I feel bad for MC.

She tried her hardest to live her 2nd life honestly and drama-free, but still ended up being "schemed" against and became a concubine.... but I appreciate her ability to adapt and still put herself first. I absolutely love her confidence.

Was not expecting ML to be a reincarnator too, but his resolve and resoluteness to survive in his 2nd life was very refreshing.

She really just wants to live peacefully. Even when she knows the threat to herself because the Prince only favors her and nobody else, she is very careful bit never tried to hurt anybody and only counterattacked when others attacked her children. Even then, she was not cruel and did not kill the vicious and jealous women eventhough she tried to annoy so e of them to death.

THE LAST SIDE STORY THOUGH. My tears spilled out T_T

Also my first time reading "meal partner"! This side story is also very funny

the Xiao royal concubine. Perhaps she would grow old and die.

"To refuse, she definitely didn't dare refuse, and didn't dare think of the consequences of such a refusal. He was the master, and she was the servant. She was already scared of Eunuch Fu, let alone Eunuch Fu's master his highness the Jing Prince."

Also I'm sorry but I have to say this somewhere bc I keep screaming it occasionally in my room but: SHE IS 14. SHE IS FOURTEEEENNN OK ANCIENT CHINA GO OFF LOVE U U MAKE ME SO COMFORTABLE WITH pedifilia BECAUSE HE IS 25. Ok honestly it's fine, if you aren't expecting this from an ancient China novel you're just as dumb as me but I have modern soft sensibilities and it hurts me

basically it's r*pe but to be very very fair, what can you expect with an overly privileged handsome prince but to expect the whole world wants to f*ck u so therefore of course it's not r*pe in his mind... but god damn it's so sad how she was treated there. I'm really trying to be understanding bc I am not joking with how f*cking good this writing is

ok whatever we're not dumb of course we understand historical context on why it's written that she should be f*cked by a 25 yr old at 14 and expected to give birth in ancient China, but ARE WE GONNA DENY THE FACTS WE KNOW TODAY SCIENTIFICALLY AND THEREFORE HOW HEARTLESS THIS IS TO HER? Ultimately yes it's more realistic to do this to her. But f*ck it if I feel nothing but uncomfortability and low key disgust for how they treat her like a breeder and barely a human. Child pregnancy happen now. There is a documentary on this sh*t in Africa about 10-14 yr girls giving birth and then THEY CANNOT REGULATE THEIR PEE aka their pee cannot be held in because THEY ARE RIPPED UP. So I mean idk if she actually gets preggers at 14 I haven't gotten that far but ok yes if you want realism don't forget to write about the side affects. Shit. That's why it makes it so hard to read. If only this good writing didn't TEASE ME SO TO CONTINUE AHHH

Precisely at chapter 137, I went from 'quite fond' of the FL to 'I hate her, she's so annoying.'

That's a feat, I'm telling you. I could be really biased to MCs that I like. What makes me hate her?

She threatened the ML with the children. She threatened the ML that if he ever left her in a comfortable living place filled with maids and servants, she'll kill her children and then herself by drowning.

All because she was under the impression that the ML will leave her for his principal wife when the ML cannot divulge her the real reason he was about to leave her because he was going to be involved in the struggle of thrones and wanted to keep her safe.

Another commenter had said that she was a proper woman from that period and stuffs, hence, her action is 'logical' and not as forward as modern women. She's not.

She already went through a lifetime, yes. She's a frog at the bottom of the well, yes. But dang. She threatened him with the children. And she crossed my bottom-bottom line.

She threatened to kill her children along with her. She's no longer human in my eyes. Only an emotional monster filled with manipulation. In that moment, I see her previous life, a dirty and desperate pauper seducing her master and fighting with other harem women selfishly for attention. That past life she preached to herself that she'd never be again? She still do it. Disgusting. Her real dirty personality has yet to be shed off completely with mere one death.

She might not be a modern transmigrated woman and not as forward. BUT!

She's not a mere teenager madly in love, she's been in the harem before. She's been in the bussiness before. She had LIVED A LIFETIME. Despite her phobias and fear, she's still a freaking old woman at heart. HOW CAN SHE BE THIS CHILDISH?!

She's irrational and manipulative. The true victim of this is not only Jing Prince who was emotionally inadequate but also her young children who don't even know anything. She used them here. Whether it's intentional or not, she used them. Cruelly, in fact.

She manipulated them selfishly because of her abandonment issue and I despise her for that. I had grown quite fond of her ever since the earlier story and this one chapter destroyed that entirely. I don't get what the author's thinking. She had tried hard to make this story "believable" and I appreciated her for that. But what Xiao Hua doing in this is all but a plot convenience for whatever melodrama she's planning.

No self-respect women would ever threaten to kill her children just because her man wanted to leave her. Her abandonment issue made her a monster. I refuse to think she's a woman.

one of them was when ML didn't know how to pleasure woman in bed, but he slowly learning how to do foreplay lol

Dub con

and after s*x just leaving the FL high and dry as well as moving her to his harem as a concubine under a cruel main wife. (Yes he is married)

The main wife would be happy if the FL just dropped dead and the ML should know this but he throws the FL to the wolves anyway.