"However, I was too busy trying to remove you from the chaos of the secret society that… I didn't realize someone else had returned as I did. Old Mrs. Pierson. I only found out when I investigated further and discovered she avoided marrying her husband in the first life—and chose someone else instead."
In the second timeline, having been reborn like everyone else, Old Mrs. Pierson changed the course of her life. Instead of being dragged into a forced marriage with an abusive man who saw her as nothing more than a possession, she fled and sought out someone who could protect her.
Unaware that the man she spent that wild night with was the very one she had been searching for, they eventually agreed to be together and fell in love. She only realized that the man she had borne a child with in her first life was him when she gave birth to a son, the same son she had in her previous life.
