the MC isn't the driver behind the ML blackening. There is actually a wider plot going on that the MC didn't know about, and he is a side character to this bigger story.

the reveal about the ML's thinking was completely heartbreaking.

it's extremely debatable if the ML deserved such a happy ending, given how awful the things he did were. But the ML and MC's relationship was so cute, and their adopted daughters were so cute, I can't help but love it.

he bullied him because his shizun (MC) would always talk mad crap about ML being ugly and due to that he started to bully the ML. The MC didn’t do sh*t about it and let ML get bullied. ML was bullied for a lot of sh*t and almost even died at the process MC would know these even knows about ML almost dying due to it. On the current life hes a jealous little boy since his shizun seems to be paying attention to the guy who he hated a lot and even took him to the competition that MC never took ML to. He crashes it and cuts MLs mask through his power and MLs face is revealed to the public

separation arc starts ML comes back and the little villain feels sorry and seems to have some conscience of wanting to apologize but does not get a chance whatsoever. ML ignores him, gives him cold shoulders, says goodnight to MC and the girl (later adopted daughter), but not to the little villain. Brings 3 mask of foxs but not to him. While he sees ML, MC, and the girl his monologue hits with being left out since he can’t fit in with his deer mask and completely ignored.

dude had to find out that his whole family were killed. He went through all the corpses to find his family, he was bloodied mess trying to find his families bodies.

ML imprisoned him and did not care two crap about him other than abusing him. He left him alive because “shizun wants you to live.”

Gets thrown in a cage that’s with a wolf in front of everyone and even his shizun, who is powerless held by ML. His neck gets bitten by the wolf.

Tries to stab and does stab ML, but oh magical things happen and his shizun and ML reconcile and gets together

It is HE but the kind where I kind of wish it wasn't. I don't think the wrongs of the ML deserve forgiveness and acceptance from the MC.

Living happily ever after feels so disconnected from the manic and cruel revenge of the past and present lives.

This is a hurt and comfort story but the hurt is too much and the comfort is both inadequate and undeserved.

It also featured a plot I personally hate where the ML slept with a bunch of women to try get over the MC. So if you hate that too, be aware of it. It is really gross to me.

said clan being the FAMILY of MC's other disciple, the ML indulging in countless women only to "come" to the understanding that shizun is the only one for him, and the dissatisfaction of those under ML's command

to carry his hate and grief alone

especially when ML began to find replacement for MC, like nah, this ain't my type of man, cause he f*cking kiss that replacement, I was like, nah no redemption for this kind of people

sorta parallel-ish the conclusion to jian xiuyun and kan wenxiao

saw ling liaoting die before his very eyes

In the later part of the novel a disciple of the MC's, Lin Liaoting, his entire family is killed, and he had a big family like hundreds of people. Then later we find out that the ML was the one who killed his entire family. ML's justifications for this was that Liaoting bullied him really horribly when he was child (left him for dead kind of bullying) and Liaoting's family was part of the group that mu*dered ML's entire family when he was a child. But honestly didn't make ML's actions feel any better to me because the author describes how devastated Liaoting was after his entire family was killed. To make matters worse the author writes an extra where Liaoting has a dream where he's back in the past and he meets ML and promises not to bully him and his family is alive and happy but then he wakes up and realizes its just a dream. Bro you don't understand how heart broken this made me. Even before his family died he regretted what he did to ML and I don't care what anyone else says in my heart he deserves a happy ending and a second chance 😭

Lin Liaoting pretty much didn't deserve anything that happened to him. It felt like the author specifically chose him to pick on and was like "You don't get to be happy, ever!". He was pretty much a cross between 2ha's Xue Meng and SVSSS's Ming Fan.

His backstory explains how he grew up in an abusive household and was sold off to wealthy nobles as decoration, and was lead on by his ‘owner’ in the false hope that they’ll be married to them be betrayed and thrown off a cliff. He was then picked up by his Shizun and told that he’d have everything but he wasn’t chosen to be the head, therefore he’s made to believe that he can’t trust the hearts of people so he’ll just see what’s true on the outside. It’s not justified but you can definitely see where he comes from.