the -also- r*ped son ran away which I hope he has

the way they excuse the mother-in-law's abhorrent actions via exposition & the mc's mouth is disgusting. whatever interest this sort of premise would ordinarily dredge up in me locked itself in a coffin and burrowed deep underground never to see light again, unable to cope. sigh. her poor son. I sincerely hope he ran away.

Also, when the super annoying sister of ML went cray-cray, she just dismissed all the craziness. She noticed that Baozhu turned into a walking nightmare and stalker, but kinda forgot to do anything about it. She doted on the crazy girl more instead. Give her everything without working, turn this crazy girl into more of an ungrateful little sh*t. When Baozhu finally gone the unspeakable thing, MC said in her heart 'whatever the girl will get her punishment later'. I thought it was fair.. And maybe MC finally understood what she had done, let this girl became a monster. But then she forgot. She didn't get mad at all. She tried to help Baozhu, didn't even think for a second that Baozhu was at fault. WTF.

Is it love that blinded her? She cared about this little sister in law so much? No. She just didn't care. MC got no brain besides cooking. She got the emotional capacity of a fish. She should have noticed the signs of this little girl rebelling and put a stop on it or some face slaps, but no. She just didn't care about anything. She's too busy. Too absent minded from all the failed flirting with ML.

Baozhu

the r*pe tag seems to be for the first chapter- MC and the ML have been drugged by the mother-in-law so that they have s*x and are thus married, since before that they were both unwilling. MC forgives the mother-in-law for doing so and doesn't hold any grudges, and the MC and the ML also talk about this and pretty much decide to just... roll with the situation. has not yet been readdressed since and yeah that entire situation is problematic as heck.

The ML gave the FL his earnings for safekeeping, but him and her live parallel lives without any interactions or even seeing each other for weeks which is probably ok, because the FL is very young bodily speaking (15-16y.o.) and very mature in real age (more than him in any case), and busy with feeding their large family and establishing her social network in this new life. For a long while he was not into her and when he warmed up to her he still did nothing. He was and is her husband only because his mother, the r*pe drug dealing whore, said so.

120chapters in, the FL is still in the survival mode just as she was on day one after her transmigration. Or worse. Back then she at least had a room for herself and free time to go to the mountains or to stroll the streets and shop. Now, there is zero leisure, only work double shifts without days off and sleep in super crowded conditions of five snoring people per room, nothing else

What I abhor is the huge chunk of the story that reads "like mother like daughter", what the FL's mother in law and her little sister in law did. They did the same thing and behaved like terrible, merciless whores towards the young virg*n men they supposedly love: one fed pig s*xual stimulant to her own son and daughter-in-law (her other son's wife!), accidentally killing the teen, while another assaulted and kidnapped a young scholar weeks prior to his wedding and staged a r*pe scene with him, ending up being his handmaid (s*xual servant, which is the lowest form of marriage in that place in that era) - and being OK with it. All of them are OK with both deeds. Except maybe the folks outside their family, but this novel's motto is "who cares about what other people think, in our family we do what we want and get away with it"!

Is the FL guilty of corrupting the little girl? Sure. She came to this world oh so filled with her own progressive ideas and wanted the young village girl to learn to read and brought her inappropriate books to learn from, thus filling her head with impossible love and s*x fantasies without appropriate moral guidance. There is a reason why certain literature is not suitable for young kids and for parental guidance tag and parental controls.

With the girl's mother being a former prostitute who mu*dered her own daughter-in-law by feeding her a huge dose of pig s*xual stimulant, the FL should have known a little better than to interfere in such a way with the young teenager's development in her family. It's not like she gave her Cinderella, Little Mermaid and Mulan stories to read, or discussed the reading with her and taught her manners and morals, etc. She really fed her little SIL a doze of mental and moral poison via those tr*shy novels for the young rich housewives market and left the girl to her own devices when she developed her first crush. The girl became a s*xual servant and insists on it! And her family, the adults, let her decide, going along with her decision! Like mother like daughter. And the FL is teaching her how to skilfully rise in ranks in that scholar's household and get what she wants! The concubine status, I suppose.

Well, by now the young sister in law became the focus of the novel and it is so vomit inducing that I am dropping it because there is nothing to look forward to. The lives of two immoral s*x workers, one of them severely underage, their crimes, and their families are not my favorite topic at all.

double wrapped on both ends as (1) life and death of this old prostitute whose son eventually becomes the prime minister and whose grandchild marries into the royal family. (2) The whole story of life after accident and transmigration is but a dream that the FL has had in coma while recovering in the hospital.