You Can’t Escape

A woman wakes inside a trashy forced-love webnovel as the stepmother of its heroine, Vivian, a gentle girl tormented by the male lead, Liam, and his gang. When Liam smirks through the aftermath of an attempted assault in the dean's office, she refuses to play by the novel's rules and arms Vivian with a shocking, permanent answer instead.

Backed by the wealthy Sterling family, she has Liam and his cronies expelled, then sets out to undo the heroine's fragile, hunted upbringing: new clothes at Grandview Plaza, and combat training with Coach Zhang, who calls Vivian hopeless before discovering her uncanny recovery and pain tolerance.

Yet the woman knows the original story's cruelty, and that her own survival depends on protecting the daughter she never expected to love.