Ruan Li is a young woman who has endured four years of emotional abuse from her fiancé, Jiang Siyan, while caring for him after his car accident left him with temporary disabilities. Suffering from face blindness, she remains devoted to him despite his contempt and refusal to acknowledge her efforts. Her life changes when she accidentally overhears Jiang Siyan making a bet with his friends: whoever can impersonate him and sleep with Ruan Li, thereby ruining the engagement, wins his sports car. The friends exploit her condition, knowing she cannot recognize faces. At that moment, Ruan Li discovers she can see floating bullet comments from readers of the novel she inhabits, revealing her role as the gold-digging female supporting character destined for tragedy. The comments warn that she has been drugged by the second male lead and will soon be assaulted, with a video recorded to humiliate her at her engagement ceremony.
Desperate and under the influence of the drug, Ruan Li encounters Fu Shiyu, a handsome but seemingly impoverished male model who is actually the hidden Crown Prince of the Capital Circle. Misunderstanding his status, she offers him ten thousand yuan for a night together. Fu Shiyu, intrigued by her boldness and unaware of her true identity, agrees. Their encounter shifts the course of the story, as Ruan Li escapes the planned assault and gains a powerful ally. Meanwhile, her adoptive family continues to favor their adopted daughter, Ruan Baozhu, who is being groomed to marry the Fu Crown Prince. Ruan Li’s family uses her for financial gain and social climbing, treating her as expendable while exploiting her labor and obedience.
As Ruan Li navigates her new reality, she begins to assert herself, using her knowledge of the plot to avoid her destined fate. She secures a part-time job training an AI companion, which leads to further interactions with Fu Shiyu, who is also involved in the project. Their relationship develops from a transactional arrangement into something more complex, with Fu Shiyu showing genuine interest in Ruan Li beyond her initial payment. Jiang Siyan, oblivious to the changes, continues his pursuit of the female lead, An Shengnan, while maintaining a cold and dismissive attitude toward Ruan Li. The story explores themes of identity, agency, and the subversion of traditional romance tropes, as Ruan Li reclaims her autonomy and challenges the expectations placed upon her by both her family and the narrative itself.
