The "chase-your-wife-to-the-crematorium" trope is a cunning narrative that toys with people's emotions by exploiting human weaknesses.
The more it makes people grit their teeth in anger, the more they can't stop reading.
Unluckily, Hua Shiying has that weakness too!
She became obsessed with an otome game called Light and River Moon. One of its male leads had a downright awful personality!
The male lead, Xinyue, is dazzlingly handsome and comes from a top-tier noble background, but he's incredibly selfish and mean. He repeatedly hurls insults at the player character controlled by Hua Shiying, and even abuses her!
The good news: Hua Shiying is a total looks-over-everything type, so she can put up with it for his face.
The bad news: Hua Shiying is fiercely committed to sexual purity, and Xinyue is anything but a virtuous man. He has affairs with different female NPCs again and again.
Hua Shiying feels not a shred of affection for him. She grits her teeth and plays through Xinyue's route just so she can humiliate him later!
When an NPC rival kept needlessly putting her down, and Xinyue not only did nothing but joined the nasty rival in mocking her, Hua Shiying finally snapped and slammed her keyboard in front of the computer...
Xinyue, go die!
Huff, huff... Hua Shiying's face flushed as she panted... She really wished she could add a fighting mode to the game! Press the left mouse button to punch the male lead!
Come to think of it, Xinyue was nothing compared to Yanchuan. Yanchuan was a cold-on-the-outside, warm-on-the-inside beauty on a high peak, with silver hair and pale, cool-toned skin. He looked so aloof and beautiful that he seemed impossible to approach, but once his affection was maxed out, he would even give her his life.
After getting Yanchuan's ending where she died for him, she made a grand exit and watched from outside the screen with twisted delight as the aloof young noble turned into a broken widower.
Then again, Xinyue was nothing compared to Fuguang either.
Fuguang was exactly what his name suggested: a little angel, a tiny sun. From the start, his affection for the player character was maxed out, making it easy to get a happy ending. But... things that come too easily aren't cherished, and his route was so smooth that it ended up feeling boring.
But who could have guessed that one day, after an electromagnetic disturbance, Hua Shiying would transmigrate into the game?
She was halfway through Xinyue's route. The player character's entire family had been wiped out by Xinyue, that shameless Sword Mound, and the poor player character had been kept by him as a plaything, at his mercy.
With no System, no prompts, and no cheat abilities, Hua Shiying could only grit her teeth and struggle to survive by Xinyue's side while trying to find a way home.
At last, she returned to the modern world with Xinyue, only to find Yanchuan and Fuguang waiting outside her home, their eyes red as they competed to give her their lives...
Hua Shiying discovered that many things were not at all as she had imagined.
The playboy who seemed so debauched was actually purer than anyone else.
The sweet, boring little sun revealed his yandere nature and picked up a hatchet.
The beauty on the high peak struck the pose of the first wife and told her, "As long as you have me in your heart, that's enough. The others are just hotels. I'm your home."
And in real life, the childhood friend who had rejected her confession quietly ground his teeth.
Content warning:
All the male leads are sexually pure. The game content gets a little intense.
Theme: Love and resentment, tangled together
