After transmigrating into a book as a vicious female supporting character, she uses a paintbrush to clear her father's name and buy herself more time to live. The price: gradually forgetting the person she loves most.
Ruan Yu transmigrates into a melodramatic modern romance novel as a vicious supporting character who causes endless trouble, drives the male lead into an illegal casino, and ultimately gets sold off to northern Myanmar, where she dies a miserable death.
She wakes to a 72-hour countdown to her death.
She slashes her wrist to break with her best friend, carries an insulated food bucket to deliver porridge, and sits at a night market drawing ten-yuan portraits, fighting with everything she has to stay alive.
Then she unexpectedly discovers that her original body's father's supposed "suicide out of guilt" was a wrongful accusation, and that Lu Jin, the down-and-out boyfriend she bullied for three years, is actually the true heir to a powerful family in the capital, living under an assumed name while lying in wait for revenge.
Even stranger, her paintbrush lets her see other people's obsessions, paint the truth, and reveal clues.
But each time she paints a deep obsession, she loses part of her memory.
First she forgets the name she had before transmigrating into the book. Then she forgets how to write his name. Finally, she completely forgets how they met.
But she remembers the smell of his cigarettes, how radish cakes make her want to cry, and how warm his palm is.
What fades is information. What remains is love.