I have an ugly scar on my belly from my appendectomy that I'm really self conscious about. Originally it was just meant to be a small hole and the doc said it wouldn't leave a mark, but the surgeon ended up having to do an infraumbilical midline incision (?) that left a really ugly scar. I'm not really self conscious about my looks, but sometimes when I'm feeling vulnerable I look at the scar and think I'll never look good no matter what I do because I have an ugly belly scar. So I really related to MC wanting to get rid of the scar so she can be beautiful.

MC was finally confronting her family and ML's friend tries to discourage her from cutting ties with them, but ML says

"Stop right there, " Fu Yangxi said. "Don't try to give such ambiguous advice. As the saying goes, only those who drank the water would know its temperature. If a stranger tries to bu*t in, they will only appear even more annoying. Zhao Mingxi, don't listen to what other people have to say, including me. Make your own choice. So long as you have thought it through, any decision is a good decision."

then he even asks her if she needs help from his lawyer.

I also like the fact that MC did not forgave them. Too often in novel after a bit of remorse is shown by the family, the MC forgive and everything can be forgiven because it's the fault of X wicked character. In my eyes unless it's by use of supernatural means, the behavior shown before by the family is indicative of their true nature

Personally, I don't think that Zhao Yuan deserved getting kicked out of the house with nothing because of her biological mother's actions. Yes, she was a villain and did underhanded things to be better than the FL. But she really did not have anything to do with her mother's actions in switching the children at birth. The family kicked her out after realizing what happened because they couldn't bear their own actions in favoring her over their own biological daughter when the switch was intentional. She was used to this lifestyle for 18 years. In reality, it's is extremely difficult to change one's lifestyle in a blink on an eye. Yes, definitely she deserved retribution for her past actions, but her actions weren't that bad for her to get kicked out with nothing. Imagine spending 18 years to raise her and immediately throwing her away because she was the culprit's daughter who intentionally switched the babies. You'd expect them to still have a little pity on her and give her some money to live off and cut her off the family.

I can also understand Zhao Yuan's actions. Considering that the Zhaos still placed a lot of importance on blood relations, her finding out that she was not their real children was scary. She was scared to be abandoned because the real daughter arrived. She could already feel slowly that the family was beginning to turn back on her. She did petty and small things because she was jealous. I agree that her friends bullying the FL and her not saying anything when FL's name gets slandered is wrong, but she was jealous. She was also a sheltered child. I don't think she's as bad as people think she is. Yes, she was definitely in the wrong, but we should also blame the Zhao family. They were extremely impartial to her instead of being fair. I don't think Zhao Yuan deserves all the faults, because a big chunk of it really was the Zhao's and how they raised the children. Yes, Zhao Yuan did petty little green tea things, but honestly she had no power and the only thing she wanted to do was keep herself where she was.

It's just really sad how the Zhao family dropped Zhao Yuan like a hot potato and she spiraled down.

I love that the ML was a secondary character in the Orig with a personality and setting that would usually be written as a villain or supporting ML who doesnt get the girl. It feels great for this poor character type to finally get a happy ending!

Remind reviewers the author writes the MC's adopted situation very lovingly. The Mc's childhood in the mountains with the villagers and grandma who adopted her are all positive. The Ori/FL's situation is much more complicated.

It's stated a few times that the father is old fashioned with a higher fixation of bloodkin than modern generations. Even so, the father and the rest of the family were happy with keeping the Ori/FL after discovering she wasn't their real child before things fell apart and some harsh truths came out.

The author reiterates throughout the story how the Ori/FL super good luck/heroine halo made those around her either dumb stepping stones or blindly pampering sycophants. It litteraly messed with their thinking to benefit the Ori/FL. This unfortunately made things worse as by the time MC's luck increased enough to offset Ori/FL's halo things had long developed way past a point to reconcile things: The fallout from the truth behind the swap, the disappointment/shock of seeing the Ori/FL's flawed personality/deception, and the horror/realization of the extreme/mindless bias towards the Ori/FL all happened in a very short period of time and left them overwhelmed. This created a strong lashback against their adopted child the Ori/FL who they originally cared greatly for. Had their thinking not been influenced by the heroine's halo things would have been handled differently and many issues would never have happened. The family members aren't dumb and the author strongly suggested that their behaviors and thoughts were impacted and changed how they would have otherwise handled things.

That said, Ori/FL's halo left her character very weak and underdeveloped so it's understandable that she made the poor choices she did in her panic at change. She never had to be held accountable or do any real character building since her halo made everyone mindlessly spoil her. Unfortunately for her, her family was too overwhelmed/hurt to have the emotional/mental energy to help guide her through her poor choices. Especially since her bad actions were part of the burden making them overwhelmed.

Long story short, the heroine's halo had a negative impact on everyone and the family's repeated mentions of blood vs adopted was more out of horror at realizing their blindly s*upid actions under the halo's effect leading them to grossly mismanage things and ab*se their blood daughter leading things to become unreconcilable.

1. At the start of the novel the MC is offended about how in the ori!novel she is portrayed as a brainless, malicious villainess. The author didn't take into account her situation, traumas or feelings, making her a one dimension character with the sole purpouse of being a stepping stone. Well, since the author criticized this I thought the villainess in this reality will be the oposite of this. I was wrong. The ori!FL can be accurately described like that.

2. The system is unnecesary, literally just appear once every 5 charapters and has no real weight in the plot, it's not centered in the system like other novels, makes me wonder why the author kept it.

3. During all the novel the idea that blood relations matter more than anything is very present. The family starts thinking less and keeping things from the adopted daughter because at the end of the day she is not their blood. Yeah they loved her and raised her for 18 years, but... Mingxi is their blood daughter! How could they prioritize an strangers child over their real family?! The mother has a conflict because she realizes that her daughter and son left home all because of a child who was not her blood and as such, it wasn't worth it.

4. Remember the villainess and her accurate description? Well, yeah, poor thing, has as many brain cells as an ameba. She is just an spoiled brat, she cries when something doesn't go her way and wants all the attention on herself. She is insecure her family will love Mingxi more since she is their bio daughter, probably had an identity crisis when she found out she was adopted and feared she will be trhown away, but it is never explored. She is just written as an stepping stone, an idiot who doesn't know what's good for her, there's 0 character growth for her. Like the author was afraid giving her some good qualities or a functioning brain would steal the spotlight from MC. This is even more evident when we see that nobody is as beautiful as MC and the villainess "doesn't dare compete with her in looks".

5. There's no character growth on the family. Other than expressing regets and wanting to do better for MC that is. This whole situation started because they are toxic. They view blood relationships as more worthy in their hearts, that's why they always payed more attention to ori!fl, because they felt guilty for thinking that about the daughter they raised and thus they treat Mingxi as an scapegoat. After Mingxi left they treated the villainess more and more like a stranger, always justifying themselves, until they discarded her like tr*sh when they found out what her mother had done. They all need teraphy, glad MC went far away from them.

6. The same as 5. They regret so much, never going forward, that it gets repetitive and boring. It's like a good joke repeated six times, it was fun at first, maybe also the second time, but then it got more and more 'meh'. I just want to see more interactions between ML and MC.

ML was kidnapped when he was 12-13 and his dad and big bro sacrificed themselves and saved him.

This became his trauma and his grandpa and mom blamed him. His mom actually became mentally sick but wouldn't take treatment.

And this left a great impact on me cuz just because your family has problems you can't cut off relationships like that. And this novel actually took that dilemma into account.

His mom willingly decides to get treated at the end.

I like that at the end they did not get egoistic and realised why the FL didn't wanna come back with them.

The author leaves it kinda open ended if she will forgive/make up with them in future but again I haven't often seen families like this that actually repent without ulterior motive.

I think that the premise would be better without the "system".

I also disliked both mentality of Zhao family that obviously reflect from author... they may already knew their fault and guilt but I hate that they still kept putting blame to the Zhao Yuan (OG FL) in the end. They treated her like they did to Zhao MingXi before... which meant they really didn't learn from their mistakes. I know it's about heroine halo luck but both kids shouldn't blame in the incident that put conflit to both girls (ZX in past and now ZY)