[ᴠᴏᴛᴇ ᴛᴏ ꜱᴜʀᴠɪᴠᴇ. ᴠᴏᴛᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴋɪʟʟ] "𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐲 𝐦𝐞, 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞-𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠... 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫, 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐚𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬?" When scholarship student Min Danyi transfers to the exclusive Sejeong Academy, all she wants is a future bright enough to save her struggling family. But the academy's gleaming halls hide more than privilege and prestige-they conceal a deadly secret. Beneath the designer uniforms and flawless smiles, the school's most powerful students run a secret game-The Verdict-where votes don't just determine popularity... they determine who lives and who disappears. Forever. Thrown into a twisted system where every friendship is a gamble and every choice could be fatal, Danyi must survive elite lies, dangerous alliances, and a brutal hierarchy designed to break her. But the deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes: this isn't just a game-it's a trap. To escape with her life-and her sanity-Danyi must outsmart the very players who created the rules. Will she dismantle the game... or become its next casualty?

[ᴡᴇʟᴄᴏᴍᴇ ʙᴀᴄᴋ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ɢᴀᴍᴇ] "𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭. 𝐍𝐨, 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐢 - 𝐢𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨." Nine years have passed since Min Danyi escaped Sejeong Academy and dismantled The Verdict, the deadly voting game that ruled her life. She thought she was finally free from the hellish nightmare, until the night reality shattered. Danyi finds herself trapped in a dystopian gameverse known as P A R Λ D I G M - a broken, world that shouldn't exist. Danyi is not alone. Kang Minseo and the surviving Elites are trapped inside the same system, along with dozens of strangers who have built temporary refuge in a fractured district called Sector 26. Some claim to be victims like her. Some clearly aren't. 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐤𝐞𝐲𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞, 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐬. Each key demands a sacrifice - and to survive, Danyi may have to choose who dies beside her. All she wants is to escape, to return home, to live. But then she sees Park Sunghoon - a ghost from her past, and the boy she once believed engineered her nightmare. But he's trapped here too, fighting, and way too calm. Not the mastermind but not innocent either. Danyi must uncover who built PARADIGM, what Sunghoon truly wants, and who among the players will slit a throat for the final key. But before that... she has to make sure her heart stays beating... --- 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐈𝐈 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐄. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨