In his past life, Lucas worked tirelessly to stop his lifelong friends Jessica and Megan from throwing their futures away on a parasitic slacker named Ethan. After alerting their parents and ensuring they attended prestigious universities, Ethan committed suicide at a local college, prompting the enraged girls to blame Lucas and shove him off a high roof.
Waking up with his memories intact on the morning the college enrollment forms are finalized, Lucas chooses a radically different path. Instead of intervening to shield his traitorous companions from their own foolishness, he steps aside with a polite smile, channeling his energy into his own academic supremacy while letting them ruin themselves.
