The truth was, Tang Wanwan, the 'illegitimate' daughter of MC's dad wasn't even blood related, but she a malicious system (System 886) to control the hearts of his father, brother, and others. She was raised in an orphanage, one day saw the love that MC's family gave to him. System 886 popped into her mind then, and she used it to jealously steal MC's family love and benefits for a 2 year period where MC suffered a lot. After a she achieved all her goals and married, MC's father and brother are freed from the 'spell', as System 886 then goes dormant. They all eventually realize they were being controlled by outside forces.

Thankfully, she gets karma returned, as all her 'achievements' come at a price... all the suffering MC had received is returned back to her under different circumstances. Not due to vengeance caused by the MC being vengeful, but just pure karma. Apparently all her 'achievement' values also came at a price of a 'misery' value. System 886 also later on gets punished for his malicious behavior. Though Tang Wanwan is never jailed or caught for her behavior completely, she becomes embroiled in more drama from the family she ends up marrying into, so her ending is still more or less a fitting end.

MC later briefly gets a system as well, System 233, who explains this to him. However, the MC wants nothing at all from System 233, so System 233 erases his memories of their interaction, fixes the lameness in his leg, and leaves. Then two days later, System 233 restores MC's memories of the existences of systems, since it was worried about leaving a shadow in MC's heart over how his leg suddenly was fixed. LOL ? fickle things, these system plot devices...

The premise of this story was that MC was thrown out of his house and disowned by his father once his father brought back a supposedly illegitimate daughter whom I'll call the FL. (I can't remember exactly but I believe she turned out to be just a random roadside girl?)

FL is basically the pretend white lotus who complains to the older brother and father about MC, causing his father to disown him and brother to hate him. MC also turns out to be an author/script writer (or something like that).

After some years, MC is living poorly on his own, working in a bar and living in a small room Harry-Potter-style, where he meets the drugged ML. FL wants to act in a script that MC wrote, so she asked asked the brother to buy the rights for it. MC sold the rights in exchanged for cutting off all relationships with brother and father, thus treating each other as strangers on the street. Stuff happens and oh brother and father start to remember the happy times they had with MC when he was younger and realised they had mistreated the treasure of the family (or something like that) and treated a stranger better. During the wedding, FL's system left her and so they stormed midway through it to find MC, only to realise the MC moved in with ML. MC doesn't want to be associate with them anymore.

FL's husband turns out to be the only one who loves her for who she is/married her without the system's intervention. She treats him as a tool though. So she had the support of his family, which is why MC's family couldn't do much against her (until where I had stopped at least.)

who somehow just fell in love with someone he had s*x with in a bar. Oh and he called the one he met in the bar his siren/mermaid/treasure or something like that. Oh and ML worked at a construction site despite being rich. I still have no idea why he did that. He didn't even know MC = woman (inters*x but he thought it was a woman) he had s*x with in a bar, he just joined it. There was literally no character development.

just suddenly realise they miss the MC, after the FL lost their system. So they regretted it. Yeah I don't remember them taking much action considering ML was there to do everything before they do so. Also the only thing I remember about the brother was that he seems like a natural sibling-con. Like he just likes spoiling the MC and FL. Otherwise he ab*ses the MC for the FL.

and uh first 20 chapters is actually a charcoal marshmallow.

MC-ML behaviour make sense. They put their time into work, take care of baby, make sure baby is taken care of when they have plans. They accept when work has to separate their time together. The way they fall in love is very natural. Author compares them to prince and little mermaid. At first prince is curious and moved by the beautiful stranger, but then when they got to know each other, he becomes attracted to the 'transformed' merman.

Author pays attention to continuity and foreshadowing. It's quite intense and deep sometimes, but maybe because it's a 'sweet' novel, in the end author ended up waving all the drama away with a magic wand. Which is quite unnecessary but I appreciate it because MC doesn't have to suffer from the villain's sin. It's an enjoyable read, I read all the chapters.

Author makes a point about 'plagiarism' rife in china, that supporting plagiarism will kill original and daring artists, which I really really like and support. The plots in MC's movies can belivably win awards (in cn especially) and they have elements that I like in literary movies.

Side characters are not brainless/faceless/nameless. Their names are considered well, author really pays attention to these details. I can understand villain's jealousy, I think it was slight envy at first but grows deeper as she becomes greedier, power can corrupt. It's nice to see author acknowledging that not everyone in the entertainment industry has a 'backer', sometimes they're art and film students, sometimes they graduated from other majors, and they can all have dreams to be actors.

The use of system on main villain is quite interesting too. The way author wrote it really does seem like she was enjoying love that dad and big bro has for MC instead. When it's time for her karma to hit, I was so happy. I'm also happy because MC becomes aware and mature, but not distorted and vengeful. It's harder to read when a main character is very vengeful or author contrive the plots to justify their cruelty.

the Systems Manager were able to found out this little electronic waste before the whole mess became permanently irreversible. Turns out the little sh*t illegally ran away to earth thus the unethical moves.

On their second encounter, MC and ML has a one night stand and is suddenly in love with each other the next morning, which is fine as a plot device, but the problem is that this part was quickly glossed over and there were no descriptions of their interactions whatsoever. Sequence of events literally went like this: MC carries ML to the room -> he blacks out (?) -> wakes up next morning and kisses ML. What's even worse is that both the MC and ML were drugged (by a third party) so I'm assuming neither of them were in the right state of mind, so how is it even remotely convincing that they fell in love with each other literally instantly?

Rather than play an emotional ping pong game, the protagonist truly showed how sometimes, once something is broken, no amount of adhesive can work. And if there is any chance for repair, it can only be rebuilt ground up, slowly.

I was a little dissatisfied with how blatantly the 'sister', the villian and her system is made evil, just for the progression of events to be easy. It made me wonder how the story would have turned out if she wasn't actively malicious but her small actions with the help of the system unknowingly gave large consequences that kept building up. To a certain extent this was showcased but not entirely, especially as the system kept appearing and dissappear, only to turn against her. I din't entirely understand the logic behind that. Not to mention, the irregularity with her story arc was also quite random. The Qin's story seemed to have little to no relevance to the protagonist.