Main character (MC) rebirths back to when he was 17 years old and settled misunderstandings with his husband from his last life. The MC's cultivation speed is fast due to his special physique and skills and with the help of his husband (ML), he step by step takes revenge for the death of his family in his previous life.

ML is the crown prince of the necormancer's kingdom and fell in love with MC way before he married him. Due to MC's complex emotions from the previous life for ML, he gradually opens his heart and the love becomes mutual. They have two cute adorable children, very naughty but sensible.

Granted, the MC did guide his family to open their eyes at the truths of their relatives, but at the end of the day, most of those face-slapping moments are initiated by his family. The father is very fierce and smart now that he understood just how despicable the relatives are.

I know this familial scheming is a common cliche in Chinese novels but long, drawn-out family melodrama drive me nuts (my #2 reason for dropping novels, right after Idiot MC). It's one of my least-liked Chinese cultural quirks and I will never understand it because we don't place the same emphasis on family and clan in my country and don't have the same god-level tolerance for people just because of blood relations. If my family treated me the way the mc's are often treated in these types of stories, I would leave.

Although Flying Lines or any other stolen translation you can find online is complete except for the 2 extras, the translation is HORRENDOUS. While you can understand half of the story, it's filled with mistakes. Not just grammatical or spelling mistakes. And I think it's unfair for a novel's enjoyment to be tarnished by the crappy translations. Not to mention, some parts are even translated wrongly?! But I know many might be in a rush to read this novel and it might take years for AJU Nice Translations to complete the series. But I feel so sorry for the author if you read from the other translations.

So Qian Chen / Sheng Zi, basically, the main antagonist is the cause of everything. From the previous life/the other timeline, it was because QC dreamed that the man he loves fell in love with WR and to his family harmed, which is why he ruthlessly killed WR in the previous life/the other timeline to prevent the possibility from happening. And for the same reason, he repeated his actions in the current life/timeline.

Even though he knows it's from a different timeline and he shouldn't attempt to change the current timeline. Yet he still did it. If it wasn't for him, this novel wouldn't be as long. Yet at the same time, I can understand how he feels and why he did what he did. ALL FOR LOVE, HE'S JUST A MAN IN LOVE. Especially since he saw in his other dream that without WR, QC and the man he loves will be together until they passed.

I think the author handled it well whereby in the end WR decides to forgive QC and not kill him, and QC is stuck at his clan and the hidden place forever... But some part of my heart still can't believe how easily he was let go off. Adding on, although in the current timeline the man QC loves has fallen in love with WR and later on gave up. It seems highly likely that he got together and has fallen in love with QC, which is what left me in a bad and bitter taste. That is because QC sister showed the dream to the man QC was in love with, the dream that shows QC and the man he was in love with that they are so lovey-dovey and promised to be together in their next life. And she showed this dream multiple times. Without this dream, I think it's highly unlikely for the man who QC is in love with to fall back in love with QC in such a short time frame. Of course, I think it's possible for him to fall in love with QC, for example, after seeing QC change for the better and understanding the reasons why he did what he did. But to let him see for himself, with his own eyes, how in love he was with QC in the dream has affected his heart, mind, and judgment a lot which is something I'M NOT PLEASED WITH.

MC quite selfish as long he got to revenge he don't care if the person innocent or not and even the person had protect or show kindness before. Like wu bai he asked forgiveness on behalf of his family and he unrelated on his family/sibling plan but at the end MC killed him, and also Wanlan he protect him during the fight, but MC didn't even put effort to save him and many innocent from Wu family killed, and you will notice some plot hole with unexplainable situation, but not major impact to the story tho

The pace of this story is great, I never felt bored and it alternates between super satisfying faceslapping and plot development. I already adore this writer for the way she handles the relationship between MC and ML.

There is no r*pe/ forcing or any related plot that "escalates" the story. Both are consciously making an effort to build up a relationship and communicate. There is no"weak" party. I just love this.

MC was a naive guy, living as part of a big family clan. He grew up as a fatty and without spiritual force. The family head married him to a man that looked ugly, he found out that someone else was planned to marry him but they made him do it. Later he found out that his obesity was due to a gu parasite and got healed. Then he found out that his spiritual energy was just sealed and got it back. Himself married to a man he hates, his father lost his spiritual power, his elder brother died on an outing, his junger sister died shortly after being married and he had to see with his own eyes how his " best friend " killed his father, let his guards r*pe his mother and himself getting burned to death. All within the grounds of his " family ". Before he died he heard some truths and his hated husband was rushing to help him but was too late. After being burned alive, he woke up as a teenager again. He was still fat, had no spiritual power, his family was still safe but he was already married... well, in the end his husband wasn't so bad so let's try it this time with some respect to his hubby and lots of revenge to everyone else...

I just love MC. He is a strong bottom with the right amount of mischief.

ML is still a bit mysterious at this time. He seems so seriously love MC but it is not yet cleared where he comes from and what his agenda is but he silently dotes on his wify. While his wife is going wild on his "family ", MC is just soy sauce and gives support. I kind of like this. He rarely speaks but his deeds are loud and his servants are hilariously louder.

A bit like this:

MC: Am I going overboard, will ML dislike me for it?

ML: Here some weapons and pills, just in case.... (giving lots of stuff)

Servants: They need more "closeness ".... taking away the carriage, leaving only one horse so that master can hug his wife while riding home together.

At the moment I highly recommended this novel. I will review again when the translation is done but this writer already delivered.

The main problem for me was there were too many characters and felt like the last 100 chapters could be more interesting if it weren't for the plot that was being dragged on. There were several bad character (villain), but in my opinion, the main villain were only 2, WC and QS, and maybe WW, the granddaughter of WC that became a hateful and narcissistic bit*h and would eventually try to get ML. The others like MC's "best friend", was basically just a tool. The MC's paternal family were all dead, except those that were the main MC's family like his siblings and parent, also those who were exiled before all the sh*t happened. And at least 200 chapters needed to get to the part where the first main villain, WC, was executed. Several mysteries would had been uncovered at this point, like the MC's maternal grandfather. I'm leaving so much details in here, but the point is WC and the whole Wu family is dead. Moving on to the next villain that has been spotted here and there in the story. MC had met him several times and always failed at killing him. FYI, QS was MC's "best friend"'s master a.k.a the one who killed his mother and father, also burned MC to death. I mean at this point I thought that the motive behind all this sh*t he made the MC went through was definitely something significant, right? Come to find out it's all because QS had an effing DREAM that his crush would fall in love with MC when ML brought MC to his country, ---and the fact that QS's sister would be killed by MC. Like literally, MC didn't even know who QS was, whether it was before or after his rebirth. So yea, this dude killed an entire innocent family just because his crush didn't like him back. Well, ofc, that dream turned out to be true, BUT in the end MC and ML would be together, and all of that has got nothing to do with QS nor his crush. So basically, wether or not the MC died, QS won't end up with his crush. At some point the MC asked if QS would find happiness if MC died, and he answered "yes, at least he (the crush) has noone in his heart and we can be happy". I was so mad because his problem would be solve just by confessed his feeling. It has nothing to do with MC at all. Even in the end the crush told QS, "if you were like yourself in your dream, not someone with some much hatred, I would probably come to like you". For the ending of QS, you need to read yourself and judge if it satisfying.

Not only the bad character, but there was one character that made me crazy when reading this story, and that was the maternal grandfather of MC. So, MC and ML would hold a wedding ceremony for the second time in ML's country, in order to break the curse. I won't give you much information about the curse because it's too long. After the MC and ML, along with others went to ML's country, the MC and eggy (his child) got split up with others, and it led to the MC met his maternal grandmother, QS crush, some new characters, and also led him to found out ML's identity, and about ML's country's curse. Oh and also the continuation about MC's past life would be revealed here. And ofc, what's the problem with the grandfather??? So, as I told you, MC and ML had to get married to break the curse, but wether this method would or not, they didn't know. Can you guess who knows all about the curse?? Yes, the grandfather! MC and ML's wedding supposed to be held at a day, and they were waiting for like 4 months before that. The grandfather knew this and didn't tell anyone. He followed the MC's family, but rejected them when they try to get close to him. And finally on the wedding day, there's a letter from the grandfather telling them them that they can't get married. Yet. And told them to go to him and meet his ancestors and all, and the story got dragged on because of that. I thought that maybe they'd told MC how to break the curse, but no, the MC and ML would got themselves into an illusion world made by the ancestors. And the story got dragged on again. IF the grandfather told them before the wedding day, the chapters would be shorter than this. I mean, he had 4 months before the wedding and didn't even tell the MC. Well I get that there were some subplot and all, but the main problem at this point supposed to be how to break the curse and killed the last villain. It kinda bothers me.

The author just says they have 9 levels without any explanation about the differences of each level and the names of each level. The only difference noted is that each level is stronger than the lower level.

Other than that, there is no explanation at all.

Later there will be a plot twist that tells that the dreams of the heavenly sons and daughters of the hiddens, are not the future but parallel worlds.

Which I don't think that makes sense, because it contradicts with the original explanation that MC was sent by MC grandfather and ML to the past.

In addition, if indeed it is a parallel world, it means that there is no clarity on who the main character in the story, is because each world has its own MC and ML.

Other than that the concept of "MC and ML only replace another MC and ML who are in the parallel world" really bothers me.

Because it shows that MC doesn't change anything in his world. This happens because MC doesn't go back to the past but go to a parallel world, which means that all MC does is save the family of the MC who is in the parallel world, not the family of his own world.

which actually I think is quite ironic, lucky that it turns out that the ML from the original world merges with the one in the parallel world, otherwise it would be very sad.

Where at the beginning of the story the author makes many antagonists. Actually there is nothing wrong with this, but the way the author describes and brings out each character is too fast so that each character becomes easily forgotten.

It is revealed that their entire world is actually a lower cultivation realm and the inhabitants are only in the very first nine stages of cultivation. There is an entrance to a higher cultivation realm within MC's family's hidden sect where people can go to be sorted into sects based on their spiritual roots, and MC probably has a thunder root.

Of course, the items from the higher realm are a kajillion times stronger than anything in their world, and the weakest cultivator from that realm can kill the strongest person in their world.

So the entire time the strongest people in their world had been stuck at the ninth level, they were basically just the weakest level of the other world... Ahhh, 386 chapters only to learn this?! Really? =A=