Like when she set off to Rundu because she knew He Rufei wont send in reinforcements, she informed ML of this but Xiao Jue did not have any basis to trust her or u could say that even if he did trust her, he had no reason to send off reinforcements because He Rufei was closer to that area. It was so exciting when she went off on her own. We really need more FLs like this and as well as more MLs like Xiao Jue who doesn't get led by his personal feelings but focus on the bigger picture. It just felt very realistic for me.

He Rufei and her past husband got dealt with so quickly tbh, as same with the crown prince. The Uto's weren't that smart too as one of the main villains in the story. The politics arc wans't really long but still did quite manage to bore me out for about 2 chapters. After all those politics, I just preferred seeing FL defeating enemies in the military.

If I remember correctly, they only became lovers around chapter 200, but it's absolutely worth it. I don't like fast paced romance and would gladly exchange them for better plot development any time. This story has one of the best romance developments I've read.

The beginning was fairly good but it's only above average for me so it surprised me it's golden. Well maybe because it's only the introduction and not much happened yet. It only starts to be so good it's glittering maybe around the middle (?).

I love the MC <3

The MC was originally a simple girl and all her golden finger was earned from the hard work and obstacle she faced in her first life. So I kinda understand why she's not overly smart and sometimes seems naive because she's not really that good in the first place. She's not a scheming person so her plans and responses are straightforward (But she's so proficient in the art of war). And because she needed the ml's recognition to gain her way to revenge, she laid her skills open other than her sword skills (Since he might recognize her from her past life). Her only upper hand is she can lie straightfaced and disguise herself thoroughly. This is why the ML is very suspicious of her and doesn't know what her real thoughts are.

At the beginning, I lowkey don't like her. Maybe because the ML was too smart in contrast to the MC. It's only around the last half I wanna slap my past self (How dare you don't like her you jerk!!).

Like the ML said in the story, the MC was a very contradictory person. Another reason why he can't understand her thoroughly. The MC might boast with her chins up but in fact, she has very low esteem. To the point that the ML needs to lay out his feelings before the MC believes he likes her. Her skills are mediocre and even low and the reason why she's so good now is because of her hard work in her past life. Her morals and principles are so likable.

She's very proficient in disguise the ML always believes she's lying. For him, she's a scammer through and through. Well, she really was, but in fact, the ML is the person she lied to the least. So when the ML found out about the truth. He realized that the MC was not lying. It's so heartbreaking I cried buckets.

The confession part was *chef's kiss <3 it's so beautiful!

Overall, it's a treasure to share so read it people!

I still want to rant more about the side characters but they are so likable I'm too lazy to type. But I still want to say I love them.

- they both don't fall in love at first sight (which makes the moment the romance really takes off even more satisfying)

-the ML suspects her (as a spy) after noticing her extremely good skills (she's young and supposed to be a recruit, new to fighting. So it is indeed suspicious)

We do see that she has sustained trauma from her past experiences, some of her habits/behaviors/views are just so ingrained that it's hard to change, but the ML suppors, helps and cares for her so her situation improves, but there are some character traits that stay, which is realistic.

I stop at the chapter 105 and during their whole interaction he was suspicious of the FL because she was too good at being a soldier. Normally I would understand but after all that time, seeing her risk her life for her comrades, doing her best like all the time. In the novel they say that since she's a woman she had to work a lot more than everyone else so when the others are sleeping she's still training. I can understand you don't want to take a potential spy in your unit but seriously after everything she did just why you a**hole. And he's just so arrogant and annoying. They say in the novel that it's because it's his way to show his affection but if it's the case I would prefer him to hate me I'm not a f*cking masochist. Like the first time they see each other he call the FL small, dumb and weak and tell her that no matter her efforts she will never succeed like how toxic is that. And when she finally succeed, he take away all her credit for 50 f*cking chapter every time an instructor try to tell him that now we can trust her with his f*cking "she's suspicious ". Like that guy really got problems. How can he be that suspicious?!

During a banquet after she take the place of gis nephew because he didn't want a marriage, she noticed that the wine that he's about to drink contain the same poison that made her blind in her past life. She stops him for drinking it and actually end up blind again like how traumatizing. She eventually get her sight back after a day but that's still super scary 😨. She decide to fake blindness to trick their enemies but that dick. Not only he never thanks for her sacrifice but also suspect her even more and use her as a bait. She could have die for real this time and that could have exposed her real identity to her family who I remind you kill her in her past life and made her blind.