I Tried to Kill, But the System Made Me Farm

In this modern billionaire romance, a high-stakes world of wealth and power sets the stage for a deep, emotional journey. As the moon descends and shadows stretch across their lives, two souls find themselves entangled in a web of complex feelings. Against a backdrop of luxury and corporate intrigue, they must navigate the shifting darkness of their pasts. This evocative tale explores if love can survive when the light fades and hidden secrets finally emerge.

After taking in a deceased friend’s rebellious daughter, the protagonist’s mother pays the ultimate price. The girl, a delinquent obsessed with a school bully, leaps into a river to prove her devotion. When the mother attempts a rescue, the girl drowns her instead. Now reborn, the protagonist intervenes to save her mother from the same fate. However, her mother unexpectedly shoves her into the freezing water, questioning why her own child wasn't the one to jump.

Based on a manipulative lie told by his foster sister, Franklin decides to punish his six-month pregnant wife. He drags her to an empty amusement park, completely ignoring her desperate pleas for their unborn child. Strapped into a violently spinning ride on his orders, she endures a terrifying ordeal as the machine reaches maximum speed. As Franklin watches mockingly from the controls, agony strikes her. She loses consciousness in a pool of blood, leaving him paralyzed in sudden shock.

Seventeen years as the Falcone family’s mafia princess ended with a single DNA test. Branded a bastard orphan, she was stripped of her title, robbed by her sister, framed, and left bleeding in the dirt. Handed to a slum thug while feverish, she overheard Carlo Falcone order her to rot. Defying death, she leapt from a fifth-floor window into the freezing night and survived. Now she resurfaces not as a discarded stray, but as the ruler of the Falcones’ most lethal rival, determined to dismantle everything they own. A woman who has already fallen from the sky cannot be broken.

For eight years, I was the perfect, understanding partner to Giles James, sacrificing my own aspirations to serve as his unpaid translator. But when my grandmother lay dying, he chose to block me at the airport, demanding I translate a paper for his sponsored student, Judy Coleman, to secure a diplomatic connection. Pretending to comply one last time, I finished the work. But instead of saving his career, I packaged the translation with proof of his professional corruption and sent it straight to the disciplinary board.

Following an accident, a unique auditory gift allowed me to hear the truth of love hidden within human heartbeats. While others stuttered with intense emotion, my husband Toby Barnes remained perfectly, chillingly calm throughout our marriage. I convinced myself his unwavering pulse was just his way of loving me. That illusion shattered when a car crash sent both me and his ex-girlfriend to his emergency room. Watching him rush past my bleeding form to save her, I finally heard his heart race wildly for the first time.