Lianyu works for a quick transmigration bureau, where her job is to play the villainess in various worlds: curry favor with the male lead, bully the female lead, offend the antagonist, and ultimately be despised by everyone and meet a miserable end.
She's fed up with this same old plot, so she applies to change her target and save the beautiful, tragic second male lead.
Away from the main characters, life is peaceful at last. When the second male lead becomes an adult, he kneels and proposes to her, his amber eyes brimming with love as brilliant as starlight.
But just as the mission is about to be completed, he vanishes mysteriously on the eve of their wedding.
*
After searching everywhere to no avail, Lianyu panics and turns to the main characters for help.
The male lead is handsome and refined, but his expression is arrogant and indifferent. He doesn't care in the slightest.
The female lead clings to her arm and gives it a little shake. Concern fills her grape-dark eyes. "Don't worry, big sister. Could he have changed his mind and run away from the wedding?"
The unruly antagonist's face darkens. He gives a cold snort. "What does your missing man have to do with me?"
Deeply disappointed, Lianyu staggers away.
She doesn't notice the three pairs of eyes converging on her thin silhouette from behind, their gaze clinging to her like ants to honey, dark and unspeakable.
[We've joined forces to eliminate our greatest rival. From here on, it's every person for themselves.]
*
"I remember warning you."
The male lead presses the toe of his leather shoe into the second male lead's bones. His phoenix eyes narrow as he burns the glowing end of his cigarette into the corpse's ashen face. It sizzles.
"Sorry, I just can't see what makes you so attractive to her. Is it only those unusual amber eyes?"
The female lead examines the eyeballs preserved in formalin in a specimen jar, confusion on her innocent, lovely face.
The antagonist slashes the wedding photo of Lianyu and the second male lead in half, stomps on the half with the second male lead, then carefully carries away the half with Lianyu.
At dusk, crows cry mournfully.
Lianyu curls up and weeps in a little house. A cat lightly jumps in through the window, rubs against her leg, and meows anxiously around her as if trying to say something.
Lianyu looks down. The cat is filthy, but its amber eyes are exactly like those of her missing lover.
[No matter what happens, I will return to your side and protect you. Even if my body and spirit are destroyed, I will remain faithful to you until death.]
PS:
1. This novel is written to indulge a particular kink, so don't read if that's not your thing.
Everyone is evil: the second male lead is a gentle, deeply devoted but dark obsessive type (he will regain human form, don't worry); the female lead is an innocent, cheerful but dark obsessive type; the male lead is a domineering, possessive dark obsessive type; and the antagonist is a beautiful, hot-tempered dark obsessive type.
Theme: Pursuing healthy love