MC is kinda obsessed about ML. He moved schools because he saw him during online class and it's like love at first sight. Once they met he is like no one else matters. I don't need friends or anyone as long I have him.

I also feel unsatisfied about child he was exchanged with. I really feel sorry about him. It's like people were looking for shadow of his dead mother (who wasn't really his mother) in him, which made him feel mentally unwell. Once he learned that he was exchanged at birth his mentality couldn't deal with it, became villain and people who raised him for 17 years just left him

Regarding the switched at birth plot, it is incredibly tragic. Tao Xi's mother (Fang Sui) got pregnant with her lover's baby, but the man's father didn't approve. She went to her best friend (ML's mother), who didn't help her. She ran away to a small, poor mountain village. She met a rural farm woman named Guo Ping who was also pregnant. The pair lived together, became friends, and ended up giving birth on the same day. Guo Ping's son was worth extremely sick, and without a lot of money and medical care probably wouldn't make it out of childhood. Fang Sui's son was born healthy, but she died after giving birth due to blood loss that couldn't be treated in time due to her giving birth in a remote rural village. When Fang Sui's family and lover found out what happened they came to pick up her body and her son, but Guo Ping gave them her own sickly son so he would have a good life living with a wealthy family who could afford to give him appropriate medical care.

Maybe, MAYBE she could have been forgiven since she was a desperate mother who wanted her child to live. But instead of treating Tao Xi well and being a wonderful mother in order to make up for stealing his life, she neglected him, beat him, isolated him, never showed him an ounce of love or affection. He grew up lonely, feeling worthless and abandoned on top of being extremely poor. His fake grandmother knew what Guo Ping did, and even she didn't bother to show affection to Tao Xi. She ignored and neglected him as well. His fake father was never home. At 15 Tao Xi learned the truth, but his fake father was more angry at Tao Xi than his wife. Reading about how they treated him was absolutely heartbreaking. They stole him from his whole life, from his family, and even took away the letter his mother had written him and gave it to the other boy. I legitimately cried multiple times reading this story.

On the other side, the ML's mother who had been best friends with Tao Xi's real mother, was actually madly in love with the woman Fang Sui. Her guilt at Fang Sui's death ate her alive until the fake son entered. ML's mother and the fake boy's grandparents spoiled him absolutely rotten. However, ML's mother gave all her love and care to the fake son, Yan Doule, and completely ignored and rejected her own son, Lin Qinhe. It was so bad that when a fire broke out in the home where they lived, she grabbed Doule, an oil painting her dead friend had done, and left her own son behind in the fire. She didn't even tell firefighters he was in there, it was his nanny who showed up and realized the woman had left her own son behind and sent the firefighters in after him.

There's no true resolution here. Doule's spoiled and insecure personality lead him to making some incredible poor decisions to try and hurt Tao Xi. He finds out before anyone else the truth about Tao Xi, and frantically tries to destroy Tao Xi's future to get rid of him. He's an extremely unlikeable character, and also extremely pitiful. Spoiled, insecure, always being compared to a dead woman, being used as a replacement by grieving grandparents and the ML's mother, mostly neglected by his fake father until the man finally decides to build a relationship with him. His personality is pathetic, pitiful, and vindictive, and a big part of that is due to the adults who had spoiled him while treating him as a replacement. In the end, there's no huge face slapping but he doesn't get off easily either. After being caught trying to frame Tao Xi, and getting angry at his adoptive family for wanting a relationship with Tao Xi, he runs off with his pathetic loser biological father and after that we know nothing more about him. It's implied that his bio dad was demanding money from him and had beaten him, but we don't know how he ended up. In a way that end to Doule's story is a little unsatisfying, but it makes sense because neither Qinhe or Tao Xi cared to know. As for Guo Ping, the woman who stole Tao Xi's life, she ends up contracting a kidney disease that she probably wouldn't survive, then jumped off a building after Tao Xi refused to forgive her for what she'd done.

he wasn't attacked by the swapped child.

still wondering why? He's a sickly, spoilt rotten young master who can manipulate all the adults around him through emotional means, they subject them to emotional stress and tantrums and because he's weak and sickly they act on tiptoes around him. He's insecure and often have nightmares whether he's the real son of his (foster) family (because he doesn't look anywhere like his mother or father), he felt threatened with the MC's presence, so to secure his spot in the family he made a bunch of s*upid things, he ask ML not to be friends with MC; he told his (foster) father's mistress to harm the MC; he stole MC's painting entry for the competition and accused him of plagiarism which blew up in the entire school; and when his lies were exposed he's still unrepentant and threw a fit instead in front of his (foster) grandparents, leaving no leeway for himself. He's literally asking to get thrown away. If that does not fit the characteristics of every cannon fodder then I don't know what is.

when MC's (foster) mom jumped off the hospital building, it says somewhere along the line that "she chose to die not because of torture. She only wants to see her son. But her son never visited him from start to end. She gave birth to Yang Dou Le, and now she gave him the only thing she had, her DEATH. Like wtff???? She went as far as to switch her real son to someone else, to give her son a "good life", then she commit su*cide? She's already dying on the hospital bed why still commit su*cide on top of the building? Not because of torture then what? Just for show? To burden her son for the rest of his life with her su*cide death? Bullshit. She still has another younger daughter that she has to think of smh

The story's premise the cliche "switched at birth" trope wherein one child from a poor family is switched with the child of a rich family (you can probably fill in the blanks from there). However, as I alluded earlier, when the MC learns of these circumstances, he reacts in a very realistic way. The story doesn't feel as dog-blooded as it should be considering the plot settings.

MC further runs into good circumstances that are by no means realistic for actual people (he catches the attention of the ML who is of course rich, powerful, and extremely caring). All I can say is that while unrealistic, their relationship develops naturally and is extremely sweet.

The author often pinpoints the most beautiful parts of the environment to describe. They often highlight things such as the light reflecting off a piano, the gold-red clouds at sunset, etc. Aside from these elements, they also include descriptions of various sensory stimuli such as the feel of water vapour condensed on a bottle of cool water in the hot summer afternoon, etc. The way the author draws the reader's attention to these seemingly common things is extremely immersive. They also show how seemingly everyday occurrences trigger memories for the MC and uses these situations to give the reader various pieces of the MC's past, and this is done extremely tastefully.

I do think both MC and ML kind of liked each other very early on. It's a really sweet romance despite the sprinkling of angst.

the angst on ML's side with his mum who was so obsessed with MC's dead mum that she couldn't see past the legacy (AKA the child left by said mum), neglecting ML to quite extreme ends. Glad he had MC by his side.

it's not necessarily the fault of the other child who got to get the so called better life. It's like the fault of the adults who did the switch. In this case, that other child, as expected in this plot, doesn't have a good character so one won't be so sorry for him. And also, glad that those adults did feel remorse in the end.