•Locking the FL in the room after they quarrelled

•FL and ML raising their daughter so badly that she becomes a tryant

•ML threatening his own daughter and emotionally abusing her into behaving.

•FL does absolutely nothing to help him in financial matter (even though she can do more) even making the ML overwork himself to support her.

•FL is bland, lazy and just wants to spend her target's money. Love feels like it's only the ML who's interested. FL has nothing to lose but ML has everything to lose.

the ML in this Arc is a general who decides to get rid of the emperor and become the emperor himself *squeals* after he becomes the emperor he makes the MC the emperor, he gives her a yellow emperor's gown embroidered with dragons everything and takes her to the court for the morning sessions

When she is rightfully angry that he called her a plaything and said many hurtful things to her and tries to leave, he LOCKS HER in her room and tries to force her to go to a party with him. I'm tired of these s*upid plot points. I would have called the police if my SO locked my in a room for trying to leave. She just forgives him and accepts his bland and unconvincing apology where he can't even name what exactly he did wrong, then cooks food for him like a 20th century housewife.

The story follows the love between a playboy CEO and a mediocre actress. The CEO is struggling to come to terms with the fact that his ex-wife is in a happy and fulfilling marriage. He is a serial sugar daddy to struggling actresses and this is how he meets the FL. Slowly growing dependent on the care she provides, he realises he loves her.

As the translator notes, it's interesting to see this character - the rich playboy - who is often the secondary male lead, come into his own and take centre stage.

However.

The FL is a non-character. She's not talented at acting - why pursue this career? - and has struggled for five years - why only now accept the ML's "favour"? There's no sense of desperation or ambition that would explain her actions. She continues with her conscientious care and worms her way into the ML's heart, but it never feels like she's placed him in her heart. Until the end she continues to act like she did when she first met him, caring, but distanced. Given the ML's character at the beginning, it's hard to see how anyone could fall for him...

A re-born genius in pharmaceuticals, who holds a deeply pessimistic world view and wants to end the world with a zombie virus, slowly falls in love with a young girl through the continued acts of gentle, kind and generous love she gives him.

His love starts with the typical "don't really love her but can't stand letting anyone hurt her including myself." He strives not only to protect her physically, but to ensure that his actions will not cause her needless pain - be that through protecting her from gossip by not staying over at her family home, taking pains to get to know her parents, or forging a positive reputation for himself. While his love borders on the obsessive side, it's on the less creepy end of the spectrum.

She, on the other hand, is a transmigrator. It's hinted that she was "sent out" by some kind of organisation, as she mentions a "bureau" that she "won't return to until she completes her mission (?) ". It was so vaguely alluded to that it might as well not have been included, and actually detracted from the story. While I never felt that her love or kindness in and of itself was a show or front she put on, it did feel like she wouldn't necessarily of helped him or treated him as she did if it has not been for her transmigration and future knowledge of his (past) life. In these cases, sincerity is compromised by future knowledge.

The tyrannical master of the demon sect wipes out a powerful sect overnight. Unable to defeat him, the other sects offer up female cultivators in hopes of a ceasefire. Intrigued by one of the women sent to him, the demon falls in love while also slowly losing his cultivation forcing himself and the woman to run for their lives.

As hackneyed as my summary makes it sound, there were some one interesting point: in the middle of the story the ML was so weak and had regressed so much with his cultivation that the FL was way more powerful and had to defend him (beauty saving the hero). The rest... is as hackneyed as it sounds.

She asks him a s*upid question and he finds her "interesting", ergo their love blossoms; she is so caring, with clear eyes. There's also a rather disturbing part where, because he loses his cultivation, he becomes a six year old child, in mentality as well as physically.

All this might have been forgivable if it were executed well, but alas, even here the story falls down. I'm not sure if it was because of the author or the translator (I'm inclined to the former), but this story really does not flow. There are huge leaps that leave you thinking you missed a chapter, the premise of the ML's cultivation which is the MAIN CAUSE FOR CONFLICT is not explained until the very end so the reading experience is similar to trying to find your way out of a maze, blindfolded.

Personally, I think this is the worst one so far.

Things that are are questionable in each arc:

Arc 1: The male lead 'doting' and 'spoiling' their daughter rotten and then she gets taught a harsh lesson by her father, who was the one who had been 'spoiling' the sh*t out of her.

Arc 2: What was the point in giving the Xu Family money, when the ML was just going to exact 'revenge' for them bullying him. I didn't see a point. (Though, I think that this arc was the best one.)

Arc 3: Everything in there, from the ML to the FML to the world. There were one too many terms in the novel, as it's cultivation, that was just being spouted. I.g. The ML having to 'tame' himself. That is apparently something that he just has to do and the author gave a very very very vague and non-connective paragraph or so about it. It's just poorly done--especially with the numerous time skips and change of scene, you aren't even sure what's going on in each chapter or if it's going to continue from the previous chapter. I was confused about what was even going on as one moment she's talking about his cultivation and the next they're in a cave and some bullsh*t later, about them hiding out in caves and her father finding her and him. ;]

for example, in the reincarnated ML and transmigrated FL arc, the ending was so abrupt and the new arc began just like that and it made me so confused that I thought I missed a few chapters. I think that it was a pity cause I actually enjoyed that arc a lot.