Review Detail of _Ocelot_ in Outdated Love

Spoiler alert . . . . . . . . . . *The original is 222 chapters. *The writing style is good, even if the events are dire. *The FL suffers because the ML is a jerk, but mostly because she is in the way of others making financial marriages with his Yang family, and these people are dangerous, murderous rich people. *The last 12 chapters have a different male lead. The author wrote this at the end: "It’s completely over here. I wrote this extra because I feel regretful. First of all, give Xie Li a chance to realize his wish and guard Meng Xiao, who has never been hurt, from a distance. Secondly, I actually wanted to write Zhao Guoying as a tough guy male protagonist, but at that time I was going through a domestic violence court divorce, and I was only desperate for relationships, so Meng Xiao and Yang Yi were also a bit more sadistic. In the end, there were some shortcomings in the plot of the book, please forgive me. Now that I have recovered, my next book will be a sweet pet novel. SPOILERS: There's a lot of Great Families/fuerdai/second gen rich boy backstabbing going on that the FL is dragged into because of Yang Yi's obsession with her. Other families can't link themselves to the Yang Family because Yang Yi doesn't want to marry anyone but Meng Xiao. He's a scumbag. His mother, father, and sister call him a scumbag for the way he treats Meng Xiao. He exploits a situation to keep MX's brother in jail, thinking she would call him for help and that by saving her brother it would excuse the fact that he had her paying off his debts when he was rich, or excuse his ghosting her for weeks and months. She married him to save her brother when he comes to the rescue after she's been working 3 jobs, carrying crates of liquor as a bar back in a club he frequents, and sleeping in an ATM because the dormitories are locked so she can't get in after the bar closes. When he ghosts her, he dates the rich girls she goes to school with. He's filth. A boy who her mother saved from drowning (Xie Li), before drowning while trying to save the boy's father enters. He's married on paper. He and his wife scheme like chaebols, even having people killed. He gets her family's prestige, and he covers up the fact that she is pregnant by the son of her family's enemy. MX gets pregnant unwillingly by Yang Yi. She hides with the Xie Li, has the kid, has it left at YY's house and they go to France for 7 years. She gets an MA & a PhD before winning a major art award. Her brother is being promoted by a military leader and his life is now good. She gets a professor job offer from her university and returns to China where she gets caught up in plots to harm her to ruin YY. Meanwhile, YY is still saying he lives her while ghosting her and dating other women (but not sleeping with them). YY wants MX to beg him to be faithful, and to be obedient if he comes back home. MX doesn't care. She opens an art consulting business and begins to interact with her son. The fuerdai all shoot each other in the foot and Yang Yi is the last man standing. Xie Li gets caught. He hid all of the kickbacks and embezzled money from his wife's family and the other feuding fuerdai in their house in France so Meng Xiao wouldn't ever sleep in an ATM again.MX remarries YY because doing so would hide the fact that she suddenly has millions. She treats YY worse than he treated her. He ends up prematurely grey, and her brother beats him and leaves him w/ a lifelong limp. The alternate version is good. The ML is someone she went on a blind date with in the other version. They marry. He's great! She comes across many of the same people doing the same crimes, which her husband investigates as head of a Special Crimes Unit. Knowing what the author went through in real life explains a lot of the petty and sadistic stuff that the FL experiences. Her next book looks pretty HE.