In my honest opinion, I think that the ML is alright. He's not super cold and overpowered, he's just a man. Many readers were bashing him for being 'horrible' and 'bad'. It makes me think that they forget what period of time the novel is set in and how the world ran in that time period. Sure, there are some men that didn't think in that orthodox way but that's not the ML is it? He wasn't even described in that way, nor was any of his interactions portraying him in that way. Granted that it should have been 'consensual', it's not wholly his fault. Some readers labeled it as 'rape', but it's very much so 'dubcon'. The scenes are brushed over but still, the female acquiesced to it and didn't straightforwardly reject his advances. (The author likes to shield the FML by bringing up that the FML is trying to act like the original as to not arouse any suspicion. She also brought it up before the current FML and the ML went to bed together.)

Also, described ambiguously, the whole ordeal where some readers called the ML an 'a**hole' for not respecting the FML's decision/ choice.

Most of the time, what we're reading is a narrative and her thoughts. She does vocalize her opinion of it, but it's mostly done internally--what she conveys to the ML is more like complaints and not her actual thoughts and feelings. She also just doesn't feel like she needs to explain it to him either, which makes the situation not so great for them later. (It strengthens their relationship, but meh.) She also discovers what the original owner did and proceeds to hide the matter until they reach the capital city.

- fatten up her kids

- fatten up her injured husband

- becoming from lazy mother to best mother in the village

- giving her family the best

-ripoff faces with her vampire maiden family except third brother

- buy food, spend money, find a way to make money

- family conflicts with second house because the second wife is jealous of MC

- let her cubs study

- study herself

- coming clean with husband about her space and her origins

- becoming a math teacher which made MC from lazy woman to best Woman in the village Teacher Lin

-giving college entrance examination and going to Benjing to study with her oldest son

- buying shops, making money and making more money

- getting pregnant again and giving birth to daughter (well I’m not there yet but that’s how it seems from how the story is going

I don't like how the ML kept pressuring the MC to have a daughter when she was clearly reluctant and how biased he was towards his daughter. When the MC was not even pregnant yet, he was already setting aside money for his then non-existent daughter's dowry and don't want to leave some for his sons. Like, I'm all for the novels where the father dotes on their daughter but I hate how he barely cared for his sons yet setting aside everything just for the daughter. He also said multiple times in the novel that sons are useless ? Aren't his sons his childrens too ? Plus, it was getting pretty annoying that the author keep mentioning how the ML doted on his daughter. Like, we get it. I'm getting tired of him putting down his sons and only showing affections for his daughter. Also, when he was taking care of MC when she was pregnant, it seems like he was only taking care of her because she was pregnant with his daughter and didn't care about the risks that MC would face when giving birth at an advance age.

The ML and FL talk it out not too far into the story. She comes clean about her transmigration and he accepts her, they have such an amazing bond. This made me so happy, the ML was aware of all the changes but let her tell him herself rather than asking her because he loved her and she takes great care of their family and he felt like whatever the reason behind her changes he would love her no matter what 🥰

Firstly, the previous owner of the body got litigated before MC took over so theoretically they can't have another child unless it's an accident. It's absolutely not our mc's fault that she's litigated but when ML kept trying to force the pregnancy she's super wishy-washy about communicating that she doesn't want more kids because she's afraid of pregnancy and child birth. ML keeps being pushy about it and it's annoying as hell but MC never outright actually has a conversation about it with him and keeps giving in when he pushes even a little bit (she'll act upset about pregnancy but then ML will sidetrack her or they'll have sec and she never actually says no).

While all of this is annoying to begin with, the way she handles telling him the news about litigation really pushed me over the edge. She tells him while they're traveling and he gets mad. It's understandable in my opinion cuz he obviously doesn't know yet that she's not the same woman he married but she then spins it on him- blaming him and making him the problem and it feels very emotionally abusive. She also says s*upid sh*t like the woman's always right and then coaxes him with s*x. It's kind of gross how she makes it seem like he's the one that's got a problem when usually (not just in that time but also now) you have to have real conversations with your SO about these types of things. The litigation might not be her fault but the way she spins it on him absolutely is- she says sh*t like if you're so mad at me why don't we get a divorce knowing how much he loves her and not even giving him space to process any of the news. Why can't she just tell him that she absolutely doesn't want to go through that kind of pain again or something since she clearly never wants to anyway.

I also felt emotional when OUR (yes! They are also my sons who I read growing up) three sons grown up, got married and have families of their own.

I also felt sad when grandpa Wang, grandpa Zhou and grandma Zhou died of old age.

Happy for the development of all characters in the story.

I also felt stressed for the second brother Zhou having that kind of wife and daughter.

So far (as of chapter 61) we haven't seen a whole lot of him, but I'm glad the plot is made so the former person only really interacted with him sparely, thus it helps you not feel too bad about the whole situation. Also the MC isn't overly willing to follow the "plot" and have relations with him. They're civil but she sets boundaries and though he doesn't really understand why he's not overly pushy. Which is great in a male lead. Too often ML force themselves onto the FL and it's not cute. Even if people think it's "assertive" it's not lol. I'm tired of reading novels where the FL is like "I let him have his way with me, bearing it". So yeah, he's a nice guy. I would say realistic even.