There is a part in ch 30 or something where the author entirely glosses over the matter of MC finally getting some maid servants from her evil stepmom.

She weeds out the spy using a trick and punishes her severely and sells her away. She presents the evidence to her father too so her stepmom can't say anything about it. Then she proceeds to use some psychological mojo on her other servants to make them paranoid that they'll be ratted out if they're a spy, and they end up coming out to her themselves...

Mine is a little more summarized, but that is practically what you get in the actual text.

The stepmother was feeding the MC moldy bread. But the stepmother is not smart enough to come up with a reason why, instead the stepmother's own daughter has to save her. Her daughter's brilliant plan... blame it on the servants.

They introduced the fourth prince as "Rong Chu's had a very good personality and reputation too." Only to later find him threatening a young boy in public and describing him as "Rong Chu was famous with his ruthlessness, plus, he was monstrous as well - killing anyone who offended him." I fail to see how a person who kills people just for offending them has a good personality.

The auction scene was truly the nail in the coffin for this story. Her reason for going inside... "Gu Xijiu wanted to take a look and see if she could earn more money somehow." But her every thought and action was more towards wanting to spend money then earn it. She didn't analyze anything or plot how she was going to earn money. When she was hastily given money by prince Rong Che instead of worrying if she would be able to pay him back or if he wanted some kind of favor in return for leading her money... "She told herself that she would try to return the money to Rong Che in due time and felt that based on her abilities, it would not have been that difficult to do so." She was worried about earning 150, 000 So she came to auction house to figure out how to earn money but is positive with her abilities she can earn money to pay back 500, 000. So her reason for entering the auction house is now void *facepalms*.

The fact that the Female lead was disguised as a male was so pointless. the author jumped back in forth between the two gender profiles that it became impossible to keep track of who had discovered that she is Female or who perceived her as Male. One minute pointing out how wonderful her disguising ability is that no one would recognize her as female. Only to later hear that person found her male form to be very feminine to point of even question if she was male or female. Chapter 45 and 46 even made it sound like she wasn't even wearing a disguise anymore. A random stranger referred to her as "little Sister" even though she was disguised as a Male. She didn't even correct him about her gender the whole conversation that they had, that it felt like she was either too s*upid to attempt keeping her gender hidden are just didn't care that people saw through her disguise.

The initial depiction of the MC is that she's kind of liberal who's very experienced in life-- she doesn't blink at s*x, she feels up the ML and talks to him flirtatiously (although she thinks he's a statue at the time), she previously had an affair with her commander in her last life, etc. Then later she's turned into this innocent little white flower who doesn't understand love and never even kissed anyone until ML stole her first kiss. Seems like the author couldn't make up her mind about what kind of person the FL was supposed to be.

That initial depiction seemed pretty different from your typical pure and good Mary Sue who's never been touched by a man. But nope, MC is your standard MC.