For starters, the original story's MC named Qiao Ruxu doesn't really do much. He is quite passive. Rather, it's his younger sister Qiao Mei who stirs a lot of sh*t and caused the whole divergence in the first place. While I'm glad that the original MC wasn't antagonistic, it kind of makes me wonder why he was so hella passive in chasing the ML. By the time he finally decided to confess, ML had already fallen in love with our MC Lin Zhixia. Instead much of the conflict is caused by his sister where she keeps trying to sabotage MC's life as much as possible. It is later revealed that Qiao Ruxu has been constantly forced by his parents to clean up after her mess. So ML told him that he doesn't have to keep doing it anymore if he does not want to.

The other source of conflict is Luo Qin (ML) 's dad Luo Zhenyan. He is your typical dad who thinks he knows best and he is the patriarch, you Cannot Disobey him. ML is mad at him because ML's birth parent fell in love with ML's dad, but ML's dad went back home to get married to another woman to get his inheritance. So basically ML's dad is super materialistic and he sometimes tries to get the little bun back into the Luo house for the 'best education' and gets in the way between MC and ML. ML's birth parent then shipped ML to the Luo family after a few years living together and never kept in contact. Despite his illegitimacy, he is still the Luo family heir and was accepted based on his merit and smarts. This is why Luo Yao, who is the legitimate daughter of the ML's dad relationship, actually looks up to him even though they are not close.

As a result of his childhood, this is the reason why ML came to take responsibility when he found out that MC has a 4 year old child. He did not want their son to end up like him with a incomplete family. How did he find out the existence of their little son? A friend of his worked at the hospital MC had rushed their son to after the son played too long in the snow and got pneumonia. Friend tipped ML off, and ML then told the friend to upgrade the ward. The son is named Lin Keai. Literally, the word for cute in Chinese. So I'll refer to him as Lil Cute. Lil Cute loves this Uncle Luo who popped into their life.

However, the MC is naturally frightened since the ML has more power and the riches to just take his son away from him. It takes a while for the ML to coax him that no, he won't separate Lil Cute from him, and he wants to co-parent. ML respects his decisions for the child and does his best to shield the MC from his dad as well. He tries to compensate for the four years he was not there. For some weird reason, he had a dream of when MC was working hard at his small street restaurant and having a fall. This makes him want to take responsibility more, and he takes it slow, which is good because our MC is traumatised from his short time at the ML's place.

Our MC, Lin Zhixia, the one who transmigrated, is very determined and hard-working. His life experiences was harsh, so he adapted to life without the ML really well, even though he literally replaced this new life of poverty with a child who unfortunately was produced out of a accident that was caused by, you know it, the other MC's SISTER. Yeah I swear, the conflict is really just... coincidental as heck. She drugged our MC and fortunately he ended up sleeping with the ML. ML had thought MC was still the original Lin Zhixia, and did not bother investigating deeper since he thought it was a ploy to trap him until they met again four years later. That was the straw that broke the MC's back so he just up and left after divorcing.

MC is fortunately helped by neighbours, and even managed to get an eatery in a poor neighbourhood. ML found him by chance when he knocked off work to check the district that his company happened to have oversight in. MC does not hold what ML did to him against him since well, how do you EXPLAIN being a transmigrator without being shipped to a mental institution? Instead he focused on what he had, which was the son who was conceived from that fateful night. He pushes on towards life with him, with the son the motivation to live on. Thus, he will feel extremely demotivated if his son is taken from him. His only family. The only family he has had ever since his last life. No wonder he is very anxious.

MC and ML eventually get together, but of course ML had to clarify with him that no he is not getting with Qiao Ruxu. They may have been close friends, but romantic attraction just... never really came to be. Which is good, Qiao Ruxu also backs off after realising he has no chance but at least he knows when to cut his losses. His sister on the other hand... has no brain cells. Oh my goodness.... Later, ML went to find his birth parent, only to find out he has passed on. It definitely broke him hard that he could never get the closure he wanted, but MC helps to calm him and support him emotionally.

One good thing about this novel is that it addressed the issue of 'do people actually realise Lin Zhixia is not the same person?' thing that most novels tend to just shove under the carpet. Yes, before MC proposed divorce, the ML noticed that the MC's behaviour is strange and different from the Lin Zhixia he knew. Over the course of the novel, he constantly picks up on cues that differs MC from the story Lin Zhixia. This ball is dropped at the end of the novel when they were celebrating Lunar New Year as a family when Lin Zhixia insisted on making Eight Treasures because 'it's a tradition in our area', but it wasn't, and ML knew that story Lin Zhixia lived in this city his entire life, and the tradition was not Eight Treasures.

Upon calmly chatting with the MC that this will not change how he views him since he knew he was a different person, this also allows him to realise that, shit, he literally mistreated a poor, warm gentle man who is as hurt as he was. He feels extremely guilty upon knowing that MC had just come to this world knowing nothing and he had just kicked a man who was down even further. Knowing the lonely life the MC had, it made him want to do more to compensate. In which MC tells him not to worry and they finally remarry and have a good life together with their precious son Lil Cute.

So, is Lil Cute your OP smart child from most child novels? Surprisingly... not really. He's smart enough to know that ML's dad is trying to put him against his own dad (MC) but he is just a kid. He loves snow a lot. He loves to roll snowman and ML indulges him on it. MC is more strict, and wonders where did the kid's love for snow comes from lol. Lil Cute is also quite the gourmet, he loves food and eating, which MC surmised was probably due to his poor nutrition. He also gets gifts and he doesn't really put the dots that Uncle Luo is his other dad until MC told him. MC took a long time to tell him because he did not want to drop a bomb, but he almost forgot about it until the end of the novel when ML had to intervene and stop another kid from bullying his son lol. And Lil Cute is very happy!

her dad ended up in the hospital because of the shock of ML's birth parent's death was too much and the ML was incapacitated in an accident caused by, yours truly, Qiao Mei, who tried to get someone to ram a car into MC. She matured despite being a brat to her nephew at the start. ML's dad also becomes better and supportive. So yes.

Worse so, later on ML's father kidnaps Mc's son so MC agrees with ML to live with Ml. Author writes a lot of Mc's complaining but MC never acts on any of it nor ever talks to his son.

He knows that the hate ML and others felt against him is justified bcoz the og host is really tr*sh, but he doesnt care anything abt trying to be nice to ML whatsoever and just tryin to live his life by getting out the ML life. He is firm with his decision, he really doesnt give a thought abt the ML after the divorce, but he is rational enuf to know that his baby is still the ML son and he cant really sever their relationship thus he allowed the ML approaches. He is not some saint that he can forgive the maids and ML family that treated him badly, but he choose to justi gnore them all as theyre still a part of ML life and he knows that ML is someone who lacks familial love. I also liked his friendship with Qin Zhe

He started off as a scumbag but thats bcuz the og host is really tr*sh. He feels soft when he first saw the baby and thru constant stalking, he fell for the MC personality. He wanted to get them back but ofc rejected bcuz MC doesnt care abt him anymore. His constant suffering n jealousy while chasing MC is what I liked the most, even tho he didnt really deserved it tbh. He is honestly someone who lacked familial love, and I think he wanted to be a real family with MC and the baby when he first approached them before slowly fallin for MC.

demit the baby is seducing bois, it would be good if theres an extra abt the baby future partner lol

the ML realized himself that the MC is different person from the previous MC he had known, he realized that pretty fast after met MC four years later