Reborn, I Gifted Her My Hell

Ivy and Poppy are orphan sisters given a second chance at life, both waking on the very day two families arrive at the orphanage to adopt them. In her past life, Ivy went home with the warm but poor Jones family while Poppy got the wealthy Lockwoods. Money did not save Poppy. A negligent father and a vicious brother made the mansion a loveless prison, and when Asher Lockwood fell for Ivy instead, Poppy snapped. She drove her car into Ivy on her wedding day—and then both woke back at the choosing. Now, at the orphanage, Poppy's first move bewilders everyone. She skips toward the Joneses, begging prettily to be their little girl. The staff whisper—Poppy always wanted rich parents, so why the Joneses? She turns to Ivy with a whisper of her own. She remembers everything. She watched Asher fall for the struggling girl once before, and this time she intends to play that role herself. Ivy is forced into the Lockwood household. As a child, she endures Asher knocking over her soup at the dinner table and painting on her face, then pretending to help her wash it off while shoving her head into the water. The bullying stretches across eleven years. In high school, Asher corners her in the girls' bathroom, calls her a filthy gold digger, shoves her toward the sink, and threatens that if she wants money so badly she can drink from the toilet. Jade, the school's top student, walks in on the scene. Asher shouts at her to get out. She does not leave, and the thugs finally give up and scatter. Later, at the dinner table, Ivy asks Vincent for textbook money and he provides it. Asher finds out and storms into her room, cuts up her clothes, calls her a disgusting gold digger, and sneers that she is still just squeezing money out of their father. At school, Asher's crew puts thumbtacks in her sandwich. Asher pours soup over her head in the classroom. Poppy, watching it all, keeps playing the poor, innocent girl.

Poppy, meanwhile, works her script to perfection at the Jones house. She hands Asher a handmade gift, and the Jones parents nudge him to stay the night. The moment he leaves, her adoptive father turns on her for not throwing herself at him harder. Across town, Ivy takes a different path. She befriends Jade, the school's programming prodigy, buying her lunch under the guise of hating food waste and offering a hundred dollars an hour for trig tutoring—a number designed to slip past Jade's pride. Ivy knows Jade's future. In her past life, Jade wrote revolutionary AI code but died young, crushed by a junkie father who beat her and stole her wages. This time, Ivy intends to keep her alive. The collision course between the sisters accelerates when Poppy gets herself disqualified from the cheer squad for repeated unexcused absences and a GPA below requirement, then blames Ivy publicly. She stages a shove in the hallway, works up tears, and suddenly the whole school is calling Ivy a bully. The story hits the news. The disciplinary hearing is a public spectacle. Poppy pleads with trembling hands, flinching as if Ivy might strike her again. Asher vouches for her. Vincent Lockwood sweeps in not to defend his adopted daughter but to disown her in front of the cameras, declaring the Lockwood name a fortress of integrity. The principal prepares to expel Ivy. No one in the crowd speaks. Then a voice cuts through the noise. Jade stands, and the room shifts.