Yes the male lead is the aforementioned young master in the summary

She’s super smart. As long as she had access to the right books she could learn anything. Even if she never met any of them and just escaped the mountain village I know she could have thrived so long as she could access a library or something. But if she had no access to anything her whole life and stayed in a rural area I doubt her genetics would do anything. It’s never just genetics, it’s the environment and access to resources as well. But her grandfather and uncles all attributed it to their family’s genetics and said she was the only good one of them since she was the healthiest and most sane. Nevermind that the rest of the family are trained mafia people, it’s only their lack of self confidence and ableist attitude that kept them from power. It’s only after she returns and supports them that they reverse and adapt. But for a good chunk of the book there’s still a thread of ableism from characters that interact with the three major disable characters. Like the characters themselves have a bit of self hatred because of their disability but even after they change they still get treated as useless by Wei Lin, their father and even the servants. Even MC says something infantilizing them in the later chapters.

For the most part she’s very kind hearted and a good child (albeit grey morals) but her paternal grandfather attributes it to her father being a kind and upright military man. But her life experience shaped her, the people she met shaped her. It can’t just be said it’s the right dna.

ML didn’t seem aware at all that he was interested in her romantically until others put that thought in his head. He busted wanted to be her number one. But He can be her number one person without being her lover though in the later arc you find out that them being each other’s most important person always happens no matter how many times the life restarts.

Still not my cup of tea, even though I read and enjoyed similar plots in the past. We just never got enough time to see them as adults or on a more equal footing so that the romantic shift would be more natural.

Their worlds is just part of many within a game where outsiders can play with the story whether they want to correct the story, change protagonists, treat it as a transmigration or rebirth story. Our final antagonist was a player and ML is quite wicked with him torturing/threatening to keep him alive in cruel ways to ensure their current run through of the game survives up until he “convinces” him to go out and try to give MCs parents the happy ending they deserve and convince other to try as well (yes he does say maybe it’s foolish but he’ll just keep finding new players to torture and blame it on the current player so if he doesn’t do as asked, the new tortured player will go after the original for revenge.) ML is very confident after hearing no matter how many players to their world him and MCs deep connection is inevitable. He’ll find his way to her no matter what. That’s honestly what made me accept them together even if I prefer them as platonic lol. During the guys first attempt he did try to save MCs dad but that guy was stubborn and died at least knowing about MC. I just wished the author had written about a happy ending where they all lived, MC got to live with her parents and both sides of her family, reunited with ML. You know like a real HEA route.

There was a character I didn’t like at first, little An. She felt like an afterthought but by the final chapter I guess you could consider her a foil to MC, they share many similarities and MC would have likely grown up to be just like her if she had been raised by her maternal grandfather who believed competition was the best way to raise children much like An girls dad who treated his kids better based on the connections they bring him. I feel like by MC accepting this girl she was accepting a part of herself, especially with how cold and calculating she was. It didn’t make her a bad person but it took MCs acceptance before she could be confident in herself.

.. Being in a game BUT no, the game part is just a small part & it near the end where it logically explained