she was able to preside over an important case against a powerful family (the Yang clan) and set up a supervisory agency which both don't make sense because of the time period and the background that the author gave to her. if it's because she's supposedly a favored daughter of the emperor that also doesn't make sense because her father kept her at arms length enough that he wanted to marry her off to someone unthreatening or kill her. Why would he trust her and empower her just because she married someone who may or may not be a trustable pawn. Her husband literally only tried to enter the emperor's service and immediately he is trustworthy? But where's the basis for trusting the husband and shouldn't there be more of a trial period to truly trust him? And secondly she only married her husband for a very short period of time so why would he trust that her husband in a few days or weeks or months of marriage can turn her against her brother, mother and maternal family that she's known for 18 years. Unless she is very much trusted by him, it would make more sense for him to want her to be a spoiled useless princess rather than one that literally heads an organization that can investigate and influence the situation of other governmental organizations because she could also use it to help her brother (which she is) and maternal family

the whole Yang family attempt at kidnap and the subsequent chase was ridiculous. how could the Yang family be daring enough to try to so publicly kidnap the princess right after a public banquet with private soldiers riding around on horses in the middle of the imperial capital sent to conduct the kidnap. As a princess, as the eldest daughter born of the empress, her residence shld presumably be in a very prominent location within the capital where other nobles are so there should be soldiers regularly patrolling the area to safeguard said nobles. her retinue should also have lots of imperial guards, eunuchs and maids. So why on earth would the Yang family try to forcibly snatch her with their private army (instead of trying to secretly drug her or smth) in such a prominent location when her own retinue and the patrolling army should be able to protect her. The fact that she really had to run away was quite ridiculous to me given the above. It was literally Yang soldiers on horses attacking. How is the story set in a world where they wouldn't be caught immediately.

The ML's family punishing the ML by caning him to try to dissuade the princess from setting up the supervisory agency and the consequences of ML's family's actions also didn't make sense to me. Again, she's the eldest princess and as her husband, he's her consort and by extension, he's a part of the royal family (he's literally called prince consort). as a part of the royal family with the legacy in ancient China associated with protecting the dignity of the royal family, why would they be daring enough to publicly punish him in full view of his clan as well as the servants that presumably accompany them. The stated reason in the book for them to do so was that they wanted to publicly disassociate from him for the eyes of the other noble families. But what about offending the royal family and the emperor by hitting the prince consort? And they're not disciplining him for committing a crime or smth. They stated that they want to punish him because the princess set up a supervisory agency that was sanctioned by the emperor. Which is also like publicly and very loudly saying we don't agree with the emperor? Like if you've watched ancient Chinese dramas or read those ancient Chinese books or just read ancient Chinese history, how can a royal be publicly (yes it's at home but there were so many people present that if it were to be investigated properly, how can so many people keep it a secret??) hit by his own clan that isn't that powerful in defiance of an emperor's imperial edict when said emperor is still in charge of empire and not in some situation like the emperors that faced cao cao or sima yi. Like yes the emperor is fighting against the noble families, but he's still in charge enough to completely bring down the Yang family when he found enough evidence to do so.

the princess and the ML can'tbe blamed for the outcome the last timeline no one really gets HE when power is exercised by asingle individual after a long time he or she is bound to become suspicious every characteris really fleshed out

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and it's revealed that her brother who became emperoris the one who schemed both to death everyone got their karma I guess it's reallya curse to be born into royalty

They always say "trust each other, don't keep secrets from me so we won't deal with what we dealt with in our past lives" BUT though they are already together and are sweet to each other, it wasn't until near end that they learned to really really trust each other. My only take is why say that when you're just going to break the oath? There are some parts where I feel MC is too stubborn, why not take a step back when ML was showing her how devoted he is to her, then the next part there is an explanation why MC felt that way and then my dissatisfaction just dissolves. Everything that happens or what they're feeling is valid and has a reason.

that there is an escape tunnel something in the place he was in before it was burned down and the main CP also talked about why ML let him off instead of killing him.