I mean he was ab*sed by their father for nothing and instead of giving him a happy ending, he lost the girl he loved cause she decided not to wait for him and marry someone else (even though he looked for her and just couldn't find her), his sister decided she doesn't want him in her life, and he still blames himself and accepts all this. I hate that he said it's good his lover didn't wait since he had found her so late.

if you're curious, that happens somewhere beginning in the 40th chapters and he comes to apologize to FL I Ch. 50?

Ning Lan (the heroine of the original novel) is a transmigrator.

At least MC still had ML and her friends but Shang Mu was alone. He lost MC as a sister and although MC already forgave him, she still couldn't treat Shang Mu as her brother. Shang Mu also lost his love because of his father and after meeting her again, she already had someone else which was really heartbreaking to read.

But there's still hope though because in the end, MC gave her wedding bouquet to Shang Mu, wishing him to be happy which was really a thing that I would love to see.

Being EQ stunted is justifiable by her backstory which is incredibly dark for such a comedic story. Her father views her as her mother's mu*derer (as the mom died during childbirth), and while he wouldn't physically hurt her, he did a lot of emotional and mental damage. Such as locking her in a storage room for weeks.

He also physically ab*sed her brother whenever she did something wrong. This resulted in her brother growing distant and eventually disliking his sister.

By the end of all that, she really doesn't know how to be loved and regularly asks normal people hypothetical questions that reflect her upbringing. Even asking a woman, who adopted an orphan, how the parents would have felt if even one of them had survived to take care of their own child.

He shows up roughly three times before the mid-30s chapters and never for very long. However, he does show up at a pivotal part when another actor goes nuts and tries to kill the MC and her friend. And then we don't see him again for another few chapters.

Seriously, the brother ends up with scars from being beaten. Of course, the brother also plotted his revenge against his father through a medication that had the side effect of hallucinations. However, the hallucinations were a one-time thing which led to the father spiralling out of control and becoming addicted to drugs.

Dad also tried to unalive himself because he wanted to see his wife again.

This novel has many weak points though, like her rushed adopted family that truly came out of nowhere. I'm talking more about the adopted parents than the adopted sister.

The sister actually had a build up but then kind of was dropped off in the story, at least at the point I am in, she doesn't have much presence anymore.

And her situation with her family was quite... idk, I don't think it was executed as well as it could have been, though there was some interesting things that were really well done, it's like it was missing something.

The system thing was honestly such a random thing. The story could have done without it, she could have just woken up from the novel's control on her own. The system variable felt misused and unnecessary, which feels to me like the author had no enough time to decide what the hell they wanted to do with it.