ML won't listen or consider MC request. I understand it is due to the ancient setting but god, it leave a bad taste in my mouth. MC have no say in their relationship and she is submissive to the point it scares me.

She keeps reminding us of her modern thinking, she will try to do some things but once the ML "no", she dropped everything because ML's eyes looks scary etc. The pro I can find about this novel is that MC admit she is s*upid and spineless. I find this worse than the Bakarina type of novels.

My favourite moment between them is the birth scene. ML was totally running out of patience (like the kind of person I am too LOL...) and he couldn't bear to see the MC be in pain. The servants had a hard time because of him!! Thank god the Empress Dowager was not there to judge!

when ML's past is revealed and the MC's kidnapping scene. Other than that, the author throws in a lot of humour in her writing style. Even the maid beside the MC get her own funny story at the end of the story.

I mean, where did that assassination at the end comes from? How was it resolved? Also, that looming enemy in the north, although I know that there's domestic strife in their country, is it resolved just like that

such as the barbarian prince who swore revenge against our MC & ML, and whom the ML certainly had every intention of eliminating. He had every sign of being a villain boss, but that plot thread just vanishes afterwards, and the border war fades out to become a footnote. It wouldn't even have been an issue if there wasn't all that buildup and suspense to begin with. I even checked the other stories in the setting to see if it got continued there, but nada.

ML is your typical cold and handsome ml. He's also doesn't like touching or being touched by others he considers outsiders, basically everyone including his brother and mother, and that goes the same for anything in his possession. When MC marries him, she was considered his, so nobody is allowed to touch her in his presence. There is a psychological trauma behind this and his cold nature. He may act like he don't care about the rumors but he fears it. Evident of the fact when the MC gets a cold he drowns MC with medicinal soup. He also begged MC when he thought she's sleeping to "... stay with me..." he fears MC will disappear on him that he makes sure he always has MC in his embrace every night before he sleeps. Because of this fear, he is very protective and very possessive of MC.

MC is not your typical smart and beautiful heroine. She is describe as sweet and cute but not that beautiful. Sometimes she may get describe as pretty but there are always others who are more beautiful than her. She is also not too smart and even a little slow, which she admits herself. But its not because she's dumb she just doesn't care. Even when the empress dowager sends concubines or when she met ML's childhood friend whose quite close to ML she has this "meh it's ancient times, women don't have power and opinion here. As long as I have food, shelter and money, I really don't care how many mistresses my husband have." She doesn't even treat him as her husband rather his boss and being his wife is just a job. She knows that since she's a concubine's daughter she doesn't have much status in empress dowager's eyes (even if ED herself ordered their marriage). Her family also doesn't like her very much (except for the parents who raised her) grandma even treat her as stain in their family.

I particularly like how they describe their daughter as super similar to cold-faced stern ML and how everyone worries she’ll find it hard to find a hubby later lol. Zhen, her shadow guard seems to be her potential future hubby. Second child BaiBai being similar to the Empress Dowager also cracks me up. All the other kids fear ChuChu and BaiBai cause of who they resemble lol! Would have loved more side stories.