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Lin Wei Xi found out after she died that she was just a cannon fodder in a novel, used as contrast to the gentle and considerate and virtuous female lead.

The male lead was her ex-husband, the dignified heir of Yan Wang, his family were superior and brilliant, but the female lead was not her.

The female lead was her concubine-born younger sister, and her husband’s white moonlight, his cinnabar mole, no wonder! After Lin Wei Xi died, her husband finally married her sister as he wished.

She watched coldly at the two like honey in the oil, in love and harmonious, everyone using the success of her younger sister to contrast the impropriety of the original wife.

Lin Wei Xi sneered, okay, since your love moves the world, then this sister will come back and be your stepmother!

So she married her ex-husband’s father, the father-in-law she never met in the previous life, the country’s God of war, who has not remarried after losing his wife, the one that hold military power, the brilliant Yan Wang.

Later Yan Wang, who was in his prime years and used to act decisively, looked at his small, delicate, much younger wife, and had a headache.

No matter, she is still young, he have to spoil her, indulge her, teach her.

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chrissy987
chrissy987 rated it
October 22, 2021
Status: c1 part1
I liked it a lot the first time I read it but reading it for the second time, I love it even more since the ML likes her for her style of scolding which is said to be eloquent, refreshing and cute "when it's not directed at oneself" hahhaaha love it!
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Pomelo
Pomelo rated it
September 23, 2021
Status: c102 part2
This is a brilliantly written story, because even if it looks like just romance on the surface, it actually works on several layers. I've read the main story to the end, just haven't gotten through the side-stories, so I'm confident enough that I can write a complete review. The story addresses different issues on its different layers.

If you want an easy-to-read fluffy story, though, this isn't it. The romance is there, but it moves at a slow and steady pace, partly due to ancient sensibilities. Not to mention that it... more>> has enough realism that conflicts doesn't come and go that quickly. It's not drawn out (not to me), but simply takes the time required for the investigation, talks with related people, people to clarify things, etc.

So, yeah, if you're really tired and a nice fluffy read is what you're looking for, a Quick Transmigration story would serve you better than this one.

Genre and Themes: On the surface, it's a historical romance. A young woman who was frozen out by her husband for her shu sister died and unexpectedly woke up the next day as another young woman who was the daughter of a loyal subordinate of her ex-husband's father, a famous general of the dynasty. Gao Xi ended up marrying him and that's where we get the romance from. Yet to say it's just a romance is to damn it with faint praise.

Reincarnator vs. Transmigrator: The deeper conflict of this novel isn't just between a di daughter and a shu (concubine-born) daughter, but also between a reincarnator and a transmigrator. Gao Xi is reborn in another young woman's body, yet Gao Ran remembered her memories of living in the modern world before being reborn in the ancient world in Duke Yingguo's Mansion. Gao Ran was certain that with her modern knowledge and older age, she'd be able to gain the spotlight over Gao Xi easily. Yet it is under these certainties of hers that this novel gains another layer.

Transmigrator Deconstruction: The story deconstructs the transmigrator's assurance that just because they have more knowledge from the modern world, that they'd be able to find success in an ancient world. Gao Ran is petty and childish, even as Gao Xi became Lin Wei Xi, she was still certain that she can suppress her... up until the point that Lin Wei Xi went and married the general, thus becoming her mother-in-law. As the story goes and other issues and troubles crop up, it became clearer that her smallmindedness and persistence in clinging to a more modern outlook was limiting her from opening her mind and actually learning and absorbing the values of her current milieu. She didn't understand how important and normal adopting an heir is, for one, or concerns on how to maintain the family title by finding a strong enough heir to support it.

I find it entertaining to watch her slow-motion trainwreck, because there's a poetic justice in it. Many of the troubles and tribulations she encountered were rooted in her smaller movements and manipulations earlier. She just failed to see the thread connecting them. Gao Xi didn't even care that much about her once she'd been reborn as Lin Wei Xi. It might not be as immediately satisfying as a quick face-slapping novel, but there's a subtler schadenfreude in seeing her own incompetence sabotaging her life.

Romance Deconstruction: This one is something that we can see on the side of Gao Xi/Lin Wei Xi's ex-husband, Gu Cheng Yao. His mother had been a young woman with her head stuck in the clouds, practically delusional in how she thinks there's a great romance between her and her husband. Never mind that he staunchly avoided going home and kept throwing himself into one battlefield or another. He didn't realise it at the beginning, but growing up listening to such things meant that he was indoctrinated with her ideas of Romantic Tropes like Lifesaving Grace leading to an inevitable, Heart-wrenching Romance.

This was what estranged him from Gao Xi initially, because he thought his wife had pretended to be the woman who saved him and... warmed him with her body, who was actually Gao Ran. It was only much, much later, when Lin Wei Xi had married his father (Gu Hui Yan), and Gao Ran's façade as a delicate and innocent young lady was starting to be revealed that he wondered why did he really need to insist that one lifesaving grace being the root of a grand/endless romance?

Some people might be sad that he'd started thinking of Gao Xi favorably when she's already dead, and when he's starting to get disillusioned from Gao Ran. I just think he's a pathetic and pitiful man, too easily muddled by beautiful women and his own ideas of 'romance' to actually sit and think over issues and problems through.

On the contrast between Gu Cheng Yao and Gu Hui Yan: (A.k.a, the ex-husband and his dad/her current husband) I have no pity for Gu Cheng Yao's regrets about Gao Xi, his musings on what-ifs and the like if he hadn't been deceived by Gao Ran's innocent façade—he's an adult man, he was the one who was too ignorant of the world and made his own mistakes, he should own up to it. His father, Gu Hui Yan, is a much better man than he is. He certainly regretted marrying Gu Cheng Yao's mother, but he never voiced that or whined to other people and simply resolved to do better next time (or never marrying again at all). Now that is a man that realises that the buck and responsibility in his life lies in his own hands.

TL;DR: Young di daughter Gao Xi dies on her death bed, not long after, her widower marries her shu sister. She wakes up as another young woman, Lin Wei Xi, who ended up marrying her ex-husband's father. She doesn't have time for those two old annoyances from her previous life, and mostly minds her own business and cultivates a good relationship with her current husband which she admires a lot more than her old one. (Gu Hui Yan is definitely a clearsighted, perceptive man compared to the muddleheaded idiot that is her ex-husband).

Her shu sister digs her own grave with her pettiness and scheming as she keeps failing to understand how the ancient world works. Her ex-husband has regrets and keeps remembering his first (and dead) wife.

The writer deconstructs the transmigrator-uber-competence trope using the shu sister who fails at understanding ancient people's values. The writer also deconstructs romantic tropes using the ex-husband's perspective. <<less
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lavendidi
lavendidi rated it
August 19, 2021
Status: Completed
The only thing I can say is... I love the story, the characters (except for some bijs), the plot, the twists, the translation, THE ROMANCE, AND THE FRIGGIN ML OH MY LORD. I LOVE IT
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Uninspiredfae
Uninspiredfae rated it
July 29, 2021
Status: Completed
This was such a gem and I'm glad I picked it up. I enjoyed the descriptive style of writing that doesn't detract too much from the main point since it adds to world building. MC is confident, mature, but also knows how to act spoiled to get what she wants. ML is a true worldly man, who is fierce and powerful but incredibly doting towards his lady. It was just too short and I wish that the MC had more chances to display the skills she worked so hard to... more>> achieved in her first life... otherwise and satisfying and cute read. <<less
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Daphne2820
Daphne2820 rated it
July 3, 2021
Status: Completed
Amazing story, really ligth and heart warming and A good translation (≧▽≦) /

I felt a little baffle and unsure to read this story, people were rating Pretty bad to Ml, but after I read the story I completely understand why ML did that. And it's unrealistic to accept things so easy, he need to do that and wasn't the best time I know, but he didn't want to miss things tho.
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ObnoxiousLizard
ObnoxiousLizard rated it
May 9, 2021
Status: c105 part2
Another take on the "villainess" trope and a well done one at that. Unlike many Chinese online novels, there is no nonsense plotlines or over-powered main characters, the story is easy to follow, and the characters are well fleshed out for a 102-chapter story. The relationship between a younger, but well-brought-up girl and a more mature, world-wise man was portrayed here realistically (for the period setting) without coming close to the disgusting/creepy-zone. On the side of translation quality, while not the best, it is very decent. While it does need... more>> perhaps one (more?) round of editing, the translation work was very commendable and did not make reading difficult or the story hard to follow. The translator also included footnotes to help explain certain idioms and honorifics which did help with understanding parts of the story. <<less
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Pandablackeyes
Pandablackeyes rated it
May 1, 2021
Status: Completed
It's a beautiful story of having a second chance in life...

MC is strong and witty, a cold and indifferent woman to others yet childish and playfull in front of ML.

Whereas, ML is supper caring and understanding... He doted MC from the beginning to the end... He's not also someone who will trample others in order to clarify his self.

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(related to his dead-wife) He also didn't shattered his son's perception towards his mother where the "son" thought ML and his mother have a fairy tale like love story. Although it create a misunderstanding but I think as a father he did a really good job..

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Highly recommended!😊 <<less
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Afm
Afm rated it
April 28, 2021
Status: Completed
Awesome & beautifully translated.

a story of Reincarnation of FL, the 'cannon fonder from her previous life VS her sister, the 'modern soul transmigrator' are quite refreshing here.

Most transmigration story i've read, the 'modern soul transmigrator' TYPICALLY written as an Over-Bearing character without flaw.

But here are different.

And the ML... if we didn't read toward the extra... From his (an ancient man) perspective, he's actually felt guilty for marrying his daughter-in-law's "soul"...

but im glad they both (FL & ML) manage to talk out & clearing everything andbe happy towards the end.
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twobada
twobada rated it
April 21, 2021
Status: --
A heartwarming, healing story told from the point of view a "cannon fodder" type of character who usually suffers to hold up the transmigrator protagonist's halo.

I love how it didn't try to be complicated with palace intrigues or inner courtyard fights. It focused on the developing love story between FL and ML. And also getting justice for FL's past life.

It was painful reading through what FL went through and it was satisfying to see all the knots from her past get detangled and smoothened out as she gets the love... more>> and happiness she deserves. <<less
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Jolyphus
Jolyphus
April 18, 2021
Status: Completed
What not to do as a transmigrator: the story.

It's a fun, sad read, and the length is just right for reading. Deserves the 4.5 rating, this novel is just one level away from malicious empress (who isn't malicious, this based title is from the view of her enemies lol).

Very tame read, nothing mature happens, no winks

Translation is good but rough, big plus is you can binge it right now!!
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Saphie
Saphie rated it
April 12, 2021
Status: Completed
I really really love it. It's been a good while since I've last read a good ancient bg. It made my heart flutter, just the right amount of angst, fluff and schemes.

MC is coquettish but headstrong. I love how the writing made me not mind that he married his previous father-in-law. She's very smart and I love how she maneuvers her way around the mansion. ML is mature, he's very caring, very doting very indulgent. He's not tsundere, not overbearing but very indulgent. I really love this kind of... more>> trope, I'm tired of seeing overbearing MLs.

This is v domestic, the secrets were found out by the end but not explicitly stated. Those who should suffer, suffered, those who deserve a good life, lived a good life. The secrets were out even regarding the previous wang fei.

I love it so much. 5/5 <<less
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Amsir
Amsir rated it
April 7, 2021
Status: Completed
I was a bit hesitant to read it but after going through the reviews I read it. It was unexpectedly interesting to read. The ML is one of its kind as in whatever story that I have read there is none like his character so far. FL is also one interesting character.

It became one of my favourite.
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Drenlith
Drenlith rated it
April 6, 2021
Status: Completed
Enjoyable read, nice pacing for 105chapters (minus 3 bonus ones).

Complex and well written characters in a rather easy/beginner stage world sort of imbalances the overall story though.

Everybody (at least with decent amount of screen time) have their good sides and bad ones.

The MC is a teenager, so under the impulsiveness and explosiveness and headstrong willfulness, she has a very charitable, just and thoughtful side to her. That seems to pair well with the apathetic, indifferent yet overly selfless and gentlemanly ML. (Everybody should cut her some slack for a 17... more>> yr old teenager, come on)

Bu the drama are your typical telenovela dramas and the antagonist can hardly be called smart, same for the original male lead that seems to be only functioning on his last single brain cell who loves blaming all his problems on others while sticking his head in the sand refusing to face the reality before him.

Reborn with a devastating visage, MC might as well as bring down a country or two; she sets off well with the trained skill set of a noble lady and returns to the stage, yet quite unwillingly, face slapping her way through to happiness with ease. The lookism is quite strong with this one and might rub one or two people off.

She did NOT want to go back neither did she want to have ANYTHING to do with her former life or the people from her former life, let me be clear. She didn't throw herself onto the father in law in a form of disguise of revenge.

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Author seem to have forgotten her own early storyline of the main leads and how insistent the ML was in bringing MC back with him instead of settling her somewhere, which she had hoped for. Later on, ML was even conflicted to why she came with him... Hey bro, you made her remember? She thought up all kinds of excuses but he beat every single one down. The last bit of confusion and reluctance towards MC that he had was incredibly unnecessary to the story.

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To be honest, everybody had a hand in this long lasting misery. The ML is rather too laissez-faire as a parent and OG ML was raised too indulgently in the presence of people who either schemed for their own merits or those who are not quite right in the head.

The transmigrator's life views were also already set in stone, she obsessively wants and easy life and marry rich. She had a strong shadow of her past and little self worth that transformed itself in her second life into paramount arrogance and protagonist complex because she could utilize the 26 year long accumulated life experience to outsmart toddlers... It's really pathetic when you read it, and how incredibly proud she was in beating children...

But because she treats everybody like inferior life forms and with insincerity, everything was bound to go wrong.

For the MC it was quite a smooth road to success. Transmigrator had become so arrogant, she was lax in learning and polishing herself so she fell behind everything she wanted to compete with.

It took a while to be able to differentiate between the pure favour of a beauty and actual love that ML had for her, but after that, their intimacy (not sexual) and bickering fights become more and more sweet and sugary. I don't care how often they smash unless you give me details and thank God the story didn't go like every once every dozen paragraph about how exhausted she was the next day. (*cough* unless it's smut) <<less
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Tams
Tams rated it
March 30, 2021
Status: Completed
Wow.....I love the fact that I finished reading this. I actually meant not to read this because a friend of mine said it was so bad cause she find the son so ridiculous since he's like this and this and that! That's when I decided not to read it but there's like someone saying to me "No! Don't listen to her! Go and read it. I promise it's good as hell!"

I gave it a chance and dang boi!
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SheRead
SheRead rated it
March 21, 2021
Status: Completed
The MC had a pretty bad history of love. Common problems in ancient stories where me have 3 wives and 4 concubines. How can they expect a child to grow up well in this environment. Really tho.

With the MCs thought upon rebirth were relatable, it was during the taunts of the sister that she deviated to a peacefull life she planned to have.

The ML, GHY, was simply an endearing, patient and wise man. Meeting the MC was fate, they compliment and made each other whole.

I wanna find myself a Yan... more>> Wang. <<less
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Kaylee
Kaylee rated it
February 26, 2021
Status: Completed
MC character before she rebirthed: prideful di daughter, self centered, smart, aloof as a di daughter, hard worker, willful, spoiled, all her effort was done because she doesnt want to lose to her shu sister.

MC character after she rebirthed and achieve more higher power : prideful first wife, self centered, hard worker, aloof and can act cute toward her golden thigh, willful, spoiled, not doing any struggle coz she was now in better position than her shu sister.

No wonder she died back then, it was her own fault. She didnt... more>> try to ask for explanation, for whatever reason as a prideful and self centered person, didnt try to think the other way.

And now after she married into the family, she turned into a more self centered spoiled version of her past self.

MC and her shu sister (the protagonist of the novel) were truly peas in a pod. It was just we're reading from MC's justifying pov.

This story is truly forgettable. I finished reading in Feb 26, now March 10 I alr dont remember anything abt this book. The MC is just that... selfish but written in a sloppy not smart way that made me felt bored and negative of her own justification. <<less
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narixems
narixems rated it
January 19, 2021
Status: --
damn, I never thought I'd fall in love with this book. the main conflict is just FILLED with misunderstandings ugh. Though I wonder, who should I blame for Gao Xi's misfortune? spoilers ahead-

Gao Ran

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Spoiler

Gao Ran is a transmigrator and the original heroine of the novel. honestly it surprised me a bit how she was similar to the MCs from rebirth/transmigration manhuas with all the "i'll remember this and return it tenfold!" attitude. She transmigrated into a 6 year old useless concubine daughter and always hated the legitimate daughter, Gao Xi. (because everyone looked down on concubine children during those days, , rlly cant blame gao xi lmao) she vowed to steal everthing from Gao Xi. Although I don't know why she feels accomplished for being better than a six year old when you're mentally 30.

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Gao Xi

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She grew up without a mother, and without a father's love. After her younger concubine sister fell down into a pond, her achievements kept growing more and more. Gao Xi felt insecure and while the other kids would play outside with each other, she would stay in day and night pushing herself to be better than Gao Ran. One day she got a pair of Jade Pendants that she really liked, and casually gave the other half to Gao Ran. That's where the misunderstandings start out.

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why GCY thought GX saved him:

Spoiler

the person who saved him left half of a jade pendant. He took it and asked his father to search for the "owner" of the other half, which was Gao Xi. He never even mentioned the jade pendant incident and proposed to her, her family accepted. Only after he found out that it was Gao Ran's pendant, he felt lied to and thought Gao Xi was vicious asf to steal her younger's sister spot... bruh.

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Radishhh
Radishhh rated it
January 1, 2021
Status: --
I was currently on chapter 9, but this novel is so good that I have to make a review about this. This novel is quite similar to married to the male leads father but I like this novel better. I love that the MC is trying to live a simple life when she was reborn. I could totally relate with it. Instead of trying to revenge, she wanted to run away from all of that stuff. I mean, isn't it similar to all of us. I would run away to... more>> if I found out I was in a novel and my life will not go smoothly.

Currently on c64, I went to mtl, but my capabilities of reading was limited since it was historical. And I wanted to fully understand the novel so I'm just gonna wait for the translation. I also want to clarify, I do not pity the son at all. He should take full responsibility and he sure does is guilty for causing the death of his first wife regardless of his mistakes or whatnot. And now he wanted to regret it and suddenly he fell in love with the current mc? A s*umbag for sure. U're trying to gain sympathy by projecting urself as innocent. Idk for now tho, I haven't seen his action that shows he truly regrets his mistakes. And even if he feels guilty, he shouldn't be excused just because of that. Every crime is still a crime. His negligence cause the death. There're so many novel that mostly justified their ML actions and wrongdoings and it just sadden me. Who am I to lie when I said I'm not going to mtl it. Currently on c90. The mtl is easy tho despite it being historical. Thank god I find the right website since the mtl ones haven't fix their repeated chapter yet. Will continue after I finished reading.

I completed it. Just two words. Painfully beautiful. I feel sad but at the same time happy? Idk tho. Just feel something stabbing in my heart. Gonna reread second marriage to a wealthy man after this. This bl is my comfort novel and its relatively similar but more light hearted. <<less
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Renaechan
Renaechan
February 5, 2025
Status: Completed
Great novel. I liked that instead of starting over from the beginning by turning back time, it goes forward by changing what may happen if things continue on that course. Through her efforts she did get revenge, but more importantly, she moved on and overcame her past and became happy.
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Vp4444
Vp4444 rated it
February 2, 2025
Status: Completed
First I want to say that the translator did a pretty good job considering they first worked with the MTL version then made revisions. It makes me wonder why the other translator who only use MTL don't do the same. Great job and thanks for taking those 7 months to get this done for us. :) The story itself is pretty interesting. It's the story about the FL's first marriage that ends with her and her husband at oods and then her dying of stress and neglect. Then getting a do-over.

She gets a do over in another girls body but don't fret the girl willingly gives up her body to the FL. The FL helped her and her father when she was really sick so when her father dies and she does some months later she lets the FL have her body as repayment for saving her life. This is when the story really starts, the FL has a new sucky family and is saved by the ML who later takes her in because her father died saving his life.

This is where the story deferrers from stories with the similar theme of the main character reliving her life after her husband and family disappoint her so as revenge she starts dating the guys father. Our FL is nothing like that. After she gets a do over she says f*** men and f*** getting married. We later find out why and it was honestly written so well I felt so bad for her.

Spoiler

We learn that her married life after the first month really s**ked. Her half sister lied/framed her by saying her stole her marriage and made everyone think that she wasn't a good person. She died with no one but her servants by her side and her paternal family turned their backs on her as soon as possible.

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Overall the writing was nicely done a quick little read to pass the time.
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