Lin Yan is an honest, hardworking college student. Orphaned at a young age, she lived in an orphanage after her grandmother passed away.
Then one day, she transmigrated into an old-school pixel-art life simulation game her grandmother had left her.
What opened her eyes was that the game used old-fashioned melodramatic romance novels as its setting, and was packed with fake and real heiresses, domineering CEOs' unattainable first loves, tragic romance heroines, overpowered villains, and more...
It brought a splash of color to her otherwise stagnant life.
Then she realized that life could be a little too colorful.
[In this world, all kinds of melodramatic incidents waste enormous amounts of human and material resources. The main gameplay is to collect every melodramatic plot point and keepsake.] That's what the System introduction said.
Lin Yan understood. So it was a collection game?
A seasoned collector, Lin Yan rubbed her hands together, eager to get started.
In practice, that meant things like...
[Warning! The bed is a plot-critical item and cannot be recovered by the player!!!]
After triggering a warning from the System, Lin Yan silently nodded. She didn't stop, though.
She also completely abandoned the character she was supposed to play in the game.
Who cared about real and fake heiresses? Collecting points was what mattered!
The moment Lin Yan arrived in the world of real and fake heiresses, her collector's instincts took over, and she recovered every item in the villa room the Lin family had assigned her.
The room was completely bare. Nothing remained except a luxurious bed in the middle.
It didn't even have sheets.
Lin Yan sat on the mattress, face-to-face with the fake heiress who had snuck into her room in the middle of the night.
The fake heiress clutched the bracelet she was supposed to use to frame Lin Yan, then looked around the empty room, utterly at a loss.
The next day, as a table full of awful relatives secretly mocked her during dinner, Lin Yan thought:
Lin Yan: What are these little pixel people babbling about?
Theme: Loving yourself matters more than what others think.
