Jennifer curled up on her sofa and turned on the laptop. Finally, some peace and quiet! Adrian and his ALIVE boys were still at their shoot. According to Sebastian, they wouldn't be back until late tonight. Damien and Angus should also be at their campus orientation by now. Saturday of Orientation Week was often the grand finale. Remembering her own university days made Jennifer feel nostalgic.
Maybe she should write a webnovel set in a university. Oh, oh! A magical university… with students awakened to fight alien monsters to close portals, with a ranking system, live streams, and private guilds… and then Jennifer stopped.
If any of that appeared in her building… wouldn't that be BAD?
Particularly if the landlady came back.
Jennifer couldn't hand back this lovely building looking like an Armageddon disaster! Any kind of Armageddon scenario was a bad idea. She mentally ticked off all the things she would never want near her building: alien-spewing portals, plagues, zombies…
Wait. Wth. She must have gone mad.
Why would she think her webnovels could come true in real life? Hahaha… she was even laughing aloud to herself.
But her very first webnovel had shown up—at least the antagonist, Liam. Along with the rest of the ALIVE boys and their very sexy band manager, Adrian. Now that she got to know them, they were actually nice boys. Liam's greatest personality flaw was simply his lack of one. She blamed her shallow writing, but it was her first webnovel. Adrian was… ah, very, very nice.
Her second webnovel, The Curse of Darkfall, had manifested all its lead character angst, but the young alpha Damien was just a teenager starting university, burdened with an entire pack and a curse on his shoulders. Why was he all alone in this? Shouldn't his older, wiser, more powerful—and much, much hotter—Alpha King father lend a hand, or a shoulder, or maybe even a hug? But that would totally be off-genre, which would stink like blue cheese.
Her third webnovel was a lighthearted fairy tale Cinderella rom-com. The young Crown Prince Angus falling in love at first sight with Mia, the girl next door. Every chapter was Angus trying—and failing—to give Mia the life and love she wanted. It was supposed to be funny, and it was… all 57 chapters of it. But what now? Would it be bad if Angus just gave up and found happiness in other places—like his mother's apartment, a new life at college, new friends…? Shouldn't he expand his world first before choosing the woman he would love forever?
And then her newest webnovel—she had made this one really edgy and glamorously grown-up. The ML, Bastien, was her favorite. Maybe because he was reincarnated, so he didn't run around like a headless chicken or wallow in self-pity for hours. But really, the poor kid's family home was like a shark tank, and his second life hadn't changed that.
She should start writing an Aunt Agony Column for webnovel characters. A lot of them would need counseling. Scratch that—they would need an asylum. Wait… did that make her building an asylum? OMG.
Okay, calm down. There had to be a perfectly logical explanation for this.
Jennifer had been writing webnovels for a long time, and never had any of them come true… until this week, when she became the landlady! Gasp! The building deed!
She popped up from the sofa, nearly dropping her laptop, but caught it and carefully balanced it on the armrest. Then she dug through the small pile of papers on her dining table and found the DHL envelope.
She pulled out the document. It wasn't like she would know what a property deed looked like, but it looked legit. The sales agreement looked proper too. There was no mention of webnovel characters entering her life… wait, what was she doing? Yeah. She must be mad.
Jennifer wandered back to the sofa in a daze. Hahaha… it wasn't like whatever she wrote could actually come true… right? If it did, shouldn't she write something more beneficial for herself?
Like… not situating alien portals nearby. Alien portals should only open in wastelands far from humans. And trees—because Jennifer often taught her kindergarteners to save trees.
Wait. Why was she even writing about alien portals? Wth.
Jennifer sighed and opened up the webnovel site to check on her stories. She should just continue Prince Angus' 58th attempt: Chapter 58—My Mother's Apartment.
Wait. Hang on. Jennifer didn't write that.
She clicked on it and read how, after failing to convince Mia that the newly constructed castle one street away from the college campus would be the perfect college sweetheart love nest, Angus found an old letter tucked inside his enrolment documents. Just a letter from his godmother: "My Dearest Prince Angus…"
Wth.
Jennifer couldn't believe what she was reading.
Prince Angus ended up in front of a quaint, picturesque building tucked into a quiet corner of the street, surrounded by townhouses, small shops, and neatly planted trees. Yes, Jennifer felt her neighborhood could be described like that.
He then met a kind landlady and rescued her from a life of hardship. She was very grateful. There was no mention of poop.
The chapter ended with the Prince unable to fall asleep, too excited to see Mia's face when he showed her the apartment his mother had once lived in. His mother, who had been a commoner just like Mia—it must be fate. He spent the rest of the night sitting at the window, feeling, for the first time, a closeness to his mother whom he had never met.
Wth.
Not only were her webnovel characters now living in her building—they were writing their own chapters?
She checked the other novels:
New Chapter for REINCARNATED CEO GRANDSON: Damien is entrusted by Grandfather with a personal favor and meets his Grandfather's mistress. WTH? New Chapter for MY TURN TO SHINE: Sarah (the FL), who had just broken into show business, meets Shuan again (the ML). "Thank you for the other day," she said. Oh right, she had been working as a cleaner at the recording studio when the ALIVE boys arrived. Unable to face Liam in that state, she panicked and hid behind the first room in sight—which turned out to be Shuan's assigned dressing room. New Chapter for The Curse of Darkfall: The rogue king was hell-bent on killing Damien. There was no choice but to leave his pack temporarily and hide among humans. At least, that was the plan. But his father, the Alpha King, storms in that same night to drag him back home. They fought wolf to wolf. It was such a fierce battle that everyone in the building was drawn to watch. Eventually, Damien won. But his father was not ready to give up yet. Damien knew—because the "doormen" guarding the building were the Alpha King's personal security team.
If Jennifer started a story about alien spawn portals and a university for magical awakeners, would she be signing her own death warrant?
Still… Jennifer's hands hovered above the laptop. Tentatively, she typed the title: Pandora's Box.
And then she stopped. Just in case she wasn't crazy. Just in case her webnovels would come true. Let's not be hasty to open that can of worms.