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[1 out of 5 star novel]Okay, what the fuq did I just read?It's been a while but reading revenge switched at birth stories just reminds me how and why I hate these stories so much if they're cookie-cutter.I'm going to spoil a lot so skip this if you want. Basically let me just start this off by saying that the Main Character is just a horrible and spiteful person that it's not even fun to read the story.She's not the original cannon fodder daughter that's easily manipulated and shy right. Let me repeat, she's not the original real daughter that this Jiang family misplaced.She's just this complete random stranger that just decides to utterly hate the living crap out this reasonably subpar rich family. Hell! we find out that she's this hospitalized girl that been sick a majority of her life and just spends her days studying like a nerd with no social skills.Like stay with me here, imagine you wake up in a novel right, you get all this information about what happens right. You literally know the future and personal information about all the important characters. Maybe get some of the feelings of the original body with you for extra. What do you do you ask, well our MC answers that by being a d1ck towards EVERY SINGLE PERSON expect this delinquent guy that was mentioned in the novel information she gets... and literally no one else.I mean come on, I think another comment said it the best earlier, she doesn't even try to use her current situation to her benefit.From the get go she fights tooth and nail with her biological mother and father over EVERY LITTLE THING. In the beginning I could understand because she was basing everything off the novel info she got and was looking out for herself. They did just pick her up out of nowhere without her say... But she's an ORPHAN AT AN ORPHANAGE. It's the dream come true for a real orphan and she super confrontational. Not once does she have an actual conversation with her parents or siblings when they all get together that she needs time to adjust. She doesn't even give them a chance and condemns them for the whole real daughter announcement thing. She doesn't say that she feels real uncomfortable calling them all her parents and siblings after just meeting or that it's nice to meet them at all and just goes off at them picking a fight with all four of them individually.Imagine you meet your long lost family member and they immediately start talking sh*t to you and the rest of your other family members when they meet.I mean she has a right to be mad about the whole announcement thing but she holds grudges for no real reason. SHES NOT THR ORIGINAL DAUGHTER. She's a blank slate with no real relation to he family or story, she can use that information about them to her advantage and live a regular and nice life, she doesn't have to pick fights and hate these people for things they haven't done towards a person that isn't yourself. Hell people aren't perfect, they're people!She can't for a second think about how complex the situation is for everyone in her family. The fact that she isn't even joining a regular family but a rich high ranking one instead! Imagine yourself a paren taking care of your two children for over a decade, they're grow teens turning into young adults soon, you love and understand them dearly. Your oldest is a little siscon for your youngest, but honestly everyone in the family is also. You even sent up a very important engagement between another high ranking rich family after you found out that your youngest daughter and that family son are in love with each other. Everything is fine and normal. Then One day you find out one of your children isn't really related by blood and was switched at birth. Not only that but an orphan that's been living in what you and a majority would believe to be in poverty. You find out it's real, and maybe take a week to process everything and get things ready to bring her over. It's no little thing mentally, emotionally, or socially to find out this major detail. You don't even consider that a girl living in an orphanage on the country side would turn down this opportunity to live a better life. Obviously while this is going down you are taking care of the youngest daughter you thought was your blood your years. Assuring her that no matter what you are all family and won't be forgotten and discarded. That the years you all spent together, raising the girl from a newborn means something. Only for that switched at birth child to fight you at every given turn for no reason to your understanding since she gives you no reasoning or ground to form a relationship with her.And it's not even just the family she holds grudges against and fights unreasonably, at the school she does nothing to be sociable and make friends. She doesn't try to be friends with her half-sister and so her half-sister friends are a little put off, she then fights with her half-sister friends and snaps at anyone who asks about her personal life and her relation to her new family. I mean why not just explain you are related to the Jiang family and is staying with them for a time, and ask your half-sister to agree since you aren't lying. The MC with no reason made enemies when all she had to do is talk and communicate. Hell The nerve of her during the whole locked door thing after the dorm mother already settled the situation. It was her being extra petty for no reason. Sure get your get back and feel vindicated, but to talk back to the person who helped you and admonished the one who wronged you is crazy. The dorm mother is an adult, someone who's supposed to be impartial around children, not picking sides and ending children conflicts as easy and quickly as possible. She doesn't get paid to deal with all that bu11sh!t our MC was pulling RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER. The MC is kinda bipolar too! We see little scenes where she's able to be reasonably nice to people, she forgives the assistant for telling her father her personal information before the father daughter pair meet, but hates her father unconditional. The assistant apologizes even though she been wronged and she accepts it. But when her family apologizes about the whole real daughter announcement she holds that grudge.Then the poor mother... I just can't. This was when I knew I hated our MC. I already explained about the whole complex position that the parents are in right. They have to figure out how treat both daughters fairly while maintaining their household and their business that's tied to their household due to them extending a business deal involving their daughter and the son of another family that are mutual interested in each other. Now the father I can understand not liking, even without our MC deliberately verbally clashing with him, he's just this stereotypical rich dad that doesn't care too much. It's the mom that I'm hung up on because we see her really try everytime she meets with our MC. Granted she isn't entitled to a mother daughter relationship but by common fu€king courtesy she should be able to at least build up a friendship or something beyond strangers. But no, the MC straight tells her to go duck herself each time they talk even though the mom tries so hard to find common ground and fix the tension when MC goes off on everyone.The whole money thing, sure it's partly the parents part for not checking up on her sooner but for their part, who wouldn't think their previously orphaned daughter wouldn't come to her super rich parents when coming to a place she wasn't ever been before with nothing but the clothes on her back. I mean come one here, I would be flabbergasted too if the kid didn't ask for help like a normal person would. If not me then my husband, if not my husband then myself! Then when the mom heads over to say sorry, have a heart to heart with her daughter and give her some money and support like any reasonable adult would, she gets b!tched at. Remember the mom is coming from hearing all these bad things her blood related daughter has been doing to people she knows and is still giving our MC the benefit of the doubt, even getting mad at her rich husband for not caring as much as she does.The mom heads over and the MC turns her down and says it's none of her business like an immature brat. Again let me reiterate that the MC isn't the real original daughter that got done dirty in the original novel. She's a person that being sick for a long time and has no relation to the mom that's so deep. She has no first hand reason to hate her so much or to dismiss her. The worst part of all of this and what makes me HATE THE MC is when she turns down her mom for the finally time and the mother that just can't relate with her no matter what she tries as she juggles being a mother for her original family and a caretaker for her new daughter. The mom leaves accomplishing nothing thanks to the MC, and as she's leaving the MC finally looks at the mom and thinks that moms retreating figure is embarrassing and unsophisticated... THE AUDACITY TO EVEN THINK THAT IS CRAZY!!! Everyone else I can kinda understand with the men being defensive with the father being a sewrd businessman, and the brother being a siscon. The daughter too as she is afraid of our MC and the trouble she'll bring, but the mom has been nothing but nice and friendly towards the MC from the get go, even leaning towards the MC side the best she can in her situation. A mother that doesn't care wouldn't get mad at someone bad mouthing her daughter when no one is there to witness and it's about two young girls she already knows and cares about, those two being her youngest daughter and her youngest daughter friend that she's familiar with.Finally man, the roof top scene... Did she really just start talking back when someones life is at danger at the moment due to su*cide. Regardless of you is at fault at the moment, the kid is about to jump off, follow your pride and pig head and just try to defuse the situation! Any other regular person would be like yeah, oh no, I don't want someone to die regardless of our little teen drama and would head up and instantly apologize about what happen. It's not that serious, class points aren't that serious when a life is in danger... Then a absolute balls of her to be listing off amounts of money whilst this is all going down like she doesn't have rich parents she can rely on is crazy. Talking back to her half-sister and the other students/teachers about it's none of her business and they should fu¢k off. IT SHOULDN'T EVEN MATTER EVEN IF IT IS OR ISNT YOUR FAULT!!! A LIFE IS IN DANGER AND ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY IS SORRY!!! IF THE POINTS THINGS ISNT A BIG DEAL THEN WHY IS IT SUCH A HASSLE FOR YOU TO APOLOGIZE!!!Again let me reiterate she has no friends expect for the delinquent boy she knows nothing about expect for the novel info she got stating the original did the delinquent favors in turn for protection and when her rich parents like any other normal parent found out that the original was hanging out with a bad apple, told the original to stay away from the delinquent. The MC decides wit no further information to hangout with the delinquent foolishly only because she knows the parents would disapprove.All this ranting just makes me realize that I've been saying the hidden truth since the beginning. The MC is this strange spiteful girl with no social skills and only broken ass book smarts that also has no reference to working with others emotionally or mentally because she lived a sickly and closeted life before.I have nothing else to say except that this was an horrible novel 0/5.
