... MCs grandfather intervened without him knowing and ML not "remembering"

a stunning lack of empathy for a character who made a mistake, by no means the biggest mistake made, and was passive-aggressively backed into a corner until she had a mental breakdown, while the most villainous character received literally no backlash

The trope of people around you hiding something really important from you, and the person who was your closest family faking death only to you, while the others all know. And then further, making a decision 'for your good' that actually caused you the most pain and loneliness besides the alleged death of the person who raised you.

"After all, you were indeed the culprit, keeping me and Zhuopu apart for seven years, and involving Zaizai into this separation for seven years. But I was really happy to finally wait for you to apologise. At least you realised that you were wrong."

In this case it was a caricature of a foreign guy who engages in s*xual harassment and then is told to remember that he's not in his home country and s*xual harassment isn't okay in China like it is in some other country where blonde people exist.

Nah man f*ck MC's grandpa, and also the Yang dude the grandpa got pregnant.

This isn't that deep and this is supposed to be a feel good, turn your brain off type of story. The translators did amazing.

I can't really give this a fair rating because I'm honestly too annoyed right now. I love the main story and the main couple and their kid. Things were going so well. MC and ML are honestly too nice, but what the hell man, ML's mom got consequences of her actions (low contact and a bit of a distant relationship with her son) and she's given a chance to redeem herself slowly.

But what the hell, MC's grandpa legit messed with ML's brain, causing MC to struggle needlessly for a couple of years, makes MC grieve him when he 'dies', comes back to life and gets MC's close friend pregnant. Oh BTW, MC's friend helps with the lie. F*ck them all honestly. Things got brushed under the rug. Wished the grandpa stayed dead. Also, eff the friend. Chose d*ck over brotherhood. Yes, I said it. Didn't like them enough to care about his randomass puke ass love story with gramps. I can empathize but still. F*ck them as a side couple

Minor example, the two prelude extras diverged from things known earlier in the plot: The ML’s description of their first kiss might as well have been him getting a kabedon from the MC. The extra instead presented him as a thirsty but shy boy who tenderly revealed his desire for a kiss before they both were mutually carried away in a restaurant. This is actually fine considering that the ML was teasing the MC when he recalled the original situation. Some exaggeration would not be unusual considering the context. The larger concern is the MC’s understanding of relationships. He was not aware Grandpa Lu loved a man, but he should have been aware of the two established relationships among his siblings by that point in the story (one hetero, one not). In fact, those would be his only understanding of relationships. It’s actually a little odd that he had such a high awareness of heterosexuality considering his closeness to Brother Ji (not to mention Grandpa Lu). Maybe he saw or heard some stuff on the construction site. Even so, his sounding board for any questions would have likely been his closest friend who is in a committed relationship with Dr. Hu.

The above example is very minor as I said. I just find this story lacking in these little details. Like what did Teacher Wang do after her career was destroyed, presumably right out of college? What she did was instigated by her cousin and she had obvious doubts. She was PROBABLY contributing to her fam disowning her cousin. One sentence hinting toward this being fact would have giving that practically unnecessary arc some depth.

qin zhuopu is honestly the best dude and didnt deserve anything that happened to him. The author didnt even give a satisfying resolution to luying's grandfather literally erasing his memory and making it so he missed out on all his son's best young years. Not to mention the fact that they made it so lu ying had to struggle on his own when he wouldnt have had to if his frickn grandpa had just left things the fek alone. It's so not fair that grandpa lu is just forgiven and even gets to be a father - like im sorry but what he did was far worse compared to what ms qin did and she literally got sent home to recuperate her mental health and still gets lectured by the rest of the fam for her actions, even qin and lu ying treat her a lil distantly. Idk, I just wanted something to help vent out all that frustration that didnt need to happen cause someone was a selfish bastard - it would have been better if that author didnt make grandpa lu a father. It just doesnt seem fair that he not only got to raise lu yings son but also his own while qin missed out. Uugghhh I cant believe it, im so annoyed cause the matter was dragged out for so long and the resolution was just brushing it off with one sentence. Like fuuuhhhh author must love grandpa lu to death cause he has the protag aura for sure lol tbh I also dont think they had a right to judge qin like that, like bech boi literally came to lu ying asap and even defended him and took his side when his mother expressed her extreme dislike - idk bout u but that should have shown his character and yet they just brush that off. Honestly feels like noone takes him seriously which is kind of sad cause he obviously loves lu ying more than lu ying loves him. You can see it by how lu ying thinks, it's very much like qin is just a good thing to have but not a necessity, heck he cares more about yang and all that immediately moving when they did even though he was so adamant not to when qin asked. So sad, alas. Thinking bout it like that really made the novel bittersweet. They didnt deserve qin