When Lin Xi wakes up in agony with a head of green hair, her mind automatically plays through “The Complete Record of the Villainess’s Self-Destruction.” She clenches her fists. Whoever wants to act out this plot can do it. She’s getting out of here.
The scrappy girl who used to chase Lu Shiyan, the top student in school, and call him a “pretentious bastard” suddenly sits obediently in class memorizing vocabulary. She takes a detour whenever she sees him, and when he’s surrounded by bullies, she throws a brick and runs, leaving him with only a flustered glimpse of her back.
Watching this “villainess” go off-script, Lu Shiyan finds, for the first time, that the wisps of hair at the back of her head are more captivating than his textbooks. When she rushes into a downpour to escape the original plot, he chases her on his motorcycle and drops a helmet over her head. The crisp scent of lemon mingles with the rain as he says, “Get on.” Lin Xi glares at him with red-rimmed eyes, not realizing she’s clutching the hem of his jacket.
Later, he pins her against the corridor wall, his Adam’s apple bobbing. “You used to chase me around and insult me. Now you run whenever you see me. Lin Xi, are you playing me?” She bares her teeth, ready to argue, but his sudden closeness makes her ears burn. Turns out that beyond the pages of the script, some feelings strike like summer thunderstorms: sudden, intense, and impossible to escape.
From clashing head-on to secretly caring, from rewriting fate to finding themselves unable to resist running toward each other, their love is the awkwardness of a scrappy girl putting away her sharp edges, and the obsession of a cool, aloof top student lowering his defenses. (The synopsis isn’t very good, so please give the actual story a chance.)
