Guan Zhuzhen really died.
Only after she died did she learn that she was merely a minor character in an abandoned novel, stuck with a useless character setting and a life as cannon fodder.
To come back to life, she bound herself to the Abandoned Novel Rescue System.
The System's terms were these:
As long as she followed the original character settings and outline, helped each abandoned novel reach its ending, and got a hundred bookmarks, she would gain one year of life and move on to the next abandoned novel's world.
But after entering the novels, she kept straying further and further from the plot.
After the System warned her, she and the companions she'd made kidnapped it, then wiped and rebooted it.
The rebooted System lit up red: Beep, beep, beep! The H-line has been triggered! The comment-section bullet-screen and reader interaction features will now be activated. Please prepare yourselves!!!
[Two]
This is a story in which everyone is miserable.
Old Zhang from across the hall just turned forty. He's gone bald, lost his job, his wife ran off with someone else, and his son was taken away by his biological father.
Xiaojing next door is only in her twenties. She has no house or car, and spent all her savings treating her sick father. Now her boss wants to lay her off, and the boyfriend who promised to marry her has suddenly cheated on her.
Junjun upstairs is only thirteen. After studying hard, he got the second-lowest score in his class on his final exams. His classmates all exclude him, his drunk father beats him whenever he comes home, and his mother doesn't want him anymore because the family is poor.
And me, inside my own home, am a writer of sweet romances. My childhood sweetheart, the inspiration for my stories, cheated on me. The new novel I'm serializing is a flop. The money I earn writing each day isn't enough to pay for a meal, and readers of pirated copies call me an idiot in the free chapters every day. I can't write sweet romances anymore.
Somehow, all of us miserable people live in the same building. It's just too miserable.
The most miserable part is that one day, I suddenly discover that we're all characters in different novels written by the same author...
Offbeat Literature
Theme: As long as you're alive, there's hope. Don't give up on yourself.
