Yan Qiwei is a wonderful young woman who's really charming.

• She's considerate, confident, and always caring about how others feel.
• Her grace and playfulness shine through in the way she interacts.
• Yan Qiwei surprises us with her strength and vulnerability, making her very relatable.
• You'll go through a rollercoaster of emotions with her, especially when she tries to save Liang Xiao. It's a real tug at the heartstrings.
  
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Liang Xiao, our male lead, is a kind-hearted and a bit shy young man.

• His childhood was full of terrible experiences, being tortured by his foster parents who kidnapped him.
• Weiwei helps him come out of that dark past, it creates the magic among them.
• He's portrayed as gentle, thoughtful, and sometimes lost in his thoughts.
• Liang Xiao's warmth and genuine care for Yan Qiwei make him truly lovable.
• He shows growth as he deals with his emotions and the trauma he has faced. The 'letterhead' chapter and ss will show you just how much he missed her when she left him.
  
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Honestly, this novel didn't grab me at first, especially during the first initial translation phase. But man, when I went to chapter 41, my entire perspective did a complete 180. Suddenly, I was right there in the thick of it, feeling every ache, every heartache, every burst of love that the characters experienced. Chapters 40-41, 45, and 48? Those are the game-changers, my friend. They make you appreciate why Chapters 1-39 and 42-44 were crucial to the story. I cried so much. I'm talking tears, buckets of them. It's been four days and I'm still swimming in this ocean of emotions. That's exactly why I gave this novel a solid 5-star rating.

I didn't like Xia Meng at first, but turns out she's also a transmigrator!!

Finally, they arrived at a quiet alley beside the restaurant. Xià Mèng gave her a slight smile and said something completely unexpected, "Sister, do you also know the plot development?"

This question flashed in Yan Qiwei's mind like lightning, a white light streaking through her thoughts.

A shiver ran down her spine as she took three seconds to process it: "You too... "

"Exactly!" Xia Meng laughed, her eyes crinkling as she grabbed Yan Qiwei's wrist, "That novel was somehow shoved into my head not too long ago, 'Movie Emperor's Doting Wife', what a jumbled mess. I read through the plot once and it made me nauseous."

Yan Qiwei laughed too, "Why did you think that I also knew the plot?"

"Because in the original setting, there was never another woman around Liang Xiao, " just like the description in the novel, she was naturally chatty, her mouth always slightly upturned as if she were perpetually energetic, "Everyone around me was following the storyline step by step, and only you were the variable. Sister, this is what they call 'an old friend in a foreign land.' Finally, someone is joining me in disrupting that ridiculous novel!"

ML's foster parents, who ab*sed ML while he was with them, kidnapped MC and ML for randsom, but they intended to kill both of them anyway. MC manages to knock out the foster dad while he is beating ML. She tries to escape with him but they run into the foster mum, who stabs MC in the stomach with a knife. The MTL is not too clear on what happens after, but I think they fall into a lake and die or something like that. ML suffers from PTSD and guilt after that, so he needs higher care in some sort of institution as he gets nightmares and becomes crazy because of what happened.