Reborn and Done Competing for Love

At the banquet to welcome her home from her studies abroad, my fiancee, Sienna Vaughn, shows up hand-in-hand with her foreign boyfriend, Jacques Castillo. She announces that she is calling off our engagement.

Her parents, Harold Vaughn and Marissa Jenning, beg desperately for me to try to win her back, for the sake of all those years we spent together during our childhood.

But this time, I refuse.

"Let's end the engagement. From today onward, we'll go our separate ways," I say.

…

In my previous life, I had taken pity on Harold and Marissa and sincerely tried to keep Sienna by my side. In the end, she agreed to marry me.

But three years later, my shares were siphoned away, my company went bankrupt, and I was left with massive debts. Unable to handle the burden, my parents, Ralph Hale and Emily Pierce, passed away.

Sienna, nestled in Jacques' arms, spat, "You owe me this!"

…

Now that I am given a second chance at life, I return to the very day she returned from abroad. This time, she can marry whoever she wants.

She thinks that I'm marrying her to save my company from ruin. But little does she know that the one really headed for bankruptcy is her family.

I never thought I would wake up again.

The banquet hall was filled with guests, and my previous life felt like a distant dream. Yet I knew every moment had been real.

As I stood at the hotel entrance, all I wanted was to cancel this ridiculous homecoming party. A banner that read, "Welcome Back, Sienna! Congratulations on the completion of your studies!" hung prominently nearby.

My mother, Emily Pierce, looked at me with concern. "What's wrong?"

"Mom, I want to call off today's event."

Having been given a second chance, all I wanted was to preserve the Hale family's dignity.

"Don't be ridiculous! Sienna has just returned from abroad! We can't just ignore such an occasion!"

I sighed quietly. "You're right, Mom. I was just joking."

She shot me a sharp look. "Still as thoughtless as ever."

Just then, Sienna's parents, Harold Vaughn and Marissa Jenning, arrived. But my fiancee, Sienna Vaughn, was nowhere to be seen.

Marissa smiled warmly. "Vincent, why do you look so pale?"

Before I could respond, my mother spoke up for me. "He's just nervous about seeing Sienna after so long."

Marissa beamed. My parents and Sienna's parents looked at me with amusement. To them, I was still the naive young man who was lovesick and anxious to see my fiancee. But in truth, I was only thinking about how to gracefully exit this engagement and let Sienna be with her true love.

In my past life, I had been under the false impression that we were in a happy marriage. It wasn't until a family gathering on our anniversary that Sienna showed up with a stack of documents and hurled them straight in my face.

"Vincent, you're bankrupt. You have nothing