Even MC himself hinted that he didn't really care about the mystery of the system when he managed to swallow the last pieces of system data.

Qiu Xing lowered his head and allowed Xie Yang to act. Mother Qiu and Qiu Xing were calm while Xie Yang's expression was relaxed. He even smiled while teasing Qiu Xing's hair. It was obviously a very warm scene but Feng Qinglin was inexplicably sad.

In the first photo, Xie Yang sat on a chair in the rest area of the coldly lit police station with unbearable fatigue in his eyes. There was a bouquet of broken roses in his arms as Qiu Xing half-kneeled in front of him, bald, thin and in a hospital gown. The two of them stared at each other and their eyes made people feel sad.

In the second photo, in a corner of the brightly lit and warm auditorium, Xie Yang had finished the wedding ceremony and sat on a chair with a large bouquet of champagne roses in his arms. Qiu Xing was half-kneeling in front of him and reached out to help him tidy his hair with gentle eyes. The two of them stared at each other and the scene was so happy that people couldn't help smiling.

The one who posted the photo was a small blogger and she added the text: I watched you go from the hospital gown to the wedding suit. The journey wasn't easy. I wish you happiness.

Netizens saw the two contrasting photos. At this moment, they no longer felt envious of the grand wedding of the two people.

Instead, they envied their love.

seriously, he has to write music, established company, control media direction, cautious about the system and the bookFL and the bad guy while trying to coaxed and wooing ML. Such a hard working MC

When Yang yang sang the reincarnation song I imagine him sitting in the broken window and writing a song also at the back of the car while driving pass some zombie and him suddenly going to this peaceful world being amaze. Having hope and peace. Dang just how much of pain and endurance yang yang experienced in the apocalypse for him to endure his throbbing brain and nausea and perform normally. I'm guessing Long Shuyou has perfect pitch.

The ML, Qui Ying, is your overbearing CEO, but! With a twist, he's a rare pokemon that has growth throughout the story. He's not omnipotent. He's vulnerable. He's sensitive. He is self destructing levels of considerate. He's not your average wolfish ML that only knows how to treat his partner like a damsel and only thinks about s*x all the time. Dare I say it. He has layers.

He's a tsundere, sure, but he's like that for a viable reason. He doesn't want people to close to him because he doesn't want to hurt them long term. From the very start of the novel, it's clear that he's already resigned to the fact that he's going to die.

This man's life is so tragic. He deserved the happy ending the novel gave him.

My own personal interpretation:

Excuse me for purple prosing, but I totally believe that the movie the MC acted in Crazy Musician was a foreshadowing for the third act's villain. The pe*verted artist that hid in the shadows, gaining inspiration from the macabre.

Tao Yang was definitely not a character I expected to find in an entertainment type novel. His level of antagonism is more of what you would typically see in a mystery novel. Had he been a serial killer instead of a pe*verted artist, he could have made a very terrifying character. The levels he went to hide his every action just to see the five seconds of despair on the ML's face is beyond unnerving.

And, if I'm correct, and the movie was a foreshadowing of events, then it's only natural to assume that the true mu*derer all along was the System.

Something I liked about the explanation of the system's origins is that it's not clear whether the MC was transmigrated into an actual novel or into an alternate world, and the novel was simply a fabricated prophetic reading sent as the world's collective consciousness's last sort of salvation. Here take this, obstruct the system. Keep my world from becoming an apocalyptical one like yours.

Truly great!

The apocalypse world that the main character came from is actually a world that has already been destroyed by an energy-gathering system like the love value system. These systems help people aquire love while they're alive, so they can gather the maximum grief energy when they die. These systems were sent out from a world that s**ked up all the energy of its inhabitants in order to survive. Finally, a rogue system infected with another world's consciousness tries to fight back by finding people with abilities to send into worlds infected by the system. By having these people capture and infect the system with their abilities before the system returns to the main world, they are helping to poison the main system, and will hopefully eventually end the energy harvesting.

• • This story further cemented the idea that in novels, an entertainment company's PR department is either the company's most ens*aved or richest department, or even both. In just a few days, they need to make topics a hot search, recruit water armies, stand vigil for competitors' public statements, collect both gossip and "substantial" evidences for their statements, buy marketing accounts and "tips" to prevent news leakage, make comeback declarations, and control public opinion. This is done for every artist of the company who needs public relations. You can clearly picture how their demanding daily lives are revolve around phone calls, social media, computers, and meetings, Even more, their paycheck probably depends whether their company has sufficient funds or not. In any case, if there is even a chance that I become a character in a novel (hahaha keep dreaming), I don't want to be involve in the PR department. I would rather read a story centered around it and know their pains and gains than be a company s*ave.

• • You can see the gradual change in the MC's mindset as the story progresses. At the start, his personal goal is to live well (not surprising since he came from the age of apocalypse where death is everywhere) and use any means he can get to achieve this - even making a deal with a near-death person. But then he fell in love, which brought him tons of problems. And he change his goal of living well to living well with him. He changed his partner's mindset and the mindset of those around them with his actions. If you tell me that his actions are still due to his original goal, I won't buy it. I will consider the reason that him not leaving and solving all the worries is essential for the plot so he can't leave, but if we leave out this detail and consider only from the characters' perspective, clearly, before the onset of the climax of the story, he has enough capital to escape and leave his partner alone to deal with all troubles - he has the system, helpful "friends" in the industry, his continuously upgrading ability core, his company that he can liquidate anytime, and his talent in music, while his partner has a terminal sickness, a company with lots of in-fighting, a pe*verted stalker-artist junior, an amateurish nephew, and lots of hyena competitors who wanted a piece of his legacy once he dies. Sure, the benefits MC can get after ML dies are a lot but considering how much he has to do to get them and his competency, my guess is that he can build an equivalent business empire like Rongding in just a couple of years. MC can clearly leave all behind and live well abroad to start again, both at the present time and in the possible future, and considering his cautious mindset and his partner's all-is-well-if-you-are-happy attitude towards him, this move has a high chance of succeeding if he choose to do it. But he didn't leave. He fought with him until the end. He changed from a character who only cares about himself to a character who cares about another more than himself. And that's one of the reasons why I was moved.

• • ML also went into a gradual change in the story. From a tsun tsun overbearing president to a timid husband-s*ave, all of his actions and reactions put a smile on my face. If there is one thing that I have to note, it's how he change his mindset of waiting to die to fighting to live, and his response to this. Perhaps I am just not content, having read a distant relative's diaries of when he suffered from cancer a long time ago. I won't go into the details of his journals since it's too personal but comparing the emotions - despair, unwillingness, contentment, acceptance, determination - in that with the ones in the novel, it is somewhat lacking. I know it's not really necessary for the story to imply these so deeply so I won't subtract these points in my rating.

• • It is surprising to know who the true villain of the novel is. Considering his introduction and build-up of the story, I have an inkling that he will play a decisive role before the start of the climax. It's just that I did not deduce his role and reason completely, but if you ponder how meticulous MC is when dealing with him, it's actually not that hard to guess that he really is the ultimate villain in the author's manuscript. A twisted villain who hides in the dark is really the most difficult of them all.