Help! The Useless Fake Lady Is the Guide Every Sentinel Wants

[1V4 + Reincarnation + Sentinel & Guide + Academy + Rift + Hoarding + Group Pampering]

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Lydia Valendorf had had enough.

As the adopted daughter of the prestigious House Valendorf, the Empire's most prominent ducal house, she had spent years being reminded that she wasn't their real daughter.

As an F-Rank Guide who still hadn't awakened her Spirit Animal, she was practically the family disgrace. And as if that weren't bad enough, her Crown Prince fiancé had decided that their engagement should be annulled.

Honestly, Lydia was fine with that.

She had already died once. After spending her previous life being treated like disposable cannon fodder on dangerous Rift battlefields, Lydia had no intention of wasting her second chance crying over a man who didn't want her.

She just wanted to stay alive, make some money, and enjoy a quiet life.

Unfortunately, the moment Lydia started trying to disappear into the background, everything around her began falling apart.

Dimensional Rifts kept appearing. Monsters kept causing trouble. The university was full of people who apparently had never learned how to mind their own business.

And somehow, the more Lydia tried to avoid powerful Sentinels, the more they seemed to find a million reasons to follow her.

There was the infuriatingly charming Crown Prince who refused to act like an ex-fiancé, a mysterious beautiful man whose sweet appearance might have been hiding something dangerous, a shameless playboy who seemed to treat flirting like a competitive sport, and an innocent sweetheart who was deadlier than anyone.

Lydia didn’t understand what they wanted from an F-Rank Guide like her, and she didn’t want to!

But if these idiots insisted on following her around, Lydia might as well put them to work.

After all, Rifts were dangerous, life was expensive, and Magic Crystals looked suspiciously valuable.

So while everyone else was busy fighting monsters, falling in love, plotting against each other, and making catastrophically stupid decisions...

Lydia had discovered a far more important goal!

Hoard everything!

Money? Hers.

Magic Crystals? Hers.

Anything shiny and remotely useful? Also hers.

She had survived one life by becoming cannon fodder.

This time, Lydia intended to become the woman who took everything she could get her hands on—and somehow dragged a bunch of ridiculous people along with her.

Because apparently, getting a second chance at life wasn't enough. She also got stuck with a bunch of idiots.

Lydia had spent her second life trying to avoid everyone important, so why were all the most powerful Sentinels in the Empire suddenly obsessed with her?