Very happy - the CP make up for previous loss and trauma by being very happy together, clearing all obstacles and starting a real family

MC and ML were actually mutual pining from school days. Even after the incident, ML still kept a close lookout for MC.

I think it's pretty easy to guess from the beginning of the story that the MC and ML slept together 7 years ago and the baby the MC had was with the ML. Unfortunately, they were tricked by MC's brother to sleep together so the ML hates the MC. On top of this, MC's mother lies to MC about his child. She hires a child to act like his child when in reality the baby had died. Reading about that child's ashes and how he was treated by the ML was really heart-wrenching. ML also r*pes MC throughout the story because it's his marital right. As a result, the MC is pretty indifferent to the ML the majority of the story. He does everything he needs to in order to hopefully see his child, but he does love the ML's son.

ML was forced to sleep with his step-brother and have their heir due to ML being an illegitimate child. Song Mo is a sweet child though. ML didn't seem to particularly care for his son either though. Of course as the story progresses, we find out that ML has loved MC all along. But he has a crappy way of showing it. The only reason he finds out the truth about the MC's character and their child together is because MC leaves and ML reads his diary (which I hated--what an invasion of privacy).

MC ends up getting pregnant again with ML's child again which along with ML reading the diary is what spurs them to get back together. Once he reads the diary, the ML changes his whole tune but if I were the MC, I wouldn't have taken him back. The author tries to show how the ML has loved the MC the whole time, but I don't understand how he could have treated the MC that way if this was the case. I guess it's nice that they have a happy ending together with both children, but I was slightly frustrated because the whole premise of the story was that betas should only be able to be pregnant once (it gets explained in the story but I didn't care for it as a plot device). However, I will say I appreciated the MC the most when he tells the ML that he doesn't care about what feelings they have towards each other. He only ever cared about knowing his children and not their biological father and I respect him for it.

All the family relationships.

MC/shou/beta - his mother was a female beta, father is unidentified "strong alpha" -- his mother was the mistress/later wife (through selling the MC in marriage to the ML) of a rich, old family alpha who has a white lotus omega son

ML/gong/alpha - his mother is a male beta, father is a male alpha from another old wealthy family. They didn't accept his parent's marriage and literally forced his alpha father to mark an omega from an another acceptable old and rich family which was legally an automatic divorce from the beta mother who chose to leave entirely.

You can see up front that both leads come from well balanced families who care about people rather than position and money.

The r*pe/pregnancy question. --This one had me confused reading the other reviews. There are actually multiple r*pes (In part because these crazy families treat their kids like cattle for breeding.) The first is what I would categorize as a double r*pe of both the MC and ML. They are tricked into a room, sprayed with O pheromones which causes the ML to lose control (mind r*ped) and then he physically attacks the MC. The MC gets pregnant-what happens to the baby I won't say but it's not the ML's son Momo.

Then there's a second r*pe incident for the ML where he's tranquilized, and has his sperm extracted BY HIS FAMILY which is used to imp**gnate a "suitable" omega.

There are actually other instances of estrus being forcibly induced to create "family alliances" or chaos just to make untangling this piece more complicated.

The misunderstandings between the MC and ML. -- ML thought for a long time that MC engineered the first incident. He never knew about the baby. Lots of secrets are being kept. Usually this kind of thing makes me crazy because if the characters just talked like normal people the angst would be over. I thought the author made a decent argument for why both sides made bad decisions. The MC is short on trust because he is a beta who is considered the bottom of society and has already experienced many instances of being plotted against and never being believed, both before and after the event with the ML. Though he's better than the ML. The ML is short on trust because so many of the people around him (and there are a LOT) who either want to use him for stud purposes or are people who've been destroyed by others using the AO connection to forcibly mate people for profit.

As it turns out, he always liked the MC from when they first spent time together in high school.

That HORRIBLE, EVIL white lotus stepbrother of the MC barely suffered when he should have had all his limbs broken then run over by a truck! Half star deduction just for the lack of severe consequences for all the lives he destroyed! Argh! So maddening!

ML treated MC badly because he thought MC r*ped him.

As for MC's mother, I don't support her wrongdoing no matter how much she suffered. She chose to keep her child because of a man and she should've known the risks instead of being naive. She vented her anger on her own child and even deceived him for her own benefits. Forced abortion is as hurtful and traumatic as forced pregnancy, though both aren't comparable doesn't make one hurt any less. No, I'm not going to "understand" her pain after abandoning her own child especially leaving irresponsibly at that tattoo shop. She has the audacity to come back looking haggard? Who cares, she's a bad mother. STAY AWAY MC ALONE, YOU PRICK! If she suffered being a single parent then she should know the pain of being one but she acts like it's MC's fault that she became a single parent 🙄

That Luo guy that saved MC from trouble (I forgot his name 😭) is the MVP alongside MC's bestfriend and the cutie patootie Song Mo 💕

You have MC, a beta who is forced to get married to ML who despises him. All the generic plot devices such as a child suddenly getting attached to a stranger, accidents, kidnapping, and the pregnant person not knowing that they pregnant until the very end.

But it is the characters that are unique. I like the MC who is battling hatred from everywhere and still is staying sane. I like every character despite whether they are "good" or "bad"

We have the ML who had gotten r*ped twice and had to father the product of r*pe and marry one of rapist because of social norms. He has a wild temper which is understandable, due to his upbringing. He has serious abandonment issues and you could see how stressed he is until the very end. He doesn't magically change even when the truth is revealed . You could see the entire process of his grief and regret and you could see he sincerely repented of what is a series of misunderstandings.

You have the MC s mother. She is very set on her ideas and her ideals and even though she despises the MC she keeps the fertility sac. She is not a good mother in any case but at times even she had humanity.

ML s father. He plays an important role as well. He is simply a product of betrayal of his beta wife and pressure from society and family to maintain an alpha personality. He simply chose to conform to the ideals.

Song Mo. He is very cute. You could see the development there when he was afraid of his father to talking back to him towards the end. I feel he calls the MC as his mother because the ML would have smiled and enjoyed the MC s broadcast.

ML s beta father. I didn't feel much since he seems so rational but like the MC said I'm very curious of their love story

in that neither of the main characters die. The end up together happily married despite the awful things both of them had to go thru.