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In this genre-bending tale of fate and rebellion, two modern souls find themselves trapped in the clichéd world of a cheesy romance novel-with disastrous predetermined endings. Ivy Liu, a sharp-tongued frontend engineer, wakes up as Sylvia Shui's "best friend," doomed to disfigurement for the sake of the heroine's plot armor. Shen Lang, a rational AI specialist, inhabits the body of Su Yunyi, the malicious female celebrity destined for prison as the story's villainess.

United by their shared awareness and desire to survive, this unlikely pair forms an alliance to rewrite their fates. As Ivy navigates her role as assistant to the now-Shen-Lang inhabited Su Yunyi, they must contend with the original novel's unshakable protagonist force: Sylvia Shui, the pure-hearted beauty with an entourage of admirers including Arthur Murong, the icy影帝; Jay Zhao, the arrogant pop idol; and Ethan Qi, the overprotective lawyer "brother."

With their modern sensibilities and technical expertise, Ivy and Shen Lang disrupt the narrative at every turn-turning villainous schemes into tech solutions, exposing plot holes with engineer precision, and accidentally triggering romantic subplots no algorithm could predict. As they battle against the story's deterministic forces, they discover that changing their endings might require confronting not just the novel's tropes, but the very nature of identity and destiny itself.