• • 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.

Her gold finger ability to make people like her also inflicts brain damage on those same people. I don’t remember if this was explicitly said but it is very very strongly implied that she knows this. In the original novel, her use of her ability exacerbated ML’s brain tumor and his mother’s dementia, causing both of them to die. MC, who’s healing ability means that he can save ML’s life (as long as no one comes along and explodes his brain tumor for personal gain) refuses to let her within arms reach of ML once he figures this out.

his mother was ML’s sister. Sister married her husband over the objections of her own family, and it turns out that her husband was a total scum just like the rest of his family. Sister died tragically early, due to the abuse of her husband and his family. She very clearly understood her mistakes but didn’t explain the complicated emotional betrayal to her 5 year old son so he doesn’t really have a clear idea of what happened. Original male lead was raised in his father’s family and they taught him that his uncle and grandmother were Big Bad Meanies who abandoned his mother and would probably try to go after him too. Meanwhile, the uncle, ML, openly hates his sister’s in laws but has been secretly planning to leave his entire company to his nephew once he can be sure his nephew isn’t being controlled by his fathers family. He’s got some convoluted but fairly genre typical plan to “hone” his nephew into a successful person by positioning himself as his nephew’s opponent. In the original novel, the original ML “wins” against his uncle basically because uncle lets it happen.

MC thinks that the nephew is an idiot, and is happy to say that to nephews’s face, but he only really stops the nephew whenever he’s blatantly trying to take advantage of his uncle.

the MC's original world was a zombie apocalypse