Rule 1: Never Trust the Gate System

Jaehan woke up in a poor trainee’s body with a half-read novel in his head and no real map of the world he landed in. He started watching for the signs. Missed meetings. Smooth lies. Too-perfect favors. Then he found a way to study gate flow and the fighting world at the same time, using his own damaged body as the test. That should have made him useful. Instead, it put a target on his back. The man he once knew as Taeseo came back into his life, and the old feeling between them was still there, sharp and quiet. The borrowed gloves on his desk, the worn notebook on the shelf, and the ghost only he could see all pointed to one ugly truth. Somebody wanted his work, and somebody wanted Taeseo a...