The line where MC finally is ready to forgive ML being that "he was unwilling to let Xie Huaizhou suffer as much as him" misses the mark for me, as ML literally has been suffering just as much the entire time already. It's not like ML was having a great time on his own, being locked up and nearly killed by his family and then watching the love of his life marry someone else. Not to mention the pheromone disorder which gets brushed aside until the last moment but supposedly is so painful that people have committed su*cide before because of it??

When MC finally comes back he still is thinking to himself that he's "compromising" to ML by returning because he loves him and doesn't want him to suffer. I'm sorry but what do you even mean...????

ML tells MC that he'll tell MC what he likes about him once MC is also in love with him, but the discussion gets lost in all the drama so we are in fact never told in the novel the reasons why.

but here he suffered too much and behind all the gentleness is a broken heart?? Like, , , yes he’s gentle, but it’s also only used as a mask? : (

he seems to also have suffered a lot! I agree that even before the reader knew what happened, a lot of emphasis was on MCd pain but... clearly ML was also suffering a lot.

The moment he went kind of feral and well... where the narrator basically praised him for holding back not hurting his Omega? And how it’s normal that when their partner tries to flee they won’t hold back from hurting their partner? Man... like, it’s not a problem with the author, many stories have these societies, it’s just sad to see that it’s expected of us to kind of praising ML for holding back from hurting MC??? Goodness, why can’t they build a world where ABO can kind of coexist well enough, , , anyone can live with whoever they want bc medicinal technology is well developed and majorly prejudice (SINCE ITS A FICTIONAL WORLD) anyways, I enjoy my fare share of ABO but I also wish there were some idealistic world in which they can coexist without hurting each other...

1. for once the Liu guy and the Wen guy who are also married and known that the Omega is tired of him (his feelings areprobably exhausted) so the Alpha is trying to coax him (with material stuff). Their marriage is not working out well, but I really didn’t understand why they were mentioned...
2. The Yan Liu or smth Alpha guy from the art studio MC worked in? Like yeah he secretly fell in love with MC but point was??? I like secret admires and yeah... I feel like maybe his only purpose was to show how good ML is for holding back blah blah bc this guy looked like he was contemplating taking advantage of MCs heat? Welp... tbh I feel like, he seemed quite gentle? As in he secretly admired MC, and that was quite heartbreaking to read and then of course MC is not tpuched or anything. Tbh since I didn’t know MLs story and how he was hurt, I wanted MC to just find someone completely new, no ties to ML or anything and just live a comfortable life somewhere welp then this guy was suddenly portrayed as some wannebe beast in which ML rushes in to the rescue...