I Got Trapped in Kageyama's Over-the-Top Romance Novel

Sorry, I've been struggling to write this one, so I'm putting it on hiatus while I think about what comes next TT

Jiang Yuanxing transmigrated into a volleyball manga she loved, but something seemed off.

Why did Kageyama, who cared about nothing but volleyball, keep looking at her?

He said he loved Xing, that he was willing to do anything for her, and even said... he planned to give up playing for a Tokyo club because of her?

Xing was shocked. "Isn't volleyball what you love most?"

"But I love you more. I just want to be with you."

This hopeless romantic is unbelievable. Can someone give him his volleyball brain back?

The System finally showed up and told her this wasn't the original story, but the original story after it had been accidentally invaded by melodramatic romance-novel tropes. Kageyama was exactly the same in every other way, but he'd caught a case of lovesickness and, as a result, missed his chance to become a national-team player. However, as long as she could find a way to get him to go to Italy and sign with a club, as he did at the end of the original story, he could escape the plot's control and get back on track.

To help Kageyama focus on volleyball, Xing studied hard and got into the University of Tokyo. Whenever she wasn't on a date with Kageyama, she was busy cramming Italian. At last, he received an offer from an Italian team.

Then he asked Xing to move in with him.

Well, if he changed his mind later, she could always move out again. She'd been working so long to repair the world, so she could treat this as a little reward.

Rome Airport.

"The words Xing uses are too complicated. I don't understand."

"I mean, you don't actually like me. You were just being controlled before."

"You're acting strange today, Xing." He looked at her, his tone unchanged. "How could I not know whether I like you?"

This story is expected to update daily at 6:00 p.m. If the schedule changes to match the rankings, the next update time will be announced in the author's note ahead of time.

(The title uses the term 'melodramatic romance novel' simply as an easy-to-understand shorthand for the situation. There isn't actually a melodramatic romance novel involved. The premise is that Xing has entered the world of the original story, which has fallen apart after being infused with melodramatic romance tropes. Her task is to repair the original story's world. The role Xing takes on after entering the world was created independently by the System to repair it, which means she hasn't taken over the body of someone from the original world.)

Theme: Never forget your original aspirations.