When Matilda Mariani dies under the weight of two grandsons she raised alone, fate gives her a second chance. Reborn one year earlier with every memory intact, she swears she will not let history repeat. Her only daughter, Katelyn Zeng, is a romantic who once stole her household papers and eloped with a penniless man named Cruz Werner. In the first life Matilda took the grandchildren in, starved herself, and died exhausted. This time she chooses herself. Matilda will weaponize evidence, social media, law, and cold calculation to force Katelyn and Cruz to face the consequences of their choices. She will have another child—on purpose—to break Katelyn’s entitlement. She will expose lies, provoke karmic backfire, and protect the truly innocent: the newborn twins she will not let be used as shields by reckless parents. This is a modern, hard-edged domestic rebound: rebirth, public shaming, legal pressure, livestream warfare, and the slow, satisfying collapse of a spoiled daughter’s demands. By the end Matilda must decide whether mercy or final closure makes her whole.
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