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I'm hung up on one thing: How or what was it that made things go according to the novel plot in all her previous lives?
Is it like a cosmic unknowable force that makes everything fall into place even if she straight up tries to rip out someone's eyebrows? Or is it physical, where she just won't be able to move, to grab someone by the eyebrows?
Another option would be that all those novel cannon lives weren't what they seemed. In some way illusory, or not truly FL's memories. Maybe the reason why the novel's intended FL is missing is because her soul IS FL's true core, and all these lives are like meteors that got caught in her orbit. Something, something, divine power, god, bla.