Book editor Lin Xi binds herself to a System to save her mother, who has ALS, and is forced to perform “happy-ending magic” in iconic scenes from tragic romances. When she discovers that every male lead whose story she changes grabs her by the throat in the dead of night and whispers, “I found you,” blood begins to seep from every tragic romance on her bookshelf. Worse still, the real world is being swallowed by black pages. The characters she “saved” are arriving through torn rifts in time and space, their memories altered and their hearts filled with resentment.
