MC: CQZ

Family: Z, CQJ, CSM

ML: S

Very plot-wise with slow burn romance. I love how it shows the previous life heavily affect MC and how the family notice his changes and didn't brushed it off like other novels. I like how the father and eldest son are working together with reborn MC and take him seriously.

I really like it but I will take a break bc their dialogue about anxiety is triggering me 😬

Keywords where I left off (?) : out of the hospital, returning to school, confessing some secrets to ML (he can eat green onions, likes Coke, drinks cold beer; his well-behaved facade is crumbling).

MC has a hand fetish for ML haha it was adorbs

MC was reborn and returned to the age of 18 when he was still the wicked little overlord of the Chen family. At this time, his brother hadn’t experienced a car accident while his parents were in good health and weren’t seriously ill. The Chen family was still the prosperous Chen family and everyone thought he was a good-for-nothing who was useless and easily taken advantage of. He became the backbone of the Chen family.. He tried to give clue to his family so they became more alert towards the enemy, during this journey he suffers from severe anxiety and depression.. He became thin and restless, ML and mc's family help him step by step so he became strong enough to stand without being anxious, His revenge was worth it

At first it was kinda cute and endearing how he would pretend to be well behaved with ML because he thought ML liked well behaved people and he had a crush on ML that even he wasn't aware of. That said, it gets old pretty soon, because in MC's past life, ML saw MC at his worst and ML was still MC's friend and would always accommodate MC, even when MC wasn't pretending at all. You could tell that in their past life, ML still liked MC even after seeing MC's darkest side and even died trying to help MC. But even after they get together and even after ML had caught him a few times doing things that "well behaved" people don't do, he's still pretending. And he keeps lying to ML and trying to make excuses about where he is and who he's with, even after he promised ML he wouldn't lie to ML anymore and even after ML told MC that MC didn't have to lie to him. It's all so annoying it made me roll my eyes so hard. MC wasn't being cute, he was being fake. I couldn't get over that, so I just got annoyed at the couple's interactions; but if it wasn't for that, they would've been such a great couple. That's why I didn't bother to read the extras, I didn't crave more of their interactions tbh.

It took too long to finally get rid of the final boss. Another reviewer said that there's a reason why the ending is a bit slow, because it was necessary to show how the MC healed, but I'm not talking about that. It's fine for the MC to heal slowly because yeah, you can't get rid of trauma overnight just because you got your revenge, but what actually made it boring for me is that it took them too long to get rid of the last boss. They had everything prepared to catch him and his last plan shouldn't have been able to be executed, but the author wanted more unnecessary suspense and made seem like the last boss almost succeeded. That last suspense was seriously not necessary. By that point, revenge was already taken and it was just fatigue inducing to add another episode of suspense when the dust should've settled already.

How much his parents and brother's (also ml) death effect him. How he had to take the family business in to his shoulder despite him being naive and young. Later he die (my guess) after he save the family business and taken revenge.

I really like how he interact with his family. Past life he had awkward, rebellion teenager mind who always would fight with family. Even after rebirth it doesn't change, but he try his best to be not. If he feel he is going to get irritating he will be quite, quietly sit with his family like he wasn't even there try to accompany them. Be with his family even for bit.

While MC being hospitalise for his mental health, we have a mother who remove all sharp objects out of the room. But we doesn't even know until MC asking where his hair cutting scissors is. That's when we feel something is fishy.

Then one time while mom wasn't in the room MC looking at mom's pencil box where we got to know there is a pencil cutter blade. Next mom come to the room then there's her paused as she saw in the paper cutter neatly placed in the box and pencil scraps in tr*sh can. That's when we really know mother know but she silence about that.

Another time MC spending lot of time in bathroom, even after shower where he take another shower and when MC go out with towel there's ML in the room, looking at mc's body where I suspect he probably notice mc's scares of his self harming. But not ML or MC mentioned about that.

And when MC finally arrived home he see his room where again there's no sharp object and MC thinking "she did not need to go to this level, because he would not go to that extreme" then we know MC know that his mom know about his self harming.

We have a cheerful mother and also a brother and a father who awkward but really caring about their family. It's really funny how MC and his brother's little fights are done. But they almost all have a 'serious' personality type. MC is serious about saving his family, the brother/father duo are always serious about work, and ML is also serious person. The only character with a more silly personality is the MC's best friend.