When the ML's mom blamed the ML for something that was never his fault, the FL said something really long and meaningful (?) to the ML's mother and kinda changed the ML and his mom's bad relationship for the better.

ML organizing FL's 18th birthday party and then giving her 18 birthday presents, one for each birthday that she's had.

FL defending ML from his mother when his mother threw another of her awful fits at him.

when ML ran away from FL and FL yelled that her shoe laces were untied and he just HAD to turn back to help her tie it.

FL finding out ML had insomnia, and rather than asking him why he had insomnia, she just suggested other ways for him to sleep.

when ML stopped his friend from advising FL not to give up on her family because he understood that FL's experiences and her feelings about it were something that only she herself would understand and nobody else had a right to comment on it.

ML flying FL to her hometown to visit her grandmother's grave and quietly buying the courtyard where FL used to live.

FL clearly expressing to SLY that she didn't like him in front of ML so ML wouldn't misunderstand or prioritizing ML when ML and SLY got into a fight.

ML observing for himself after a few days that FL didn't seem to have enough clothes or any support from her fam after she moved into the dorms so he bought her a bunch of stuff like clothes, a bag, duvets.

ML noticing when FL had her period and taking note of the date and making sure he was prepared for her next period.

FL noticing ML was sick and immediately going to his house to take care of him.

ML defending FL immediately whenever his friend said anything remotely critical of FL. Like he defended her looks even before he saw her face and he stopped friend from saying stuff like shes using him or playing hard to get. And this was still the case even when he was totally heartbroken because he found out she actually didn't have a crush of him as he thought. This is in comparison to SLY. Even though SLY actually saw FL's face before and he knew she was really good looking, he never bothered to tell YB to stop when he was badmouthing FL's looks. And even though YB CONSTANTLY degraded FL saying she was jealous, using ML to make SLY jealous or playing hard to get, SLY just took it as fact and never said anything about it. He only asked YB to stop when it hurt his own feelings, he never cared about how insulting YB was towards FL. Both SLY and YB only stopped looking down on or degrading FL when FL was at her best, but ML never degraded or looked down on FL even when she was at her worst.

When she first left, zhao mother, ZZH and ZYN's first reaction was to dismiss the argument as a small matter even though they knew they were the ones in the wrong and to turn around and accuse FL of not caring about ZY. But is it even a small matter to randomly accuse a family member of intentionally hurting another?? The words "small matter" were literally repeated over and over and over. And every issue they had with FL was also dismissed the same way. It's a small matter. But it's not? Just apologize? Why is it necessary to dismiss and minimize someone else's feelings?? Was it so hard for them to just say I'm sorry, I was wrong, period.

The zhao fam also wanted to separate FL from people who actually genuinely cared about her like the dong fam. If they actually prioritized FL's well being, they would know it's a good thing for her to have people who care about her and whom she's familiar with around her. But nope, all they cared about was themselves and their own feelings.

After zhao fam realized FL was serious about leaving their family, they tried to get the school to ban FL from staying in the dorms. Like seriously? Shouldn't they be trying to make up to the FL and make her happy? But no, their method of resolving the issue is to ignore FL's opinion and try to FORCE FL to stay with them. Other than this, after FL left home, she was doing better in her grades and she was clearly happier and in a much better place. Her OG teacher also told ZZH that her staying in the dorms was better for her, but again, did that matter to the zhao fam? Nope. It did not.

And about ZYN, I saw some reviews saying he really repented and FL should've forgiven him. But did he really? The main issue that he and his fam had with FL was that FL would give give give and they would take take take.

He put in a teeny bit of insincere effort but was all up in his own feelings about how sad he was and how regretful he was.

I disagree with some reviews here who called MC insensitive for abondening her family. In her past life they treated her terribly until her death. Even when she was terminally ill, they didn't treasure her or regret about how they treated her. They were affected to some extent by the heroine's halo but it was explained throughout the story they treated the MC like that solely not because of that halo. They just liked Zhao Yuan more and reluctant to treat MC better because they felt ZY will feel bad if they did so.

In MC's eyes they were ab*sers who made her childhood unpleasant. I like how she stood up for herself and didn't give any face to her family at all. She gained so many people who loved her so there is no need to have further entanglements with such unnecessary people. Sometimes your family can hurt you more than anyone, this is especially the case when a family favours one child over another. What kind of pain MC had to go through her previous life when each and everyone of her family favoured another child from another family who had stolen her identity, family, friends and resources? Not to mention she had made each and every effort to make herself noticed even going to great lengths such as cooking when she had tons of school works, accompanying her mother to boring shopping sprees and indulging her younger brother to play video games when she had to study.

She should not be held accountable for what her birthmother did, but she was the one who profited from her birth mother's actions. It is understandable of Zhao family to kick her out because seeing her is a constant remider of what her birth mother did. If ZY wanted to live a decent life she had more than enough resourses because Zhao family paid for her tution and hostel facilities even after kicking her out.

she doesn't want the heroin halo at the end because she didn't want others to only be stepping stones for her and decided to live life with her own efforts