly hear a woman’s soft laughter in the background.
Although I knew whose voice it was, I still pretended to be shocked. “Are you cheating on me? Who are you with right now? Jarred, you can’t do this to me.”
The angrier I sounded, the more amused he seemed.
“I’ll be honest with you. I was only with you because you could get me a referral to your company. Now that I’ve achieved my goal, I don’t want to force myself to stay with you anymore.”
So that was it. Because my resume was quite impressive, I was hired by a major company right after graduating from college. Later, after I established myself at the company, I helped both Jarred and Kate get hired through internal referrals.
“Stop pestering us, Miranda. We’re going to be rich soon. We won’t be in the same class as you anymore.
“Our circles are different, so why force yourself to fit in? Let’s just leave it at that.”
Kate had taken the phone and spoke to me.
“You two? You actually betrayed me!” I gasped, sounding completely shocked.
This made both of them burst into laughter.
I took the opportunity to say, “I’d like to see how well you two do without me. You just bought a crappy, old house. What’s so great about that?”
“You’ll find out soon enough. You’re just an ordinary office worker. How could you ever compete with me?”
After hanging up, I let out a cold laugh. How utterly foolish. In this law-abiding society, if such a large sum of money really fell from the sky, could it escape the police’s attention?
The next day, I went to work as usual and saw Kate and Jarred both go to the manager’s office to resign. Faced with such sudden applications, our manager, Hank Johnson, was somewhat puzzled and tried to persuade them to stay, but Kate arrogantly refused.
“Sorry, Hank, but I just came into some money. It’s not much, just a few million dollars, so working isn’t necessary for me anymore.”
Hank almost wondered if he had misheard, and the surrounding colleagues immediately gathered around.
“Kate, are you daydreaming? Where’d you even get that much money? Did you rob a bank?”
“Did you win the lottery? How did you pick the numbers? Is there a trick? Teach me!”
“You’re joking, right? You’re talking out of your ass. This is hilarious.”
When she heard these flattering or opposing voices, Kate decided to show them what was happening. “How about this? Come to my new house in three days, and you’ll see for yourselves.”
She then directly sent the address to the work group chat. Upon seeing how determined she was, Hank couldn’t say much more and approved both of their resignation applications.
While packing up, Kate noticed the branded bag on my desk and immediately exploded. “How can you afford that?”
After a few seconds, she realized something. “Oh, I get it now. You deliberately bought a fake to impress people, trying to outdo me.
“I suggest you give up. There’s no need to pretend. A canvas bag worth a few dollars would suit you better.”
I rolled my eyes and brought my bag right up to her face. “Open your damn eyes and look carefully. How could a fake have stitching this good?
“I just bought it from the boutique yesterday. Do you want me to show you the payment record?”
Chapter 3
Kate stared intently at my bag, as if trying to confirm whether it was real or fake. Her eyes flickered uncertainly for a few moments before she quickly regained her composure.
“So what? It’s just a bag. I could buy a hundred of them. But for you, buying this bag must have been pretty difficult with your salary. Just don’t end up drowning in debt over a handbag.”
I wasn’t about to back down. I scoffed, saying, “You’re just talking big. Buy one and show me then. I bet you’re just putting on a tough act.”
“I’ll go buy one right now. You just wait and see,” she retorted.
Kate glared at me, then left the company and headed straight to the mall, where she bought several luxury handbags. As soon as she got them, she posted on social media and even sent me private messages to make sure I saw them.
I silently calculated in my mind. Those bags weren’t cheap. Together, they had to cost at least 200 thousand dollars. The source of this money was obvious.
Over the next few days, Kate seemed determined to compete with me. Every time I bought a bag and posted it on social media, she would buy an even better one to one-up me. What she didn’t know was that all these posts were set to be visible only to her, specifically for her to see.
As I had hoped, she took the bait so easily.
This weekend, during my day off, I went shopping at the mall. I needed to attend a gala soon and wanted to buy some jewelry to make a good impression.
After hearing my request, the sales associate brought out several jewelry sets and introduced each one to me. Just then, there was a commotion at the entrance.
“What’s your most expensive diamond ring? Bring it out and show it to me.”
At those arrogant words, everyone in the store looked to the speaker. To my surprise, it was Kate and Jarred.
What a small world.
A sales associate approached them, looked them up and down, and gently reminded them, “Miss, our most expensive diamond ring costs over ten million dollars. Are you sure you want to see it?”
Kate, having suddenly come into money, was shocked by the price. “Over ten million? Why is it so expensive? Isn’t diamond just carbon?”
This comment amused everyone in the store, and I laughed too. At this point, they both noticed me and walked over.
“What are you doing here? This isn’t a place for someone broke like you. You followed us here, didn’t you?”
Jarred seemed certain, as if he thought I still had feelings for him.
I sneered. “Are you crazy? I was here first, okay? If anything, you’re the ones following me.”
The sales associate also spoke up for me. “Indeed, this lady arrived first.”
Unable to argue with me, Kate immediately changed the subject and looked at the jewelry I was examining. “Can you even afford it? You’re just wasting your time looking.”
“Mind your own business. You talk as if you can afford it.”
Kate, thinking I really couldn’t afford it, immediately became smug. “Of course I can. How much are all these sets together? I’ll take them all.”
The sales associate smiled slightly. “Each set is 500 thousand dollars. All together, that’s two million dollars.”
Both of them fell silent for a few seconds, then started making excuses and acting like it was no big deal. “Actually, I think these sets are just average. Besides, I couldn’t wear all of them by myself anyway.”
I impatiently interrupted her. “Are you buying them or not? If not, I’ll take them.”
With that, I asked the sales associate to pack up all the sets for me.
Chapter 4
Kate, seeing that she failed to show off her wealth in front of me, ground her teeth. She quickly grabbed the sales associate’s hand and pointed to a ruby set. “I want this one!”
Jarred still had some concerns and tugged at her sleeve, lowering his voice. “500 thousand dollars? Isn’t that a bit too expensive?”
Kate was practically fuming at this point and insisted on getting it no matter what. She told the sales associate to wrap it up for payment.
However, when they swiped several bank cards, all of them showed insufficient funds. In the end, the two of them nearly emptied their entire savings just to barely cover the payment.
…
Three days passed quickly. Kate had gathered enough money for the house. She went to Angela, completed the transfer, and got the keys to the property.
When I saw that it was about time, I also headed to that residential complex. At this moment, our colleagues had all arrived. Everyone wanted to see how Kate planned to get rich.
Soon Kate and Jarred arrived at the scene. She scanned the people present, and after confirming I was there, she nodded with satisfaction. “Alright, let’s all go up together.”
Along the way, colleagues looked around at the complex’s environment and asked with some confusion, “Kate, this complex is pretty old. It shouldn’t be worth much, right?”
“Yeah, there’s no landscaping, and it’s mostly just old folks living here.”
“There aren’t any schools nearby either. The only advantage is that it’s close to the office, but you’ve already quit, so that doesn’t matter anymore.”
As she listened to these people chatter, Kate looked at them like they were idiots. “This house is indeed cheap and not worth much, but there are valuable things inside. Now that the house is mine, naturally, everything inside belongs to me too.”
At that, some colleagues immediately thought of news they’d seen online about people discovering millions of dollars in cash in foreclosed properties.
The colleagues were all somewhat shocked, but there were still some rational people who asked, “You’ve never even been to that house. How can you be sure there are valuable things inside?”
No matter how foolish, Kate couldn’t say she had been reborn, so she could only say, “Some secrets can’t be revealed.”
Her mysterious act actually convinced some colleagues, who immediately flattered her. “Kate, when you get rich, don’t forget about us!”
At this moment, Kate’s vanity reached its peak. She was grinning from ear to ear.
When we reached the door of that house, Kate took out the key and inserted it, but she couldn’t open it no matter what. Her smile froze on her face as she repeatedly turned the key, but the door still wouldn’t open.
The colleagues also noticed something was wrong and asked, “What’s going on?”
Kate forced out a smile. “The key might be rusty and hard to turn.”
As she spoke, she applied more force with her hands. Just then, the door opened from the inside.
“Who the hell is trying to break down my door? Do you have a death wish?” someone questioned.
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