It does not help that Mo Ran will fantasize about it every few pages, usually in a little too much detail. When Mo Ran dies in his previous life after having achieved his revenge goals he is transmigrated years back when he was 15-16 before he took on the dark path and decides to leave the past behind him and persue his past-life crush - Shi Mei. We get a superficial glance at the side stories, and throughout the arc, detail by shocking detail is exposed and we end up with a deeper insight into the lives of the side characters, discovering that there's more to the story than what meets the eye. Those who have not been reincarnation dilution of persistence, always in the long life, get love again and again embrace.

But a mature love where there are no need many words, It's just like "Knowing that I'm always by your side is enough. His shizun was really similar to a cat, while he himself was like a dumb puppy slobbering and wagging his tail. This Chinese fantasy (xianxia) epic built around the desire between two men (danmei) has been translated into multiple languages and inspired a multimedia franchise in China. I would need a lifetime to come up with everything that happened in this first book, and it’s only the beginning of a huge series.It was also because he was still at the beginning when he knew how terrible he would be in the future, that why he finally chose to stop and ended up betraying himself and considers his eyes as payment for his betrayal.

However the moment he is "brought back" to life he instantly fucks the guy he was sleeping with in a brothel to unconsciousness and steals his valuables, like even if he had wronged him in his previous life it's a pretty asshole thing to do. If the author wanted to make us believe that Mo Ran was sorry they wouldn't have shown him getting turned on while reminiscing about him raping his shizun. I'm well aware of what they've done for each other even since the beginning, and that more sacrifices and understanding happens later on in the story.Sacrifice, unbeknownst to the party it benefits: Chu Wanning is the poster child for making sacrifices and putting himself in harm's way for Mo Ran, even if Mo Ran is completely oblivious to it. Antihero: I am so tired of the righteous and the just protagonists that do everything correctly and courageously and get to face-slap the villains. I'm not sure if the author listed any trigger warnings in the original Chinese version, so I won't say anything about that. AGAIN things I wouldn't have that HUGE of an issue with if this wasn't promoted or presented as a romance novel.

At first he thought, dogs should be with dogs, like his shixiong, beautiful and tame like a cute Japanese Spitz, and the two of them together would surely be a match made in heaven. I found it off-putting that the ML's unconditional love would stretch so far as to love someone that r*pes and tortures him, and the ML even goes as far as to even blame himself even though he was the victim. First of all, the best part of 2ha--besides the passionate, heartrending romance--is undoubtedly the character development.Between Chu Wanning on the verge of death telling Mo Ran to forgive himself and Mo Ran's mother telling him not to bear grudges (while also on the verge of death, I just realized oof), you begin to question whether it's worth holding all these grudges and need for revenge. But the shadow of their former relationship in the previous timeline hangs over them still as Chu WanNing finds he keeps having dreams about a much more sinister and dominating version of his student. And both of them are involved in the plot of slowly forshadowed danger where the one in the dark used demonic Forbidden techniques once mastered by MoRan in his previous life, giving him a sense of bad premonition.

I picked up the novel partially because I saw it's very popular and people seemed to like it a lot, upon reading the premise I found it interesting and was curious about it so I decided to check it out.

It does not seem necassery to the plot as it plays pretty much no part in either characters' development nor is how it affected them negatively ever properly explored.