I Can't Tell Crosstalk After I Transmigrate into a Book

Chu Xiang transmigrates into the world of a novel after its story has ended. As a sacrificial female supporting character, she is a victim of the genre's insistence on pairing everyone off, doomed to spend the rest of her life in misery with an arranged-marriage partner who has both depression and schizophrenia.

Her arranged-marriage partner is named Ji Xingzhi.

As for why Ji Xingzhi became mentally ill, they say it's because he loved the heroine but couldn't have her.

Chu Xiang looks at the roomful of gold she's stockpiled and starts to cry. What a miserable life! She can only accept it through her tears.

Everything about life after transmigrating is great, except Chu Xiang discovers that whenever she goes out, she always runs into the heroine and the people around her.

She glances at Ji Xingzhi. Staying shut indoors like this gentleman isn't a solution either.

The heroine can't perform cross-talk, and she can't listen to it either. Chu Xiang slaps her thigh and rushes off to Xuan Nan Garden, where she settles into a private room with a handful of sunflower seeds, perfectly content.

One day, when she goes back to Xuan Nan Garden, someone grabs her.

Ji Xingzhi, a mentally ill patient with nothing going for him but his looks: "Where are you going? Tuck me into your waistband and take me out with you."

Chu Xiang: ?

Only later does Chu Xiang learn that Ji Xingzhi's depression and schizophrenia have nothing to do with loving someone he can't have.

This young chancellor, who transmigrated from ancient times, spent three years adrift in the whirlpool of a domineering CEO novel as the "male supporting character who loved the heroine but couldn't have her," and ended up thoroughly depressed.

Chu Xiang: "Then how about performing cross-talk with me?"

Ji Xingzhi: "Dream on!"

Chu Xiang: All right, now you're my straight man.

The heroine can't perform cross-talk, and the hero can't be the straight man, but a sacrificial character can.

[Highlights]

A sharp-tongued, offbeat graduate heroine vs. a sharp-tongued young chancellor who transmigrated from ancient times to the modern day

A freewheeling, nonsensical story

Lots of banter, with a lifelong dedication to cross-talk

Theme: A cheerful attitude toward life