Yu Hao feels like that younger sibling that grows on you. You also feel like a parent, watching him growing more confident. The MC had a dark childhood with his mother trying to kill him and his dad dying early. To top it off, he is poor and bullied by his classmate for stealing a wallet, which he didn't do. He also had a crush on an as*hole that was homophobic and only used him for money. It makes sense why MC developed an inferiority complex and hides his feelings. Yu Hao is not a perfect human and that makes him enduring. At the beginning of the story, we see him avoid reaching out for help because he perceives that everyone doesn't like him and thinks it tramples his pride leading to this messed-up life of agony. He needs help desperately but doesn't ask for it which leads to situations spiraling downhill since he won't communicate. I honestly felt annoyed and frustrated at his actions, acting cowardly and letting people step on him, but he got that sweet character development that made him grew on me. His selfish behavior in trying to be selfless harmed himself and the people around him, but later in the story, he started to accept help and tried his best to communicate with his peers. I admire how much he grew and not giving up when things got difficult. I feel that he doesn't really have a harem of gongs, but that's up to debate. CYK and OQH felt more like friends to him.

The reason I docked a star. MAN, this dude if he existed in real life, I would love to smack him in the face. If I was YH's parents, I would want to kick SZ's stick for treating my son like this. I understand that his anger issues were from his parents being physically abusive towards each other, but he is the embodiment of anger and issues. The MC gets scared that ZS will start punching people out of nowhere. Sure he keeps saying that he has a good excuse for punching people, but is that answer to resolving a problem? Before he was even YH's boyfriend, he got jealous of CYK and tried to separate them even when CYK was lowkey suffering and needed help. I'll explain more at the end, but TLDR, is also quite a toxic boyfriend, keeping secrets from YH, hiding things from him, shutting down YH's ideas, not communicating with YH, acting aggro to prevent YH from asking further, and even erasing some of his memories. He is also unrealistically overpowered. Like somehow he is stronger than the police and can fight them off with no sweat. He is also super-rich and great at math even though he never studies. He is so overpowered with testosterone that no one else can beat him.

Dreamscape #1: Yu Hao's dream takes place at the great wall of china. He meets his grandma again, who is protecting him, and gave him a laundry stick which defeated his dark side because his childhood self is scared of that. He also projected his grandma as an elephant who protects him. The General and MC face off that as*hole crush of him and the black dragon, his dark side gets defeated. The MC gave General his totem which connects them together. The ML tried to erase his memories when the MC found out he was the general, but the power of the totem.

Dreamscape #2:

Shi Ning's dreamscape. Her dreamscape covers a heavy and sensitive topic. It involved tent**les and a cold barren artic. The enemy is her dad who r*ped her in the study room. It wasn't stated explicated, but the clues lead to this conclusion. The eye represents the phone that the dad took pictures of her with or he used to monitor. The ML became the monkey king and MC was the archangel who defeated that disgusting pe*ophile.

Dreamscape #3

Chen Yekai, the professor, I love him. (The reason I kept reading) He is so precious and doesn't take that BS Zhou Sheng is trying to sell. The gay panic is too strong and lowkey I wanted to punch SZ many times when reading this at midnight. Chen Yekai has trauma from his past because his lover committed su*cide. They loved each other, but it was a toxic relationship, power imbalance. (Cough cough* kinda like the main couple) Chen Yekai was rich, his lover got jealous easily, felt insecure, and tried to isolate CYK from his friends. I love how he is such a supportive teacher and someone that the main characters and rely on. It felt kinda off when Zhou Sheng keeps saying that he has a crush on Yu Hao. In my opinion, I feel that maybe he did project some feelings of his ex on him, but didn't love him. I love seeing him grow out of his pain and accept his lover's death. There is also a potential ship between someone else. He beat up that dude with a scalpel and uses a gun as his weapon. His dream world is related to South America since that's where his lover committed su*cide and the place they first made love.

Dreamscape #4

They went into the CYK's shimu (teacher) dreamscape to wake her up from her coma. She recorded him beating her up and gathered evidence of his affairs. That dude had a kink for cheating with married women and resorts to domestic violence. Since he is well versed in psychologically manipulating people, it was implied that he convinced CYK's lover to commit su*cide.

Dreamscape #5 Ou Qihang

When they first went into his dream, he was in the middle of being kidnapped. Ou Qihang was a kid that tried to commit su*cide to try to expose what happened to his father. He joins the gang and is super smart and can kick ass. There are also hints that he will get together with CYK. The ML erased his memories and that backfired (that's what you get ZS for not trusting people) at the end cause it caused more trouble. He will get his memories back though. His dream world was like a zombie apocalypse.

Dreamscape #6 Fe liqun

He is the definition of the best friend. He is supportive and caring. He has a great girlfriend that is supportive of him, but her dad doesn't like him because he isn't rich. I just like how much in love he is with Cen Shan. Even when their relationship was rocky, they never truly gave up on each other and prevailed in the end. He got stuck in a pyramid scheme (it could've been avoided if ZS stopped being a tsundere and helped him when they knew his company was failing when FLQ didn't have a support system and was depressed about himself. So much for high EQ.) by this jealous roommate and was stuck in this sus place. The gang rescues him and in his dream, they needed to use CYK's money to beat up the enemy (LOL). In the end, they fight a big dragon, Cen Shan's dad, and saves princess Cen Shan. His setting was a desert. When he was meeting up with Cen Shan's dad, he made him ride a Ferris wheel to discuss his daughter. Man, that was too funny. Money can't separate this gold couple apart. They have a child and married at the end.

Dreamscape #7 Hu Ting

He is an amazing police officer. He also believes that YH didn't steal the watch when people doubted him. In his dreamscape, it was a maze full of danger and traps. Zhou Liang tried to cuck them, but he managed to erase his memory about the bracket. The MC and the crew without the ML saved him and got his totem back. He was scared of death and didn't want to die, but had a serious medical condition. I love how strong his friendship was with CYK. Even without saying anything, they'll do anything to save each other.

Zhou Sheng's Dreamscape:

It was a colosseum and he needs to battle himself to overcome himself.

Last battle:

It was against this crazy dude who was in charge of Hu Ting that wanted to use the dreamscape so everyone will be under his control. He gets his ass beat up by the gang and it ends happily.

Even though ZS's dad was an a**hole, I enjoyed reading him. I understood his motivation and can feel how much he cared about ZS even if his methods were sus. He is a materialistic person that believes money solves everything and tried to make ZS take over his business and set him on blind dates. Maybe I just don't like ZS, so I enjoyed seeing him suffer. In the end, he got cucked by his new wife since she cheated on him with someone else and the kid isn't his. I kinda wished he could just talk it out with ZS and maybe seek therapy, but ZS is so hard to talk to. He just explodes and gets angry 24/7. At this point, only YH can tolerate him.

I don't really mind slow-burn romances, but the ML (SZ) kept denying his own feelings for 50 chapters and gave MC (YH) false hope. The part that made me feel concerned was how controlling he is when Yu Hao isn't even with him. He also sends mixed messages, being close to him when he knows full well Yu Hao likes him. When YH tried to distance himself, ZH gets sulky/angry. Then YH starts apologizing even though it isn't his fault. He also tried to make the MC go on blind dates to forgot about him, but when the YH tried doing that, he messed around his dates and the dates got nowhere. When CYK was suffering and MC was trying to help him, the SZ got irrationally jealous and yelled/berated the MC for being near him. It's kinda like when SZ yells at YH for some small problem and YH just apologizes and conceded even though it's not his fault. SZ also calls YH dumb and brags about being strong and smarter than everyone else. Power imblance! Reading those chapters made me max my M powers.

AND even after they get together, the MC constantly listens to ML's demands. Somehow the ML's opinions are always correct and the MC's opinions are wrong. BUT MC also has great points and asks a lot of interesting questions that the readers want to know. It was only near the end when the ML admitted that the MC was correct for telling Cen Shao about Fe liqun so they can rekindle their relationship. When MC was confused and wanted to ask questions, the ML shuts him down and gets angry at the MC for being curious. LIKE I MEAN COME ON ZS JUST TELL US AND STOP HIDING KEY INFO FROM THE MC. I wonder how he made such great friends. I understand that he isn't a saint, but ZS claims he has high EQ (except his own feelings) and with one look can understand what people are thinking. He feels reluctant to step in only when YH convinced him he goes into their dream. It was for a petty reason, being jealous because he felt that CYK or OQH like YH so he doesn't want to help them. I felt worried on the MC's behalf. I would get trust issues too if that happened to me. He also erases memories of the MC even though the MC didn't consent. Everyone gets nightmares, but the ML just erases it even though MC told him not to. It was kinda sad that when I read MC being scared to talk to ML about his thoughts since the ML keeps rejecting his ideas. At this point, it feels like the ML just wants the MC to be obedient and just listen to his amazing ideas 24/7. Is that an equal relationship? When YH tried to be independent and got a job in Beijing, he still needs ML's help since he is poor. It's like the MC can't do anything without the ML's help. The ML is rich and super intelligent and the MC worships him like a god. Maybe the author wanted to write that the ML has some super OP person that is worthy of the MC. It's painful when your voice doesn't get heard and MC consistently needs to tread on thin ice so ML's anger issues won't explode. It feels like [大男人主义]-you must listen to my opinion because I'm always right that type of person.

I feel I'll die of anger issues too if I meet ZS. Yanderes or tsundere (I love tsundere, but not this type of as*hole tsundere) might be fun to read, but if the significant other tries to stifle your opinions and feeling that you can't communicate because it'll annoy them, the relationship will be rocky. In the back of my mind, I keep feeling scared for YH because SZ feels really unreliable with his manipulative tactics and unbalanced power over him. Sure he is has a big d*ck, but is it worth all this emotional baggage? I don't find their relationship cute or healthy. BUT they do love each other deeply and I can feel it throughout the pages. If my friend encounters someone like SZ, I'm ready to punch that person. Maybe I'm just traumatized by the overbearing CEO troupe that makes every single decision for their white lotus. At this point ZS is acting like his father who tried to control his life, maybe it runs in the family.

I feel like the author wants to try to reflect the reality of the modern day world as much as he can. You can see that he often uses different symbols such as the sunrise and the moon to not only denote the ML and the MC, but also saying that no matter what hardships you go through, no matter what happens, the sun will rise and a new day will come forth again.

A lot of times you can see the younger characters such as the ML and Fu Liqun always clashing with the elders (Zhou Laichun and Gege's father-in-law) where the elders always say that a successful life is one where a person gains money and fame at the cost of everything else, whereas ML and Gege feels that there are more things to life than that, such as love, and that where there is love, life is fulfilled. I feel this very much highlights not only the differences in opinion between parents and their children but also the different ideologies that change over time.

At the end of the day, I think the author is trying to say that no matter what type of ideologies that you believe in or how difficult your childhood is, it is only up to your own self how you decide what to do with your life. It is also up to your own self what the meaning of success it.

God, when every side character is either in love with Yu Hao or just jealous, I'm like nope, this isn't for me. I can handle a bit of rivalry but Zhou Sheng has to remind his lover about this in every chapter. It got annoying to the point where I wanted to throw my phone. Also, Yu Hao would attract only Gongs while Zhou Sheng only attracted girls, a bit ridiculous in my opinion.

I know he has the Golden Crow, but it's too much when the dude can fight with 15 guys at the same time. He's handsome, rich, smart, good at cooking, fighting, strategies, has a big dick.... I just think that there wasn't any side characters needed, he can do anything and everything. That's too unrealistic when it's a modern setting. He can even trick the Investigation department. When he said that the Police is incompetent, I really felt they were.

he didn't have a well off family, neither was he very smart nor had friends. He got jealous of Yu Hao and ended up hurting others. If it were me, I would have been deep buried into my pit of issues to harm others. Every other character including the main and side are good looking, extremely smart, they have everything and only the average looking one would be harming others. It was weird.

ML pushing MC away. Those parts were so so so good to read and I feel pain for MC —which made it all the better! I love seeing them suffering.

But do take note, their romance is light and fluffy, only this part was the angst.