I really like the parallel world concept. Although it was kind of confusing at first but at the end I enjoyed it. I also like how they were able to change the story happened in original world in another parallel world with bot MC and ML being Old age. It's never too late to find love in old age. Well, it would have been better if there was another parallel world where ML transmitted at the young age and was able to stop MC and the lion guy relationship to get further and develope into something else. I mean in this way, Lion wouldn't have taken MC for granted and all and who knows he might have become hard working person who could only depend on himself to feed him and his family. It would be interesting to see how lion ends up like. Who knows he might not have turned into such a jerk like he ended up in all 3 parallel world. Hmmm

I am a person that love smut so it was very easy for mw to get angry and lost my mind every time ML rejects being intimate with MC. I mean I can understand why he was like that as him actually being human from modern world (his action were pretty realistic) but when your partner (that too an uke) is ready to be intimate with you but you reject it again and again...... it's like rejecting a dish that was placed on your place, ready for you to eat..... a seme rejecting his uke that's not what usually happen in novel. Although I Appreciate his action but at the same time that's not what I want to see ever again (in novel). Such a passive seme, once reading experience is enough, well, I enjoyed his change after being exposed.

I would say that Zhou Ji is the main character while Xiong Ye is the love interest, but both of them get POV and emphasis. From the beginning they're friendly towards each other, and once they start living together they are increasingly sincere. Xiong Ye is a gifted but generally ordinary bear shifter, and he loves Zhou Ji for being thoughtful rather than being incredibly OP, which is not revealed until near the end of the novel. He was in a relationship with the lion shifter, but he got over it quickly and hearing of the original future makes you happy he found another man who will be monogamous with him, care for him faithfully, and make him just as strong as he is. Zhou Ji transmigrated from a modern zombie apocalypse, and he has the cheat skill of being able to grow plants, but he hides it for a while. He's never been in love before, but Xiong Ye steals his heart and it's incredibly cute. He does things like spread chinese writing, pottery, and agriculture, but it's pretty understated, especially since pottery and agriculture can already be found on the more civilized continent across the sea, and he just tells the village "Hey, you can make pottery from firing clay. Keep trying it." as opposed to knowing how personally.

Shi Li is the one who remembers the original future. In it, he's the same person he is today: a lazy, selfish, ambitious, and greedy human being. He remembers how to cultivate and some future events, so he assumes that with that he will be able to quickly rise to the top, but he has no gratitude towards the tribe who took him in or anyone he doesn't care about, and he holds grudges insanely quickly. I like that it's not that Shi Li was previously a lot different, or that it's hard to believe that Xiong Ye would have liked him, since a lot of the traits become more prominent when he's high ranked and powerful, rather than when he has to struggle along with everyone else. He plans to simply become so powerful that Xiong Ye will have no choice but to stay his lover while he has s*x with other men and women, and Xiong Ye refusing him entirely when he randomly cancels his mating ceremony makes him pissed.

I like them! Some are more prominent than others, but they are all very earnest and watching them is heartwarming. They flesh out the ranks of the world more. I liked the priests, the women in the tribe and how while some of them were interested in dating the main characters, they were people with perfectly sensible minds and hearts. We also meet other characters who are powerful Beast Warriors and higher, but there's not so many that the ranks of power feel broken.

There's a parallel world extra, where Zhou Ji has a dream of SAHRJ when the characters are middle-aged, and develops an interest in Xiong Ye as a result instead of being a loner. It's really interesting to see how even if Shi Li hadn't managed to mess up his relationship with Xiong Ye so early, they still would have a bad relationship and it still would be possible for ZJ/XY to happen.

BTW. Hate the priests, very annoying and get in the way of the main couple. Sometimes they're okay for story development but wish there was less of them especially since the temple was shown in a negative light most of the novel as they exile people for having bones that heal wrong and when they are not sure of something they think it's the devil.

There was also a cool plot twist that ZJ is the beast god (not really, the priest just think so cuz he's super strong and can grow plants magically) but the twist was cool as most people didn't see it coming, I guessed it might be the case but even then I was second-guessing myself.

-Guessing that the ML’s ex reincarnated

-Guessing that the MC had transmigrated (admittedly it wasn’t much of a mystery given the synopsis)

-Guessing about what happened in the ML’s ex’s previous life from little hints dropped throughout the entire book that were later confirmed near the end and in the extra chapters

when the leads were out walking together and the MC was on the ML’s back, and the ML spoke one sentence while in beast form (I know, I’m nitpicking).

I don't really feel anything for the antagonist besides disdain. As someone who was reborn and knows all the events that come to pass, he didn't lift a finger to try to prevent it or share his knowledge to benefit the tribe.

In fact, he's always looking down on everyone and took XY for granted.