the part where she got a caller who wanted to know whether she could go back to an ordinary romantic life after she had been someone's mistress for a couple years. I mean, it's fine if you don't like it and wouldn't do it yourself. But why was MC allowed to act high and mighty about her morals and act like the caller "already knew the answer" and had ruined her own romantic life or something? I would also find it somewhat difficult based on my own morals, to be someone's mistress knowing that they have a wife at home. And yeah I'd hate to be the wife in that case. But isn't the one in the wrong here the MAN? Do you not think that if she had refused, there would still be another mistress regardless, another woman in that position? So honestly, if that's her choice, that's her choice. She made a lot of money in the process and all she really wanted was some encouragement or maybe a few words like "don't worry, you'll be fine." Because it's really nobody's business except her own, and that man and his wife's business. So I was skeptical about the author's annoying judgmental behavior, being that it's the 21st century and if you can get your coin like that, then who tf am I to judge you?

You can tell this because in the novel, the author shows his thoughts of her as thinking that she's worldly and mature at many times. In the beginning we see him having a misconception about her not being mature--thinking she was impulsively marrying because of her spoilt relationship that ended similar to his.. He even worries about the age gap and wonders if she treated their marriage was a spur of the moment fling.. Afterall, from his perspective, she is a fresh college graduate at the age of 22. But after interacting with her and getting to know her better, he eventually starts to see that she is more mature than her age.

ML and his ex-girlfriend didn't have much time spent together because ex-gf was busy pursing her career and assumed he would be inexhaustible. She put their relationship on a backhold, while the ML did his best to pursue her and even proposed three times, all getting rejected for a variety of reasons. He put in more effort and catered to her wishes very often, which in the end might have caused her to take him for granted. Both of them lacked communication, and had their own misunderstandings. In a way, ex-gf seemed to be pressured by his ideals of wanting a loving relationship like his parents. And for that, I am not putting the pit on the ex-gf, a relationship takes two to tango.

But lets talk from the stand-point of the ML, imagine being rejected three times after proposing.. His heart must have torn so much to the point where even when he was in front of the Civil Affairs Bereau, he must've not actually wanted to marry her and proposed the ultimatum as a way to project that he wanted to end. Even the point where he agreed to marry the MC spontaneously, can be viewed as him being exhausted in his past relationship and just wanted to find an out and get married.

Like some of the other reviewers believe, I don't think a marriage with his ex would have survived. They had different goals and priorities and would have continued to clash and hurt each other.

ML prioritized family, wanted to get married, and hoped that his parents could meet his future wife. While ex-gf wasn't considerate because she claimed that she could meet the parents later and get married after her dreams were achieved. She prioritized her own feelings over the fact that the ML was scared about his mother's surgery (50% risk). The biggest thing that struck me here is.. If she wanted to put their relationship on hold at this point, then what if something had gone wrong and ML's mother passed---how could she live on knowing she never met her future husband's mother? In short, I believe she never wanted to get married to the ML as she didn't consider her future with him or his family.. Putting her goals first and their relationship on a backburner... Unwillingness to compromise... Is that really love? Haha, I really didn't want to put her in the pit but she ended up there haha..

In the end, ex-gf realizes that MC suits ML better than herself and she redeems herself by reminding herself that she missed out on a wonderful man. Even though it was quite petty to do this by keeping the diamond ring of the man who she rejected three proposals.

The novel further potrays MC's desperation through her experience of being pressured by her family, where the relationship between mother and daughter strained to the point where she would not go home in fear of being nagged, criticized, or getting set-up with someone she doesn't love. She was in the end, alone because of this, and that loneliness gave her the mental damage that spurred her to simply marry someone (with suitable conditions) off the street. In fact, I'm not surprised she treated it like a speed blind date. She was already exhausted with all of the blind dates with people that didn't meet her conditions of "suitable" in her past life, and given the opportunity.. She jumped at the chance of doing it with the ML.

There are many instances where she does this through her job as a radio broadcaster, but I believe the most meaningful instance was where she saved a young man's life by persuading himself a chance, despite his parents believing him to eventually become a pe*verted psychopathic killer like his dreams. Ironically his dreams caused him to become a genius in the horror industry, and he stopped having the dreams as soon as he wasn't pressured and he gained people who believed in him.

I really wish there was an epilogue where the MC could openly tell ML about her past life, whether that be when they're old or maybe even during the main story.. The novel teaches us about respect and communication between the two, but I feel like the main reason the MC is who she is.. Is because of her past life. Granted, rebirth is not realistic and some could be considered strange or even delusional, but I believe the author could have set it around something cliche like.. "Do you believe in past lives?" Or "I had a dream.

Although it seems cliche, it would've been really meaningful to see an interaction like this showing how much the main character trusted her hubby and wanted to share her past with him.

Although the novel never tells us why she was reborn, I believe that the reason she was brought back was because of her loneliness. She may or may not have been depressed in her past life, given that she was struggling without the warmth of her family and alone in the end. I speculate that her rebirth was to give her an opportunity to find love and redeem what she missed out on her past life. And with that being said, I'm okay with this not being declared and left open-ended.

And even though the author bothered to make Shao Yifen take the role of explaining more directly for people who didn’t notice in the interactions between An An and Xia Feng, I think that by the time that was done it was not something too surprising.

The alien thing in the end is a bit weird. For me, it's almost ruining the story.