Yang Hang: 6th prince, later the emperor. I actually ship them and thought he is the male MC. He is gentle and intelligent. Although he said in the later chapters that he's ruthless. I like their moments together.

Lu Ying: General, adopted brother of BFL. She actually joke around him when they were kids that he will be her husband. She like him first but when he got married (arranged and political) she killed the feeling and stay as just siblings. I love there moments, it's warms your heart.

Fang Hai: Doctor, one of the people she save, not really obvious that he likes BFL but there are hints (or depends on how you will interpret it). It is actually given away in the later chapters.

Bai Pingzi/Lin Pingzi: one of the people she save, not really obvious that he likes BFL but there are hints (or depends on how you will interpret it)

Hai Fushi/Xiao Mi/Gan Sui: male MC. I actually thought that he is the third party. The way he is introduced just made you feel that he is not male MC (since there is Yang Hang). I like him as Hai Fushi, his actions is really cute. Although I would say that I like all of his persona.

Background: MC has bad luck ever since she was born. Her parents are dead, anyone close to her either dies or gets bad luck, she chokes while drinking water, trips while walking on flat ground, dies after finally getting promoted, etc. After dying she finally had enough when going back to the underworld to reincarnate that she attacks the underworld judge out of grief and asks him what she did wrong to deserve 20+ years of bad luck. Then she finds out that several lifetimes ago, she was actually a war god named Bai Qi and killed over 400, 000 people so she was sentenced to having 30 lifetimes of bad luck. After already living out most of the lifetimes and only having a few more left, she is still super upset that she will have to reincarnate several more times so she asks if there was anything she can do in order to avoid this. She also says there's no way she could have killed that many people and asked the judge to dig a hole big enough to bury 400k people for her to see because it's impossible. While arguing, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva appears and offers her a deal. She can get reborn into the body of a 3 year old girl and live for 15 more years. During these years, she will need to save 10, 000 people and if she completes this mission then they will write off the next several lifetimes of bad luck. She agrees and is reborn as Bai Fuling.

Personality: MC is not a good person and has never hidden it. She's spoiled, doesn't like to wrong herself, and is basically a female tyrant. She only remembered her past life in which she had 20+ years of bad luck so her personality is a little warped due to her past trauma. She never had any type of love in that life so when she was reborn and had loving parents then she became very protective of them. She tried to ask what Bodhisattva meant when "saving" people but didn't get an actual response so she only had to go off on what she thought saving meant. To her, coming from modern times, it meant allowing people to learn actual skills so they can survive on their own (aka teaching a man to fish instead of just giving him a fish). So she ends up buying s*aves, making them sign a contract (so she had physical proof when she goes back to the underworld), spending money and time to teach them to learn practical skills (sewing, martial arts, reading, writing, etc.), then allowing them to work for her family until they saved up enough money to redeem themselves. Her hope is that the people end up with a good life and not an early death thus being actually "saved" instead of just temporarily saved. This causes people to misunderstand her as a good person who hates killing etc. Even though she does earn money from doing this due to having people pay even higher redemption fees, most of the people she saved are actually grateful. One thing to note is that she only saves good looking people, which I personally don't agree with but it's a trend in a lot of Chinese novels and it makes up a part of her personality. MC is written as the most beautiful person in the novel so to her, she just likes to look at good-looking people because her life is short so she doesn't want to wrong herself. I mean, it makes sense and supports her character. Another thing about MC is that she really doesn't take anything seriously besides her family and friends. To her, she's just a 3rd party in this world with a mission to save 10k people so she can enter her next life without bad luck. So she doesn't learn any skills like writing, poetry, music, martial arts, etc. Because her whole goal is to save people. Instead, she teaches them these skills and keeps the best ones who are loyal to her. She's going to die at 18 years old anyways so she just wants to live her life secluded with the people she cares about until then. Her grand plan beyond saving people is to create an island paradise which her family can retreat to if the emperor and court was ever thrown into chaos.

I don't fault her too much for her views. She came from modern times so she doesn't like to kill randomly plus she doesn't want any life to be placed on her head in case she's implicated and can't save enough people. She's very calculative because she only has 15 years to live and what she does will affect her luck directly in her next lives. She likes to tease pretty men and women but doesn't take love seriously because she doesn't want to fall in love knowing that she will just die early in the end. So the men in the novels who actually treat her nicely, she doesn't allow herself to fall for them because she doesn't want to hurt them. That's why she ended up with the ML because he's not a good person so she didn't feel as guilty lying to a bad person but ended up too deep in the hole she dug. So a girl who only had known 20 years of bad luck and then 15 years of a life full of stress and anxiety because she needed to fulfill a mission which can make or break her next few lives, I can see why the author wrote her personality the way they did. Because she's only focused on her mission then she doesn't waste time on other things so she's a weak chicken that anyone can bully if she doesn't have her family/servants around her. Even the poetry she writes, she doesn't claim them as hers but that an immortal told her in her dreams. So she is actually quite truthful of things. She's just a pretty vase and acknowledges it and doesn't take credit for things that aren't hers. The strongest point is just her business mind due to the influence of modern times. She comes up with ideas but the people who actually implement it are her servants so she's just the boss who employs actual skilled workers. Overall, I think she is an interesting character and I don't dislike her. I don't think she's a saint or wants peace and love in the world but she is strong-willed due to her determination to complete her mission. So she knows what she wants and won't do what she doesn't like which I respect.

So the ML has 3 different identities: Gan Sui (leader of the demon cult), Hai Fushi (leader of the righteousness sect), and Xiao Mi (when he turned into a little child due to practicing a type of martial arts). He's known as Hai Fushi for about half of the novel and then Gan Sui for the other half. There's only a small part when he turned into a small child that he's called Xiao Mi. He met MC when he was Hai Fushi and was smitten by her at first sight. As the leader of the righteousness sect, he's meant to be pure and caring to all with a strong sense of justice. ML is also described as the most handsome man MC has ever seen and the most handsome throughout the whole novel. So when MC first saw him, she especially loved his blushing and shy face and just wanted to tease him. This backfires when she hooks ML and unknowingly boards the pirate ship. As Gan Sui, ML is a petty, evil, and rude person. He's known as the strongest in the martial arts world with no equal so he doesn't flinch when killing someone. As Hai Fushi, he tries to act gentlemanly to the MC but as Gan Sui, he has no reserves and takes what he wants from her with or without her permission (mainly eating her tofu). As Xiao Mi, he's a mix of Gan Sui and Hai Fushi. He shows up as Hai Fushi's nephew and gains MC's sympathy because he called himself an evil star with no parents and family and no one wanting him. This triggers MC's past memories in which she was also called an evil star and lived a miserable life so she agrees to take him in. At first, he acts pretty innocently but later, he couldn't hid his evil intentions towards MC and she starts to suspect him. Later, he completes his martial arts practice and regains his true form again and doesn't appear as Xiao Mi anymore.

Background: So ML's mother was the previous leader of the evil cult and had an affair with the emperor thus, creating ML. His mother died due to the emperor's scheme and he vows to avenge her and his aunt who is also the 6th prince's mother who died similarly. Before this life, ML is actually a form of resentment between heaven and earth. This collection condensed over time and accidentally entered the cycle of reincarnation, thus giving him a human body. It's because of this that he has a wanton passion for killing and mu*der and doesn't blink an eye when committing crimes. His mother died when he was young so he didn't grow up with the love and care like normal people did. He was used by his father to gain control of both the evil and good sects and has always had multiple enemies on both sides. He grew up knowing only killing and was never taught about how to love others.

Personality: ML only has some true feelings for his mother and could care less about other people. He does have some fondness for his aunt, thus he eventually helps the 6th prince to the throne but otherwise, there is no one who can control him. Even the emperor can only make him do things ML wanted to do anyways. He really is the type to kill anyone he doesn't like and has the power to do so with no one able to stop him. That's until he meets MC. When he first met MC, he realized how much she affected him so he thought either he has to kill her to stay in control of his own feelings or he has to keep her tied to his side. Of course, he chooses the latter. He's not gentle in any way and is always wanting to force her to submit to him which she constantly defiles leading to him being more forceful. I honestly don't like MLs who force themselves on MCs like the domineering CEOs who starts love-hate wars with the female protagonists and ends up chasing their wives to the crematorium. But I wouldn't say the ML is completely like those CEOs. It's true he forces her a lot but from the very beginning, if she sheds tears then he's unable to do anything and starts to compromise. Overtime, if MC truly doesn't want it and shows it then ML doesn't dare to do anything. MC has never hated ML in the novel and I think that's the real difference why I'm more tolerant to ML. She's afraid of ML but she knows he won't hurt her and won't look at other people so she actually has a bit of trust in him. It's just, she has a secret (her dying at 18) and refuses to tell ML leading ML to think that she doesn't love him as much as he loved her so he becomes dissatisfied. ML is very clumsy in love because this is his first time and he's never tried or known anything like it before so he makes a lot of mistakes. But he's willing to change his ways just for MC. Honestly, at the very end when MC died, the author wrote ML very tragically. He almost went mad when he saw her lying in a coffin and the reader can really feel how much he loves MC. This is why I couldn't decide whether to give the novel a 3.8 or 4.0. I think a 4.0 is reasonable because ML's personality did grow due to his love for MC. Overall, I do understand why the author wrote ML the way they did and they kept to his character pretty well. While I don't agree with everything ML did, he was never over aggressive and even though he made a mistake towards the end, he got his retribution from MC when she died without telling him.

• Lu Ying - her adopted brother. He was the first person she saved and is her backup husband but this all ended when the emperor gave him a marriage with someone else due to his family background. MC decisively cut off all feelings of love and strictly saw him only as a brother from that point on. He is very sweet and the big brother type but I can see why he cannot control MC like ML can. Later on, he was able to divorce his wife and became single again until the end of the novel. However, it was said that ML's junior sect sister fell in love with Lu Ying and wants to pursue him (much to ML's delight and encouragement). There's a few scenes of him and MC in the beginning but you see him less and less as the novel goes on.
• Yang Hang - the 6th prince and ML's half brother/cousin (his father is emperor who is also ML's father and his mother is ML's aunt). He was looking to use MC's influence in the very beginning and the story opens up with him and MC. Usually when stories open with a male character then 9 out of 10 times he ends up being the male lead. However, YH is different and doesn't become the male lead. I think maybe there was a possibility of it but later it becomes apparent that he's not right for MC. He doesn't have a wife but later the story mentioned that he has concubines and bed servants before so he's automatically out. He is the second male lead for sure though as he gets the most screen time with MC after ML. He fights for her affection up till the end of the novel. After becoming emperor, ML ends up writing his first memorial and it was to encourage YH to take in concubines and crown an empress. With pressure from the court, YH eventually take in 4 concubines but still continues to leave the empress position open.
• Fang Hai - he's the disciple of a famous doctor and one of the few older people who haven't redeemed himself as a s*ave yet from MC. You can kind of tell he has feelings from MC in the beginning of the novel but it's not until the end that it's proven. He never said he loved MC but when MC asked him for contraceptive pills then the author describes the shock and hurt on his face. Then later, after MC dies, he takes back his s*ave contract and didn't want it burned because it was the only thing that had him and MC's name written by MC. Overall, he is very sweet and he doesn't have any wives or concubines but because he has a pretty low presence anyways then ML doesn't take any action against him. You can say he's barely considered a love interest but I still think his feelings for MC is very sweet and innocent.
• Euonymus (Wei Mao) - the son of the chief of a very strong tribe. MC buys him as a s*ave and learns he has the potential to become a king so she treats him as an investment. He is smitten by MC due to not only her beauty but the fact that she treated his injuries and gave him the confidence to go back and seek revenge. His father was killed by the high priest and he was framed for it. The tribe tried to kill him and leave him for dead but he eventually ended up sold to human traffickers before being saved by MC. He only appears in the beginning of the novel and MC especially like this green eyes and how obedient he was in listening to her. Later, he left and eventually manages to take back his rightful place but did it pretty cruelly. This makes MC realize that he's not as sweet and innocent as he is in front of her but also has the potential to become the second evil demon after ML. There's only a few scenes of him and MC at the end. During this time, she was used by ML and already broke up with him but she still rejects Wei Mao's marriage offer. She also realizes that she only had a year left to live so she might as well spend it with the person she loved (ML) instead of staying mad and will eventually get back at him by not telling him of her death. When MC dies, she's told that by saving Wei Mao and making him promise not to create war on her country then she actually ended up saving 100, 000 people which is way more than she thought she did. Honestly, this male character mainly just serves as a tool to bring ML and MC back together after their breakup and then to confirm that she did save the correct amount of people. After Wei Mao heard about MC and ML getting married then he became very sad but due to ML's scheming, he's offered several beautiful beauties and eventually accepts them.
• Bai Pingzi/Lin Pingzi - a servant of MC who redeemed himself but continues to serve her family willingly. He's super handsome and very vain but also very caring towards MC. He has the ability to read faces so he accidentally found out that MC will die young pretty early on. Although he thinks maybe he read her face wrong during this time. He eventually changed his last name from Bai to Lin in order to become MC's cousin and inherit MC's grandfather's duke title. He interactions with MC are pretty lighthearted and fun. You can tell he has feelings for her but it never got to the point of him actually taking it seriously. MC just sees him as a close friend and later a relative. At the end, ML doesn't take much action against him stating that Lin Pingzi was a "natural playboy" anyways so MC would never turn to him and make him feel threaten.