After the Gloomy Heartthrob Lost His Aura

Bo Li is gloomy and cynical, with a sharp tongue and a nasty streak. At the aristocratic academy, she's a poor student and a nobody whom everyone despises.

She always sits with her head down in the corner, like a poisonous mushroom growing on a damp log. In a world defined by class, she's at the very bottom. The privileged heirs don't even spare her a glance.

Until one day... she realizes she seems to have become everyone's darling.

The arrogant elites begin paying attention to her, their gazes tinged with feelings too complicated to name. The bullies who once mocked her face consequences, then turn around and shower her with praise and devotion.

Bo Li knows something is off about this sudden treatment as everyone's darling, but she says nothing and focuses on making money.

As expected, it doesn't last long...

A System drops from the sky and regretfully informs her that, a few days ago, the [Everyone's Darling Aura] item from the Quick Transmigration Bureau accidentally landed on her.

All the special treatment she's received lately came from that aura.

Now, the Quick Transmigration Bureau is taking it back.

Bo Li: ...?

Without the Everyone's Darling Aura messing with their heads, the elites come to their senses and recall in astonishment how they seemed to have been bewitched in recent days.

Those inexplicable stirrings of affection, the untimely attention and closeness, the hazy, suggestive dreams at night... Once the aura vanishes, they all become humiliation and anger at having been played by her.

Bo Li's days ahead seem likely to take a turn for the worse.

To make up for its mistake, the Quick Transmigration Bureau assigns Bo Li a System.

System: "Don't panic, we can fix this. The shop has items you can redeem by completing missions, so you can win over the male lead."

Bo Li scoffs. "How is that any different from human trafficking? I refuse."

She turns and walks away.

The System calmly lists the items: "Time stop, hypnosis, rewriting common sense, entering dreams, shared senses, mind control..."

Bo Li comes right back. "...But then again."

Reader's guide:

1. A gloomy, sharp-tongued heroine with a truly awful streak.

Theme: Have the courage to be yourself.