The Ordinary Childhood Friend of a Doomsday Romance Novel's Heroine

An alien-species scientist x a free-spirited heiress

1v1 / SC / top's POV / alien-apocalypse setting

[Blurb]

Cen Shang awakens to the plot and discovers that the world is a restricted apocalypse novel.

Her childhood friend, Xie Wantang, is the novel's beloved heroine, adored by everyone.

Xie Wantang comes from a powerful family, is beautiful and gracious, and leaves a trail of broken hearts wherever she goes.

Until the apocalypse arrives.

Xie Wantang is forced, hypnotized, boiled alive, imprisoned, and subjected to blood draws and experiments by the people who covet her...

Every kind of restriction imaginable is thrown at her.

As for Cen Shang...

She's just Xie Wantang's childhood friend, someone she grew up with and an utterly forgettable passerby. They become separated as soon as the apocalypse begins.

Quiet and taciturn, she's devoted to research. She appears in only fifty-seven words in the novel.

A researcher at the base, she lets the heroine, an experimental subject, escape, then falls into a surging horde of zombies herself.

So, three days before the apocalypse begins, Cen Shang drives over and brings Xie Wantang home.

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Xie Wantang realizes her childhood friend has suddenly started acting strangely.

She