[School life + childhood sweethearts + awakened villainess + healing + personal growth + devoted couple + everyone’s favorite] (Set in a fictional world! Fictional world! Fictional world! Not realistic)
(The male lead is a gentle top student and campus heartthrob; the female lead is a sweet, radiant heiress)
Shen Yuexi dreams that she is the wicked villainess in a book, destined for a tragic end, and that her childhood sweetheart is the male lead. In the story, she becomes obsessed with her childhood friend Gu Huai, frames the true heroine, and ends up abandoned by everyone before dying miserably. Looking at her own behavior, Shen Yuexi can’t help but admit that her ending is only what she deserves. But since none of it has happened yet, she still has a chance to start over. This time, she won’t follow the plot. She’ll live life on her own terms.
To avoid that cold, bitter ending, she chooses the quietest approach: she silently withdraws the attention she has always given her childhood friend Gu Huai, steps back, and lets him return to the crowd.
She thinks this is the best outcome for both of them, but she never expects that the childhood friend who has always treated her with such gentle affection will, the moment she turns away, look at her with an unprecedented panic and determination.
She thinks her plan is going smoothly, but what’s with all these plot points that never appeared in the book? Shen Yuexi stares in shock as the story veers further and further off course. Is there some hidden plotline?
But while she’s distracted by this “hidden plotline,” the gentle childhood friend she pushed away has quietly drawn near. His mild facade falls away, revealing bottomless obsession and possessiveness in his eyes. He traps her in a tiny space and accuses her, word by word:
“Yueyue, is this how you take care of yourself when I’m not around?”
A slice-of-life story with a focus on healing.
