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Chapter 1 A Taste Of The Memory-erasing Elixir At the Bridge of No Return in the Underworld, Scarlett Keene waited patiently in line for her dose of the Memory-Erasing Elixir. The line stretched on forever, no end in sight. Scarlett had dropped dead right at her desk, in the middle of working overtime. She wondered dimly if her old company would send any kind of death benefit to her parents. Scarlett still felt dazed and disoriented. How had she even died? And how had she ended up standing in this line? She had zero memory of getting here. The ghostly form of Scarlett reached up and touched her own cheek. Huh—turns out you can still feel your own face as a spirit. Looking back on her life, she'd been an absolute handful before elementary school. She stole things, chased birds, caught fish—all the rowdy stuff boys did, and she did it wilder than any of them. She could never sit still for two seconds. But after she entered middle school, she lost all her motivation and enthusiasm. She calmed right down, turned into a total goody-two-shoes. That good-girl streak lasted her whole life. She got into college right on track, landed a steady office job after graduation, and worked herself to the bone—right up until the day she dropped dead. Scarlett sighed. Her whole life had felt so... unremarkable—no big highs, no huge lows. She'd gotten all her mistakes out of the way back in elementary school. She'd gotten plenty of spankings for them, but looking back now, she thought every single one was worth it. Not a single beating had been for nothing. When she thought about her parents, her little brother, and sister, her spirit let out a long, heavy sigh. All things considered, she'd had a pretty happy life. Still, she couldn't help but wonder. What if she'd never forced herself to settle down and be a good kid back in middle school? Would her life have turned out differently? She was nothing like that wild kid anymore. All that reckless, boundless energy was lon
