The On-Screen Comments Spoil Everything, So I'm Not Choosing Professor Li

On their blind date, Wen Xi waits a full six hours for Li Linzhou and earns the chance to ask him for anything she wants.

She plans to use this opportunity to ask Li Linzhou to take her on as a graduate student.

She never really came for a blind date in the first place. She was mainly drawn by Li Linzhou's reputation as a brilliant young professor and wanted to study under someone as impressive as him.

Just as Wen Xi is about to make her request, a flood of comments appears out of thin air.

Only then does she learn she's merely a minor cannon-fodder character in a sweet romance novel.

In the book, she successfully becomes Li Linzhou's student. But he's so brilliant and demanding, and his research group is full of outstanding, fiercely competitive students, that Wen Xi is overwhelmed by academic pressure.

On top of that, the female lead, the male lead's moonlight, and the newly appointed associate professor finds out the two once went on a blind date and starts targeting Wen Xi at every turn.

In the book, Wen Xi suffers constant harassment and is eventually forced to take a leave of absence because she can't handle the pressure.

Wen Xi only wants to finish her studies in peace, so she immediately changes her request and asks Li Linzhou to recommend an advisor with a lighter workload, steering clear of her tragic ending.

But the male lead's moonlight still refuses to leave her alone and keeps picking fights. It's as if Wen Xi has to be part of the push and pull between the leads.

In a fit of anger, Wen Xi deliberately gets close to Li Linzhou. At first, she only hopes to delay the two getting together and annoy them a little.

After all, no matter how much the leads struggle, they'll end up with a happy ending.

But she never expected the aloof, celibate Professor Li to fall for her.

Wen Xi: "Uh... well, I guess that's fine. As long as his moonlight is unhappy."