The MC is too dependent on the mystic stone. If this cheat is taken out of the equation then she might only have half of the achievement she has now. Hopefully in the future she gets to show more of her own abilities.

He would be sent to violent crazy carpenter and forced to work there. SHE KNOWS AND CAN SEE THAT HE IS BEING SEVERELY ab*seD THERE. But she only FEELS BAD and does nothing other than going and giving some food and money and ONLY when she goes to town on some other business, NOT specifically to visit him. Even when she makes money she doesn't even think about getting him back even when she knows he is getting ab*sed there. She even sends her other brother to school and spends money on a lot of other stuff which could have been totally saved and brought back her brother. BUT SHE DOESN'T. He is only brought back when he is beaten half to death and is about to die. He was only able to stay alive because of her spiritual water. If not, HE would have died.

She also speaks rudely to her spiritual stone which has helped her SOOO many times and saved the life of her father, mother and also herself.

The third master Zhou also tries to help when she is having an argument with that abusive carpenter and tells everyone that she is like his sister and nobody can bully her. She rolls her eyes and thinks who does he think he is to take her as his sister. WTF he is helping her and she doesn't even feel thankful and acts all high and mighty.

Her background is shown as she has made great sacrifices and took care of her sister and brother after her parents died. Her character DOESNT match in way as she behaves extremely selfish sometimes. She doesnt understand THAT the era is different and people and are different. She just tries to apply her modern day mentality and judges everyone based on that. Her father, mother, sister and her whole family takes care of her so much because of her sickly body and sacrifice a lot for her. But I saw in a comment above that she totally forgets about them when she goes to the capital and remembers only when its new year.

1. Madame Zhang (FLs step-grandma) who's a stingy mu*deress and the rest of the families "filialness" to her.

2. The mystic water is too overpowered and there are some minor plot holes having to do with it.

3. ML is starting to look like one of those typical jealous psychos that is only good to the FL (In his past he used to have moments where his craziness would flare up and he tries to kill everyone but of course he changes because of the FL). He uses his power to take advantage of FL (Not excessively) and FL just lets him obliviously. Just wish the real ML was one of the 10 other love interests who are decent humans and more age appropriate (age gaps are fine if both parties are adults but ML is a grown man and FL is still a kid while they haven't really done anything yet the s*xual tension creeps me out). Although, in MLs defense his qualities are probably not outside the norms of his time.

1. The part when they were already living quite well and yet, they seemed to have completely forgotten about the brother??? I mean its one thing if they were still struggling but when they were eating well and making huge profits, the brother was slowly being beaten to death at the carpentry shop.

2. They seemed to be doing nothing much with the money. They were easily the richest people in the village and had literal connections to royalty but they were still running a one copper business?? This leads me to my next point

3. For someone who already had such a gold finger, I didn't think it was necessary to get so much "outside" help. I prefer books where the MC gets to where she is on her own skills and effort.

After deciding to stop reading, I went to read the other spoilers/ reviews, I'm glad I stopped. The grandmother's death being brushed under the mat would have pissed me off so much.

The incident is Lady Fang's niece trying to mu*der the FL.

That girl is a 13 year old child! All she knows is taking advantage of and being taken advantage of, if someone wants to improve their life

She has a 'concubine born' status, no birth mother to protect her and a father who regards his daughters as tools used to form connections and improve his status.

When she was sent to Lady Fang she was about 7-8 y.o. Her parents told her that if she wants to live a better life she has to get Lady Fang to adopt her.

I'm pretty sure she's also taught how to act in front of her aunt, because how else would a 7-8 y.o. Little girl know the preferences of her aunt?

She was accepted to accompany her aunt because she acted like a person her aunt likes. She was never herself in front of her.

She's never felt or experienced familial love, only how to get the best benefits for herself. In this situation, her aunt, who she depends on, suddenly announced that they adopted a daughter. The adults never tried to explain their decision or why she was not chosen for adoption.

When she was rude to the FL, the adults never tried to teach her where she went wrong. They only ignored her and shouted at her. This is classic child ab*se.

This neglect led to her having malicious intentions and taking malicious actions. This negligence and complacency of the adults led to the niece being sold to an older man, thus, leading to her early death.

The FL was right in everything she does, even when she provoked a child over 15 years her junior. The FL is only 'cute, adorable, clear-eyed'.

Second, I hate the people around him. His mother got angry at MC and her family for ‘putting’ ML in danger when it was ML who forcefully wanted to go hunting, and then shamelessly forces MC to be his temporary maidservant to help him recover. Like, wtf? Then his steward. He cared more about ML’s injured arms than MC’s dad losing his life. I get he’s a royal, but Jesus, author really wanted us to hate ML and everyone around him. So many times throughout that chapter, I just wish her dad got hurt and MC resented him. The painfully forced romance really tested my patience.