You Call This the Heroine of a Dating Sim?

[This story is on hiatus. My sincerest apologies.] The author has recovered, but for some reason lost all enthusiasm and passion for this story afterward, and can no longer continue writing it.

Blurb:

"Tonight is your birthday party. In the banquet hall on the eighteenth floor of the hotel, you are the one unmistakable center of attention.

The five male leads all have 100% affection for you, and they've invited you to dance. Whose hand will you take, and who will you choose to spend your life with?

[Reminder: Your choices will determine which male lead's romance route you enter. Choose carefully.]"

Amid the envious gazes of the crowd, Wu Jiaxi, the woman at the center of this love-triangle battlefield, stood there with a numb expression. She'd been doing everything she could to lower their affection, but the five male leads only fell harder for her, bringing her straight to this showdown.

Wu Jiaxi didn't want to stay here. She was a player, and had been a top player in another full-dive game. But a bug had trapped her inside this romance game, still in development by the same company, and she couldn't find a way to log out.

In the ballroom, every exit was marked with a warning only she could see: "This is part of the main storyline. You cannot leave before making a choice." She calmly thought it over for three seconds.

Three seconds later, she gathered up her skirt, ran to the window, and jumped from the eighteenth floor.

Choose what? Romance whom? Enter which route?

To hell with these lousy men. Today, she was going to smash this trash game to pieces!

She'd successfully triggered an epic-level OOC moment.

In that instant, every NPC in the world stopped moving. The male leads who'd watched her jump fell into a collective frenzy, and the game teetered on the brink of collapse.

After the game crashed, Wu Jiaxi finally broke through the programming restrictions and reached the data boundary where the two games overlapped. In this unstable corner of the bug, just before she was about to return, she saw someone unexpected.

Wu Jiaxi was stunned. "...Aren't you a paper character?"

The man who had appeared here had likewise violated every one of his programmed settings. He bowed to her. "Miss Jiaxi, I want to break free of my predetermined fate, just as you did. Please let me leave this place and travel with you."

- A cool-headed, rational heroine with looks, brains, and a temper. If that's not your thing, don't read.

- The heroine is adored by everyone, with one-sided crushes pointing in every direction.

- No shipping speculation. The CP is Zuo Tan.

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Theme: Stay clear-headed and rational, and say no to being blinded by love