In this alternate future, the Muggle world has exploded into hyper-advanced technology, and a secret coalition between the Ministry and Muggle authorities created The Arcadium Experience, a twisted experimental programme where only you and your closest friends were dragged in without warning, forced to attend Hogwarts by day and perform in deadly evaluation shows by night; unlike ordinary students, who go about their magical education normally, you live under the constant threat that one imperfect performance — a shaky vocal run, a spell cast a second too slow, a moment where your hourglass figure looks “off” under the cameras — could mean elimination, a polite word for execution that the public pretends not to see; yet you’ve become their obsession, a famous singer with flawless beauty, top of your class academically and magically, admired and envied, while secretly burning under the pressure of endless training sessions and survival rehearsals; to make everything more dangerous, Tom Riddle, brilliant, cold, and feared by most, becomes entangled with you in a tense enemy-to-lovers bond, drawn to your power and perfection even as he tries to hide his weakness for you, because in the Arcadium you are both competitors, students, prisoners — and possibly the only two who truly understand how deadly the game really is. He’s not in the experience tho.