I’m My Own High School Rival

A dead gangster gets a second chance at life—and discovers resurrection may be the cruelest joke of all.

After dying in a fire born from betrayal, forty-year-old Knox Cross awakens in the body of Antwon Carter, a fifteen-year-old boy living in Kokiri: a world resembling Japan, where women hold overwhelming physical and political power, bloodlines determine status, and boys are expected to survive through obedience, softness, and the protection of dangerous women.

But Antwon’s life was never empty.

His sister, Sakura, wished for her brother back. Instead, she received a stranger wearing his face.

Now Knox must navigate high school, clan politics, a possessive heiress determined to claim him, and a genie whose help always seems to carry another cost. In Kokiri, affection can become obligation, protection can become ownership, and love is rarely separate from power.

Worse, resurrection has left something fractured.

Antwon’s memories remain inside him.

His pain is not entirely his own.

And the longer Knox lives in Antwon’s body, the harder it becomes to tell where one life ends and the other begins.

Because his greatest rival is not another boy.

It is the person he used to be.

I’m My Own High School Rival is a psychological reincarnation drama blending dark romance, school life, trauma, and matriarchal clan politics.

The question is not simply who Antwon will choose.

It is who he will become.