Speaking about it, she’s not the real daughter of Jiang family. Tao Mu switched her daughter (“Jiang” Yaling) with the Jiang’s actual daughter, TYQ, and then mistreated Tao Youqing for her whole life, refusing to even look at her. It’s amazing already that TYQ even could grow as well as she did, all thanks to her uncle Tao, and the way the author writes her acceptance as her past and insistence towards uncle Tao is also too well written and realistic.

Yes TYQ, treat well your brother, he’s so cute!!!, not a stinky spoiled thing but really a little sweetie who really deserves such a good sister!!! Their interaction so far is so cute, I really need more!!!

When MC finally smartened up, she wanted to totally anihilate her ex because she blamed her for supressing MC in the ONLY industry that SHE specifically wanted to work in. Like why not work somewhere else??

MC also blamed her ex for keeping her as a live-in girlfriend, practically a sugar baby, because MC actually WANTED to work her bu*t off instead of just lying around in a fancy suite doing nothing all day for 5 years.

Girl, you fell in love. It doesn't mean you use that as a reason to suddenly stop looking for other jobs and strictly be your crush's substitute. You didn't have to make her pay for your financial problems for all this time. Some people dream about this kind of easy life, what the heck are you whining about?

If you're gonna go round the bend to get revenge on someone because you're in denial about your own idiocy and uselessness, then you're the bad guy here.

Another thing, her not-sister's actions were totally her biological parents' fault for spoiling her. If you're going to be blaming someone, blame them for creating this monster. This kid in an adult sized body sounds like she just needs attention and the right kind of therapy. If she were as malicious as the MC thought, she would've stuck being a singer/dancer and cut mc's limbs off instead of trying to work on a different part of their industry. Her thoughts were about making her not-parents love her again, for goodness' sake. Dang, I felt sorry for this girl instead of feeling vindicated that she's having such a terrible life.

I wish the author explores more of the family dynamic after Youqing returns since surely her parents didn't my miss the bad blood between their two daughters if they really care about both? We don't get any scenes of them sitting down to talk with Yaling at all and sure she is a horrible person, but her parents really drop the ball with the way they raise and treat her tbh.

Also, after seeing another review here, I'd just like to add: I think it's fair to give Youqing some grace since she was only around 19, powerless, moneyless, when her own company pressures her to drop out of the competition and when she desperately needs money, Zhou Yirou appears like a guardian angel in front of her and she is taken by this boss. At least she has the hindsight to start an idol account anonymously. It's easy to dismiss her as action as someone being blinded by love, sure, but at the time, for her, Zhou Yirou was the person who helped her uncle to save her mother. There's a sense of gratitude and debt there.

Nothing much to say about her sense of narcissism, I actually enjoy it. I'd recommend it to anyone with low self-esteem, it helps more than you know tbh. Youqing is also using it to motivate herself when everybody in the world is against her and it's a powerful tool that helps her survive so they'll never make me hate her for that reason.