[Based on the TV series, so some details may differ. Just enjoy it for fun.]
What should you do if you transmigrate into the world of a drama and become the heroine, only to be used and discarded by the villainous male lead and tortured to death? Song Xiaoyu doesn't need to think twice: obviously, she should run as far away as possible. The plan sounds perfect, but reality is painfully harsh. Whenever she tries to change the plot and marry the second male lead, she gets trapped in an endless-loop bug, forced to die in 108 entirely different ways.
In other words, she's “doomed from the start.” Song Xiaoyu finally accepts reality: no matter how hard she tries, the “plot” always pushes her toward the male lead, Nan Heng, setting up one iconic scene after another... And in this world of paper figures, countless characters have had their roles set in stone from the start. Some are trapped in the depths of the imperial palace, some confined by powerful family households, some worn down by competing for men's favor, and some driven to chase power. Some long for love and freedom, yet can only dance uneasily in chains. Others dream of soaring high like the roc, only to have their passion worn away by day after day of constraint and mediocrity.
This is not just a fierce battle between Song Xiaoyu, a timid, death-fearing, lie-flat salted fish, and Nan Heng, a ruthless workaholic who takes lives. It's also a battle between every little paper person and their predetermined fate.
Okay, wow, it looks great