Female lead: Watch closely. I'll only perform this author-wrecking act once.
After three years of painstaking work, her masterpiece is published and immediately lands among the top three worst novels on XX Chinese Web. He You is instantly emo and runs to the hospital to see a therapist. After the fake therapist, Shen Zhuoran, plays a trick on her, she resolves to revise her novel. But just as she creates a folder, a System called “The Emo Author's Quest for Love” pops up. From then on, He You's daily life consists of being driven to despair by the System over and over again.
The socially anxious author: “Take away my right to use my brain and my ability to move for the rest of my life? You make ‘I'll kill you’ sound so elegant. Nobody else can compare... Other people spend ages revising their novels. Good grief, I revise mine by burning through my lifespan. My book hadn't even passed its contract review, and I was already dead.”
“Revise the novel? Fine! Since I can't win over the male lead, I'll replace him! You can regret not getting me, author, for the rest of your life!”
The “I love it now” moment: “Shen Zhuoran, I like you now. Is it too late?”
In one monster-fighting game instance after another, He You cries, “Help! I really didn't write this part. I burned the outline to ashes!”
