One would be a world champion in swimming who triumphed over gender discrimination through hard work while the other would be the most talented in the new generation of painters who managed to completely break away from his straight A cancer* parents.

*Refers to alphas who think that they are supreme. Alpha "chauvinists", if you will

I was a bit disappointed that when he left his parents he didn't take the Gold Medal that Li Cheng gave him earlier in the book with him.

When Li Cheng won and broke the WORLD RECORD at the CHAMPION, I was so happy and almost cried! I was so proud just like a mom watching her son.

Also, Xiao Yiheng exposed his parents for gender discrimination at their work place. Karma hits hard!

I freaking screamed when ML let the other guy hear why MC love him...... pahhhh the audacity of the guy to dare say that he's the best for MC

It was nice to see bit of their uni campus life, their cohabitation, the variety show, the retirement and mostly the baby..... yes Mpreg.

Since Many ABO novel getting sequel with their child love story, I would love to see the sequel for this one too. I want to see what zhizhi might differentiate into. I am fine with anything but my imagine prefer him to be a Alpha..... with looks like his alpha father and cheerfulness like his omega father and relationship like his beta aunt.... kidding, but I can imagine him as playful and a bit playboy kinda character alpha, who end up falling for cold and strict omega.... or it can be beta or alpha..... oh my imagination.

When our MC Li Cheng goes to the international competition, there are some scenes that can end up causing some disgust if you pay too much attention to them. At the beginning of the arc (if I'm not mistaken), our MC meets Alexander, another competitor (alpha, Australian) who discriminates against him for being Chinese and omega.

Quite realistic, in my opinion.

The discrimination against the 'weaker' gender and other races is something that happens in real life too. I, as a girl and a person who grew up in a poor neighborhood in Latin America, can attest to that.

However, the way our MC addresses this issue during the following chapters until the end of the arc is something that not only does not show a wrong way of reacting to discrimination, but a prejudice or 'joke' (quite crude, in if it is) that it seems that the author of the work has against 'white' people. Which seems pretty serious to me, considering that this arc is trying to teach a lesson related to discrimination.

But hey, let's get on with this. In the book, Li Cheng, immediately after Alexander's first act of racism is committed, begins to refer to him as 'white orangutan', doing derisive actions towards him like throwing a banana at him (which is just s*upid) .

Uh-huh, I know many people think this... is probably okay.

"Come on, girl. That white orangutan was being discriminative against him first, so he deserves it. Blah, blah, Li Cheng is fighting against discrimination, blah, blah."

Well... no.

Li Cheng is being racist. The comment of 'white orangutan' is just what it is.

Racism.

Just like calling someone 'cholo' with the objective of making someone feel less is an obvious indicative of racism in my country, someone calling other 'white orangutan' repeteadly (even if its only in his own private thoughts) is a BIG red flag.

It doesn't matter if you were discriminated first, for more fair that it sounds. That goes for our MC too.

Anyways, all of this may have sound like 'too much' for others, but it something that should concern us a lot.

Which was the message that the author wanted to give us with this arc? It would have been really amazing if they made this to show us that discrimination is something that we all do and it doesn't matter the race because just like others discriminate us, we also do that to them.

However, that... may not been the case. This arc and how it was written only show me that the author wanted to share this message: Chinese people are better than others and white people are obviously not only worse than them, but rude and disgusting.

That's s*upid and too 2D!

The problems that Li Cheng has faced in this arc are realistic, but badly developed until the end. Besides that, this part of the novel made too obvious the bias that the author has towards Chinese people (which, well, might be understandable considering that it's a Chinese novel, duh) .

At the end, it could only made me think that just as 'white' people are discriminative with others, the Chinese are the same, just that they won't admit it.

(Yes, I'm not white and I'm not complaining about this arc because I discriminate Chinese people, d*mn.)

Not only is the ML painting the MC in his spare time (creepy much?) but when he baits MC into looking at his painting, he bites the MC's neck out of the blue. Which I'm pretty sure the MC mentioned earlier was a form of s*xual harassment, even if ML knew the glands weren't there. Mind you, this is before they actually get together.

But I did like the temporary marking part so 1 star for that.

I can't believe he wanted to name their kid gold. In the end, they settled on... lychee?! First you got orange, then you got pomelo, and then lemon, now lychee? What's next? Lime? Grapefruit?

The ML's relationship with his parents is a large plot point in this story. His parents are extremely controlling and see him as a puppet to fulfill their unaccomplished desires rather than as their child. I saw how much he realized he needed to break away from them after he fell in love with the MC. It was a relief when he broke away and built a new life for himself. He sent his parents to prison for their crimes (I'll leave this unelaborated, let's just say they were very bad at their jobs). I wish we could've seen more from them to close off that chapter, but they didn't appear anymore after that. I get it though, as the author probably wanted to focus of the relationship of the MC and ML.

In the extras, they have a kid! I love how MC still held his confidence and kept the same attitude even though he had a child. It just shows how solid of a character he is, especially since I find many MC's tend to become weaker and softer in similar plots, which isn't a bad thing but it's a complete shift in character that is usually unnecessary.