July That I Randomly Discovered

Dan-oh has always considered herself an ordinary high school student, but lately her life has taken on an unsettling, dreamlike quality. Whole days slip away in the blink of an eye, her memories blur at the edges, and strange visions leave her wondering whether she is slowly losing her grip on reality. The truth, however, is far stranger than any hallucination: Dan-oh is actually a character living inside a popular romance comic. Worse still, she is not the story's heroine—she is merely a background extra, one fated to suffer from a terminal heart condition and bound by an engagement to a childhood friend who feels nothing for her and is destined to cast her aside. Refusing to accept a scripted life and a dwindling future, Dan-oh resolves to seize control of her own fate. With her time running painfully short, she sets out on a determined quest to uncover the one person the pages have kept hidden from her—her true first love.