Are you sure?Here's the summary:

MC is a body double (a stuntman) for WY

ML mistook MC as WY cuz they have the same back view and what not

They become f*ck buddies

MC loves ML dearly: he cooks for him, treat him gently, spoil him, etc but the ML took him for granted

Until one day.....

• The ML called WY's name when he f*ck MC (IKR?!?!?!?!? THAT"S SO CRUEL)
• MC got a role in a movie instead of WY. WY called ML to help him get a role. ML agreed and restrain the MC inside his house which makes him lose the role

So bam, MC is heartbroken, desperate, and sorrowful.

Then he accepts a job from his friend to film a documentary movie in a mountain. Suddenly it's raining, and he basically fell off a cliff and died.

The ML shocked and eventually realize that he loves the MC (too late for that buddy *rolls eyes*).

and YAY reborn!

Because the new MC resembles the former MC, ML got attracted to him. and guess what? HE IS SUCH A JERK! man, he paid 2 million to MC to become his f*ck buddy because that time MC's mother is sick and they have a huge debt to pay. And s*upidly, the MC agrees (*rolls eyes*).

Honestly, the ML is such an a**hole. He stops being an as*hole when he found out that the former MC and the new MC is the same soul.

And to no ones surprise, they got back together. the end

ugh, I feel so dissapointed. I feel like I wasted a lot of time and brain cells (I used MTL btw)

so the moral of the story for me: please save yourself a lot of dramas and cringy ass heartbreaks by stop involving yourself with a bastard. Or, if u realllly love the bastard, pleeeaseee communicate with each other clearly.

My main problem with the story is that the male lead literally is abusive towards main character in his first life, this hurt/comfort cycle, at first threating him like sh*t then, as soon as the MC tries to pull back, reeling him back in. ML also tries to make MC cut some people out of his life due to jealousy, while being hung up on another dude himself. It culminates in ML literally illegally holding the MC captive, tying him up, locking him in his own apartment without any way to contact the outside world, just so that MC will lose the opportunity of his life in regards to career - on behalf of the guy ML was in love with and due to jealousy again. He even has the guts to frame it as a good thing: saying that he, ML, will provide the MC with other opportunities - disregarding that at that point, MC already knows he's being treated as a substitute and being fed up with him and wanting to break up. ML also, there is no other way to put it, r*pes MC.

This never really brought up later, the most MC accuses him of is that the ML treated him as a substitute when the issue is much deeper. ML, unknowingly, already fell for MC at that point and not really treated him as a substitute. Yet, he did those things anyway and regretted nothing.

In the future, after MC was reborn, ML pulled similar shit: he didn't know MC is MC but simply felt that he is similar to the MC. Thus, he pursued him and, paid him to have s*x with him. All the while insisting that the love of his life, MC, is not dead. I mean, okay, you love him so much and want to believe he's coming back, what's up with you f*cking a guy who is like him?

This wasn't really resolved either. All swept under the rug of his love confession. MC has some misgivings about whether to believe him, but I don't really think that is what he should have been focused on. Because if that's what ML's love like...

So the entire time you are waiting for someone to figure out that he is the same zhou as the one who died. And the reveal is so worth the wait.

ML is unreasonably jealous to LX because LX loves MC but ML punishes MC for it

ML tied up MC so that he can't attend a conference (because LX and MC are in this film together and he is a motherf*cker who thinks he can control people) thus he wasn't able to star in the film

Using rebirth MC as a substitute to the original MC.

ML thought he liked WYD due to a film he saw but it was actually the MC as a stunt double for WYD

WYD wronged ML and MC many times but the face slapping isn't satisfactory at all. He is still doing well because he is married to ML's sister.

There's no doubt the ML was scum, but let's step back a bit and evaluate their relationship on a deeper level. MC approached ML with the intention of being f*ck buddies, that much they were in harmony with. It was until the MC developed feelings for the ML and asked if he could pursue him, to which he ML gave a verbal response, that MC began to fall deeper and deeper in love with ML, all the while ML was f*cking him while thinking of his white moonlight. Shitty, BUT, ML agreed that MC could pursue him, and not that he was agreeing to love MC back. His points were made - that MC could pursue him, that he'll stay with MC so long as he followed some rules about mutual exclusivity, but MC never communicated his expectations for the ML. The whole time the relationship was very one-sided, with MC doing everything to maintain the relationship, while ML was reaping the benefit of it, and MC was actually very happy with that. Cooking for, taking care of, spoiling and pampering the ML, even though he never received any verbal confirmation from the ML. Now let's backtrack, even before finding out that ML was in love with and mentally replacing MC with somebody else while they were making merry, their relationship was already as unbalanced and unhealthy as can be. And MC was okay with that. Their relationship was set up for the failure from the start. While my heart really ached for the MC as he put so much of his heart and affections into their relationship, to receive that kind of hurt is so painful, but I would actually say that he was very delusional in their relationship. In no way did ML reciprocated those feelings even though he himself was slowly beginning to fall for the MC.

ML's realization of his love for the MC came too late. Yes yes, there's that saying about not appreciating somebody until they're gone, but ML already started to realize how much the MC's presence has already been ingrained in his heart by the time the MC left. His pain and suffering, and the depressive episodes and self harm by refusing to eat are physical means of torturing himself following the MC's death. Going into the spotlight so that he can have more exposure so that MC can see him, doing things he'd shun and never do just for the chance, however slim that chance is, of exposing himself so that the MC might return. He's grabbing onto the tiniest hope that the MC is alive, and that's the only way he can survive is on hope. I feel for the MC, don't get me wrong, but I also feel for the ML too. To love somebody and f*ck up so badly not knowing that it was love all along is a form of torture too.

Before MC died, he and ML had a 1 year relationship which was ended by MC, cause MC found out that he was used as a substitute for that white moonlight WYD guy that ML love but can't get. Of course it was a one sided break up cause ML doesn't acknowledge the break up. Before his death, ML end up ruining MC's career by tying him up and preventing him from going to a publicity event where MC took WYD's lead role. His shitty f*cked up reason given was that he was jealous of a love rival being close to MC and acting in the same movie, as well as the fact that white moonlight WYD called ML to stop MC from going, therefore the company will have no choice but to say WYD is the lead role instead of MC.

So MC got depressed and asked his close friend to give him a documentary job where MC fell off a cliff and died.

When I saw the flashback at the start of the novel and how MC and ML ended their relationship I was hoping there was some sort of revenge later on to "justify" the sh*t that MC had to go through. Sadly this is one of those novels where ML basically f*ck MC until MC forgives him.

ML, a close friend of MC and love rival found out MC was reborn cause apparently you could recognise someone from their backview. Then MC gave excuses to the close friend and love rival, saying how they shouldn't go against ML cause ML's family rich and powerful.

ML saw that reborn MC's body has a mother who wasn't terminally sick but required expensive treatment and used that to his advantage.

The ML took the new MC's mum to a better hospital when the MC was financially unable to afford the better hospital and then use it to guilt trip MC, saying that MC didn't want to help his mother. Like wtf? And then he expects MC to accept ML's help which we all know ML is going to make use of to get MC to rely on ML.

Throughout this whole time MC kept telling ML why he did wrong, and all ML did was spew a bunch of excuses, hoping that if he kneels, cry and say sorry, that MC would forgive him. ML ruined his previous life and in the end he is still using money and s*x to get MC to go back with him.

The last straw for me was when MC allowed ML into the house and just have s*x While. The. Mother. Was. Next. Door. Sleeping!!! ON THE SAME DAY WHEN ML TOOK HIS MOTHER, WITHOUT NOTIFYING HIM, TO THE HOSPITAL.

"When WangYuDong and his sister got engaged, he had already planned to give up. Pursuing with this kind of feeling knowing that it is hopeless is obviously not worth it. Moreover, being persistent could ultimately hurt his sister. This kind of matter, he should not stubbornly persevere. Adding on, when ZhouXiang is by his side, he no longer felt empty. In fact, he felt content.

At this time, he decided that he could consider accepting ZhouXiang."

To the end ZX was just a spare tire. One he got used to and decided to keep using cause his white moonlight got engaged. And considering how MC had even made it very clear he liked him and asked if he could pursue him... to which he (ML) never really voiced a rejection this was exceptionally disturbing to me.

ML tied up, r*ped, and put MC under a house arrest to help his white moonlight Wang-something get a role that MC got. MC had offended this Wang-somebody who's a popular actor and was betting his all on this role gaining him some popularity and hence a foothold. Well he lost the role cause he was detained by his lover in his own house 🥲💔 ML's thoughts/speech at the time along the lines of-'it's okay if you lose his job. you don't need it. I can raise you' was so degrading that I felt horrified and depressed alongside the MC

So MC who's basically lost both his job and love had to accept a work from his friend to film a documentary movie in a mountain to get away from all this. Unfortunately there was heavy rain and a landslide, so he fell off a cliff and he ended up losing his life as well...🥲

where he ended up being used as a sextoy and a replacement (of himself this time).

MC meets ML, who fixates on him because of his uncanny resemblance to MC's original body, who ML refuses to believe is truly dead as there was no body recovered. MC just assumes ML is fixated on him because ML sees his resemblance to ML's brother-in-law again.

ML all these years is grieving for MC, whom he realized too late he was actually in love with. He was shaken to see the current MC and later coerces MC into a relationship as a substitute for the original MC, while MC just assumes ML is using him again as a substitute for his unrequited love, ML's bro-in-law.

This story revolves around the terribly unhealthy relationship between an unsalvageable, strangely childish scum ML and our used-to-have-something-of-a-backbone-but-lost-it-after-rebirth MC.
Unfortunately, I disliked ML from the very first time he thought to himself "oh hey this one night stand looks like that dude I have a crush on", all the way to his whiny, guilt-tripping self after the MC's rebirth.
Initially, I liked the MC. During the flashbacks, we saw him start of as someone who was kind of a face-con and was attracted to ML's appearance (relatable), then fall in love and secure a relationship with the expectation that he would be loved in return (as is supposed to happen in a good relationship). However, it seemed that he started to become less and less mature, and things finally began to culminate and travel into a less favorable direction after his rebirth.

His pain was well done. After all, to him, not much time had passed since his death. It made sense that he would react severely to ML, while also retaining a yearning for any sources of his past life (leading to him making some not very well thought through decisions). But as the chapters went by, it started to stand out to me. How he was described from the outsider's view as "calm and mature". Meanwhile, seeing his POV goes in stark contrast with that. I would never have believed that this was the same person in the flashbacks. Why has he become so... irritatingly weak? He acts like an angsty teenager, unable to let go of his brief one year relationship that he now knew was one-sided

Though for the sake of redemption it's revealed that the ML is an actual moody teenager and treated someone who sincerely loved him as a substitute for that "piece of cake" that he was h**ny for during his teenage s*xual awakening :)

even though at one point he had a complete breakdown over it (during which I cheered and felt, "finally! My boy is enlightened!" only to be severely disappointed).

The one thing that, in the scheme of "make it or break it" that completely broke it for me was how hard the author had to make the ML seem pitiful. If one looks at his situation from a more objective view, his "suffering" is almost laughable. At one point it's as if the author's trying to put some of the blame on MC during ML's chasing so that the reader will be forced to look at ML and go, "Aw, maybe MC should take back this unstable yandere who can't even get his act together and function like a proper adult". Where I'm at right now, ML's family and the person MC was a substitute for have: humiliated him repeatedly, blocked his career path, threatened him, and generally made for the WORST future in-laws ever. Yet later, some of the family that support ML (note that I say support ML, not support the relationship, they for sure still regard MC as some gum on the bottom of their shoe, it's just unfortunate that their dear ML just so happens to like this gum) come to MC and his poor mother and essentially guilt trip him into considering taking ML back, even after literally treating him as an inferior tr*sh and warning him to get away from ML. Meanwhile, we as the readers can only wail from the abyss while knowing that the entire time it was the ML that was so persistent and thus was related to pretty much every single complication and humiliation the MC suffered. I honestly feel terrible for the MC, even after suffering so much his first life in his second life he still has no power or influence and thus is easily trampled over (and making it worse, it's coupled with his complete lack of a backbone). No, the ML is not "pitiful". Oh, so he's protesting against his family by not eating his meals for a few days. That's horrible, send MC all wrapped up in a pretty bow to make him feel better. Is this really an adult? He has no power either, so his only form of going against his family is this sort of childish tantrum that the elders don't even take seriously. Oh my, you only got to eat some pieces of bread. Let's just overlook all of the horrible things you've done to the MC because you've sacrificed SO MUCH in order to be with him. Yet for some reason, this is enough to persuade others, including MC, to go and pity him.

A summary of ML's life so far; Rich kid, fell in love with a hot actor after seeing his scene in a movie, forgot about it for a while, hears the dude got engaged to his sister and thus wants to possess him again, unknowingly falls in love and treats his partner as a substitute because he's not over his h**ny teenage crush, is childishly possessive and interferes in his partner's life despite not being sincere with them, loses partner and "regrets" in an unhealthy and obsessive matter (like a kid who lost their toy), finds partner again and is even more childish and obsessive than before, gets grounded essentially and has his brother speak on his behalf to get pity points.

This ML starts off as your average and frankly stereotypical second generation spoiled rich kid. he has no sense of right or wrong therefore you kind of see that he never thinks of his actions as just or fair - he does things with no motivation other than the fact that he can. like using the MC as a substitute for the person he really fell in love with. and yes YES it's in the summary that this is a story of falling in love with the person you think is "second best" but not getting the chance to tell them before it's too late, but the thin is the author kept Telling us ML is in love with MC but damn if I felt like it was love. all I felt was a heavy sense of entitlement the whole way through like - you made me fall in love with you even when I was an as*hole to you so take responsibility because I love you back!

ML ends up being one of the main catalysts from MC's death in the first place; and while I personally feel that this is shallow on the list of things to atone for from of dear scum ML I think that is why the author hones in on this particular part of the story - is bc this was the one redeemable trait ML has is that he feels bad for but like it's not totally his fault MC died in the first place. but no ML feels SO BAD he has to be a good person right??? WRONG. So f*cking wrong - yes ML did take away a big job opportunity forcing MC to take a shitty job that had him in the mountains and subsequently fell to his death. but that's mainly what it was MC fell off a cliff in a freak accident. he was pushed emotionally to a bad place but physically not even he did it to himself... fate did. but ML tieing him up in an apartment they shared bc the guy he initially liked wanted to get the acting job and wanted to humiliated MC, yeah that is ML's f*cking fault. the fact that ML emotionally blueballs MC until MC actually tells him "hey I like you, we've been f*cking and living together and i've been basically your live-in housewife and changed my entire personality for you and had to deal with your possessive ass so like - when are we going to be officially exclusive?" ML just throws a tantrum and says "no that's not what we agreed to but I like taking advantage of you and we have great s*x - even if I refuse to look at your face and we both know it's bc I'm imagining someone else" to which MC tries to leave the relationship and HIS APARTMENT BUT GETS HOGTIED AND TOLD TO STAY PUT

then the author tries it like REALLY tries to put it as no the only reason ML did it is bc he's a rich second generation with connections and can get MC a new job anyway. when sir actually no?? MC tired to tell you why if he doesn't get This Job it would be the end of his career bc of of your s*upid crush that painted MC into that corner IN THE FIRST PLACE! then after rebirth it gets so much worse bc a now near destitute but at least positive thinking MC and saying he needs to stay away from ML bc his life clearly went down hill starting with that man but "fate" and author will makes it that he is RIGHT BACK WERE HE STARTED EVENTUALLY but in an even worse off. bc he lacks the authority or ability to say no to ML without being bulldozed over - this goes for his friends too. forced and at times borderline r*pe-y dubcon s*x scenes told in enough detail as to make it obvious that MC is doing it out of nostalgia??? or bc ML just won't take no for an answer so he just never fully says yes to the s*x and just tries to "take what pleasure he can from it since after rebirth he's never enjoyed s*x and really misses enjoying it... that's the chapter I finished... this is where I stop. the ML wont get better - I know this bc he's bratty and an as*hole and it's clearly been getting him what he wanted so what would force him to stop? and a MC I genuinely like but is stuck in a frankly abusive relationship that has stripped him of his will, his hope, his career and his life. all. to. do. it. again. after. rebirth.

Especially with the issue regarding the persistent pest surnamed Lan & ML’s feelings after his rebirth.

When the MC's original body was found, I could feel how devastated the ML was. He was already aware that the MC was in front of him, but only in that moment did he reveal that the ML knew it was the MC.

Also if it wasn't obvious, the back that made him fall in love with the white moonlight was the MC's but it was only after everything happened that the ML discovers this. So the ML really shot himself in the foot, but I think it showed that he had grown to love the MC for who he was!