I Really Didn't Write You into My Novel

Zhou Du has been writing web novels for three years. His plots have twists, his settings nest inside one another, and there's only one problem:

Readers say the people he writes don't feel human.

Then, on the eve of starting college, a book titled The Experience Lending Ledger appears on his phone.

Whenever someone willingly tells him about an experience that truly affected them, he can briefly feel the emotions they felt at the time.

For the first time, Zhou Du learns that people who say "I'm fine" might keep staring at an empty seat, and that truly angry people don't always slam doors. Sometimes, they suddenly become very polite.

People start following his novels.

Then the trouble starts, too.

Roommate: "Is that male character who cares way too much about his pride based on me?"

Artist: "You'd better explain why you gave him that habit of deleting posts from his feed."

Shen Zhaoning closes the latest chapter and looks up at him.

"So the heroine really isn't me?"

Zhou Du is silent for two seconds.

"...Put the knife down first."

This is the story of a struggling author who finally learns how to write people.

It's also the story of someone who treats everyone as material, slowly learning to treat others as people.