“Niannian, put this on, and you won’t be able to leave.”
After failing her twelfth mission in a book she’d transmigrated into, Lin Niannian received a warning from the System: this was her last chance.
She’d become the cousin of the heroine, a minor character who didn’t survive three chapters. Her mission was to win over Xie Rumo, the gentle, pure-hearted second male lead whose ending was tragic.
The first time they met, he was being humiliated by someone and coughing up blood. She offered him a piece of candy. He looked up and smiled like a spring breeze. “Thank you. You’re the first person who’s ever been this kind to me.”
She thought it would be a simple story of redemption.
But she had no idea
Every night after she fell asleep, a tall, slender shadow stood outside her window until dawn.
His diary was filled with her name. On the final page, he wrote: “I wish I could hide her away, where only I could see her.”
The kinder she was to him, the darker the undercurrent in his eyes grew.
Then one day, she woke to find a silver chain fastened around her wrist.
He sat by her bed with a bowl of congee, his smile as gentle as ever. “Niannian, there are too many bad people out there. I’m just protecting you.”
This is a story of “the pursuer becoming the pursued, and the savior becoming the captive.”
When the obsessive, cherished second male lead sheds his gentle disguise and the System’s mission turns into an inescapable trap, Lin Niannian finally realizes that some people’s love is a chain, a prison, a net woven from tenderness that she cannot break free from.
And she is slowly sinking deeper and deeper into that net.
Not bad, a rather special writing technique. Repeat, conversation, repeat, conversation.