• MC seems a very realistic person.
• It seemed very realistic how he suppressed himself and didn't leaked out emotions, keeping things all to himself and became all quiet and plotted things in secret.
• After going back to 18, he didn't immediately rushed out crying and making a scene after meeting his parents and elder brother and go OOC acting all sticky and talkative with his family like usually happens in rest of rebirth novels.
• It was very meticulously shown how distant he was with his family as they didn't spent quality family time together for bonding. So he quietly sometimes accompanied his mom to watch TV or eat meals with them, His rebirth didn't make him go OOC like I have seen in rest of the novels. Though he did cared for them.
• MC as a person was a meticulous guy who properly plotted things and gradually came to know about the hidden knives pointing at his family. He wasn't all knowing OP God.

Considering the romance part, it was slow burn, and satisfying. It was how ML and MC got along from hi hello acquaintances to friends to lovers. And their chemistry and interactions always carried a subtle spark and serial tension with a sense of comfort and romanticism as many a times they silently accompanied eachother.

• ML wasn't cold aloof guy, nor he was overbearing with a sense of superiority and seeing MC as little cute rabbit or a kitten as someone mentioned above. (Such description of MC in bg or bl are my pet peeves)
• Both of them gave space to eachother and never interfered or spied into eachother's matters.

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.