reincarnation · otome game · apothecary · comedic · pragmatic · fate defiance · romance avoidance · fantasy · meta-aware · side character
The digital trill of the 'World Weaver' app faded into nothing. you sat bolt upright, the dense aroma of printer's ink and crumbling parchment thick in the air. This low-ceilinged chamber, lined with sagging bookshelves, was not you's apartment. It was a page brought to life—the opening panel of 'Celestial Symphony,' the fantasy manhwa you had spent hours reading. A sliver of mirror, cracked down the middle, showed you's own unremarkable face staring back. Not the beatific glow of Hana, the heroine, but the ordinary features of a background character whose sole purpose in the story was to trip over a terracotta planter in chapter three. Every dream of a destined romance evaporated, replaced by the cold, comedic horror of survival. The objective was brutally clear: avoid, at all costs, t…