[Mutual devotion + princess in charge + face-slapping every episode] [Unhinged heroine vs. loyal puppy of a hero] Song Yu, a modern-day patient with a mental illness, transmigrates into a book just after being discharged from the hospital. She lands in an old-fashioned tragic romance full of physical and emotional torment, where people tear their hearts out for love. As if! Song Yu is not only a woman who can lose it at the drop of a hat, she’s also a devoted practitioner of the Nine Beads, Level Ten school of thought.
You’re trying to play mind games with her? She’ll slap you twice. Her mother-in-law tries to use filial duty to keep her in line? Song Yu swings both ways and smacks her. A noblewoman tries to needle her? She gets the full Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms.
But after Song Yu goes on a rampage and knocks everyone flying, the “vicious supporting female character” declares that Song Yu is the only one who understands her. Her shrewish mother-in-law says Song Yu is the only daughter-in-law she’ll accept. Even the haughty noblewomen all come to see Song Yu as their beloved.
It’s just… the original novel’s cannon-fodder male supporting character seems to have gone off script?
My little Yu, at last, you’ve swum all the way here.
