He Wei had always thought she was an ordinary person living an ordinary life: going to school, working part-time, and then getting a job.
Then one day, she saw her little niece getting intimate with the school bully and recovered memories of her past life. It turned out that this world was based on a novel she had read.
No, not just one novel. It was a world formed by a whole series of novels she had read in her past life, all woven together.
As more memories returned, she realized these novels all shared one defining feature: for one reason or another, the male lead would speak to the female lead with red-rimmed eyes, either pleading with or coercing her.
Those tropes had hit all her teenage tastes right on the mark, so she called them “red-eyed romance.”
After witnessing one iconic red-eyed scene after another, He Wei was speechless. She was so embarrassed she could practically dig a castle out of the ground with her toes.
To make sure she wasn’t the only one embarrassed, she turned each of those scenes into a novel, continuing to torment the young women of this new world.
Watching the balance in her bank account steadily grow, she laughed wildly.
More iconic scenes? Bring them on!
“Iconic Scene 1”
As He Wei went to pick up her high-school-aged niece, she saw her sweet, well-behaved niece pinned against a wall by the waist by a boy who looked like a school bully.
The boy had a handsome face, but a fierce look in his eyes.
His eyes red, his voice low and hoarse, the boy said to her niece, “Call me big brother, and I’ll give you my life.”
“Iconic Scene 2”
Childhood sweethearts went to separate universities in the capital after graduating from high school. She thought the two of them would naturally end up together.
But after graduating from college, they drifted farther and farther apart.
At a New Year’s gathering with both families, she saw the childhood friend grab the girl’s hand hard in the restroom. His eyes were red, tears welling at the corners as he said, “Don’t be with him. I’ll do anything you ask.”
“Iconic Scene 3”
One of He Wei’s college roommates came from a poor family but was fiercely independent. After accidentally offending a domineering CEO, she was subjected to endless humiliation and eventually confined to his home, where she cried every day.
The CEO had heard about their friendship, so he summoned He Wei to cheer up her college roommate.
But while she was in the restroom, she saw the CEO pin her roommate to the sofa, eyes red, sobbing uncontrollably. “When will you forgive me?”
“Iconic Scene…”
One day, He Wei went to a bar with a friend to kill time and spotted a college couple sitting at the counter, her eyes full of excitement.
Could she be about to witness the birth of another iconic scene?!
But nothing happened.
Instead, circumstances kept bringing her into contact with one of the students, a young man named Lin Ting.
But…
With his tousled hair and his warm smile that made his eyes curve, Lin Ting clearly had nothing to do with red-eyed romance.
Just as she was losing hope, Lin Ting finally came to her, unable to hold back his feelings. His eyes were red, as if he were about to cry.
“Big sister, when are you finally going to look at me…”
Oh!
Her newly awakened memories told her something was terribly wrong.
It turned out she was one of the heroines of red-eyed romance herself?!
*An older sister who can’t stop making snarky comments after her worldview is shattered x a younger guy who seems sunny but is actually dark and twisted
Theme: The ideal of life is to live an ideal life.
