This story is a bit meta, which makes it a little hard to talk about. There's the Original Novel (ON), which is about Yan Ye and Shan Lingtong. Then there's the Transmigration Novel (TN), which is about Liu Yun entering the ON in Zhou Qiaoqiao's body, stealing the ML of the ON Yan Ye from Shan Lingtong, and becoming a rich young starlet. Finally, there's the Actual Novel (AN), which is about Zhou Qiaoqiao saying "hell no, it's my body!" to the protagonist of the TN, Liu Yun. Who then gets sent to the ON ML's "white moonlight" (basically, the one that got away) Shang Qiwen.

When Liu Yun transmigrated into the novel, she absorbs the memories of the host body. In the TN, that was Zhou Qiaoqiao, a poor, clever, and hardworking girl. I think that had a huge impact on her personality and success in the TN. However, in the AN, Liu Yun gets sent to Shang Qiwen, a rich, entitled, "princess". As a result, Liu Yun/Shang Qiwen turns into one of the biggest antagonists in Zhou Qiaoqiao's story.

One of the biggest complaints I have is that Yan Ye (the ON ML) is a piece of crap, but it's implied in the extra chapters that he eventually ends up with Shan Lingtong (the ON FL), even after all the awful things he's done to her. Yan Ye was not really a villain to Zhou Qiaoqiao, but he was someone antagonistic with the AN ML Yan Wei. He made a lot of terrible decisions which hurt the people closest to him. He definitely didn't deserve the happy ending that was implied in the extras.

Enjoyed how ZQQ always fall for YW's fake pitiful sob stories and how YW uses it to move into her place. The final extra revealed YW's childhood trauma of being kidnapped and how the kidnappers vented their anger by beating up little YW. The whole experience triggered his sleep and eating disorders which continued until he was 30 and at which point, his parents have long abandoned him as the heir. It was hard to "live" - he'd thought it would be better if he just died and even made a will... and then he meets ZQQ.

On ML's part, his family repeatedly abandoned him for their own interests. I feel so satisfied when he finally decided to cut off his relationship with his family but when his family met with difficulties, he still came to the rescue. What made me angry, his family only regretted their past action after knowing that ML was super rich but when ML needed them the most in the past, they mercilessly abandoned him.

Meanwhile, MC's parent was no better than ML's. Her father betrayed her mother and only provided her enough just to keep her alive. She paid her own tuition and living expense by working part-time but in the end, her stepmother snatched her hard-earned money for her half-brother (and her father consented to it). Her father finally regretted his past action right before MC got married. But so what? The damage was already done. As for her stepmother and her stepsiblings? Nothing happened to them. Her half-brother didn't even apologize for his past action until the end.

I also didn't like how the author still tried to pair Yan Ye and Shan Lithong after what he had done to her. Yan Ye was a sc*m and Shan Lithong really deserved better.