; from poverty, toxic parents, destroyed hope, drugs, prostitution. and how a creature from hell trying to reach light.

I'm totally shaken with one of last cases. how a daughter, abandoned by her father, only living with her mother who somehow became control freak. even if she was trying to live normally, married and having child, the torment doesn't stop because her husband cheated on her. then she only tried to prove herself, but in the end she failed. it's almost like, no matter how long the time passes, everything in childhood will haunt you till end.

both are suffered early, then getting help from each other. at first, MC helped ML, then it's turn for ML helping MC, taking him out from darkness. ML met MC when he was child, while a tragedy happened to him. MC who was not much older than him, helped ML even though they didn't know each other. even if MC had to suffer and lost his chance to get out from that hellish place because of it. turned out, MC still felt guilty toward ML because he felt he wasn't faster enough to save ML's parents. sobs T.T

he is very decisive, even if he must 'go to the hell' for MC, he didn't hesitate at all. although he looks so 'clean' and 'proper', it doesn't mean he will not dirty his hands to protect MC. aaand he is YanXie's (ML in Poyun) cousin. it's totally running in the blood huh. my friends and I often joke how Huaishang's gong are idiots. I think this ML, Bu Chonghua, is the smartest one rn. lmao.

he hated elites as he felt those elites will not feel much when sacrificing 'low-lives' like him. that is why he actually was very resistant toward ML at first. the total MADLAD, he can be very impulsive, like... jumping from 8th floor. his self-deprecating is deep, as he was born in 'the most hellish place in the world', but still, he actually wanted to reach light and live normally. free and content. but in same time, he thought he won't be happy and will only end up on some dumpster. he always thinks it's a miracle that such a perfect guy like ML loves him, but he doesn't realize it's all his own self that makes ML attracted to him. in retrospect, ML retorted him quite harshly that 'he is not perfect'. and oh, he's also very strong, maybe even stronger than ML. how harsh his previous life? he can't touch, smell any red meat (beef, pork, etc) as it will trigger some trauma inside him and make him vomit till nothing was left.

at first, he was depressed, feeling like everything he did, to the point he almost died several times, is all pointless and worthless. drugs still circulate, drug dealers will not stop popping up. then toward end, he finally resolves that he is not alone now, he has ML. he has people to work together against drugs. and in the future, there will be more. and I think it's very beautiful.

why I regard this as the most angsty? well from any modern, non-supernatural, everything happened to MC is *totally the worst*, and not as cliched as in any dog-blood drama. any tragedy surrounds him like plague but he always tries his best. and personally I think any of his actions is justifiable, fair. it's often seen MC in dog-blood drama is s*upid, but not for this MC, not for my WuYu. he is nowhere near being naive. it's almost like he suffers just because he wants to reach light. he was broken, scarred, barely holding everything up together, till he met ML (it's quite funny how ML scolds MC that he is not some idiot elite who will abandon anyone). it's a miracle he can survive and living till now tbh. fans in CN fandom regard him as the most pitiful shou in Huaishang family, and I totally agree.

Just a side note...

Yes, I am aware that there are now two translating groups that are currently translating the novel. The other translator has contacted me privately to give me a heads up and I had offered to co-translate, but discussions to do so didn't work out due to our differing visions for the text. What we want on our end is to make sure that our translations not only flows smoothly in English, but also convey the beauty and tone of the original text while maintaining its accuracy.

I will not say which version you should read, and if anything, do give both a try. But please treat both sides with respect. Thank you.

I never thought I would enjoy reading about a person jumping off a building so much. Hah hah.... hah. Yes I have no soul

Yes, even though the MC never goes on a suicidal rant openly, he is definitely impulsively suicidal at times. Let me just say, if you suddenly sit down in a burning building or while hanging off a steep precipice with dead eyes, unresponsive to other's shouting at you to climb out and escape, you're a bit suicidal. And I can't count how many times Wu Yu thought to himself that dying this or that way wouldn't be so bad. Usually I would be annoyed by a character like this as in most cases the author wouldn't have the other characters acknowledge this serious issue to any degree--but in this novel they do (at least a bit). They almost never explicitly bring it up or mention it to Wu Yu, just as how Wu Yu never explicitly whines and cries that he wants to die, but the writing always states when they get a 'chill' looking at him, with the ominous premotion that Wu Yu is thinking about death... and etc. The reader can easily see that multiple characters act with excessive concern and delicacy towards Wu Yu at these times. Another nice touch by the author. And his suicidal tendencies also help explain why he keeps putting himself in harms way again and again (which some of you might find annoying). Deep down, part of himself wants to rest and die.

Shark and Mai Yin are both particularly interesting main villains. Mai Yin brought him out of the hell of working on a opium farm (poppy fields), and the Shark spared the MC's life on multiple occasions because he was both philosophically interested in the MC and wanted to bring him to his side

Now now now... there was one arc in the end that focused on Bu Chonghua 'betraying justice'... but come on. That's basically just me reading and waiting for Wu Yu to find out what the gimmick is, because by that point we should know that the ML isn't going to spontaneously become a drug dealer.

The part where BCH starts flirting with Wu Yu by saying, "If you don't tell me, I'll kiss you right now" was so out of character and abrupt, I literally cringed and went speechless...

Song Hui, the female side character, was introduced quite late into the story (feels like she's supposed to be the counterpart of Han XiaoMei in BTTC). She constantly pestered the ML and clung onto him because she likes him, even though BCH already said no. She even tricked him into going for a dinner date alone with her- BCH thought it was a group meeting, but only this girl turned up. Furthermore, her work ethics and capabilities left much to be desired

When the readers get into a love-hate relationship with the antagonist, you know it's going to get good. This was what happened in BTTC with the King of Spades and Qin Chuan.

Shark, the main villain of this series, is rather generic- all powerful and dangerous, out for the MC's blood (with an added motive of wanting to win the MC over to the dark side). Yin Jie is a step up, the push and pull between her and the MC due to their shared bloody past makes her a more appealing character. BUT then she died so quickly... I remember going, "Huh that's it??" when she was killed off in the middle of the story.

Ultimately the two main villains do not live up to the expectations set by their predecessor.

Have you seen the comment section when Yan Xie and Jiang Ting turns up? Lol it literally exploded. And with Yan Xie's introduction into the story, you can finally (!!!) see the story being more humorous, I laughed aloud at some of their antics a couple of times.

Wu Yu and BCH crashing into Yan Xie's 8-figure car and calling him "Brother" to avoid compensation cracks me up every time.

I think that the best part of the plot is about Wu Yu's true identity, it gave me quite a headache when piecing together the information given in the foreshadowing and trying to iron out the information.

I also agree with the other reviewer who said that more than half the time the plot progresses as Wu Yu goes off on his own to do something foolish and BCH having to come in to save the day lol

Like the first murder case.