She gets no credit for finding the den of traffickers and the excuse from the worthless father about how it would ruin her reputation is completely false. They obviously just want to keep her down because she's a woman and it would reflect badly on him for allowing a woman to figure it out because woman=dumb in Ancient China amirite or am I right?

The worthless father doesn't care about anyone in his family at all and all his feelings are superficial at best. He is garbage and a piece of human s*um and the Lu Lady should show him what domineering really means and let HIM become obedient. He deserves nothing he has and at the part I'm at in the story it's *partially* alluded to that Li Xia made him what he is today and she gets no credit for anything she does, while he walks with a pep in step like he's a 'big man' and did something righteous and fair and he DESERVES his promotion. He's a rat in the gutter not fit to be a government official.

Her mother -Aunt Mei- not the Lu lady, will take away the money she rightfully earns and wants to use it for a dowry so when her daughter is sold and married off the husband just gets all the money instead. Almost every scene they are together she pulls on her ear or admonishes her in some way and Li Xia just takes it... SHE JUST TAKES IT, this woman, from the APOCALYPSE, where human life is worth nothing and it's kill or be killed has turned into an obedient little duke's daughter.

The supposedly smart brother Li Hui sees her outside at night suspiciously talking to a guard while smelling like blood and five minute later he finds two bodies, just a coincidence I guess nothing to see here. So far he has had no suspicions of her at all. Again this guy is supposed to be smart and meeting his sister for five minutes and giving her a book might cause him to fail the imperial examination, so her mother comes in with the "do you know what you did wrong" spiel. If the brother is s*upid enough to fail the imperial exam with her bothering him for five minutes then it's only his fault he fails it.

and sadly, aside from the FL's mother and brother, no one was mentioned anymore. Like, what was their reaction about the FL and ML's death? What happened to the orphaned Liucheng? What about the reborn Li Yao? Why did the FL say that Zhou Heng and Qi Niang's love story failed? And the Qiu maids too? How about the reaction of the Li brother and sister? Anyway, there are unfinished stories of them but it's not bad if we're just focused on the FL and ML's ending.

Last thing is, do not read this via MTL. I don't know if they really have similar surnames like the Xu of the FL's mother coincides with the Xu of Old Mrs. Xu, or the Lu of the ML and the Lu of Madam Lu, etc. Maybe it's distinguishable if it's in Hanzi, but in English, it's really very confusing. Moreover, I'm kinda confused with Prince Yongkang's rebellion. It's not like I don't get it, but the plot revolves mostly around it, yet due to the translation, it's kinda confusing. Or maybe my mind isn't just focused on it.

and the ML's further HE in the post-apocalyptic times, when humanity is rebuilding.

There is a reborn little half-brother, a transmigrated noble miss, and her own ML dreams of their original life in ancient times, but as another review mentioned, everyone gets their just ending.

she shortens her life whenever she uses her power. I thought that last medicine was going to cure her completely, but it only bought her a couple more years. It's new for me to see an MC who died young. She was probably in her 30s.

ML followed MC when she died. Their poor son was abandoned by his parents. I can excuse MC, since she couldn't really help it. But I wish ML chose to wait until his son got married or something so he wouldn't be alone.

I wanted to know what happened to them after the deaths of MC and ML.

The ending drove me a little nuts. It was beautiful how she calmly accepted her ending and how Lu XuanNing went with her but she left behind her child, mother, siblings and friends. I’m getting choked up again as I’m writing this. Many things were unresolved. Her bio mother and brother didn’t conclusively break away from the Wang family. Her stuck up MIL never stopped looking down on her. She didn’t get to see her child get married and so much more. Sure, they both reincarnated back in the original world but didn’t get into much detail about their happily ever after.

The MC is born after sacrificing herself to save people from zombies. So, she doesn't want to do anything but eat, sleep, and repeat. Of course, take away danger if it threatens that or someone close to her. She won't take action unless the other party attacks first, and then she is decisive no matter who it is. There are many trope characters, like her step-brother who is reborn and another character (her cousin through her stepmother or main mother who is a transmigrated character). What I like is that she sees through both especially the bother who murmurs about the past life and she hears it. Basically, you can say this timeline is where he is reborn; our MC was transmigrated in his previous life as well but was not that proactive in helping people, which is why she didn't cross paths with our ML. As for the transmigrated character, she is a typical one bringing thousand and one modern things in ancient times. The ending is sweet, each character gets their just ending, good or bad. Be ready with tissues for the last one though.