I have to agree on what Paige said about the original female lead. In society you need to know how to bow down sometimes. Being righteous is not always the answer.

Actually I felt inexplicably dissatisfied with Su Yan and her attitude throughout the novel in the few fleeting moments that she appeared. In fact when she had first made an appearance, Chen Jinyao (our MC) dreamt about losing her husband to Su Yan and that made her unrealistically irrational but later realised I had actually totally forgotten that she had transmigrated. Later on in the novel, Chen Jinyao reflects on her relationship with her husband and how she felt that they had met at the right time and not late; summing it down to 'fate'. While reminiscing, she very boldly stated that the past her cannot be the current her and the current her cannot be like the past her. Somehow this really hit me and I was just always forgetting that she had, in fact, transmigrated.

he quit smoking because he doesn’t want to implicate their child’s health in case of a pregnancy. I like that he’s at least rational about it. I've seen first hand the effect of second-hand smoking during pregnancy, so I am quite sensitive about that matter :)

The oriFL wasn't bad persay, but just was an inexperienced college student. She didn't like to be a tutor because it required a lot of effort, but she couldn't understand that the salary of a barmaid was only high because they should have the EQ to handle mild harrasment from potential clients. In the end, she didn't have a satisfactory job but understood that sometimes lowering your head is required in a job.

well, in other story where it's an 'arranged marriage' or marriage without love at first, they will just stay out off each other's bussiness while maintaining the respect they'd agreed upon, or act like sworn enemies or complete strangers. But CJ and YC decided to try their best for this marriage to worked out with steady and natural development. Some readers disliked the 'hypocrisy' regarding their interaction, but I think this is how it's supposed to be. What can you expect from a couple who married out of love when there's a rumour that they'd marry each other bcs their (two) 'true love' got married.

About ML being a playboy, it's not actually very true. ML is indeed very playful and flirtatious but he never f*cked around. His so-called first love is just a fake drama that he created himself. That girl was a bit of a gold-digger and wanted to become rich by marrying high. She kinda flirted around a lot of people including ML and his archenemy. That guy was very competitive with ML and wanted to own everything ML wanted. So ML acted out a whole drama about him loving that girl so that both of these annoying people will get together. Also, because he continued this drama from their college life till his marriage, he never got the chance to actually date or sleep with someone other than FL. FL and ML are both their first, I think.

Quiet literally. There was one time when the FL was acting weird and asking for divorce out of nowhere. Bcs of anger, ML pushed her to bed but instead of punishing her by forcing her to do it, he tried his best to hold back his desires and talked things out with her.... yes, they talked while he was having blue balls lmfaooo.

He dislike these two people. One was a b@stard and his so-called "rival" who would do anything to get everything from ML. The other was a narcissistic gold digger b!tch who treats him like a spare tyre.

So ML acted like he is a love fool who would do everything for b!tch. And things go the way he expected. The b@stard pursued the b!tch and married her just so he can defeat ML. They all thought that they are playing with the ML when it's the other way around.