I knew what kind of dog-blood plot I was dipping my toes in & to be completely honest, I was excited. It’s been a while since I’ve read a plot like this & the closest thing I’ve had recently was one of the universes in your typical world-hopping stories. A modern revenge-rebirth tale starring an MC who wishes to seek vengeance on those who pushed him to his death in the past, including his own birth mother & brother. What better way to do this then by hugging the golden thigh of his non-blood-related older brother...

I will admit some factors made me uncomfy but I had to repeatedly chant a mantra to remind myself that MC is mentally & spiritually 30 years old, despite his somewhat childish & oblivious sides. ML is a WOLF. If anything the title of this novel more or less describes him rather than the MC. He is ruthless, direct, possessive, & territorial- your usual rich alpha male. I still manage to give him some leeway (in spite of his many faults) on the notion that he is hot & he is unabashedly my fictional type. The plot itself was just for fun & games- don’t take it too seriously tbh. The latter half of the story felt cut & dry, but I like the fact that they had cute buns at the end! Yay for happy endings!

One's in what's basically a correctional facility, and the boyfriend (who got r*ped btw) and the other friend are made to be bunny boys in a very shady casino. And all I can think is "THESE ARE TEENAGERS"

the MCs unfair treatment of his not yet born (or later, infantile) younger brother for mistakes he committed in his past life (like he's a baby, he can be taught better, why would you decide already that he should suffer for things he hasn't even done). Same with the way he treated his "friends". It's all very.... ughh.

For example, Ex's forced prostitution, ex got his teeth pulled out so that he could be sold to more pe*verted rings (if you know ex's background, then his determination to get rich and his feelings on homosexuality makes a lot of sense), does his punishment really equal to his past wrongdoings (breaking up with MC who is in jail) ?? Iirc another one got r*ped, was forced to undergo plastic surgery (while he was out cold) and was trafficked. Do those cruel acts really equal to their wrongdoings?? And there are so much more. Btw, MC from this novel is no saint even in his past life. If you compare him to his ex, both uses whichever way possible to achieve their goals, so how come he thinks he is much more pure than his ex?

The point is MC in that novel was abused way more than MC in this novel. Even their deaths, imo, MC from that novel died much more tragically. Also ML in that novel is much more interesting than ML in this novel. For one, ML in that novel has no government or military connections and he has to go against people who have them. ML in this novel has all those connections and he uses them to revenge the villains (?) in ruthless ways possible. Let me tell you how much of a gentleman ML from that novel is when he take revenge, he had those people suffer the EXACT amount and employed EXACT methods (proposed by those people in the past life) MC suffered in the past life. No more no less. As for MC from that novel, he just wants a better life than his previous one. Even when those people schemed against him, he counterattacked them LEGALLY. He reports them to the police, it was good to see once in the novels where POLICE exist and were useful. In short, revenges and their punishments are equal to the f** up things they committed.

However, to plan on harming an innocent child and one that isn't even born at that. Dude that's freaking inhumane. I know that QYZ and SY were a bunch of tr*sh in the previous life. But you can't deny that the unborn SY is still innocent. He only became cruel because of his mother's teaching. Didn't SC separate the mother and child so that he won't become sullied? I just don't understand Shu Ning (MC). He was more than willing to be in terms and accept his dad and grandpa. If you asked me, the two are just the same as the people who made SN's life miserable. They didn't even treat him well nor much cared for him in the previous life, yet he treated them like family. Then, why not his brother?

I know that what Shu Yao did was heartless (and he and QYZ are tr*sh for that). But if that was me, I would've helped SY because no matter how evil he was in the previous life, the current SY is still malleable enough to be guided to the right path. Kids can be naughty but if you guide them as they grow, wouldn't they be better people? I wouldn't just watch my brother become an as*hole when I could've actually cared for him instead. But alas, I am not SN, so I wouldn't and couldn't understand how he feels.

Another thing that I find hard to like about the MC is that he actively ruins other people's lives. Again, I know that those people were tr*sh, but like I said, MC could have taken a different route. I mean, You were practically given a chance to restart your life. You already know what happens so you could have obviously avoided a lot of things and at the same time even change them.

Also the part where MC mother locked down in island completely disappeared without any further plots. MC hating on people because of past life experience is understandable but Shu Yao is a child and Shu Ning hating on child is so ugly. Author only want to emphasise the pe*ophile actions and interactions Btw MC & ML. Atleast plot should have fast forwarded to MC being adult and taking over the romantic things by then

In this life, his brother just lives as a normal, less rich guy.

Being greedy shouldn't be punish with gang r*pe... dumping you for your friends shouldn't mean you should be r*pe repeatedly and then sold as a s*x s*ave/prositute....

r*pe is a revenge scheme carried out against several characters, male and female, in this novel. This r*pe is not directly done by either the MC or ML and is not something either of them experiences either. None of the people that this happens to are good people, though the crimes they are guilty of may not deserve this extent of punishment to the average reader. If this concept is too much r*pe for you to accept or enjoy (I don't blame you, this was my number one hesitation in reading this based on reviews!) I recommend giving this novel a pass.

Nothing happens between the couple until MC is 16. Attraction is there but not acted upon to an extreme amount (think bathing and kissing). MC is mentally over 30 years old, though ML does not know this. Everything between the couple is 100% consensual and enthusiastic. No one in canon thinks of it as s*xual grooming of a child, but if this concept is still out of your comfort zone, give this novel a pass.

The plot admittedly chases a lot of Ningning's enemies down to the bitter end to extreme results and isn't always the best at making these moments not feel a bit disjointed. You may not even want these victims to end up so badly off because for most of them their true sins were in the past life, not this one. If you're looking for even a single non-evil female character you are completely out of luck. This is a revenge fantasy and to love this story does mean accepting things somehow just work out with explanations of how it happened handwaved.

Despite loathing this story to the highest of degrees!!!