The thing that got me hooked on this novel was her thinking process, she find the holding on to life by a thread of breath ML and takes pity of him due to her parents similar death and decides to rescue him, and when uncle zhao, the veterinary doc (yes lmao) says it's difficult for him to live, she immediately thinks.. ah... how to bury him? should I buy a cheap coffin and bury him or just bury him in a hole after he dies. lmfaoo. She is destitute, struggling financially and is constantly haunted by her uncle who wants to take the lil property her parents left her. She is practical and a little silly. I found her extremely endearing and tbh relatable. I mean even if the guy looks like a jade sculpture, she doesn't really care for him face and pity and all, she did her best to try and give him a chance at life and if he doesn't make it then its his problem. XD

His forceful kiss scenes with the FL initially, was indeed a bit.. yucky, but understandable. He doesn't know how to express anything, he hasn't been taught, he wasn't corrected ever, however was he right in doing that ? nope, he was rightfully punched and beaten up (lowkey I think he is a masochist, he always gets crosses the line and gets punched by the FL, love it tho lol)

I like how he tries to come to terms with his feelings in the later half, with the guillotine of the FLs family secrets hanging over both their heads, he decides to let go of her, but he cannot. I felt the sense of desolation along with the characters, they were in the fog, without even knowing the path to take, where it would lead them, but they eventually find their way back. He learns to communicate (not really, brozki still needs heaps of development but it's still better)

The main villain Wei Lan, the uncle, he was supposed to be this very mysterious, brilliant in scheming guy who treats lives like grass, his backstory was... lackluster. He was the real arrogant son of the heavens who f*ked up once he was beaten down and decided to shove a hell lot of innocent people into their unmarked graves because of his own feelings. smh. I was expecting something grand, but it felt lowkey s*upid. I liked the motivation of the 2nd villain Qi Min more. Heh. I reallly really like his character. His twisted personality makes sense, I actually cried in his side story, he was pitiful and yet too much burdened. He was a horrible dude who deserved his end, but, he also didn't. I really like Qianqian, a lot of people were like her character as a transmigrator made no sense ?? But it made a lot of sense for me. Typically a character like her would be the FL, and even the character of Qi Min would be the ML of a dog blood novel, maybe he also reincarnates and all then hell breaks loose but he becomes better and all that yk what. But here, the transmigrator was the side character, interesting right? Maybe not all transmigrators are supposed to be the main characters, she did have a really good ending and all so who knows, maybe she is also a main character from a different pov.

as for Li Huai'An, his redemption was satisfactory, I didn't feel ad for him at all, ugh, but his eventually suffering and understanding, it was nice to read.

mydramanovel is pretty good, much much better than mtling, but it has the last chapter missing, trust me I lost braincells trying to find out where to read the last one, I did contact them about it so hoping they can add it, if it's still not there and you want to read then dm me, I may have the last chapter

He willingly gets whip lashes in his ancestral hall to be with her despite the potential betrayal her fam did to his fam (they were framed but he hadn't confirmed it at that time). He literally BLEEEEDS so that her battle weapon is forged with his blood.

you will see that the main antagonist would be given a chance to regress and will show what would have been if the tragedy didnt happen, very brief but less tragedies

They were about to part ways and divorce but the ML couldn't bear with the fact that MC might marry another person after him so he forcibly kissed her to show his feelings. The way the author wrote this scene showed how non-consensual it was for the MC, which made me uncomfortable.

One of the characters reveals that they are transmigrator but despite this the fact never contributes to the main storyline so what was the author's purpose?

The letter from her father still confuses me — I don’t fully understand its purpose. And Wei Yan making his sister kill herself felt questionable. I understand the emotional logic behind it, but politically, I feel like there were other ways that situation could have unfolded, especially since many of the original problems were caused by the emperor. That part didn’t fully convince me.

Especially the alternate universe where they meet as children and grow up together. I loved those chapters so much.

Wei Yan becomes the villain, but when you look at him closely, you can see how he got there. He’s obsessive, intense, and once he loses everything, he basically chooses revenge as his entire identity. He kills the emperor, but after that, what is he supposed to live for? His whole personality is built on anger and loss.

Xie Zheng has direction and purpose, and things don’t collapse around him the way they did for Wei Yan. If the circumstances were slightly different, I genuinely think Xie Zheng could have become another Wei Yan.

Yu Qianqian is a transmigrated person from the future! While she doesn't play quite a big role in the novel, reading it from her POV would definitely be interesting.

One of my confusion is why Wei Yan would work so hard to cover up the Jinzhou tragedy if the old Emperor is the one truly at fault. Wei Yan tried to kill the Fan family so many times for what??? He wasn't the one who was wrong? So I don't get this part. Felt like author was just trying to make him seem "good" at the end.

What's wrong with the plot of a country's ruler drugging ML and him falling for it and it just becomes a plot device for ML and FL snu snu scene. Even the most ridiculous face slapping novel villains don't succeed in doing that anymore. Feels like reading a smut novel where the plot conveniently made them sleep together for no reason.

Some ppl are saying this is better than legend of female general. Mind you characters in that novel are more nuanced and complex than this. This is just a mixed copy of legend of female general and grand secretary's pampered wife (which has more assembled cast than this, even the FL ruffian habit of kidnapping and beating ppl up is copied).

The only redeemable point of this novel is being easier to adapt to drama bcuz of small casts who don't have any interesting characteristics so they don't need to butcher up many interesting characters.

Palace intrigue is the most boring and immature i've ever seen and the author is avoiding the mystery plot that isn't even interesting and mysterious. The biggest reveal is only shoved up to your face at last minute.

This is just full of fan service supposingly hot scenes that are repeated 10 times in the same flavor. So unnecessary.

Just imagine romeo and juliet in ancient times who are kissing messing around in the middle of war and crisis. Even supporting couple toxic romance is so pre2010 coded. So outdated.

The "main villain" or rather the uncle - I thought it made no sense that he never told the truth or never admitted to the whole story and would've rather have his family die and the ML hate him than tell the truth, especially since neither he nor the concubine did anything wrong? The way he was ready to kill so many people just for that was very illogical, for a character who was depicted as this omnipresent, hyper intelligent master mind. The would have been a thousand ways he could have taken his revenge that wouldn't have broken down the whole country and - more importantly - lead to the suffering of the people. If he wanted to temper the ML, he could have been honest with him as he got older...

being a butcher and extremely strong. But she becomes better and better as her dreams become bigger and bigger.

First she wants to revive her dad's butcher shop. Then she wants to open a braised pork shop.

After falling for the ML she resolves to become better and not rely on him l, and she does just that.

He marries her for her household registration to escape notice from his pursuers. But then he falls in love with her.

He's also amazing, one of my favorite parts is where he protects her sister when assassins come to their house.

He becomes more and more possessive, though he never restricts her.

The intro says most of it. ML isn't attracted to FL at all at first but then he comes to like her instead of just wanting to repay her kindness. However, he can't stay with her because he was conspired against and that is how he ended up injured. He needs to go back and resolve the problem before he can bring her into his world.

SPOILER...

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Later it is unveiled that FL's parents are not ordinary people. It turned out that they were in hiding and committed su*cide to protect their daughters. FL's maternal grandfather might've caused ML's dad to die. FL's dad was ML's uncle's former subordinate. ML's uncle might've caused ML's dad's death. I say might've because there's another level to the conspiracy.

I won't give the end spoiler here since it really would ruin the entire novel. If you wanna jump ahead, read the Side Story regarding ML's uncle, Wei Yan.