Jiang Wanning wakes up to discover she is the doomed, early-death white-moonlight heroine in a dark romance set at an elite academy.
In the original story, she is the object of every golden boy’s affection at Saint Eaton Academy: cool, aloof, and untouchable.
Then she dies one autumn when she is eighteen, consumed by their possessiveness and obsession, at the very moment they love her most. She makes a perfect exit, leaving the heroine free to take her place.
Reborn, Jiang Wanning wants only to stay alive, avoid the plot, and graduate quietly.
But when she deliberately starts keeping her distance from the male leads
The ruthless, unhinged heir to the Fu family corners her in the music room, his fingers brushing the nape of her neck. “Wanning, are you avoiding me?”
The gentle, refined second young master of the Chu family loses control for the first time and pins her in a corner by the bookshelves. “Why do you smile at him, but not at me?”
The rakish prince of the capital tosses away his cigarette and cups her face. “We agreed you’d only be my unattainable ideal. Why did you run away?”
Jiang Wanning: ...
Wait, weren’t you supposed to fall in love with the heroine? Why are you all staring at me???
[Reading guide]:
· Female lead is not a virgin, male leads are; slow burn, simmering tension, a harem of men competing for her; she’s a true heartbreaker, but doesn’t know it
· This isn’t a sweet romance. It’s a story where everyone gets their comeuppance, while the heroine just wants to run away and they won’t let her
· Plenty of sexual tension, but no explicit scenes; emotionally and physically charged, with an atmospheric vibe
Good-looking, ambiguous