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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.Today, I am a substitute for your fiancee. Tomorrow, I’ll become your sister-in-law!
Mu Mingtang is the substitute of the male lead’s first love. After she lost her family, she was adopted by the Jiang family and eventually became engaged to the male lead, the Prince of Jin.
Understanding very well that she was only a substitute, she removed her claws and fangs and turned herself into an imitation of the Prince of Jin’s first love. She couldn’t speak or laugh as she wished, she was prepared to live in the shadow of another woman for her entire life… until one day, the real Miss Jiang returned.
The real Miss Jiang was reborn. When she learned that she was the male lead’s first love, she immediately returned to fight for her engagement and identity.
In order to please his first love, the Prince of Jin gave the substitute to the Prince of Qiyang, who had become a dying madman. She was just a low-quality fake, anyway. If she dared to anger his first love, he would turn her into a childless and powerless widow for the rest of her life.
Mu Mingtang, the target of their mockery, finally snapped: Okay, since you gave me to another man, I’ll make you bow and call me sister-in-law!
However, none of them expected the Prince of Qiyang, the God of War, to actually wake up!
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Xie Xuanchen is the son of the late emperor. The whole world once trembled beneath his feet, but one day, for a reason unknown to even Xie Xuanchen himself, his nature suddenly changed. He became cruel and bloodthirsty, leaving his father with no choice but to pass the throne to his uncle.
Eventually, Xie Xuanchen was unable to resist the illness and fell into a coma.
When he woke up again, there was a beauty standing before his bed, looking at him in surprise. Then, for the sake of his domineering little princess, he revived his name as the God of War, reclaimed the throne, and united the world.
I once captured the world to satisfy my own ambition. Now, you are the reason for my ambition.
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- CN w/ Excellent Plot (BxG)
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- [BG] Historical - Kingdom/Imperial/Dynasty/Ancient...
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Follows the newer trend of "plain ol' good ancient Chinese women are better than scheming rebirthers/ transmigrators" stories.
Perhaps it is my brash, capitalist, American heart, but our MC, Mu Mingtang, with her merchant background and straight-forwardness, greatly appeals to me. She ditches the subtle and intricate word play insults most noble women characters so greatly prize, (but which I tend to find exasperating and dumb), with a refreshing degree of shamelessness. You want to send her a box of gold in some elaborate, understated insult? Well, she's going to happily accept and think you're a moron--you just sent her a friggin box of gold. And she's going to keep it, too, who cares if you were trying to imply some nuanced insult, if you're too weak to say it to her face? She's also believable as a young teenager, not having any super powered skills, like extreme intelligence or omniscience, and being absurdly delighted with things like bright clothes, high-school level pettiness, and fun food.
Our male lead is superpowered (being only 19 and having Alexander the Great level achievements by age 17) but this is tempered by a fairly realistic (for a book) recovery time lasting the better part of a year, quite a lot of his achievements being acknowledged as overly exaggerated to the point of legend, and him having believable PTSD. He likewise acts his age, finding s*upid things funny, having zero idea about girl stuff, and wanting attention.
Together, they are a very sweet, and well-matched *teenaged* couple, with minimal drama between them and a pretty healthy relationship. They make each other laugh.
I enjoy the antagonists a lot as well. Not as people, they're terrible people, but as characters. Jiang Mingue, our antagonist, is our rebirth character, not the MC. She comes across like a burnt out, bitter, middle-aged divorcee in a 13 year old body--which she is. In her first life, she ran off with a foreign prince at age 12 and became his concubine in a whirlwind of romantic flurry... only to suffer for it for the rest of her life.
To explain our antagonist:
Picture someone who was the prettiest cheerleader in her tiny town, with the richest dad everyone else's dad works for. She is absolutely addicted to the attention and fawning that comes from this middle-school level power trip. There's this cringey "m'lady" nerd guy who is obsessed and low key simps her, but whom she's just really not into, though the attention is nice. Suddenly, her family moves to the big city and now she's a little fish in a big pond and can't handle it, plus her parents aren't listening to her and keep telling her she has to marry the simp, because his parents now have way more money than them and are on a power trip.
Running off with the hot, twenty-something "cool" guy from the dangerous neighborhood suddenly sounds far more appealing. Only, he never makes the pretty princess fantasy promises he spun her into reality. Everyone in his neighborhood hates her for not fitting in, rather than thinking she's awesome for coming from the rich borough, like she assumed they would. He's got so many high-drama baby mamas he's stringing along, it's ridiculous, and all of them are cruel. She winds up as a middle-aged, abused, neglected, waste.
Then, she hears her old simp wound up as Bill Gates, and he's nice and sweet and doting to his wife, whom everyone says looks just like her, and she loses her g*d*mn mind choking on the infuriated resentment.
When she's reborn into her past, one year into her disastrous affair, she decides to nope out of her loser boyfriend and head back to marry the simp who will soon hit the jackpot. Only... she's still not that attracted to him, and worse, he's now a neckbeard. He's figured out hygiene and has money: now he thinks he's all that and a bag of chips, and that he's owed hot babes. Scores of hot babes. Sure, marrying the head cheerleader was a trophy achievement, but he's not going to say no to all these other gold diggers throwing themselves at him. Plus, she's still burnt out and bitter over her old boyfriend, and not ready for a new relationship, so she's not pulling the weight of living up to his fantasy, and he's too distracted by all the overly-obliging pretty young things climbing into his bed to bother with her moods or establishing a good relationship. She's so mad she picked another turd she doesn't want to try, either.
She's also ridiculously attracted to her in-law/ neighbor, who was the hot boy band member she was completely obsessed with as a tween, and really bad at hiding both the attraction and the resentment that the girl she hates the most got to marry him. She is, at her core, a molten ball of rage that's getting hotter and hotter, about to reach nuclear scorched earth because she just can't seem to get back to the small-town ease she enjoyed in her youth, which she is desperate to have again, to the point of demanding it as something she deserves.
Now, shift all of that to ancient times, and you'll have our antagonist couple.
I actually feel pretty bad for Jiang Miangue. Everyone has felt that angry and wronged before, and it's difficult and unappealing to humble yourself to get out of that hole. If only she had channeled all of that resentful, bitter rage at those who deserved it-- like her scumbag ex and his evil wives who treated her like crap. But no, she focuses on our main character, Mu Mingtang, (who "stole her rightful place and took all her things" as Jiang Miangue sees it) as the cause of all of her life woes. She obsesses that, if only Mu Mingtang has a sh*tty, tortured fate, then Jiang Minague can be happy at last. This, of course, backfires spectacularly. If she'd just been a nice person, or even just a neutral one who minded her own business, she would have had a wonderful second life. Mu Mingtang, in turn, barely thinks about her unless it's to poke her with a stick, and thinks she's an idiot, which I find awesome.
Update: I might reduce this to 4/5 because it goes on for forever. After about 150 chapters, I got bored and wandered off. Consume is small bites to prevent burn out.
This novel has a new plot. In this story, the female lead isn't the one how is reborn but another character. To be honest I feel bad for her. No matter what she chose the ending is the same for her. It's something like fate. She's fated to have a bad life no matter what she does which is heartbroken. Even though I didn't like her but I still felt bad. I felt so bad for the princess who came to the peace talks too. To be honest I hated how the woman treated in the past. In this novel, you can see clearly how women are treated. It's pained me to see how women have been treated in the past. The reborn real daughter, the princess who came in the peace talks, and the princess who was gifted to the ML before he rejected her. All of them deserved a better life.
I don't know why women are forced to fight for a man's favor like this. Men can openly sleep with other women but if the opposite happened the sky will collapse even her life will be lost.
when the ML told the youngest son of the xu family that he has a princess and won't sleep with other women he was so shocked. When he tried to understand why the ML told him if his wife had another man because he was away he would have felt so bad and want to kill the man so his wife will feel the same.
I know he just said this and thinks in this way because of his special circumstances. If he married the FL in the normal circumstances he would not think in this way. Also, I loved the women in the xu family so much that's why when the younger brother thought about how his brothers sleep with women when they're outside the town I felt so uncomfortable.
I wanted them to return to the capital city. Their home was there. The tree he planted for her was there. The wine they buried was there. Not to forget the people in the village told them that they are waiting for them. Also, I wanted to see him take her to her hometown. When he thought he was dying he was thinking that he hadn't taken her to her hometown yet. I find it wired that they didn't go there.
he loved her so much and was waiting for her. However in the end HE DID IT WHEN HE WAS DRUNK IN THE TRAINING HALL.
I hate it. After all the waiting why it happened like this!
it's the first time for her but in the end, it happened like this what made it worst. HE DID NOT KNOW WHO WAS SHE.
I don't understand why making it like this!
When I read this I thought "will he sleep with any woman if he was drunk?!"
He is a general who can be away from home for a long time. Drinking around women happens often.
To be honest I was shocked because the FL didn't question him like this. That was out of character for her.
the emperor who was their neighbor. The ML said himself that he loved him so much and treated him like a son. He was good to him more than his father. At the end what the ML did after this man die? HE KILLED HIS SON. Yes, he killed his son and take the throne because he couldn't accept him as emperor.
I hate ungrateful people
till the end I was waiting for the emperor POV to know how he did all that to the ML and why, Where did he find out about this drug, from when did he start drugging him, did the ML father knew about it? But unfortunately, we didn't read anything about it
it's good, the relationship between the protagonists is truly amazing and heartwarming. the reborn lady who was given a second chance has to watch how life takes a different turn only not as amazing as she had imagined. I pity her. the romance cant be said to be fast nor slow...i really don't know how to describe it. They had always treated each other as their partner however it wasn't until chapter 90 that they been made their feelings truly known despite how they acted pretty close full of trust, care, respect even doting however they did this annoyed me as well as how they had their first night. he was drunk.
a more critical review on the plot would be that it needs more refining, the concept was good (nothing too new) but the shallowness of how it was written made this a more passer-by story. A novel that could have been full of classical taste was reduced to something to read to pass the time. A lot of plot holes and vagueness in places more importance could be given. For me, even the romance after so long turned draggy and in the end I wasn't completely satisfied with how the author described their bed matters and things related.
don't be discouraged by my review I guess I'm only dissatisfied because of how much better this could have turned out with better execution however for a simple read this will definitely satisfy you. It's really uncomplicated no in-law-drama, no s*upid cannon-fodder villains (actually the emperor and ml's cousin but they are solved too swiftly at the end so they don't count) no struggle for wealth and the only rough patch the MC and ML seemed to go thru was at the very beginning of the book when the ML had just woken up and had a weaker joint (not body because he was unbelievably strong still compared to normal man but he was weakened due to drugs and lying in a coma for long)
The whole first time of this couple is really wrong. He is drunk, but she's not the one to abuse the situation but the drunkard instead. However, she is clearly not willing at the moment and is quite forceful. So is the second time and the rest that come after, never describe it as something the Female Lead trully likes.
I know it is a trope to write "no" when wanting to say "yes", but it is not cute, it isn't healthy, and it keeps romanticizing abusive behavior. What makes it worse this time is the fact Xie Xuancheng isn't this type of man, at least not with his beloved woman. It'd felt more natural if he'd worked his way into her desire to make it.
Another user already commented on it but:
Xie Xuancheng allegedly rebelled against a Child Emperor and killed him. On top of that, he was the successor of the man that treated him better than his scumbag of a father (who dared to rise outer rooms and even made her an Empress).
When is explained is done in the same paragraph/s they explain how Xie Xuancheng became a mad-man, so one always assumed this was one side of the story, as the part of how Xie Rui ascended to the throne due to it is also explained from one sided point of view then. However, even though the other events get re-told later with the truthful events (how Xie Rui schemed to drug him, make his own father imprison him, killed his brother Xie Yi and usurped his throne), we never get told why would a man like Xie Xuancheng kill a Child just for the fact of being one and steal his throne.
There's a subtle hint that even the reason why this would happen, so Xie Yi would become the Emperor, could had been instigated by Xie Rui (his uncle, brother of Xie Yi), but is never confirmed nor developed to explain.
One can only think the man (Xie Rui) had not military power, but was a scholar-based person, so he might had schemed his whole life to take advantage of his nephew's work to become Emperor. The only problem was that when they first rebelled, someone else became the Emperor and he wasn't related to the Xie family, so there's a possibility Xie Rui used his newly gained power under the new regime to get rid of that Emperor, to put his brother in his place. Of course, there was the problem of the Child Heir to solve so he might had used the ML to get rid of him. The reason why he wouldn't occupy the throne himself, is because at that moment the military men were still too powerful and he wasn't one but Xie Yi still was it.
However, even with this conjectures, when Xie Xuanchen remembers these events (several times in the novel) he never seems sorrowful for having killed a Child Emperor. There's not even an explanation (whether the regime was in chaos, or his supporters were corrupt) on why they would need to kill him. Only that he had always loved power.
ML can succeed into rebelling against his Uncle and Cousin in the end, because all those military officials that had been discarded or looked down upon, are willing to join him.