for example, the MC's mother gets sick, at the same time his estranged dickhead of a father shows up. But does he mention any of this to the man he so call loves? H*LL NO! Instead he suffers in silence while the ML is trying his best to be supportive, calling, visiting, cherishing the MC. I get that he was trying to better focus on his mother this life time, but the love felt so one sided that the ML was an afterthought: that's not love. Then when his parents find out he's gay, he allows them to dictate his life and so breaks up with the one man that will to support him unconditionally... WTF!!! IF YOUR MOTHER DOESN'T ACCEPT YOU FOR WHO YOU ARE, YOU'D RATHER LIVE A LIE?!? The MC supports his mother 100%, but his mother starts ignoring him? He accept his douche bag father's help in order to pay for medical expenses, yet she refuses to allow him to be happy?!?!

And another thing, the ML takes money from the a$$hole father who never did sh*t for him, yet refuses to tell his boyfriend he needs money, whose family would bend over backwards for him since the MC did donate bone marrow for the ML's baby sister. SERIOUSLY!?!

Not only does he break up and decide to go overseas, there is a time skip??? You mean years went by without clearing up anything?? I'm done.

So maybe thats why the MC wanted to break up with him because he became aware that he thought that it was just him doing the "loving" not the other party doing it the other way around. Or maybe MC didnt hear any words of confirmation from their years of relationship like "i like you" or "i love you", until before the accident.

WangHao (ML's friend) said that ML is just not good at words and actions. In short, he's clumsy and impulsive. So thats why he just accepted MC.

They just met with the child coming back then..... end? Cant they have an ending with just MC and ML on them? wuhuhujuu

THE MALE LEAD DESERVES BETTER. This has got to be the worst MC I have ever seen. Just the absolute worst. He's timid and cowardly, and his love, if put positively is "realistic", but otherwise, it's weak. His love is weak. He never fought for the male lead. Before being reborn he blackmailed the guy into being with him, but was too s*upid to realize that A PERSON WILL NOT STAY IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU FOR SEVEN YEARS JUST BECAUSE HE'S GRATEFUL TO YOU FOR SAVING HIS SISTER SO MANY YEARS AGO. And the worst part about that is that he has the guts to break things up because he was "guilty". Why weren't you guilty when you used the fact that you saved his younger sister just to f*ck him, at least once in the SEVEN YEARS THAT HAVE PASSED? By the time he's reborn he's oh wow big surprise, still an idiot. I love misunderstandings as much as the next sad*st but oh this one just made me so mad. I still remember being livid even though I read this so long ago.

handed over his adopted child to the person who had initially abandoned said child.

AND I REPEAT, THIS IS THE WEAKEST LOVE I HAVE EVER SEEN, ESPECIALLY IN A NOVEL. EVEN RON AND HERMIONE HAD A STRONGER LOVE THAN THIS, AND I ALWAYS THOUGHT SHE WOULD END UP WITH HARRY.

There was an implication that the ML from the past life actually liked the MC who believed the opposite

MC's father approached the MC when the MC never even got to lean of his identity in the canon.

Supposedly he wanted to take responsibility as a parent but I suspect his real reason has to do with his current wife's failed pregnancies. However, these failed pregnancies couldn't possibly been caused by the MC.

In the end, it seems like this character appeared simply to create unnecessary drama. The father was homophobic and caused friction in between the MC and ML.

Wanghao is the one of them. He was homophobic and bullied the MC in his previous life, but in this life, he was supportive of their relationship and became close friends with the MC.

This change in his character was never explained and just simply did not make sense.

The diary.

The events around this diary held the key to determining how the relationship between MC and the ML would develop.

Despite it's huge role in the first chapter, it's significance is never explored afterwards.

The first thing that the MC tried to do was to alter the event related to the diary. He seeks out the place where the diary was held at the time only to find out it wasn't there.

Why did the whereabouts of the diary changed even before the MC transmigrated?

This little deviation from the original timeline conveniently resolved most of the problems between the MC and ML.

The lack of exploration surrounding the significance of the diary is by far the biggest disappointment in this novel.

This makes a lot of the drama/angst feel unnecessary or dragged out. The story becomes unbalanced, weighted too heavily on the angst with hardly any fluff or humor to offset it because the MC is so completely self-defeating.

He gives up very quickly on any new relationship troubles because of crippling fear that he is not good enough; the kind that thinks "I'm not good enough so I should just give up now" the moment anything happens, leaving the ML to pull all the weight towards reconciliation or clearing up misunderstandings.

Furthermore, the author spends too much time describing all the problems and heavy feelings and too little time describing the resolutions or fluff, so the reader hardly gets a break from the constant arrows to the gut.

regarding his choice trying to avoid them dating outcome, I can totally understand. Although it may seem kind of s*upid to think that your lover does not love you after years together, for people who has words of affection tendencies, this could be important. Also it was said that it may be in the past life that MC leads in everything so it could even play a role in building up his insecurities. Okay so after that, it could be concluded that he thought that’s enough of him occupying the youth, best years of ml’s life. He already tied ml, bind him to himself once so maybe in this life he’ll let him go. In any case ML was not originally gay so thoughts like let him be happy in this life?? I think it’s more of uhhh it’s a very long winded explanation... ANYWAYS MC thought he tied ML to him separating ML from the happiness he could have in the past life so in this life even if he knows that ML loved him (finally) he felt like he couldn’t take that chance, less he felt like taking advantage of ml. Because he still has his wrongs from the past life.