Reborn Through Fire

Chapter 1 She is… Dead?

Kisa Becker was in the women’s prison. She held her bulging belly and slowly crawled toward the door. She had been locked in for three days, and because of one man’s order, she had eaten nothing until now. 

The floor near the doorway was strewn with breadcrumbs. Kisa stretched out her painful red hand. She picked up the dirty and cold hard breadcrumbs and put them into her mouth. 

Suddenly, the door opened. A voice said, “You have a visitor.” 

Before Kisa could rejoice, she was roughly dragged out of the cell, cleaned up, and pushed into a visiting room. Through the bars, she finally saw the man she had loved for ten years. 

Kisa held back her tears. “How is Grandma?” 

“How could you still have the nerve to ask?” Gilbert Kooper grabbed her by the neck with a ruthless look on his face as if he was going to kill her. “Thanks to you, Grandma will never wake up again. 

“I can overlook the fact that you climbed into my bed on purpose and abducted Sara, but you shouldn’t have harmed Grandma.” 

Kisa repeatedly shook her head. She had adored Gilbert since she was a child. But ever since she learned that the person he loved was Sara Mitchell, she carefully kept her feelings to herself. 

One day on her twentieth birthday, Kisa woke up naked and hungover in Gilbert’s bed. A month later, she was found to be pregnant. Gilbert’s grandmother threatened to kill herself unless Gilbert married Kisa. After the marriage, he became so disgusted with her that he never came home for the night. 

At first, Kisa thought they could live in peace for the rest of their lives. But then Sara disappeared, followed by a phone call from Gilbert’s grandmother telling Kisa she had something important to ask Kisa. But when she opened the door, the old lady was seen lying on the floor covered in blood. 

“Gilbert, I didn’t hurt your grandma. For the sake of the baby, please trust me for once.” Kisa pleaded with him. 

“The baby?” Gilbert’s icy gaze fell on her bulging belly. “Get rid of it. Your child is too dirty!” 

The man’s heartless words stabbed into her heart like a knife. 

“Tell me where Sara is if you still have any conscience left.” 

Kisa was in complete despair. She shrilled, “I didn’t hurt your grandma. I didn’t abduct Sara. Why don’t you believe me? This is the Kooper family’s child; why do you have to be so cruel? Why?” 

The man narrowed his eyes. “You are really obstinate. Since this is the case, you may atone for your sins in prison.” 

Kisa broke down and pounded on the bars as the man departed without showing her mercy. 

“Kisa.” 

woman walked in with some cotton coats. That was

eyes flashing. “Just tell him the whereabouts of that woman. He told me that if you insisted on not telling him the whereabouts of Sara, he’d make your life

so much that she almost suffocated. She clutched the lapels of her abdomen forcefully. “Sara’s disappearance has nothing to do with me. If he wants my life, then take it,” she said in

was eventually convicted. The day she was officially transferred to the women’s prison was also New Year’s Eve. Inside, she was beaten black and blue by some inmates until she could

to the New Year’s Eve party held in prison, Kisa lay battered on the cold, hard bed, holding her

a strong and choking smell of smoke suddenly came

started to leak in through the

painful to move, but she,

She rapped desperately on the door panel. “Help!

that moment, she heard murmurs outside the

that this woman is to be left to rot and perish.”

mean, this fire—”

you know, I know.”

faded away to the sound of footsteps, Kisa slumped against the door in pain, her heart throbbing and her body shaking. Apparently, Gilbert was going to let her die in this cell. ‘The baby

she could not open her eyes. But thinking of the baby in her womb, she continued to rap the door with all her strength and shouted until her voice turned hoarse, but still no

reciting Gilbert’s name over and over again. ‘You once saved my life, and now I give it back to you. After this, I will owe you nothing. If there is an afterlife, I wish we

another heavy snowfall.

his grandmother in and got up to draw the curtains. Just as he walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, his phone rang. He picked

“She is… dead?” 

Women’s Prison killed an inmate code-named 0037. On the same day, Gilbert Kooper, the CEO of

… 

“Aaaaah!” 

her belly, the flatness of which caused her

is no more. My child was lost

nightmare haunted her every night. In the dream, a group of people surrounded her, punching and kicking her, and flames engulfed her. There was also the baby, whose skin had turned purple

all the time. Even after five years, it still

rang. It

the opening ceremony is about to start. Why haven’t you

body double. Today, Ariella had to attend the opening event of a drama, and she must get to the hotel before the time she said she

stopped just at the stop, and Kisa got up while apologizing on the phone. Just then, a scream

burn scars on her face and got off the bus. Standing in front of a street sign, she looked bitterly at the reflection of her skeletal, ugly body and the hideous