A Light Rain in the Woods

She wanted to use familiar tropes to help herself escape, but somehow turned the author into a villain.

As an IP development assistant, Lin Xiaoyu travels through different fictional worlds every day. After one mistake, she ended up in the historical romance novel she least wanted to get involved in.

And so she began writing her own rules for survival.

After becoming Shen Suchen, analyzing the pros and cons of her situation and guarding against the erosion of her beliefs by Confucian propriety became part of her daily life.

She was glad that her family had fallen into decline, but she had neither breathtaking beauty to attract admirers nor a golden finger fully leveled up. She needed a skill that could support her.

Living apart from the world left her depressed and confused.

After her golden finger failed, figuring out how to save herself became an urgent task.

Having been through domineering CEOs, apocalyptic worlds, and revenge romances, she wanted nothing to do with the loyal general in the story. But Feng Yanli, frank and straightforward, was quietly making his way into her heart.

She had considered giving in, but she couldn't afford the price she would have to pay.

So she relied on her professional instincts to reverse-engineer the tropes, nipping household intrigue and villainous women in the bud. But her arrogance as a "person from the future" also pushed her into an even more difficult predicament.

In worlds with different values and rules of propriety, how to fight loneliness, rewrite her career plans, and seek the meaning of life became Shen Suchen's new challenges...

The air was filled with the citrus scent she usually loved. She turned her head and opened her eyes to a face so captivating it could make anyone lose themselves. This scene was exactly what she had imagined as romantic, but she was absolutely certain: Gu Yuanmo, I don't love you...

"Xiaoyu."

Shen Suchen hadn't expected anyone to call her by her original name now. But her mourning clothes reminded her that her grandmother had passed away, and Shen Suchen silently shed tears.

This was the first time in the four books she'd experienced that she had given anyone her true feelings. What a pity... She had understood too late.

[Reading Guide]

2. The heroine grows over time. It's a lighthearted, everyday story that turns familiar tropes on their heads. There are some low moments, but we can still find fun in hardship.

3. The golden finger isn't powerful. She relies entirely on experience and reflection to plan her second life.

3. The opening has a brief transmigration setup, with foreshadowing that connects to later choices. Everything happens for a reason.

Theme: After seeing a thousand sails, I am still myself.