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The setting in the previous life was the obvious 'son of heaven' vs 'villain'. MC was the villain while his younger brother (ogMC) was the son of heaven. In short, ogMC came with a protagonist halo package. OgMC was the standard white lotus. Unfortunately, because ogMC was pure inside out, he took things as it was. For example, MC became the villain, and yet no one bothers to wonder why. Because ogMC studied Pharmaceuticals, MC also decided to pursue it even though he has no capability in coming up with a formula. All he did was took the existing formula, and make it 10x better. It's like you're reading this book and decided to write a fan-fic. The backlash was, MC did not receive any recognition. Like this book, people focus more on the writer instead of the editor.After rebirth, MC decided to stay away from ogMC and ogML. Instead of following the previous path, he took on a new one. He decided to pursue Mecha and he got the talent in it. I don't think MC was OP. Because he was a genius in Math, he learned things faster than other people. In the first half of the story, he never came up with new ideas, mostly tweaking existing ideas and making them better with his Math power. Once he gained more knowledge, only then he started coming up with ideas. And please remember he had his previous life knowledge and experience. If you call that OP, then it probably is.ogMC as the son of heaven started sensing things were different. He had a gut feeling that he was supposed to be this and that and yet, it never happen. And then he was reminded by the people around him that yes, he did come up with awesome formula but, because no one could calculate it, it remained just an awesome formula that could not be implemented. The one who did all the calculations was the MC. So, ogMC started using all kinds of methods to get MC to go back to Pharmaceuticals. You can call it white lotus blackening because ogMC started to turn into a green tea b*tch.Because the plots focus more on MC, Mecha, and Zerg, the romance was not much. Some readers even questioned MC's high IQ and low EQ and that he never learned from his previous life. MC was not the sort of villain who goes all out blowing people's brains. Because of the setting, even if he breathed, he was already a set-stone villain. I mean, if you were scared of heights in your previous life, should you not be afraid of them anymore once you're reborn? MC believed that people around him hated him. So, he was over-conscious and had low esteem. As the story progresses, with the help of the ML, his friends, and teachers, MC realized that it was not like that at all. Truthfully speaking, everyone he met in his second life was probably NPC in his first life. Because they had no direct interactions with ogMC and ogML, they were not shackled with the son of heaven setting.In short, I like the plot and how the writer envisions the story. There were flaws here and there and yet, I wanted more. And do take note that I MTL the rest of the chapters. What I did was search for the source and used google translation.