The lead is someone who died during a future filled with advanced zombies and mutated animals after experiencing the pain of betrayal, which is also somewhat brought about by his previous actions and behavior. Just when he thought that it's the end, he wakes up and finds himself back a year before the tragedy struck. He used to be an arrogant, rich young Master, but is also the spoiled illegitimate son of a politician whose wife has connections with the military.

Aside from returning to the past, he awakens an ability, a mutated space dimension in his mind that can be controlled with psychic powers or something-- and an obsession with Xiao Sa, someone who has saved him and helped him a lot to learn how to survive in the disorder of the apocalypse. Xiao Sa seems to have some feelings for him which the MC failed to realize nor appreciated in his previous life. Even after going back to the past, he still isn't aware of his own feelings for the guy, though his preparation seemed to be centered all for Xiao Sa (he wanted to take care of cows in his space so that Xiao Sa will have some beef to eat when the apocalypse comes. Or hoarding clothes of different styles which are mostly Xiao Sa's sizes. I thought that was sweet.)

Bai Jing is over-the-top with his preparations but then, he is preparing for a zombie apocalypse. His obsession with Xiao Sa is also pretty tame compared to Sangjin (?) 's obsession to be Hansoo's" friend" in Reincarnator (totally shipping them) but it's still giving the story darker tones like Kill the Lights vibes.

First big action: MC runs around and preps for the world end

Second big action: MC and ML both meet. The apocalypse start and they travel to a prison where they can build their base.

Third big action: MC and ML after a quick cleanup of the prison, leave their base and go to fight some people, meet more people, go to the capital, destroy the zhou family and come back to their base/city.

It starts off well. After the MC wakes up with his hidden dimension, he wants to stock up and prepare for the apocalypse. Perfectly understandable since he knows his influence is not enough to change the future, he can only guarantee himself. What goes wrong after here is how he goes about it. To an average reborn citizen, running back and forth between small markets and cities is good plot development, for a rich young master with money to burn, it isn't. Especially when said young master can boast he can use his father's name to stock up on guns and even knows the police commissioner of a city he travels to. Running about buying one duck here, one fowl here, one this here makes no sense. He could simply have said he wanted to start an agric project or something to throw off suspicion and contacted wholesalers in different cities to satisfy his demands. The way he did things were even more attention grabbing to a young master's family. I'm surprised no one asked him whether the young master had gone mad especially since bodyguard s ideally are supposed to report the actions of their ward (mc) to their employer (MC's father)

Secondly, he had no designated plan on what to buy, when to buy, when to store, in what order to buy etc. He just wandered around and shopped as he wanted.

He lacks a general interest in how and why the apocalypse occured, the progress researchers made in the future, known zombie weaknesses, known future safehouses and towns, known supply routes. Overall at chapter 25, he lacked a general ambition to exert some measure of influence during the apocalypse and possibly bring it to a close. At ch, 25. I gave it 2 stars

There is actually no reason for the MC to like the ML other than the fact that he took care of him in the apocalypse in his previous life. If you can forgive the fact that he also raped him countless times in the previous life as well.

If he wanted the MC to act nicer to him and maybe eventually accept him even though HE WASN'T GAY he could have told him that he was grateful to the MC for saving his life and wanted to protect him. But no he acted domineeringly and tormented the MC and r*ped him. The ML is lowkey tr*sh because if you like someone use your logic and reasoning to treat them well and convince them instead of forcing them.

I guess I should blame this on the author?

In the beginning the MC went back into the past so he was able to prepare for the apocalypse that was coming in a year. He started preparing and stocking up his storage space with everything that could be useful. He doesn't let anyone play him and does not act like an idiot. He knows how to fight and is strong even though he looks weak.

After the apocalypse starts somewhere around ch 50 all of a sudden he can't figure out what the ML and the MC's subordinate are talking about. The sentence talks about how it's nice talking to smart people since they understand but the MC is obviously no longer included in this since he's so confused. The ML later says or remarks mentally that the MC shouldn't worry about thinking since his type is best suited to just doing as they please brainlessly.

Also from the beginning the MC had been kicking a**, like he was beating up everyone and face slapping like crazy. He came out on top each time. Everyone was always amazed at his skills. Next thing you know the ML who we had been fighting side by side with the whole time starts being put above the MC. It's pretty subtle but because I like the MC more than the ML I was sensitive to they way the author began switching it up.

The MC would be fighting and holding his own next thing you know the ML comes flying in and it says he is way more flexible and agile than the MC. Now that could be attributed to the ML being a triad member so he fights often, BUT him being triad doesn't mean he would be more agile. Him and his people are always described as rough folks so him suddenly being more agile than the MC who is actually lithe and has his psychic powers to aid his reflexes was weird. Before that it would say they were on the same level but then it started elevating the ML over the MC. The MC wanted to be able to stand on his own in the apocalypse so the switch irritated me since they were trying to make it seem as if the MC needed the ML to live well when he had been doing fine on his own.

One thing I absolutely loathe about BL is when people act like the MC is a woman and call them "wife" or "sister-in-law" or any other title reserved for a woman in a relationship with a man. The MC does not act like a woman and is adamant about the fact that he is a man so why the hell do they start calling him sister-in-law? It's like people (authors and readers) don't see these characters in BLs as actual men if they are on the "bottom" in the relationship. You don't see them as men so you refer to them as you would a woman because you also want to be in that MAN's shoes.

Why not just write BG novels if that was the case? Please remember that those MEN that you fetishized are freaking MEN.

This kind of attitude is highkey problematic and extremely insulting for gay guys. Just because you are confused about the fact that they still consider themselves a Man doesn't mean they are. I don't read GL but do they refer to the more dominant or traditionally masculine one as husband? Why do they have to change who they are just because the role they take isn't a domineering one?

This way of thinking probably is a result of women who fetishize gay men and their relationships. I doubt men, even if they are gay, are so eager to emasculate themselves.

Not to mention the MC does not like being called like that. He always shoes anger and dissatisfaction when the ML or the ML subordinates refer to him as the ML's wife or their sister-in-law. If the MC is always visibly angry when spoken to like that and literally attacks the subordinates that do that, why continue to do so?

The MC went into a coma for 5 days because he put crystal nuclei into his dimension which resulted in him leveling up. The MC didn't know that would happen since he thought that the only way for him to level up was through using Jade. The ML was panicking because the MC was oozing out the toxins in his body in the form of really dark blood. Even though he looked bad the MC was fine and didn't need any help but the ML went crazy. He went and killed all of the people in the military base that had ambushed them. Even killing the captives in the base that had nothing to do with the ambush. The novel specifically said he did not care about any of their lives and was just murdering because he was so angry.

When the MC woke up the ML tried to have s*x with him. That pissed me off because if you thought your significant other was in such a terrible condition why would the first thing you do when they woke up be to rip their clothes off and try to sleep with them? Shouldn't you be more worried about their condition? After the MC resisted since by that time they had only kissed and the MC had been reluctant to fully accept the ML because the ML is always so rough and pe*verted the MC wanted to teach the ML to respect and treat him like a lover instead of how he treated him in the previous life. The ML left, angry again all of a sudden. The MC went out and greeted everyone and some people were mad at him.

Why the hell are they mad at him??? They don't know what happened they just saw the MC in a bad state and their first reaction is to be mad and blame him? Why would he do anything to hurt himself? They act like they don't know him or something.

Anyways the ML comes and is all domineering and angry and tells the MC to follow him so they can talk. The MC feels bad because he made the ML worry so he's acting all meek. The ML is all angry and blaming the MC. The MC was ready to accept a scolding but when he saw the ML was acting like the MC was at fault he was like "WTF what did I do?" The ML got even more furious and started SPANKING the MC. -_-

The MC gets extremely angry, rightfully so because that is literally disgusting. Personally I would have dumped and ditched the ML then and there. The disrespect was insane. The fact that he thought it was okay to do and actually did it blew my mind.

The MC yells at him to stop and struggles to get away from the ML and calls him a "damned f*g." In the past life the MC hated the ML who r*ped him even though he was straight and hated him since he was very abusive towards him. In the past life the MC would often insult the ML in that way because of him raping him so when the ML started smacking him the that insult slipped out.

After that the ML was angry because "he had been pouring his heart out to the MC" (which never freaking happened) and because the MC felt guilty for calling him that the MC was acting meek and giving in to the ML and they made up.

I also want to mention that the MC had literally complained to the ML (when the ML was like you're my wife🤢) The MC was like "how are we lovers if you have never even said you liked me? Were you pursuing me? How come I couldn't see it?"

So the ML has never "poured his heart out" to the MC. He just hovers around him and is very forward and pushy. He doesn't act like he actually likes him he just acts like he wants to sleep with him.

I have no problem with an MC having dubious morals but to go from being someone that kicks ass and is badass to a lazy-feminized-useless guy, is unacceptable for me. I don't like weak female characters and I don't like weak shous in BLs. It is very hard to read a story when the MC is weak and let's people use and abuse them with no consequences.

On a side note, we need more seme-protagonist BLs