A Life Debt Repaid By Cheng Xiaocheng Chapter 1


    Chapter 1


    The former top heiress of North City was getting married, despite her reputation that was left in tatters


    for her alleged debauchery.Naturally, high society was left in an uproar once word got out.…Cordy


    Sachs, who was dressed in a Franconia designer wedding dress, was looking at the reflection of her


    dazzling, beautiful face in the mirror.After dating Kyle Wickham for three years, they were finally tying


    the knot—he still loved her even though everyone was trying to put her down.Smiling expectantly with


    tears welling in her eyes, she reared her chin slightly as she lifted her skirt and started toward the


    door… only for rolling wisps of smoke to seep through the slit around the door, creeping into the


    washroom impatiently as if looking for an outlet.A fire?!Cordy’s face fell. Pinching her nose as she


    stepped outside, she found the banquet hall that had been exceedingly lively a second ago now


    empty.There was only the thick smoke and fire that seemed bent on consuming everything.She did not


    hesitate to head toward the location of the exit in her memory, but she would be lying if she said she


    was not afraid of the rolling smoke and the blinding mes.That was when a man suddenly charged


    inside the hall.It was Cordy’s fiance, Kyle Jessop. Seemingly seeing salvation, she cried out as she


    coughed and spluttered, “Kyle, I’m here…”Kyle, however, ignored her as he looked around


    anxiously.Then, pausing for a moment as if finding his target, he did not hesitate to run in the opposite


    direction from Cordy, even though every second counted.Then, as Cordy looked on, he picked up


    another woman who had been caught within the hall like Cordy and hurried outside.“I knew you would


    come for me, Kyle…” Cordy could clearly hear the woman’s enfeebled voice, at once tender and


    aggrieved. “I was so afraid…”Cordy abruptly felt as if she was bludgeoned, her vision cking out as


    she felt a dull pain over her chest.The voice belonged to her stepsister, Noel Sachs.And Kyle would put


    everything on the line to save Noel, but not her!Her heart was in pieces as if sliced through by a razor


    de, and it was a suffocation more lethal than the smoke around her!Even as she was rendered


    speechless, the ss chandelier overhead suddenly came crashing down!ng!Itnded in front of


    Cordy, cutting off her escape even as she dropped to the floor, her soul seemingly disced.Kyle


    turned around just then and saw Cordy falling behind him—but he never stopped.When Cordy looked


    up again, he had already dashed out of the hall without a care with the other woman in his arms.She


    was on the verge of death, but she could still clearly hear him tenderly assuring Noel, “It’s alright. I’m


    here now.”‘I’m here now…’Cordy blinked even as violent heat surrounded her but she felt utterly cold


    inside.She could only watch as that familiar figure slowly disappeared from sight.…Cordy managed to


    survive—amid her despair, the firefighters arrived just in time and rescued her.However, she had


    inhaled too much smoke and suffered blunt trauma on her right leg—she was unconscious when they


    got her out, and they rushed her to the hospital right after.It was not until the next morning that she


    woke up.There was a gentle breeze in the air—it was a beautiful early summer day in North City and a


    ray of sunshinended on her pale, frail cheeks and her long, thick eyshes.She was looking coolly


    out at the blue sky and the clouds above. Her calm visage showed no emotion, and she was so still she


    could well still be unconscious.She did not realize that someone had suddenly opened the door to her


    ward, and she turned to find her father, stepmother, and Noel in the room already.“Are you alright,


    Cordy?” Noel asked tearfully.All Cordy could think about right then was the sight of Kyle saving Noel.


    She averted her eyes from them.“You’re always so rude! Don’t you see that your sister cares about


    you?” her father, Simon Sachs, snapped right then. On the other hand, Cordy’s stepmother, Sue


    Yorkman, could see that Cordy did not want to talk. Sue quickly told him, “Simon, Cordy is just a child.


    We have more important matters anyway.”Simon did not want to waste his breath with Cordy either,


    and said right away, “You probably know by now, but Noel’s the one Kyle actually loves, and it’s a lucky


    coincidence that the wedding was disrupted. So give them your blessing and announce the annulment


    of your engagement with Kyle.”Cordyughed despite her fury and she asked Simon, “Why?”“Because


    they love each other,” Simon said with utter conviction. “You’d already dragged our family’s name


    through the mud when you had a child out of wedlock! All of North City knows that, and did you really


    think the Jessops would ept someone with such a questionable past? They are giving you a way


    out, so take it!”Cordy’s questionable past went as far as she was eighteen.Noel had tricked Cordy to


    show up at a bar, where she was drugged and ended up waking up in the bed of a man she did not


    recognize.She was so distraught she did not even look at the man before running away, and she was


    too young to understand contraceptives. In fact, she was already five months pregnant before sheContent held by N?velDrama.Org.


    realized what was happening, and Noel had sent the paparazzi after her when she tried to get to the


    abortion despite her pain.That was how Cordy ended up being the biggestughing stock of North


    City.Things went from bad to worse when the doctor told her that she could not get an abortion for


    health reasons, and she therefore kept the child. She eventually came to ept it, only for it toe


    out stillborn… but in her anguish, when she neededfort the most, Simon ruthlessly sent her


    abroad, leaving her to her own devices and without a word of concern for seven years.In fact, he never


    asked after her although she just escaped death, but he was already telling her to give up on Kyle


    because of his precious Noel?!How cold could a father be that he could tell her something so cruel, to


    rip open her old scars and draw blood?“I guess being a mistress runs in the family,” Cordy said with a


    sneer. “Drag the family’s name through the mud? You already did when you married your mistress


    while my mother’s body was still warm, and the child you had with her is somehow just half a year


    younger than me. No one else would dare im the throne of infamy in this city when you’re


    around!”“Cordy…” Simon growled, infuriated.On the other hand, Noel and Sue were humiliated by her


    contempt.Not in the mood to continue arguing with her so-called family, Cordy snapped, “If the Jessops


    really refuse to have me, have Kyle himself tell me himself! You have no reason to be here, so leave


    before I call the cops! What more do I have to get embarrassed about, right?” Simon knew very well


    that Cordy was just delicate on the surface like her mother. Her stubbornness and unreasonable nature


    was ingrained in her very bones, and if they really upset her, no one was going to stop her!“Don’t make


    me send you abroad again, Cordy Sachs!” he barked before turning to leave, with Noel and Sue


    naturally hurrying off after him.However, Cordy scoffed at Simon’s threat—did he think she was still her


    old self from seven years ago, allowing him to do anything he wanted with her?She would not allow


    anyone to walk over her and her life from now on!“Mommy?” A small, crisp voice brought Cordy to her


    senses just then…