I Wrote This World But Forgot to Finish It
"She wrote him. She abandoned him. She woke up in his world. He has questions."
Lin Moshi had one rule as a web novelist: never fall in love with your own characters.
She broke it on chapter twelve when she wrote Gu Yanche; a cold, brilliant scholar she tucked into the background of her xianxia epic and never quite finished. He was meant to be scenery. Somehow he became the character she thought about most.
Then she abandoned the novel at chapter forty-seven, left the file unsaved, and died. Typical.
She wakes up inside the Celestial Ink Saga; not as the destined heroine, not as anyone important, but as a nameless servant girl she placed in a crowd scene once and immediately forgot. The world around her is wrong in the way only a writer would notice: characters looping, seasons frozen, plotlines stuttering like a song stuck in the same bar. Her story has been waiting, broken and half-alive, for its author to come back and finish it.
The original plot is still running. Bai Xuening, the perfect heroine Lin Moshi created, is moving through her destined arc. Zhan Beiling, the written hero, is ready to fulfill his grand purpose. Everything is exactly as Lin Moshi planned it.
Except for Gu Yanche, who was never fully written and therefore cannot be predicted, controlled, or avoided. He is the only truly unpredictable thing in a world of scripts, and he has already decided that the strange servant girl who mutters about unsaved files at dawn is hiding something.
He's right. She wrote him that way.
Somewhere in the unwritten dark beyond the edges of her story, something ancient is watching; an entity that has spent centuries keeping this abandoned narrative alive, deleting its inconsistencies, and waiting for the author to return.
Lin Moshi has no cultivation, no identity, no plan, and a rapidly destabilizing world.
She does, however, know exactly how this story was supposed to end.
The problem is she's no longer sure she wants it to.
A story about finishing what you started, and choosing what to keep.
