ML first realized he likes her when he saw another guy as competition. But he's not completely unaware, he is just silly and has no romantic experience. Like instead of giving a ring to confess,

he would give a jade dog coz a dog is loyal and the jade is expensive, so

that means she means a lot to him

It didn't say if he loved the FL before and during marriage or why he married her. It didn't say if he fell out of love because she was too clingy or maybe because of his powerful mother-in-law who dotes on her daughter but doesn't like him. Because he didn't really put an importance on his wife's money or his m-i-l's influence since he chose to divorce and marry another actress.

But getting married again a few months after divorce is such a scum move. In the end, when he wanted to get close to his children, it's already too late, and he somewhat regrets it when he got older and got an empty house. In the past, he always neglects and forgets his family's events, then it was their turn to ignore and forget about him, he wasn't even invited during his daughter's wedding.

• The cannon fodder daughter ShanShan did not fall in love with the og ML, Mingzhe like in the og novel. She only has brotherly love for him and he dotes on her like his real sister. She fell in love and married someone else when she got older.
• The villain son Yuran still doesn't get along with the og ML, but as it was mentioned, he's a tsun, so maybe he kinda likes him but often gets jealous because he's a sis-con and a mom-con. So the villain and ML became frenemies/step-cousins
• The ex-husband got the wife he wants, who shares the same values as him (working hard as an actor), but in the end, he felt cold and dissatisfied because she prioritizes her career and won't even take care of their daughter. He suddenly remembers all the good things he had with his ex-wife, when she would always welcome him home with their children, and there was always a hot meal and warm home waiting for him.

What I don't like: The ending feels so abrupt. Like it ends and feels like shouldn't there be more? Not because it's so good, I want more chapters, but the ending ends with the ex-husband reminiscing in an empty house, thinking how her daughter's wedding was because he wasn't invited. It's like the author suddenly got lazy. I wish it says more like what will happen to the og FL, how was Yiyi and Lu Xun, Xuran and Mingzhe.

Especially her first reaction when she knows the nephew was oriML is that she regretted not poisoning his food. Like lady, caaalm doowwwn. He is just an innocent kid now and won't you be jailed for that? That really shook me and the turning point for me to see that FL is not that likeable or righteous as it seemed.

So this is more like the ethical question of 'would you kill a person who can be a... (insert bad role) in the future if you could go back in time', and I found it extremely ironic that FL loves "her children" due to their circumstances and hate the other child when their situation was the same. Did she forget that she was an orphan and used to feel bad for abandoned/lonely kids?

But in the end, it's just a matter of perspective of who is bad and who is good.

MC woke up as a divorce wife who chose to su*cide before her ex-husband's wedding. Her children were neglected and her reputation was in shambles. She took over the family, gave her two children all the love and attention they deserved. She fell in love with the original ML's uncle and adopted the ML into their family, thus changing the life of all the 3 - the ML, the cannon fodder daughter and the villain son. Instead of them fighting each other for the original FL, they end up becoming a family.

I also love how she accepted the ML (of the book she read before transmigration) into her family - despite her initial worries considering the fate of her two cute children at the hands of the ML (as written in the book), she welcomed the ML and cared about him like a mother would. She changed the entire storyline giving those 3 children a childhood they never had.

What can I say? I only wish I meet a man like this one day. Although it is slightly unrealistic how a business mogul is this innocent around a woman, it is absolutely wholesome. Normally, a male divorce with a pious woman is seen as the norm in society, seeing the opposite is just so refreshing.

It's the ending - it is still a fluffy sweet ending but it was too rushed. To be honest, I also wished that the two 13 year old icicles would behave more like a child rather than stone cold faced leads in a chinese romance novel. I loved the storyline of the daughter - how she being the princess of the Lin/Lu family chose a simple dentist as her husband. It's so far away from what happens to her in the book - especially considering the ML for whom she went to jail and ruined her career in the original book, ended up becoming her brother and her closest friend.