Fang Quining (The Mc) has 0 sympathy for the original female host who committed suicide due to her horrid life. She has been continuously defending the bastard scumbag husband who frankly had ruined the original female host's life. Even before marrying her and a few other women, the guy had drunk s*x with a (mtl) laundry woman, who gave birth to a boy and girl twins. This scum guy let these children be physically abused and starve. Then the author is worried we won't like the scumbag so has him scold his manservant for not taking enough care of them, as if this makes everything better. Meanwhile the MC keeps praising the scum guy to her servants and waxing on and on about how she loves this ancient world and her poverty. The two abandoned children mentioned earlier are of course super geniuses who love the MC after she treats them like people. MC says that she'll stay away from the husband guy but immediately converses with him for some time.

as someone who believes in " women are their own worst enemies", I liked that the FL tried her best to help other women, especially in ancient times where women had no rights at all, and her understanding that male dominated society made them like that, that's what I would expect from a modern woman to do, I guess some people wouldn't like that she doesn't retaliate, but for me it was the best part, instead of letting them die why not help if you could, and the way she raised and interacted with the children was lovely.

For the ML even tho he was a scum at first but he was a teenager and impulsive so it's acceptable, later he grew up and changed for the better and got his act together, I loved his honesty with her, and him apologizing that even though he loves her but he can't let go of others, here I would like to say the way the FL tried to live with polygamy was portrayed nicely, like not just because she comes from modern times she won't accept him having others and force him to let go, but in the end it was just her left with him and they had twin boys. (Plus the other 8 children)

The palace intrigue and the political fighting was good 👍

Finally, my only regret is that I was hoping the extras would talk about the children after growing up, but it was a good read

And even though people are calling him scum for abandoning the kids, nobody seems to have caught on to the fact that if their math is right, the translators seem to think ML had the MCs adopted kids at around 13 after getting drunk and encountering the kids much older birth mother. So like. Yknow.

sh*t talk the original owner for killing herself? Tasteless.

A brilliant modern opera singer and a business woman who is an owner of her own opera company and music school transmigrates and becomes the main wife of a Marquis, a mother to his two orphaned three years old twins.

The child was either twelve or thirteen and drunk when he accidentally impregnated an ambitious laundry woman and the boy was fifteen when he was forced to marry the original owner of the FL's body. He was sixteen with a huge, haphazardly assembled harem when he left the FL with two orphans and her two maids to her own devices hoping to divorce her a few years later when it would become politically possible. So kind of him.

So, she finds herself in a huge remote courtyard which is well furnished with enormous gardens and plenty of fertile land and peacefully lives her life almost completely independently from the main household, never having a penny nor a word from them. She basically borrows that courtyard/estate and one of Marquis's servants to help her communicate with the outside world, to sell her embroidery for cash, to purchase supplies, seeds for her crops, etc. At any moment, once her husband divorces her, she has plans to be on her own, for example, as an opera singer.

Then the novel skips five years ahead into the future when Marquis, now a young twenty something years old man with eight kids, comes to divorce her. Except he didn't. Then he comes again a year later, again, driven by emotion, not reason, and their life together begins. Getting to know each other, educating this large number of his kids, running a huge household with a gazillion of outside businesses, politics, everything.

I truly do not see him as a scum, both because he was too young to be a scum and because the FL was too old and experienced to be damaged by him or anyone else. Most of his past behavior was simply the behavior of an underage child overwhelmed and angered by his circumstances. It was good that this kid did not try to manage the FL's life, who was an adult capable woman, for six years non stop and once he grew up he was capable of noticing that he had a treasure in his own house and cherished it.

Blaming him for abuses or neglect would be crediting him with too much power which he never had, nor was the FL, an adult and competent woman, way older and more capable than him, a victim of that teenager - an absentee father and a husband only on paper. She and the twins benefitted plenty from his attitude and actions. She basically used one his giant courtyards to live a good life for the first six years in this world, bringing up two precious kids, while she adapted to this era and its culture and got ready for more.

Read at your own risk. This novel really is nausea and vomit inducing if you read it expecting its main character, the husband, to behave "normally" while being her master/boss, her husband/support, the head of her household. The trick is to stay strong and keep in mind that he is basically her landlord, the owner of the courtyard where she temporarily resides, nothing else. She is de facto his tenant and provides care for his kids in exchange for that room, not board. In fact, he eats her food, not vice versa. He is not in the position of power to make the FL happy or unhappy, well fed or starved, poor or wealthy. She is.

He was pretty much of a fvcker. He knew the og MC was innocent but still he and his family abused her. Why? Because he couldn't accept that he was forced by the royals to marry her. He is so weak to take revenge on the powerful people but strong enough to torture the weak og MC cause she was easy to bully. A fvcking masochist. I hate him. Despite knowing he mistreated the FL and the children he didn't help them. Why? Because his own fvcing bastards have became spoiled due to their mothers pampering. So he didn't want the FL and children become arrogant. Like the hell of this fvcker's logic?

A sadism woman, who prefers man are supreme so he could treat women like shits. Half of the book was she praising the man that how good he was. Like treating your abuser like god, she really is something else. Someone said she does that only because the ML could snatch the children from her! ??? Like wtf? That's why you will bear his every wrongs and treat him like God??? I also can't accept that how she sh*t talks about the og for not bearing the insults and committing suicide..

You really need to consult a psychiatrist for your brain dead thinking. Despite belonging to a civilized society you could write this kind of shits proves how twisted your thoughts are. YOU DESPERATELY NEED HELP! Please go to a doctor and treat your uncivilized mind. I don't know how much Treatment can revive your braindead thoughts. But there's no wrong to try.