Rebirth of the Idle Idol

Kang Gaeul woke up with a second chance and a phone full of bad memories. She knew every person around her from the last time she lived through this year, except Han Seorin, who felt wrong in a way she could not explain. So she did the one thing no one expected from a girl with a regressed memory and a broken career. She stepped back from the race for center, tucked a tin of mints into her desk drawer, and chose quiet work in the idol dorm instead. But quiet did not mean safe. The more Gaeul saw through smiles, stage poses, and fake kindness, the more dangerous she became to everyone who needed a mask to survive. And Seorin was the only person who kept changing when Gaeul looked twice.