It is just too illogical if you look at it in a different perspective, abuse, violence, being poor being uneducated etc. In my opinion this virtual show is doing exactly opposite of what they're aiming.

If it was in real life, if you watch people being abused too much till they completely broken or blackened, I think 80% audience would ask judges to reduce their sentence, they wouldn't go watch a little child or a young girl to be abused and if she mu*ders a dude they would probably say he deserved it, I think alot of people would say something similar in this line, maybe the editing is too malicious so they started to hate her?

I am not sure.

But I know one thing people just don't like OP people.

If someone is too good and too op people wouldn't like her, it is just opposite people don't like other people being too successful even if they worked hard for it with their IQ or whatever, I think audience would like a pitiful mu*derer to a rich, smart, hardworking, beautiful (or handsome) person, it is just perfection usually makes people unrelatable.

I have seen alot of hatable characters being liked but on other side I also seen not problematic people being hated for no reason, it is just human nature to prefer pitiful so this writing kinda lacks human touch

So the "romance" plays a heavy part to the story and depending on how well you like the romance, it'll make or break the story. And to me... the romance is unearned, it just felt kinda forced if I'm being honest.

Quick overview. MC was reborn to engage on a reality tv show where she lives through a brand new life in a virtual world each new season that lasted for two weeks with two weeks break until the next season. People watches and determine whether her sentence can be commuted or retrail (50 mil votes) or ask the king's court to investigate (100mil votes). She's being "reborned" now know she's part of the trail (her memory is supposed to be erased the beginning of each season only to get restored about each season ended, either when the time limits ends or she dies inside. In the story, shoes goes through 5 seasons (earned 50mil after 3 seasons and the final 100mil after 5 seasons).

The mystery in the beginning is why is she "reborned" and why is the ML always following her by her side. Each season should have a new set of NPC and no NPC repeats after a season.

The seasons are split into the following:

1. First season is a school genius life. Introduce to a seemingly plain ML who happened to be also a tech genius. Ended when she was seemingly being kidnapped and kill by a pyscho who's a real life player and not a NPC of the world (based on her former memory of her first trial earlier) but rescued by the male lead.
   Shocking element is the ML revealing he has a helmet that allows him to capture and hold real-life player within the virtual world. He and the MC capture them and reveal them one by one to broadcast.... note all these people had their identity hidden and been conducting malicious act in the virtual world (ie. raping and killing)
2. Second season is a survivor island world - a world where she was a legitimate daughter of a rich family that was swap at birth. She was orphaned while the other girls living her life and became a famous singer. She was supposed to be adopted by a pedo guy and his wife complicit to his sick tendency. She escaped and ended being raised by a foreign parent who's family contains a bunch of big time celebrity. She become a famous author of this world. On top of that she spend her younger years (not the season don't start until she's 18, what happens before happen on the background to simply fill out her back story and give her character a richer layer. Turns out a megacorporation (ran by the ML) created a virtual reality world akin to what shes experiencing right now and trick these celebrity into his own reality show (note the actual reality show only has vantage point FL and other real world player... not any of the NPC). Anyways she survive and at the same time exposed the fake daughter evil schemes thoroughly embarrassing the director's teams. Tricked her twice actually and MC gain more votes and followers.
3. Third season is this weird modern cultivators world. She's supposed to be a cherished genius daughter of rich family that's supposed to have a powerful spirit core but secretly doesn't. Her good friend help her hide this only for her to supposed to be exposed when she's 18 where she's also abandoned by her real family. She obviously know this trick and secretly ran away and join highly disrespected and weak sword sect. Sword sect is weak in this world because they can't read secret ancient sect and she can read. MC constantly borrowed money and boasting about turning the sword sect into a highly respected sect which cause her to be ridiculed by everyone in the virtual world. Director's teams learn that she ran away but let her be after learning about all the negative news she's drumming in the virtual world. She became really powerful.
4. Fourth season is a god mode setting where she and two other real-life player compete to become a god of this virtual world. The can use any mean to make people fear and follow them. Create a really weird "card game" that stokes people insatiable sense of greed. Think loot boxes and slot machines. Anyways, she goes after mainly the rich and influential and gain a lot of high quality "follower" whereas the other two went after thugs greedy for power. She exposed to the virtual world that they're in the playing field of a god mode type games and they'll be embroiled in a battle between god as their followers.
5. Fifth season is her essentially reliving her original life and reborn with the world judging her life after rebirth. At this point in the story we've already found out why ML is always following her. Apparently the king of the land is prophesied to meet a destined lover who's supposed to be his soulmate and can control and affect the king's emotion. Note the king is non-human but exist in a human form. The king rejected this and took out his heart... which eventually gain sentience and became a cat... and ignore her which allows her to end up in the current state. When she was arrested, this heart followed her and became the ML. The virtual realty system is a creation of the king and since the heart is kinda a part of the king, he can go into the virtual world. However his memory was erased. So the final season is simply getting her to react to the news of her being the king's destined person and whether she'll choose to become the queen or abandoned her position as the king's destined person. She was so disgusted as the king's cowardice of not even going to her and asking her to break the bonds. She doesn't care about being the queen and simply want to be with the ML. Unbeknowst to her at the moment, the ML is not actually a real person. The king's servant defended his action by saying he doesn't want to be beholden by a female human and can't be sure whether she's a good or bad character (based on history). She's not having it and wanted nothing to do with him. Honestly I'm with her here. The two real life players this time was prisoners with memory erased and fooled into thinking they're reborn. They try to kidnap the MC because they know she's the king's destined person and wanted her necklace with the king's blood (they're, one is a woman, wanted to replace her). They didn't realize the king can sense his destined person so there's no way to fool him. She exposed to the kidnappers that this world is fake and they're being watched causing them to breakdown accidentally killing her. The ML here is in the form of the cat she rescue before her crime.

After the 5 season she garnered 100mil vote the king's court reopened her case and clear her name. Also during the fifth season the king search everywhere for the cat. King reveal to her who she was but again was rejected. Her brother in season 2 tried to help her and safeguard the cat (so apparently NPC in the virtual world are actually based on real life people. Once the NPC is recalled the real life counterpart can reabsorb their memory. She, with the help of her brother, try to search for the ML only to find out later that the king took him (remember he's a heart) out of the cat and reabsorbed him back into this body. The king after witnessing her and her character wants her now but she was so distraught about what happened to the ML so rejected her. After going back to her brother place, she had a mental breakdown and assume she's still in the virtual world engaging in the 6th season. Thinking this is all fake she try to "exit" this world. After surviving her su*cide attempt, she was taken by the king. He sent her back to a virtual world, this time reliving a her in which the king found her at her orphanage and try to raise and groom her as his queen. His intentional is to replace her real world memory the memory she has in this world. On the night that he's going to "proposed" to her, she reveal she knows all along (just like she has her memory in tact during VR reality shows) and twisted his heart... she can control his emotion as long as she is bounded by him. It was reveal the "rebirth" in the beginning is not really a rebirth the ML as a cat sacrificed his chance to get a real body so she can "remember" everything in the VR world and get a glimpse of the future so she can best prepare and protect herself. Anyways, the king finally relented and dig out his heart and give it back to her. She then took the heart and grow it from donated from other nation. note: kings here are non-human entity the controls territory and are not born the same way. She successfully grew a body from the heart of the ML and they now live happily ever after in the tiny plot where he's the new king of the land and she's his queen. Daww...

Anyways, the story is not terrible but all my complaints are still valid.

Two of my biggest complaint.

1. The romance - oh boy... it was always off for me since the beginning. I never understand why she loves him so much. I mean there are no romantic development. You, as a reader, never see how they fell in love. Sure he protected her, but so did a lot of other character. She said he's the only one that see her for who she is and loves her unconditionally whereas everyone else loves simply a virtual version of her that she carefully crafted. But doesn't she realize he's the heart of the king that followed her because she's the king's destined person? Every life and everyone... it wasn't like he "fell" in love with her... it's just because his heart beats faster when he's around her. Is he falling in love with her is he just following his basic instinct? Also did she fall in love with him... each and every life he's basically a new person and she just basically stalks him. Again, the romance just felt so unearned. Like it doesn't feel organic. They're in love with because the author said so... pretty much.
2. The king's reason for rejecting her. On quick glance, it kinda make sense and the fact that he doesn't understand love and simply think it's a cursed to have his emotion tied to a single person he doesn't know. I get it. However, how he acted and responded to this is illogical at best. Remember the king, in author's world is the brightest and smartest person in the world. What did he do? First, apparently there was a book the explain what a destined person is. And he refused to finish it because if he did, he'll realized there's a way to severed the bound by either the male or female side. He only know that she can sever the bound but not that he can also do it. Not him or any of his court advisor realized this. So even he, the king, mentioned he was tormented for 20 years for no reason. It's just s*upid... author just because you also call this out as being s*upid doesn't mean it's not a s*upid plot point. SO what did he do instead, he don't want to be tormented by having his emotion tied with her that he ripped his heart out literally. And discard this heart that turned into the ML. NOTE: It didn't work, he still feel all her emotion, but that was his solution. Not only that he basically ignore her and ignore all of his court advisor to search for her. Again if you're the smartest person on this world... why would you even allow such a weakness linger around... wouldn't it make more sense to look for her, keep her on guard, and watch over her emotion so it doesn't affect his emotion... even if he chooses not to see her at all. She goes through all this pain and he felt all of it. Keep her under surveillance and then try to figure out what kind of person she is. Isn't that the more logical thing to do? I'm not asking him to accept her. If he felt she's such a threat, why wouldn't he keep her under his watch? It's s*upid. Again the king is the smartest person in this world apparently.

was really happy 2nd ML lost. MC and being unwavering in why she chose ML and how long she was willing to wait at the end. Yay for happy endings!

It was impossible for her and 2nd ML and I'm glad author didn't do the cheap merging route because it would have been so cheap for him to get her after watching in indifference through all her pain. ML deserves his own life and I'm happy he got it

The MC is extremely talented, has a high IQ, and has a high EQ; one could call her Mary Sue. She handled all the words perfectly. Her hysteria when the ML was not there and her happiness when she found out the truth are all extremely satisfactory.

A show where a person is judged on their 'quality' by creating different lives with devised obstacles and cruelly planned tragedy is a new low for humans. From the premise, it is obvious that the Huo family bribed the show team and higher ups to straight up torture SJY. The only annoying part was when the audience didn't question the level of difficulty compared to the previous season and continued being superficial.

I personally loved how Song Juyao didn't accept the 2nd ML and was still longing for Jiang Baiqi so much and waiting for him. Although it broke my heart for her, this was all worth it in the end.

Thanks heavens JBQ is separate from the 2nd ML because SJY deserves so much more than the later. 2nd ML was so mysterious, cold, indifferent, aloof yada yada while watching her livestream, he shouldn't get any chances to be with her.

Though the audience in the live broadcast felt extremely shallow, there are people like that irl. Just when reading novels, we can find such people who curse the 'villain' or the one who opposes the protag with vulgar words and tell them to unalive themselves. Such people who feel superior over others just for being the ones viewing others' lives from a 'god perspective' are very common. Aren't those people exactly like the live audiences of the livestream? They are.

Just because people were so easy to manipulate, doesn't mean SJY was not excellent. The mystery is indeed intriguing, but not mind-blowing. Plot twists were great, but face slapping idiots time and again, felt good like it was the first. Nonetheless, a good read.

the King would be ML

Jiang Baiqi. The person with almost no existence that has always been by the MC's side whether in the first life or the second life. He's also the King's heart. Yes, literally his heart which he threw away because he didn't like how it made him feel emotions. He uses a cat as a vessel. So there are some uncomfortable chapters where ppl find out that ML is a literal cat in the real world when they all knew MC and ML f*cked a lot in the virtual world. Lol. So the author just glosses over it, wc is a good decision.

I agree MC say that, ML and 2nd ML is not the same person.

Im quite uncomfortable about the arc where the ML have fox soul.

I dont mind when she doesn't know it wasn't him, but after knowing it wasnt the ML, she still treat the fox like ML to make him jealous.

at first she was using the ML in the first arc, but she starting to like him in the 2nd arc, like slowly turning into love

She went black and mad when the ML is 'dead'

She cant accept the reality that theres no more ML, and thought the real world shes in is another trial (arc), she tried killing herself thinking to end the 'trial', she almost dead that time fortunately rescued by her brother.

The ML is so good, he is the best. They loved each other so much that none of the men who liked our FL as well ever stood a chance.

I loved that FL didn't end up with the King. He didn't deserve her at all.

At first I thought relationship between MC and ML was too imbalanced despite the fact that they both loved each other, but her spending so long waiting for him at the end made me feel like she pulled her own weight.

Another thing I liked was that the antagonists in the survival show didn't get over the top retaliations. Except the criminals at the end, everything the antagonists did was in a 'virtual world' so it would have been weird for them to go through hell because of it in reality.