quadruplets. I always wanted a novel with triplets but here is even more lol. I love to read their part of story alot, it is both funny and cute. One of the things I don't like is how early they started studying... although it is only the elder that we can call studied lol

s*upid as in: being naïve to the point of you can openly call him s*upid.
Lazy; to the point that he doesn't want to lift a single finger after marriage (not that it was any different prior). All the paper works and management of the household is still the ML's burden.

Of course, that is one of the many ways for ML to pamper his fish wife but for the love of god, be a little more responsible, will you? He takes over as a playmate for his own children and a moral compass navigator, menial work is still mostly left to a nanny. He also constantly feeds his kids tr*sh, most of the time it's candy and snacks, no wonder they're all overweight.
t's also become quite an annoyance that whoever lays eyes on MC will adore and love him within seconds.

Besides just plain ass laziness, he's slacking in the matter of his missions as well. The rewards sometimes are a big help to save the ML and he just tosses it aside. (Referring to the visions he could see, the third time he received that reward, he just tossed it to the back of his mind.) This is also one of the biggest reasons why you could claim he's taking his ML for granted.
The Mpreg in this one is also problematic and wishy-washy. He's able to push out babies in his sleep but when it comes to normal pregnancy it became a huge "sacrifice" (-realizing what a huge sacrifice this was- a literal quote from the story). It feels like a mockery to all women especially because he desperately wanted to get pregnant (but the easy way, he knows and sympathizes with women who have to go through it, but hell, if you want children that bad, be at least prepared for some work).

He'd also have long monologues about moral rights and wrongs that contradict each other where some are obv. biased (for example he'd say a lot in favour for women's rights but when it comes to a poor princess that lost her home country and who was forced to marry the enemy as a concubine, he becomes extremely apathetic.

Not saying he should forgive her but at least understand...), it's a mess. He's condescendingly judging left and right like as if he in his position and life experience is the one to talk.

The first pod of children are also an issue. The 1st and 4th child are often talked about and given strong individual personalities but 2nd and 3rd child come often as a bundle and mostly for comedic relief.

When trouble arises, and ML takes on all the burden, MC often would write it off as 'male lead halo; therefore no need to worry or lend a hand'. Sure, he does worry and all that, but doing one thing and acting the opposite is just conflicting, he knows the butterfly effect is in place, nothing's fail safe. He doesn't even question his extremely smooth road so far either but feels rather he had suffered a lot under the system which he benefited from more than anything.

And even if all these points can't convince you, I can assure you for most of the time during matters surrounding life and death, MC will always think of f*cking first. That's where his priority lies, f*cking. Screw the kids, screw the mission, screw he himself the most. And this novel has no smut so... I don't see the point.

Don't get me wrong here, I love my pure fluff stories, but this is try-harding to implement other elements into the story that just doesn't blend together like water and oil. At every possible twist or turns the author will toss in fluff like a distraction while yet everything lays so transparently in front of you. Just... goddamn it, if you want to make it exciting, make it exciting without MC getting all horny all over the place.

One crucial part I would to seen more of was the struggle the MC was going through over the fact that the system set him up with the ML, his intentions to help and flattery for the ML was for the sake of his own survival (which in hindsight doesn't stray far off from an average concubine's goals in palace intrigues). Before he could even think of the next step, ML manages to woo MC, so that guilty conscience was tossed far far away.

I was really uncomfortable with how, near the end, Chuya's (I think that's his name? The original love interest of the ML in the novel that MC transmigrated into) suffering was depicted. In the grand scheme of things, his sins were far lesser than what the second and third prince did (not defending him, he did some shitty things out of greed). Yet, his suffering was far worse, and very explicitly detailed and it was kind of hard to read. I was really uncomfortable reading that part because I thought it was excessive and when MC just laughed at it, I just thought it made the MC look petty and jealous. Usually the MC is such an empathetic character, so when he just laughed after hearing about the original love interest was living in absolute misery and suffering, it just did not sit well.

Their relationship was established around this ~65 chapter mark

to not have another baby, even though MC would've been the one bearing the child anyway. I like how except for the first triplets which were a surprise, they communicate their wishes about having another child and eventually come to an agreement together.

The emperor likes bao 1, Jing Wang likes bao 4, and the Old Cheng guy likes baos 2 and 3. It's just that it looks like baos 1 and 4 get the most attention because there are more scenes with Jing Wang and the emperor.

DUCK ARMYYYYYY (suggested by Li Yu to help manage the locust plague)

bed stuff with mermaid Li Yu o_o

when the Jinjue princess who just bore a child and suffered from labour pains is shook that Li Yu managed to bear quadruplets while staying aa healthy as ever

when 6th prince threatens to kill his own wife... please man, be happy with the things you have while you still have them (-_-)

MC becomes bigger than a palm

MC once asked ML what if he was just using him for his power and his ultimate goal was to sow chaos and discord. This man was like it doesn't matter. Very pampered MC.

The original MC was punishment severely but he deserved it for expressing malicious intent to MCs kids. Like who cares if they're demon children. Mind your business.

I mean that was MC's system mission. To change his temperament