"If it were me now, I would stand in front of her and take her hand. But if it were me from before, I would make the same choices."

This is what he replied when the main system asked him: If he were to go back, what would he do?

It was when he saw the original plot where FL suffered from her marriage. In the OG-plot, Shen Yin only helped her with small things in the background. Like putting on a blanket when she was alone, or carrying her to bed when she fainted. He did not held his hand out to help her and focused on his revenge. Of course, his fate in the OG-plot was bad. He died.

Now, from what I can comprehend from his reply. He is saying that if he were to go back as his self right now, having experienced love with FL, then he's gonna help her. But if it was him in the past, he knew he will make the same choices.

This is because the plot ONLY deviated when FL chose him to be her husband, but if that did not happen, then all he would do is focus on his revenge.

He wasn't exactly saying that if he were to go back now, he won't help or approach FL. He is just aware that his past self, who obviously has at least an ounce of feelings for FL bcs he would occasionally help her, would still choose to focus on his revenge than focus on some fleeting feelings he felt for FL.

But the same can't be said for the person he is now as Shen Yin, Song Tan's husband.

After all, in exchange for FL waking up from her comma, he chose to accept the bet made by the system where he also had to survive in the apocalyptic world to show his dedication. He won.

ML married MC's pampered and proud cousin to stabilize the family business and MC signed a sponsorship contract with FL to get her talent, as despite FL taking a part in destroying her original marriage and MC doing the same to FL, MC didn't want to destroy FL's career. However, for ML, FL wants to break contract to help ML, but doesn't want to pay compensation and neither did ML.

Shen Yin wants to destroy Huo family because ML's father kills his parents because of greed. Although grandfather, who chose to protect his son until the son wants him to die by trying to kill MC who can let him live one more year to see the Huo's destruction, didn't directly kill his own daughter, Shen Yin knew that he had the idea because if grandpa had felt guilty, he would have been good to Shen Yin instead of ML.

After getting this confession, Shen Yin sent the evidence to the researchers who ignored him just because he calculated them, which baffles me.

Also, MC knew she was targeted and with her retired system's help, contacted the main system (MS) and talked about sending the ML and FL to the zombie world for reform. At the same time, she made a bet with MS to get a healthy body if Shen Yin continues to love her and not remarry within a year of her comma, if she fails, she returns to the zombie world. During MC's comma, Shen Yin dreamt of the original plot thanks to MS, revealing that if he could start over, he would still choose revenge and may not reach out to MC, but to wake her early from her coma, he won some bet with MS.

Such as the marriage advice. The MC merely suggested that the cousin get a marriage license first if the other guy was too busy for getting the planning or wedding done. If the cousin had been smarter, the moment she saw his reaction to her suggesting getting the marriage license, she would have seen something wrong.

Same with seeking help from the MC. It's valid to understand that the MC has no reason to bother helping the cousin or the aunt/uncle, especially after how they had been treating them. The advice that the cousin should ask her own husband instead is valid. Plus it helps the cousin see how terrible the guy she married is.

That being her becoming a very light sleeper which makes sense given how hard it would be to sleep in an apocalyptic setting.

The other is the trust issues. She was apparently betrayed but again, we don't know much in the way of details. It's just mentioned in passing.

Never mind that she should be traumatized af about having to kill zombies. Personally, I'd be a PTSD-ridden wreck if I went from being a slightly pampered person (she had servants tending to her every need) to having to bash in zombie heads and then popped back into a normal life. Nightmares would be an understatement.

The OGML and OGFL are clearly not good people. (I'll die in this hill: cheating is cheating.) I appreciate the depth and nuance. OGml's narcissism runs deep and OGFL never takes any responsibility.

The timeline of the story was a bit confusing though. At the beginning of the story, ML was 25 but in the ending, he was 30. However, while I'm reading the story, I feel like nothing much happened so I'm a bit surprised that they're already together for 5 years.

I really don’t mind if a story ends with no children between both of them but based on the fact that FL and ML now have such healthy bodies then I think the ending deserved a child between both. I could feel that both leads yearned for family, a true family and seeing as how they both enjoyed the companionship of ML’s students then I think it would have made sense to end their happy ending with a child.