Such is the case with the Leia flowers. In the beginning it is said that they are easy to raise and thus the MC is tasked to take care of them. Later on they are suddenly so difficult to raise that only the MC is able to grow them properly. And this is supposedly due to his Sigma status which has some history with the Leia people and flower. Frankly, it feels like the author pulled this out of their butt, especially because we don't get any further information pertaining that end.

Then there is the ex bf that dropped from S-level to B-level after being crushed by the ML. It was said to be irreversible. But suddenly, he was back to S-level which was explained later to be due to him taking illegal drugs to re-raise his level. I have the nagging suspicion that the ex being back at S-level was a mistake and the readers pointed that out to the author, forcing the author to come up with that excuse. It felt that half-assed to me.

in the first life, scum gong eloped with MC. Their assets were frozen and they were repeatedly forced to move houses and couldn't get decent jobs because scum gong's family blocked them. Later, MC got really sick and needed medcare. The gong finally gave up; he went back to negotiate things with his family and fiancé's family. He was really idiotic, not having any suspicions that his family and fiancé weren't being honest and instead sabotaging his relationship with MC (intercepting his calls and faking mc's voice to make him believe that MC was fine). His family ofc didn't let him go back to MC. His fiancé proposed to him that as long as they got married, gave birth to an heir, he could go back and live together with MC. But MC died two days after his wedding. He went mad and did researches to revive MC. ML finally stopped him.

in this second life, his memories kept flickering between his first and second life and his mental conciousness suffered. MC later admitted that he wasn't actually in love with this scum gong. He (SG) was also drugged and r*ped by his fiancé. The drug was undetectable, so people kept jeering at him; no one believed him when he said he was drugged and thinking he was just the typical irresponsible scum alpha. His fiancé's gland was stolen from a girl who could've had a high matching rate with him.

dude had a really rough life; I would've jumped off a building once I knew I was made fun of after getting r*ped by my childhood friend. But he persevered until the end by sheer madness and his obssession with MC. He really lost his sanity by the end of the story. Such a pity.

(at least without of those corrupt b*tches the MC and ML would have been happily married with each other, at least if MC didn't realize he didn't "love" the ex. In fact I think the author making MC never love the ex is quite abrupt. I mean it kinda make sense but I smell that the author just want to cater to the "you are actually my first love" trope and make it easier to stomp on the ex, all just my opinion though)

rebirthed blackened MC who had been tricked all his life and had the love of his life suffer trying to win back his love and get his life on track.

Like, what's up with the author suddenly blaming him for stepping on 2 boats??? He has stated since the start that he never thought of white lotus that way and has repeatedly been confirmed in the novel, yet somehow the author keep making every single character never believe they are never entangled that way. He really thought white lotus was his chilhood friend, even considered a best friend, who is kind and considerate, he wouldn't have thought that bit*h wanted to harm anyone, not just because of his naivety but also immaturity. He didn't even understand that his insistence to be with his beloved would bring him danger.

I also couldn't accept blaming him for marking white lotus and the pregnancy. It was r*pe but the author make people scoff at him like an irresponsible scum who would throw things once he got what he want. He f*cking wasn't. Hell I know there are a lot of novels out there portraying such a scenario happening to the main character that made the MC hate the rapist and make the bit*h suffer. So why is it that the author feels like it is very convenient to put the blame on the victim instead? Honestly he deserve more of an ending.

Even then, I don't think the ex's obsession is out of place, because man that guy has gone through shit. It doesn't justify what he has done after blackening, but simply stamping him as scum through and through is quite unfair.

As other commenter has said, ML won because he is an adult. A very powerful one with freaking high status at that, who the MC just happens to fall for. He was already a full power OP character, even with the "madness", while the ex was just a kid with minimal influence who is used as a tool by his father. Unsurprisingly ML won because he was able to make MC feel secure and safe from the Lus and Nings while the ex didn't have the means to do so.

Also, what happened to other villains like the Lus, why are they not mentioned later as if every single thing that happened in the novel is the fault of the 2 biggest villains which include the ex, like nah other villains except these 2 I determined as the biggest villains are irrelevant. The ex really got a huge pot out of nowhere, even taking his father's. I just think the author dumps everything on him because it is convenient.

He have the typical scum gong settings wherein he have a sweetheart but also very caring towards his white lotus/green tea btch childhood friend.

But as I read on, I don't find him as hypothetically as the scum gongs. No, I feel more like he's a victim. A very very sad victim. Everyone pointed at him as a scum gong on the outside, but seeing how he was driven mad by everyone, I don't feel like he is a scum gong.

He's just really really naive. So naive that it seems it's a sin. Especially so in the family he was born into. I would usually rage at scum gongs who couldn't put a clear line towards the bff but in here, I feel like he actually put a clear line but it's just that everyone is lying to him and pressuring him.

I feel so bad for him, I kinda hope the author at least let him go. But no, he have the worst ending. Not even that green tea btch ending was shown clearly. Heck, there's no word about his father. I really sheds tears for him as he slowly lost his mind.

He's so hopeless, everyone is using him, lying to him, and manipulating him. When MC said he just kept blaming everyone, I actually feel that he have the right to do so. Usually, I would feel disgusted with such scumbag, but I just felt my heart aches as no one believes him nor taking his side.

In the previous life, when they run away, unlike other gongs, he didn't chicken out. When he realized the hard life of a normal person, he stayed. When MC can't be intimate with him due to having allergic reaction to his pheromones, he still stayed. Even when he guy his rut and can't be appeased by MC, he just apologize for not being able to control himself. The only reason he run back was because MC vomited blood and got sick. In hope that he could have a stable environment to heal, he only then returned.

Seriously, I felt like their love was very very sincere. Even thru hardship, even when they're very incompatible in everything and even without pheromones, I feel like in the previous timeline, they're very much in love. It's like they're star crossed lovers. But unlike in other stories, they end up very tragically.

So seeing how very 'destined' MC and ML, I don't feel very sweet. Rather, I feel that it's so convenient for ML.

I also cannot accept how MC denied his 'love' with the ex. After all, in his whole life, MC's probably the only one who had love him.

I was hoping someone would save him. I rather he didn't remember and slowly move on. All those that pushed him into a desperate state got away while he'll suffer for the rest of his life.

He's just a really sincere guy mistakenly born in a very carnivorous family and eventually driven mad by them. For me, the ML won over him because ML is an adult, and he is just a kid whose life is controlled by others.

The real villain for this novel is not the scum family but the scum gong himself. Yes the family was scum for making the scum gong think that he was gonna get the MC back after throwing MC into the slums to perish. The story later shows scum gong finding the dead MC's body in the slums and he went insane. He went so insane he started trying to revive the MC to bring him back. By this point it's clear his love for MC becomes warped and even worse than the usual scum gong. He destroys the world in the process and proceeds to crawl over into the timeline where MC rebirthed. Scum gong gets memories of this scum gong and eventually loses his own sense of self that he goes insane. He kidnaps the MC and the couple has to fight him for their happy ending. The scum gong is Hella Yandere I tell ya! Even in the new timeline and seeing them together it feels like the scum gong was harbouring a weak puppy love/possessive love that went insane after he realised he sold the love of his life for nothing. He went back to get married for nothing since his lover died without him knowing. He was utterly useless and could not even keep the promise. The poor guy is also a product of the sh*t family so can't feel bad for him. Just smh...

the ML is supposed to have killed the enemy's emperor in the enemy's base before the start of the novel. Why didn't they explore, and took/got rid of everything that was in it afterwards ? I don't like this kind of plot hole decision made uniquely to give the new scumbag a base to hide and a horrible weapon developed by the previous enemy

for some reason the “scum” gong in MCs first life had the worst ending despite his only fault being that he was naive.

I really liked the parts where the ML said how much paranoia and obsessiveness he felt for the MC. In many others that I've read, they just felt that and tried to hide deep inside. In this one, I found it very interesting how he (ML) was honest with the MC

the main ex lover plot and them going crazy may have dragged a bit too much but it allowed the final arc to happen regardless of how much I am wish a extra chapter depicting those idiots getting tortured.