ruili will be with yuxing hehe but ends up normally with firewood boy is and how they ends up is actually better (⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠) finally someone that can rein ruili whirlwind playboy behaviour lol

and there may be hidden high-ranking relative and they later had a golden thigh to lean on when it got to the city arc but that was just it and it was not emphasized. I like that they are still humbly in-touch with the countryside till the end. Both faceslap and revenge helds very little part and most of the time the scum people got karma on their own. Fanwai had the stories of the kids as grown-ups btw. It's nice to see.

Among all the conflict resolutions, the one that impressed me the most was that of ML's sister. She believed that she could have a good life with her husband but it was not like that, she suffered a lot and more considering that she went from being a spoiled girl to being an oppressed daughter-in-law. Her husband is a character who started out as "good" and went awry along the way. Everything she lived through made her change her temperament. The best thing is that she was able to change for the better in the midst of the difficulty. And she was rewarded with her son. That little boy was quite intelligent and I always love and respect his mother, especially he tried hard so that mother would be a "flower" again, he indulged his mother while suppressing his father and stepfather (the concubine). It was comforting to read that little part where he defends his mother and suppresses his father (grandmother and concubine) because everyone used his money and therefore had to obey him 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 It was so rewarding!

His mother died beaten / drowned being slandered of having cheated on her husband. But I don't know if it's true, that's right in the first chapter and the father became a drunkard and died early, leaving a teenager Zhang with a big inheritance for a small village. Zhang is a strong man and a talented butcher. He hated the village because of what happened to his parents and the slurs. He went to the city and became something of a bandit in the eyes of the village. Anyway, it had a sad ending and he was reborn in his 20s at the height of his strong body.

Their romance starts off slow, but after Zhang's uncle spills some truths about courting someone you love, our MC goes on the attack and goes to have a cute wedding with Xu He. We will also discover that Xu He is actually an adopted son of the Xu family, the father likes him, but the mother treats Xu He like a s*ave. The father is almost never at home because he works outside for the lords. Soon Xu He grew up with low self-esteem, but with a very pragmatic outlook, not caring about the opinions of others or his mother, turning a deaf ear to her complaints.

for example, everything happened after opening the warehouse and selling coal at cheaper price? that was totally a calculated move. a bit of a happy incident at the beginning, yes, but thats how MC learned that fame actually mattered when doing business.

but. him hoarding the woods?

him taking refugees as worker?

nah you cant tell me those are not a calculated move. MC definitely had ulterior motive and he's just too lazy to deal with people impeaching his family for every little move, so he take those people (read: villagers) into consideration just so he can get them out of the way lmao🤣

and then, after he tasted the benefit of being known as "kind", he started doing it on purpose lol.

the osmanthus tree at the beginning dying along with MC, while in the second life he's at the tree again, but this time he's with ML, the tree lush, and he's living a completely different live from the previous life, this time with ML and their kids.

isnt that beautiful???? I didnt expect that full circle coming back, but at the same time I should probably had expected it, because there is a certain amount of importance given to that tree. but still, its executed well and I just really love it.

Fei xiucai is a bastard! I like him when he was first introduced in the novel but bruhh

I want to see Ryujin (1st son/they have twins/mtl name) wedding. His love story is amazing! I hope he can have his own novel too, but I know its impossible lol (maybe someday🤞)

The big bro Ruijin's spouse is predictable huh 😌 I mean it's so obvious from the first how the author wrote it when the childrens first meet Luo Luxing (if I remember the name right) in front of their new house. The waiting from their childhood sweat heart, Ruijin's exam, a little dispute at the end, untill they got married was so satisfying.

While Ruilin! I already have sense it when he follow his dad into the mountain then met a hunter boy who is silent, a little cool teen like his brother 😂 and their interaction is somehow tingling my reader's intuition. So I got confused of why after that intersection there was no mention of that boy again.

Thus, after the reveal in the last chapter I feel like WOW and you don't know how happy I am ☺️☺️☺️

But the author didn't write Ruilin's marriage 😭😭

I like Ruijin and Yuxing together. I agree that it is a little predictable seeing that Yuxing is the only ger or girl their age around them, but it was still nice to get the hint that Yuxing was interested in Ruijin first. That kinda changed their dynamic for me. I couldn't find the raw for Ruili's ship but I think the hunter x rich kid woild be interesting.

For example when they were hiring the beggars as farm-hands the jump from the JinYu twins being babies to like 4/5 year old toddlers was a little much

Scholar Fei got a concubine and everyone's reaction was to judge the concubine and call him a b*tch. I guess that is quite realistic, but it still rubbed me the wrong way. Especially when Zhang Fangyuan judged him too. Like in the beginning they sounded a little sympathetic to the concubine and saying that he was most likely not a prostitute and was instead seduced by Scholar Fei- most likely with false promises- and once he got pregnant he had no choice but to find him. But later on they kinda switched up. It rubbed me the wrong way because zfy was already established to be sympathetic to prostit**es and their plights and understood that many of them are just playing with the hands they were dealt with. Obviously I am aware that it's not that serious and more of a plot device to establish zfy as a family man who would never take a concubine so I didn't dwell on it to long

That being said I did think it was funny that Shaochun's son established himself as the head of the family and used his money to punish his father for what he did to his mother.