1. The family relationships: there were excellent family relationships in this story that I really appreciated. Not just between our MC and her family, but also between MC and her adopted godmother/godfather, the MC and the ML, MC and ML's family, ML and his own family, etc. They were heartwarming and excellent and I really enjoyed it.
2. Realism in the setting: I always thought it was kind of weird that heroines who transmigrate to ancient times just have perfect fluency in ancient CN lmao both the spoken and written are EXTREMELY different from modern CN (as someone who was forced to learn a little bit of ancient CN it s**ked LOL) like I guess you could write it off as 'former host's memories' but still lol.
3. The cheat isn't super overpowered. It's even stated in the story that although she can improve crops for the first gen, they have to carefully selectively breed the second gen if they keep wanting higher yields. I mean, this is true of ancient times so I appreciated this.
4. Good interpersonal relationships: MC and her friends were fun to watch and all the people who helped MC and her family out when they were down on their luck also made me smile. My parents came from a remote village in the mountains in CN and the villagers were all like this from my memory when I visited there as a child. Obviously not everybody will be friends but they are all from the same hometown, and that kind of bond is pretty strong.
5. The heroine isn't super overpowered: I mean, she has the stone and she knows how to do a lot of stuff, but that's because she was forced to grow up after her parent's death to raise her younger siblings and make money to give them a comfortable life. Like, everything she does is because she was forced to work different jobs and earn money.
6. MC and ML relationship: I think my favorite part was when the ML told MC that she could depend on him for anything, and that he would 'hold the sky up for her'. The MC was super touched by this because all this time, she's been working hard for her current family to bring them up and in her previous life, she was also unable to be a carefree young girl like most people her age would've been. She's never really had anybody who would unwaveringly stand in front of her and take care of her. I thought it was so cute!
7. Some character growth: I did like that some characters grew during the story, but imo, it was mostly shallow growth so although it was nice to see, I won't say it was anything too amazing or interesting.

1. Holy shit. WHY are there SO MANY CHAPTERS of just s*upid FAMILY DRAMA. I will NEVER GET OVER THIS. When they finally sort of faded from the chapters I was so f*cking excited because I was SO sick of hearing about Madam Zhang and her s*upid, sleazy ways. Even then of course she eventually shows up and I'm honestly not happy about her end which was basically: she has to work the rest of her life for her son because she can't leech off of anybody anymore! This is the worst end for her! I'M SORRY WHAT? SHE mu*derED THE MC'S GRANDMOTHER AND THIS IS HER ENDING? I'M OVER IT
2. Too many seemingly important characters that everybody forgets about for periods of time: AKA the older brother who everybody would mention "they need to bring home" only to forget about him for f*cking... 60 chapters??? Wtf. Also MC's GRANDMOTHER who became a VENGEFUL SPIRIT after BEING mu*derED BY HER COUSIN SHE TOOK IN just sorta fades out and everybody forgets about her because I guess who cares about their dead mother/grandmother???
3. The heroine can be pretty s*upid sometimes: For somebody who lived until she was in her 30s??? She acts like a f*cking 12 year old. Like, drooling like she's some s*upid brainless idiot when she sees people who are good looking. I know it's supposed to be comedy but it just makes her look s*upid. While on one hand I appreciate that she didn't immediately adapt to the current times, I'm also somewhat annoyed because she doesn't f*cking learn her lesson and continue to learn and fully adapt to the times. Instead she continues to make s*upid blunders and talk like she isn't afraid of anybody only to immediately shriek and get scared afterwards. But then she DOES IT AGAIN and just doesn't f*cking learn???
4. I'm kind of over everybody seeing the heroine and being like "omg ANGELIC BEAUTIFUL NOBLE GIRL SHE IS SO PERFECT AND KIND AND AMAZING AND OMGGGGGG" like okay, we get it.

My biggest gripe with this story was the inconsistencies with a lot of the characters and a lot of the dumb family drama that just sort of gets written or brushed under the rug and everybody is happy and hunky dory. TBH a lot of the pros I have for the story are also the cons: the familial relationship is good and fun, however, I get annoyed too at all the emphasis put on filial piety which just causes more drama. It's so s*upid it's like: "ok we won't mess with them anymore bcuz they know I committed mu*der" then LITERALLY THE NEXT CHAPTER they're like "ok let's go bother them" like what???

It's kind of s*upid because Old Yu is like "omg look at how great I am having fathered a son who's become an official and on TOP of that having a granddaughter who is the first female official WOW LOOK AT HOW GREAT I AM" when in reality, he nearly let his son die from a bear attack which they went to hunt for the f*cking family, he lets his biological son of his dead wife (who is hinted [cough pretty much stated] to be the person he loves and only loves or whatever the entire story) suffer for the whole family and doesn't think there's anything wrong. He steals the 300 silvers and "feels guilty" but never f*cking tries to do right by his son who has broken away from the family and instead just lets them sit there and continues to "feel guilty" or whatever, like their family should suffer but it's okay because at least he FEELS GUILTY! He also ALMOST LET THIS FEMALE OFFICIAL GRANDDAUGHTER OF HIS DIE MULTIPLE TIMES like LITERALLY you would not be "the father of the first female granddaughter and an official and a grandfather of a f*cking future PM" if it weren't for the fact that the MC transmigrated in and saved all of them. And yet, people all just praise the grandfather like he lifted a single f*cking finger to help ANY of them at ANY f*cking point. He just cried and felt guilty and I guess that was enough for him to be absolved of all crimes in helping almost kill his son, his daughter-in-law, and his grandchildren????? Even if he didn't directly try to beat any of them, he still helped create the circumstances in which they suffered and didn't do a damn f*cking thing about it. He just "felt guilty". But I guess feeling guilty is enough because "filial piety"

Which brings me to my next point. FILIAL PIETY. It's so emphasized in this story but everybody forgets about the DEAD WIFE WHO BECAME A VENGEFUL SPIRIT AFTER BEING mu*derED. I guess because she's dead nobody has to pay any filial piety to her?? They author always hints at how much Old Yu loved his dead wife and how much he missed her but when it comes to her mu*der he's like "well she's dead, so it's fine let's just leave it as it is" like are you f*ckING kidding me????

And then when he sees her dead ghost he's like "OMG WHY DOES SHE HATE ME OMG SHE HATES ME WAHHHHH" and cries about it for half a chapter then next chapter he's like "dead wife? what dead wife? yeah you're right Madam Zhang let's go bother the people who we LITERALLY the last chapter said we wouldn't bother anymore and have nothing to do with each other because you want to scam them of more money LOL OK LET'S GO DO IT. What, my dead wife?? Who is that again????"

I'm just going to assume that the author decided to write so much in this story with so many characters and people and didn't plan anything out which is why they just forgot everything they wrote, even if it was just the last chapter. Because otherwise, anybody who had logically planned a story out, would probably never be this f*cking s*upid.

I just... I can't. It wouldn't be so bad if the family drama didn't take up over 1/3 of the entire f*cking story BUT OF COURSE IT JUST HAD TO because HOW ELSE IS THE AUTHOR GONNA MAKE HER PENNIES???? Ugh.

The story had a lot of sweet and fun moments, but it had just as many equally s*upid and dragging moments. Literally, the family drama should have been cut by like 2/3rd's of what it was, and I probably could have stomached this story better. But literally, that over 1/3rd part of the story that was just s*upid family drama made this story extremely draggy and boring.

Although I'm glad I finished the story, I have to say, it wasn't anywhere nearly as good as everybody says it is. People might say "well she said it in the story, it's unrealistic to completely cut familial ties" but it's literally not??? At all???? Xiaocao is always talking about how she doesn't care how people view her or whatever because SHE knows what she's like. But then she's like "omg we can't look bad about filial piety in front of everybody because that would be TRULY heinous" lol okay. Never mind he didn't give a sh*t that you almost died several times or whatever. Filial piety, amirite? We can just use this excuse to extend all the dumb family drama.

And then honestly, after the family drama ended, I kind of don't really know what was the point of the rest of the story. There isn't any real exciting plot after this, just a few incidents that happen and that's like it. And after she goes to the capital, she just sort of forgets about her parents and siblings and they show up every once in a while during like, New Year's or whatever where the MC HAS to remember her family because those are family holidays.

Ugh I don't know. It wasn't a horrible story but it also wasn't amazing either. It just... kind of was okay. Nothing amazing nor was it anything groundbreaking for this genre. It was just... the standard sh*t you always see.

If you're bored and have nothing better to do during this quarantine, then yeah by all means finish it. The MC and the ML's relationship was excellent, I do have to say, and I really enjoyed reading that part of the story. I could have done without the rest of the dumb bullsh*t though, or at least had a cut down version of the dumb bullsh*t because it was just exhausting to read after a while.

... the fact that MC is not the only transmigrator around. The current emperor and his grandfather are also both transmigrators, and they've already butterflied a lot of big changes into the annals of history. This is a Ming Dynasty which has built a great navy and preempted Europe in the Age of Sail. MC is the only one who got a golden finger with her transmigration though.

the young prince they rescue from the sea in the beginning chapters. Of course, he then disappears for 200+ chapters before returning to Chinese shores. Afterwards, it takes some more time before he realizes that he's fallen for the MC. And then even longer for MC and her family to accept his suit (since she's so young and the difference between their status so vast).

Also, even though he's not a transmigrator, the ML has a cheat of his own. He is able to read other people's emotions, and later, thoughts. People like transmigrators are immune to this ability, though. The way ML awakened to this power in his childhood was traumatic, and it was uncontrollable earlier on, causing him to have berzerker fits. Of course, MC is the ray of light who is able to bring him out of his berserk state.

The first of the few problems this webnovel faces starts with their side characters which the author seems to abandon with the leads' meteoric rise in the ancient China social ladder. The op hunter family friend are shipped to become General at the border to pave way for the main love interest, and the business heir who helped out with the family at the start has to kowtow to the social status of main love interest.

Now comes the major gripe of the series, the portrayal of romance between a (physically) 10 year old and a 19 year old Prince. People will justify that it is not improper in the era, but I am uncomfortable reading the main lead discovering his 'love' towards the 10 year old lead. Furthermore, every single description of the main lead's behaviour seems very abhorrent, with him acting extremely violently for no reason other than he is able to mind read, hence executing and crippling people left right and centre for the crime of thinking. The author seems to retroactively realise that the main love interest is by any definition a bad person, hence out of the blues adding in that he was possessed, hence absolving him of responsibility for his actions.

"Don't... " Her older twin sister, Yu Xiaolian, secretly rolled her eyes, "If you caught more, then it would be even less likely for us to eat anything. You didn't get to see grandmother's pained expression when we needed to pay for the medical fees. She would surely find ways to make up for the loss, while also doubling the earnings."

Yu Hang held back his youngest sister's eagerness and politely said, "Business is about the mutual willingness between the two parties. It's natural for the seller to set a price and the buyer to bargain. Even if the deal doesn't work out, we can still maintain a benevolent relationship. We have nothing more to say since Manager Liu didn't like our goods. Please excuse us!"

the emperor is also a transmigrator

I know many people will like the interactions between MC and ML as playful banter, but this clearly turning from josei/seinen to a common shoujo. A shoujo with an MC that's becoming more and more mary sue everyone likes despite being a bratty person that disrespects everyone and an emo also with a cheat power despite not being a transmigrator gary stue ML. And now seeing again the tags and knowing ML, I admit I never expected the actual ML to be the yandere instead of a side character.

I went from not being able to stop myself from reading, to dreading every time ML's name appears in a chapter hoping he was not ML.. Instead he become more prominent and s*upidified the MC as well.

1. The weakass beta father. There hasn't been a single instance where the kind, loving father who is also quite strong physically saves the day. When it comes to a brain problem, it's the MC who finds a solution and when it's physical danger it's the ML who always saves the day. Not only that, the father with his filial piety and forgiveness actually puts his actual family through a lot of trouble and even life-threatening danger.

2. The MC mental age slowly regresses as the story flows. Around 300 chapters later, she actually becomes this little girl who pouts, rolls eyes, pointlessly bickers and so on.

3. The romance is completely forced. I thought since she is only 7 at the beginning of the story, I wouldn't need to experiece cringy romance but the 13 year old MLs keep appearing. The last one which is a Royal Prince and 17 yo, basically starts flirting with her openly, sometimes in front of her useless father (who does nothing of course) while she is only 11 (mentally and physically). Everyone around get it btw, so it's not subtle or anything. He literally jokes that he will take her as a concubine and she says only the main wife will do. Just gross.

1. MC became an official because of her farming skills and live in the capital.

2. MC and ML got engaged when MC was 16 and they got married after she became an adult. (18)

3. MC was kidnapped and almost died but was saved by Little Dumpling.

4. Little Shitou (her younger brother) passed all the test to become an official.

5. MC and ML had 3 children, the eldest is a boy, while the two were twins (girl and boy).

ML died because of old age and MC goes back to modern world. She was in a hospital when she wakes up after being comatose for a hundred days by falling off the stairs. She met ML who rebirth as a doctor. The End

Both of them died at the same time due to old age. Then FL went back to modern age and they meet again. Or maybe I just became teary eyed due to the long hours reading this novel lol