At first he decides to take them in but he does not know anything of gers and that they can get pregnant. Man, was he surprised when he found out about mpreg

give the ML (ger) persuade him to remarry, but you need to see it from his perspective, the man will be leaving ancient times after 10 years. He did not want to get attached and leave behind a family, with possible children. He loves his adopted child, the only reason why he was so preoccupied to make money was for a means for his family. To make sure that when he leaves they will be well off.

He even encouraged the ML to get remarried for this reason. Even explaining the situation to the ML later on. They do live well off, and are happy for those 10 years. The reader needs to know that this story has a little more realistic attitude about a person crossing over and living in ancient times; thus this is why the MC acts the way he does about the ML at first.

MC likes but rejects ML for most of their early interactions like a domineering tsundere CEO lol

MC: "Promise me that you won't like me"

also MC when ML is sulking and mentions leaving him: *hand grab* "Take one more step and I will really break up with you!"

sigh

He has one (unnecessary imo) scene where he's one toe into yandere when he realises his feelings for ML. MC even tries to match ML up with other men which of course upsets ML. However, MC does this because he knows he has a 10-year countdown and does not want any lingering attachments or regrets. Annoying but maybe understandable... but still annoying xD

As for ML and the kid, their feelings are definitely abrupt but I'm not too surprised at how fast their feelings changed. Besides the writer being very very light on details, ML and the kid mostly get the cold treatment at home. Unlike other ger novels where the ger is exploited as their working cow, ML's treatment is mostly cold and some wariness because of the kid. ML's family still loves ML but refuses to take care of the ominous heterochromic wild child that ML picked up years ago so they're cold towards the duo and their relationship has deteriorated. ML gets to talk with his mom later on and they're more or less okay with each other again. There is a mentioned (infuriating) instance where ML's family "lost" the kid during the early days of ML taking him home though ugh

The villagers outside are the cruel ones though. To summarise, the typical name calling and rumor spreading about ML about his acne covered face and the "origin" of the kid (ML's illegitimate child) ; taunting, isolating and beating up (?) the kid because of his different coloured eyes.

MC is a ray of sunshine and hope for them. The surprising part about ML and the kid's emotional change is that ogMC actually kicked them down just that morning before MC entered lol I definitely would not be feeling good about this man for a long while

They're initially wary of him and hide secrets which they think will cause MC to kick them out which upsets MC because they don't trust him enough (duh, it's been 2 days at most lol) which causes them to panic and become more determined to hide the secret. Yep. Fortunately, the secrets (the kid's different coloured eyes) get revealed and accepted (very monotonously) by MC

MC finishes up his 5-year village + life improvement plan within his 1st year in the ancient world. I myself like light reads but this seems suspiciously too light xD Most of the novel (until chapter 60 something) takes place within the first 6 months of his first year. Or somewhere around then at least. MC becomes a well-known and beloved teacher (wow, unseen occupation for this trope!). MC opens up a successful printing workshop and paper making mill. In short, MC has a successful life that even surprises the mysterious man. The remaining 9 years are summarised in about 2-3 chapters before MC is tossed back into the original world.

ML gets transmigrated into MC's world. The kid was offered to come too but he wanted to stay with his crush so he didn't follow.

MC: My cabbage has been snatched by a pig!!!

As someone who willing answered a shady ad and gave up his future prospects and ten years of his life for his mother he would never be able to look at ML and his son and lol you're on your own.

The original was fated to live rich early in life, face misfortune, live in poverty, be childless for life, lose his spouse, and have an unfilial adopted child. However, his parents bribed an immortal to find a substitute to struggle in his stead for most of it. This is the premise of how the job opportunity was presented to work in ancient times for ten years. The MC is only a young 20 year old school dropout who is taking care of his sick mom. He is desperate and sees this as a possible scam, but he accepts it as he is paid in full upfront, promised social connections, a companion, and will receive additional wealth upon return if he is successful in his endeavors.

He knows firsthand about the hardship single women faces when abandoned because of what his mother went through. The MC worries it would be a similar situation if he left his ger in ten years.

The fate of the original still happens!

Legit the story goes from daily slice of life to an abrupt chapter summarizing how oh yeah he totally made that paper mill and recruited and trained people to run it as well as built a moveable-type book-printing factory staffed by his students and revolutionized the country as well as his village and expanded the school and he and Hua Zizhou began traveling the country for a several years and—

What about his neighbor and major side character Hunter Jiang and the wife he acquired and the drama of her being pregnant with a kid he'd initially claimed he didn't want but later of course wanted and she kept the pregnancy? We don't know what really happened with that. I may be forgetting because it could have been a one-liner, but either we don't know anything about the baby or the baby happened off screen as a token mention, despite Hunger Jiang's son initially being opposed to having a half-sibling because he worried his stepmom would love the baby more and treat him poorly, until finally he grudgingly acquiesced to the baby being born, and drama seeming like it was gonna brew—nope, no followup with that at all. We don't see how he is as a big brother or how their family changes with a new addition. The wife's s*umbag wife-beating ex-husband is also never really mentioned again though apparently he still lives in the same village.

How did Qu Qing transition away from his teaching position to run all these businesses and then start traveling for funsies and maybe business? Who took over his position? There was a plot thread about the arrogant scholar who initially refused to teach at all unless he was paid out the wazoo with silver being happily tricked into teaching literature at the school, and Qu Qing had all these plans to expand the curriculum to cater to his students' interests. But there's nothing that says he took over teaching. The school, as prestigious as it was, is dumped aside by the plot and never actually addressed in a satisfactory manner.

What about his whole "expanding equality for women and gers" thing? Yes, the school welcomes girls and gers equally alongside boys, but somehow despite a couple initial hints about this being looked down upon/women learning things being useless, there's no further followup about how these educated girls and gers are getting along post-schooling or how/why/if attitudes toward them changed at all, except for possibly a token vague line about how yes, totally, equality was slowly progressing for the better without any explanation of how/why.

In the middle of this summary chapter, there's a scene after 5 years have passed of Qu Qing finally confessing to Hua Zizhou that he's a transmigrator from another world who's only gonna be here for 10 years, and him being from another world is where he got all this knowledge he's been spreading, and Hua Zizhou is mindblown but realizes it must be true and now he only has 5 years left with his beloved hubby—

And then the story summarizes even more with more huge time skips, and then their family is eating dinner and BAM Qu Qing without warning transmigrates back to the modern world, with a card containing like millions of dollars equivalent, and 10 years have passed in the modern world.

Then there's a bizarre chapter that reveals that the shady guy who made the deal with Qu Qing in the first place to transmigrate him is in fact an immortal, and... okay, look, I didn't fully understand what was going on and I'm not sure if it's a translation issue, a story issue, or me being too WTF, but I guess the immortal has a second-generation-immortal son, and second-generation immortals are supposed to live as mortals for a while and endure hardship? Or possibly his son (?) was going to endure hardship as a mortal (be poverty-stricken, have a wife who died young, a kid who's a problem, etc.), so instead he found a poor modern guy to take his place and endure the hardship for him?? Or something???

Only unexpectedly and much to his shock, when he checks in on Qu Qing at the 10-year mark, he finds he's been super prosperous and has a loving wife and kid and changed the world, and he panics because that's not supposed to happen and apparently swaps Qu Qing and his immortal son back immediately.

In the modern world, Qu Qing instantly readapts to living a normal life, his mom-in-a-coma-in-the-hospital miraculously wakes up, and he reconnects with his friend with whom he had arranged to take care of his mom and finances while he was transmigrated. He's a rich-a** mofo now so he can casually buy a fully-furnished two-bedroom apartment just for now because it's convenient to move into with his still-recovering mom, and can financially back his friend's business ventures. The story sure makes it seem like he's living a pretty good life, as it only briefly touches upon the life and people he left behind—sure he wonders what happened to them, but he knows he can never see them again and so it sure seems like he's just a bit melancholy rather than, you know, devastated that he left his beloved wife and cherished son behind forever to unknown fates. (He does reassure himself that even though he technically took ALL HIS FRIGGIN' MONEY with him from the past into the present, the businesses he left behind are still intact, so his family should be okay! Sure, dude. Sure.)

Meanwhile back in the past, Qu Qing undergoes a radical personality change overnight, and also btw his name is Shen Xu now and nobody remembers Qu Qing—this is not immediately clear, but the immortal apparently wiped/tampered with everyone's memories, although it's unclear exactly what this means since everyone is like WTF that he changed so drastically. I guess maybe he just did a ctrl+F to replace Qu Qing's name with Shen Xu's? And also erased some of the more specific memories people had with him, as Hua Zizhou struggles and often fails to remember certain things?

Anyway, he's returned to acting like what the original body acted like, so he's a scoundrel and an a**hole who spends money like it's water (... even though Qu Qing supposedly took all the money with him??) and treats everyone like sh*t. This goes on for a brief but indeterminate amount of time before Hua Zizhou has a glimmer of memory of the old Qu Qing after Shen Xu shoves him to the ground, where he remembers vaguely Qu Qing telling him that he would never ever raise a hand to him and if one day he does, make sure to treat him like a different person because he won't be Qu Qing anymore.

So Hua Zizhou ties Shen Xu up and publicly announces that his husband has been possessed by a demon, and convinces the rest of the village easily enough—his husband went from being an outstanding citizen idolized by all to a s*umbag overnight, after all. So they arrange for (I'll use western terms here to convey the gist) an exorcist to come and either exorcise the demon and/or summon a celestial being to explain WTF is going on.

The immortal up in heaven sees this and immediately freezes time for everyone but Hua Zizhou and descends, because if the other immortals find out what's going on he'll be in big trouble. He restores Hua Zizhou's memories and tells him he can be sent to where his original husband is (and never return to this world), or else he just has to sit tight and accept that this is the way things are now, but he has to decide right now.

Hua Zizhou asks if their son Mao'er can come with them, and the immortal is like omfg FINE and restores Mao'er's memories too, but teenage Mao'er hesitates because he and Hunter Jiang's kid have a thing for each other, so agonizingly he decides to stay behind. So the immortal sends Hua Zizhou away, while Mao'er falls to the ground sobbing in despair that both his parents are gone forever, in the time-restored past.

And that's it for the past! We never find out what happened with Shen Xu now being a pile of garbage who is technically the head of the family and owner of all the assorted business and enterprises Qu Qing set up, or how he handles all that, or what happens to Mao'er, or how Hua Zizhou's transmigration is treated. Has he disappeared entirely? Did the immortal tamper with everyone's memories again to erase Hua Zizhou? Did some other soul come to take over his body? Who knows!

Back in the future, Qu Qing's now-healthy mom has been nagging him to get married so Qu Qing finally confesses he's gay and had a beloved during his 10 years working abroad (as he's told people that's what he was doing) and can never be reunited with him. His mom has difficulty accepting this but to her credit eventually accepts and even asks Qu Qing questions about his beloved and stops trying to set him up on blind dates—

—until she arranges for him to the meet the son of a friend who she thinks is really nice and a good kid and a good fit for him and he'll like him, and also this boy is totally cool with just being friends, c'mon just meet him. So Qu Qing reluctantly goes to meet him and BAM it's Hua Zizhou! Or is it? Because he says his name is Lin Zhou and he acts like a totally modern youth, using slang and talking about normal modern stuff, but he looks and acts totally like Hua Zizhou, and Qu Qing eventually realizes it really is Hua Zizhou, and they're reunited at last! With the explanation that Hua Zizhou was sent to the modern world and the immortal arranged for him to become the adopted son of a couple, and in literally just "a few months" he was able to study hard to learn and perfectly adapt to modern life, all while concealing his ger nature as per the immortal's instructions because if anyone found out, they'd treat him as a monster since gers don't exist here.

So they can live happily ever after now!

THE END.

like suddenly MC friend take liking to ml, and MC want to push ML to remarry

The reason why MC transmigrated is bcs the old immortal need someone to subtitute to second generation immortal for his punishment living in ancient world. Bcs the parent of this second generation immortal gives bribery to old immortal, MC is chosen. What he don't expect is MC become a successful person in ancient world.

Well I think this is unfair to see how easy this immortal to break the law of heaven. Too bad this kind of shady things didn't get punishment from heaven. I know this isn't the focus of the story. But it makes my satisfaction lost and the ending just gives me "That's it?" vibe.

Within the first couple of months, a whole school building is built and stocked for MC to teach in and then less than 6 months later, MC is able to somehow build and open a paper mill factory? I mean, hello. It takes time to cut down wood, source supplies and equipment. You can't even build a factory in today's world that fast and get it running smoothly in just mere months. It just breaks the immersion.

The novel does not really explain how ge'ers are different from men or how they are so easily distinguished right at first glance. MC thought they were men and didn't mention anything odd about their appearances so I'm kind of confused how random shopkeepers, etc can tell that ML was a ge'er from just a glance. It was mentioned at the end that ML transmigrated to the modern world but kept his ge'er body but it has to be kept a secret so he doesn't become a science experiment so... is there a physical difference? Other novels have a red mole on the forehead, they don't seem to have that here.

The author has the MC starting a school, inventing moveable type, papermaking mill, "graduating" his school's students to work at the moveable type workshop, rebuilding his whole house, built a fully glass greenhouse and research facility.... all in 1 year. Like what??? Dude went from 0 money to billionnaire in literally 1 year. His reputation also went from "bottom of the barrel / thug in the village" and his finances from "not being able to feed himself after the next 5 days" to "most admired and wealthiest landowner with two-story mansion" in 1 freaking year. Ridiculous!!!

It took almost 70 chapters to get through 1 year of the novel, and just 3 chapters to get through the rest of the 10 years. lol?