The original Qin Jiu passed away after years of ab*se by her foster parents. Our MC, with the same name as the original, coincidentally transmigrated into the original's body at that time. For Qin Jiu, the world was from a book she read. In the book, it was stated that the original Qin Jiu found out about her origin and managed to go back to her biological family. However, growing up in the countryside, she was a far cry from Qin Xin. And of course, a tragic end awaits her. Qin Xin however, lives on to be the Empress (if I'm not wrong). And so, Qin Jiu planned to avoid the plot altogether.

The other twist was that Qin Xin was reborn in this timeline. Different from the plot of the book, in her previous life, the Qin family found out early on that she and Qin Jiu were swapped. Qin Xin and her biological family was then exiled as a s*ave. The original Qin Jiu lived on to be the Empress (if I'm not wrong).

In the novel that Qin Jiu read and in the memory of Qin Xin's previous life, the original ML was Gu Jing, the Emperor's second son.

- The FL's previous life was not explained and no backstory. I even thought she's OG owner but nada... even the meaning of arrow chasing her (esp in last few chaps) was still remained questionable.

- ML got hints that he rebirthed due to his immense knowledge and knowing strategical moves of enemies... but it was left hanging and plot hole.

- Some chapters felt rush esp the ending.

the so-called "fool" that Qin Jiu was going to be forced to marry. Based on both her description of him, and the description you hear from the villains, and I think a later description from the aunt? it seems that that particular character probably has little to no understanding of the actual situation, and was just told that he was going to have a new playmate that was a wife. And now he probably won't completely understand why she disappeared either. *shrug* maybe it's weird to think about, but it was something that occurred to me when reading.

Like when her second aunt tries to send her all bland and salty food, that is, for the most part, actually inedible, she switches their food boxes so she gets the delicious food meant for the aunt

And too... while there is the whole, "the older brother immediately hates her because she wasn't his real sister and she knew it the whole time" there are a lot of ways to get around that, or at least ways other than immediately crying and that's it. Use those villain brains of yours for something useful, Qin Xin. Why not just immediately blame your birth parents who you clearly want to have no connection with anyway? Pretend they forced you to come and pretend to be the daughter of the marquess, and as time passed, since you were so little when you came, you started to believe your own fantasy but now you realize and you're sorry for being the magpie. That would get you at least some sympathy, possibly. >.> Either way, it feels a bit more realistic that the younger brother is wary of the MC at first and loves the 'sister' who brought him up. Why wouldn't he? Qin Xin was hiding her scheming side. Although in this particular case there is also the whole 'Qin Xin helped raise him to be a spoiled brat on purpose', which is its own issue and shows her scheming side. For the older brother, it's a novel where apparently the older brother was the only one on Qin Jiu's side in the original, so I'll give him a pass for his weird obsessiveness with 'only the blood sister is my sister'.

When the MC is frustrated about a person who confessed to her in public and she's like "I want to put him in a sack and beat him up!" and then the ML delivers the chance xD

When the grandmother punishes Qin Xin for stealing money that wasn't rightfully hers, which she used for her own means, Qin Xin's first thought is that the grandmother doesn't love her anymore. When the grandmother is thinking that this is really the first punishment she's ever given Qin Xin and therefore it needs to stick. And I just shake my head. Qin Xin didn't seem to realize how easy it would be to keep everyone's affection, but she just had to go and keep doing things that were not quite legal and that disappointed the family. Qin Xin, you had a second life, and choices on how this could have gone well. You have no one to blame but yourself, in the end. You, unlike what you're thinking, never treated them with sincerity.

that the ML pretended to be heavily injured so the MC would worry and take care of him. She's still rightly mad at him for that until ch 181 (where I left off the first time) when he gives her gifts as a kinda silent apology/to coax her.

The emperor and empress and the ML have already decided MC will marry ml, and the MC is on her way there, just hasn't realized more than she wants to hug her golden thigh yet. It has started though, which I think is sweet, that while it is taking her time to realize, she slowly is, and does truly like the ml. Although how much is because he is a golden thigh, I dunno. xD Either way, relatives that should have no say, bu*t out!

"was his sister addicted to reporting to the authorities?"

Uncle who has separated the family, how dare you have the gall to suggest that your nephew give up his new title to spare you after you stole money. Yay on grandma for not being blind to her son's faults and telling her grandson not to be softhearted in this case.

a chapter is divided into several parts, so it's actually still far from the end. (at ch. 123 now)

The translation needs some heavy editing imo. There's tons of typos: inconsistent name translations, he/she mixed up, and a few other things. Some of the terms used are also weird: noble male heirs being called crown prince (i think it was "shizi" in mtl), elder people calling those younger with "sister (name) " e.g grandma qin calling her granddaughter sister jiu. I think these type of translations are too direct from mtl as I find a lot of them from reading the mtl.

These are mostly what is recurring in the current translation.

It's superr easy to understand. Much easier than than the usual easy mtl I read. It doesn't give me a headache at all :D

If you often read this type of novel with ancient setting, it'll be even easier as there's a few things translated too directly on mtl and a few still in pinyin. But you'll understand what it means as it's often explained in ancient setting novel translations.

I didn’t like how the MC always hit her brother to the point he can’t express his opinion because he’s afraid.

honestly, I can never understand the original Fl. She always says that our MC stole everything from her! Is she crazy?!! Does she forget that she’s the one who stole her place?!!

I don’t understand her hater towards our MC but I understand her pain. In her first life, she was just a child. She did nothing wrong but lived her whole life in pain. I understand her fair of our MC. In the end, she wanted to protect herself I understand that. But she just did that to another victim like her!!!

The girl was ab*sed by her parents but she never felt any sympathy. She thinks she’s the only one who suffered.

especially what he did to his daughter. What his daughter did was her only way to survive in her opinion. If the empress didn’t deceive her and told her the emperor wouldn’t marry her off she wouldn’t have done that at all!!