Love in the Ashes of a Floating City

This is a two-way journey across the boundary between reality and fiction, a temporal rescue that defies the established plot and rewrites the fate of a doomed supporting character. In the real world, Su Qingyuan is an unsuccessful writer of romantic suspense novels. After spending three years on her hit but unfinished novel, Ashes of the Floating City, she deliberately created Shen Zhiwei, the vicious second female lead despised by readers across the internet. Obsessive, cruel, and crazed with love, Shen stops at nothing and ultimately meets a tragic end, abandoned by everyone. She is the novel’s most pitiful pawn of a villain. Just as Su Qingyuan is preparing to finish the novel and finalize Shen Zhiwei’s death, a sudden car accident on a rainy night sends her soul into the world she created, where she becomes Shen Zhiwei, who is about to meet her tragic fate. Upon entering the novel, she is forced to bind herself to the “Plot Correction System.” It demands that she follow the original character profile and repeat Shen’s wicked deeds, or suffer the backlash of time and space and have her soul annihilated. Sick of the original character’s obsessive, foolish life, Su Qingyuan resolves to defy fate and break free of the script. As she dodges her destined death and pretends to be someone she is not in order to survive, she unexpectedly discovers that Gu Yanci, the male lead’s gentle, patient, and utterly loyal personal assistant in the original novel, is no mere supporting character. He hides a double identity and a thousand-year secret of time and space. He exists beyond the script, the one variable the plot cannot control.