Fics like perseverance (in the face of grief)

Right. He had expected to wake up in the same old room that wasn’t exactly his, with the bed and clothes that he could never call his own. Instead, he woke up to an unfamiliar ceiling. Is this really the life of a supposedly normal sixteen-year-old South Korean high school student? Alternatively—Debut or Die, but make it highschooler Ryu Gunwoo in a timeline messed up from his original one. (hiatus, in process of mild revision)

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