Author tries really, REALLY hard to portray him as someone who learns from his mistakes, someone who cares about his loved ones, but its such a sham, its actually disgusting. Firstmost, he doesn't change his behaviour even once. He was, in his past, an overbearing tyrant not caring about feeling of the others, always bossy, demanding and possessive, and he stays him even though whole point of the plot is to help him redeem himself. Throughout novel, his lovers point it out numerous times, pleading him to change. He "admits his wrongdoings" on paper, but then author still writes him as a moron because plot demands so. He is very smart, but whenever plot demands so, he suddenly drops a chromosome or two and become dumb as a brick. He is very shrewd, but always does things first and thinks about consequences later, even though this exact behaviour caused his close ones to suffer again and again and again. He's a real sperm-head in terms of his relationships with women. I like his lovers, but he treats them like shitty sex-dolls. Its disgusting to read over and over again about his falling out with Ruoxi, feeling sad and bad, saying how bad is he, and then forgetting about his broken heart and go to sleep with another lover. Surprisingly, lovers are humans too, and they hate his attitude, but author just makes it so being forceful in s*x is a good trait, and lovers presumable only like it and don't mean it when they say that they hate being forcefully bedded every time. He doesn't care, he doesn't change. He behaves like a horny teenager. Hateful man.

She's beyond any salvation in terms of filial piety or whatever it is in her brain. Her relatives always want to either r*pe, kidnap or kill her, they always hurt her for their own gains. She still cares about them, blindly believes everything they say or do, legit battered wife syndrome. She doesn't sleep with MC until ch. 900+, yet always reprimands him for having other women to sleep with. She doesn't want to love YC yet demands him to lover her unconditionally. She tortured him over and over again with the loving wife act, constant divorce threats and not caring about his feelings at all. Basically egoistical thot, whole novel revolves around her, everyone is indebted to her, everyone should respect her or else she become little whiny girl and starts messing everything up because of her emotions. They argue, break up and reconsile in the novel for more than 30 times. Author milks the drama hard, and by the time when she finally sleeps with him, its essentially a r*pe, without it she wouldn't even bothered to sleep with him for next 10 years by the looks of it. She's always mad at YC, very possessive of him yet doesn't do sh*t to be labeled as a "good wife" for him. Every single lover is better than her. Even one-night stands are better wives than Ruoxi. Lanlan doesn't make her good wife either, she still causes drama over nothing.

Loving YC as a good man for her daughter, then because of inability to be married, she basically goes insane, tells her sobby story about her first man abandoning her and second being chronical gambler and shitty father for Qianni, she projects it all on YC, doesn't listen to him or Qianni, refuses to facilitate their relationship as lovers, threatens Qianni with suicide if she will stay close with him, then threatens marry Qianni for some street tramp, just in spite for YC. Her justification? she wants her daughter to be happy.

-Athena's genius planYan BuwenWen TaoLuo CuishianYang Lie
Pointless and very boring villains. Buwen was more or less okay, but Wen Tao is just so out of context and so boring, it became a slog to read through. I expected Wen Tao to be a Zeus or something, or atleast someone meaningful to the world author painstakingly built, but I just don't believe in him being a villain or any type of the antagonist in the novel. Especially when Wen Tao appears so late into the novel, I really wished that all those arcs with him would be replaced with some xianxia sh*t or more gods action. Athena is beyond boring, her whole existence is to come by eventually, say "all according to my divinationplan", and leave. Hera being teased in ch. 1200+ is a boring antagonist too, its too late to introduce her. Idk whats wrong with author, Hera is potentially good stuff, but after Athena and this long ass filler with Buwen and Wen Tao, I don't want to read it anymore.

At first, cultivation was fun and dandy, but later it became a boring chore. Author spiced it up with ancient clans, but I still don't see how can it be a good and fitting ending with so little chapters left until the end. Now, everyone cultivates, whoever is not cultivating is a moron, YC doesn't touch his divinity and always uses his shitty cultivation, his scripture is but ofcouse the best of them all, the mcguffin everyone wants to get because reasons. When Sanniang explained with lore about how cultivators flexed on gods 10k years in the past, I was baffled. "Oh shit, its a china horn-blowing again, not like this", but then it became interesting again because gods are still gods and not beating-boys for chinanumbawan cultivators, but then SUDDENLY it gets retconned to the point of gods always being like this and cultivators aknowledge it, Sanniang herself said polar-opposite later into the novel compared to her first lore propaganda. This really deflated the lore and all the worldbuilding going around the history and the plot, but its still a good thing, right? Gods are powerful, laws of space are great, we should use it more! Wrong. Its all about shitty tribulations and shitty chaos cauldron now. Even against gods, YC doesn't unseal because its pointless now. Okay, shouldn't it be nice that author expands the cultivation sh*t now? Wrong, he uses Wen Tao to stall the plotline and HongMeng doesn't care about him either. HongMeng is written as such an interesting organization, and cultivators are baddies with hidden clans, but there are 270 chapters left. Literally 3-4 arcs. Everything is lost, such a shame.

1. Someone wants to do YC something bad;
2. Oh no! Time to save my beloved onesmcguffins like god's stone or his scripture;
3. Baddie has an upper hand over YC! It's Over!
4. Either long-ass monologue about how cool baddie is, or some high stakes action scene where no one close to YC dies or suffers, its a stalemate, always stalemate.
5. YC is long time on the place, but author ommits him for the sake of bloating the chapter, something like "you cannot just come and kill me, YC! I have this and that and this and that and Ruoxi will be my woman soon kekekekek!", he just stands still and listen or watch how people fight lazilly.
6. Yang Chen just comes and kills the baddie. Crisis resolved. Then, he bravades about how he knew everything all along, there was no risk whatsoever, and he's very smart and shrewd, and no way he becomes dumb and makes a rookie mistake to go back to line #1. No way, it can't be cyclic!
7. OR, in case its a Ruoxi crisis arc, she knew everything beforehand, made a swift comeback, and even won something from it! Waaaaooow. Such businesswoman, much genius, scary woman. Actually, Ruoxi crises are the worst ones because of her shitty character and she doesn't resolve the root of the problem, but author redeems her cousins anyway so that readers won't feel too bad for banging their head at the wall because of her dumb decisions. Its all according to the plan!

His Harem

Main wife:

Lin Ruoxi (three souls in her... Ruoxi, Shiqi and Athena). Eldest Daughter with Shiqi. Twins (a boy and a girl) with Ruoxi.

Lovers (Wife like characters.. given as much as importance as wife) :

Jiang Wei (also called Rose). Has a son with MC.

Mo Qianni

Liu Mingyu

Li Jingjing

An Xin

Tang Wan

Xiao Zhiqing

Cai Yan and Cai Ning (Sisters)

Lin Hui (Hui Lin)

Zhenxiu

Princess Jane. Has a daughter with MC.

Lovers (Side characters) :

Queen Catherine (mother of Jane)

Banruo

Zhao Hongyan

Lilith

Additional women (no plot development/romance.. just sex)

Christine (Aphrodite)

Christine's maid

Xiao family head's daughter

Luo family head's wife (Zhiqing's stepmother)

Lin Rouxi is the cutest character ever and the husband wife interactions are the best. It is a novel which follows its title till the end as his main love remains lin rouxi.

Later he tries to restarin when he and his wife actually start loving. TRIES!