MC says he doesn't know how old ML only that he's probably late 30s to 40s but like a few chapters later he says ML is 38

Also like ML's sister ran back to him to ask him to get revenge on her ex husband while she was pregnant with his nephew (who is 24). Which makes ML some big boss CEO 14 yo??

the author initially states that MC has been at the Qin's since he was an infant, then later says he came at 5, then towards the ends says his first year when he was 6, so not sure how old MC was when he went to the Qin family. Also he says how he won't smoke in this life because after the QY thing in his past life he got addicted to nicotine and he wants to keep this body clean, but then later he says he was smoking at 19

first MC is hellbent on his revenge and hates the Shen family QY, QL, and SSQ. He randomly is kind of on QL's side because of QL's mom and helps him get a job in the Qin family company. He does this to ruin QY as well, but was super random. I mean in the first life QL is the one that chases him out of the Qin's but MC helps him in this life.

He lets go of his revenge pretty early, SSQ can ruin his life on his own tyvm. I'm happy MC decides to focus elsewhere and grow as a character, but it isn't shown as growth, it just is. Author really struggles with transitions.

His emotions for all the Shen family is supposedly complete hate to begin with, all 3 brothers, the dad and kind of mom.

His first meeting after rebirth he beats up the youngest brother, then later helps him out because it's randomly brought up that the younger bro helped MC in the past life, but still hates the other 2. Then the borther that is just a bit younger than him is broken and living in filth and MC helps him. The middle brother is hated from begining to end. So you think he likes his brothers some what... no in the end he tells the youngest that he has always hated them and wants nothing to do with them.

Then he tries to reconnect with the mom, who apparently is alive. Things are awkward but she tells him she regrets it and he tells her he understands that she didn't have an power to refuse. He says he will come to have cookies another day. Then at the end he completely cuts ties with the Shen family, says he hates them all and will never see them again... including the mom

The dad is weird too, he kicks his son's out of the house and doesn't care of they live or die, but when the middle brother gets into gambling debt he helps him solve it because it his son and he can't give up on him. It was kind of a brutal way, but still random

first MC has respect only towards ML, then they become like father and son, but ML still flirts with him. MC finally gets it and ML says I love you chapter 57 (in an abrupt way too) they get together finally and then no bed activities until 77 then a couple chapters later with no indication anything is wrong MC rips his hand out of ML's and is back to questioning the relationship? It gets fixed a couple chapters later but it was so weird and out of place. There was no transitions and just random conflict.

another reviewer said ML had to be 14 when he took over the company, then when I read further, it's mentioned ML took over the company at 15 and debuted in society at 16. So I was like okay math is a little off but still works. Then in the last part of the book the author says ML takes over at 16.

Let's just ignore the fact that a 14-16 year old could run a billion dollar company, but the author can't even get the age right.

he is rebirthed as well. Not sure if he knows it is a book, but he knows some force is pushing him and everything along.

Towards the end of the novel, he mentions that in his past life he did things he didn't want to, like letting MC leave, not being able to save MC, and going abroad. At first he thinks if QY and SSQ get married it will end the driving force, but with MC's changing things that doesn't happen. ML takes a bone from SSQ when he gets injured and after that SSQ's luck slowly leaves him and goes to the bone. This wasnt shown to us as the story happens though, just written as a 1 paragraph after thought, like oh yeah and this happened.

ML's reasoning for falling for MC is so random too. On MC's 18th bday MC treats ML like an idol of business and so ML falls for him?!

we never find out how ML was kind to SSQ in the first life, and never get a full picture of the original story.

SSQ is very delusional, he doesn't ever think he is in the wrong, and believes everyone should love him, exactly how he is written.

He is an annoying, shameless character, so an okay villians. He ends up in basically a brothel disguised as a club selling himself. His luck ends up in the bone which ML makes into a necklace and gives to the shameless girl SSQ got fired from the cleaning department. She gets his luck and gets a rich, young family head as her husband.

QY poor QY. We find out that before the start of the original novel QY loved MC and was going to propose to him, had a ring and everything. The force of the novel makes QY blind to everything and SSQ his everything.

When he spends time away from SSQ he becomes clear headed, but will become immediately muddled when in contact with SSQ. It's not until SSQ loses all his halo and QY gets in a car accident for QY to break away from the force of the book.

QY ends up going abroad with his boytoy turned boyfriend to start over. He doesn't love the boyfriend yet, but is going to try to be with him. QY and the boyfriend deserve better

I get that QY and the rest made their choices which led to MC's death in the previous life, but like with the slow reveal that White Lotus is like a bug in their world and causing everyone else's IQ to drop to the negatives, It's almost kind of saying that QY really wasn't in his right mind.

Which kind of muddies things for me. I honestly gasped and put my hands over my mouth in the later parts when QY finally comes to his senses and he remembers he's always always loved MC before white lotus came in. QY bought a f*cking engagement ring, which implied he already was in that deep for MC. But was just affected by White Lotus' halo.

An argument can be made that he wasn't strong enough to fight off the halo's powers, unlike the ML, but dayum it's still pretty depressing to think about.

I don't blame the MC for choosing the ML, but I feel bad for MC in the previous life who could have had his unrequited love returned by QY. Still, there's hope for QY. They're all pretty young haha except the ML lol

also it didn't really sink into me how weird SSQ - QY are as people until I read the extras. Spoilers ahead but learning that in the last life, SSQ was locked in a basement and eventually ate QY's body due to starvation -- so cannibalistic. That's his dead lover's body who was left out accidentally. It shocked me and also made me realize how cold-blooded he (SSQ) truly is.

I started to feel bad for in the second half cause it was obvious he wasn't in love with Su Shiqing out of his own will. Even after it felt like he was back to normal one word from SSq would make crazy again. Unlike the MC, he had no knowledge why he was behaving like that. It took him a near death experience and a new lover to let go of SSq.

Chu Haoyi and Feng Aniyan were definitely my favorite background couple!

Of course, I'm happy that Liu Huan and Zhang Zixin were able to get together after such a long time, and the way Zhang Zixin handled it was wonderful, very funny too.

Qin Yue and Zheng Xiao are a pretty okay couple, there's not much to say about them, all of Su Shiqing's main "suitors" who were affected and suffered by the Protagonist's Halo ended up doing well in the end, and Qin Yue was no different.

He just had to suffer a lot more than the others before he got there.

I honestly think I may have even liked Feng Aniyan and Chu Haoyi more than the main couple (Shen Zhen and Qin Xing), but in the end the main couple is also very good.

Between Shen Zhen and Qin Xing, their romance is very good and well developed, at first it will make you feel a little strange because of the big age difference, but in the end you can only shake your head and laugh.

They are two cute idiots who love each other.

In fact, Chu Haoyi and Feng Aniyan became flex in the end 🤝

Considering they could only go along with the books plot and in the ML case, having awareness without control of his own actions.

I felt really bad for the s*um gong in the current timeline. After his near death experience when he basically breaks away from the world consciousness and can think clearly again, he can finally recall the past with the MC and remember his original feelings. A little heartbreaking.