by BillMax
He died for a woman who never loved him. He wakes up on the first day of high school — with every memory of the future intact, and a debt to settle. Ethan Cole doesn't want revenge. He wants a second chance — and this time it isn't going to Chloe Winters, the campus idol who broke his heart the first time around. It's going to Grace Bennett: quiet, poor, hiding behind a fringe of thick bangs, and the last person anyone expects him to fall for.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 08:09 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 08:09 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
4%
Two or more lists
3%
Likely threshold order: Drama → Romance → Action → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Drama + Romance + Action (1%).
Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.
Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#4718 of 12,176 · 4668 below RS #50
By genre
beats 66% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 30% of similar stories
Hidden gem — exposure is the bottleneck
Readers who find this story follow it at a high rate; there just aren't enough of them. In our cohort data, near-daily posting lifted the odds of reaching 25 followers from ~0% to 17% — more chapters, shoutout swaps and ads buy the eyeballs this conversion deserves.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 20–49 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
