I liked him at first, everything was good until the FL's fall, then his personality changed and he started to be more of his real self, I get it, I didn't mind. However, something I despise is when the ML's jealousy is directed even at his son, HIS SON, not some random kid/boy/man. His behavior was so childish, there were times I couldn't stand it. I know he doesn't hate his kid, but sometimes I didn't feel like he wanted to truly bond with his son, it was more like he did for the FL's sake. This maybe didn't impact some of you because Mo Xiaobao's personality was "conveniently" the kind of personality that can deal with the ML. Maybe it's just me, but I didn't like it and this is also one of the reasons I stopped reading.

She trains her assigned secret guards to be her skilled, loyal confidants; creates a deadly, elite force using her knowledge of special forces training (her best weapon during the whole plot), trains with her husband to be able to protect herself and fight even thought she can't really catch up with the top experts in martial arts and contributes her ideas to build a safe, peaceful country for her family and people. Most importantly, theres's a lot of character development and she suffers gains and losses.

First bit of nonsense, she forgives her family even though they have treated her like she is tr*sh. They look down on her, all the sisters, the step mother, and concubines are jealous of everything she has, they doubt her motives when she tries to help and insult her constantly, and mostly they all treat her like she is a worthless existence that brings shame to the family. The oldest half sister (the one that steals her fiancee) and step mother scheme against her with assassins and plots to steal her things and try to make her fall into the abyss. I guess it's not enough that Ye Yue stole her fiancee? Essentially almost everyone in the Ye Manor (including the really young brother) has bullied and mistreated the FL except the grandmother but this doesn't count for much since her grandmother did nothing to stop the ab*se and bullying. In the beginning we find out that the step mother has even taken her mother's dowry and whittled it down to nothing then shamelessly tries to give it to Ye Yue as her dowry. The FL lets it go after tricking them into giving back what's remaining. Seriously? The step mother and half sister even send assassins to try to kill the FL even though the author pens her as being low key. After the FL leaves the Ye Manor at no point does anyone in the Ye family ever say they are sorry or show any remorse to her for how terribly they have treated her. They even shamelessly ask for her help on several occasions. After all this she still tries to help them almost every time she visits them. When sshe doesn't help to their satisfaction they blame her as not wanting to help them even though they don't deserve her help.

The FL has no problem with several women that scheme against her just because they like the ML. Her reasoning for letting it go is that she understands and/or pities their situation because they are supposedly doing it to survive. Really? I've never heard of anyone needing to belittle or insult someone else or try to take someone else's husband in order to survive. The first example is Consort Liu. This skank hooker looks down on the FL lead constantly and actually insults her to her face. On top of that she tells the FL to go away so that she can talk to the ML every time she sees them at the palace just so she can be alone with the ML. After one such incident the FL feels bad for Consort Liu and wonders to herself if CL will be okay after the ML kicks her to the curb. The FL justifies Consort Liu's behavior when she remembers that Consort Liu has feelings for the ML. WTF?! That skank bit*h is MARRIED to the emperor and has a daughter and 2 sons with him. She had a choice in her marriage. Who in their right mind would feel sorry for her? So what if she likes the ML. He's shown her that he doesn't like her at all so he is someone that she can't have. Get over yourself and accept it! She doesn't deserve any understanding or sympathy IMO.

The second example is a shameless dancer named Yoaji. This ignorant wench likes Mu Yang; the Mu family heir. She wants to marry him but he is engaged to a girl from the Sun family. He doesn't think that Yoaji is good enough as a main wife even though she's only selling her skills in dancing not her body so he wants to have her as a concubine but she doesn't want that. She decides to ruin her own reputation to get him to let go. (I feel bad for her situation but this doesn't makes sense and the author doesn't allow it to work in the end anyway. It was just a useless way to create unnecessary drama.) YJ sets up an event where she will dance on a stage in the middle of the commoners monthly night market and after her dance she will throw an embroidered ball to a man she wants to choose as her "groom" for the night. She sees the ML and FL standing there and she smiles at the FL. FL gets a bad feeling and it's spot on because after the dance Yoaji throws the ball towards the ML after she silently says "Do you think he'll accept it?" to the FL. (So the FL's super power must be lip reading?) When the FL sees the ball flying their way she actually gets worried and pulls the ML's collar. (Don't ask me how she has enough time to do this before the ball reaches him but whatever. This author does sh*t like this constantly because she has no understanding about the passage of time.) The ML ends up hitting the ball away. When Yoaji sees this she says "congratulations" to the FL. The FL nods and accepts her congratulations and she even has her shadow guards escort the girl safely back to hookerville. What?! Who would be happy or helpful towards another woman that tried to drag their husband into some unnecessary drama? Yoaji was essentially saying she wants to spend the night with the ML. If I was the FL I would have jumped up to catch that ball, lit it on fire, and then threw it on Yoaji's head. I'm sure that all of the women I know would have done the same. Is this author trying to say that if another woman likes her husband that she would allow this woman to insult her and treat her like she doesn't exist just because she understands the woman's feelings? (As someone that has had to deal with this in my marriage, please believe that when another woman tried to flirt with my husband right in front of my face I would cut them into pieces with my poison covered tongue and if my husband showed any interest in that woman I would have thrown him on that woman's head and not looked back.) This is respecting and loving yourself. Would this author be fine with another woman like consort Liu acting like she is tr*sh and that she doesn't deserve to be married to her husband? If that's the case then this author must be the female Jesus and a much better person then myself and the females I associate with.

Another unbelievable part that irritates TF out of me when they continuosly forgive Han Mingyue. The author is consistently inconsistent. This freakin moronic tr*sh Han Mingyue loves the not dead ex-fiancee of the ML so he listens to everything that she wants without question like a loyal dog. (His lines should have all been written in Scooby speak.... Ry roddess rants rou read ro rou rust rie. roof roof [My goddess wants you dead so you must die! woof woof]) Of course she wants the ML even though she left him when he was at his lowest. (I feel that she was part of the plot to poison him.) She's obviously shameless and delusional so she wants to hurt and/or kill the FL any way she can. She makes several plans to hurt the FL using HMY. The first time he tries to assassinate the FL she pwns him but lets him off because he was friends with the ML and supposedly didn't know that the target was the FL. (This is really not believable that he doesn't know the name of who he is supposed to hurt but whatever.) She tells him that there won't be a second time, that if he tries to hurt her again she won't let him off. Oh surprise surprise, but of course there is a second time. The second time he tried to attack the FL Han Mingxi protects her. They let HMY off again because Han Mingxi asks her to. The FL uses HMX as a threat by supposedly poisoning him and says that she will only give him the antidote if HMY behaves himself. The ML comes to the cave where the second attack occurs. He's angry about the first attack so before they let HMY off he attacks him but HMY is able to block it or his brother protects him, I can't remember which. Anyway the ML lets him go the second time because of their past friendship and HMX's request not to kill his bro. The second time HMY clearly knew who he was attacking. HMY made the decision to hurt the FL just because that's what the ex-fiancee wanted. Who would forgive someone that attempts to mu*der or injure them? After the second attack Han Mingxi kicks his brother out of the family and asks the ML and FL not to kill him if he does something s*upid for a third time. What the literal f*ck? Why should he be allowed to live after failing to take advantage the 3 chances given to not hurt the FL? How hard is it to not attack the FL? I really hope that he has a gruesome death after being betrayed by that delusional skank bit*h ex-fiancee. I very much want to read about his misery after realizing that she doesn't give a rat's ass about him and was using him like a tampon. That would be the ultimate satisfaction for me to read. He would really deserve it after all his absolute s*upid dog loyalty!