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They say wishes are prayers the universe answers with riddles. Sakura Carter never wanted power, immortality, or glory. She only wanted her brother back. Antwon Carter was a quiet boy who never learned how to belong. At fifteen, he took his own life, leaving behind unfinished novels, half-learned Japanese, and a sister who would have traded heaven itself for one more hug. When grief became heavier than survival, Sakura found a lamp. The genie inside did not offer resurrection. It offered replacement. It could not return the dead, it said — only rearrange what remained. A body could be revived. A soul could be borrowed. Sakura agreed. Her final wish sent her five years into the past, to the day her brother died. At the same moment, in a burning warehouse in another world, a man named Knox Cross begged for a second chance at life. The genie bound those two tragedies together. The boy who woke up was Antwon Carter in name, but someone older looked out through his eyes. Knox remembers dying. Sakura remembers losing her brother. The world remembers Antwon as a boy who never quite fit. Now Knox must live inside the life of someone who was loved too late, in a world with inverted power, dangerous traditions, shifting clan politics, and emotional rules he doesn’t understand — while being watched by the sister who wished him into existence and the genie who still hasn’t finished collecting its price. I’m My Own High School Rival is a psychological reincarnation drama about grief, identity, gendered power, emotional inheritance, and what happens when someone is forced to become the version of themselves that someone else needed. It is told through shifting perspectives, centered on Antwon/Knox, as the world around him slowly reveals itself — and reacts to him. Optional Theme Song: “Bloodlines Rise” — a dark J-pop × rap piece representing Kokiri’s five ruling courts. (Listen if you want the world’s tone before reading.): https://suno.com