I'm Done Being an Idol: Now I Act, Starting with the Dead

Gu Yu, once an idol standing in the spotlight, takes off his ring on the night his group disbands and is reborn, starting over with “playing a corpse.”

Burdened with a sky-high breach-of-contract debt and surrounded by tempting offers from the powerful, he still stakes everything on joining a theater troupe to hone his craft.

Acting is the whetstone; life is the chopping block.

Those who temper themselves in fire and emerge as blades never need shortcuts.