Phoenix Of Ruin: My Second Life Comes With A Better Man

Sophia Hastings married Victor Grant against her family's wishes, hiding her identity as the granddaughter of the city's richest man. For three years she loved him. In return, Victor chose his first love Isabella during a kidnapping and let the kidnappers push Sophia into the sea. She dies. Then she wakes on the day Isabella frames her for poisoning.

Victor demands Sophia donate a kidney to save Isabella, who is supposedly in acute renal failure. Sophia refuses, which surprises him. She forces her way into Isabella's hospital room and exposes her sitting up perfectly healthy. Victor calls it a misunderstanding and offers a villa and a check. Sophia doesn't want compensation. She wants out. In the ward, she delivers the line that breaks the marriage: "A divorce. Now."

Victor assumes she is playing hard to get. He signs, still convinced Sophia is nothing without his name. Sophia calls the Hastings family to pick her up. Her grandfather William Hastings welcomes her back. She tells him she wants to take over as CEO of Hastings Group. He agrees, with one condition: she must accept a marriage alliance to stabilize her position.

A matchmaking banquet is arranged. The news spreads through elite circles. Victor hears about it and dismisses the idea, certain Sophia will come crawling back. He still doesn't know the Hastings heiress is his ex-wife. At a bar, a drunk heir named Tony Carter tries to drag Sophia away. Victor moves to stop him. Adrian Foster appears first.

Adrian is the head of the Foster family, a man even Victor's circle treats with fear. He stares directly at Sophia. Everyone in the room wonders why. Grace Thompson, Sophia's best friend, has already switched sides: she likes Adrian better than Victor. So does Sophia.