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I have regressed to my first year of high school.

“…”

7 a.m. in the morning.

Objects filled with memories of that time were visible.

A whiteboard with the D-DAY until the college entrance exam. Shelves packed with reference books, pens, pencils, and various highlighters.

My room. A space where I endured hellish exam study sessions.

“This can’t be happening all of a sudden.”

Just a moment ago, I was at work, and now I wake up suddenly as a first-year high school student.

“Have I really gone back?”

“Is this for real?”

“Can this really happen?”

“Eat your breakfast!”

My mom’s slightly annoyed voice.

Upon hearing those words, it hit me.

I have regressed to my first year of high school.

I slowly got up and touched my face in front of the mirror.

Hair tightly pulled back as if I had been studying hard.

My face wasn’t bad, no wrinkles or signs of aging.

Looking at my 17-year-old self, I thought, “I was this young back then.”

My heart started to beat faster.

“I can become rich. And very easily.”

Having worked at an investment company in Yeouido, I was well-informed about major events in the world.

Knowing which political events would happen in the coming years, which companies would rise to power, when the economic crisis would hit.

I even knew that Bitcoin would rise. I was the only one on Earth who knew that.

“This is a goldmine.”

I couldn’t fail.

While the butterfly effect could occur, how much could the world change if I alone benefited?

There were two million won in my bank account.

If I used stocks and futures options, I could make a hundred billion before graduation.

I imagined it.

“What kind of life would I lead with hundreds of billions at that age?”

Living the high school life like everyone else, observing students from the back row. But my true identity, a self-made investment king with a hundred billion.

What would I feel, what kind of life would I lead?

Desire writhed in my chest.

But what I anticipated the most wasn’t money.

Yoo Seoyoung.

My first love whom I met in my third year of high school.

The only person I ever loved,

My homeroom teacher.

I wanted to have you.