An Zimo experienced abuse from his past life mom and of course he won't be acting cute and spoiled straight away with a person who has the same face as his previous mom. It actually takes quite a while for An Zimo to open up to An Xiang.

It also showed An Zimo's response to traumatic abuse. He was abused and as a result he became apathetic and couldn't feel emotions for other people. The novel takes a really good route to open up An Zimo's heart to the point that I'm so invested in the character development I didn't notice I'm far ahead in the novel alrdy.

An Zimo is honestly one of the most interesting characters here but I feel like his development stumped when An Xiang returned without her memories. The novel could have showed more of his interaction with other family members than being revolved around his mother all the time.

I found her a bit lacking. A few more arcs could have been added to further develop her character especially after the amnesia and after she regains her memories. In my opinion, she felt a bit too 2 dimensional and lacked improvements in aspects other than her growth as a mom.

I like the ML. He respects the MC and knows how to treat her well. He refuses to emotionally hostage, deceive, etc. The MC and it's refreshing to see that kind of Male Lead. His character didn't really change in my opinion but don't take this in a bad way. ML is reliable and that's how he acts in scenes like when An Xiang died, An Zimo locked himself up, An Yanze was trying to coerce An Xiang back, etc. But it doesn't mean he's perfect and infallible. Because as he acts reliable in the novel he also cried when An Xiang died. He cared for An Zimo. It shows a reliable and sturdy family man who truly loves his family. In other words, he's not stoic, he's human.

She loses it all when her memories were forcefully sealed away by her brother after returning to her original body. She just becomes silly and gullible. Easily tricked by the ML into everything he wants.

In my opinion, I don’t like that he tricked the MC into marrying him. And I found it distasteful that he gaslight her when she asked him if her son could read minds. He knew clearly that their son can read people’s minds from the beginning. But rather than confirming it or telling her. He chose to make it sound like she was imagining things and that she probably said what was in her heart out loud to her son. He would also carefully controlling her opinion of her brother by saying things to make her brother look worse.

While her brother wasn’t a good person. In the end, her brother gave up on MC cause he wanted MC to be happy. Especially, when he already ruined her life at the start for revenge against her father.

His soul is from a parallel world where his mother used and abused him to the point of committing su*cide at a young age. It took a lot of effort to slowly change even after realizing his current mother isn’t the same as his mother from his past life. He technically nearly killed the MC twice if it weren’t for the ML’s timely interventions.

After MC died of cancer, the son tried to commit self harm to join his mother. He was stopped and now has the dream to become a pharmacist to prevent deaths like his mother.

She spent so much time drawing her interactions between her son and herself. In the event, that she wouldn’t remember him or lost her memories. Only for it not to be used or help her regain her memories. Instead, she got it after wishing on stars with everyone at the end.

Animal Death

Minor Side Character Death

Temporary Major Character Death

Self harm