I do enjoy the fact that both of them face some repercussions for their actions - Wan Baiyun for her ab*se of her wife (neglect is ab*se, especially in this omegaverse setting where mated omegas need to regularly be supplied with their alpha partner's pheromones) and Shan Pan for knowingly entering a room where Wan Baiyun is, knowing very well she's been dosed with practically r*pe drug.

It's interesting because it's not black and white in this situation. Wan Baiyun had been raised by her truly insane grandmother and has a childhood rife with ab*se and gaslighting which she carries into her adulthood and affecting herself and the people around her, especially her wife. But still, she's an adult and should be responsible for actions, even if those actions were done as the results of years of pain. Of course, because of how she grew up, she definitely deserves some grace.

Shan Pan... is too naive. It seems that she lets her emotions control her actions rather than her rational mind, which leads to some truly disappointing decision making - like trusting Wan Shiying despite warnings from Wan Baiyun, the person she loves and trusts and also taking advantage when she finds out Wan Baiyun is drugged. In the first situation, she can be excused for being young and susceptible to Wan Shiying's manipulation but in the latter one...I want to see it from the perspective of their world and understand that she might just be right - if it's not her, some other person might end up being marked by Wan Baiyun/or Wan Baiyun will turn very aggressive but bringing Ye Lianyin's logic here (I love my thinking queen) when Bai Qingci got into her estrus period and Qin Zhaoci brought her to the infirmary, perhaps Shan Pan could've gotten help in other ways.

Oh, also, I don't think the Shans are bad people at all. If I were in the older siblings' place and see my little sister in pain after being neglected by her partner, I'd also beat them up if I have the power to. They don't understand the inside story and all, which makes sense. They're just acting like normal human beings.

It was the scene in a room where the partner is talking to some unknown person about her plan and then they made love. I guessed Ye Yici is that person at the point. Sister's got gameee.

Yinyin's mother and mom... thank goodness that mom divorced mother in the end ༎ຶ⁠‿⁠༎ຶ

In such a wholesome environemnt I don't even mind all the superpowers and other coincidences that are given to the MC or that in the whole futuristic empire no one knows a thing about good food, as if the adventurous who go to other planets didn't find edible plants, spices etc.. Also that some side characters just aren't mentioned anymore, even when another plotpoint was introduced for them, e.g. assistant Sun and the shop manger

Wan Baiyun gets ab*sed, drugged, r*ped, forced married, more ab*sed and scolded for not "openly" showing affection towards her rapist. Yeah I know that doesn't feels like the lighthearted novel from before, so it was all blamed as Wan Baiyuns fault

Wan Baiyun has always been ab*sed by her grandmother after the death of her mothers. The final result was that Wan Baiyun gets drugged by her grandmother, so that she marks an omega, Shan Pan heard that plan and thought "Why shouldn't it be my omega self who gets her, I always was in love with her?". So she went to the room of the drugged Wan Baiyun and basically r*ped her. Instead of any help or sympathy, Wan Baiyun only gets forced into marriage and gets shouted at and hated by the family of the rapist who doesn't admit that it was her doing, even though they knew Wan Baiyun was drugged. Knowing that someone is drugged and clearly thinking about raping them, is the same as drugging them yourself.

Afterwards Wan Baiyun was openly very harsh to Shan Pan, before she basically just ignored her and her feelings, as she has seen herself to low for Shan Pan. After the marking and pregancy, Wan Baiyun did try to care for her wife and unborn child but couldn't show her affection because of her childhood traume. Shan Pan, the so called medical prodige, hasn't told her either, that it wasn't enough what she did, so there were problems with the pregnancy and the one who suffered the most again was Wan Baiyun because she got hit and yelled at by her grandmother, Shan's family, MC and FL. At the end of the pregnacy when Wan Baiyun finally gets psychological help for her suffered ab*se, and can show a bit of affection, Shan Pan doesn't want her anymore. Totally logical, after chasing behind someone for many years and never get a positiv feedback and then raping them you suddendly have a change of feelings? Would have been great before the raping, don't you thing?

I don't mind that they seperated for a while and come together after Wan Baiyun resolved her trauma and was able to follow her dream studies, but that it nearly all was blamed on Wan Baiyun upsets me, the clear victim of ab*se and r*pe.

In the end it all is reolved happily, because this must be nice novel... No one of the "good people", grandmother, Shan's family, MC, FL, Shan really had to suffer for the ab*se of Wan Baiyun. The family isn't mentioned again after Shan's brother hit Wan Baiyun so hard that she bleeds on the head, no excuse, no sorry just absence, like the rest of the family. But the worst part is that the grandmother who ab*sed her granddaughter for around 25 years, gets what she wants, a child with the surname Wan, instead of beeing in prison for mentaly and physicaly hurting her granddaughter and probably also daughter. She is the commander of the military and didn't even get a single rank degraded, she only "looses" a granddaughter who she never loved in the first place and used as a tool to keep the family "honor and status" in the military. Also the royals who did the same thing to omegas were going to prison or have been gifted a string necklace connceted to the ceailing for the same crimes. They obviously deserved their fate, but the "oh so Innocent" Shan Pan should have never get pregnant and also be in prison for her crimes but no she is portraied as the victim and not as the true way it was.

Btw our main couple knows a lot about all this, Shan Pan tells Ye Lianyin about the drugging. Qin Zhaoci intoxicades and records the drunken Wan Baiyun and didn't do anything except helping her to take the first step into psychological help. It not only is bad on its own, but also makes the MC and FL look like absolut a**holes who give a sh*t about a victim of ab*se and r*pe. Qin Zhao has castrated, imprisoned and possible sentenced the hole Duke Family to death because of the attempted r*pe of her wife but Shan Pan and Wan Baiyuns Grandmother doesn't get any of that for basically doing the same and succeeding. That is completly hypocritical.

So in conclusion of the side story, it shows that ab*se and r*pe is ok in this world, as long as the victim is an alpha and you can treat them as badly as you want and don't have to face consequences. Beeing ignored or talked down is not nearly enough for crimes such as r*pe