Maxing Out His Heartbreak, Making My Own Rules

Bai Shengsheng wakes up inside an abusive romance novel with a system attached to her, and the system tells her the terms: fill the heartbreak meter and she goes home. She works out the mechanics fairly quickly. Ning Sheng is about to ask her for the heirloom bracelet, meaning to lend it to his childhood sweetheart so she has something to show off. Bai Shengsheng speaks first. She explains that Ning Chuan, the neighbor, came by and broke the wish jar in the main bedroom, that he did not mean it and there is no point holding a grudge, and that since he looked so embarrassed about it she gave him the box of fountain pens from the study to make him feel better. The wish jar was Ning Sheng's twentieth birthday present to her, holding nine hundred and ninety-nine paper stars he had spent a month folding. The pens were the anniversary gift she had had made for him. His face goes white and he stares at her, unable to take it in. The system starts screaming at her to stop talking, and the heartbreak meter ticks up a notch. She points out that nobody ever specified the heroine had to be the one suffering.