over Qi Qi's death.

While Ji Xiao's father does love her, what he loves more is easing his inferiority complex. Mr Chen isn't any better, he claimed to want the best for the Wei family and Wei Qingyu but what he truly acted upon was his own desire. Mr Chen's hostility towards Ji Xiao's father is very understandable, his hostility for Ji Xiao on the other hand is unfounded. Wei Qingyu had repeatedly spoken up for her, and so have some of the other trusted adults and yet he still insisted on eliminating and treating her like a threat. Mind you, Ji Xiao was a minor in majority of these situations.

Her father was obsessed with her dead mother to the point of building a memorial of her and hosting a very twisted birthday/death anniversary every year. OG JX was forced to remain locked in the room with her father while they had a "family" dinner and he talked to a portrait with a custom made dress draped over it. The previous body apparently tried to fight and struggle to leave and was often tied down to keep her in the room.

On top of that JX's father was also obsessed with WQ's family's success, believing that he should have been better than them. He pushes those beliefs on JX starting from the age of ten because, after she was kidnapped and beaten in place of WQ, he convinces her that it's the fault of the Wei family. OG JX actually pretended to be WQ to protect WQ from the kidnappers at the time and even tried to explain it to her father later. He is always manipulating JX into believing that WQ and her family are the "real" villains. I've also added a child ab*se tag because of this.

OG JX actually loved WQ, but she couldn't reconcile the person her father told her WQ was with the girl that she loved, causing her to have an obsessive and abusive desire for WQ. We learn this from OG JX's discovered diaries later.

JX believes that she can somewhat control the plot of the world. She tries to change the fate of her best friend Qi Qi who was supposed to die before on JX's 17th birthday. She really only manages to delay her death by about a month. After Qi Qi's death it's revealed that her prolonged life may have actually been more painful (physically) than if she had died normally. This is specifically the reason for the tragedy tag, though there are other reasons.

There's only really one good person gone bad and that's because of their hatred for the Ji family and Ji Xiao in particular. The Ji family are absolutely horrible people in the original novel, and JX's dad is still horrible, so their behavior isn't exactly unwarranted even if it's unfair to judge JX because of her dad.

One major upside is that the OG ML is actually a pretty good guy and might have fallen in love with our MC JX despite them both being Alphas.

The original confession is interrupted by Qi Qi's death. The next step of progress is actually their first kiss, not a confession. This happens when JX is under a lot of pressure and enters her rut early, causing her to force herself on WQ after running home. She then promptly passes out. This doesn't actually cause them to start dating, instead this is dragged out by explanations of ambiguity between the two... for years according to the time skips. The confession happens when they've been in college for a while with basically a couple of sentences that can be summarized as "Aren't I your girlfriend?" "Yes, you are." And then it's just... they're together. The marriage proposal happens because the engagement rings are discovered by JX after a fender-bender. Literally a car accident happens, she finds the rings in the glovebox, and just puts one on. There's basically very little intimate lead up, just the two leads crashing into each other.

"Fate" based on the original story will still lead to JX's death. This really only needs to be "resolved" once, but the author uses a few separate moments to tease the readers that it might be resolved only to have JX constantly be internally pessimistic about her survival.

we get a “back to their original timeline/story” arc where MC doesn't remember FL but gets her memory back because of FL’s effort. It wasn’t frustrating or sad to read because MC knows that they have a connection and still spoils FL but just has trouble remembering their life in the previous world (but she gets fragments of memories so its not completely back to zero). Eventually they all remember their past lives (most of main characters) and they just live their lives with their CP but cherishes them even more because of lost time

I will say I wasn't the biggest fan when they exited the book, only because I read this for the purpose of the ABO theme. But the fact that both main characters were able to have the careers they desired (WQ being an author and JX being a teacher) made me really happy.