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Betrayed. Imprisoned. Forgotten.

Rhea Lin gave everything to the people she loved — her loyalty, her time, even her dreams. But in one brutal week, she was framed for embezzlement, dumped by her fiancé, abandoned by her best friend, and fired by the cold billionaire CEO she trusted.

She died broken… but fate gave her a second chance.

Waking up five years in the past, Rhea swears never to be a pawn again. Armed with knowledge of the future and a heart full of vengeance, she steps back into the same world — but this time, she’s the one pulling the strings.

Her plan? Seduce the powerful CEO who ruined her life… and tear down his empire from the inside.

But the more she plays the game, the more she realizes: not everything is as it seemed.
Because the cold billionaire isn't the man she thought he was.
And a mysterious system has started offering her impossible rewards — at the cost of her memories.

Love, power, revenge... and a truth darker than betrayal await.

In a world full of liars and secrets, can Rhea rewrite her fate — or will the past repeat itself in new, twisted ways?

Reset My Life: The Billionaire's Broken Pawn

The moment Rhea hit enter, her screen fractured into lines of cascading code.

So like him. Arden Blake didn't just hide files — he buried them behind firewalls laced with traps, like digital landmines. One wrong click, and the system would retaliate.

Memory Sync Required — Sacrifice One Emotional Anchor

Three fragile pieces of her she hadn't even realized were fading. She didn't have time to mourn sentiment.

It vanished in a blink — a warmth she couldn't remember disappearing like smoke.

The system unlocked the first gate.

This wasn't just hacking. This was a dance — familiar rhythms pulled from the depths of her past life, enhanced now by Strategic Insight Level 1. She navigated mirrored subdirectories and evaded dummy file bombs disguised as innocuous PDFs.

Then she saw it: a folder marked CICADA.ark.

Her breath caught. She'd heard whispers about Cicada in her last life — an off-ledger project funded by a shadow board, something even the auditors feared to touch.

External surveillance trigger embedded.

Estimated Time to Safe Extraction: 06:22 minutes

She swore and snapped into motion, initiating a clone dump and data shunt to her air-gapped drive.

[System Boost Activated: "Ghost Protocol" - 120 seconds of untraceable access]

She didn't ask who gave it. She took it.

The minutes stretched like wire across a battlefield.

She heard voices in her head—not madness, but memories slipping—echoes of laughter she couldn't place, names she couldn't match to faces.

Classified Intel Unlocked: "Project Cicada"

Status: Active | Location: Unknown

Rhea leaned back, her heart thunderous.

She'd expected betrayal, yes. But this?

The next morning, the boardroom was glossy with ego. Twelve men and women sat in clean-cut suits, sipping imported espresso and murmuring over quarterly charts.

Rhea stood just inside the door. Uninvited. Unwelcome.

When he did, time seemed to narrow. He walked in with the ease of someone who thought the world owed him admiration. His eyes swept the room—and paused when they landed on her.

Then, the familiar smirk. "Miss Lin. I wasn't aware we extended an invitation."

"Oh, I don't need an invitation anymore," she said coolly. "I brought receipts."

She placed a flash drive on the table.

Kairo's eyes snapped to hers. There it was — panic, buried deep beneath polished calm.

And she'd just made her first real move.

Echoes in the Code