Chapter 26 and ML is still not with MC "officially", the main story ends at Chapter 28. Big red flag. ML kinda deserves the hate but relatable at the same time.

There is this thing that I felt about the novel (especially the MC) that made me rate the novel quite high personally. Even though the MC has done every typical thing in an usual romantic teenfic novel, I felt that the MC didn't exactly love the ML, it was more like an adoration (or pity for someone that deserves to live more than MC) out of desperation, giving himself a purpose in an unknown world. He was an ordinary person transmigrated into a novel with tr*shy reputation, not a Fantasy genre so no magical buff or heroic destiny to accomplish, bad at maths so no skills for financial management, can't be a hermit when you have a bunch of concubines and kids (that are not even his) to take care of.

At the start of the novel, MC constantly looked for a way to survive and change his bad ending, typical, anyone would do that. Yet, he was willing to suffer a similar ending in the end. MC made a choice that is his own, within his capacities as an ordinary person. His decision is not related to the novel world's original plot, it was for his "love" towards ML, something that is from the MC and not the original holder of his body.

Aka dealing with existential crisis indirectly by finding a raison d'être, justifying the MC's circumstances imo. I don't think this is the author's intention but this novel left an impression on me hahaha.

The HE tag is a bit imo misleading. Without the last extra, it would have been a solid B (ad) E (nding) actually. From what I've seen, apparently the first extra only made it a G (ood) E (nding), and the second one a forced HE, not many liked it. I personally prefer the BE one, and wish that I could unsee the extras.