the Zhao family. It was left for the future if ever they will make up. It's a pity because it would have been cute for the three brothers to spoil the MC, but it's kinda understandable because she had drawn a clear line and severed the relationship with her family. Again, it's a pity, but it's fine as well.

I also like the fact that MC did not forgave them. Too often in novel after a bit of remorse is shown by the family, the MC forgive and everything can be forgiven because it's the fault of X wicked character. In my eyes unless it's by use of supernatural means, the behavior shown before by the family is indicative of their true nature

Personally, I don't think that Zhao Yuan deserved getting kicked out of the house with nothing because of her biological mother's actions. Yes, she was a villain and did underhanded things to be better than the FL. But she really did not have anything to do with her mother's actions in switching the children at birth. The family kicked her out after realizing what happened because they couldn't bear their own actions in favoring her over their own biological daughter when the switch was intentional. She was used to this lifestyle for 18 years. In reality, it's is extremely difficult to change one's lifestyle in a blink on an eye. Yes, definitely she deserved retribution for her past actions, but her actions weren't that bad for her to get kicked out with nothing. Imagine spending 18 years to raise her and immediately throwing her away because she was the culprit's daughter who intentionally switched the babies. You'd expect them to still have a little pity on her and give her some money to live off and cut her off the family.

I can also understand Zhao Yuan's actions. Considering that the Zhaos still placed a lot of importance on blood relations, her finding out that she was not their real children was scary. She was scared to be abandoned because the real daughter arrived. She could already feel slowly that the family was beginning to turn back on her. She did petty and small things because she was jealous. I agree that her friends bullying the FL and her not saying anything when FL's name gets slandered is wrong, but she was jealous. She was also a sheltered child. I don't think she's as bad as people think she is. Yes, she was definitely in the wrong, but we should also blame the Zhao family. They were extremely impartial to her instead of being fair. I don't think Zhao Yuan deserves all the faults, because a big chunk of it really was the Zhao's and how they raised the children. Yes, Zhao Yuan did petty little green tea things, but honestly she had no power and the only thing she wanted to do was keep herself where she was.

It's just really sad how the Zhao family dropped Zhao Yuan like a hot potato and she spiraled down.

I love that the ML was a secondary character in the Orig with a personality and setting that would usually be written as a villain or supporting ML who doesnt get the girl. It feels great for this poor character type to finally get a happy ending!

Remind reviewers the author writes the MC's adopted situation very lovingly. The Mc's childhood in the mountains with the villagers and grandma who adopted her are all positive. The Ori/FL's situation is much more complicated.

It's stated a few times that the father is old fashioned with a higher fixation of bloodkin than modern generations. Even so, the father and the rest of the family were happy with keeping the Ori/FL after discovering she wasn't their real child before things fell apart and some harsh truths came out.

The author reiterates throughout the story how the Ori/FL super good luck/heroine halo made those around her either dumb stepping stones or blindly pampering sycophants. It litteraly messed with their thinking to benefit the Ori/FL. This unfortunately made things worse as by the time MC's luck increased enough to offset Ori/FL's halo things had long developed way past a point to reconcile things: The fallout from the truth behind the swap, the disappointment/shock of seeing the Ori/FL's flawed personality/deception, and the horror/realization of the extreme/mindless bias towards the Ori/FL all happened in a very short period of time and left them overwhelmed. This created a strong lashback against their adopted child the Ori/FL who they originally cared greatly for. Had their thinking not been influenced by the heroine's halo things would have been handled differently and many issues would never have happened. The family members aren't dumb and the author strongly suggested that their behaviors and thoughts were impacted and changed how they would have otherwise handled things.

That said, Ori/FL's halo left her character very weak and underdeveloped so it's understandable that she made the poor choices she did in her panic at change. She never had to be held accountable or do any real character building since her halo made everyone mindlessly spoil her. Unfortunately for her, her family was too overwhelmed/hurt to have the emotional/mental energy to help guide her through her poor choices. Especially since her bad actions were part of the burden making them overwhelmed.

Long story short, the heroine's halo had a negative impact on everyone and the family's repeated mentions of blood vs adopted was more out of horror at realizing their blindly s*upid actions under the halo's effect leading them to grossly mismanage things and abuse their blood daughter leading things to become unreconcilable.

1. At the start of the novel the MC is offended about how in the ori!novel she is portrayed as a brainless, malicious villainess. The author didn't take into account her situation, traumas or feelings, making her a one dimension character with the sole purpouse of being a stepping stone. Well, since the author criticized this I thought the villainess in this reality will be the oposite of this. I was wrong. The ori!FL can be accurately described like that.

2. The system is unnecesary, literally just appear once every 5 charapters and has no real weight in the plot, it's not centered in the system like other novels, makes me wonder why the author kept it.

3. During all the novel the idea that blood relations matter more than anything is very present. The family starts thinking less and keeping things from the adopted daughter because at the end of the day she is not their blood. Yeah they loved her and raised her for 18 years, but... Mingxi is their blood daughter! How could they prioritize an strangers child over their real family?! The mother has a conflict because she realizes that her daughter and son left home all because of a child who was not her blood and as such, it wasn't worth it.

4. Remember the villainess and her accurate description? Well, yeah, poor thing, has as many brain cells as an ameba. She is just an spoiled brat, she cries when something doesn't go her way and wants all the attention on herself. She is insecure her family will love Mingxi more since she is their bio daughter, probably had an identity crisis when she found out she was adopted and feared she will be trhown away, but it is never explored. She is just written as an stepping stone, an idiot who doesn't know what's good for her, there's 0 character growth for her. Like the author was afraid giving her some good qualities or a functioning brain would steal the spotlight from MC. This is even more evident when we see that nobody is as beautiful as MC and the villainess "doesn't dare compete with her in looks".

5. There's no character growth on the family. Other than expressing regets and wanting to do better for MC that is. This whole situation started because they are toxic. They view blood relationships as more worthy in their hearts, that's why they always payed more attention to ori!fl, because they felt guilty for thinking that about the daughter they raised and thus they treat Mingxi as an scapegoat. After Mingxi left they treated the villainess more and more like a stranger, always justifying themselves, until they discarded her like tr*sh when they found out what her mother had done. They all need teraphy, glad MC went far away from them.

6. The same as 5. They regret so much, never going forward, that it gets repetitive and boring. It's like a good joke repeated six times, it was fun at first, maybe also the second time, but then it got more and more 'meh'. I just want to see more interactions between ML and MC.

the last element I'm referring to, is the complete villainization of the adopted daughter. although I do agree that she deserves karma and is not a good person, ultimately, like all CN villainesses she's simply reduced to the one-dimensional character that is a white lotus and everyone turns on her. in my opinion, this trope is overrated and overused -- I want some well-rounded villainesses that have brains, emotional complexities, and the possibility of redemption.

but basically, the idea that adopted children are below biological children is very very heavily supported in this webnovel ; whether for the plot or the author's personal belief, either way, I think it's pretty messed up and made me kind of pity the villainess. her "family" is the one who spoiled her and partially set the example to treat the MC badly, yet they place the majority of the blame on her and basically abandon her for their "real daughter". I get that the villainess was in the wrong, but after seeing how the family easily abandoned her despite treating her like family for 18 years, I understand her anxieties (especially as they were proven right). how can they just throw away their daughter like that, even if she is adopted? adopted or not, they chose to raise her as their daughter, they need to take responsibility for that and not just throw her away because they prioritize the biological daughter all of a sudden. (especially after the biological daughter chose to cut ties with them and did not even want their attention). again, not saying she doesn't deserve karma, what she did was wrong, but her "family" wasn't right either.

some other things I disliked was how the MC got prettier and prettier each day and no one was as pretty as her, so people started liking her more (bro I'm so sick of this trope, like authors please please stop putting so much emphasis on this, we GET IT. it reminds me of me as a child writing a book, imagining I was the MC.) and also how the MC suddenly got so great at studying and became super smart, beating the years of efforts other students made and becoming number 1 in the province..... maybe it's because ik how much you have to work to get academic success being a student myself and the MC just magically studying and easily getting it on the first try... it's just way too unrealistic and again... cliche. however, I get it, it's a typically CN webnovel, OP mc's and overly exaggerated face slappings are to be expected.