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After her rebirth, Rita vows not to repeat her past mistakes. This time, her first priority is to stop her brother, who is about to marry into the Lopez family, from participating in the initial game beta test. In her previous life, she was deceived by this scheming brother until her dying breath. It was only at the end that she realized she was merely a villain in a male-oriented novel about a live-in son-in-law, with all the malice and manipulation orchestrated by him behind the scenes.

In this life, Rita decides to change the rules of the game. She will stay in the shadows and seize all the opportunities meant for the male and female leads. By participating in the beta test and re-selecting her abilities, she systematically dismantles the protagonists’ advantages, all while making them believe she’s on their side.

Rita has no intention of harming innocent people, nor is she a selfless saint. In this game, she works with the authorities for mutual benefit, all to achieve her ultimate goal—becoming the true master of her fate.

This Life, I Will Be the Protagonist

Before leaving the auction house, Rita bought two more Magician's False Teeth. If combining the false tooth and magic eye failed, she'd experiment with merging similar items to create something better using Renovation.

She placed a false tooth and the magic eye together, trying to mentally visualize how to combine them.

Nivalis hovered nearby, peering at the items. No matter how she looked, she couldn't see how the two objects could possibly fuse.

After pondering for a while, Rita used A Big World, A Small Me to shrink the magic eye to the size of a grain of rice, placing it neatly into the socket of the false tooth. Only then did she activate Renovation, forcing the items to merge.

As the light of the two artifacts intertwined, Rita ignored it, instead pulling out the two additional false teeth she'd bought and trying to merge those separately.

The Renovation process was excruciatingly slow. It took nearly half an hour to finish.

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