A website that turns your vacation into published fiction sounds like a dream until you realize you're stuck inside someone else's love story. Lan Pi crashes into a fantasy world expecting adventure and gets a black-hearted Sheep King playing games with her instead, the kind of games that feel personal even when you know they're scripted. The romance isn't a subplot that waits its turn, it's the entire point, built on the friction between a girl who says exactly what she thinks and a man who says nothing but means everything.

A new online novelist, called Lan Pi in one source and Lai Xiaoguang in others, finds a website that lets anyone pay a few dollars, choose a keyword and step inside the world of a novel, with whatever happens there turning into part of the story. She clicks through and lands in a fantasy virtual world called the Hand of God, where she becomes a werewolf named Da Niu. Soon she is tangled up in a case about stolen national treasures, and to get to the truth she has to travel alongside Wangcai, the Sheep King, who is gentle on the surface but black-hearted underneath. Their pairing of a scheming king and a blunt, tomboyish wolf girl drives a comedic fantasy romance told across 16 ONA episodes.