the 'original' Tantan, admittedly I skimmed that whole arc but although she wasn't the best person, not sure I enjoyed the novel's take on her

他忽然又想起和白澄说过的话，如果谈谈不是个女孩子，或许不耽于轻松享受的生活，但凡有点野心，一个正阳大队根本留不住她。

He remembered what he told Bai Cheng, if Tantan were not a girl or inclined to a relaxing, enjoyable life, as long as she as she had any wild ambition, Zheng Yang brigade would be unable to keep her.

ML clearly says he likes FL, but she insists that ML likes that Bai Bai. Also FL clearly say wanna protect ML but look, isn't that the opposite? FL has no action at all, just following the flow and have no effort.

At first it is dumb but seems cute, but if it too often isn't it makes it look more dumber but annoying to see right? Can't stand it so much!!

Also I think author forget some quite important character here. Like the one who almost kill ML comrade at the early chapter and that someone who also transmigrate like FL, dang... Author forgot about them duuhhh, she/he can put more plot for them and add more spice but no no no no, nothing.. they're like passager who so not important.

I really wanna drop this novel but I have no other novel to read so I will force myself to continue. Will be back and rewrite my review but dk when. Don't really like this novel and maybe will keep get distracted with other things..

1. 1. Regarding the question about the assistant of the FL when MC asked him to be her pretend bf: the assistant is Mingze and this happened after MC realized ML was seriously in love with her. She was confused about her feelings but shocked because she really believed ML and Bai Cheng were supposed to be together and she broke up a couple. So she felt guilty thinking that ML only liked her because she was a girl who he was deeply indebted with after saving Mei Mei and mistook gratefulness and indebtedness as feelings of love. (I'll explain more in spoilers about this whole situation as well cause it's a bit complicated). Anyways she, just on a whim, saw that Mingze seemed to be the typical nice boy type and that usually a girl like her (who looks like the soft and easy type) would like so she blurted out if he wanted to be her bf so she can trick ML to giving up on her because Mingze seemed more believable than anyone else around her. Of course, Mingze was shocked and confused but MC immediately said she was just kidding and never mentioned it again cause after she said that, she already knew ML wasn't going to buy it anyways and she shouldn't do this kind of thing. I think this was meant to serve the next plot point because her "confession" was heard by a group of mercenaries who were trying to kidnap her. They thought ML was in love with Mingze so they kidnapped him in order to lure out MC. Later, ML used this as a "honey trap" to get MC to realize her feelings for him.

1. 1. The Xie who was teleported 300 years ago is probably Xu Tianjin. He was one of MC's most difficult patients but she managed to cure him so he has always been her fan. After MC died in her original world, Xu Tianjin attended her memorial service and cried so hard that he fainted and came to the parallel world with MC, also awakening in another person's body with the same name as his. Yes, he seems to be an ordinary person because after MC first cured him, he lost his gold powers and just became ordinary so the body he now has is also ordinary. He becomes more of a "person from the same hometown" as MC and serves more as a way for MC to talk about her previous life. Now, regarding him turning into MC's teacher, I do agree this is a bit weird. It turns out when Xu Tianjin was first "reborn", it was actually a person who pretended to be the future Xu Tianjin (which is most likely MC's teacher). He pretends all throughout the novel and only revealed himself towards the end at the final plot point in order to give ML a direction on how to save MC. Then he disappears from Xu Tianjin and the real Xu Tianjin comes back but he is not reborn but is literally just the actual Xu Tianjin who thought the apocalypse just broke out a month ago so he has no memory of the past few years. Honestly, I don't think this was a smart move. It would have made more sense if the teacher just used Xu Tianjin to talk to ML instead of completely taking over a body and then leaving it saying actually he never died or got reborn in the first place teehee.

1. 1. ML takes several years to hit max level. Overall, it took him 7-8 years from the start of the apocalypse from level 1 to 10. It took him about 2 years to be level 5-6 and then the rest to move up another 4-5 levels. I think it felt fast because the majority of the novel is just those 2 years and then only at the end, there are just about 15 chapters that squeezed in 5-6 years of him leveling up. The author doesn't go through the hardships like they did in the beginning because they're just trying to wrap up the story. Honestly, if the author had wanted to take more time and do a whole other arc of ML and his team leveling up then I think they could have. But obviously, the author thought of MC's final plot point as being the climax of the story and wanted to end it there so they just rushed the level up scenes. Cause this seems to be more of a romance than an action novel so if there's no MC to go with ML then it wouldn't really make sense for MC to be the main character.

1. 1. I don't think the FL is too lazy. Like I said, her final crisis is the last plot point the author wanted from the novel and it focused more on ML's thinking than MC. The whole novel was about MC up until this point and now we're seeing a bit of ML and how his feelings are. When you focus more on one character then ofc other characters start to take the backseat. Plus, MC is literally in animal form. Some animals don't even have any attack power and it did state that MC did possess other stronger animals in order to fight alongside ML occasionally. But at this point, everything is going too fast so there is barely any interaction/discussions between the 2 leads as the story just wants to wrap up.

1. 1. The author wanted to write a story where the main twist is two souls occupying one body. The original Lin Tan Tan is a very selfish person who has a lot of hate because her family doesn't care for her and only focuses on her brother. Her family is also very selfish and she, as a result, also became twisted and selfish. Then, the MC Lin Tan Tan takes over her body after the original already died and didn't realize the original is still there because there was no response from her. Our MC then starts to live a good life due to her own choices and actions. Because MC is a good person, then the people around her care about her and treat her well. Original Lin Tan Tan sees this and because very jealous thinking that if it wasn't for MC taking her body then she would be in the same shoes but that's not true. The original LTT doesn't have any superpowers so if MC didn't take over her body, even if original LTT survived then she would never had done anything MC did, thus, never getting what MC got. I don't agree that you should expect MC to give up what MC had due to her own efforts to the original LTT but I do agree that original LTT can be upset with another person using their body. But original LTT was more than upset, she was greedy and wanted to take over everything MC had and I think that is stealing. If MC didn't take over original LTT's body then it would just eventually decay and her soul dissipate. So I think, ever since original LTT failed to awaken and died then that should have been it. But the author threw this curve ball at us and I also don't like it. A majority of the reviewers don't think it fits with the story and I also agree. But it seems the author had this plan from the very beginning since it was hinted at.

After MC transmigrated, things started to change slightly. The zombie rain started earlier then it did in history and mutated animals and plants appeared sooner. So she thought it might be a butterfly effect due to her making changes in the world. When the zombie tide came faster than it did previously, she felt very guilty thinking she is responsible for those people's deaths so she did her best to help save others. So when ML starts to express his feelings, she also felt very guilty for ML and BC because she thought she meddled in their relationships. She thought ML doesn't actually love her but was so grateful to her for helping save Mei Mei and helping him with other things that he mistook that gratefulness as love. Since MC believed it took several years before ML developed feelings for BC then she ruined it by inserting herself and causing ML to divert. It was only when she expressed her feelings, listened to ML's feelings, then start to try to accept ML. It didn't happen right away, but was a bit slow for MC to truly let go and accept that ML really did like her for who she was.

• • The original Lin Tan Tan's soul was still alive in the body while MC was occupying it. When MC first took over the body, original LTT was already dead and her soul was about to disappear. Then MC said she'll finish one wish for original LTT if she wanted it. This caused the original LTT to not disappear and kept her soul alive until the wish was fulfilled. But there was no response after MC said this so MC thought she disappeared. Then after the base was established, all the characters were on the right path, most of the villains were dealt with, some Taoist priests randomly appeared and saw 2 souls in one body then determined that MC was an evil spirit who was stealing luck and going to destroy the world because history has changed.
    The original LTT appears in front of MC, accuses her of stealing her body and achievements and wants to take her body back. They fight for a bit and eventually original LTT makes a wish to have her parents live well. It's not that original LTT loves her parents but she thought MC was unable to find her parents so MC will lose and she'll get her body back. However MC manages to accomplish this since the Taoist priests manages to find the parents and wanted to use them to deal with MC. Instead, they help MC win the contract and take over the soul. BUT!!!!!! Before original LTT can truly be taken offline, the senior Taoist priest preformed a ritual, sacrificed 700+ living people, and expelled MC's soul out of the body.

• • The s*upid Taoist priests are so annoying. Like, they are literally so s*upid. There are a few plot holes such as, if they were so wise and can see the future then why couldn't they predict the zombies to which the author kinda just brushed off. And then when ML tried to learn their skills in order to save MC, it was very vague what kinds of skills they can actually do and imo, were not so useful. They were the villains that popped up and went offline the quickest but they were the most annoying ones.

• • Surprise, MC's soul was expelled but it didn't die, it just went into a tree. This tree was born by a spiritual tree and replanted by MC. Her weak soul went there to recoup and with the help of her master, she eventually regained her memories. Then MC starts learning how to move her souls to different animals because the longer she stayed in one being, the weaker they start to become and will eventually die since they can't nourish her soul for too long. Thus, beginning her jobs of changing animal bodies over and over until MC finally brings her real body back.

• • The world the novel is set in is a parallel world from MC's original world. MC died in world A and her soul transmigrated to world B. So the Ye Xiao she is with is not he same Ye Xiao she was a fan of. That Ye Xiao truly died in her world and there is no way for her to go back and change that. The reader and MC won't start to think it's a parallel world until further into the novel. I honestly think this is a bit meh. I mean, it's a different concept but also pretty sad that she couldn't save the person she really wanted to save in the first place.

• • But!!!! Don't be too sad because at the very end, world A takes Ye Xiao's (from MC's original world) soul and brings it to world B in order to shake MC and ML's relationship. World A wants to take revenge on ML and take MC away but MC refuses to go with world A Ye Xiao and says she is happy with world B Ye Xiao. World A Ye Xiao is actually a very nice guy who is grateful to have a cute fan like MC and is happy for her. Then he leaves and is yelled at by world A but MC's teacher comes and takes Ye Xiao as his final disciple and they ride off into the sunset to travel through different worlds. I just, I just think it's a bit much. There's just too much info at this point and not a lot of story building.