In addition, we get overall very few scenes where Ning Yan shows her true self, which very much makes me think that the child extra was a bad idea. I always have problems with child extras where the children are introduced in the extra since it's effectively asking you to care about completely new characters at the very last second. This child extra doesn't really give much in the ways of a different or furthered perspective on the FLs, and with it already feeling like more would be appreciated on the FLs post relationship, it just felt like a bad choice to focus on compared to more FL focused extras.

I do think a bit of jankiness gets introduced by having l**bian relationships be completely normal. It makes sense especially with the length for the book to not want to deal with LGBTQ issues, but a lot of the earlier thought processes of Kong Jian toward Ning Yan made more sense under the impression that l**bian relationships wouldn't be something the average straight woman would even consider. I understand in hindsight that the idea was that Kong Jian gets pidgeonholed by the idea of her being a love rival, but it still feels a bit off to me. Ideally the book would've had her more emphatically feel doubt (probably around the point where she notices her feelings towards Ning Yan are unusual or when she's fully accepted Ning Yan in her heart as a friend she would be hurt to lose) and actively deny that doubt using the love rival excuse.

For a few final random grabbag complaints, it also feels odd that the s*umbag gets his comeuppance offscreen, but he does spend pretty much all the book offscreen and irrelevant so fair enough I guess. I definitely would've appreciated a bit more presence of the friend character near the end though, as I personally dislike the announcement of relationship scene being desynced from the actual relationship establishment. Having all the characters think that the relationship was established and reaction just as technically Ning Yan is only beginning her official pursuit isn't really to my taste, although it does contribute to the idea of Kong Jian accepting the relationship being an inevitable conclusion that she just drags out pettily. Finally, it was a quite weird choice to include details on Kong Jian's past that ended up irrelevant. The child ab*se would've made sense to be explicitly brought up in terms of Ning Yan helping heal the wounds and Ning Yan learning of such and sharing a moment over it. As is, it just feels oddly out of place and not followed-up on.