The actual time skip and separation lasts all of one chapter, so there's not too much angst to bear with. The circumstances leading up to it were as dramatic as I expected, and I honestly didn't get as emotional as I expected to just because of how dogblooded it all was. I do love a long separation time skip, but I will admit that the amnesia added just a bit too much unrealistic drama for my taste.

not so legal aspect of MC being in an underground fighting ring. The desperateness of his situation did not bode well for the story and was like a powder keg ready to explode. ML also has a terrible family life (just his father, really) and so many mind games ongoing there. But after the super duper angsty section leading to the cliche time skip, the part after that just wraps the story up into that big HEA.

was actually the one who liked ML first. Like a subtle crush and then ML slowly notices him before their attraction finally collides. While neither are super talkative or have the banter sort of relationship, their relationship was still really beautiful to see.

I'm more interested to know what happens between HW and CXH?? Their dynamic seemed more interesting.

Though ML was instantaneouly attracted towards MC while seeing him fight in the ring as everytime he needed to readjust his wristband.

But the fact that their childhood encounter was left out and was only recollected by MC, and had no further mention in entire plot made me bit dissatisfied.

I don't hate Xu Ze, but why is he so weird? I get it, that kind of stationship would wreck me as well, and he waited for 7 years, NOT EVEN WAITED, as it is also said in the novel, he never really expected anything, and went ahead with his life. And when they met again (shocker, I know what a fate right?), he didn't even go after Heyang. He would've been fine with them not crossing paths after one time of encounter. I would've loved to see a bolder and greedier Xu Ze, making Heyang more interested in him, but no, he is a robot.

And don't even make me start with the amnesia trope, at first when I was half way through it and read about their childhood relationship I though that was the amnesia trope because if I had known that he would forget about Xu Ze once again and they would break connection I would have dropped it without a hesitation. You can't use the same plot for 3 TIMES FFS! It gets repetitive and boring and feels like lazy writing.

If Heyang didn't get kidnapped and didn't forget about Xu Ze, they would have to break up eventually, but this only made things worse, it made it so that because of the situation that they had to break up and that's fine but couldn't the author find another excuse? Heyang forgetting everything, AGAIN???

If we were at least able to read the smut, I would be more content with it. Would shut my mouth and read and endure it to the end. Because they are at it like rabbits. At the end, when they finally reconciled AFTER Heyang remembered they didn't go out for 4 days, I think doing it day and night. I WANTED TO READ THOSE PARTS! I know this doesn't have a smut tag, but before that, some scenes weren't that cut short. I was annoyed that they had a moment, and it cut to them being finished 3 times back to back.

Before that, when they were Colonel Lu and Dr. Xu, and meeting/getting close, it was literally the same thing. The second you think they were about to talk and open up to each other someones phone would be ringed or they have a mission or a meeting and Heyang had to leave Xu Ze for the nth time I WAS FED UP!

There were 10 chapters left, and they still weren't together like wtf?

Destiny in the sense they kept finding each other. The ML even forgot him 2 times, and in the 3 "first meetings" he fell in love over and over again.

Lu Heyang a mature, resonable, a strong aloof. Who is cold to everyone except his wife. A secret pe*vert. I love the way he teases his silly wife.

On the other hand, Xu Ze, a hopelessly clueless love addict pup. Who believes his husband blindly.

Lu Heyang will joke with his wife just to set his wife's language button helplessly. Andddd he loves to tease his wife by selling him once or every. While the other one, will never complain of being sold by his husband rather help him count money or be sad for not being enough profitable for his husband.

I'm still not sure about the ending tho. The one about the dream. In one way, it could be XZ imagining the 7 years of separation. Tho I think it's highly unlikely cos it would be way too sad and doesn't seem like a response he would've given at 17.

the other is that after dreaming of this scene so many times, he finally got a happy ending and this dream was like a way to show that he got his happy ending and was trying to 'end' the dream on a good note. Like a final conclusion/closure. I like this way of thinking more. But then again my comprehension skill sucks lol.

I'm not sure if it's only me but there are a number of times where I cried, mostly because I felt so sad for XZ. Just reading his thoughts gets me crying but idk why, when their final separation came, LHY getting electrocuted and such, I didn't cry. It wasnt as sad as I expected it to be and just fell flat. That kinda is the only comment (not rly a complaint) I'll make for the story.

he doesn't deserve to be with ML or that this is only a fleeting moment with the ML so he shouldn't be so attached (the inferiority tag rearing its head). ML stays supporting MC while also trying to open him up slowly

It was a moment where ML's father (Alpha) was using his pheromones on his Omega to subdue him although the Omega was unwilling. Yeah, basically the father is a s*umbag.