ZJ is absolutely irredeemable. He approached LS under false pretenses and colluded with his cousin to ruin LS business causing him to lose millions and eventually he had to leave the company he built. All so ZJ could help his cousin take back LS boyfriend who he was abusive to.

ZJ stalks LS by tracking his whereabouts, makes a copy of his house key and follows him everywhere to embarrass and humiliate him if he thinks LS is with another man.

When LS over hears ZJ telling his cousin he is using LS and basically just wants to f*ck him and making sure LS wont take revenge but will throw him away when he gets tired.

ZJ has the nerve to be upset that LS doesn't want him anymore and acts like a victim while also blackmailing LS into being with him by threatening to send LS Dad to jail.

ZJ lies continually, so LS never knows when he is telling the truth.

ZJ never once apologized for the horrific things he's done which included raping LS while he was drunk.

By the end of the novel LS just became s*upid and knows he shouldn't be in this relationship but he "loves" him even though ZJ told him that he would ruin his families life and even lock him away just to have him.

ZJ never learned his lesson At all. He wasn't remorseful until he knew LS would fold and come back to him just because he got stabbed.

This one of the few novels where I wish the characters did not end up together.

If this was real life ZJ would probably end up mu*dering LS because if he cant have him no one can. The rest of us would be listening to his mu*der case on a podcast talking about how sad and horrible this person is.

When Li Shuo tr*shes the hotel suite he has previously lovingly decorated for Jinxin's birthday, and has a rare emotional breakdown, it hits so much harder because of how he's normally such a calm and collected character. Later on, when Jinxin accidentally sees the hotel room with the destroyed decorations, he finally realizes just how much Li Shuo loves him and exactly what he's lost due to his own spoiled, malicious actions. It's truly heartbreaking.

• Nice and kind (often slightly older/mature) MC shou meets villainous ML gong
• ML and MC get together and the MC pours all his love and care on the ML
• ML turns out to be scum and does something unforgivable to the ML and betrays his trust
• MC finally has enough and leaves
• ML realizes he can't live without the MC
• ML chases the MC, sometimes going full yandere and doing crazy things to win his lover back
• ML finally persuades the MC that he truly loves him and regrets his past bad behavior, often through an act of putting himself in danger for the MC's sake
• MC and ML get back together and have a more balanced relationship. Happy end.

Lots of angst, emotional suffering and dogblood tropes.

Li Shuo's entire body stiffened. Staring at Zhao Jinxin in disbelief, he felt as though he had been struck by a bolt out of the blue.

He had never expected that Zhao Jinxin, actually, wanted to f*ck him?!

However, some of Jin Xin's actions mirrored Shao Qun's actions from Sissy so much that I really hated him at a point. After all his redemption period I really felt his emotions and love that I began to forgive his character. After all, he's also a spoilt kid as mentioned - his father had him late and overprotected and doted on him too much. Also, I like how the book ended well with marriage and happily ever after. I shed tears of happiness at the proposal and marriage "ceremony".

The proposal left me bittersweet because although I love that the characters I've followed are all gathering together, if I was in Li Shuo's shoes and saw how the proposal was mirrored just like how Zhao Jinxin's birthday room was, I would have been distraught. Seeing how ZJX kept the little lamb toy was moving but... for some reason it felt like that "confession." I don't know, I just have mixed feelings even if this novel has less dog blood than the rest.