Caroline

Scarlett retired to the small room she got after Natasha robbed her of her original room.

She sat on her bed, wearing a frown as she tapped many buttons on Cherry's tablet.

[What kind of loser spends his time challenging a five year old girl at this time of the night?] Scarlett sent protectively.

[Excuse me, who are you? How dare you use Boss Mean's account to make trouble? Return it now or I'd make you regret it!] The latter was very annoyed. Just who was this person to dare touch Boss Mean's belongings?

Scarlett's face darkened and she typed mercilessly, [Hah! You would make me regret it? I am her mother. If I report this to the police, I wonder, between you and I, who would regret it.]

The recipient became more reasonable, [You are really the Boss's mother? And all this time, I, the top hacker in Northcliff, have been losing to a five year old?"]

He couldn't believe it. He has remained an undefeated hacker in Northcliff for years. When he was suddenly challenged by someone with the username "Mean" he thought it was interesting and decided to give it a go, only to fail woefully.

Since then he's been calling the person by this username 'Boss' and had repeatedly sent challenge requests, all of which were accepted but he never won even once. It's the most fun he's had in years, finally having some competition.

All this time he's had his ass whooped by someone so young? He was beyond shocked.

Scarlett recalled before sending, [Are you Hacker Quinn?]

[Yes, Senior Boss. How did you know?] Now that Quinn knew it was the little boss' mother, he instantly became polite.

[You just said so.] How can someone so intelligent also be this dumb?

One more notable thing after the rain storm today was the murder of Hacker Quinn. The news shook the whole country. 

Apparently, the unstable weather had caused his secret consultation site to glitch, revealing his IP address and exposing him to danger.

As an information dealer, he naturally had a lot of enemies. While sleeping in a hotel room, he was killed by a businessman seeking revenge for exposing his bedroom secrets

Scarlett hesitated to give him a warning. Although she was reborn, she had no obligation to warn others of danger or get entangled in their mess.

She thought for a second before typing, [If you want to live, you better abscond that hotel you are staying in right now. Your IP address has been exposed and some hitmen are coming for you."]

[What? How do you know about this?] Quinn replied, panicked.

However, Scarlett wasn't in the mood to entertain questions and gave him a thorough warning, [I don't have the time to entertain you. Do with that information as you please.]

[I don't want you contacting my daughter again! If you do, I won't rest till I've absolutely destroyed you!] Her momzilla traits peeked through.

Quinn was still typing when she blocked and deleted him from Cherry's tablet.

Scarlett was well aware of Cherry's talent. Her little girl is also very sharp and quite mature for her age, staying in a chaotic home like this made her grow up smarter.

Although Scarlett loved to support her in honing her skills, she was very protective of Cherry and monitored her activities on the internet. She didn't want her to be exposed to dangerous people.

Scarlett placed the tablet on the nightstand and went into the bathroom.

She touched her face, staring at her reflection in the mirror. She still found it hard to believe she was given a second chance at life.

She held the jade necklace on her neck while observing her pure white hair.

Somehow after coming back she suddenly gained so much futuristic tier medical knowledge, registered in her head. Just what were the origins of this jade her mother had given to her?

Scarlett examined the rest of her body. It was no secret that she was overweight. The main question would be why she was overweight.

She always desperately exercised and dieted but never lost a single pound, which is quite unnatural. Right now, she wanted to shed the weight because its progression would be dangerous to her health.

She could tell something was wrong and marked in her mind to visit the hospital the next day.

"This won't do." She thought aloud, feeling her bumpy face.

Following Natasha's beauty advice after getting insecure about being fat, she caked on terrible makeup every day and destroyed her skin over time not knowing it was her evil sister's plan all along.

Just thinking about how gullible she was made Scarlett angry. She really thought that mini witch was looking out for her.

With her newfound medical knowledge, she quickly thought of a face rejuvenation mask recipe. She immediately went down to the mansion's pantry to use some herbs to make it.

When Scarlett opened the fridge to get the last ingredient, she found a huge uncut cake sitting in the center of it.

"Isn't this the cake Natasha mentioned severally?" She hummed and took it from the fridge, placing it on the counter for a better look.

It smelt like bananas, her favorite fruit.

She scoffed.

Natasha hated bananas, why would she use such a flavor on her own cake and reserve all of it for her? To fatten her up?

Scarlett had an inkling that her weight issues might be related to Natasha, this convinced her even more.

Without a second thought, she tossed the cake in its entirety into the trash and proceeded to make her face mask. 

After having a thorough bath and some grooming, Scarlett slept with the mask on, overnight.

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The next day Scarlett woke up quite early to prepare Cherry for school. While she prepared herself for the day, she could see her skin looked so much better thanks to the amazing medicinal mask.

She dropped off Cherry at school with a big goodbye kiss before rushing to the hospital for a major body check-up.

The doctor went over the reports of the various tests done on Scarlett with a worried look, "Your body isn't in a very good condition. You have an abnormally high hormonal imbalance."

"Your first step to fix this is to stop taking whatever hormone pills you are ingesting and get on a professionally supervised diet and exercise routine, else you'd stand a high risk of severe health complications in the future."

Scarlett recalled the doctor's words as she walked on campus, heading to class. Turns out the mother-daughter duo were sneaking hormone pills into her meals to increase her obesity. Just what was the end to their viciousness?!

Now that she knew the origin of her problem, with her knowledge, Scarlett expertly planned her diet and exercise routine for the next few months.

"Scarlett!" A feminine voice called out.

Scarlett turned back to the sight of a lady running towards her. She recognized that beautiful face and voice in an instant. It was her best friend Caroline.

Caroline spoke between pants trying to catch her breath, "I've been trying to contact you for weeks now. Are you avoiding me?"

"Caro! I've missed you so much!" Scarlett cried and pulled her into a tight embrace.

"Whoa!" Caroline was very shocked by Scarlett's strange behavior.

When it felt like Scarlett wouldn't let go she simmered down and pat her head, "You're making it hard for me to stay mad at you, Scar." She mumbled.

Scarlett pulled out from the hug with a smile, "I'm sorry for acting weird, lately." She sighed, "Natasha told me you were pursuing James so I got upset"

She could remember, due to Natasha's schemes she ended up having a big fight with Caroline and cut ties with her. Now that she thought about it, it was a very foolish thing to have done, but she had been blindly in love at the time.

Naturally, Caroline was very shocked.

"What?! That's a lie! I only met him to give him a piece of my mind about how trashy he is to dump you just to get with that vixen, Natasha." She spat, unfiltered.

"Now that I think about it, they deserve each other. Trash with trash is the perfect match!"

"Scar please stop wasting your energy on that man, you are too good for him."

"I know."

"Yeah, I know you like him very much but - wait that?!" Did she hear well? Scarlett actually agreed with her for the first time!

Scarlett chuckled, "You don't need to be worried about me anymore. I'm no longer interested in him, I even hate him very much now." She added a mock gag to her words.

She was being serious?!

Caroline sighed in relief, "It's good that you are being rational now. I almost lost the Scarlett I knew "

Scarlett grinned, "I lot of things are going to change from now on."

Suddenly one of the girl in the group harshly bumped into Caroline and proceeded to walk away like nothing happened.

"Bitch, get back here!" Caroline dragged her by the hair.

"Are you frigging blind or didn't you see me standing here?" She yelled.

"You are such a bully, Caroline. I literally didn't do anything." Rachel scoffed, provocatively.

"Yeah, Caroline. Just because your father is the CEO of an oil company doesn't mean you can behave however you like!" Sarah chipped in, the others humming in agreement.

There were four of them in the group including Natasha, but she was the quietest among them.

"Caroline please let Rachel go. I'm sure it's a misunderstanding." Natasha took the role of a peacemaker.

Caroline snorted, clearly not having any of her pretenses but before she could talk, Scarlett spoke up for her.

"How could you ask her to let it go after Rachel clearly looked for her trouble first, and insulted her on top? Natasha, are you sane at all?" She smirked.

Catherine grimaced, "Shut up! You who have the lowest morals and tried to sabotage your own sister's engagement party shouldn't have any say in this!"