Drama Addict Extraordina

📝 Review
(WARNING: Potential Spoilers — I’m Not Saving You from Any Emotional Damage)

I started Lost Romance on a whim. Full boredom mode. One of those ‘let me just put something on’ decisions that spirals into emotional involvement against my will.

First off: the synopsis lied to me a little. The way it’s written makes it sound like the FL and ML are romantically aware of each other from across a hallway or something. No. They are across and down the street, and she is out here using a drone. A DRONE. I was confused. Concerned. Mildly impressed. That whole opening stretch had me squinting until—oh. Novel world. Got it.

Once we enter the novel, things click. Yes, it’s cliché. That’s literally the point. Xiao En spends her real life complaining about how lazy romance novels are, only to get shoved into one that hits every trope she hates. Irony doing backflips.

The twist? She’s not the heroine. She’s the villain. And when she meets the ML, she’s convinced he’s the same guy she loves in real life (he is—she just doesn’t know it yet). Cue confusion, hostility, and aggressive misunderstandings. Because in this world, he’s programmed to love that girl. You know the type. Soft-spoken. Apologetic. Always looks like she’s about to cry over soup.

She annoyed me. Deeply. But that’s a genre issue, not a personal one.

Watching Xiao En actively fight the narrative—trying to brute-force her way into a happy ending while the story resists her—was honestly delightful. Enemies-to-lovers done with self-awareness and spite? Yes, please.

And then—because this drama enjoys pain—she disappears back into the real world on their wedding day. Of course she does.

Let’s talk about the second male lead for a second because WOW. Absolute emotional war crime. He doesn’t even belong in this story. He’s from an unfinished novel. His world literally vanished, so he ran into another one to survive. Sir. That is devastating. He deserved his own completed book and a soft ending. Justice for him.

Back in the real world, both leads wake up. Except—plot twist—ML remembers nothing. No novel. No love. No shared history. Just vibes and narrative cruelty. So yes, we get a full reset romance while dodging actual villains (which, not gonna lie, took me a bit to identify correctly).

The structure is chaotic: real world → novel world → real world again. If you blink, you’ll miss something. I rewound more than once. But somehow, it still works. It’s a whirlwind, but an intentional one.

By the end, I was satisfied. Tired. Emotionally jostled. But satisfied.

💭 Final Mood
“Confused, entertained, slightly drained, but absolutely not mad about it.”