She was a college student. But good GOD she was not allowed to have any brains at all in this novel other than just giving the emperor some cool invention from the future. Yes she is a jealous bit*h yes she envies for things far beyond her reach but she was just written as a brainless cannon fodder who cannot see a moment of happines from MC and I hated that. Those are her only personality, smart in inventions, jealous of anyone having a good life, shitty at making plans that it backfired badly on her, and her fear of the emporer. She's just a puppet for the author to speed the plot. I have placed higher hopes on her being much clever but no it was nothing but dust. I am just— sigh. With how much golden finger she has, I am dissatisfied with the execution that's all.

like how her calligraphy level recovered after a few days of practice

How she can miraculously sense when something is poisonous

How her marriage literally dropped into her lap despite all the factors against it. Like how zhang shi suggested it to wen furen despite how much she hates concubine born children. How wen furen even mentioned it to WTZ despite the fact that FL is a concubine born daughter and all the rumors about FL up to that point were that she's beautiful but mediocre. Like I get the process about how WTZ convinced his mother and grandmother. But why did his mother even mention it to him in the first place? Like wouldn't the normal reaction be to just disregard and forget about it because the suggestion itself is just so ridiculous? Like a small noble family is suggesting that the handsome intelligent heir of an important minister, the di grandson of an imperial princess should marry the unimportant noble family's concubine born daughter whose only reputation is that of being a beautiful but mediocre female.

How she miraculously knew to trust her fiancé even though based on whatever was revealed in the novel she read should say otherwise. Like he's supposedly gay and he's the minister in charge of the boards of punishment (which I assume is the ministry of justice) and he's characterized as a ruthless character. Based on this, why would she instantly trust him enough to ask him for help and reveal her real personality the first time they met?

How ML sent in lin mama to teach FL which also provided her with protection and support in her natal family. I mean yeah ML's fam is superior to FL's but why would FL's fam accept it? I mean it's basically exposing the internal workings and issues of FL's fam to an external party. If it's like FL was marrying into imperial fam, it's understandable because FL has to learn imperial fam etiquette which is unique and it's actual historical procedure. But in the case where a noble fam is marrying another noble fam, it just does not make sense that the author tried to make it seem acceptable.

How her father's wife suddenly discovered antagonist took over her daughter's body, so she kind of stopped targeting FL and started targeted RN.

How everyone that matters just likes her immediately, like lin mama, ML's mother, ML's grandmother, ML's cousin.

How FL was all about laying low to avoid attention and she tried to keep to it even after she was engaged to ML. But suddenly she just stopped laying low and it was all good.

how her grandmother started supporting FL after she revealed her true intelligence. But shouldn't the fact that FL is engaged to ML be more than enough? Even if FL was a low key mediocre person, it's still a big jump for her family for FL to be able to marry ML. Like FL's grandmother and father are shown to be huge pragmatists, so unless FL is awful, why wouldn't they immediately put in effort into supporting FL. Why does the author make it seem like they supported FL because of FL's intelligence rather than it solely being based on her marriage?

The way they can openly meet each other in private. when ML's servant just came over and asked FL to meet ML, and they just chatted alone in a room without any accompaniment from their servants. his mother knew and it was like not an issue because ML is the one who asked so it's ok.

the way it's ok for engaged couples to date openly at parties and ML's cousin even asks FL if ML has held her hand yet. it's ancient China. Talking about holding hands??

the way ML hugged FL in public at the entrance to her home. There was some crap excuse that the carriage blocked the view of this. But cmon? The carriage blocks out one side, how can it block every other angle?? like if the carriage blocks it from the front there's still the right left and back view of this??

and what irritates me the most is that the author can't seem to make up his/ her mind about the societal environment. On one hand, it's conservative like how MQC originally became 4th prince's concubine because she fell on the 4th prince. Like she fell on the guy fully clothed but that contact is enough for her to become his concubine. but it's also so open minded that just because ML and FL are engaged, it's ok that they publicly walk around together, it's ok that they exchange tokens and flaunt the tokens from each other, it's ok if they hold hands, it's ok if they hug, it's ok if they flirt publicly, it's ok if they meet in private. It's just... irritatingly different. stick to a construct instead of wildly veering from liberal to conservative depending on how the author wants the story to progress.

There's actually 3 transmigrators here. The MC (though there's also a surprise about her), the MC's sister and the novel's original heroine.

like about Mama Yang's revenge (or lack of)

more on the male lead: before their first kiss, he asks MC if it's ok, and waits for a yes. When MC is pregnant, he reassures her many times that any gender of child is ok, and that her health is more important to him than her childbearing ability. In the epilogue, he secretly takes infertility medicine after MC has given birth to four children so that she doesn't have to go through any more pregnancies.

she always fails

I like how the MC is quite sensible and smart. In the beginning she worked hard to integrate into the world knowing she had been transmigrated into ancient-Era times. I also loved the development of MC and ML romance. It is very sweet and envious. 😍😏The ML was very gentlemanly and not toxic which surprised me since usual MLS are written to be very possesove towards MC. I'm glad the main couple is quite chill and laid-back. Author is really meaning the laid-back title. Imo there is too many rebirth and transmigrations in the novel but the last extra at least gave the ogFL her original fate was good. Villain is just like a c*ckroach, even living 100 lives she will still be s*upid lol🤦🏻‍♀️😬