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Ten years has passed since Seong Gihun has died and a whole world shattered for Gaeyong. Despite everything she tried to built a new life. But with that she was granted a dangerous secret: she can rewind time.
But when the grief of losing her father gnaws too deep, she dares to defy fate and push her powers further than ever before.
This attempt hurls her into a past but her younger self doesnt exist anymore, instead she appears as the contestant in the Games themselves.She finds herself face to face with Gihun and other familiar faces - but they dont recognize her.
Now Gayeong must survive alongside them, weaving lies to protect her identity, bending time to protect strangers and watching as her choices ripple across the Games.
Every rewind shifts the future, but the more she interferes, the more fragile the timeline becomes.
She and mysterious player 001 - Young-il have the same goal - to save Seong Gihun.
And they are willing to save him at any cost.
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Gi-hun’s rebellion failed. Now imprisoned, he’s nothing more than a pawn in a game he thought he could escape. The Front Man has plans for him, and he’s not content with just breaking Gi-hun physically - he wants to remake him, reshape him into a tool of the system. The pull of surrender becomes harder to resist with each passing moment, as the Front Man’s dark brand of affection worms its way under Gi-hun’s skin.
But a mysterious soldier, whose presence feels eerily familiar, watches from the shadows, unsettling Gi-hun with memories he can’t quite reach and dredging up a past that threatens to shatter what little sanity he has left.
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Gi-hun is torn between the Front Man’s suffocating grip and a ghost from his past - one who may be the key to his salvation or his destruction.
Canon divergence post–Season 2.
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09 Sep 2025
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Immediately after his failed rebellion, Gi-hun is taken to the Front Man’s office for what is sure to be unending torture at the hands of the masked monster. But the stress of the deadly fight sends Jun-hee into labor, revealing a crack in the Front Man’s stone-cold facade.
So, when the man behind the mask proposes a new game — a battle of minds that ends with the loser joining the winner’s cause — Gi-hun accepts, determined to chip away at the crack until the very foundation of the game crumbles.
He soon discovers, however, that his heart is the prize In-ho is truly after; and the man will stop at nothing to win it over.
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21 Aug 2025
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One rose. Then another. Scarlet, white, pink - each one of them left by the Frontman himself feels like a careful probe along the fragile border between them. At first, Gi-hun destroys them furiously, but the flowers keep appearing in his dark life. On his doorstep. In abandoned buildings. Even atop his own bed.
Gi-hun throws them away. Then he keeps one. Then he starts waiting for the next. And somewhere along the way, he realizes the thorns cut the giver’s hands like knives. They split open his armor, let something alive bleed through. And oh, Gi-hun has never been able to hurt anything alive.
This love begins with a rose.
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21 Aug 2025
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After failing to repay his debts, Seong Gi-hun is bound by indentured servitude to a cruel master.
But when the world starts to change, and he begins seeing flickers of the unnatural, he fears he's losing his mind.
Then he meets Hwang In-ho. Another man in chains. Another man who sees what he sees.
As the world teeters on the edge of something unknown, the two are drawn together, finding solace in each other amid the madness.
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16 Aug 2025
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The Front Man closed the space between them in two short strides. His gloved hand darted out to grip Gi-hun’s face, forcing his chin upward. “I entertained your demands to re-enter the games, indulged your misguided notions and faulty sense of duty. I let you play the hero, at the expense of my own guards. I let you have your fun.”
“Why indulge me at all?” Gi-hun burst out. “Unless some part of you agrees with me?”
“I gave you a chance to prove me wrong. You failed.”
“I failed because you murdered Jung-bae.” Gi-hun’s voice hitched over the lump in his throat. “And Young-il.” And probably every other member of their failed coup.
The Front Man stilled. “Player 001 has not been eliminated.”
Gi-hun’s heart gave a painful lurch. He must’ve heard wrong. That, or this was another game. Another trick to drive him to the breaking point. “What did you say?”
“Cooperate and you’ll see Player 001 again, as a sign of goodwill.”
After the failed coup, the Front Man offers Gi-hun the chance to see Young-il again—in exchange for his continued cooperation.
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