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MC's maternal family takes MC in and it is more dramatic and longer.
[collapse]I quite like MC. She is straightforward, doesn't easily connect with people and make friends, studious, very smart and can fight. She won't go after others, unless they cause trouble for her. She is very dense when it comes to romantic relations. She doesn't get signals ML gives her of liking her. One would have to tell it to her straight. Otherwise she won't get it. Pretty much a Mary Sue character.She has very good grades, but works hard to get those. She helps her uncle in his medical research to learn extra. She does not do much else than study and visit her family. She loves to eat pears.She wants to become a medical researcher because that was her wish from her previous life when she had a terminal disease.ML is also very smart, good at earning money, but pretty bland. He helps MC from the start.I don't understand why her mother decided to do a DNA test? Both MC and Jiang Ruo have the same bloodtype (becomes relevant later on), so they couldn't have found out because of a blood test. I saw a review saying that MC's bad relationship with her family was caused by herself. I don't agree with that. Yes, MC did not treat them very nice, but things have to come from both ways. MC already knew what would happen from the novel. Even if she wanted to give them a chance, they weren't nice to her from the beginning. They showed no enthousiasm taking her in, Her parents already started berating her in the orphanage and took everything she says in a wrong (bad) way. Except for her mother I never saw any of them trying to get along with MC. Wouldn't you try to get some understanding of a new family member who has spent their whole life in an orphanage? The mother does a few attempts, but also does not try very hard. In several months time she only approaches MC 4 or 5 times I think (if it is that much). I believe she only visited her in the dorm once and that didn't go well, but again it came from both sides. SpoilerDuring her visit in the dorm mother saw MC working on her computer and she thought she was playing games. She berated her for that. However MC was doing questions which could earn her money she needed for lunch etc. Because her mother closed her laptop, she lost her chance to earn money that weekend, so MC reacted harshly at her mother's berating.
And even if she was playing a game, would that be so bad? Mother came to have some contact with MC and then did that. How is that trying to build a bond.
Later on when mother hears about MC's grades she acts surprised, again showing she has taken no interest in her daughter, not even checking if she is doing well. This is just taking a daughter in and dumping her.
[collapse]As far as I'm concerned, the novel was too long. It became boring at a certain point. The villains were dealt with and the rest was about MC learning, finally becoming a couple with ML and a few extra's about the original Jiang Li and Feng Qi.Main story about MCSpoilerJiang Li (MC)
Jiang Li was terminally ill in her previous life. She came from a wealthy family whose parents had died. She wanted to become a medical researcher to try and find a cure for her disease. When she was 18, she was told she did not have much time left, so she decided to have her body frozen in the hope someone would find a cure in the future.
When she wakes up, she has transmigrated into the body of a 15 year old girl who grew up in an orphanage. Her biological parents have come and told her she was switched at birth and are now picking her up. She gets memories of a novel in which she finds out her parents and elder brother will prefer the girl they raised and will tell everyone she is adopted. The people around her will believe she is her father's illegitimate child and start gossiping about her. She will get bad grades at school, because she is not used to such an advanced school. Because of this she will cause trouble with her "sister" and the relationship with her parents will deteriorate. A few years later when her "sister" gets sick because of kidney failure, she will offer to donate a kidney. The son of her father's secretary is very much in love with Jiang Ruo and doesn't know that. He drives into her with his car, after which both her kidney's will be donated to Jiang Ruo, ending her life. Jiang Ruo lives happily ever after with her beloved Qin Zheng.
So far Jiang Li has had a happy life at the orphanage.
Jiang Li and her parents immediately start on a bad foot when they berate her. Jiang Li treats them coldly and refuses to call them father and mother. When they arrived home they continue to berate her and take everything she says in a bad light. Especially her brother and father.
When asked how they will introduce her they tell her they will tell everyone she is adopted. When MC refutes them Jiang Ruo and her mother start to offer to tell the truth to everyone, but are stopped by MC's father and brother. Her father wants the alliance with the Qin family to stay intact. Jiang Ruo and Qin Zheng are in love and are supposed to marry when they grow up.
Jiang Ruo has bought a lot of clothes for her, but they don't fit. As reason is given that MC is much taller than Jiang Ruo. I find this kinda weird, there should always be some clothes you could wear even is one person much taller than the other (sweaters, skirts, etc?), but oh well.
Jiang Ruo is sent to the same school as her brother and Jiang Ruo and ends up in the same class as Jiang Ruo. She becomes a deskmate with Tong Yi (ML).
Everyone at school is afraid of Tong Yi. Tong Yi loans her money to buy lunch at school because she hasn't gotten any money from her parents. MC decides to stay at the school dorm and not go back home. She starts to study hard and immediately starts getting good grades, even becoming the first in her grade.
Her brother has asked a few friends of Jiang Ruo to keep an eye on her to prevent her from bullying Jiang Ruo, giving them the illusion that MC is a bad person. Shen Mian starts to harrass her. During a gym test (which gives max 60 points) she trips MC, causing her to not get a full grade for gym, lowering her grades. Shen Mian gets 15 points deducted because of that.
After Jiang Zhou instigates her, she decides to fake trying to commit su*cide by jumping of the school roof, while warning journalists. The intention is to blame and put pression on MC. Jiang Zhou turns their questions around and proves they were warned beforehand, so the su*cide attempt is fake. Shen Mian tells the school principal she was instigated by Jiang Zhou, but has no proof of that. Jiang Ruo does not believe her, breaking up their friendship. Shen Mian leaves school 2 months before the graduation test and study at a cram school.
MC's cousins (twins) from the Feng family see a video of her interview with journalists and think she looks a lot like their 3rd uncle Feng Qi, a genius medical researcher. They decide to find her and find out she is their cousin.
They tell their family and the Feng family decides to take her in after knowing about her relation with her parenta. Feng Qi becomes her guardian. MC immediately gets along well with everyone from the Fang family.
MC graduates as first of her grade, Qin Zheng becomes second.
At high school she stays first in her grade, and Qin Zheng stays behind her. She joins national contests every year and does very well there.
When her son attempts to commit su*cide because of Jiang Ruo's kidney failure MC's mother goes to her father to beg him and let MC donate a kidney. Feng Qi tells her Jiang Ruo is her husband's illegitimate daughter (he secretly had a test done when he found out about MC). This was not known in the novel.
At the university admissions exam, MC, Qin Zheng and Tong Yi become first of their province.
MC starts to study at a medical school. She gets good grades. Tong Yi and Qin Zheng study finance. MC shares a dorm room with a 16 year old girl who becomes a good friend of her.
When her mother has mental problems she tells her about a dream and the the fate of the original Jiang Li. She also tells her uncle she told about a dream and asks him if he would like a different Jiang Li. He tells her he would like both.
When she is 19 (15 last chapters) MC finally realizes ML likes her and they start dating. 10 years later MC is recognized as a famous scientist. She finally gets married to ML. Her uncle Feng Qi is still single.
[collapse]Extra'sSpoilerIn the extra's Feng Qi wakes up in a parallel world. He realizes the Feng family has never taken in Jiang Li and immediately goes looking for her. He rescues her at the moment she is about to be run over by a car, preventing her death and the kidney donation.
He has a DNA test done on Jiang Ruo and publicizes te results. He also bankrupts Jiang Huai. Feng Yun becomes mental and castrates him, ending up in a mental institution. Jiang Li visits her but does not forgive her.
Qin Zheng leaves Jiang Ruo when he finds out what her family tried to do.
Feng Qi brings Jiang Li home and becomes her guardian, slowly giving her more confidence. Jiang Li decides to repeat high school by studying at home and 15 months later gets a good result on her university entrance exam. She is not a genius or a great learner like the other Jiang Li, but can learn quite well. She has gotten a boyfriend who is the son of a friend of her grandfather. She meets Tong Yi at her cousins wedding and thanks him for helping her when she first came to his class. Tong Yi tells Feng Qi he will never get a girlfriend and always stay single, not showing any interest in this Jiang Li.
[collapse]Main characters in novelSpoilerFather (Jiang Huai)
Doesn't really care about anyone but himself. Cared for his first love and started dating girls for money to help raise money for his lover's kidney dialysis. That's how he met his wife and got married. She came from a wealthy family.
His first love died somewhere after MC was born, so he cheated on his wife during their marriage. Her child was born on the same day as MC. His lover switched the babies after birth and committed su*cide after that. MC ended up in an orphanage. Father didn't know about the switch at first, but when he knew (when she was still a baby) he never tried to find MC.
Also doesn't really seem to care about the children he raised. If it causes trouble for him he can abandon them.
His company is finally bankrupted by the Feng family.
When Feng Yun finds out Jiang Ruo is his illegitimate daughter, she starts torturing him. However he doesn't leave because he is afraid to have no money. When their son is convicted Feng Yun drugs him and castrates him. She then gives him a choice to call emergency and then she will start harassing Jiang Ruo, or not call emergency and Jiang Ruo will be left alone. He chooses to have her call emergency. She then tells him she already called them. This was a test to see what he would do.
When he leaves the hospital he goes to Jiang Ruo. He loans her money, promising to invest it, but loses everything. He then tries to sell her to a bad apple. Jiang Ruo runs away and he loses everything. He is later convicted and sent to prison for fraud.
Mother (Feng Yun)
Ran away from her family to marry her husband. Has a rather weak personality. Always does what husband tells her. She wants to have a relationship with MC, but does not really try her best to get there. She does some half-baked attempts, but only tries to get into contact with MC a few times. The clothes they prepare for MC when they take her in do not fit (half-sister bought them in her own size), but she does not offer to get new clothes (later on when relationship with MC is broken off it describes how she buys clothes for her daughter, but then it is already too late).
She doesn't give MC money or a phone when she goes to school, so MC has to borrow lunch money etc from ML, her desk-mate. When she realizes her daughter has no money, she asks her son who is very hostile to MC to give her money (who then of course decides not to give her any money). I see hardly any attempts from her to really try.
I saw other reviews blaming this on MC being very cold to her family from the start, but they also treated her very coldly from the start (except for mom trying a bit) and MC knew what would happen so I can understand MC's point of view.
In the novel I only saw mom really trying to approach MC 4 or 5 times I think before the relationship was broken of and this was over a longer period of time. If she wanted to connect with her daughter, shouldn't she have tried a little harder? She doesn't work, so she could have at least tried to call her daily when her daughter decided right away to live in dorms. Then she might have also realised MC doesn't have a phone.
When she hears about her daughters good grades months later she acts surprised showing she never showed any interest in her daughter.
When Jiang Ruo needs a kidney dialysis when her kidneys fail, she first refuses to ask Jiang Li who could be a donor for help, but when her son fakes a su*cide attempt, she gives in and asks.
She only changes when she finds out the daughter she raised is the illegitimate daughter of her husband and he knew about the switch early on. Then she starts to torture her husband.
When her son is convicted, she castrates her husband. She then gets mental problems. MC visits her and tells her about a dream she had and describes the original novel. She tells her she will not forgive her, but Feng Yun's mental state improves. She decides to open an orphanage. She doesn't talk anymore (except a rare time she wants to) and is loved by the children.
Elder brother (Jiang Zhou)
In my eyes he is the main antagonist. He is very hostile towards MC from the start. Novel describes it as being afraid she will try to harm Jiang Ruo, but to me it seems he is obsessed with her from the beginning. In the extra the alternate Jiang Li also mentions that.
He is the one who sets people at school up against MC by asking them to guard Jiang Ruo against MC and convinces a friend of his sister to fake a su*cide attempt to blame this on MC.
When he realizes he has fallen in love with Jiang Ruo he starts to keep her away from the boy she loves (original ML) and convinces her to break off contact with him and break up with him.
Around the time Jiang Ruo has kidney failure they start to date.
When he finds out Jiang Ruo has kidney failure and needs new kidneys to survive for a long time he arranges for MC's blood to be tested to see if she is compatible. When she is, he tries to convince his mother to ask his grandfather for help and ask a kidney from MC. He even does a su*cide attempt to convince her when she first refuses.
When he finds out Jiang Ruo is his half-sister he gives her money to leave and distances himself from her, while still caring for her. He starts to drink and has insomnia.
When he is called to help get a kidney for Jiang Ruo he immediately decides to help and gets a doctor to operate on a potential donor to donate both kidneys to her. By doing this they will kill the donor. Tong Yi's people warn the police and he is arrested.
He is sentenced to 15 years in prison. At first Jiang Ruo visits him regularly, but when she runs away from their father, she starts to write. However the intervals between the letters become bigger and she starts to write only about her problems.
He realizes their relation has been broken and regrets the things he did for her. His mother visits him regularly and only looks at him and says nothing. 10 years later he watches news about MC in jail.
Jiang Ruo
Main antagonist according to story and original FL of novel.
She is more of a white lotus. She never actively tries to harm MC and even tries to stop people from harming them, but does not try too hard. Rather selfish. Has been physically weak since young and has acted in several movies / tv series and is pretty well-known.
Her maternal grandfather was very kind to her when she was young and often visited her at school, but when her father found out about it and told her not to see her grandfather anymore, she broke off all contact with her grandfather. She even refused to see him when he was lying in the hospital asking for her.
Her parents decide to tell everyone they adopted MC because they want to spare Jiang Ruo, but this causes people around them to think MC is her father's illegitimate daughter.
She makes a faint attempt to offer to tell the truth to everyone when MC is not happy about the parents decision, but stops right away when her brother interrupts her.
When people at school ask about the adoption she tells her friends MC was the daughter of friends who helped her parents in the past and they decided to adopt her when they found out she was in an orphanage. This is described as trying to harm MC, but I don't really understand that (cultural differences?).
Yes, it might be selfish for her to go along with the story about MC being adopted, but I can understand she is feeling insecure after finding out she is switched. Her parents decided to tell this story and she just goes along. Of course it would have been the righteous thing to refuse and tell them to tell the truth, but she does not do that.
I rather find the reaction of her friends strange. They act like MC is holding the fact that her parents supposedly helped Jiang Ruo's parents over Jian Ruo's head. Wouldn't the normal reaction be to say this is very kind of your parents?
How is telling this trying to harm MC?
When her best friend fakes a su*cide to set people up against MC, the friend tells Jiang Ruo that her brother instigated her doing this. Jiang Ruo does not believe her friend. Again this is described like this is bad, but wouldn't it be logical / believable to believe your own brother first, especially when the friend has tried to harm MC before?
When rumours about MC come out and her fans discredit MC on the internet she does not do anything to stop this from happening.
When her agent tries to convince her to sleep with others to get roles when it becomes difficult to get roles, she refuses and does not renew her contract. She starts selling stuff on Weibo / Youtube to earn money.
During her university admissions exams she becomes sick and is brought to a hospital where she finds out she has kidney failure and will have to go through kidney dialysis and will only live for about 10 more years.
When her brother finds out MC would be a liable donor, she tries to convince her brother not to try and get a kidney from MC. Yes, the reasons she gives are utterly selfish and not because she does not want to harm MC. She is afraid of revenge of MC's family.
When everyone in the internet finds out she is the illegitimate daugther, she tries to commit su*cide but is rescued. She decides to live her life and do her best in spite of people mocking her.
So far Jiang Ruo has never tried to harm MC in any way herself or deliberately instigate people to harm MC. She also never did her best to defend MC, but she tries her best in her own way, never tries to harm anyone and has her own integrity.
She decides to go to the capital to study at a university she can join and meets Bai Guolin again. He tells her he will volunteer at a blood bank and try to find a donor for her. She does not refuse. When he and her brother find a donor they try to kill him and take both of his kidneys without her knowing.
The cases is covered in the news all over the country and she becomes infamous. She is found innocent and is released. She tries to avoid people as much as possible after that.
When her brother is convicted she begs Jiang Li to help her brother but she refuses. She then convinces Tong Xu to spread rumors that Tong Yi was responsible for entrapping her brother. She hopes to create a wig between Jiang Li and the Feng family this way. This is the only time she actively tries to cause some harm to MC. This fails. As a result Tong Yi and the Feng family act against Tong Xu and his father creating economic damage to their investments and company.
Tong Xu hires people to harrass her after that, making her life miserable, so she visits her father begging him in public to stop it. This finally helps. She files a police report against her dormmates and is left alone after that.
When her father comes to live with her she gives him 5 million of the 6 million she received of Qin Zheng to invest. He loses everything, letting her realize he is not a good businessman. When he wants to sell her to a bad apple she runs away, quits university and moves to a small town. There she meets a former classmate who always liked her and starts dating and later marries him. However he is very possessive and jealous and starts abusing her. She divorces him, but he refuses to leave her alone. That is the last that is mentioned about her.
The author gave her a real miserable ending. Like mentioned above, she never really did any bad things. She only tried to act against MC once and was never evil. She was selfish, but that was it. She didn't deserve this ending.
Feng family
MC's maternal family is quite wealthy. Her grandfather used to be the wealthiest man. He has retreated now and the son who has taken over his business is now the wealthiest man. She has 3 uncles and 3 cousins. They all treat her very well when they find out about her existence and move her family registration to their home when they find out she can't get along with her parents. MC gets along with them very well. The family is very intelligent. They almost all graduate from highschool as the best in the province / country. Her 3rd uncle Feng Qi is the youngest and is a medical researcher, still single and has won a nobel prize. He becomes MC's guardian. Feng Qi is still single at the end of the novel and is about 40 years old at that time.
Tong Yi
ML of this story. Becomes MC's desk-mate in middle school. Is 2 years older than MC, but has left school for 2 years.
He and his parents were kidnapped 2 years ago. His parents made a fuss and got MC to escape. They were killed by the kidnappers. His uncle took control on all his assets after his grandfather's death and tried to raise him as a good for nothing and spread rumours about him.
His uncle never did anything to physically harm him.
The people at school are afraid of him, because they heard he beat someone up who had to be admitted ino the hospital.
He lends MC money when he finds out she does not have any money.
He graduates middle school with good grades, but is not in the top because he did not join the physical exams. Otherwise his grade would have been 1 point higher than MC, who graduates first in her school.
After middle school he leaves the country to study abroad. He starts his own business there and does very well. 3 years later he returns and his grades for university admissions exams are the same as MC, which is best in the country.
He stays in contact with MC and gives regular hints he likes her, but she never gets it.
His aunt marries MC's cousin, so he would have to call MC aunt. This is an ongoing joke between them (her trying to get him to call her aunt and him trying to get her to call him elder brother).
Towards the end of the novel he finally starts dating MC and about 10 years later they get married. He is a very succesful investor.
Qin Zheng
Original ML of novel. Has been in love with Jiang Ruo for a long time but gave up after he heard her and her brother talking about trying to get a kidney of MC. He warned MC about this.
Is a very good student. Graduates high school with the same grade as MC and ML. A nice person. Becomes friends with MC. Never sees her in a romantic way.
Bai Guolin
His father is the secretary of MC's father. He is very much in love with Jiang Ruo.
In his previous life he killed MC by driving into her with a car to get MC's kidney. Both of MC's kidneys were transplanted to Jiang Ruo and MC died.
When in high school rumors appear about Jiang Ruo because of MC, he tries to stop MC and hit her. MC dislocates both of his arms. After repair in the hospital one of his arms is dislocated again twice, which causes his arm to dislocate easily.
His father decides to resign and move to the country to get his son away from Jiang Ruo. When he finds out she has kidney failure he goes looking for her again and saves her life when she tries to commit su*cide.
He decides to start working at a blood bank as volunteer, to find a compatible kidney donor for Jiang Ruo since she has a rare blood type.
MC happens to see him when she decides to become a blood donor with a friend. She tells Tong Yi and he hires people to watch him. She also tells a friend from the university who has the same blood type and is also a donor.
When the hospital refuses to do a DNA test when he finds someone with the right blood type, he calls Jiang Gong for help. They contact MC's friend and he decides to see them when they call. When he refuses to donate a kidney when it is proven he is compatible with Jiang Ruo, they knock him out, deciding to give both his kidneys to Jiang Ruo and by doing this killing him. Tong Yi's people warn the police and they are arrested.
He is sentenced to 15 years in prison. Jiang Ruo never visits him and never sends him letters, making him realize how dumb he has been. His parents never visit him during the first half year he is in prison. Around the time he has been captured his mother finds out she is pregnant. Because of that his father hides his imprisonment from her and when he sends her a later later on, she goes into early labour.
He regrets the decisions he made for Jiang Ruo.
Tong Xu
Cousin of ML. His father has been discrediting ML for years. Falls in love with MC at first sight when he sees her when she is 17. Asks her out publicly in front of an audience and MC straight out rejects him.
On instigation of Jiang Ruo he makes it public that ML set up MC's brother in the hope that her grandfather will start disliking ML and won't have then together. Feng Qi, knowing what Tong Xu plans, tells his father in advance that he set him up (he also had his men watch Jiang Zhou and was intending to set him up).
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