Heiress Reborn: I'm No One's Puppet

Scarlett, an eighteen-year-old heiress of a top-tier wealthy family, was meticulously manipulated for sixteen years by her personal nanny Linda and Linda’s daughter Ivy in her past life. Stripped of all her family wealth, abandoned in the slums, she was eventually suffocated to death by Ivy in a hospital. Bearing the traumatic memories of despair, Scarlett is reborn at a pivotal turning point in her senior year of high school. Shedding her naive and timid personality from her previous life, she resolutely exposes the hypocritical masks of all betrayers. No longer a manipulated puppet, she plans strategically to dismantle the long-term schemes and traps woven by the mother-and-daughter duo. Abandoning her deliberately flamboyant and rebellious facade, she returns to her calm, rational, and authentic self. She publicly humiliates her hypocritical best friend, destroys the rivals’ fame-and-fortune scams, and unravels elaborate framed plots. On her journey of revenge and comeback, she uncovers a shocking truth: Linda, who has pretended to be gentle, kind, and diligent as a family cleaner for sixteen years, is the mastermind behind all conspiracies, coveting everything belonging to the Winston family. Nathaniel, her childhood sweetheart and school swimming team captain, who silently guarded her yet failed to save her in her past life, devotes himself to protecting her in this lifetime, making up for all past regrets with timely and dedicated companionship. Their unrequited mutual