A young man, bitter that he was never popular in highschool, goes back in time and uses a gaming system to ascend the social strata. Except that's not all he wants. What he wants is another chance...Another chance with her. But his childhood friends want to stop him. For fans of Dostoevsky, Goethe, Oscar Wilde, Alexander Dumas; LITRPG in Chapter 78 onwards. This is gritty and raw and not for the faint hearted. This story is dark, psychological and realistic. It is brutal. The story recounts the tumultuous inner thoughts of Rod, a young man who is being sent back to his childhood via a mysterious "System". He is filled with conflicting emotions: a desire to change his past, a resentment for his former life, and a deep-seated fear of the unknown. He oscillates between wanting to revert to the blissful ignorance of childhood and the awareness of his own mortality that comes with adulthood. As he is transported back to his primary school playground, Rod grapples with his identity, his purpose, and the overwhelming weight of his past experiences, struggling to reconcile his present reality with the knowledge of his future.