Main character (mc) died of cancer in the modern world and transmigrated into an ancient Chinese imperial power setting world. She has a system as a cheat but cannot use it until she gains points by absorbing sterilization medicine. Although MC starts off in poor living conditions, she soon meets Male Lead county king, who falls for her through a series of short encounters. Because of constraints to her low origin, she is only taken in as the ML's concubine first (even though ML wants to marry her as his wife).

ML works hard for the emperor so that MC can obtain the title of wife. Through many scenes, the author reveals mc's cleverness and intelligence. Of course, the author is also adept at describing their loving and cute interactions together. After several downplayed drama scenes, MC eventually becomes the Empress and ML the emperor.

When the story started, despite the system gold-finger and the cliched setting, I felt it was going through a more rational route and the character was going to have some troubles putting her hands into the "coins" of her system in the form of "abortive drugs" or "contraceptive drugs", but suddenly she has this ability to suck them out of people or things just by touching them (it would be more interesting if she had to consume and later spend some points to fix her body or she was immune to the drugs from the beginning).

I didn't have much of a trouble with the ML's reason for liking our MC so fast, because it fits his nature: he is a kid, he is still rather naive about the people around him although he is a prince and her words just happen to ease the things that have pestered him his whole life - his relationship with his mother.

Her feelings for him, developing slowly also make sense. I would have liked a bit more of background on MC's previous life, but some of it is exposed: she died from cancer, she had a troubled family relationship and she was a criminal psychologist. Therefore we know, she is much older and mature than him (and we can see from the way she always advices him). But of course, he seems to be her first love, and when her feelings comes... well, they are exposed more in the last 15~20 chapters of the story, and the author wrote it like it was some sort of dog blood drama.

In the beginning the translations were relatively good, some mistakes but nothing major. But as the plot progressed it looked more and more like it was machine translated and crudely worked over. The mistakes in the translation were off-putting too, some parts became rather confusing, for example Su Mingjian's name was sometimes translated, like they put it into a machine translation and just copy pasted as Su "Famous Sword" (if you don't know your 101 chinese -> Ming - Famous, Jian - Sword.

The ML has some powerful friends, as he states to her when he first reveals his identity, but they have almost no screentime. And more than that, they have no opinions for themselves. Anything the prince does, even when it is a bad decision, they just go with it... and when the FL says or does something, she is always right.

I would be ok if they didn't like her that much at first and later on the story they developed a good relationship, but... nothing is mentioned!!

Girls, Boys. If someone broke the heart of your friend or he was about to drag himself into a situation that might be harmful to him, wouldn't you try to defend this friend?!!!

And even if, they were by his side just for his power as a Junwang, wouldn't they be even more keen on stopping this romance? But no, they might just be deadwood in the BG.

The FL is clearly very smart, except when there's this part where they go to another county and decide to go against a group of bandits nearby. Or MC is smart, and slowly gets hold of the situation. When she has an idea in her head, she opts not to tell ML (i understood it was because she wants him to grow and figure it was a trap by himself)... but, oh gods of horror, next day she is just telling everything, and not telling... but saying it was some sort of dream sent by spirits. Girl, everybody knows you're smart... just use your logic as you have always been doing! You don't even need to reveal the system, cuz you thought it all by yoursef!!

Dear ML is not so fitting to sit in the Emperor position if he doesn't have FL by his side. I honestly prefered the second brother Feng Shi (he is also a Di son and he is not plotting to kill his brother), to sit on the throne. He didn't get much showtime but he seemed reasonable.

Instead of trying to go for this position that would make MC and ML have to accept more women in the backyard (which was emphasized SO MANY TIMEEES, they didn't want), they could have supported this supporting character to get the throne and demanded a stable but relatively idle position. But I guess the author thought that if she didn't put Huanghou (empress) in the title it might not sell, uhn?

Anyway, because of the obvious contradictions our ML was still pushed to the throne and ofc people were against him only having a single woman. Ok, so... let's compare a good idea with a bad idea just for the drama.

The bad idea, in the novel: MC fights till the end, goes against the emperor and opts to drink some poison that will make her ugly and incapable of ever appearing together with ML (albeit she does have a system to detoxify). The ML is so s*upid that he just goes angst and makes the emperor even more angry. Later, he even destroys several ministers of the court that had daughters fitting to be his partners.... its not wise!

An idea of this random reader (for the scenario were ML has to be on the throne) : Make him take the women (only people that have high rankings but their families have no power or very reasonable women - such as women that are considered old or have problems going on in their families... and trust me, as the story told us: the prince is very good at investigating), fake their loss of chastity. Then in private negotiate with them to be fake wives, while giving them a good life: food, clothes and helping their families. See? That way this women would be benefiting and the emperor or the court would be unable to say that the ML was going against regulations.

After finishing the story, overall, I think the story has a unique dynamic between ML and MC that I enjoy reading. Some of the side stories are pretty sad or leaving a bittersweet feeling, but I'd still say that this novel has an HEA because MC and ML finally became the empress and emperor in the end. This novel is really one of a kind.