At 23, Li Xinran spends her days barely surviving beneath piles of reports, but at night she’s obsessed with Meng Linyuan, the novel’s third male lead. This top-tier assassin struggled in the darkness for half his life, only to meet a tragic end, just like the repressed version of herself. She stays up late writing fanfiction, giving “herself” a powerful military and political family background, mastering the art of mechanical hidden chambers, and vowing to save him from the darkness.
After rewriting the “escape from the tiger’s jaws” plot, she unexpectedly transmigrates into the novel as its perfectly equipped heroine!
She opens her eyes in a luxury studio, with the 190-centimeter-tall, roguishly handsome assassin Meng Linyuan before her. Around his neck hangs a key necklace that “she” casually gave him at an orphanage thirteen years ago. That unexpected embrace had long since become the sole salvation of his dark life.
“Is this... my creator?”
Meng Linyuan had awakened long ago. The figure he saw typing at a keyboard in his dreams was the person who rewrote his fate.
He draws her into the book, and she saves him from his fated dead end. When two mad souls meet, their forbidden bond erupts: she dares to use her family’s influence to take on the assassin organization head-on, turning the villa into a deadly maze of traps; he is willing to shatter every rule for her, killing to stop killing, while protecting her so thoroughly that not a drop of water can reach her.
When the assassin organization’s leader launches a worldwide manhunt, she lays a mirror maze and kills at every turn, while he becomes a blade that clears the way, with military and political resources backing them up as they close the net.
In this battle, she is no longer the creator behind the scenes, and he is no longer a pawn of fate. Side by side, two souls who struggled in the dark tear apart the destiny set for them.
“One lifetime, one partner. You defied heaven to change my fate, and I broke my chains for you.”
Perhaps being mad together simply means that two people trapped by fate have finally found the fishing line that belongs to them both.
