Wen Xing is bound to an abuse-novel System and travels through various small worlds, experiencing countless tales of love and anguish. She has to reach a happy ending before she can move on to the next world.
The bad news: She's terrible at it. She's never gotten a happy ending in a romance game.
The good news: She can reload and try again.
Just as she reaches a bad ending and calmly reloads, she discovers that the story has gone off the rails!
World One: Spoiled, troublesome childhood friend x Paranoid Chief Councilor
The Wen and Lu families live next door to each other, and their children grow up as childhood friends. Annoyed that her elders always use the icy, stiff Lu boy to put her down, she buys him in secret after the Lu family is ruined. She makes him fight dogs for food, bark like a dog, and tramples him into the dirt.
Consumed by hatred, he leaves, changes his name, and rises through the ranks until he becomes the Chief Councilor, a man with power over the entire court. The first thing he does after gaining power is imprison her in his residence and return every humiliation she inflicted on him.
She has a hard backbone and would rather starve than give in. She sneaks out of the residence, only to be kidnapped. Her last memory before dying in a foreign land is catching one final glimpse of him through layers of gauze as she is bound inside a wedding carriage.
Reload.
She puts down the bundle she'd packed and dutifully stays in the residence. The cold-hearted Chief Councilor stumbles in and pulls her into his arms. His voice is hoarse and broken. "Back then... the osmanthus cake in the dog's bowl was actually very sweet. I was just angry... because you never looked at me back then."
World Two: A naive, face-blind cultivator x A gloomy Sword Venerable
When Wen Xing was still a farmer's daughter, a white-robed immortal saved her. She kept the heart aperture he left behind for years, then bravely entered the immortal sect to seek him as her master. But that immortal accepted only the heart aperture she returned and refused her request to join his sect. In the end, another immortal, known as the Sword Venerable, took her as his disciple.
What terrifies her is that this Sword Venerable is not as noble and radiant as he seems. He creates another version of her, and every night... When his actions are exposed in front of her, he becomes even more brazen, reaching out to her real self.
Wen Xing tries every way she can to escape and unexpectedly discovers that she mistook him for someone else in the first place. With the plot so thoroughly derailed, there's no fixing it. She can only jump into the Demon Abyss in front of him and take the bad ending.
Reload.
She wonders how to apologize to the Sword Venerable and earnestly persuade him to restrain his desires. As usual, he barges into her room, but not to torment her again. Instead, he offers her his sword, signaling that she should take his sword bone. "If you still want to become his disciple, the heart aperture isn't enough. Take my sword bone, then. I only ask that you don't forget me in the future."
World Three: An innocent palace maid in the Cold Palace x A corrupted tyrant
She was the only warmth to accompany him through his years in the Cold Palace, yet after he ascended the throne, he forgot all about her and left her in a corner. She tries to persuade him to stop killing, but he scolds her in front of everyone, leaving her heartbroken.
Later, her father claims her and hastily arranges a marriage. She wants to say goodbye to him before the wedding, never realizing it will be the last time they meet. In the end, she dies for her city on her wedding day.
Reload.
She grips her broom and thinks about what caused the bad ending. That night, she runs into him as he secretly climbs over the wall. He pins her tightly in his arms, his body trembling beneath his imperial robes.
The tears falling into the crook of her neck burn like sparks.
"I don't care why you came near me. If the day comes when you have to take my life, tell me. I won't resist. I only want to watch one last display of fireworks with you."
She doesn't know that every time she reloads, the male lead is reborn with a heart-rending new life.
They return to a time when everything can still be put right, carrying the cold memories of losing her.
And Wen Xing, who has just hit the reload button: Let's go! This time, I'm definitely getting a happy ending!
#You don't need to try anymore. A happy ending is already racing toward you!#
#The story of a silly beauty who always gets bad endings in romance games, only for the male leads to save her and give her happy endings#
#Why are they all acting out of character after I reload?#
[Reader's Guide]
1. Bittersweet angst mixed with sweetness. Every bite brings a surprise or a shock?
2. Every world features a monogamous, mutually faithful couple.
3. The heroine was transmigrated into a fetus and is the original host herself. She awakens to her quick transmigration memories when she grows up.
4. Have a taste of this melodramatic, mutually tormenting love story.
[Cover artist: Fu Zei] Used with permission
Theme: May life always be gentle and bring us good fortune.