the greatest strength of this novel is the character development, the story is about the MC doing "villain-like" tasks to make money as a broke high school student living alone. The overall theme is post-traumatic growth and the world is so believable it feels like a biography of people that existed (apart from there being a system and transmigration). The comedy is not forced but a mix of goofiness, sarcasm and awkwardness, capturing the school life atmosphere, but at the same time not overlooking some of the darker elements like bullying and the overly competitive Chinese school system.

Some of the actions of the ML can feel a little off because of a lack of proper consent, but apart from that he is very supportive of the MC, respecting his boundaries most of the time, and is better than most MLs of east-Asian bl web novels.

The system is very cute and doesn't intrude at all in the flow of the story, but rather adds a lot to it as a character.

Once the villain's value reaches 100%, MC was suppose to end up "sleeping in the streets." The result was that the apartment MC owned was slated to be demolished by the government. According the the author, this is a good thing since MC will be compensated with a lot more money than what the apartment was originally worth. So MC got his happy ending of love and money.

When they first had penetration s*x, MC was screaming that it hurts and want ML to stop. ML just got more excited and just do it more and harder. Like, I thought ML doesn’t want to scare MC and wants to go at MC pace? I would be traumatize as hell if I were MC.

• Yizhong is a prestigious high school where people are either super rich or super studious can go. How did MC continue to stay as a student when he's literally living with c*ckroaches and saving pennies to survive? Especially since his grades were dead last at the beginning. Plus, none of the other students put on airs about being rich, though that's definitely not needed in the novel.
• ML's personal hobbies. He's just 18, but apparently he's smoking and attending a club house regularly that apparently supplies escorts to these rich kids. Even the manager was bringing some new models over and ML's best friend is encouraging him to pick a model to release stress and they're both talking as if this is regular behavior for them... and then in other chapters, they're written as normal teenagers again, who've never been on a proper date and act like virg*ns when trying to figure out how to get someone to like them back, etc. It's just so incongruent, it's like the author started off writing a college aged character and then remembered they're just high schoolers in second year.
• ML's family issues. I think his neglect and ab*se during childhood are pretty deep issues and I feel like the novel never addressed them properly at all. ML had probably his first ever emotional outburst/fight with his parents, mainly over having a boyfriend and not the past, and the mum just telling the dad to let ML be because they weren't present much in the past... like, that's not a resolution? The Extras don't even mention if anything was resolved either, only that ML built a major business empire and did not rely on his family's help. That could imply a lot of things.
  
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