the doll thing really broke my heart

even with the Ml. He was afraid of his feelings so he wanted to run away - he didn’t in the end-

THE GRANDFATHER TAKES THE CHILD AWAY.

what else can she do? I was angry every time the MC say his grandfather raised him so he is grateful. Excuse me he was the one who took you away from your mother.

the MC adopted sister is so cute. She seems to like our MC so much. Maybe if our MC gave her a chance he would have the family love he wanted.

He always says the ML love made him no longer want his family's love. I don't agree with that at all. Someone's love can be the same as your mother, father, sister, brother, and friend's love. Every love is very different from the other. Your lover's love can't take the place of other kinds of love.

To be honest, it is more like a time-travel genre. I'm not sure what is the use of giving it as "realizing Tang Zhou's a cannon fodder and his frienemy is a villain". The "book" did not have anything to help Tang Zhou, all his moves were just what he "had" seen in the future. The rest were just his brain working out which ones are worth the investment or something.

I love the tidbits regarding the last 4 chapters. It was Tang Zhou waking up to the reality where everything from the future had already happened, and he knows he have to woo his husbando, which is pretty cute especially since Fu Shen kept the birthday present he was given??? That's so adorable and sad? I am just happy they got a happy ending for the second time.

Last but not the least, divorced gals are strong here!

Example: in the OG timeline, the ML destroyed his scumbag father's company since the father had abandoned them do he could marry a rich woman. In the current timeline, the MC reveals the scumbag father's real nature to the father's wedded family. We don't hear about the dad again until the very end, when it's revealed that his wife successfully divorced him and got him jailed for economic crimes.

The story doesn't focus on this much, but being with the MC helped the ML let go of his hatred too. He hasn't forgiven his scumbag dad, he just doesn't feel the need to take revenge on his father personally since he just wants his future to focus on the MC.

Another example: MC doesn't spend time on his family despite their mistreatment of him. His mom, who had allowed him to be raised coldly by his grandfather, tried to make amends with him in the new timeline but he refused her. The MC seems cold, but it's understandable why he doesn't want to build a relationship with her. She was barely present in his childhood and now that the ML is with him, the MC is no longer desperate for affection.

As for the major scumbags, MC's dad and half-brother, they don't have good ends entirely because of their own moral failings. The MC barely attacked them, they fell on the sword of their own selfishness.

Finally, the MC barely interacts with his grandfather throughout the story. At first, he was hung up on the old man's betrayal in the OG timeline, but the ML helped him realize that he should move on instead of stressing himself out by testing whether the old man would betray him again. In the current timeline, the MC becomes his family company's chairman after his dad and half-brother made a mess of things. His grandfather also stops trying to get the MC to marry a woman, since he realized that having the MC lead the company well for decades is better than having it collapse right now under his own son's incompetence. Still, the MC remains distant with him. He still reminds the grandfather's Butler to take care of the old man, but he doesn't want his grandfather's validation anymore.