I Borrowed Money From My Bullies Before Faking My Death

A system told her the truth: she was a “ruined side character” in someone else’s glossy romance, written as hidden, miserable, and forgotten, a shadow to make the male lead shine. For years she played the role, especially for Knox Whitmore, the most cruel of the school’s golden elite, who made her his work girl and made her his “little rat.”
But she had one move they never saw coming. Before she pretended to be dead and disappeared, she quietly borrowed ten thousand dollars from each of her tormentors and took their money and her freedom.
Seven years later, they rule the city, rich and untouchable, and they’ve forgotten she ever existed. Perfect. She slips back to finish her last act only to be caught by Knox, who ties her up, looks her dead in the eye, and feels nothing. He doesn’t recognize the rat at all. Which means he has no idea that the side character has come back to rewrite the ending himself.