Just like how, the MC didn't pursue recognition anymore and his family started to regret their actions, they still never reconciled as MC was just tired of it all. How, although the ML and MC ended up together this time, ML still had no choice but to go abroad due to his family circumstances.

As an adult however, we see how much colder and more decisive he is. More arrogant, and authoritative. He became a true leader, and could now solve things on his own unlike during in high school, where the reach of his power was limited.

Well, I really liked the way their relationship progressed, and I admire that they never did it in high school. Although, it's probably mostly because they had been together for only a short period of time before eventually breaking up due to external circumstances. Still, I liked how they ended amicably, and kept in touch throughout the years. I honestly think it was the righ decision for them to split, as staying together at that time would have just made both of them tired and I think conflicts would have arised. When the ML came back and they got together again, damn, he was a beast. Years of being pent up must have gotten to him haha.

I also like how although we see that later on as adults, the ML is the one who takes care of the MC, and others have commented that his care seemed excessive, we do get to know that it's just MC letting him do so. He knows ML cares about him and is just anxious of his health, and frankly, MC enjoys the ml's nagging and excessive care.

I don't think I'll ever get over their past life, so many things went wrong, and the regret... just thinking that maybe in some timeline out there, their relationship never worked out, and Chen Mo died before anything could develop between them, and ML lives on with his heart broken as his feelings left unsaid, breaks my heart.

never forgave his biological parents

Their break up was painful but rational (both chose the mature thing to do) and MC also made the best choice for himself at the time as he did not want the ML to become a new obsession of his. No misunderstanding, no keeping secrets to supposedly avoid hurting the other, no dramatic scene, just a peaceful parting.

Their relationship progress after their reunion was also reasonable with the MC trying to put up a wall at first and the ML chasing after him. And the MC was also decisive when he told the ML straight that he wanted to get back together once he acknowledged that ML really was the only one for him which is quite refreshing.

the MC (shou) have body full of scar from 17 years of ab*se by his adoptive father. He had super bad stomach, record of 3 years of some chronic stomach disease? At the age of 15. His leg also have past injury that is so bad (almost like broken knee). Not recommended to traumatic reader bcoz this was described quite deep. I cried

MC was prejudiced towards him for the misunderstandings of thinking that ML was close with the people he hated and ML was prideful because of his identity and different worlds even though he had feelings for him from the beginning.

The fake’s mom was the one who switched the babies at birth coz her husband was an abusive dead beat and she didn’t want her precious lil sh*t of a son to suffer thru all that. And since the MC looks nothing like the fake dad, the fake dad thought the fake mom cheated on him and was even more abusive towards the MC. He would beat him everyday and starve him to the point where MC developed serious stomach problems that persisted towards his adulthood. At one point, the fake dad even tied the MC to a well outside in the middle of winter when it was snowing heavily for the whole night causing the MC to develop rheumatism. So even now, his knee would hurt badly every time it’s cold😭 But despite all this, the mc’s not the “so weak that he coughs blood every two days and drop dead every week” type of character. He always make his injuries and scars seem like they were no big deal. And due to him always fighting against his fake dad, the mc’s actually really good at fighting. He even became the “new school bully” at one point.

The most painful part for me is that the real parents knows that the fake dad has been charged many times for domestic ab*se when they found the MC but they still dropped charges against the fake parents just coz the company was getting bad publicity and their stocks were dropping. Not only that, they even lied that the swapping was an accident and that the fake parents were super good to the MC. One of the worse family I’ve ever read about. They deserved everything that happened to them in the end

When the ML first kissed him, forget the MC being shy. He actually thought the ML was just drunk and even looked around to make sure no one saw them🤣

especially when the fake gets involved (Yang Shoule is very much a wannabe-Mary Sue and can be irritating when onscreen.)

The novel loses “1 star” (more like -0.5 stars) for me once the high school campus love story finishes because the business plot line went off the rails for me. While I enjoyed the tension of the CP reuniting with each other after separating for a long time, the sudden threats of assassination on both MC and ML really threw me for a loop? I went into the book thinking I signed up for a campus love story—not necessarily a family/business intrigue novel.