Someone who was supposed to die suddenly appeared after ten years and none of the misunderstanding was solved?

I still didn't under why Hua Yong tossed Wen Lang to back his alpha dad when he was having an issue with his pheromone from missing Gao Tu. It's also infuriating when he is always acting like he is helping Wen Lang with his cryptic hints when Wen Lang is the one who helped him getting Shao You till the point Gaotu misunderstood everything

And for what reason did Wen Lang's omega dad helped Gaotu to flee overseas with another alpha and didn't tell his own son about it even after three years?

• • There's also something homophobic about the condescending way authors think it's only natural that the weaker and less dominant partner must be the bottom, especially outside of AO pairs. Like "this arrogant S class alpha thinks he can top, but instead he is forced to bottom because he's weaker" doesn't sound funny or erotic, it sounds like your understanding of s*x is that it's something done to assert dominance rather than something done for mutual pleasure. You're never going to be able to sell a "romance" if all the s*xual encounters read like "forced to bottom, and pleasured into submission".

• • ABO authors need to stop with the S class this, dominant that writing. Learn how to write convincing characters and a compelling story and stop talking about the letter grade you assign to some guy's ability to stink up the room in every second paragraph.

• • Pheromones = psychic powers also needs to stop. While every cringe try-hard scene of an alpha suppressing less dominant guys with his invisible hormone gas is really funny, it ruins any sense of immersion.
    
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Pretty much everything is built on lies. The gong (HY/ML) specifically crafted his persona to match the shou (SSY/MC) taste, and target his (mc) weakness to attract the shou. That creates a very uncomfortable dynamics in my opinion. It's especially apparent when the shou starts to fell in love and struggle with his feeling, you would read how he's stuck between two impossible choices, then they cut to the gong POV and you're reminded again that oh, this is a scenario that the gong specifically set up to trap the shou. It also doesn't help that the pretending was going on for far too long.

The ML did so many annoying things to the MC, like purposefully triggering his rut/heat at an event so he could have an excuse to get the MC company on the bad side of a very big and influential company (which surprise, is actually ml's but he hid his face so nobody knows) which led to mc's company almost went bankrupt, aka his company that he basically dedicated his WHOLE LIFE to.

But the most horrible thing is when he pretended to be a stranger and r*ped the MC. I still don'tunderstand the motivation other than it led to the reveal and at that point I'm already exhausted

The permanent marking was a bit of a weird moment in the story. It came so quickly from MC being kidnapped to ML saving his life -- without both talking things out. I really wish there was a smoother transition between the two parts of the story (between ML being the weak lover and ML being the strong saviour lover). It was a necessary transition, however, and I do like their relationship past this point.