okay, the best thing about bere is that she never wore something revealing. Even with her shoulders, she never liked showing too much skin. That's what I like the most here in the novel, you can feel the historical character that she was. And despite knowing a lot, she knows that its not enough, she's also not a seductress because she'svery conservative which is better (there are pa pa pa that happened no worries guys). The author also showed her flaws by making her not too attentive to the ML that much

so our male was also made wonderfully, just like the MC despite situations where she has rejected him, it shows the emotions of sadness in his character. He's overbearing sometimes but not that it makes you not like him, he's very likable and great!!

Also she rejects him first on the basis of wanting to pursue her career, and then he says he wouldn't get in the way, and then he gets in the way by blocking romantic scenes in her work with other guys and not letting her try action scenes without using a body double... like dude let her try lmao you're an actor too let her experience her job as well??? not to mention she wanted to keep their relationship under wraps and immediately he starts acting like her bf in front of staff, simply disrespecting her wishes zzz

I was kinda expecting the reincarnation plot to play a more important part in the story. It's said the MC is proficient in all 4 arts but she barely portrayed any. She's also become accustomed to the modern world wayyy too quickly, even going as far as moving in together with the male lead not long after they started dating.

The plot basically switched between the MC working on TV-Movie projects, people being aw-struck by her acting skills, and the two lovebirds being lovey-dovey, until the very end.

I'd even say the title of the novel "Film Empress Daily Face Slapping" is kinda misleading. The MC has never really put anyone in their place or confront them for their misbehaviors. She just asked someone or use someone else's influence (usually male lead's) to attack them behind the scene. She also didn't really become a film empress until the very last chapter (if winning one big award can be called so).

However, the fluffs between the two were nicely done. It hit all the right tunes. The male lead turned out to be a really thick-skinned and possessive guy. He even went as far as blocking the agents from offering the MC any intimate drama scripts and warned off his friend who was co-starring the MC from kissing or hugging her. LOL

My biggest issue with this story was that I felt that the face slapping (mentioned in the title) barely happened and the few times it did it wasn't exciting or well thought out. The FL's method of "getting back" at someone that had disrespected her in any way was to ask the ML's agent to expose their dirt to the press thus ruining that person's reputation/career. Because of the title, I had higher expectations for the frequency & intensity of the face slapping.

It wasn't instant love on the FL's side in that she's very practical and tried to deflect the ML several times. The assistants are hilarious and the family relationship for both characters is wonderful. The ML's persistence pays off in the end. It's just that the author made the 2nd male lead very weak in that he had no chance at all with FL and no character development at all. The female antagonists were all pretty 2 dimensional and not interesting at all.