all the female rivals get repeatedly gang-r*ped. I lost track of how often it happened to one character, whose main crime was being diabolical to the MC, whose MC status meant she was basically just better at being diabolical but different in no other real way.

The epilogue where MC and ML's daughter Feng Huang gets together with Ming Yue Cheng was a bit too much for me. They're 26 years apart and when they get together, she's 16 and he's 42. She's been in love with him since she was 7 years old and actually lived with him. He spoiled her like a daughter. Then when she tried to sleep with him when he was drunk, he stops her and tells her that he has only loved her mother. She then runs away and he realized his feelings for her. I know it's ancient time but still, this was a bit too weird. I liked that he was very loyal to MC but I wanted him to have a love of his own separate from this mother-daughter duo because he was such a good guy. Feng Huang will never know for sure if he loves her for her or if he loves her because she looks and acts like her mother. Also, I felt like he had more chemistry with his childhood friend, Gu Yun Wan who ended up marrying Jin Mo.

MC: In her previous life, she was Yi Lian. She was adopted at the age of 5 by her adopted father and seemed to be trained as an assassin. She lived until she was 20+ only to be murdered by her adopted brother. The adopted brother was in love with her and when she refused him, he killed her. Her soul then transmigrated to the ancient past into the body of Murong Qi Qi. At the age of 10, Murong Qi Qi was framed, sent to a nunnery, and beaten. The original host actually died of the beating and MC woke up in this body. She lived in the nunnery for 5 years while being a disciple of the master Sir Mozun who is the leader of the Moyu sect. She takes over the sect after her master's death and is known as Du Xian'er. In these 5 years, she also trained with a doctor and became known as Lian Gonzi, a famous doctor. Using her knowledge from the future, she also becomes Guanghua Gonzi, a designer who designs both jewelry and clothing. Later, we'll find out that she is not a daughter of the Murong family. Her birth parents are Princess Ming Yue of Bei Zhou and Bei Zhou's great general Feng Xie.

ML: He grew up as Feng Cang, the son of Princess Ming Yue and great general Feng Xie. In actuality, he is their adopted son. Their real son died at birth. ML is the son of the great general's best friend, the Crown Prince of the Qin Dynasty and a princess from Dong Lu. At the time, the Qin Dynasty was being seized so his parents were killed and he was rescued by the general and grew up as Feng Cang. His martial arts alter ego is Long Ao Tian, the leader of the Fo Sheng Men sect.

ML first appears in the flesh in Ch 13 (he's mentioned in gossips in Ch 10 regarding his curse). Ch 13 was the scene where MC was playing an instrument and singing as a bet by her half-sisters and DYY. This is also when all the young masters fell in love with her because although she isn't a beauty (hiding behind a human skin mask), she had really bright eyes and a strong presence. Hidden in the background a figure appeared with the following sentence: "The treasure he had been looking for, had actually appeared in Murong household." It doesn't explicitly explain that this is ML but who else could it be? Even so, this line is so confusing! Where did he meet her before that he's been looking for her? MC first appeared as Du Xian'er and then she returned to Xi Qi as Murong Qi Qi. He doesn't find out that she's Du Xian'er until way after they've been married. When MC came back to Xi Qi, she didn't go out of the house (as pointed out by her cousin brother) so where did ML meet her? Also, he had been referring to her as his wangfei even before her engagement with LJT was broken off and even before the Emperor's edict for the two to marry. So yeah, very confusing!

The author is not a fan of women, but she does seem to love incestuous themes.

Yes, she is transmigrated. The story starts with her being exiled (kind of... anyway she was forbid to go home for a certain period) by her family. She lived at some kinda countryside and cultivate there without anyone knowing because like other story everyone thought she was a trash and wasn't able to cultivate.

Anyway, this story SKIPPED, yes, skipped about her cultivation and jumps straight to the end of period when she was supposed to be exiled and need to go home. At that time she had cultivated to the point of becoming OP so she decided to go home because you know, to get revenge for the original owner of the body.

Well, she already OP so killing them is an easy task but it won't be fun to just kill them so we gotta do it from inside. Attack when they least expected. She returned home and keep pretending as an idiot. The rest is up for you to read.

abusive husbands/gang r*pe/anal/incestuous r*pe to death/suicide, as if because they are so evil, they deserve severe domestic violence/sexual torture. Several girls have brains crazed by hate and jealousy, and they end up gang/incestuous/an*l r*ped by crazy Imperial men/bandits, and it was just unnecessary and graphic.

fake-incest relationships in the middle of the story. Fake, because although one brother didn't actually touch his sister, he was insane and used substitutes. Another couple found out that they might be siblings (but they weren't). One brother found out his sister was someone else pretending with a face mask, so he... while the mask was on. And there was an adoptive brother who developed insane possessive feelings towards his adoptive sister.

the world's number 1 doctor, fashion designer, jewelry designer, poison master, martial artist female

Almost no fight scenes while the MC have poison and martial art, she hardly uses them.

So it starts out introducing the MC who has already transmigrated and integrated herself in this world for what, 4, 5 years (and has become really OP in that time period) who returns to her 'home' (which, personally, I think is stupid, because obviously she can live pretty well off on her own--she literally doesn't have to care about a bunch of people who don't want her there) only to find her fiance (I remember it was some prince) decided to break off the engagement and then she got engaged to ML...

SO, moving on, MC gets some admirers, ML gets some admirers, and a lot of cliche stuff happens ie. people trying to kill the MC to get the ML, the ex-fiance regretting breaking off the engagement, some business agreement with the prince of another country, said prince liking the MC, ML getting jealous... (okay, I admit I don't remember much of what happens in between)

Later on, MC finds out that she is 'blood related' to the ML and panics because it's incest and she knows it's wrong but she still loves him and all that, and then she is relieved when ML when he says that he's actually adopted by her parents and that they have no blood relation but they decide to keep mum about it because his real identity is real sensitive and should not be revealed.

Fast forward through a lot of details that I don't remember, MC finds out that oh, she's not the only one who's transmigrated. Apparently, the person who singlehandedly caused her death in her previous life is also here (and the young master of some Peng Lai? island or something) is out to find her because he loves her and wants to be with her even after she refused him and stuff.

After all that drama, the MC is pregnant and the gu (a type of poison) in the ML is transferred to the fetus and the MC and ML try to get rid of it through a series of trials in some tribe. Seriously?

The ending is happy...I think.

In the latest chapters, after the whole "hey, let's stomp on the people that were bad to her before she took over the body" arc, you would think that the whole marriage would go better as she now achieved the condition, but it doesn't even try and shows us that not only were the parents of the husband not dead in the way everyone thought, the king obviously had a hand in it and is not sane at all and probably the one that poisoned the husband.

You might think that it could make for a good story to have good opponents, but so far all of the people that wanted to hurt our main character were not sane people, and it's always "someone wants to hurt her, so she will hurt or even kill them in return".

Even their children were perfect. Duh!