We learn in the first chapter that the main lead sexually assaulted the main character while he was drunk. This is pretty much shrugged off by the author because he "didn't go all the way". In the main character's first life, the main lead goes on to pester the main character to have s*x with him for money for years afterward using his position as his boss. Thankfully, the rest of their relationship is fully, enthusiastically, soberly consensual.

Side characters experience violent r*pe, forced prostitution, and domestic ab*se.

The forced prostitution is treated very lightly and like an industry standard for actors, which is unfortunately typical of entertainment circle danmei.

The time skip is particularly egregious. We learn the main lead has suffered an accident. We don't know how serious it is, it's tremendously exciting. Next chapter: three years later. The main lead immediately says that fortunately, he has finally recovered from being crippled by that accident. This is one of the more comically baffling choices the author makes. Like, what was the point of this serious accident even happening? It was resolved immediately. Lmao.

Qiu Qian (the ML) is a romantic interest for Su Quan, but he's also his only way of climbing out of forced prostitution under an elderly wheelchair-bound man who wants to ruin his career to better control him. Unlike most "competitors" in romance stories, Su Quan has a legitimate reason to vie for the ML's affection at any cost and even - MAJOR SPOILER - attempt to mu*der the MC.

Of course, the ML then abandons Su Quan to his miserable fate as revenge. I see in the comments that for some people, this is too vicious. Maybe the ML should have, at great personal cost, saved the person who betrayed him. After all, forced prostitution is very cruel. I won't argue with that.

I'll only comment that everyone's motivations in this arc made sense and it felt nuanced and morally grey. As a story, I enjoyed it.

(whom had been helping him secretly since day one of liking him in his past life)

Still weird to me as to why Bai Lang would meet with Kang Jian near the end in the office just because he wanted to "air some thoughts"?? Then when it developed to the conflict in the office, I got so annoyed lol Cause Kang Jian literally is just a classmate from acting school. They had no developments in the current life, aside from his grievances from previous life which he seems to have processed anyways to the point he's just indifferent. And then when Kang Jian is a goner, just because KJ wants to meet, he'll meet up?? Really weird and doesn't make sense for the author to put that confrontation near the end, in my opinion, other than to just give one last shot of dogblood drama that ended in a moment anyways lol

for example when the MC found about the nanny or when the MC told the ML about his past life. It was important events but I felt like the writer skip it quickly.

WHERE IS THE CHILD MOTHER !!!

the ML is gay. I don't feel he liked women in the first place so what happened?! Why did the mother run away? However, I didn't trust the ML so much when he said that. Maybe she was someone his family sent to him then he killed her just like the nanny?

of course in the beginning I believed him and thought he loved the child mother so much but she ran away with another man and broke his heart that's why he keep lovers and break up with them quickly however it turns out he loved a man in the past but chose to break up with him for another rich man to help him become famous. That's why he kept small stars until he makes them a little successful then he would break up with them. That means he wasn't into women from the very beginning so I thought when he and his ex were together they decide to have a child by using surrogacy but the ex left him after that. This possibility grows stronger when the Ex said he only saw the child when he was small. But that's possibility turned out to be a failure too when the ML said his EX went with his rich lover before 12 years but the child is only 5.