It’s not good. Like a badly written telenovela or soap opera, it’s riddled with plot holes. Side characters vanish without a trace. The main character’s personality swings wildly in the beginning, as if the author hadn’t figured out how to write him consistently. The male lead is supposed to be vengeful and competent, yet he never discovers that the main character took year-long swimming lessons. The villain, predictably in Chinese novels, is the illegitimate brother of the main character. The main character is lazy, doing nothing but spending money on clothes and jewelry and admiring himself in the mirror. Somehow, this is supposed to be endearing? His older brother and the male lead buy him yachts and islands because he acts like a princess. The main character is essentially a girl written as a boy for a BL audience. Oh, and in his previous life, he attended Harvard and worked on Wall Street (eye roll).
I really enjoyed the author’s xianxia novel "After I Was Preached By My Senior Brother" (though the title is poorly translated), so I decided to read this one. This novel almost feels like it has the same main character and male lead (a wasteful, extravagant MC and an overpowered, handsome, yandere husband-like ML), but it’s like a terribly written, modern life/business version. It also got super boring after the time-skip and when the main character and male lead reunited. I kept going because I hate dropping a novel I start, but the ridiculous soap opera ending is so badly written that I can’t even describe it.
Two stars for having a variety of female characters who aren't all brainless cannon fodder villains.
