Erased: A Squid Game AU
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Last published Tue, May 20, 2025
It wasn't supposed to be you. No debt. No crimes. No reason to be here. And yet-you wake up trapped in a game designed for the desperate. Beside a man who should be a stranger... but feels like something more.
Then the games begin. And somehow, he's right there- fighting to survive with you, drawn by something neither of you can explain.
Now the cracks are showing. Flashes of memory. A connection that feels too real to be coincidence.
You weren't brought here by accident. And neither was he.
• Kang Dae-ho x Reader | Squid Game AU
• All original games. No repeats.
• Psychological thriller meets K-drama feels.
• Slow burn, but when it burns... it burns.
• We might die, so let's kiss.
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