Classic angst | A sea of hatred and doomed love | The broken mirror stays broken
Actress Su Meng died in a sudden car accident. When she woke up, she was bound to an angst-novel System.
After reading through the old-school angst tropes, Su Meng was speechless. This could actually end happily?
But if completing the mission could bring her back to life, she could hold her nose and play along with the usual tropes.
Then the System told her that it had been summoned by the heroine of an old-school angst novel, and it needed to collect heartbreak points from the men connected to the original heroine.
1. Classic replacement bride story
A devoted concubine-born daughter * a cold, ruthless prince * a black-hearted younger uncle
Her beloved mistook her legitimate older sister for the woman who had saved his life, based on nothing but a keepsake. On their wedding day, it was the heroine, whose looks resembled her sister's, who was sent to the bridal sedan.
After the wedding, she behaved with utmost caution in the household, caring for her husband and teaching his younger brother. But her husband despised her, and her husband's younger brother, who admired her older sister, plotted against her. They all wanted her gone from this world for good.
Later, she was demoted from wife to concubine. She escaped death but lost all her memories, and when she looked at them again, her eyes were as indifferent as if they were strangers.
Only then did they panic.
“You were the one who saved me back then. How can you casually abandon me now?”
“Sister-in-law, it hurts.”
2. Classic xianxia story
A reborn immortal maiden * a saintly Daoist companion * a sworn enemy demon lord
Fifteen years ago, she was a prodigy of unparalleled talent. On the eve of her ascension, she died saving her Daoist companion, her soul extinguished.
Fifteen years later, her Daoist companion sacrificed everything to bring her back to life. The Three Realms witnessed his unwavering devotion.
But in all those years spent searching for a way to revive her, he had also fallen in love with his junior disciple, the supporting heroine. To protect her, he clashed with the heroine, whose temperament had changed drastically, and even temporarily sealed her spiritual power, causing the demon lord to abduct and torment her in every way.
After she was left broken in body and spirit and had completely given up on them, they chased after her regardless of the cost.
“The one who made a pact with you and swore to be with you for all eternity was me!”
“Would you forgive me if I died by your hand?”
3. Classic modern story
A beautiful childhood sweetheart and wife * an obsessive-compulsive surgeon * a husband paralyzed in a car accident
“Don't touch my hand. It's dirty.”
“If it can save you, what does it matter if I lose the use of this hand?”
4. Classic forced-marriage-and-possession story
Empress * powerful court official * emperor
“When you sent me into the palace, you should have known this day would come.”
“Whose child are you carrying, really?”
5. Classic fallen-kingdom story
Princess * royal elder brother * hostage prince
“Please, I beg you, take me with you, all right?”
“No one will wait in the same place forever. So many years have passed, and my heart has long since stopped keeping a place for you.”
Reading Guide:
1. The heroine is not a strong female lead, and this is not a power fantasy. Everything is an act, and no male character ends up on top.
2. Every world has a bad ending, and death is far from the only way to reach one.
3. The kinks are all over the place. This is for readers who want angst that makes their hearts ache. If that's not for you, please don't read.
Theme: Love may be real, but the pain is always real.
