Initially, he's the only "family" member of Gu Jiao's to actually genuinely love her and want her. Then, as the family grows, he gets sidelined to extra, EXTRA side character. Gu Jiao even acknowledges this and laments how he's basically getting the "middle child" treatment since he's fairly easy to deal with and doesn't cause much trouble. She then helps him get a master to teach him properly since he's got a great talent for wood carving and then... he's forgotten about again. Most of his scenes are in relation to Gu Yan but he's supremely left to the background. What really tipped it over the top for me is when his master and his masters wife ask to adopt him and Gu Jiao is so nonchalant about it. Sure, she asks him if he wants it but she doesn't seem to have any actually attachment to him. In fact, her only thought about his adoption is how she paid his parents twenty taels to be able to take him with her.

Baby Yan needs surgery, but the needed equipment is not there with FL, so she goes to another county (Yan country).

But in Yan country there are a group of people wanting to assassinate the ML. So, FL knocks the ML out and goes to Yan Country without him.

It is not easy to enter another country, so they use College admission letters to enter the country. Unfortunately, they only had men's admission letters. So, the FL disguises herself as a man and uses ML's identity to enter the college.

But fortunately, ML finds another admission letter after waking up, but unfortunately, it's a women's' college admission letter. So he disguises himself as a woman and uses the FL's identity to enter Yan Country.

He even gets the title of "College's top beauty"😂

Make the story arc about Grand Concubine Jing (aka Jing Tai Fei) shorter, expand the Zhao-Yan country transition to make it less abrupt, shorten the war arc, and expand the MC's POV in the last story arc, because I missed her

In his previous life, she didn't get love from her parents because she didn't show emotions easily. Her parents who were afraid of him gave him (sold him?i dont remember exactly) him to his godfather who later trained him to be an agent.

the story will show us how her husband will deal with his past trauma. How he almost died at the hands of someone very close and important to him in the past. There's also a very adorable little monk character development. And how we will see him grow from a cute child be willing to be strong in order to protect gu jiao. Other characters will also appear throughout the story with good development.

[when they have moved to the royal capital of zhao]

The story keeps making up background to give her, a lot of which she'd 'forgotten'. And she keeps 'recovering her strength' which based on the past she remembers just seems insane.

her Assassin/ Doctor skills, her past lives, the prophesies,

the first emperor, her adopted sister, chengfeng, her grandfather, her father, tang yueshan.

the relationship between the MC and ML is quite smooth so far, there is no deep I'll feeling between them at all. Me hasn't met any deep scheme type of plot either. Even the mix up baby case are also happened coincidentally, and the parents try so hard to be accepted by the MC, instead of the MC who try fit in the family. There is a lot of lucky case for MC too, with the golden bridge paved by the author her life surely will be much more enjoying than painstaking.

MC is Gu Jiao, she is a transmigrator that have multiple ability, such as medical skill and fighting skill. She is actually very smart and serious one, but kind and soft hearted. So far she beating almost all the bad character (even her father) and the crown princess, but amazingly always get away with it. With all the packed ability and knowledge she's been stand out and even being recognized by the emperor.

he is one the example on how dark the background should be but the story being written in light way. He is a not so sharp nor smart one. Perhaps he will be stand out in the term of war or fighting and strategy but for other stuff he is a very ignorant and hot headed one. The way he treated both the adopted daughter and biological daughter in half assed way always make my blood boil. In the end he keep making an empty promise and empty action for both parties and indulge the adopted daughter to the worst scenario. Even the weak and bordir mother have more resolve than the so called marquise. But even so all of her worst aspect is being balance with the comical plot of him and his biological daughter relationship. That beating scene was surely funny, at least he know that no matter what he is the guilty part and not try to fighting back on the fight. No wonder the grandma regards him less than her own grandson that much. Also he is the supreme cause of the GJ downfall on the previous life, on purpose or not.

a heck of a lot of background story to unpack here. Gu Jiao has actually transmigrated two times before the start of this story, but complications with transmigration across time and space have caused her to lose her memories from her first two transmigrations.

• • First transmigration: the First Shadow Lord, who was like a mentor to the Guoshi and Emperor of the neighboring country of Yan (as of the current arc, Gu Jiao lives in the country of Zhao). Also a genius doctor like Gu Jiao is in her current life, but set up a bunch of important story props and flags that come into play a whole lot later into the story.

• • Second transmigration: the daughter of An Guogong and Xuanyuan Zi, called Jing Yinyin. Her maternal family, the Xuanyuan family, plays a huge part of the Yan Country arc as she fights to restore their reputation as the guardian of Yan and impose retribution on the other noble families who framed them. She doesn't find out her relation with the Xuanyuan family until about halfway through the arc.

• • Third transmigration: this story. As stated in the synopsis, she is the blood-born daughter of Marquis DingAn (?) and his second wife, Yan-shi. Because of a mix-up thanks to the abbott of the temple she was born in, she was switched at birth and grew up in the village. Not yet introduced as of 12/2021 are her paternal grandparents and her three older half-brothers.
    
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• • His original identity is Xiao Heng, the young master of the Xiao family. His father is Marquis Xuanping (Xiao Ji), and his mother is the sister of the Emperor of Zhao, Princess Xinyang (Qin Fengwan). As his true identity is revealed, the story eventually switches to referring him as Xiao Heng.

• • BUT WAIT his actual identity is the son born to Xiao Ji and a s*ave he picked up from an underground martial arts center. That s*ave is actually Shangguan Yan, the child of the Emperor of Yan and his Empress. Because the Empress's natal family is the Xuanyuan family, Xiao Heng has the blood of the Xuanyuan family running in his veins (hence the Xuanyuan family redemption arc).

• • BUT WAIT WAIT x2!!! He's actually the godfather who raised and trained Gu Jiao during her time with the organization. Yeah, seriously. The godfather was actually a Marshal of an alien civilization (lol wut) from a planet called X94 or something?? He crash landed on Earth, and some of the dark matter on him contaminated Gu Jiao's mother, who was pregnant with Gu Jiao at the time. This caused Gu Jiao to absorb that dark matter and suffer from violent urges whenever she sees blood. He picked her up after she was abandoned by her parents to study her blood and potentially use her to extend his waning lifespan, but he eventually fell in love with her (and she with him so it's ~romantic~ that their love transcended time and space and the cycle of reincarnation). We don't actually find out about all this until literally the final 2 chapters of the epilogues, so it honestly felt like a hit from the back of the head with how abrupt it was LOL.

Super agent abilities from her former life + a magical refill medicine box and premonition dreams of big events.

The author paints the picked up village daughter really black. She had some virtues like not throwing fits is already a blessing in my book (or it's me who's too acclimated to F tier novels with bratty cannon fodders/ antagonist). The entire set up from the get go is to make her a villain, imagine being suddenly outed as a village kid who was accidentally picked up while being raised as a spoiled rich child you wouldn't want to go back to your origins either, f*ck no. The twin brother hates her guts, the mother only loves her superficially and only a dumb father eats from her hands but that's another different problem. There's be more misunderstandings and accidents where MC would put her indirectly in a humiliating situation that was off-putting for me. The marquis father is an as*hole through and through, she'd be better off with none or a dead one imo. He often would wrong her but never admits to his fault for being the one in the wrongs and wants face. He also nearly killed her, if she wasn't a former agent the real child would've died under his hands.