Rebooting Life The Scumbags Must Pay
She died for their love story. This life, they collect.
She gave her boyfriend the billion-dollar empire and the family legacy, and he and his mistress left her coughing up blood in a freezing slum. Then the reset button hit. Now she is 22 again in her number 23 jersey, and every taunt in the gym hallway gets answered in kind, not in tears — while a Wall Street tycoon who has loved her across nine lifetimes waits on the other end of a phone call.
Rebooting Life The Scumbags Must Pay is available on YourChannel through its official player.
About the show
Source: YourChannel official drama page & player — editorial coverage based on the opening arc; series details verified 27 Oct 2026.
The first life ended in a freezing slum. She gave her boyfriend everything — the billion-dollar empire, the family legacy — and he and his mistress left her to die. Then the reset button hit. Episode one opens with her back at 22, in her number 23 jersey, holding a dodgeball and a grudge. When the first taunt lands in the gym hall she does not absorb it — she answers it flat, unimpressed, mid-game.
The corridor rounds follow the same rule. The mistress grips her chin and tells her to pick it up, and gets "Why should I give you face" back, twice. By episode two the mistress has upgraded to a city fit and a blazer to run the same war upscale, and books a fancy reservation behind Zoe's back. The bullying is conflict, not spectacle — it exists so the comeback can land.
Meanwhile the boys circle the board. Her ex demands to know who the man she is calling is — the first shadow of the Wall Street tycoon the story promises, the one who has been dying for her across nine lifetimes. And an unnamed dark-haired newcomer keeps turning up beside her, no name, no card, no answers.
Meet the characters
Zoe
The billionaire heiress who gave away her empire for love and was left to die for it. Reborn at 22 with the love brain switched off, she returns every corridor provocation in kind, not in tears. The aim may be the same; the heart is not.
Julian
The boyfriend she bankrolled and the show's headline villain. In the opening episodes he runs hot and cold — booking a private table with her money and her rival — then demands to know who the man on her phone is, the question that accidentally points the camera at the tycoon.
The Mistress
The show never names her; she does the corridor work — gripping Zoe's chin, the public needling, the mock concern, the reservation she books behind Zoe's back. Every round she runs, Zoe answers.
Standout beats
The first comeback of her second life — flat, unimpressed, delivered mid-dodgeball. The love brain is dead; the aim is not.
The mistress grips Zoe's chin in the corridor. It is the humiliation that gets answered, not absorbed — the show's whole thesis in one frame.
The signature return, landed twice — a level stare and a half-smile, one per episode, each provocation sent packing.
Her ex's jealous interrogation — and the first shadow of the Wall Street tycoon waiting behind the story, the one who has loved her across nine lifetimes.
Key moments
Frames from the opening arc — swipe to browse.
Editor's take
Our editors' notes on the opening arc — personal picks, not audience feedback.
A rebirth-revenge drama that refuses to stall: Zoe has a spine from minute one, every act of hallway aggression gets answered in the same episode, and the take-back arc is already in motion before the opening credits settle.
The slow-burn guardian — a Wall Street tycoon who has secretly loved her across nine lifetimes — is teased in the early episodes through phone calls and a silent newcomer. The show does not rush his reveal.
Best for viewers who like rebirth-revenge shorts where the heroine has zero patience for hallway drama from episode one; if you want a long burn of her absorbing mistreatment, the comebacks land within minutes. Compared with most rebirth shorts, this one keeps the nine-lifetimes romance as a slow-burn B-plot rather than the engine — that balance is both its strength and its limit.
Quick answers
The official player lists 20 episodes in total.
The series runs on YourChannel through its official player; follow the Watch Now link from this page.
A betrayed heiress dies in a slum after her boyfriend and his mistress steal her empire — then wakes up at 22 and restarts her life for revenge.
Her scumbag boyfriend Julian and his blonde mistress, who do the corridor work and get answered in kind.
Yes — a ruthless Wall Street tycoon who has secretly loved her across nine lifetimes, teased in the early episodes.
