In MC's eyes, she is a failure:

• • Married for love but ends up in a cold marriage

• • Children are estranged from her/don't understand her

• • Brother hates her

• • Parents are absent af and her own mother actually wants to mu*der her and her brother?? Psycho.

In reality, unbeknownst to MC, it is actually:

• • Husband loves her but has terrible sense of priorities and puts work before everything, thinks wife is cold af

• • Sons think she's overbearing (from what I gleamed from MTL)

• • Brother is an equally abandoned child thanks to terrible parents, just wants his sister's attention

• • Parents really are absent and mother really wants to mu*der her and her brother. Psycho!
    
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We find out that prior to regressing into a toddler, MC was already planning to divorce her husband. She does get divorced in the end after her husband relents, seeing her exhausted of their marriage and family bonds.

However, Mr. Husband chases after MC and woos her once more. They get remarried.

Tbh, I would have been happy that they never remarry but eh, that's MC for you. This all takes place in the final 2 (?) chapters of the main text. It's really quick lol

The last chapter is like a summary/conclusion of sorts of the Dream Bird who granted MC's wish for Happiness which turned her into a toddler.

she had been fed up of her life and realised she had failed as a mother, wife and sister. her husband and her relationship were in dumps as she felt neglected and lonely although she knew he definitely loved her, her oldest son was cold and detached towards her while her youngest hated her misunderstood her for sending his GF away with money (which didn't happen) she had no idea that his GF was actually her foster daughter she raised since a child. but prior with the youngest, she didn't agree with his choice of career so things had been going downhill for a while.

misunderstanding 2-her oldest child had been abused when he was very young for a period of time where a mu*der she once sent to jail got a hold of him and abused him telling him it's his mother's fault and feeding his young mind things that stuck in his mind and we have a mentally ill kid. Not to mention he had also misunderstood something she'd said about his relationship with his GF.

misunderstanding 3-her younger brother thought she hated him his whole life and his hatred grew that one time she slapped him and said some sh*t to him. it was the straw that broke the camel. when actually what happened was that she was actually trying to run away from that mu*derer who was chasing after her and since she didn't want her bro to get in the middle of it (plus he was blocking her way not allowing he to leave) she did horrible sh*t and never explained why. it's also true that she had protected him silently and got rid of people who'd hurt him without him ever knowing. she also threatened her mother to provide her with money of which she gave half to her brother (he always thought that his parents had done that when she actually fought for it so hed never lacked money)

misunderstanding 4- her husband and her relationship has been poor for seemingly along loooong time in which she continued to hold things in never discussing her issues and never showing her dissatisfaction. she although aware that her husband loved her thought that he had an illegitimate child outside which he never refuted or even talked to her about assuming others would talk to her about the situation. it was his deceased brother's wife and child.

These are the four major misunderstandings which span pretty much the whole novel-most of it.

Ok, searched for spoiler in NU. Guess what? MC and ML gets divorced but no one knew about it and then ML started to chase MC and again get together.

... still not gonna read it.... leaves a bad taste in my mouth like this... for the first time in a while I am NOT cool about happy ending!

Her wish wasn't that of becoming a child because of her lack of love, her wish was "purest of happiness" 😭😭😭

If the story ended with both of them still married, that would had been a very hard pill to swallow for me. My homegirl suffered too much to be tied down again. If ML ain't picking his sh*t up after the divorce and chase her himself this time, I'm dropping curses. Thankfully, he did that.

My other regret was for Bai Qiyu. I kinda shipped the two.

The side story was very beautiful tho. And by beautiful I mean F E E L S.

MC and ML divorced

I personally feel so depressed when reading and understanding some character on this novel, even the Villain got me so sad at some point.

FL she is very pitiful one, being brought up by that kind of parents are definitely the biggest tragedy for her. With her character that don't bother to make an explanation she is misunderstood a lot. As a wife, as a sister, as a mother, as a person. The loneliness giving many negative feeling for her. So sometimes either she face it in violent way or pull herself completely and just ignore it all the way (I couldn't remember the right phrases for this one)

ML is simply also unexpressive person. He tend to focused on something he think most important to him, and at his young self that important thing is simply his carrier. Him loving FL and able to married her probably seen to him as a sense of fulfilment where his goal has already achieved so no need to bother again. Uncaring and selfish person at some point too. He doesn't even accept completely of his wrong doing before he got that divorce paper in his hand. But he is amazing for able to face it and redeem his wrong doing with heads up. I'm glad he is the ML actually.

The Father, he is quite a sad one too in here. All of his life he always been living in the shadows of other. When his brother was alive his parents don't even bother to raise him properly. Being compared relentlessly to his brother his character became timid, as the parents always give him that sense of him as a failure. Even after his brother death, instead of choosing to cultivate and motivate her son, the mother prever to trust other more than her son. Even at the last moment of her life it seems that she don't even see her son and just choose to give her share to her unborn grandchildren instead of him. He is a timid, coward and dependant person. I'm mad at him but also felt sorry at the same time.

Lastly the mother, she a great sample that greed could messed up your head. A very ambitious person with a lot of greed. It seem so ridiculous when I first read that this mother was one of the Villain. But when I read the novel throughly I kinda grasp her point of view. Like sometimes when you work to hard to reach something but it was smashed just right before you grasp it. The harder you work, the frustrated you became. This is where the mentality collapsed, where she start not thinking in the normal way, and only see her goal. Short of like that gambling addict, they tend to only want to win the gamble but ignore the fact that the money they use to gamble are more than they got as a prize. Their mind couldn't comprehend that and only want and get happy when winning the gamble despite so many loses. I actually kinda hope we could see her redemption or her acceptance of her crime not only her being forced to be responsible for it.

The whole characters are just really messed up, not a single normal people being written as a character. The Elder brother are really pitiful. I just somehow not understand the part when no one truly saw him in that desperate state? Not even a servant or some sort of that? Also this is where the ML and FL are truly guilty for. Then there is the youngest son, who is probably the most carefree one, he doesn't suffer as much as other and able to still see the good in people and see everything in the slightly naive side, though sometimes I want to smack his head for this.

there is a little bit dissatisfaction at the end, where the reconciliation of ML and FL at the end. I kinda hope the author would give it more scene and writing for this moment. Where her healing process not just being tell in the narrative, a short narrative. Where she can finally let go of everything properly. Where their divorce didn't became just a mere joke. We don't see from the ML side too, when he finally to pursue her back instead of letting her go at the end. Or the children's view regardless their parents decision. It look so rushed for me. There is many of delaying matter at the 2/4 and 3/4 of story but it just go like a bullet train at the 4/4.

The ML is so-so to me. When no one actually visited MC when she was hospitalized after an accident it just broke my heart. And WTF is wrong with MLs secretary? She forgot to inform him his wife called? The ML must have been in love but he was an as*hole to his wife. And I would have liked it if he actually did something to that incompetent sectary after he got to know about it, though it was also his fault for bing negligent.

Although they got back together in the end, I wish he had suffered a bit more before getting MCs love straight away considering all MC had gone through.