[Chinese BL novel] 真少爷摆烂后成万人迷了[重生] by 日光融融 / The true young master becomes a popular figure after rebirth*

*mtl'd title, which I basically corrected to fit the content.

Summary: Wei Tinglan is reborn to seven years prior. He is still a young high schooler, who returned to the home of his biological parents and family for a year, but this road was not smooth. His tough life under the cruel fist of his uncle, living a poor life and depending on good will of neighbors, Wei Tinglan clawed his way up when he finally grew up strong enough to resist. For others he has a poor background, but he fought for his way to study and also not being exploited by his uncle's family. All before he found out that he was not the biological child of the Wei family. But his biological parents did not show any great joy in welcoming the new son that grew up outside. Poor boy in their eyes was not presentable, they did not even bother to find out what kind of life their son led.

Years of struggle to be admitted, to be loved were met with indifference. Because he had no real value he was left behind. But when he started filming and his life became better and he was on the verge of being free, he was pulled down again by the scheming family and the fake young master Tao Chen.

Now when he is back to high school We Tinglan does not bother to integrate with the Tao family. They don't care about him and he doesn't care about them.

But this life still brought him the greatest surprise in the face of Wei Chuan. A silent handsome man, sitting in the wheelchair and ruling the low-key, but extremely wealthy Wei family.

He became the closest person.

Note: Both are Wei, but different character in the original.

I want to start from the best thing to me, one thing that I found most impressive? That is in rebirth MC can change their attitutde towards people who might have hurt him in the past, because they distinguish between past and present and know that the past harm has not happened yet. Mostly when we talk rebirth novels people bring a lot of hate and resentment from the previous life and eventually they start their revenge off the bat. Some characters do deserve some sort of "revenge", like a prime example is the Tao family. Tinglan knows that his father is a selfish person, for entire year Tao Chen was supported more because of value, while Tinglan brought unrest to the family. Even if things changed and the attitude may change, but not much, it is deeply interwoven with interests for Tao father. Unlike Tao family or Tao Chen there are two characters who might have brought hurt to Tinglan, but they are not inherently bad. He Qinglin and Jing Sheng.

He Qinglin was Tinglan's obsession, since they were promised to each other and Tinglan wanted to be recognized so much. Jing Sheng was Qinglin's friend, but he also was acting like a little boy, tugging on Tinglan to make him pay attention, but all he got was misunderstanding of his character.

In this life Tinglan saw them still being teenagers and even if he tried to stay away, but eventually they became friends and Tinglan decided not to judge a person who has no clue for things they didn't do or for the past life.

The story is simple, not bad at all, even if it has quite old tropes and things we've seen before. Some of the episodic moments remind me other stories about fake/true young masters. Because usually it's always high school time, there is some sort of friction or attempts to discredit one another, competing with grades, fake hooking up with people in attempt to gain benefits or any other stuff.

After rebirth Wei Tinglan is helped by ML to the hospital, Wei Chuan has a soft spot for this young boy who barely holds on and he stretches a helping hand. This basically helps Tinglan to have a breather before he leaves the Tao family and moves to the dormitories and starts a peaceful life that is full of more confidence and knowledge.

His connection with Wei Chuan starts from the hospital, from simple visits of thanks to deep friendship and care. Eventually Wei Chuan admits Tinglan as his own little brother and takes good care of him and his health, which let's admit was pretty bad considering his growing environment.

Parallel to that Tinglan deals with the school life which gets better and two people who were his deep scars in the past life. Although it sounds dramatic, but He Qinglin was hi target of pursuit, yet it also brought him a lot of trouble, like Qinglin's mother or Tao Chen who aimed to become a couple with Qinglin. Another person is Jing Sheng, who became a prominent figure, but had no idea about his deep feelings for Tinglan and instead spoiled all the possibility of them getting closer. Overcoming the hurdle i his heart Tinglan saw good in the young men and became friends with them. Distinguishing past and present was essential.

The first part of the novel, up to ch 50+ is more dynamic. But I must say that from ch60+ and till the end it felt like the brotherly love got dragged quite a bit and this is the reason for me shaving stars.

There was so much emphasis on brotherly love, being relatives etc. And I'm not a fan when people consider themselves family end up together. But eventually Wei Chuan notices first that he has improper thoughts about Tinglan, but he does not make a move and although he has a small struggle how to act around Tinglan, he simply gives up and returns to square one. Tinglan was slower in this regard, maybe there were signs of his love being love actually, because they were quite close and he did not want to claim it as love, simply because he was scared of love. But eventually he took the step closer when both inadvertantly realized they have more feelings for each other. But again because they had so much of brotherly love for so long and Tinglan was young, so I had a premonition that there will be time skips at the end and I was right, there are.

The almost disappointing part became the ending. More like last 20 chapters or so that dragged the emotional line between Wei Tinglan and Wei Chuan, it just felt like it takes too long.

There is another one. It's all spoilers, but the novel took a cliche direction when all participants started to get the past life experience one after another. I wanted it not to ruin the novel and previous relatiosnhip, but the ending was thankfully satisfactory. He Qinglin was the first one. He had deep regrets towards Wei Tinglan, he wanted to atone and love him, but knew that his family situation did not allow him that, he worked to get the position in the He family, since his situation is more complicated. His mother plotted a lot against Tinglan under influence of Tao Chen, he regretted that he had given his loved ones so much freedom to destroy a life.

Jing Sheng was much later case, because of an accident. But he had the most intense reaction because he decided to kidnap Tinglan at the very end. I thought this part we could do without and thankfully Tinglan was sain enough to enlighted Jing Sheng for him to think thoroughly about their situation, that there is no love, he is already with Wei Chuan, it will lead to tragic ending, while he had family etc. Thus they could have such a peaceful conclusion to it and there is no astonoshing revenge plot.

Last one was Tao Chen, insignificant part, served only to let Wei Chuan know and investigate it. Now he knew that both men chasing Tinglan hurt him and were not worth it.

Of course this also estranged Qinglin, Sheng and Tinglan, because before they were innocent teens, but now they are older versions of themselves, their past selves who hurt him. He could only wish them the best and make them look at life that even if they feel regret, he hopes they heal and become better. So this was a good part.

Relationship was good. The best part of the novel. It's almost like a found family but also a relationship. It all starts with good will. Wei Chuan sees Tinglan as someone worthy of raising and caring for, the boy is actually good and kind, but is not loved by his family. Wei Chuan starts to care for Tinglan and provides him, accomodating him to the point of becoming brothers, so no one will dare to move him. Eventually the line is crossed when he realizes that he simply fell in love with the boy and he doesn't want others to hurt him. Tinglan admitted that he might have issues, because he doesn't mind a bit of possessive tendencies in Wei Chuan, he was so insecure and lacking in love in previous life, that such intense feelings give him the security he needs.

They found love and care and light in each other that led them to a better place.

RATE: 4/5. COuld be better if the emotional line did nto drag out so much. Otherwise entertaining and quite delicate.