The Rebirth of an Ill-Fated Consort

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Crying blood and tears, she pledged a poisonous vow. The gods did not fail her. She was sent back to a decade ago. The legitimate daughter of Jiang family returned from hell.

Forget it, whatever! Since they already claimed that she was a temptress that wrecked the country, she shall overturn the world into complete chaos starting with her beguiling sister, her malicious stepmother, her cruel lover and her heartless family. Let her end the lives that Yama refused to end.

She was a pawn in her past life. In this life, however, the world was her chess board. With an alluring smile and a charming figure that enchanted the entire nation, the red-clothed woman wrecked chaos among the lands. She was a vengeful spirit from hell, determined to make those who wronged her pay in blood.

“I want those who owe me a life debt to hold their hearts out in front of me. I want those who looked down on me to only be able to admire me. I want Lord Zhong Zi to shiver when he sees me. I want to step on this splendid river and mountains!”

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“You are a temptress and I am a thief.” His robe was as dark as the night and his gaze was as cold as the Northern Star. “A perfect match.”

Her red dress was akin to fire, but her heart was the coldest ice in the winter.

He was stoic in his black robe, yet he was willing to warm her frozen heart.

In this life, the elegant man seemed like a snowy bamboo grove with tall, chilly mountains, walking step by step towards her like an unstoppable force.

“Ruan Ruan, if you hate the world, then I shall conquer the lands with you.”

“What if I love the world?” She asked.

“I am the world, so you can only love me,” he answered.

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ត្រលប់ពេលវេលាកែប្រែវាសនា អ្នកម្នាង ជៀង រ៉ូអាន
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重生之嫡女祸妃
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whitespade
whitespade rated it
March 8, 2021
Status: Completed
One thing I really like about this novel is that our FL is very proactive protagonist and she mostly do everything by her own power. In other novels, eventhough FL did some scheming here and there, in the big picture she mostly rely on ML. But here, eventhough she do rely on ML here and there, but even without him she can do the things she wants to do.

She also someone who doesn't care about sacrificing herself for revenge. Her hatred is really all encompassing. This does make me angry... more>> at the climax of the story due to her disregard of her own life, but she is as she is.

I like the face slappings here, it hurt the villains real good. There are no villains that I feel their comeuppance is excessive, because the ending of her first life is too horrible nothing that the villains get could match it. They all deserve it and more.

I like the plot and the characters, however I do think there are excessive words describing and explaining things that don't need to be said, and also repeating things that we know over and over again. You can read the first and last sentence of every paragraph to get the point. <<less
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jenniilex3
jenniilex3 rated it
December 14, 2020
Status: c236
Let me tell you now while I am reading the MLT. This is an excellent novel full of intrigue, and twists and turns in the plot. This story is NOT fluffy but very serious and that is why I like it. Also... the lack of plot holes is very pleasing to me. The author is an amazing writer and I will definitely read their other works.

There is not a single character who has an irrelevant role as they all have a reason for being there even if they're just a... more>> random side character in this story

I absolutely admire the strength of the MC and ML. The Ruthless protagonist tag is such an under exaggeration. The MC really goes ALL in with her vengence and I am so HERE for it!!!

You get on Jiang Ruan's bad list? watch OUT she will be COMING FOR YOU!!

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Please be warned this story has r*pe, bettayal, lots of death (that can be brutal and violent AF) and scheming characters in essence your heart will ache a lot throughout

IF THAT ISN'T YOUR THING TURN AWAY NOW!!!

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ParanoidKitten
ParanoidKitten rated it
June 21, 2023
Status: c199
Another rebirth novel with a vengeful female lead who returned to her past.

I've just finished Chapter 199 and will drop the novel at this point.

I started reading the first chapter of this novel once before, but just from the description in the first chapter, directly stopped reading back then. Because the content is quite heavy.

... more>> This novel is not for people with weak hearts, weak stomach's and prone to crying.

But let me give you an overview of what this novel is about.

Our Female Lead is Jiang Ruan, the eldest di daughter of Jiang fu. Her father is an official at court. Her mother Zhao Mei was the first wife but died when FL should have been around the age of 5, I guess.

Zhao Mei gave birth to two children. FL's elder brother and her. But she was hated by her husband and died due to poisoning, after which the elder brother went to the army in anger and FL was sent to a rural village for 5 years. After returning to the fu, she was neglected, humilated and treated as a stepping stone for her 2nd younger sister, the white lotus of this novel.

Jiang Su Su is said white lotus, the daughter of Xia Yan, the new main wife and former concubine of Jiang Quan. She has an older brother, named Jiang Chao who wants to become a scholar.

There's much scheming and I can't go into detail without writing a spoiler long enough to be considered half a novel, so I'll just skip that, except for:

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FL fell in love with the 8th prince Xuan Li, was sent into the emperor's harem, was exploited and used by Xuan Li, adopted a child, namely the 13th prince Xuan Pei who was just a few years old. In the end, Xuan Li ascended the throne and FL was turned into a human stick by her very own sister Jiang Su Su and died after watching her adoptive son being r*ped. Quite heavy, isn't it? And this is being described in the first chapter....

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Anyway, FL got reborn and without any warning suddenly turned into a capable, ice-cold, highly intelligent scheming woman. If in her past life, she was only half as clever as she's in this timeline, she wouldn't have ended up so tragically.

This is one point which I question heavily, but let's ignore that for now.

Filled with hatred and mu*derous intentions, FL schemes her way back to the Jiang fu ahead of time, sets up the Jiang family and anyone else who opposed her in this or the previous life and is successful each and every time.

One of the other reviews mentioned early romance. If this novel had 2000+ chapters, it would indeed be an early romance
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they had their first real interaction in Ch. 92, with Ch. 103 being the time skip of three years and the marriage was decided in Ch. 147. Their first kiss was only in Ch. 148 and FL only recently (190+) started to warm up to her husband, so the part of "romance" is still nowhere to be seen from my viewpoint.

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but with this novel only having 259 chapters, the romance here is rather late.

The male lead is Xiao Shao, a person heavily treasured by the Emperor, though we still don't know his real identity, although there are some hints seen in his conversations with the emperor and some remarks from the Empress Dowager. But he is a prince. Very cold and unfeeling and extremely powerful. In short he is the typical male lead.

I have pushed myself to read those 199 chapters, despite not being very happy with the story.

I'll put the reasons for this in spoiler, because... I can't avoid to spoiler if I want to explain my reason.

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FL appears from the beginning as an unfeeling, cold and calamitious beauty. She's highly intelligent, uses anyone and everyone to achive her goals and her scheming runs quite deep. But to me she feels completely unreal. As for the male lead, he appeared a few times, but they didn't really talk at all, so there was basically no interaction whatsoever between them for the first 92 chapters. FL did everything herself, effortlessly passing every obstacle in her way. And I would like to point out that she's only about 12 years old at this time. Despite that, both she and her white lotus sister are described in a way it would be expected for young women, not children (yes, children got engaged and married early in ancient china novel, I know, but I just can't see a 12 years old child as "seductive" etc... Sorry for that.)

After the timeskip, FL and ML finally started having contact and ultimately getting married, while FL is still cold and unfeeling.

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What made me really upset and was the final reason why I decided to stop reading is
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ML's steward Lin is an old fogey who persistently meddles in everything. He's even going so far as to get an aphrodisiac for ML, seeing as the couple hasn't consumated their marriage yet. As I've said, I just finished Ch. 199 and here this aphrodisiac was mistakenly given to FL who has a conversation with ML. Upon noticing that the wrong person took the drug, that spineless guy just ran away, excusing himself as being sick, instead of hurring over to tell his master that he made a mistake.

Both steward Lin and FL's maidservants overstepped repeatedly until here, the latter even openly locking FL up with ML. But neither her or ML reprimaned them in any way. That's just not possible. Especially for two people with such characters. Ultimately, after finishing the chapter, I went to take a look at the title of Ch. 200 and just the title alone tells me, that this drugging incident resulted in ML and FL consumating. Please note: FL at this moment is still injured, not yet fully healed from her previous poisoning, but now she's drugged with aphrodisiac. This is not romantic, this is also not "cute" and absolutely not the way a relationship should be established at all. But even without reading the next chapter, I already know that neither Steward Lin, nor the other subordinates will get punished in any way. Instead the leads will just gloss over it and the matter will turn into happy pink bubbles.

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I admit I detest such developments, especially having seen how ML acted when FL was drugged the first time. Seeing this situation now, I seriously can't bring myself to continue reading, because it just makes me very uncomfortable.

Take it as me being overly sensitive to such matters, but it's really just that. I don't like this kind of forced development, when both parties just started to warm up for each other. I'm sorry. <<less
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tpw16
tpw16 rated it
April 18, 2023
Status: Completed
I think this one deserves so much more credit, the author, plot and the translators.

The translators did an outstanding job, I will definitely re-read even though I MTL-ed.

The schemes were clever and it is so satisfying to read how the MC executed her revenge. The relationship between MC and ML makes sense too and glad that they found each other.
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Isa29
Isa29
November 18, 2022
Status: --
Hello everyone can sombody please help me find this novel I really want to find it

The MC is the eldest daughter and one day her younger sister by the same mother went missing one day.

While they were looking, MC happend to find and rescued a guy who was prevusely was save by her younger sister.

... more>> The guy was a powerful figure and thought that MC was her yougger sister and immediately want to marry her.

So thay got married but the younger sister did not correct this mistake until she died and regretted it.

Younger sister got rebirth and got back to the time she guy proposed to her sister so she corrected this mistake and the guy believed her and thought MC was trying to steal her younger sister's credit.

So the guy did not marry her and MC maried (Im no sure but) the guy's uncle who happend to be the crown prince (not sure about this part)

Hope somebody can help me😓😓😓 <<less
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Rivu_Ltr
Rivu_Ltr rated it
January 20, 2021
Status: Completed
Score: 3.7/5.0

After completing the series, I thought it has been engaging, especially, with the information of ancient Chinese culture/tradition, proverbs, and idioms, as it encompassed the historical setting of the story.. I had to say the translation team did a great job on giving explanation and image to support some unfamiliar contexts or to give illustration of the story. But, the main focus of the story is about the title itself. I read this trough translated versions and mtl (yes, I'm a bit impatient hehe). So, my opinion might not... more>> be arguably helpful or correct, but I will review about the plot and the character aspects. Plot
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The plot is a typical revenge journey trope after being reincarnated within a dramatic frame. The main story takes place after the female lead brought back to 10 years before the her death. The plot has a steady development. Considering the romance genre, it did not abruptly place romantic sequence for the female lead, which is rather refreshing, as it laid out gradually until it reach to the point where she decide to reconsider about her love life rather than full of avenge, but this has become the character's conflict to progress her revenge. In this case, the revenge and romance plot are well balanced. It gave me quite a thrill on how she will resolved her hatred and the new blooming love. The revenge plot might be considered cliché and disturbing but this in fact a retribution the enemies deserved as what the main character's has believed and gone through in her past life.

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Characters
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Meanwhile, the characters are pretty dynamic. Each characters posses different motivation and desire in which clashed with their initial purpose in the story. Yet, I kind of hope that the author would give an in depth character development of the other villains' aside of Dan, because I felt that their stand point and schemes did not change, when the fact that the female lead has manipulate her fate a lot with her previous knowledge (so, there should be a major change of actions of her enemies because of this).

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Female Lead/Protagonist

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Additionally, the female lead appear to be self-less, impulsive, stubborn, cold, and yet, intelligent. However, she has shown inconsistency as she could not refrain herself from showing her contempt through her smile. Sometimes, she would reveal her hatred and intention to her enemies (which is unlike her cold, quite, and regal like bearings at the beginning or as how she was described in the story as she was trained in the palace), but considering what she has been trough, perhaps she could not help but being impulsive and impatient toward those who have hurt her (I guess she got it from her mother's family).

The tac tic and schemes which she has implemented would sometimes appear a bit indiscreet considering many people are starting to suspect her change of behavior. Moreover, she has been going around the palace or went to restricted area to start her schemes with with her usual attire (which is a bit risky and illogical). But, I kind of understand how she could back it up since she had no prior relationship with them in the current timeline yet it won't be of help every single time. Yet, I liked how she lead them by the nose thinking that the enemies win until she checkmated them with her counter attack.

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Favorite part
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My favorite part in the story is the female lead's mid point character arcs where she began to broke down and hunted by her past and deeds which was triggered by poison. It left me a huge lump in my throat as the other characters come to realise behind her situation. I felt that this part is a good turning point for many characters who were close to her, especially, when she had saved them from death many times. I really sympathised with protagonist who hold a huge burden on her shoulder to face schemes all over again while desperately thinking a way to prevents any tragedy befall on her cherished one. Thinking about what she has been through, it would be psychologically exhausting for the female lead (I believed this is why she broke down near the end of the story).

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To conclude, the story is enjoyable and great as it befitting it's title "The Rebirth of an Ill Fated Consort". Although, I believe the author could do much more about the characters' action in the story. <<less
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sayanee21
sayanee21
January 18, 2021
Status: --
I just finished reading this series, so I want to share a few thoughts.

Overall, if you enjoyed this author's other works, you will be pleased with this story. I loved The Rebirth of the Malicious Empress of Military Lineage and this was different, but also enjoyable.

Compare to Malicious Empress, this story is more violent. I mean... if you read the summary, how the FL died in her first life should give you some clues. As the story goes on, the gore and violence do not fade, and the FL spared... more>> no mercy (I mean it... not a grain of it) in her quest for revenge.

I like a revenge story that favors the FL/ML so this was enjoyable.

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you will not be disappointed with the ending

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Haruna89
Haruna89 rated it
April 24, 2020
Status: c93
This is a reborn and revenge story. As usual the first few chapters are started by recounting the story on how does the FL die and the grievance that she had endured all the years she had been alive.

The FL is very calm but slowly taking her time to do her revenge. She does not have any super power or material arts but instead use her previous experience and knowledge to deal with the villainess.

Till chapter 47 the ML only showed twice and I could say this novel is focusing... more>> on FL revenge rather than a romance story between main leads.

The good thing is that those bad people is not too over dramatic in which I can still tolerate their wicked doings compare to another novel that wants to make me puke blood.

Thanks translator team for your time translating this novel, good job! <<less
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Saffari
Saffari rated it
January 3, 2020
Status: Completed
This is definitely a brutal revenge story, and the interesting thing about it is it always leaves you wondering if the ruthlessness is justified. JR's former life was extremely pitiful because she was truly a good person who was so full of love, only the people around her was too cruel and only used her as a tool and all those she loved suffered. She never received the love she needed, and upon her rebirth, loses all her faith on the human heart. On one hand, all those she took... more>> revenge on always attacked her first, but on the other hand her methods were very extreme and reminiscent of how they wronged her in her previous life.

I like the ML's (XS) relationship with her as well. He's a very petty blushing maiden who tries very hard to be a smooth talker, his efforts will forever be appreciated. He smoothes JR's edges. Compared to other ML's, he's relatively less ruthless. As his teacher tells him, he isn't a perfect killer because he's too righteous. His only true sense of ruthlessness appears to aid JR.

Another thing I like about this is how the Prince from the previous life actually loved MC. He doesn't know it early on, but after a (very rushed) dre sequence of the past, although to be fair it has been hinted heavily throughout the story, that he does actually like her even when he had yet to remember. He was blinded by ambition, but he wasn't actually actively trying to hurt her, and initially planned to let her go after being crowned. He even wanted to marry her in the second timeline. The true villain in JR's previous life was her family, specifically her sister. As JR puts it, the Prince's biggest sin towards her was giving her hope. It's just that JR loved him so much it became distorted into hate. He deserved what he got, of course, he had his crimes, but I think it makes it a bittersweet relationship. He does try to reclaim himself and dies protecting JR's child, which makes it even more bittersweet, really.

The side characters are very entertaining as well, especially JR's maids and XS's aids and palace servants.

My only problem with it is how dragged on it was. By chapter 160~ there are only pretty much 2 or 3 members of JR's family left and she already lives in XS's palace, and the rest of the chapters seem to be dedicated to political intrigue and XS's political back story. But other than that, it's all good. <<less
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dona
dona rated it
April 13, 2019
Status: c47
Honestly it´s not bad. I´m sure I would´ve enjoyed this type of plot more had I not read The rebirth of the malicious empress of military lineage beforehand. I suppose I´ve read too many novels with this type of plot about rebirth, given a second chance, revenge, ancient china setting, all-powerful ML, enemies etc so I´m no longer as intrigued as before.

I skipped over a couple chapters, skim through each page but I kept feeling bored since this story is so similar to the author´s previous work. Honestly I... more>> wish the author had written something different. It feels like it´s just dragging on following a template. Nothing fresh or original. But you´re new to NU and haven´t read novels many with this plot then you should definitely give this a read. <<less
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monamieus
monamieus rated it
July 25, 2023
Status: c102
If I have to read "Jiang Ruan smiled faintly" one more time....

And this is not the novel's fault, but I am really not a fan of the translation team using uncredited artwork as basically cover art for the chapters.

The gore in this novel was fun. "Jiang Ruan smiled faintly" was not.
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crimsonrogue
crimsonrogue rated it
May 18, 2022
Status: c113
Honestly if you liked Malicious Empress from the same author, you'll like this story. Frankly I'd consider this almost to be a prototype for that other story. As if you've read Malicious Empress first and then came to read this story you'd find some of the plot beats to be eerily similar. As are some of the details. You can also see where Shen Miao as a character was likely conceptualized given how eerily similar her story happens to be with another background character in this novel.

That isn't to say... more>> the story is bad or that the author got lazy when writing Malicious Empress. Rather I'd argue they took what worked in this story and made it even better in their next novel. All the while cutting the fat that bloats this novel in places. That isn't to say this isn't a good read or something you should skip over. It's still leagues better than most other historical C-Novels. It's just that you can plainly tell the author was still finding their footing.

Pros:

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    • Well written lead couple.
    • The plot is fairly intricate.
    • You can actually remember who each of the FL's maids are and their purpose in the story. Where as in Malicious Empress I was often struggling to tell them apart. And that applies to a lot of the other characters as well.
    • This isn't a pro for me, but if you like dark novels then you'll absolutely love this story. It's definitely darker than Malicious Empress.
    • It's actually really neat seeing where some of the story elements from Malicious Empress got their starts. I was genuinely excited when I noticed the character who is almost definitely Shen Miao's prototype.
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Cons:
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    • Sadly Malicious Empress does a lot of what this novel does, but better. If only by virtue of being written after and thus the author had more experience under their belt.
    • The start is absolutely atrociously paced. If you find yourself bored in the first twenty chapters, skip to the thirtieth chapter and continue from there. You'll thank me later.
    • The villains were certainly easier to hate than in Malicious Empress but some of their actions didn't always make complete sense.
    • Sometimes certain characters just feel forgotten? Then the author will out of the blue spend one entire paragraph reminded us that, no, they're still there. It isn't completely jarring but it did bug me when I noticed it happening.
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kubare
kubare
November 5, 2021
Status: c110
This is my second book by this author the first one being "The Rebirth of the Malicious Empress of Military Lineage
", which I loved to, except for the ending that could have been better, but I truly love this one more, yes its gruesome on some expects but I think its understandable when one thinks of all that she has been through and the hate she has for them all.

So far am loving it and lovely translations.
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mother_elle
mother_elle rated it
August 23, 2021
Status: Completed
Completed this with mtl after chapter 104. It was good, I especially liked the ending. I just don't understand why most BG historical authors write r*pe/cheating/miscarriage and death endings for other female leads. I understand they're writing revenge stories but its so predictable and a bit triggering to be honest. Very unpleasant.
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joellyanne
joellyanne rated it
November 3, 2020
Status: Completed
Love this a lot. Certainly one of my top favorite CN novel. I am not going to say what the story is about as you can probably guess it already when you read the novel's briefs above. For me it is very well written and love every characters. A very enjoyable read especially in this covid doom and gloom days.
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blackrose21
blackrose21 rated it
September 18, 2020
Status: Completed
I think I like his better than malicious empress. It's more bloody but the revenge feels more satisfying. Also I don't understand how people say there are less romance. I really don't think so and the romance between the male leads is so sweet. I also love the overall plot line more than malicious empress to be honest! There are more surprising twists that shocked me throughout reading. Definitely a must read for all that love revenge stories
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white-bubble
white-bubble rated it
August 10, 2020
Status: Completed
The story is great, but I hate that the author didn't have any extra part. Like come on, you just mention the end and then it's end. At least put the extra for some side character, many side character that deserves to have a little bit of their own story. Or some extra part for MC and ML life after the end.

Anyway, this story still great in my opinion.
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Paaathsy
Paaathsy
February 14, 2018
Status: --
Im expecting alot from this because my ultimate favorite chinese novel (The Rebirth of the Malicious Empress from the Military Lineage) and this has the same author. Currently waiting for more chapters before I start reading hohoho
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frostcrystal
frostcrystal rated it
October 12, 2023
Status: Completed
Definitely agree with the reviewer who said this was the prototype to Malicious Empress. It was written just before the latter and has a lot of the same plot elements, but is much more gory and unpolished. The characters in this one are much more gray, not at all squeamish about inflicting death and torture and r*pe and little things like that upon the people who cross them.

My favourite part of the novel (too bad it appeared so late!) was ... more>>
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the mother-son relationship with Pei'er. I'm glad he came back in time as well.

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My least favourite part was the lovingly-described terrible things that happen to the villains, sometimes even to the slightly sympathetic ones. And also, the extremely abrupt ending haha. I needed a few more extras! <<less
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martinemma
martinemma rated it
November 14, 2022
Status: --
I read this and LOVED it!! One thing about rebirth stories that I tend to have an issue with how the MC would be the kind of person who was harsh on those she wants revenge against, good to those who support her and mindless against the ML. I dislike that mindlessness.

In this story, in my opinion, I think the author did a great job writing the love story while still keeping that revenge spirit in the MC alive. The MC didn't immediately fall head over heels for the ML,... more>> if anything she took him at face value almost to the very end when some things happened which I appreciate because her character was very consistent.

Maybe I am blood thirsty but I loved how she made sure everyone who wronged her suffered mightily. Although I felt the ending was a little rushed and it would have been nice to get epilogues. Overall, awesome novel. <<less
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