Novel / Teen rom-com
Continue?
In 1994 Seoul, a sixteen-year-old finds out he can hit Continue on his own life, and he spends every credit trying to talk to one girl.

- Status
- Planned. First chapter not started.
- Length
- Nothing drafted yet
- This draft
- First draft, June 2026
Kang Tae-yang is sixteen, a first-year at Sangwon High and gloriously average. Then he finds out he can set a checkpoint in his own life and drop back to it later, memory intact, while everything else resets. He doesn't go after lottery numbers. He goes after Yoon So-ra, the sharp, funny girl at the top of the class he can't talk to without short-circuiting, and every perfect redo invents a dumber disaster than the last one.
The rules are arcade rules. He keeps what he learned, never what he gained. He can hold three checkpoints, and setting a fourth leaves a leftover version of him behind. And the national college exam, the one day that decides his future, won't take a coin. It turns out you can't speedrun being genuine.
- Set in 1994 Seoul: the Sanggye-dong towers, Sangwon High, the Cosmos Arcade, pagers, payphones and noraebang.
- Cast: Tae-yang, So-ra, his best friend Baek Doo-shik, his mom, and Mr. Goo, who runs the arcade.
- The rules are fixed: the checkpoint ritual, three credits, the lag, and the days that won't take a continue.
- Touchstones: About Time and Palm Springs for the loop, Reply 1994 for the era.
- The bible is canon-locked. The next step is an outline, and the final format is still open.
Nothing drafted yet. This is where they'll show up as I write them, so check back.
Version history1 draft
Current · June 2026
First draft
Not started yet. The story bible is done and the outline comes next.