MC does everything she can not to end up with ex-husbamd but still ends up with him? What was the point of this then? Also for some reason ex-husband in past life is transmigrated into mc's timeline after regretting not loving her, like atleast let him transmigrate before the marriage and let him show how much he loves her, not just give it to him on a silver platter and it just makes their relationship so not genuine because the person who loved her before marriage is not there anymore, its a completely different person with a different life

He was already in a relationship with the heroine's mother, and his own mother (who is an absolute gem in this timeline and was broken in that one due to a death MC prevented) threatened his lover's life if he didn't go through with the wedding when he wanted it cancelled. Note that the original villainess mother was a nasty piece of work who committed numerous crimes long before she used her prime minister father to force his hand in marriage, knowing he was unwilling. The ML of that timeline definitely has no reason to be loyal to her, as she was always more of an enemy than a wife. The only victim in this situation is the villainess daughter, who was corrupted by her mother's nonsense into becoming strange, and completely ignored by the father her mother's obsessed with. My dad cheated on my mom, and I hate him for it. This ain't cheating, it's him avoiding his r@pist to be with his love because anymore justice is impossible for him.

Premise for her how she turn into villainess is very generic: Her mother died when she was 3yrs old leading to her rich and powerful father doting on his only child which in turn makes her a spoilt brat and has bad blood with everybody but noone is there to correct her ways. They all bow down to her as her father is the powerful person. She is engaged to the future duke so called ML and is obsessed with the him but he ignores her and she goes any length to make her see him. [I dont know what to feel abt it like obvioulsy they were engaged tho it was one sided love the other party just went with the flow, not correcting her behaviour and just ignores his fiancee. But she is a villainess so she deserves bad ending? ]

And they get married.

Later she finds out the duke is a cheating husband and has a daughter with another women who is a year younger than her daughter[her step daughter is the heroine and her own daughter is villainess and ML is the prince in the otome game], she then wreck havoc with the help of her daughter. At no point did the ML said to the MC that he loves another person or that he didnt want to marry her. He just lets them do their evil works without ever interjecting. He straight up ignores his wife and his daughter.

After the commotion is over the MC and her daughter are exiled.

In the og setting : He was engaged to the MC from a young age. But he falls in love with another women but due to family pressure he gets married to the MC. So what happens to the another women, he is still involving with her and even has daughter with her who is similar in age to MC's child. He neglects and ignored the MC and her daughter. The MC however is in love with the ML from her childhood days. Given the bad spoilt nature of the MC she will definitely not accept it and what do you will happen in the end. She gets exiled.

And as said in his epilogue at that point she and her daughter are so disppointed with the ML that she just has silent tears and his daughter doesnt even looks at him.

He was neither a good husband nor a good lover.

This just hits too far home as my parents had a very bad divorce due to actual cheating. This book just personally triggers my trauma and therefore isn't worth the chapters that it's folding out. 100% a waste of everyone's time.

polygamy is accepted in this universe so what he did wasn’t actually strange. He didn’t love the original Violet (who was actually a villainess) and fell in love with someone else. Either ways, in the current timeline the only one he has feelings for is our MC. He wasn’t a bad person in either timelines really.

Even ignoring all the problematic parts of having her ex-husband being the ML, it's still incredibly unsatisfactory. There's no development of their relationship, and for a good chunk of the novel I forgot he existed. If anything, him being the ML makes me question why the scenes with the other romantic interests even exists if this was the intended outcome. It just makes him so boring and difficult to understand why the MC chose him again when he has done NOTHING.

So baffling.

It was just too rushed and I was looking forward to more drama and fighting between the ML and Sub-ML but in the end, it was so disappointing how the sub-ML backed down and was like "I wish you two happiness." Plus, I hate how FL just decides to get together with ML who she's been avoiding like the plague for no explainable reason. Like one minute she's avoiding him and begrudgingly/cautiously being around him to just proposing to him. Hello? What was the whole point of this then???!!!

The extra chapters are nice and give closure/more info about what happens afterwards, which I appreciate, but it's still not enough to explain why some people get together and why some things work out this way or that.

Honestly, I am not sure this would be considered a spoiler (since I could not bring myself to finish this story). In the original story we know her husband cheated on her. But when we read the story the author writes that character as loveable or decent and gives the impression that these two characters will end up together... why are you doing this?... Why?....