The Tormented Heroine's Daily Meltdowns

[A comedy that turns all the usual tropes on their heads]

One day, Xu Xiaoxiao wakes up as the heroine of a hugely popular angsty romance novel and gets bound to a useless System that forces her to follow the plot. If she doesn’t, it shocks her. The storyline will last three years, and if she sticks it out to the end, she’ll regain her freedom.

As the heroine of an angsty romance, she soon realizes one thing: instead of tormenting herself, she should blame other people.

When the angsty romance hero’s mother gives her a hard time:

His mother: “Why don’t you think about what you did wrong? If you were good enough, would my son have cheated?”

Xu Xiaoxiao: “Flies don’t gather around uncracked eggs. Why don’t you wonder why that woman went after your son instead of someone else?”

His mother: “…”

When she faces the hero:

The hero: “Xu Xiaoxiao, I’ll never love you in my whole life!”

Xu Xiaoxiao: “If you can’t love me, shouldn’t you reflect on whether you’re the one who doesn’t know how to love? Do I really have to explain something so simple to you?”

When she faces the other woman:

The other woman: “Xiaoxiao, Gu Yu and I truly love each other. Can’t you let us be together? He doesn’t love you. He loves me.”

Xu Xiaoxiao: “What am I, a bodhisattva? You ask, and I have to grant your wish? Besides, why does he have to love you? Have you ever considered that you might be the problem?”

The other woman: “…”