In her past life, Alicia, the rightful sole heir of the Vance family—a century-old New England shipbuilding dynasty—lost everything to Evelyn, the hypocritical daughter of her family’s sponsored nanny. Deceived by endless lies, Alicia perished miserably on a brutal snowy night in Boston. Reborn, she returns to the summer of her graduation from Ivy Preparatory Academy, determined to rewrite her fate.
Evelyn, who has long been parasitic on the Vance family, continues to squander the family’s social credibility behind Alicia’s back and unites with fellow students to ostracize and bully her. This time, Alicia refuses to endure any longer. While Mr. Vance is on a business trip in Europe, Evelyn takes a desperate gamble. She hosts an unauthorized celebration banquet at the family’s seaside manor, plotting to drug Alicia, ruin her reputation, and destroy her completely.
Seeing through her scheme, Alicia sets a perfect counter-trap. She lures Evelyn’s biological father—a violent, alcoholic gambler drowning in debt—to crash the banquet and demand a sky-high bride price, utterly shattering Evelyn’s fake old-money noble facade. Meanwhile, Carter, the heir of a rival family who has hidden his identity and worked as a grassroots mechanic at the Vance shipyard to guard Alicia in secret, resolves the drug crisis just in time.
