The Room You Can't Leave Unless You're a Lesbian

Pre-publication titles: "Studied as a Transmigration Sample" and "Cured of My Sister Complex After Switching Souls with My Niece." Introductions at the end.

At the office, Su Jian acts like a respectable corporate drone. In private, though, she's a yuri fan who loves fan culture.

As she watches the characters trapped in enclosed spaces on her screen get up to all sorts of things, wearing a wicked grin and unconsciously letting out a silly, creepy laugh, she never imagines that something similar might happen to her.

One day, she discovers that in her dreams, she and her stern, icy boss are trapped in a room they can't leave unless they hold hands.

It's only hand-holding, but she still wants to cry, "I just can't do it!" What corporate drone has the strength and nerve to hold her boss's hand?

Su Jian assumes it's all just an absurd dream. Then she discovers that the same thing happens every Monday morning. The dreams' duration affects reality, causing trouble for both of them in real life. And the conditions for leaving the room keep escalating...

To deal with their predicament, Su Jian and her boss, Yan Xunzhen, are forced to form an alliance and investigate the room's secrets together. They have to put an end to everything before the conditions for escape escalate to the point of risking their lives!

Meanwhile, an alien who accidentally got stranded on Earth remarks, "Just imagining other people falling in love gives you humans this much emotional energy? I have to pick two of them for an experiment."

A timid corporate drone who is actually a sharp-tongued yuri fan and a seemingly stern, aloof, expressionless, gentle mama's girl of a boss.

"Cured of My Sister Complex After Switching Souls with My Niece"

As the saying goes, what lesbian doesn't love an older woman? Even past the age of thirty, when people call her either "sis" or "auntie," Xie Chengyu still has no interest in younger women. She's stubbornly devoted to older women.

But fate never sends the mature big sister she longs for her way. Instead, it sends her a huge headache.

Xie Chengyu's estranged older sister sends her rebellious daughter, Xie Jue, who secretly enrolled in a university out of province, to live with her.

The two can't stand each other. One sees the other as an obnoxious, rebellious brat; the other sees her as a boring old woman who loves to lecture. But under pressure from their shared relatives, they have no choice but to grit their teeth and live together.

Perhaps because Xie Chengyu keeps lamenting that Xie Jue is wasting the prime years when she could be going around calling people "big sister," one day she wakes up in shock to discover that she and her niece have switched souls.

Xie Chengyu is on the verge of tears. This sort of plot usually marks the start of a romance, but the person she's switched bodies with isn't a mature big sister. It's the little brat from her own home.

Their souls have switched, but life goes on, and the two struggle to keep up with their everyday routines.

In Xie Chengyu's body, Xie Jue encounters Leng Jianxi, a mature, mysterious, and composed editor-in-chief.

Meanwhile, in Xie Jue's identity, Xie Chengyu befriends Meng Rendong, an introverted, sensitive, self-respecting, and self-reliant college student.

Just as they've finally gotten used to their swapped lives, they suddenly return to their own bodies, only to run into an even bigger mess.

The older Leng Jianxi unexpectedly accepts Xie Jue's explanation, but rejects her advances, unable to accept the youthful impetuousness of a younger woman.

Sensitive Meng Rendong hears Xie Chengyu's explanation and assumes she's rejected her with an absurd excuse. Furious, she breaks off their relationship.

The unfortunate aunt and niece have no choice but to start over and slowly pursue the women they love.

Xie Chengyu can't help thinking: These days, neither older nor younger women have it easy.

Main couple: An older, easygoing, understanding woman writer X a younger, sensitive, proud college student

Second couple: A younger, forthright, rebellious college student X an older, mature, wise editor-in-chief

"Studied as a Transmigration Sample"

Before retiring from acting, acclaimed actress Guan Liqiu, known for her virtuous, gentle image, made headlines twice. First, she sent her gambling-addicted younger brother to prison. Then, at a related press conference, she abruptly changed the subject and exposed a famous director's sexual misconduct.

After shedding her meek, patient facade and stirring up a huge mess, Guan Liqiu coolly walked away and flew to the other side of the world to start a new life. She never expected her plane to crash.

When Guan Liqiu wakes up again, she finds herself transmigrated into a cyberpunk melodrama novel she had privately cursed a thousand times. It had simply added ABO elements and then dared to advertise itself as a feminist work that challenged gender stereotypes. And she's become its gentle heroine, who suffers one cruel twist of fate after another.

Guan Liqiu refuses to accept her fate and resolves to escape the heroine's tragic ending. But just as she's making a name for herself in show business through her own talent, the owner of a barbecue stall she knows suddenly asks her a question that strikes at her very soul.

"Did you transmigrate here?"

Guan Liqiu tries to bluff her way out of it, but gets found out.

She never expected the strange little stall owner, Jian Dan, to run an unpopular barbecue stall as her main business, while her side gig was managing one of the country's leading business empires.

For no apparent reason, Guan Liqiu signs an agreement with the stall owner and becomes Jian Dan's transmigration research sample.

What domineering CEO? What devoted second male lead? The stall owner is busy reading transmigration novels with Guan Liqiu. She doesn't have time for your forced romance or lovesick waiting. Go cool off somewhere else.

What ungrateful adopted daughter? What obsessive niece? The stall owner is sick of melodramatic family drama. Children should be cared for as they grow up, so she drags Guan Liqiu into early childhood education instead.

From then on, Guan Liqiu embarks on a transmigration journey she never imagined.

A quirky, forthright, adorable stall owner X an actress who's gentle on the surface and sharp underneath

*The stall owner has albinism.

Theme: Don't fear the judgment of others; face your own life honestly.