Cons about MC: Some people who dislike Mary Sue-ish characters might be turned off because of her. Personally I don't think she's that much of a Mary Sue cause while she sure knows a lot (she's very very good at cooking, knows a thing or two about medicine although she's not a doctor, etc.), it's still within the realm of possibility if someone is very well-read. The knowledge she shared to the people around her imo is also general knowledge most modern people know. So far the author did not give her sudden cheats outside the things she's already good at. Compared to other MCs with their sudden hidden talents, she's pretty much consistent imo, but you be your own judge.

Edit: So in the later chapters author kept giving her "golden fingers" out of nowhere (e.g. Her wood carving skill, like bro seriously) or to put it bluntly, she's now officially a Mary Sue *sigh* disappointing but definitely not unexpected. If you still don't mind it, do go on and give this a read cause it's still fun nonetheless.

Pros about MC: I love how she's very kind and supportive to the people around her, heck even to ML when he acts like sh*t to her in the beginning. She willingly share the knowledge of her past life to her family/ML's family to help them improve their livelihood and actively give them advice on how to do that. I don't mind it if MCs of these kinds of stories pull a monopoly move but this MC is a chad with her "everyone in my previous life knows this anyway so I'll just let everyone know about this" attitude (this is not explicitly stated in the novel btw I'm just interpreting her actions that way). Another plus is she's not s*upid at all and can hold her ground against people who harbor some malice towards her/ML, but what'd you expect she's an executive in her past life she should be able to do at least that much.

Some people might find ML a bit off-putting. Just like Tang Rou, he got reborn as well so he pretty much knows the future and tried to change his fate. His life in the previous timeline was not-so-smooth mostly thanks to his wife (the original owner of MC's body), so to prevent that he decided to divorce her. At first I supported his decision since his wife seemed like a shitty person all along and he has no intention of leaving their children with her, but then as our MC later noted about him once she found out about his plan to divorce her; he's quite a ruthless man for planning to divorce the woman who had spent 8 years of her life for him (note that she didn't know that he's reborn). That's when I felt a bit conflicted. ML hated his wife for her sin of being a fool, but it only became a fault because she was married to him and he was an ambitious man who wouldn't be satisfied until he climbed to the top. I can understand his reason, but he's still an as*hole for pulling that move. Well, at least he admitted it himself he's not a good person. I'd like to add as well that ML was by no means a loving father. He cared about his kids to some extent but he didn't really show them love.

I really like their dynamics once MC and ML clicked. ML indulged her very much and gave her many privileges women of that time could only dream of, MC accepted his goodwill while making sure to not cross the line according to the ancient's values. In fact, most of the time when MC shared her past life knowledge it was to help ML so his future as an official will be smooth-sailing. I really like how they respect and love each other until then the author pulled a f*cking amnesia on ML!!! Of all existing tropes why must you use this one QAQ If this turns you off, maybe you should just back off because the next part might leave quite a bad aftertaste in your mouth.

When ML lost his memories, some official sent his daughter to become his concubine and ML accepted her because she allegedly saved him in the accident that led to him losing his life. He couldn't care less about her tho cause he was always the type of ruthless cold-blooded man who only cared about his career, the "here's money, food, and shelter for you now get out of my sight" kind of man. Initially, his attitude towards MC was more or less similar to the concubine but thanks to her efforts he eventually warmed up to her again. While the presence of this concubine bothers me a bit, I don't really mind it since it adds some realism to the story but some readers might not like it.

the amnesia arc. So ML was supposed to forget like literally everything since he didn't even remember his own parents. But then some chapters later it was stated that he still had some memories prior to his rebirth but then why the heck did he forgot his own parents?

Thinking about it, if Ye Yunlan had learned to read and write in her previous life, wouldn't some of the foolish things have been avoided?

For example, being deceived by servants, taking out loans without knowing what was written in the documents and putting fingerprints just because they were told to.

These troubles might not have happened if she could read.

Chu Heng's turning figure froze he didn't expect Ye Muyu to retort like this. He felt extremely annoyed for a moment, staring at Ye Muyu. Childishly, he hoped she would take back her words.

Ye Muyu looked back at him sincerely but didn't say a word.

Frustrated, Chu Heng's face changed slightly and he snorted before lying down on the bed without saying anything.

As for the dropped plot threads, there are too many to describe in this review, but here's a sampler.

Chu Qingxiang bothered me the most among the characters that got dropped. She was present in the story from the opening chapters, she had an interesting character arc, many chapters were devoted to the crisis she kicked up, many more chapters went by where she got ignored, and then right when she was re-introduced to seemingly get her conclusion (or possibly, redemption) - her grandmother gives her a 3-day ultimatum to decide whether or not to divorce her husband - she completely disappears from the story just so Chu Jin can open a supermarket. The supermarket has no lasting impact on the story, it's just an unusually boring exposition of a modern convenience being copied. I was invested in Chu Qingxiang!! This was the only time the novel made me angry.

The thief that tries to bust into their home early in the story is never identified, even though the author brings it up more than once like they're building up to something. Early on, one of Chu Heng's cousins surnamed Luo drugs him and the MC in a convoluted scheme to get his support for her marriage into a (possibly different but still surname Luo) family, so Ye Muyu sends her doctor friend along to cure the brother of the person that cousin is trying to marry so that he can suppress them and we never hear how any of this turns out despite getting so many details about it. Hahaha... During the Duke of Zheng's arc, Ye Muyu notices suspicious people who are suspected of being foreign spies and orders Lu Chuan to keep an eye on them, but then this is forgotten and never mentioned again. Ye Hao (Ye Muyu's brother) has amnesia, but the author can't seem to make up their mind what he can or can't remember, or whether he was on good or bad terms with his original sister. Separately, Chu Heng also gets amnesia (lol), and at first we aren't told what he remembers but later on, the author states that he remembers up to the end of his first life before being reborn, apparently forgetting that they specifically mentioned that he acted very differently toward his wife and parents than he did when he was first reborn.

None of these details really matter to the larger plot. They're just loose ends buried in the thousands of chapters that make up this story...

First of all, we learn that the main character's husband is reborn first. The summary doesn't even mention this. Tang Rou's rebirth has vanishingly little importance because she actually knows less about future events than Chu Heng. She also immediately tells us that Chu Heng never took concubines even when his wife was an embarrassment and never remarried after her early death and never even stepped foot in brothels so there's no tension as to whether Chu Heng will be tempted. It is mind-boggling that Tang Rou would choose such a person as a good target for seduction. Second of all, Tang Rou garners Chu Heng's disgust on sight. He doesn't choose Ye Muyu over Tang Rou, he scolds Ye Muyu for letting her approach lmao. Tang Rou pops up occasionally to make trouble, gets foiled, and then the author doesn't even bother to tell us what happened to her next until she pops up again - e.g., she gets caught by Xie Yu and then we don't find out until she shows up again tens of chapters later that she managed to escape. In retrospect, Tang Rou was the worst-written part of the story.

At one point, Chu Heng reflects that Ye Yunlan might not have made so many mistakes if she was literate. This is brought up as justification for his support for women's literacy and isn't really a defense of Ye Yunlan. Ye Yunlan is described as a woman who starves her daughter while spoiling her son into uselessness out of a disdain for women that is not shared by her husband, her in-laws, or even her natal family - it is entirely her own opinion. She forces her eight year old daughter to do hard labor purely because she's too lazy to do it herself. She is known for being stingy and mean-spirited toward her in-laws, begrudging them over small gains. We hear disappointingly little about Chu Heng's first life and Ye Muyu never actually runs into the loan sharks that Ye Yunlan fell prey to (even though the author seemed to intend to write about it, guess they forgot), but we see illiterate members of the Chu family reminding each other not to fall prey to that kind of scheme. It's very reasonable to assume the wife of an official would've known better than to sign off on loans & purchases she couldn't read. It's also mentioned in passing that Ye Yunlan plotted against her own daughter and trapped her in a ruinous marriage, thus forcing Chu Heng to have to intervene against the ab*se of her in-laws. The author describes her reckless, selfish, evil behavior as "foolish" because they're being euphemistic, not because Ye Yunlan's worst crime is being silly.

This is all information put out in the opening chapters. Later on, we get to check in on Ye Yunlan twice. First when Ye Muyu falls into a coma, where it's revealed that Ye Yunlan transmigrated to the modern world in Ye Muyu's body. Second when >2000 chapters in, Chu Heng also falls into a coma (lol) and meets Ye Yunlan in the modern world. He describes her as doing well and not wanting anything to do with him anymore.

So even for all her faults, her "punishment" is a comfortable modern life in Ye Muyu's body. This is not a transmigration novel that seeks to justify its transmigration premise by slandering the original owner. I wish people wouldn't twist what I consider a positive point of the story into a negative based off of their assumptions.

We never get to see Li Chongjin ascend the throne, the Qi family's downfall is completely blown over, Chu Jin never gets married, Nuan Bao doesn't grow up, and there's obviously no description of the main couple's retired life.