Consort of a Thousand Faces

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Once an imperial princess, now reborn among the lowest of s*aves of the nobility.

As Nanzhao’s eldest imperial princess, she received the burden of an imperial ruler and took to the battlefield in tumultuous times. Instead of being a hero, her actions were vilified by officials as meddling in court affairs. Watching her trusted confidante die as she stood among a sea of flames, her tattered heart was pierced by an arrow shot by the one she loved most.

In her previous life, she was known as Ning Rulan.

Resurrected as a palace maid carrying out the most menial of tasks in Beimin’s imperial palace, she is resolved to take revenge and save her younger brother. However, many devilish and vindictive nobles stand in her way as she navigates through the dangers of court politics.

Travelling across nations and unravelling secrets, she carves out a new place for herself.

A place for the woman now known as Su Xi-er.

Will she remain shackled to her past? Or will she reach for the chance at happiness before her?

No matter if she is Ning Rulan or Su Xi-er, this time, there would be no more regrets!

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Qi Nü Chong Sheng: Xie Wang De Qian Mian Chong Fei
Rebirth of an Abandoned Woman: The Devilish Prince's Thousand Faced Consort
弃女重生:邪王的千面宠妃
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alrahe
alrahe rated it
May 6, 2020
Status: 589
Don't be too quick to judge this novel because the early chapter dilly-dallying about her struggle being a maid. Well, she's alone without any power. Thus needs to depends on people who have more power to climb toward her purpose. She just can't go back to her country doing revenge without thinking and back up. Her ex-lover already control her country, even her brother emperor could do nothing.

Luckily, because she is a noble, the unique temperament radiated from her bones. Thus even she's only a chamber pot scrubber she got... more>> a flavour and quickly attract the cruel (not truly cruel though) ML.

Spoiler

Though ML is overbearing like a thug, FL is his first love, all his first times he's doing it all with FL, in the end he also became a henpecked husband. The relationship between them sometimes makes me eat lot of dog food (Oh, why I'm single (o_ _) ノ彡)

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What I hate is, why FL is so reluctant to kill people (typical mary sue drama, the MC is sooooo kiinnndd (ノ-_-) ノ ┻━┻) , that's decision makes a lot of trouble in the future (that's why she died before, why can't you learn from the past, huh?) Even I agree with her grandma said, "Kindness is not good for everyone."

Spoiler

And why, she at least can kill her ex-lover subordinate, but takes a lot of chapters to kill powerless woman. Though it's like that, in this novel, I really like how some of characters can moved on and released their hatred and ambition, thus not drowning themselves in regret. That's good.

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Actually I want to give this novel 3 stars, but considering some people gave a bad review, I give it one more star. <<less
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Chan2
Chan2 rated it
November 2, 2019
Status: c134
Great storyline and plots. This novel is comparable to malicious military consort. The story is about a princess reincarnated in another body of the same timeline. She is out for revenge against her fiance and her sister of different mother.
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mielru
mielru rated it
December 29, 2022
Status: c510
I actually quite enjoyed the story until Ch 510. Then I remembered the translator was busy or sick, so there was a period of no update, hence I stopped reading. And yep, I forgot everything and was too lazy to back reading.

The story is slow-paced, but still okay. I love the MC's little brother (from her previous princess identity).
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Talith
Talith
March 26, 2022
Status: c211
Neither political drama or romance.

I feel like the author didn't really have a plan other than some vague details and ended up just writing what she felt came next. For a novel like that it's really good, but in the end it desperately needs a good editor to cut it down and advise the author on developing a clear plot.

As it stands so far there's lots of political detail which could make for a good political scheming drama but it doesn't work because the MC is perfect. Nothing is a... more>> setback, even punishments end up helpful. There's just no tension or realism to make the scheming and political drama side work. Where are the villains and interesting side characters?

As for the romance - the cool as a cucumber Prince Regent is too interested and supportive but not in a romantic way. It just doesn't fit his character - this is the guy who has a beauty palace
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none of whom he's interested in

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which he keeps purely for entertainment. If he sees the MC in the same way then his support would be different, if he's romantically interested at this stage then yikes. I've heard the romance blooms later on but right now the ML is like a guy who would pull the wings of butterflies to see what they would do so I don't know how he's going to turn that around. I'm not someone who thinks novels have to be politically correct, or someone who excuses random violence as being "realistic".

It just felt like the author was trying to tread a line between two genres and not satisfying either. <<less
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monamieus
monamieus rated it
January 5, 2022
Status: c351
I guess it's a feat that this novel made me stay for 351 chapters, but other than that, it was.... not great.

The Good: Translation is smooth, the concept of an imperial princess dying by her lover's hand then getting resurrected as a chamber pot-cleaning maid and getting revenge is super interesting, the novel actually mentions the word "occult" and evil spirits possessing people's bodies instead of just having the MC getting rebirthed and then it somehow becomes background information.

The Bad: It really shouldn't be over 700 chapters long. I understand... more>> the other reviewers who left before getting to chapter 100, because the start could have cut so much stuff out and it wouldn't affect the plot at all. It felt like this is the first draft or the story was planned as the author went along writing, and in this case it wasn't good. This novel really needs to be cut down and edited.

For the plot itself, although this story has a strong premise, it's basic.

An over-powered MC who has all the "main character" luck, which the plot explains her abilities as "the villain is holding a whip. btw the MC is a master at handling whips in her past life so she can escape this situation" or "the villain is cornering her, but behind her is some needles and btw in her past life she was a master at handling needles as weapons" (yes these examples happen in the novel). She's the best at everything, she's the most beautiful (as the novel and characters feels the need to tell us many, many times.), the most adept at martial arts, the best dancer, the best debater, the best tactician, etc etc. For me it makes everything so predictable because she can get out of any kind of situation, it feels like any real consequences can't touch her (and they don't).

For the ML, he's a dirtbag. I enjoy dirtbag MLs, but this is the kind where it doesn't make sense. He holds down MC multiple times against her will, touches her against her will, kisses her against her will, he BROKE HER WRIST WHEN THEY FIRST MET HOLDING HER DOWN and then we get told by plot and MC that he hates r*pists. Uh huh. When the MC eventually monologued that he was good deep down, I was like "nuh uh girl, just run bc with your MC luck you will get away clean as soap".

The "political" or palace intrigue plot that made the romance step aside until much later really, REALLY isn't worth it. The romance should have been the focus from the start, because the "palace intrigue" in this novel is so boring and tedious. MC always does what she wants without consequence, including choking the Empress Dowager, resisting arrest, etc. and if she's in a tight situation, she just picks up some pebbles to flick them at people and they get hurt and she gets away (god, the pebbles.....).

Likewise the ML does stuff without consequence, having a harem of women just to watch them fight amongst themselves to amuse him (no mention of how money/resources much he's draining by having them when they aren't needed and he's using real humans as TV, because somehow they're separate from concubines), can s*xually assault MC multiple times and it's all just forgotten. I guess they really are suited for each other, because they're both the most beautiful and others are described to be "almost as beautiful as MC/ML" and they can do whatever they want without real consequences touching them.

For the side-characters, they're not even worth mentioning, they're that boring. Boring female characters, boring male characters who almost all adore MC.

TL;DR: The characters and the plot is stripped down to the bones, just flour, no spice.

The Ugly: The r*pe apologism is strong and excused by the narrative, ML, and MC as I earlier explained.

Anyway. This novel wasn't worth my time, but I learned what not to do with writing while reading this novel. <<less
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makaihime
makaihime rated it
November 1, 2021
Status: c1
I'm sorry, I tried to get through to at least 100 chapters but I had to stop at 60 because it was giving me a headache reading it. I won't comment much on the storyline because I feel I haven't gotten far enough in to really know but one thing I can say is that the writing itself is absolutely terrible. The internal thought parts of it was especially jarring. It reads like a horribly written non edited fanfic.
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MXMX1234
MXMX1234 rated it
August 25, 2020
Status: c180
It seemed promising and fun at the start and I like strong female leads, but after 50 or so chapters it deteriorated. Till now nothing of meaning has happened, all I got was ML bullying her (it was passable at start, but after many times I found it distasteful) and many descriptions of beauty this and that. No character growth, no growth on her status or power, just small face slapping. I had hoped that at at least by 150 or so chapters, she will counter attack in some meaningful... more>> way but no. All left is frustration and waste of potential. <<less
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tedy2004
tedy2004 rated it
June 9, 2020
Status: c12
Dropped this shitty novel, oh wait even sh*t is much better than this...

I do not recommend this novel, ever.

If you want a Mary Sue ML who always wins, and braindead villains with no reason but making some drama to hurt her, then waste your time. It's your decision, not mine.
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mirany
mirany
May 15, 2022
Status: c50
Translation: 5/5

Plot: 2.5/5

Characters: 2.5/5

... more>> Impertinence: Abounds

Transmigration MC, but more reincarnation to another body immediately after death. OG MC was a princess, betrayed, Current MC becomes lowly palace maid in neighboring state, but plot trips her way to prominence and revenge? Usually I'm all for these setups, but the plot is mind numbing, MC bumps into ML, sub ML, and all plot points needed during her night trips. Like literally runs into them during her unsanctioned strolls through the palace. I mean, once, sure, but every time? There's a lot of internal dialogue about her being a lowly maid with no power and poor physique, but then she out maneuvers her superiors and knocks out the ML and guards as needed. Read some spoilers and couldn't work up the motivation to continue reading. Translation's great with notes explaining specific terms. Don't mind a long read if the writing's captivating, but there just seems to be a lot of bloat here that doesn't contribute to enjoyment. <<less
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