Got to the end and realized the author is a bit insane. That's my take away. The overall plot of rebirth and revenge kept me interested and allowed me to skip over the in*est of first cousins. Then the end happened and I realized that no. it's the author that has a thing for in*est.

The two cousins wasn't enough, even the brothers had problems. okay cool.

BUT the relationship between Shen Ji (MC first brother) and Shen Cheng (MC 2nd brother) in the end got me shookt like bruh wtf they're blood brothers!! Same mum and dad

i think in*est between MC and ML were already enough (they're cousins btw). I just didn't expect that the author would still add another in*est couple

I thought the in*est tag was going to be a misleading tag and we were gonna get pseudo in*est. There's a point in the story where MC and ML are possibly not blood related but it gets clarified that they still are related lol. I'm one of the sick few who don't mind it and kinda enjoyed the smut. They're first cousins.

What really ruined things for me was the extras that contained unnecessary in*est between MC's two brothers. Like they're full on blood bros. And it just came out of nowhere like wtf. Apparently that was where I drew the line lol.

I could absolutely understand sheng ji perspective he just a child that persistently want to believe in happy family. He used to denied to see his father flaw because of how he want to protect his own believe of perfect happy family. And even his hate to sheng xi is very reasonable I mean sheng xi's mom almost killed 2 years old sheng cheng. Of course anyone would immediately hate someone that tried to killed his own blood related sibling. Not to mention she explicitly said he doesn't care about sheng ji and sheng cheng because they arent her biological children. Cheng xi mom definitely isnt the best adult too she also the big reason for emotional trauma for cheng ji while growing up thats why cheng ji build an image that his father is innocent. Poor child dont understand 2 wrongs doesnt make 1 right.

And cheng xi is like cheng ji but instead he build such a perfect image about his mother that he refuse to see flaw of his mother in defense that his mother has killed herself thus she has paid whatever wrongdoing she did in the past. Hun its not as simple as that

did he expect sheng ji could treat him like a normal brother after his mom almost killing sheng cheng ? At this point sheng xi is hoping for the impossible. I do believe they will never be able to have normal sibling relationship but they also shouldn't be hating each other because of the mess the previous generation has made. The children by all means are innocent but idk why the author keep making it seems like sheng xi the only one innocent all the children are. Sheng rong did turn bad but if its not because of his mom and that foster father influences.

is how the author keep trying to whitewash the MC mom. Stop it while she isnt the main source of problem she still the reason why all this problem happen.

the downfall of MC's family isn't solely cause of his schemes, it kind of spiraled out of control

There was no conversation or confrontation between the MC and his brothers after all they went through. I'm assuming they're fine with each other since the 2 older brothers did show up to MC's wedding but it's like they skipped over an entire story there. I also felt the 2 older brothers got off pretty easily compared to the 4th brother who they made the scapegoat for everything. But I don't think anything the 4th brother did to the MC in either life was any worse than how the other 2 treated him.

And then there was the lack of payoff between MC/ML too on certain points. For example, MC's fear of all his loved ones leaving him and then the ML breaking up with him seemed to confirm his fears. Of course, ML came back and I don't blame ML at all for needing some time to think about things but they never discussed it afterwards. In fact, the author somehow made it seem like it was ML who was more afraid of MC leaving him and forgot about MC's hangups. Then ML kept having dreams about MC's original life in jail and again, they never talked about it between them. So why bother having ML know about MC's original life and thinking it could be true if it didn't lead to anything? Taking out that plot point would've changed nothing.

MC basically suffered for 30 years in his original timeline with not a single moment of happiness or peace. Wang Changlin the so-called master behind the scenes at least enjoyed a happy life with his mom before her death. A single moment and act in time started his crazy decades long revenge that was way way excessive compared to MC's suffering and his revenge. In fact, his revenge seemed to be more directed towards a completely innocent family, MC's maternal family, which didn't do a damn thing to Wang Changlin. They were just collateral damage but all of them suffered way more than what should be his targets of revenge.

As far as I can tell, he didn't do a single thing to his dad or stepmom who tried to kill him? He just waited around for 30 years to go after his half-brother and family but all he accomplished was driving MC and MC's entire maternal family to their deaths. He said he wanted to ruin what his dad cherished but umm, the dude was already long dead before you started kicking your grand schemes into gear so it's not like he would be aware of any of your plans. How does that make any sense?? Seriously, he's a clown, and the writer made him out to be the mastermind of everything...

shen jin (elder) and shen cheng (second) got together and even has a f*cking dom/sub kinda vibe. I did not expect it... LOL.

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