Not living up to his family's expectations, having nobody to love, being diagnosed with cancer in the prime of his life- the list goes on. There's also hints of him being apathetic and suicidal before his transmigration. It's written in a silly way that makes it seem like only the author poking fun at cliches, but I'm guessing it'll be expanded upon in future chapters.

So far, the plot seems to bear a resemblance to Scum Villain, one of my favorite novels. A sickly person reads an infuriating harem novel before dying, then transmigrating into a villain who currently has power over the ML.

The ML has already been treated badly due to the original's actions, so the MC tries to salvage the situation because he knows the ML will become OP and exact revenge on everyone who has ever wronged him, including the MC.

If I remember correctly, since it's been a while. At the very end they actually come out of the book back to reality. I just feel like there's too many loose ends with that kind of ending. Like forging an identity for someone who technically doesn't exist, explaining modern technology etc etc. Just too much ??? To be wrapped up. It was also VERY jarring since majority of the book happened in the historical setting. But it's a HE so not complaining.

MC spoils ML because he don't wanna get a too bad ending and also pushes him to the ML's love interest (s) in the novel. ML falls in love of course. MC is the silly dumb and naive one who didn't understand that the ML has a thing for him and his wants everything to be peaceful and harmonious. MC got a reality check when his trusted maid dies protecting him, making him realise how part of the world he is in this world and that he is no longer an outsider looking in. So, he slowly tries to get his country back on track and cut ties with the ML. War. MC lost and surrenders. ML under schemes to push apart the ML and MC. MC escapes and ML caught up but they parted ways with a misunderstanding that the other party don't like them. MC leads a peaceful life in a village and learnt the art of healing while saving injured soldiers and ML is on a on the path of revenge against the East who rampage their country when it was at it weakest. ML and MC reunites when the ML was injured and the MC (who became a healer) saved him by pretending to be the ML's 3rd love interest in the novel. In the end, they resloved the misunderstanding and reunited. MC represented his sifu to help the ML'a army as a doctor. Was found out and at the same time a traitor leaked military secret which resulted in the "death" of the emperor aka the ML and pushed the blame onto the MC. MC escaped and flush the ML. Was tortured to distract the enemies and was rescued by the soldiers he saved before and sent back to the peaceful village. He was saved then the ML who was victorious came back to him. Brought him back and wanted to crown him empress but another bad thing happened and the ML's uncle forced him to commit su*cide. Was retransmigrated as the West's monarch of the same name who sent himself to the ML as a concubine of sorts in exchange for military support for his country. ML was grieving and hated the person. MC tried to get his attention and was almost killed several times but in the end succeed. They reunited and lovey dovey. Helped stop a rebellion. United with the Western country by marriage. Made the MC the empress and lived happily every after.

WE GOT LESBIANS!! CANONICAL LESBIANS!!! THAT WAS f*ckING AWESOME! Live laugh love yongning and pingyang 👑

and the side couple of lya and xfy was so adorable

xcg and lwd had a very sad story with bittersweet ending in every lifetime 😭 but still, their love can't be broken

MC commits su*cide in the beginning and transmigrates after that, he does it once more later on in the book and comes back again; another three named side characters (one of which isn't too relevant) kill themselves in different ways, and they don't come back to life but they do appear in the extras

I'm not really experienced when it comes to transmigration novels so idk if this is something the fans of this genre would agree with, but I liked seeing xya stumble around the role he had been given because he was Not conveniently skilled and talented enough to thrive in this new setting (or bc the emperor was simply destined to lose), and I liked that we could see him struggling to see himself as a part of the new world and not as an outsider (down to the fact that in the narration, he was always referred to by his own name and never as the emperor/zhou yu). Even telling yhq about his identity so early on only makes me like him more, I just wish yhq wasn't the only one he shared this with but I wasn't really expecting more tbh

also I don't think a side character's story has ever made me as sad as xie chungui's did; the scenes where he wanders the battlefield full of his fallen comrades and later on when he lies crying in the coffin next to his dead family absolutely shattered my heart, that poor boy deserved so much better

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yan heqing putting his own name on xiao yu'an's grave too. bc when xiao yu'an died he also did in a way. did I dream that or did it actually happen. I sobbed like a baby