short series

Shedding the Mask: My Life, My Rules

share time: 2026-01-17 02:31:16

Lin Xiaoman, 30, is everyone’s “perfect tool”—the reliable workplace problem-solver, the obedient daughter at home, and the understanding girlfriend in relationships. Until her birthday, when she finds a notebook in the hospital with her 18-year-old manga manuscript—the mangaka dream she once gave up. That night, her boyfriend loses his temper over no love bento, her mom pressures her to marry, and her boss dumps extra work on her. She breaks down: “Am I Lin Xiaoman, or just your tool?” She decides to “unmask” everything: quitting her hated job, breaking up with her indifferent boyfriend, telling her mom honestly, “I don’t want to live by your script,” and even starting to serialize manga online. But when her “perfect persona” collapses, she faces workplace doubts, family cold wars, and social gossip… Yet when she draws her true self for the first time, a comment reads: “You’re drawing the life I dare not live.” She suddenly realizes—shedding the mask isn’t “losing control”; it’s finally holding the steering wheel of her own life.

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