The Seductive Beauty Says, “Time to Reel You In”

[Flirtatious, dazzling beauty × outwardly composed, inwardly deranged yandere]

Shen Zhuo transmigrates into a book, becoming the cannon-fodder supporting actress in a wealthy-family novel who doesn't survive three chapters.

The original owner's fate: envies the heroine → humiliates herself in public → is despised by everyone → tumbles down the stairs → dies more carelessly than a random passerby.

Shen Zhuo smiles. “Make way. I'm turning my life around.”

At the family reunion banquet, the heroine wins the crowd's applause with a piano performance, and everyone waits for Shen Zhuo to make a fool of herself. Instead, she calmly brings out an antique guqin from the Ming dynasty. Her performance of “Guangling San” is so murderous that the whole room falls silent. Dressed in red, lips painted red, she tosses out lazily, “Sorry, I only know how to play songs of bloodshed. I don't know how to please people.”

Every man in the room stares at her, including the one man no one dares to offend.

Gu Yanzhi, heir to the Gu family and a paragon of the old-money elite. Gentle and refined, with gold-rimmed glasses, he is the very picture of an aloof, untouchable beauty. His gift is a gold lock with no keyhole. “Once it's locked, it can't be lost.”

Shen Zhuo hangs the lock around her neck and smiles, beautiful and wicked. “I'll take the lock. I'll find my own key.”

She thinks she's the one fishing, never realizing that this “perfect paragon” is a possessive yandere at heart. He acts like a gentleman, but behind the scenes he lays an inescapable net. Every “chance encounter” is carefully scripted. She also has no idea that her transmigration into the book was no accident: twenty years ago, someone tried and failed to escape the cage. She is the key to starting it all over.

Two equally powerful opponents, locked in an intense game of push and pull. She runs, he chases. She fishes, he plays along.

When she finally reels him in, he pulls her into his arms instead. “You think you're the hunter? No. You're my accomplice.”

She runs, he chases. Neither of them can get away.