I Dumped the Hero and Broke the Script

On campus, Chloe Vance is the obsessed villainess of a novel, and floating comments reveal her fate: she is meant to kidnap the golden boy Julian, fail, and rot in a basement forever. Worse, if she goes two days without interacting with him, her whole reality fades to black. So she drugs a drink and stages the scripted encounter.

But the man in the basement is not Julian. He wears Julian's face and kisses her off-script, and only when she feels his maimed finger does she realise it is her childhood friend, Cole Adams. A torn note later proves Julian passed her spiked cocktail to someone else, and Chloe uses it to blackmail him into being her boyfriend, meeting every two days.

As the comments turn on Julian and pity Elena Rossi, Chloe wonders who is truly trapped by the story.