The Sponsors Are Betting on Me

Minseok woke up on debut day with the memory of the career he lost, the gate injury that broke him, and every mistake still waiting ahead of him. He had to play calm while his body remembered pain. Inside the academy, the system kept marking his choices, and the future he knew kept leaking into the present through sealed rooms and redacted records. Seoryun watched him like she could see the crack under his voice. Jaeho smiled like a friend and measured him like a rival. Minseok had survived once by knowing how everything ended, but this time the people around him were starting to care, and care was a risk he did not know how to carry.