Omygerd. I rarely really give ratings and comments for any novels I'm reading but this one I really can't leave without.

Both the ML and FL are very much relatable and both are jot very OP. I like it so much and very refreshing in terms with other stories with similar plots.

What I like the most is that, although it's portrayed that rhey both have skills and talents they are not sooo OP that they could always make the situation exactly the way they want it to be.

For instance:

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-when FL doesn't really want their relationship to be known so she can still have a way to get out of the ML's mansion when the timr comes

-or when xiaobao was kidnapped and FL went out to get him even though ML already told her that he will take care of it.

-or when ML wanted to divorce the main wife but the emperor did not agree

-on this last chap that I read, although they thought FL is a bit s*upid or "simple minded" she still thinking about the situation.

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Ahhh... And the bits and pieces will make you think hard too. Like you are there with them trying to make sense of the situation and looking for ways to solve the problem.

I also really really like the couples dynamics. Since this is acient times most of the time FL is dominated by the ML. But you can see that as long as she feels safe and all her and her children's needs are met then she doesn't mind.

Many thanks to the translator! I really appreciate the twice a week update too! <<less

chapter 21.2

Gosh she's so affected by him and became so muddleheaded... forgetting small things like getting a change of clothes. and while thinking, she bumped into him... girl, I know you want to be low-key but you need to be more aware of our surroundings first

It really deserves 5 stars, the narrative was incredible, it does not bore you, on the contrary you are pending in each chapter, the emotions, for it is one of the best novels of romance stories. I read some of the comments that speak ill of ml, but understand... we are reading characters from times where things like homosexuality were frowned upon, and that he has forgiven princess Jin for that is something to respect on his part, for that another closed mind would return her to her family and... more>> ruin her reputation, but the ML was a good character, I loved her evolution and not only him, also the fl, Yaoniang is a weak female character, and she admits it, that's why she died in the afterlife, and is reborn, and she is aware that she is no match for princess Jin or the other concubine, several comments complain that she takes the same path that condemns her again, the truth is that no, due to society and its circumstances, if she decided to stay at her sister's house, who knows what worse things would have happened to her for her brother-in-law's sister, so with the little intelligence she has she decides to go back to work as a nanny, this time staying away, she knows that he is weak in thought, but if he wants to live he must stop being what he was in the other life, from small circumstances he learns more about life, and with it to treat people more, the ML in the other life I treat her selfishly because she came from princess Jin, that's why he didn't trust her, and there were a lot of reasons for it to be like that, and those reasons are given as you read the first 100 chapters, and he pays dearly for the fact if you had not known her better, and that is read, so do not believe everything in the comments, you will fall in love with both characters, they will even leave you wanting to never stop reading them, there are arty secondary couples that will prevent you from getting sick only of the protagonists, it is not the typical novel where the female protagonist only cries, no... the FL knows how weak she is, but please, draw strength and intelligence from where she does not have, a strong woman, and you also fall in love with Xiaobao, the little son, a treasure, I really recommend this novel. <<less

Give it a try! For a reborn themed novel, even though FL is reborn, her character and submissive personality is pretty much the same. For me, this story is more like a mature type of writing, and not the childish faceslap type of story (not sure if you would understand what I mean lol)

Thoroughly enjoyed this. I love the ending and the side stories of the ML & FL and the explanation at the end of how all this happened. And while the FL doesn't have any particular special skills, it's because she's sincere and not embroiled into all these politics that's why the ML likes her so much.

The good things:
1) Loved the growing dynamics of ML & FL
2) Loved the son's way of trying to protect his mum
3) There is some politics to make it interesting but not a whole ton that all you read is politics

The bad things:
1) everything goes really smoothly for the FL.
2) way too much smut. 😂
3) the plot is pretty much uncomplicated. The novel is obviously more about character/relationship development rather than plot development.

Love the way all of them get their second chance, including the previous jin wang. His life is very sad. The emperor also get his happiness.

Updated Review:
After rereading from beginning to end, my rating is now a 4 out of 5. I have so much to say about this story.

The author goes into too much unnecessary detail sometimes. Some of the side characters are kind of extra, but at the same time, they do move the story along. What really increased the rating were (1) watching the evolution and journey of the main characters, (2) the addition of some new characters that could stand-alone (they have backstory, they add to the story and main characters, they elicited emotions), and (3) realizing this is a story about women and men in ancient China.

Someone asked the author why does the ML like the FL. Here's the gist of the answer: Love comes from the journey/experiences/memories that are shared. The first super-slow half of this story (at least 90 chapters) was about what brought the two main characters together and why they ended up in each other's worlds. It's kind of a terrible love story because they were not in love at the beginning - she didn't really have a choice and he just happened to be physically/instinctively attracted to her. I always think the instinctive attraction is too convenient of a plot device but it does actually happen in real life - if you go out into a crowd, there are people that you're naturally attracted to or that you instinctively don't want to be near. The ML/FL's relationship was physical, but eventually became more with time. It was a grueling read (again, 90 chapters), but the beginning of a relationship is not always rainbows and roses.

Neither is the middle of a relationship.

The second half of the story really brought all the characters to life in an ancient China setting. Aside from looking at the main characters' relationship, we also get to see other couples. To name a few, there's the power relationship with no love, there's a relationship that was born from love but ended in tragedy because of interference, there's a relationship that became love but ended in tragedy because of miscommunication, there's also the convenient relationship that became toxic. The sad thing is, in a society where women are seen as inferior to men, love is either very rare or very painful. The female lead sees this, and, like every female in that world, has to choose how she will live in such a world. Will she become calculating, become powerful, become submissive, become hardened, or just give up? I enjoyed seeing the decisions all these different characters could choose and ended up choosing.

The males in this story... First of all, the male lead would not be a good boyfriend/husband in the modern era where respect is expected (in certain societies). He might be handsome, powerful, and faithful to his one wife, but he didn't respect the female lead until later on in their relationship (still domineering male but also gives her space to make some decisions). This is actually true of most of the male characters - there might be one or two exceptions who love/respect their wife from the beginning, but other than these outliers, the men in ancient China are focused more on their career. That's the expectation: men should bleed rather than cry, men should put career first, men should not fall in love pretty much.

TL;DR I really like this story - I think this tells a very life-like story of what society and culture was like in ancient China, and what the women and men had to go through in a life that involved power struggles for some and societal struggles for others. I thought the author used the rebirth plot very well - for all the characters.

Though still want to knock off one star for too many details (especially those clothes and jewelry - are these details really necessary??).

From Original Review:
I was reluctant to start this series because so many people said the FL was s*upid, but I didn't find her s*upid in that annoying, silly-ditzy sort of way. She's not cunning smart - she's a regular, naïve, and scared 15-16 year old girl who had to find a way to survive with her newborn son in a society that believes she should die because she had a child out of wedlock (even if she was r*ped). She was reborn, but she went back by only one year - the only thing she learned from that year was what to try to avoid. She didn't even know why she died in the first place. It might have been smart for her to go nowhere near Jin Wang based on her knowledge, but how else could she earn a living for herself and her son? Due to her limited circumstances, getting involved with Jin Wang again was the only way she could think of to move forward.

On the plus sides, there's some cute and funny scenes here and there. Heartwarming family or child-raising scenes aside, I like the not-so-subtle hints that a certain shadow soldier has feelings for Yuchan (lol so cute!). I also like Xiaobao's inner thoughts - usually amusing, and his character overall is one of the things I like most about this series (even though he can't really do anything lol). Jin Wang's inner thoughts are usually amusing too. Lol, he also kind of forces people to guess his thoughts instead of just saying things out loud. Funny in a way because it's annoying for the people around him, haha.

I decided to read in MTL after I saw that it hasn't been updated for a while.

If you like the author's other work, you will like this one. The heroine suffers so much at first but in the end the ML kinda tries hard to make it up. This is up in my alley.

Plot: 3.5/5 minus o.5 for being guessable lol

... more>> ML: hmmmmm 3.5/5 he is compatible with the ML from the counterattack of the cannon fodder chambermaid

FL: 3/5 in MTL version, I REALLLLLLY hope that she will be better in the real translation.

overall, if transmigrate-second chance-fate changing with yandere ML is your thing please try this one out. <<less

Honestly, I wasn't impressed by the writing style that constantly went off point in the beginning. Plus it's seems some smut was cut out in the translation? I'm not sure. But the plot was so good I read the mtl and loved it. It had romance and politics and family raising and lots of exciting memorable moments. Thanks

Highly recommended.

I love how detailed the story is and the characters is very suited to the story. Nvm, im not good in writing reciew. Just saying that u should try and read this. Its full of fluffs and love.

Just started reading this and it has lots of potential.

The characters are not indestructible or shallow villain. The characters have depth and the story is not to fast or to slow.

Just bc the FL was reborn she doesnt act like a all knowing God, but takes it step by step.

Super entertaining Ancient Chinese backyard drama, family drama and game of thrones politics.

so many twists and turns and so many good antagonists that are SMART!

Damn I need it. Smart Antagonists that are not just smart because the writer want them to and we just need to act dumb and except it. Those f-ckers really smart!

... more>> MC is soft, naïve and slow learner, but She LEARN.

ML has many flaws but he have a good heart and is loyal.

good world-building. Great side character. Some what realistic. The smutt isn't over do.

Warning tags need to be read through before starting to read. Because of the time period, it will be full of sexism and many other toxic things.

As for the most troubling part for me is the r-pe. I just have to say that BOTH MC and ML were r-ped.

It was very traumatic for both of them The ML tried his hardest not to show it because, at the time, the men were expecting to be "men."

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Since he was a child, he got tricked by people in the palace into having traumatic memories about the female naked body; hence, he always repulsed the female naked body.

And they did not stop there. When he was fifteen, he got married to one of the most noble and beautiful girl in the capital, His brother used the fact that his new wife only like women to trick him into seeing her being intimate with another woman.

It made his condition worse. And this was likely 10 years before he met MC. He have to be on guard and fight back his brothers all the time while hiding his weaknesses.

Having to survive like that for a long time is really sad. At first, I took it for being homophobic. Then later, I understand him better.

when he got poison and r-pe to do it with random girl (he didnt know it was her at the time). As someone who is repulsed by female bodies, it's hard to imagine his state of mind afterward. Then after he brought the girl he believed he had s*xual relation with back. He have face the fact that his fear of female bodies is still there. And he cant f*ck her neither.

So I feel like both MC and ML must feel similar grief in their hearts.

but in the end ML took it upon himself, being a man, to burden the blame. As in ancient times, even tho men got a lot of privilege, they were force to burden society expectation too.

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despite being prince The ML is pretty royal and only have MC. But it was because he simply can't f-ck other women even if he try LOL.

And for why it have to be her? I really don't know. I might be because she is a MC after all. Or the memory of their first

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with the help of that freak poison

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is somehow engraved in his mind. Or the writer, the heaven, just want them tgt <<less

The writing on this one is so good I put it in my Re-Read list. Extremely realistic for the Chinese historical setting and unlike a lot of Chinese novels - the whole plot is well thought-out and the writing is well executed, there is no silly loophole from the beginning to the end (which in my opinion is rare). The sequence of the story keeps you excited and the chemistry between the main lead pair - as well as the whole lead family cast (with the surprise reborn Xiaobao baby)... more>> - is honestly additive.

The SMUT scenes, there are lots of it but I find the execution to be chef-kissed and extremely tasteful - walking the fine line of not being extremely graphic but are descriptive enough that it's worth the SMUT classification. <<less

I love this novel, it's well written has a great plot. The female lead is killed and reborn a few years earlier, she hopes to prevent her death., but she ends up still sleeping with the prince even though she tried hard to prevent this from happening. This novel has been translated very well, I definitely recommend reading it.

I know this is oriental novel but it's very difficult to understand. Travis translations haven't uploaded first 20 chapters yet so it has been little annoying to read this novel.

i like the story! I have been reading this for a couple months now (from Transaltor 1 to Hiatus from translator 2)

The story contains mystery, transmigration and inner palace drama ✌️And regular in house-drama from FL sister in-law drama ❤️😅 and cute babies ✌️

I like the story because the FL dies but gets transported to her past self and decides to do things differently... so when she runs into obstacles she’s like this is how it was done last time 😲 I’m doing this different now ... more>>

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with the exception of the ML because they’re still at it 🤣 in both timelines (is this really a spoiler tho?)

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Heads up tho looks like chapter 48+ Are premium chapters 💰💸

and according to Translator-2 website TOC, chapters available up to chapter 59

Also, don’t know if the only way to read those (chapter 48+) is to pay, or if it unlocks after a couple days? 😭

I stopped at chapter 47 (before premium) and I was at such a exciting part! <<less