What If Xu Qin Were a Normal Person?

[Contains original headcanons] [I've only seriously watched Meng Yancheng's scenes from the original, but I'll do my best to include all the characters] [Apologies, I'm a beginner]

If Xu Qin's character had been just a little more normal, would everything have turned out differently? She fell for her older brother during high school, when she was first discovering love, but various real-world circumstances led Fu Wenying to send her abroad to study. Four years later, Xu Qin had successfully changed her name and built a small business of her own. As for love, she suddenly realized that she wasn't the only one suffering...

(The meaning of “normal” here is broad. I still keep some of the original heroine's inferiority complex and people-pleasing tendencies, but I let her break free of patriarchal conditioning and the original show's inability to distinguish right from wrong. I also hope Meng Yancheng can find love and happiness. The forced letting-go and happy family ending in the show's finale gave me heartbreak...)