Third-Person POV:

Sunwon frowned, pondering what the girl really meant. 'Does she... Does she want to give me a second chance to live a new life or something? ... Like in a webnovel or manhwa I read?'

"If you want to give me a second chance to change my life, I'm sorry, I'm not interested... I... I'm tired of all this already," he said in a bitter and blank tone.

The girl still smiled, but her eyes seemed to briefly show sadness before immediately returning to that mischievous look. Sunwon thought he hadn't imagined it.

"...Aren't you curious whether if you debuted in a different group and a different company, your future would be different?

Don't you want to know why you have a mysterious feeling, as if... You had a strong bond with 7GXU, even though you were only together for five years?

Don't you want to know... why you wanted to become an idol when you knew the path of an idol is full of thorns?"

"..."

"Kim Sunwon-ssi, I am giving you a second chance to start over. You will return to the past, but in a different world.

You will debut with different group members, a different company, a different CEO, and everything will be new, except the same future will still happen as well.

... I won't force you if you don't want to... But, are you sure you want to give up after all this? There are still people out there who truly love you... Believe in you... Who knows, maybe all the truth will be revealed this time."

Sunwon was silent for a moment as if thinking about the offer given by this moon girl. It was good, and it was true he was very curious now, but was it worth it to hurt himself again? If the same thing happened again?

Sunwon turned for a moment to look at the moon girl's face, which still wore a smile and those mischievous eyes, but something about this girl bothered him just as much as 7GXU. He didn't like this.

"…I don't want to be an idol anymore..." Sunwon replied, sounding so pitiful and hurt. The girl only smiled faintly and nodded in understanding. But, she is feeling anxious now.

'... What I need to do if Sunwon really doesn't want to-'

"...Even so, I want to remember why I became an idol and... I want to see if that future will change..."

'Even though I will get hurt again...', thought Sunwon.

The girl's face lit up this time, as if she was happy and relieved. To be sure, she asked again.

She understood that Sunwon had given up, but she had a reason why she still wanted Sunwon to take this opportunity. "You want to do it?"

"...Yes..."

The girl smiled, and without wasting any more time, she immediately pulled Sunwon's hand and bolted towards the spot where Sunwon intended to jump.

'Eh?'

Sunwon didn't even have time to process what had just happened when he realized he was already in the air with the girl still holding his hand.

"My name is Luna! Happy to have a second chance be with you!"

'Wait! We're going to jump!?'

The two of them were falling from the 30-story building. Sunwon should have felt afraid or panicked at that moment, but instead, he felt it wasn't so bad.

The wind felt strong on his face, but give comfort to him. Time seemed to move slowly, and he felt as if he was floating in the air.

As he thought they were getting close to the ground, he wasn't sure what he should feel at that moment. Whether the second chance was real or not, he didn't feel like he would care. If he died, that was fine.

His last sight was the bright moon, shining in the night sky with the glimmer of stars and cherry blossom petals fluttering in the air.

.... 

And, a voice screaming his name with a breaking sound before darkness took over.

"KIM SUNWON!!!"

Gasp!

Sunwon woke up with a jolt, nearly tumbling out of his bed. His heart was racing as if he just running for a while.

He found it hard to breathe, and a familiar pain in his chest began to surface.

The idol took a deep breath, then exhaled, repeating the action while rubbing his chest.

His forehead was also sweating as if it were the middle of summer. 

'... Sh*t... It's been a long time since I felt this pain in my chest... 

It feels so familiar and unsettling... The last time I didn't feel pain was during the second year of my debut-Wait?'

Sunwon immediately began to look around with shock and a confused look.

He was inside his room, the room in the house where his mother and sister lived. His house before he moved into the 7GXU dorm.

The idol nervously swallowed, then reached for his smartphone, which was next to his pillow.

When the phone screen lit up, the time displayed was August 21, 2025, 10:30 AM.

Thump!

Sunwon felt his heart stop for a moment. He quickly entered his password and began searching for information to determine whether this was a dream or his new reality.

His finger stopped abruptly, and his eyes widened in disbelief before he let out a dry laugh and put his phone back.

"... F*ck... Is it real? I haven't debuted this time with 7GXU... Luna... Going back to the past... A different world... It's all true..."

Sunwon didn't know what he should feel at that moment. Sad? Disappointed? Relieved? Happy? He didn't know... It just felt empty...

The idol sighed deeply before collapsing onto the bed. This room gave him a nostalgic feeling, but at the same time, a bittersweet feeling.

When was the last time he slept in his room? His own space? Since his debut, he had been too busy and rarely returned home, but whenever he did, he would always sleep here. 

And if any of his group members followed him home, they would sleep with him, though not all members, because his room was only medium-sized.

Sunwon felt bittersweet remembering the memories of the past. 

When all his group members came to hang out at his house, they almost destroyed his room. 

It's so chaotic until his sister comes and gets mad at him with his group members, while telling them to go to sleep like they are all still little kid boys who are naughty and don't want to sleep.

'That's really funny, I get to see them all be scared of my sister and listen to her.'

He wanted to laugh at those memories. He genuinely wished they could have all stayed that way.

'No.'

Sunwon shook his head and tried to push those memories and thoughts far from his mind. 

He inhaled and exhaled to ground himself before he got lost in all those memories again.

This was his new life now. His new beginning. His new reality.

They had all abandoned him, but even so, Sunwon couldn't bring himself to hate them. He only felt... sadness, anger, and disappointment, but no hatred.

"... But I will run into them one day in this world too... They probably won't remember who me because they aren't the 7GXU I knew from my original world...

Maybe it's better if they don't get close to me. We should just be acquaintances in this industry, not real friends," he muttered with a faint smile and a sad look in his eyes.

Suddenly, he remembered how he died before coming to this world.

He checked his body, then walked over to the full-length mirror hanging on his wall. Sunwon was stunned and wanted to laugh at the sight of himself in the mirror. 

Luna said he would return to the past, which meant he would become young and a child again. Although truthfully, he was still young when he died.

In the mirror, Kim Sunwon looked like a teenage boy, still a high school student.

He had black hair and pale, glowing white skin. Sunwon couldn't remember his skin being this fair before. His skin even looked very soft and smooth.

'Now that I think about it... many people used to call me 'mochi'...' he thought, tilting his head to the side innocently.

His nose was small but sharp. His eyes were a hazel-brown color, full of youth and the light of life. His eyes were also large with an innocent gaze. 

He frowned, looking at his eyes; the last time he looked in a mirror, his eyes felt like those of a dead fish.

Sunwon let out a snicker laugh before refocusing on his teenage self. 

His lips were narrow and looked as if he had applied lip balm before sleeping because they were glossy and colored like a cherry.

His appearance, his body shape, and his aura were indeed what an idol needed, but he seriously couldn't remember why he became an idol in the first place.

Though he gets some idea in his brain.

'Don't tell me I was so stupid and naive before that I just followed what people said to try to become an idol?

Almost everyone around me had once said I should try to become an idol before... Kim Sunwon, why were you so naive?' Sunwon thought with a deadpanned expression.

He wanted to pull his hair and hit his former self now. This really frustrated him!

He turned back to the mirror. He didn't want to brag or anything, but he admitted he looked quite attractive-pretty boy looks, youth, and handsome.

The perfect height that most boys his age wanted, and a body shape that many girls at his school adored. 

'...But, there are still handsomer people out there, especially one of my group members-' 

He stopped himself.

"... Sigh... Why do I still remember them?"