It's super cringe that readers are infantilizing Huo Qi. That was the whole issue with his family. He's an adult, and he's allowed to develop. He is not a child. He is allowed to recognize romantic attachment and s*xual feelings. You are all absolutely deranged if you think such reductive erasure is allyship. I sincerely hope all of your autistic friends and family are able to protect themselves from your ignorance and pretension. Huo Qi is very realistic. Some of us actually ARE adult savants of technical genius level IQ who *still* experienced developmental delays, and who find your ambiguity and lack of clarity in speech to be muddling and useless. You're lucky the author didn't write him finding the implications and speaking in circles to be obnoxious and frustrating, because I guarantee that's the way you make us feel constantly. Stop treating us like infants. At least treat us like ordinary children, who are people that can be spoken with and who can learn new things if we are actually TAUGHT them. A thirty year old man who struggles with fine motor coordination and cutlery is still able to know that he wants to have s*x with someone he is attracted to. Would you insist on defining him by solely his disability and claim it's unrealistic for wheelchair-users to f*ck? My god. Smdh. We're more than just vessels of ret*rdation, despite what some reviews seem to believe. Anyway.

The netizens being ableist is important, because it connects the ongoing theme of rapidly reactive users who cause cyberbullying to be a topic at the university. His treatment shows that anyone can become a subject of derision, not just the visible members of the entertainment industry. Those downsides of hypervisibiĺity in the internet age are a major part of the protagonist backstory and character motivation after rebirth. While I appreciate the translators unwillingness to use slurs, I think if does play a role here. Those are antagonists, after all.

The author treats Huo Qi's emotional growth and character development as lovingly as their own child. Caring deeply and worrying about a child definitely causes the helicopter parenting of his mother, but his father is still ultimately correct that he needs to be both supported and pushed, having his own opportunities to fail and mess up and develop his own adult life experiences. This is a very big issue in autistic parenting discourse, and I felt immensely gratified to see my own unpopular opinion supported here.

It stood out to me... The way that, as a youngest son who's both sheltered and spoiled, nobody ever thought to explain the emotional rather than practical purpose of gifts... his wealthy family is able to provide anything for him, he never thought of anything useful he could contribute back before learning it's actually the thought of regard that counts. The author consciously shows us how our protagonist is able to tell him things, trusting that he can learn, and this makes his life richer by being able to connect with others.

And Huo Qi also helps in return! His single-minded trust is consistently healing to a sheltered and lonely heart who drives himself to hard to remain untouchable and strong. Making yourself vulnerable is the scariest part of caring for other people. Having someone who will run to your side and offer wordless safety and comfort when you trigger your own PTSD panic attack, but who inspires you to face that burden you've carried nonetheless? Priceless.

I did find they didn't communicate about Yu Qinghuan's stubborn and mischievous side, prone to rhetorical questions, and Huo Qi's literal-minded responses. As an autist with two autistic roommates, we answer each other literally A LOT. We always end up having to clarify for each other if we were joking, being sarcastic, being rhetorical, just complaining, or truly seeking answers. It feels as though that would have followed naturally in this story. Part of Huo Qi's struggle is always guessing at what people are trying to accomplish with an interaction, so it would have been nice to see a moment dedicated to the importance of purpose in conversations.
He is my son, he is sweet and terribly moe and perfect just the way he is. He can remain himself and others can just meet him where he is. Put forth more effort to understand him. Be more logical, er-ge! Then you'll get through!

MC at the start could be seen as just a person who had been reborn, he won a lot of awards from his past life and have no further motivation in being in the entertainment circle, but as the chapters pssed by, it could be seen that he lacks the soul or lack the drive to be fully immersed in his role (becoming the character that actually lives in the story). Due to his perfectionism, he decided to improve himself more. Also, with ML being too naively warm and caring of MC, MC was able to slowly open himself more and show his weaknesses to ML.

Early on, MC told ML that "sometimes 'no' means 'yes'" because he rejected him and then regretted it. Later, near the end of the story, ML used this phrase to take advantage of MC when he wasn't 100% willing.

Instead of going with this overused 'gong attacking the protesting shou' trope, the author could have had ML taking every 'no' as a 'no' and MC learning to say 'yes' when he means it. Just this little change would have added so much to their relationship!

Honestly, this is the only part that I actually disliked. Sadly, many BL novels like to have one person weakly protest the whole way and then be unable to move the next morning, as if the relationship where both parties are on board with it and no one is hurt are some kind of disgusting apparitions that no one wants.

This novel had so much potential to be different. But it wasn't.

which will be explained at the last chapter

MC died saving ML, and in the future-past timeline ML won a noble prize and instead of giving a speech, he said "I wish he (MC) would come back".

A lot of people agree and they wish the same thing and said if MC (could) come back, they're willing to give their luck to let him live a good life.