Reborn: My Sweet Princess Era

The thing Elaine Kelly wants out of her second life is to be close to her father. In the life before it she gave James Chapman her bone marrow, he went on treating her as he always had, and she died of an illness with that still between them. James does not know how to talk to his own daughter, and neither of them says so, so the wall in the house stays up. Elaine goes to an audition for the lead in a film. Her crying scene and her delivery of the lines are what people notice, and she has a following quickly. Her half-sister Rachel is after the same part, and the two of them agree to settle it on ability. They both audition at the casting announcement, Rachel comes up short, and the role of the little princess goes to Elaine. There is a confrontation there, and afterwards Elaine talks about leaving her father's house to live with her manager, Tracy Ford. That is when James starts paying attention. He comes to collect her one evening while she and Tracy are running lines at home. Tracy was the closest friend of Elaine's mother, and her mother, who is dead, is the person James loved most.