Top was once the name on everyone’s lips—a star rising so fast it seemed the heavens themselves couldn’t hold him. But fame has its shadows, and envy is a venomous thing. An anonymous figure, hidden behind a facade of innocence, spiked his drinks with drugs, turning his world into a slow-burning nightmare. As his behavior grew erratic, fans and friends vanished. When the authorities found him guilty, his protests of innocence were drowned out by scandal.

Five years behind bars changed him, but not the world’s judgment. Now free, he drifts through a city that remembers him only for his fall. Top drifts through menial jobs, trying to survive while the world remembers him as the drug addict who ruined his own life. No matter how hard he tries to move forward, his past keeps him shackled.

One evening, in a dim café, I saw him—a shadow of the man he used to be. His hair was unkempt, his clothes worn, and his eyes hollow, staring into the depths of a cold coffee. Something about him—a fragile tension, a quiet desperation—made it impossible to look away.