A Life Swap with a Disgraced Idol

Blurb:

The bad news: Renji Kirishima, an actor who had just won two major awards, died in an accident.

The good news: He was reborn, and returned to the handsome teenage years when he was about to become a genius actor.

The bad news: He wasn't reborn in his own body.

The worse news: The tall, handsome body in the mirror belonged to Hoshikawa Ryo, a future disgraced idol notorious for scandal.

The worst news: Hoshikawa Ryo, now in Renji's teenage body, showed up at his apartment door and excitedly called him his idol.

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Hoshikawa Ryo was the rare kind of idol who could weather countless scandals and still win fans back with his looks, while keeping the economy humming.

He had the heavens practically spoon-feeding him, yet insisted on smashing the bowl. No matter how many times he self-destructed, he always came back as a top-tier star.

Renji Kirishima looked down on idols, and even more so on beautiful wastrels who threw their lives away.

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After an acclaimed actor and a scandal-plagued idol swapped lives,

a flower of the soul was destined to bloom serenely in the mud of fate.

Watching Hoshikawa Ryo onstage, Renji Kirishima suddenly realized that he had received all the good fortune in the universe.

The person he had fallen in love with was the Morning Star, reborn through the darkness and never extinguished.

Hoshikawa Ryo, a one-of-a-kind idol, standing proud and true.

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CP: Disgraced idol bottom (Hoshikawa Ryo) × acclaimed actor top (Renji Kirishima)

*This is a happy-ending love story about two people saving each other, with a touch of a groveling chase.

*This is my second novel in an old-school Japanese style, written to indulge my own tastes. Please make sure you're comfortable with that before reading. My previous novel, The Man I Rescued from Kabukicho, is complete.

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Theme: When pain has meaning, it is no longer pain, but a calling