And sees Xu Moran in their bedroom, having s*x with their best friend/business partner. Gao Xi drives away in a shock, his car falls into a river - and voila! - he is reborn in the body of Shen Yun, a very young, very poor designer-beginner.

Unlike in many rebirth/transmigration stories where the MC conveniently transmigrates into the body of a person with the same name, here the name is different, and it is for a reason. Gao Xi feels that his good, sunny life full of happy and beautiful things is over. Gao Xi is dead. What is left is Shen Yun, who lives in the darkness, doesn’t trust anyone and the only wish he has in his heart is the wish for destruction.

And probably even more than he wants to destroy those who wronged him, he wants to destroy himself. It seems he accepts the situation and starts acting very calmly, as if there is no shadow left on him, but in fact, everything about Gao Xi/Shen Yun is a shadow. It is like he tries to punish himself for living such a happy life that turned out to be an illusion, and this self-punishment is manifested in everything, from smoking cheap cigarettes, to burning his own hand, to choosing the most disgraceful way to get into the designing project a newcomer like Shen Yun has no chance to get into.

And there where the new ML comes into play, exchanging helping Shen Yun’s career for s*xual services. If you expect the ML to be a paper tiger, demand a payment and then refuse it, then no. He takes everything he thinks he has the right to take, and more than that.

So, the battle of wills starts. The MC, who looks like a weak, young kid, but in fact is absolutely ruthless, first of all towards himself, vs. the ML, who seems to have all the power, but soon realises that having the MC’s body is... having nothing at all. And having the MC’s soul is much, much, much more difficult.

Eventually, what the summary describes does happen - there is mutual salvation - but it actually takes the whole book to get here. The road of the MC and ML to each other is long and difficult. It’s hard to say when the ML’s attitude to the MC starts changing, and when the ML turns from an annoying jerk into the guy you root for... yes, he is a very annoying jerk for quite a while. But the MC gives as good as he gets.

And it takes even longer for something to change in the MC, for him to be able to open his heart again.

Well, that’s what makes the story interesting for me. It was never boring, and the relationship between the MC and ML was the driving force behind it.

If you come to this story for the MC’s revenge, there is revenge too. But it is not the focus of the story. Even though the MC achieves exactly what he wants, if you want an elaborate revenge, it’s not quite that. But I felt it was right to be this way.

I also felt that the fate of the previous ML was right, taking into account everything.

he used a big project from ML's company (without the ML knowing) to bring down Moxi. He purposely "leaked" his designs so that others could plagiariaze them. Although, I thought it was a plot hole how he knew the guy who leaked it (ML's ex-fling) would hand over the photos to Moxi. I wasn't expecting him to gamble his entire newfound career on the line, even dragging with him two major clients and his entire studio. Things could have all gone irredeemably downhill if the ML hadn't found proof (the CCTV from BOBO). But even though things got cleared up in the end, huge losses were still incurred especially by that other company who was like collateral damage.

'Misunderstanding'.

From the start, his ex-boyfriend had no intention of cheating, he did it all because he was trapped while under the influence of alcohol. When he was drunk suddenly someone seduced him in bed and his biggest mistake was simply responding to his advances out of lust which I consider 'quite human'.

For 15 years he really loved and pampered MC, but just one mistake he made made all that goodness disappear.

You find out in Chapter 30+ that Xu and Zhao Chun weren't involved in a romantic entanglement at all. It was all a scheme by Zhao Chun to show Gap Xi that Xu is in love with him when in fact he isn't. Poor dude got r*ped while he was sleeping and kept thinking it was Gao Xi when it was Zhao Chun, so imagine his surprise when he was met with the face of his best friend. By that time it was too late, and he surrendered to the pleasure while calling out Gap Xi's name. Zhao Chun is the typical green tea that looks like he is your friend bit is actually a bit*h internally, secretly jealous of Gao Xj and wants to ruin everything he had. I felt so pain for Xu because he truly loved Gap Xi TT^TT