A hardworking office drone becomes a supporting female character in a novel, and even to stay alive, she has to keep living her miserable life.
The heroine resents that, despite her beauty and talent, she was born a concubine's daughter and cannot marry into a powerful family. She schemes against the legitimate daughter, who is merely ordinary in both looks and talent, intending to use her as a stepping stone on the road to success.
Shen Qingyu gets handed the supporting character's script, but she has no desire to let a hypocrite ruin her life. Everyone has to find a way forward for themselves. Then one day, she realizes she seems to have taken the heroine's script and successfully turned her life around. But now she doesn't want it anymore. No matter where she is or what situation she faces, she lives only for herself.
She doesn't want to become the vicious supporting character in a romance novel, whose only purpose is to be put down and make the heroine shine. Nor does she want to become a heroine weighed down by a halo and deprived of freedom. From beginning to end, she must understand herself in order to become her own person.
