Her gold finger ability to make people like her also inflicts brain damage on those same people. I don’t remember if this was explicitly said but it is very very strongly implied that she knows this. In the original novel, her use of her ability exacerbated ML’s brain tumor and his mother’s dementia, causing both of them to die. MC, who’s healing ability means that he can save ML’s life (as long as no one comes along and explodes his brain tumor for personal gain) refuses to let her within arms reach of ML once he figures this out.

his mother was ML’s sister. Sister married her husband over the objections of her own family, and it turns out that her husband was a total s*um just like the rest of his family. Sister died tragically early, due to the ab*se of her husband and his family. She very clearly understood her mistakes but didn’t explain the complicated emotional betrayal to her 5 year old son so he doesn’t really have a clear idea of what happened. Original male lead was raised in his father’s family and they taught him that his uncle and grandmother were Big Bad Meanies who abandoned his mother and would probably try to go after him too. Meanwhile, the uncle, ML, openly hates his sister’s in laws but has been secretly planning to leave his entire company to his nephew once he can be sure his nephew isn’t being controlled by his fathers family. He’s got some convoluted but fairly genre typical plan to “hone” his nephew into a successful person by positioning himself as his nephew’s opponent. In the original novel, the original ML “wins” against his uncle basically because uncle lets it happen.

MC thinks that the nephew is an idiot, and is happy to say that to nephews’s face, but he only really stops the nephew whenever he’s blatantly trying to take advantage of his uncle.

the MC's original world was a zombie apocalypse

the journey with him and the MC with his illness to when he gets better was just so beautiful and real and ahhh, I literally cried at the end of the book.

Favourite quote at the end:

I watched you go from the hospital gown to the wedding suit. The journey wasn’t easy. I wish you happiness.

which she learnt to escape her tough life in the village.

MC has a fever every time he travels? Stress and overworking, he is a human after all.

Miraculous healing of ML's disease? Qiu Xing just got someone to live for and started to actually care about himself. There is only so much a doctor can do for unwilling patient. Besides, he still had to go through a surgery.

The whole «main system» plotline was so unnecessary, it's painful. It's neither original, nor served any purpose in the main story. If anything, it's just cheapened value of the characters. Because now they are characters in the fictional novel inside a novel, and readers are twice as detached and indifferent reading about them. Why should you care about their world particularly if there are millions of others, more complicated? The question about difference between a «character» and a «real person» is never even asked.

I feel like author just looked at the market oversaturated with these tropes and incorporated them in the story without much thought. There really wasn't any need to.

And finally, Tao Yang, the main problem. Although his arc got quite a bit of time, I still feel like it was less developed than even the one of Mu Zhouyi. I just have a feeling Tao Yang only exists because Xie Yang's character setting at the beginning was «mysteriously killed by someone in the novel».

The idea of what should be considered an art and what artists should be allowed to do for it is interesting, but it's too complicated to be smashed in the end of a fantasy-showbiz-romance novel.

It is still possible that author kept this idea in mind, but failed to explore it properly. After all, there was a short commentary about how stage blinds artists so much they forget what truly matters, and how much a «true» artist should be concerned about money and popularity, and how schemes behind the stage corrupt people. But in the end all these points are just left in the air; there is no clear theme to tie them together, no conclusion, not even clear question to ask yourself and think about after completing the story. It just feels like such a waste.

was purely metaphysical didn't even leave any sort of physical real world consequence. At least the MC should have been injured or did that trope of coughing out blood or something LOL.

Like that literally singlehandly resolved all of the problems regarding competition with his professional career (+ defeating enemies here actually felt a little satisfying bc at least they had a central cause) and also the problems regarding the ML's health. I waited so long for a second host / person from the apocolypse / epic power systems battle to appear after that and keep the rhythm going but all we got was the og system becoming the MC's food bank in the remainig ~80 chapters 😭