
It usually refers to a situation where one character's lover is replaced with someone else, but that character only sees them as a replacement for their initial lover. This could happen because:
1. the lover dies and the character can't get over it so they project their dead lover's image onto another person
2. the lover loses their memories and kind of becomes a new person or they get into some type of accident where their personality changes and again, become a different person, but the character still sees them as their initial self
3. some weird reincarnation stuff happens
Point is, one character is hopelessly stuck loving someone, but something happens with them and the character just can't let go of their lover so they project their image onto a whole different person, which puts a lot of pressure and expectations on that person and causes a bunch of drama and problems :)))
Is this a replacement/ substitute story? please can someone answer. I’m planning to read it.