Prior to meeting the MC, it's said that the ML was "basically asexual" in that he had no interest whatsoever in the opposite s*x. But the way he describes the MC makes me feel like he just didn't realize he was actually a pe*ophile before meeting her. But maybe I'm just overreacting.

the MC actively states in her monologue that she really isn't interested at all in ML and is just uncomfortable with his advances, it overall just makes him seem kinda creepy tbh. Even if he's "so hot" and all that, the point is: she doesn't like it, so back off.

There's a scene in which one of the MC's mentors kinda confronts the ML about it, but he makes some bullsh*t excuse saying that "she has to get used to the other s*x if she wants to work in the military". Umm... she was getting along perfectly fine with other soldiers that she was training with, according to previous parts of the story. She's clearly just uncomfortable and embarrassed by ML's unwarranted s*xual advances. But hey, I guess that will be a problem in the future, since she'll be working with men who will impose unwarranted s*xual advances on her.... right? ML is a bigshot, so he isn't being unprofessional in touching/pinning her down for longer than required even though he noticed her identity and just wanted to....eat some tofu? In the ML's monologue, he clearly states that he wants to make sure she knows that "such a strong, handsome, and great guy like him is around", so she won't be able to like any other guy because she saw him first. Is it just me or does it sound like he's trying to.......groom her? At that point, hearing him constantly call her "little fox" or whatnot really just sounds downright creepy.

It's the scene in which she's injured and she wakes up to him half-naked because he's changing in her tent. Like, there's so many tents around the encampment, and plenty of female Tibetans to nurse MC if needed. Why the hell did they let this guy change in the ONE TENT with an UNCONSCIOUS AND INJURED GIRL in it??? I really have to call bullsh*t on that. Honestly.

And one more data; Xia Jinyuan has sent Ye Jian to the hospital twice (because of something and some situation I'm not going to say~ Ah, and don't think that the ML is a bad boy... He even had cried in one chapter, err- well, the ML is a beautiful being right? :3) xD Do you think that the male protagonist is like others? And not just in that... Since in general, the ML was like a 'mentor' to Ye Jian, not just her boyfriend/husband/fiancé/partner.

Just some of the things that major events that I can remember (No particular order.) : Goes past the English translation.

• • The cousin dies from a failed attempt at trying to kill the MC.

• • She ends up commanding a female elite secret squad like her lover.

• • She ends up engaged. Not married yet. Damn...

• • She finds her mother's occupation was also a secret elite soldier and died in combat.

• • She finds that her current family was not even blood-related at all (her cousin's family).

• • She finds her real father alive, a military rocket scientist, and a real grandfather, also retired scientist.

• • Her father doesn't want her to be married away. Wants to make up the time he missed with his precious daughter since he just found her.

• • She is siblings with the Navy elite squad's leader. (adopted brother in a sense of him being raised in her household since young?)

• • Her brother disagrees with the relationship with the ML. Doesn't want his sister married off either. Haha.

• • She kills her mother's killer.

• • The grandpa (that raised her up in the village) and Principal Chen Shu dies : (One from old age and the other from assassination.)

• • J5 dies TwT I cry.

• • She graduates from the military academy with ranking in the military, which is a great feat as normally, people rarely do or not as high of a ranking as she received.

• • Her blood family are sweethearts and so is her in-laws <3

• • Her in-law wants to pack the ML (his own family, top 10 anime betrayals, jk lol) if they dare to hurt her. They want the MC more than their own blood relative, the boyfriend. XD They won't hesitate to kick him out and take her as a relative. (All in good jokes I suppose.)
• He does meet her at 14, but it isn't right off the bat love. They have a gradual development as she grows up and starts developing a relationship with her. They don't even become GF and BF until after she graduates from so-called high school?
  • I'll add to it if I remember.
• She has amazing sniping ability, the cognitive ability to remember topography and gun assembly and mimicking voices (my favorite!!).
• They end up engaged. But her engagement party was cut short by the MC having to go on a mission. But she did receive a ring from the ML and his family.
  
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perpetrating the idea that women must be careful of men because they are "natural hunters". Boys-will-be-boys type of mentality.

the ML KNOWS that he is making her uncomfortable and he is the reason, but he tells MC that she's overthinking. So, everytime the ML make some moves, MC doubts if she's overthinking.

Sometimes, they reframe ml's actions as a "battle" instead of what it actually is, uncomfortable romantic advances. In this way, MC thought that she have to respond or hide her discomfort to fight back and win. In actuality, it doesn't help the MC at all. Instead, it only benefits the ml. MC gradually stretches her tolerance to ml's actions.

example a) pinning her down in front of his colleagues. MC said she's uncomfortable and ashamed so stop it. But hey, he's just "teasing" her, no biggie.

example b) kissing her forehead without consent as a "compensation".

example c) kissing her on the lips without a warning. She's literally 16 and he's 22. That's absolutely gross. But you see, since she doesn't "wholly resisting", she secretly likes it. She doesn't scold him and even laugh it off

this is hard to ignore since it occupies huge chunk of the story. I can propose 2 options (option 1 works better for me) :

option 1: just delete the descriptions of her teenager body and basically majority of ml's pov and you can imagine that they are simply platonic (con-you'll be mentally deleting and revising a lot).

option 2: recall that the MC is in fact a 28 year old adult (con-difficult to believe since she doesn't act nor function as 28).

On chapter 312, please! We need to stop describing teenager b**bs as little white rabbits! It doesn't sound cute or sexy or pretty, okay. You know what it sounds like?? F*cking jail

First off the MC starts off generic enough with a hatred for her family, that had bullied her and stolen her inheritance from her. Generic is the only words to describe it at that point. Looking back I can say it really doesn't matter how it occurred because it was simply to tell the readers that 'Hey this is future MC and she hates her family'. So fine by me. Where it starts to lead off the cliche line of how the villains are super evil is what sorts of acts they make against the MC. They try to defame the MC and bully into submission, Blah blah blah, however, the cause is Seducing a Teacher. (Apparently, China treats people like Teachers with WAY more respect than the USA) This would be bad for the poor MC because she is an orphan, hence nowhere to go nor any way to survive. In all honesty, though, this story is mostly unique due to its time period (90's) it gives off an odd vibe compared to its more modern Chinese Shoujo clones.

The only other thing I would really like to point out about this is its small pokes at making a bigger picture. In one chapter the MC finds bad men spying on the Chinese military base. When she alerts the patrol a comment about how she was repaying her past debt to the soldiers is inserted. In the past life, there was a soldier who helped her escape the village by buying her a travel ticket (I forget the exact words used). Right there I knew that this story was going to well done. It had placed bits about her past life in random spots and you could feel the small nudge towards military so early on that you couldn't help but get a good feeling about how the military was a truly just entity. It didn't shy away from making this story into a Nationalistic propaganda story.

Although my very last topic alludes me I can probably write 5000 words on bits that made this good and how it wasn't just another Shoujo to burn time. It has meat on its bones even without the romantic aspects introduced (I read around C.200 is when it goes into its main romantic plot line).