Rebirth to a Military Marriage: Good Morning Chief

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Qiao Nan: Crap! I am your biological daughter, yet I am treated as if I was picked up from the streets. In fact, you treat me worse than that!

Mother Qiao: Qiao Nan, you are not as pretty or smart as your elder sister. You are not as blessed as her. You have no right to study, marry, or to have your happiness!

Qiao Nan: Why am I not allowed to study, marry, or to seek my happiness? I will find a man right now and marry him!

Qiao Nan is dumbstruck upon discovering that the man right beside her is a powerful figure in the quad—the person who has the most promising prospects to be the future Chief.

Qiao Nan stares at the well-built man in front of her. He has firm abs and cold, chilling eyes. She swallows the lump in her throat as she says her greetings, “Good Morning, Chief!”

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重生军婚:首长,早上好!
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Tea Fragrance
Tea Fragrance rated it
July 2, 2019
Status: c2080
Congratulations, this novel has done it—it has forced me to write my first (and probably only) review on NovelUpdates.

I'll say it outright: This novel left a bad taste in my mouth. Not because the story plot or writing was terrible. The kind of bad taste it left is the kind I feel after reading a tragedy. I'm so tempted to tag this with the 'tragedy' tag. However, please note that overall, this novel is NOT a tragedy and is actually pretty decently written. Please skip to the end for my... more>> overall thoughts on the story because I will be spoiling it heavily in the next part.

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Are you sure you really want to know? It's major spoilers I kid you not.

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Ok, fine, here goes. I'm currently at Chapter 1669 and the story has progressed to the point where the current arc is on the MC's children. She has triumphed over all the bad things in her past life and the major antagonists are no longer an issue. However, the total number of chapters is 2541, which means that I've only read two-thirds of the story. So I'm like wtf this story can't possibly go on like those Taiwanese dramas with thousands of episodes and move on to talk about her great-great-grandchildren, could it?

Being a curious baby, I went to peek at the later chapters and DUN DUN DUN.

The MC wakes up.

She f*cking wakes up.

Basically, everything that happened before was only a goddamn dream. She's still in her late thirties and her life is still as terrible as before she got into the car accident in the very beginning. My god I can't even—

*gets violent flashbacks of teachers in secondary school who warned us on the pain of death to not end our essays with "She woke up and it was a dream."*

Why, author, why? I feel so bloody cheated. More than that, I feel tremendous sadness for the MC that her life is still as shitty as ever.

The sadness you feel here is two-prong. First is sadness for the MC. Next is sadness for the side characters who are back to living their original lives or had their existence erased. After her 'rebirth', the MC plays key roles in numerous character's lives (including several characters that she would not have met in the original timeline) and changes their lives for a lot better. The MC's main impact on these characters would be on their marriages and life decisions but there is also a major character whose life she saved. All these have a butterfly effect on other areas of the story, e.g. The lives, death and health of the side characters' family members and the subsequent kids they have. After she wakes up, their life development goes back to zero. Characters remain trapped in terrible marriages and lives that the MC wasn't there to prevent. They don't end up with partners who truly love them. Lovable kids that we've read extensively about don't even exist because the MC wasn't there to help their parents get together. The key character—who is supposed to end up with her best friend—remains dead because the MC wasn't there to save him. Heck, her super supportive best friend's not even her best friend anymore because their lives don't cross in this original timeline.

It might not seem like a big deal when I say it like this but keep in mind that these side characters are people that the author has dedicated countless chapters to. Their thoughts and motivations have been laid out clearly and even if you still don't care that much about them, as long as you've been faithfully following the novel, it's inevitable to get a little invested in their stories. The 'it was a dream' plot twist is extremely cruel to not only these characters but also us readers. We've been led into thinking that their happily-ever-afters are concrete realities but it turns out that all these were simply what-ifs.

Going ahead, the MC will fix her life after waking and still ultimately end up with the ML. However, what was done to the side characters, or rather, what wasn't done to them cannot be fixed and this is what leaves the bad taste in my mouth.

Update as of Chapter 2080: It feels like none of the side characters will have an ending that measures up to the one in the dream : (
*cries* 真是阴差阳错 (They all missed true happiness by a hair due to the wrong circumstances.)

For people who can find beauty in tragedies, they might enjoy this story and find it inspiring how the MC was able to turn her life around without the deus ex machina of a rebirth.

For me, someone who all too acutely feel the melancholy of life every day, this story was a can of worms that I would've rather not opened. Even though I am able to appreciate tragic stories, I can't stomach how they linger and affect me emotionally long after I've read it.

Since I've started, I will continue reading to see how everything plays out.

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Issues in spoiler aside, the book is written pretty well and the arcs are tied up satisfactorily. Certain loose ends that would've have been brushed over or ignored in another novel were all addressed by the author. There were numerous times when I wondered about specific points and the author addressed it immediately in the subsequent chapters. Kudos to the author for being able to do this since the numerous relationships and characters in this novel can get pretty complicated. One thing though, the author tends to repeat herself a lot. The way she rambles on is quite natural but it can become glaringly obvious as you read on.

As other reviewers mentioned, the plot is more of a melodrama instead of being super dog blood. This is a very realistic story with realistic characters. Most of them are not one-dimensionally good or bad, and everyone (except for key antagonists) has their own flaws/ good points. Oh, oh, oh, you know what was so fricking refreshing about the story? The MC actually has female FRIENDS who are not back-stabbing, lying, evil b*tches that she and us readers have to guard against the moment they appear in the story. Good female side characters are actually a thing here, hallelujah. I also really like the MC's personality after her rebirth. It's similar to the MCs in "Eight Treasures Trousseau" and "To Be A Virtuous Wife". She does not actively revenge on people and only wants to live out her life according to her own interest after her rebirth. However, this doesn't mean that she's a doormat. She will retaliate if people step on her tail. The changes in her thoughts and mentality as she ages is also written very naturally.

Overall, after you've jumped into this pit, "Rebirth to a Military Marriage" is a good novel for whittling time away but don't get too invested as it may come back to bite you. <<less
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rdawv
rdawv rated it
June 19, 2019
Status: complete
Edited to add spoilers at the end.

The cover picture does it no favours, this reads more like a family drama instead of the light-hearted image shown. The title is based on a single throw-away line in an early chapter... and really, tells you nothing about the heavy drama in the story. It is not very lighthearted.

Not sure how good the story since there are so many chapters. But based on its early ability to elicit emotions, 4/5. To put it mildly, the more you read this story the more you... more>> feel the urge to beat the crap out of those who constantly abuse and accuse the female lead. Reading ahead 180 chapters in raws made me want to strangle the ridiculously biased mother and selfish sister as well as smacking some sense into the indecisive father (he made up his mind long ago but constantly stopped short of actually doing something).

This is a story of an unwanted younger daughter who kept being sacrificed by the resentful mother to advance the life of the less talented and flighty elder sister. She returned to the past and quickly decided to be more assertive and no longer be a doormat; her change of attitude and self-reliance was nice to see. You would keep feeling for her because she is a young teenager with no real way of doling out immediate payback: the best she could do is to ignore the mother and sister and hide behind the father until she can leave the house and be independent on her own.

Along the way she would help and be helped by people who regard her much better than her own mother; one of which is a mysterious and desirable iceberg type of powerful man (of course he is). He is years older but that doesn't stop his interest to groom her from the background, in a reserved kind of way (nothing pervy).

According to the infobar there are 2541 chapters and I can see why: it reads like an ongoing narrative; there are chapters describing the events of a single hospital visit, for example. Things keep happening to and around the female lead; if she kept a diary every page would be completely full.

Decent read to while away your time.

edit: about the length of the novel, heavy spoilers:

Also there are entire chapters where a dialogue is paused so that paragraphs of exposition explaining the background/personality/thought process/emotion going through the persons involved and for the conversation to only continue in the next chapter.

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The story is very long because it goes into wide tangents and the relationships of almost everyone close to the FL. Her friends, her senior, her sister-in-law, a former love-rival... all of them are directly affected by her and rely on her for advice. So much so that the other half in each of those relationships are comically jealous by the importance their partner had for the FL. Then the story went further into her children's lives, from cute babies to post-grads. And lastly... just when everything seemed resolved and nothing else to the story could go on; the entire final third of the story is goddamn reset. The story began with the FL returning to the past as she lay broken on a hospital bed; the final third of the story have her 'waking up' from the beautiful dream... that she was indeed still on the hospital bed and the previous 1748 chapters we read was wiped away. Nothing had changed, it was all a dream. The nightmare scenario of her original timeline continued as it was. It might be tough to read on as we are given info on who did what all over again in this timeline. Everything the FL had 'gained' in the 'rebirth' had been lost and she was once again a 40 year old woman with little prospects. But rest assured, the FL once again quickly found her feet and rediscover her happiness in this 'real' timeline. For those curious, no, there is no going back to the 'dream' timeline. For better or for worse, you can stop reading at the awakening and not really miss anything; or actually start the novel from there. The author repeat "in that timeline this happened to this person, but in this timeline this happened instead" really quite often.

Conclusion: A good read, if you can avoid flipping the table at times.

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nebulae90
nebulae90 rated it
June 7, 2020
Status: c891
I started reading this novel from another website. So initially, I didnt really read the review section. If I had read the major spoiler, I would have dropped it. I was so shocked by the mentioned spoiler that I checked out the book in machine translations (Trust me, it is not enjoyable to read the chapters in that crappy english). The spoiler turned out to be true.. Wahhh..... more>>
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Only consolation is that they show it like as if that dream is an actual life from another world. This kind of "She woke up from the coma and found it to be a dream" crap is very cruel to the readers as well as the some of the characters whose existence has been erased. Though the FL ends up with ML, what about the side characters who are living a miserable life. The author should have ended this novel with the happy ending that the FL got in the supposed "dream/another life". This after the dream stuff could have been a spin-off book separate from the original novel. That way, everyone would have been happy.

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Thank God, I came across the spoiler when I have read only till chapter 891. I'm going to treat as if the book has ended at a particular point. The garbage that comes after that pivotal chapter will be excluded or treated as spin off. <<less
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ShouldHaveBeenACat
ShouldHaveBeenACat rated it
February 21, 2021
Status: c1200
I have been enjoying this story for over a year. Unfortunately I skipped ahead a couple of chapters and found out where it was going. The authors new direction with the plot feels like a betrayal of all the emotions I have invested in the characters up to this point. I'm very sad about it.
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Kairi645
Kairi645 rated it
June 1, 2019
Status: c30
Read the latest so far on webnovel and it's really good. Yes she goes through hardships buts she's not easy to bully but also not emotional either. She was treated like crap and never let it down but her attitude never changed. She was smart enough to keep quiet in certain matters that benefitted her but was loud enough to get what she needed. What I like most was that in this story their not that unreasonable compared to other stories. The crappy mom and sister, had to be forcefully... more>> realistic, with situations. They knew that they were incapable and that not everything can possibly be in their favor from their own actions. This story also has a different starting point from other stories that I genuinely like. <<less
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Lissie Furen
Lissie Furen rated it
July 15, 2021
Status: c1840
What bums me out of chinese romance novels is that finding actual romance is very hard. So much emphasis is put into the relationships between family and relatives that basically nothing is done about the actual couple. So many chapters are spent on going round and round on the thoughts of relatives and acquintances rather than showing the evolution of the main characters relationship. At one point, it seems like there is more tenderness from the parents in law towards Qiao Nan than anything the husband ever did (he even... more>> scoffs at the notion of marrying because of love). And with myself having been married for more than 10 years and with children I can say that a good marriage is not about having a good relationship with your inlaws, it is virtually 90% a couple´s affair. Kids, even if your in laws hate your guts, if you take care of your relationship with your partner, you can have a happy marriage. And my other issue is always painting s*xual activity for a couple as an awful ordeal for women and a sort of satisfying hunt session for men. Come on writers, you can do way better than that. <<less
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LeeAthene
LeeAthene rated it
October 5, 2020
Status: c1292
I don't feel the romance at all in this novel. If there is, it is very slight. I like the domineering character of the ML however the author does not give him proper exposure. He is the damn ML but I feel that he is like 3rd supporting role the most. His wife got pregnant and was in military but why the hell there is no part when he learns about it? His family has that part but he doesn't?? His family is more important than him? Same story when... more>> it was known that the FL is carrying twins! No part of him being shocked at all! And of course same story when the FL finally gave birth to triplets instead of twin! No part of him at all!!! Sooooo annoying! He is always missing in action but it is not his fault!!!! I thought the tag is romance??? <<less
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08phamann
08phamann rated it
July 21, 2019
Status: c84
An angel on the NU spoilers forum did arc summaries for the whole novel and now I feel like I completely read the entire novel without actually wading through 2.5k chapters worth of drama and shit. Needless to say I was really into this novel. I read the translations up until the 80 chapter mark and I really like it. MC wasn't op and didn't have some amazing cheat. She actually didn't have much advantage and had to work hard to get her life on track. Also ML didn't seem... more>> that bad. So off to the spoilers I went. And I'm glad I did because the amount of shameless family events, the never ending drama with the sister and other people was just so much. Even in summary form I thought it was tiring, let alone if I had actually read it in the novel. End thoughts: too much family drama, MC and ML, who are powerful in their own right, should have dealt with their shameless asses asap instead of giving them money and letting them constantly stir up trouble.
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And the "it was all a dream" trope.... Was not expected and not very welcome. What was the point of reading like 2k worth of chapters to get to know and invest in these characters when in the end some will not even exist or have completely endings at the end of the story? When MC goes back to the original plot line after getting hit by the truck, the timeline completely changes so it seems kind of pointless.

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Plus ML seemed pretty useless in both lifes in dealing with MC family despite being a great general /commander guy with lots of power so that was super disappointing. MC father was also disappointing. Basically everyone was disappointing. This novel was disappointing. <<less
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marstum_12
marstum_12 rated it
September 16, 2020
Status: c1024
I dropped the novel after certain something happened in the story which annoyed me so much. I will talk about it under a spoiler tag below. But first, I will mention my other, more general complaints about this book.

This novel is supposed to be a romance novel, yet, somehow, the parts I didn't enjoy the most were the romance parts. I never understood why the MC likes the male lead, and their "moments" just felt superficial, forceful to me. Or, rather, the male lead was the one being forceful. The... more>> moments where her relatives and other relatives try to scheme against her, and her countering those, were more enjoyable to read for me. I will talk more about the romance aspect in the spoiler tag.

Other than this, I feel the setting of the novel is wrongly picked. Instead of a modern-day romance, this should be medieval romance or something. Because the big families in the cities act like feudal families, and have authority like one. Their influence reaches everywhere, and they are respected (and sort of obeyed) everywhere. Like how the military positions are inherited like dynastic titles, how such big families can grant favors to individuals in the country (in numerous ways), or the smaller stuff you read throughout the story occasionally. Families compete for more influence by marrying their daughters to other, more influential families. It doesn't feel like a modern-day story. This might be a common problem with female-oriented romance books, where some CEO of a company acts like a ruler of a small kingdom or whatever. But it just feels s*upid.

Another complaint, though a relatively minor one. The narration of the story is a little confusing, like an event is abruptly cut to talk about something else that may have happened in the past or happening in the current time, then going back to the interrupted event suddenly. There isn't much signaling where such shifts happen, so sometimes I got confused about what's really happening. Also, sometimes the pacing is a little fast.

Alright, now I will talk about some spoilers until chapter 1025, where I finally dropped the book. Big spoilers ahead.

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Okay. So the male lead practically r*ped the main character while she was drunk. Yes, that happened, in chapter 1024.

Look, the romance in the book already felt weird to me until then. I mean, the main character was barely able to hold himself from having s*x with MC. There was even a chapter where there was a flashforward (like a flashback but into the future), where he had s*x with her so rough, she wasn't able to walk properly the next day so he ended up bringing the children to school. The MC commented how he was like a beast, unlike the ideal image she had of him in the past as a soldier. But this isn't the scene that ended it for me. I kept reading anyway.

Here's how it all happened. The MC had a fierce confrontation with her mother at her home, which was quite stressful for her. After her mother left (the MC had to threaten her to make her leave, that's how persistent the mother was), she ended up drinking alcohol to try to relax, something she never did before. At that point, the male lead arrived, saw the bottle on the floor, confused, confronted the MC. He SAW she was drunk. She mumbled something related to the previous argument with her mother. About how "she's going to find a man to marry" even if her mother wished otherwise. The male lead got furious, convinced the MC is trying to cheat on him. He confronted her, but she's drunk already. The author even mentioned how it was futile for him to argue this with the MC while she's drunk. Anyway, getting even more furious due to her drunken replies, he took her to a bed, then while she's trying to resist, kicking him and such, he r*ped her. Afterwards, when she woke up, he confronted her about her "wanting to cheat". The MC argued that if he left her alone, she would probably just pass out on the chair. But that's all, as far as I read. It's just ignored later on. I got really annoyed. This is supposed to be a normal thing?

-He r*ped his fiancee during their first time? Oh yeah, what good times.

So we're just supposed to ignore it? I am also surprised that no one really talks about this. Really? What was the author thinking?

Back to the romance element in the book. I feel like, the male lead in this book represents a sort of female fantasy, where their "ideal" partner is a mysterious, dense, wild, forceful man. He takes care of their partner, protects her from harm, and "naturally" expects a lot of s*x. It's completely "normal" how this "ideal man" is barely able to hold himself from initiating s*x with his partner. And he's proud of himself for being able to do that. And feels justified about wanting to "take revenge" when they get married by f*cking her as much as he wants, as forceful as he wants, to relieve all pent up frustration he accumulated from having to hold himself back until then. The male lead has a libido problem which is portrayed as something completely normal. After all that weird "romance" parts, he ended up doing "that". And the author thinks this is a normal, healthy relationship.

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Alright, I think I vented enough. I read that there are even more bad stuff that happens later in the story (albeit a different kind of bad), but I won't talk about that here as I didn't read that further into the story. This just left a bad taste in my mouth. Wish I didn't spend so much time reading it until now. I don't recommend it. <<less
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otakuluv
otakuluv
May 30, 2019
Status: c33
It's barely starting, so far it's good. I really like childhood sweetheart early love and see their growth..
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eyedatgirl
eyedatgirl rated it
October 25, 2022
Status: c57
Dropped. I can't get past how weak the FL is. She is 40 years old between both lives but she is afraid of the ML just because he becomes a high ranking military leader in the future. This is not only unbelievable but annoying AF. Why bother having her be reborn author? Why doesn't she see him as a hero? Another example she can't even get her elder sister to stop trying to take money from her or knock before entering her room. The drama is contrived and not well... more>> written. So far is all comes from shameless c*ckroaches that run when the light is turned on. I'm sad cause I saw potential in this story but I can't be assed to continue. <<less
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Avrohom
Avrohom rated it
June 18, 2022
Status: Completed
This novel is not about romance. It is about love. A huge book, over 2.5K chapters long, in which the FL gets to have her miserable lonely life interrupted at the age of 39 by her mother literally throwing her under the bus on order to harvest her kidney (s) needed by her sickly first daughter and snatch away the FL's money to pay for the kidney transplant and the post op care.

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While in coma which lasted for three days, dreaming, the FL gets to live her life again, starting at the age of 15 all the way to the age of 39 again and in that new life she learns to stand up for herself and for the people she loves, to face veritable Evil in people and to win against it. Bad people around her are not criminals, but they are extraordanarily evil, devilishly selfish. It takes a lot of love and self love, divine forces and divine luck to win against them or to even survive living next to them in the family or on the same Earth.

So, when the FL wakes up from her dream, from that training ground where she practiced the magic of love and self love, she becomes successful and now fights Evil for real and gets to love and be loved for real.

What many readers find disappointing (2/3of the novel is "just a dream") is this novel's strength imho. There were a lot of virtual scenarios at different milestones in a girl's and a mature woman's life where things could go this way or that way and how she makes just the right decision with huge consequences for people around her. When she wakes up from coma, at the age of thirty nine, she has the memories of two full fourty years long lives on which to build the remainder of her real life. It basically tells us that no matter how old we are, we all spend 1/3 of our life dreaming and problem solving in our dreams, untying or cutting emotional knots, and change, real change, and love that streams through us, permeating and nourishing us and other people, is always possible if we choose love instead of brainless self sacrifice to feed some smart Alec's ego and subjugation to Evil.

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A great book, although for me, personally, 2500+chapters was too much. I read the first 580chapters, up to the summer vacations after the first year of high school where the intense rivalry and catfights for the ML begin (NOT interested!!!), and then jumped to the awakening from coma in ch 1748. Simply because the real life portion about mature love life of many mature adults including the FL and thevML who never met each other before is better written than the imaginary, possible life of a starving and horrendously abused teenager with a very old soul in her body and her creatively evil family of psychopaths, sociopaths and narcissists, in this particular book.

Superbly satisfying, occasionally funny and very heart warming. A ray of sunshine in a puddle of cold water.

Atlas Studios translators, thank you! <<less
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Linyka
Linyka rated it
March 25, 2022
Status: c1755
Dropped. Happy that a review had a spoiler tag that stopped me from reading further. Was jumping chapters to see if it reverses.
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i ain’t got time to deal with that family again. That dream lasted for 2/3 of the book. There were a bunch of inconsistencies like how she entered the zhai family house if there’s a guard at the door (won’t point out all the others). But still you get to see her resiliance and accomplishments. She’s basically 90 years of age at this point and she still need to go through 40 more years with that family still alive and no friends and family that she met in the dream. Like no. Not reading.

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Flying Jade
Flying Jade
May 5, 2021
Status: --
It pretty ironic how for a romance novel, everything else is good about the book except for the romance. At a point, after a few hundred chapters, it is much more comfortable to skip the parts with the male lead.

Seriously, other than the first impression of the ML being an excellent soldier, there is nothing else to him. No comic moments, no character development, no steamy romance, no moments of tingly chemistry.

Honestly, pick ANY other male character on the "good" side and they would have brought more sweetness to the... more>> story. <<less
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TaekaixTaekook
TaekaixTaekook
April 23, 2020
Status: Completed
So, I loved the story, I think the tag are not quite accurate but I would like to say that it's an emotional trip. I found myself crying much more than I expected also, ... more>>
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because I red some spoilers I knew that the MC will wake up but I wasn't as disappointed that I thought I would be. It's sad that some characters are no longer part of the MC life but I think that if you see the "dream" as an alternate universe, I think it's possible to cope with the sadness.

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Over all it's a good story with good characters. Also I wish that filial piety wasn't describe in that way, really, can make people explode with rage. <<less
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windbluebell
windbluebell rated it
January 10, 2020
Status: c97
FYI, I'm on c97 and there's been no whiff of a marriage or romance in sight. Take your time reading this. ;)

If you know any unfair sibling situations you'll definitely feel for this story. Phew, some chapters had my heart beating so strongly with stress for the MC. She's a resilient lil' thing with a good temperament. Omg... we've only reached the end of her school year in the story; will there be 300 more chapters to go before she the aforementioned marriage to the Chief?

Edit: On c557 and... more>> still no marriage. <<less
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riririn
riririn rated it
July 22, 2019
Status: c143
I freaking loved this the entire time I was reading but I dropped it because of the major spoiler (SUPER major spoiler) ... more>>
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that the entire thing is a dream and she wakes up from a coma back in her "first life"

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This story freaking made me feel. I cried over how unfairly the mom and the sister treated Nan Nan and I just wanted to go into the story and knock some sense into her family so often. Zhu Baoguo and her had such a sweet relationship. Unlike the summary, it focuses on MC realizing how poorly her family treated her, avoiding the traps they set up for her, and working hard to give herself the happiness she really deserves. She's smart, works hard, and incredibly mature. She doesn't forgive her mom and her sister for what they've done, but she never tries to set up plots or manipulate situations against them to take revenge or satisfy herself. I admire her for how good of a person she is, as much as I would love for them to get slapped in the face with their misdeeds. Instead, every time they have misfortunes, it's because of they let people see their true colors.

At this point, I would have rated it a 5/5, but the spoiler really hurt my heart and made me knock off a star. I think it's totally unsatisfying and I could probably complain about it for ages had I gotten to the part in the novel itself. I'm actually dropping it at this point but I read the spoilers and I think if you want something realistic that will make you emotional this is really great. Nan Nan is incredibly strong girl I love her from the bottom of my heart.

(edit 8/18:) This webnovel is too good and I went back to it ;w; But every time I'm reading I can only think about the reason I dropped it and I get so sad. But it's really so good... this is my guilty pleasure webnovel :') <<less
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ink7blot
ink7blot rated it
June 7, 2023
Status: c2013
If we're just talking about the first 2, 000 chapters, I would give this a 5/5 rating. I read this for years, waiting every week for the updated chapters.

Rebirth to a Military Marriage is almost completely about Qiao Nan and Qiao Nan alone. If it cuts away to someone else's perspective, it's because they're about to do something that will affect her. So since she doesn't follow the male lead on his missions, the story doesn't really contain action and fighting. If her sister is plotting against her, the story... more>> might follow that for a bit and give you an insight into the psychology of this antagonist. But it always returns to Qiao Nan and how she lives her life.

Because of this writing style, I felt so attached to her. The years I read this story, I followed her through highs and lows and important events in her life. I laughed when she was with her friends, cursed when her family tried to screw her over, and cried when she reached the peak of her life. This girl who suffered was now a woman who was happily living her own life. The end. Right?

Here's why I only rated it a 3/5:

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Imagine how much I hated it when the author pulled a "oh her regression was actually all a dream" and everything Qiao Nan had worked for in two thousand chapters went up in smoke. She put in all this effort, went through so much pain and anguish, only to wake up back in her crappy first life where everything is just worse. A lot of the people she'd come to know and love in her "regression" are dead in this timeline, but even the ones who are still alive are unhappy and generally miserable.

And all I could think of was what was even the point of it anymore? I waited for it to finish and then just read the last chapter, and yeah I guess the message was that Qiao Nan can still live well in the "real world" and some things are fated? But that sudden switchup felt like going from heaven to hell. I don't know why the author thought they needed to undo and retcon their own happy ending, but I refuse to accept it and my Rebirth to a Military Marriage ends at chapter 2013, where the main characters get the happiness they worked so hard for.

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whitehana
whitehana rated it
November 22, 2020
Status: c1397
This is a story about the main character's life. First, it showed how the main character gets through high school while dealing with her complicated, scary family. Then, after marriage, she could finally break away from that family though there are some complicated feelings in between due to her father. After that college life and children. And then graduation and work.

This story is the logical type. It's not where you don't like something and you just destroy it. Like, how the ML can't always be with her cause he has... more>> to deal with country matters. And how ML would sometimes fall for the enemy's tricks and suffer a little. He still manage to overturn the situation cause the he was a competent soldier. Although the characters around her may seem a bit powerful, the whole story is still well balanced and logical. It is like slice of life with a mix of drama.

It also has some knowledge on law like when a couple lives apart for two years, one of them could divorced without the others consent. Since it is like they're already divorced. There's also the thing where it is very hard to divorce in a military marriage.

It also expresses many types of many relationship. Like dormmates getting along and another dormmate relationship where they have many complications. It shows that you can't look at a book by its cover. It had also showed the feelings of a variety types of people. So we can understand how this and that type of person feels at this and that time.
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The main character's sister held a great hatred towards the main character due to her mother's actions when she was pregnant with the main character. As she grows older, she understood why she was dumped by her boyfriend. A powerful enemy is better than a noob ally. She knew that by getting chummy with the main character, she could get many benefits. However, she refuses to do so due to the hatred she had towards the main character since childhood (Not like the main character would allow herself to be taken advantage of like that). She learns to get her hands on whatever she could by getting her father's help instead. Well... by threatening him with the main character's reputation.

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There are also character developments. Main character especially grew and became more strong minded (Maybe cause she is not under so much tension anymore) after she gave birth. The character make mistakes sometimes and also learn from them. The main character's father also had a huge character development. It really made me feel like I was on a roller-coaster on his part XD.

Many relationships that were in a mess gets better under the main character's influence way with words. I say way with words because the main character's way of speaking with people confessing their problems make them willing to listen to her. She leads them into realizing something on their own, not by telling them what is what.

There are some parts where I don't know whether to feel bad or laugh at them.
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Main character's future mother in-law asks her how to deal with the woman her son is seeing/dating. Which is her! But the mother in-law did not know that and asks how to break them up... The main character does not console her into accepting the 'woman her son was seeing' but instead use whatever she would tell any other person. Like testing that woman instead or something like that. I don't remember but it wasn't something that would hurt 'that woman'.

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I really love this story! Especially after their marriage where there are less troubles. Although is it logical and shows may sides of reality though their characters are kind of powerful, I still feel that dissatisfaction when meeting something I don't like (Well it is logical and it ends up getting better or made as memories of the past) and that heart wrenching feeling.
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Male lead could not be there when she gave birth prematurely since he was doing missions but he came as soon as he could. And how she lost some IQ after giving birth. The IQ was not so bad, but she did slowly recover since she wasn't as s*upid when taking care of her children. Oh wait! She was not s*upid after giving birth just that her minds wanders into something like ifs which she doesn't do in the past. She herself knows that and lamented how she lost some IQ after giving birth. It's when she was emotionally and mentally unstable when pregnant that was kind of unbearable. But it does express how a pregnant woman is like, even if she was a smart as the main character.

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Chillyboba
Chillyboba
June 26, 2019
Status: c86
Okay... so the synopsis is really misleading. I went into the novel thinking it was a brainless romcom, but it actually turned out to be a family melodrama. God, you just want to slap all the antagonists in there. They are completely shameless! Luckily, our FL is smart enough to counterattack the second time around. And no worries, she isn't OP and tackles her problems in a fairly realistic manner.

As for the romance, at this point, it's pretty much non-existent. Looks like it's going to be a slow burn, which... more>> I'm pretty happy about. The ML seems typical at first read, but I like the fact that he isn't overbearing. In fact, he's pretty sweet towards in the FL (only in the brotherly type way so far tho).

Edit. I have just found out some major news. Read at your own risk!!
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AAAAAHHHH. I'm so pissed right now. Why use the "it was all a dream" trope at the end? Might as well just throw away all the previous chapters! This honestly just leaves a bitter taste. After using so much time and effort to develop the characters and the plot... I just want a simple happy ending damnit. Not a flippin unnecessary plot twist.

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