and killing their baby in front of them... yeah, not going to go well.

Like his residual gu poison, he just sat under a waterfall for 81 days and it was gone. And Misha, Who after pursuing her through two lifetimes, mu*dering countless people, and basically being a sociopath, ended up willingly committing “su*cide” and became a childlike person that somehow only forgot her?

nearly every female villain gets r*ped, sometimes gang r*ped more or less to death. I felt particularly sorry for the 4th sister, whose death was like an afterthought and served no purpose - she was on her way to freedom and then Misha spitefully let bandits capture and r*pe her. She died two months pregnant, surrounded by 10 men, and basically incoherent, but it’s barely mentioned. I really wonder what happened to her brother, since he vanishes.

The marriage was kind of a plot by her “mom, ” even though her mom didn’t do anything to make it happen? And turned out to be another psycho nursing a grudge for 15 years to get revenge on a guy for not liking her.

Sadly one friend that seemed nice just unceremoniously committed su*cide off screen, another afterthought.

Only thing I dislike is the epilogue, I get that the author wanted to get him a happy ending but WTF it gives me horrifying Twilight vibes. Even if the age difference and the parent figure to lover weren't a concern... how could a girl be content to be a replacement for her mother? if that isn't the case, author probably should emphatize the whole daughter being a mini clone of her mother thing. In this, it would have been a nobler end if he kept a loving parent child bond with the next generation and kept loving FL from afar or if he just developed a platonic affectionate marriage with the consort... in this case, romantic love wasn't a must for his happiness, it cheapens the noble way he chose to embrace love the rest of the story

To start, FL is OP and already a top poison master, martial artist, designer and enterpreuner with her own people and properties. She pretty much is already the ruler of a 'dark side' organization. Yet she chooses to go back to Murong family and put up with their bullying and heed their decisions for her fate all the while being bored and cleverly foiling their 'evil' plans. She isn't intent on revenge for the original owner mistreatment at the Murong's hands, nor does she need their resources. So why to bother going back? We don't get enough insight on her character to even understand that starting point.

also is she brainless or what?! all the while it was 'oh she's too lazy to kill them and anyways living badly will be worse than death... she left so many 'harmless' enemies alive and they kept coming like c*ckroaches. After the nth time it happened you'd think they truly learn to deal with threaths permanently. I rather think it was also done this way so the author wouldn't make the main characters cross a line and face a moral conflict. Funny how it is only fine when the kills are mentioned aand not shown

also didn't they mention that ML had a scary reputation and because of his bunch of dead brides no one wanted to marry him so they asked/ordered the neighbour country for a princess to marry him... they had to get to that point so how come he ends up having so many crazy to marry him obsessed girls after him

... the fact that she's supposedly very clever and capable and even to go as far as to use a face mask to keep her appearance 'ordinary'. Yet have a number of potential suitors all clamoring for her hand despite that.

I almost forget that she's a transmigrator from a modern world until they mention that she's an assassin on top of all of that. And all her employees in her shops are from an assassin house.

I really don't see the reason why she stuck around that household and engage in this farce of a roleplay when she is a master of disguise, has a number of nation renowned shops that can supply her for life. With her supposed wit and intellect, she can pretty much disappear into the shadows and still live a good life as one of the several personas she has set up. Master of Medicine, master of dress making, master of jewelry, and hiding her martial arts.

all the female rivals get repeatedly gang-r*ped. I lost track of how often it happened to one character, whose main crime was being diabolical to the MC, whose MC status meant she was basically just better at being diabolical but different in no other real way.

Rape, or revenge gang r*pe is very commonly used here, although the MC remained safe from this mess, many female cannon fodders have been pushed down this pit. Of course, this had to include the in*est and coercion into long term s*xual relationships that have led as far as to miscarriage.

A lot of the characters, main characters included, cannot to stand bis**uals and homosexuals. They've been mentioned all in a very derogatory way by them and the author only assigned homosexual/bis*xual characters with extremely vile roles.

The sexism is prone in the way MC mocks her cannon fodder crew; she'd dig her finger into their socially assigned oppressive roles instead of simply assassinate their character which have been terrible to begin with. For example shunning someone's natural curves as s**tty, mocking a unmarried woman as an old maid (the lady was 20yrs old, mind you) or degrading a lady's low birth that they obviously have no control over or that the fact the social structure supports concubines. Stockholm syndrome and paedophilia nonsense is in the epilogue.

Over the span of the story you can clearly see how little she values the people around her, the friends so she speaks dearly of, she hardly get in contact with to spend quality time together. She'd go as far as take advantage of one of the simps, staying friends with him despite the fact that he declared his love for her. She hasn't shot him down or accepted it for the sake that his overly devoted friendship can earn her a lot of benefits.

This makes a good example of how insignificant our side characters are, because once their turn is over, they wouldn't even get honorary mentions, come up only for relevancy to the plot and then disappear like they never existed.

The ML has a sickly obsession with our MC. It's her luck and his blessing that she likes him, but ironically she had mocked her simps for acting the same as ML does but somehow ML is suppose to be more 'gentle' when he's clearly not. After getting together, he hardly ever allows her out of his sight or let anybody see her, may it even be a glance. She can hardly go out without him tagging along.

The situation worsened when ML made his first boo-boo when he mistakenly got morbidly jealous over MC's male persona. Cowardly not even considering to have a proper conversation like grown adults, he plans on destroying and killing the man in question.

MC would accept also any kind of excuses and lies he throws at her to get out of the way to admit that he's done wrong or even acknowledge the lack of trust he had in her, even to the point of gaslighting and blaming it on her.

At this point, he's so deep down this rabbit hole, he'd unleash a full on yandere to bind her to him if she'd ever had a change of mind.

It has successfully evolved to that sh*t tier novel where (quick) transmigration-into-books novel authors make fun of the OG story for having unstable plotlines, non-existent structures and pampered protagonists. What the main characters say or do is justice, whoever retaliates is wrong, regardless of their own hypocrisy. In the epilogue, the laxative cherry sprinkles, author gives you a cheap knock off ending from Twilight/26 yr age gap and a 'Little Mermaid' + stockholm syndrome side story. Yay.

I tried to hold myself back in roasting this sh*t fest, but when the author killed off a 6 year old child, I snapped. The mains pushed the throne to a defenceless child, left him to his own devices so they can enjoy the unfettered freedom. Of course, the MC ironically says she wants her child to make his own life choices. Putting these two side by side, I really feel bad for the entire cannon fodder crew, who have always been at a disadvantage either mentally or physically. They never stood a chance even when they had all the opportunities and time given. The last villain literally had his hands on MC's child and could've killed him like he wanted but author just made his brain go BRRRT.

I also like how the FL's past life was mentioned clearly, confided to the ML's about it and made close-end regarding being a transmigator compared to other novels that left it opened

MYC ending with their daughter. I'm okay w/ age gap stories but its cringey & awkward when u imagine MYC being in love with MQQ for whole story and suddenly in the end being married to the daughter that exactly looked like her. And the daughter desperately chasing him. He should just end with poor Jin Consort.

Just like the crown prince. At first I super hate his guts but then we also get the chance to see how he became like this. So he's so pitiful. He may have been a good ruler when he haven't found the bad side of his idol.