Jiang Girl has already lived two lifetimes but still s*upid. You couldn't feel any threat from the villains. Everyone also fears the ML and no one comes to bother him, so everything was at most predictable to me. The physician said that ML would die after the new year so emperor was like "its not a bother to wait for more since i've already waited 2 years" then after that, ML was still alive and healthy but the emperor didn't bother making a move until like 5 months later bruh. Author rarely switches perspective and is always focused on the leads, so you wouldn't feel that the villains are plotting something new.

Well nothing new, ML won the war because his opponent underestimated him even when knowing he's the god of war and many beirong people suffered under him just a few years ago. I mean dude, who tf acts arrogantly so like this as a commander?

Also, the emperor who seemed to care so much about his reputation sent off ML with 3k troops against a hundred thousand. Idk why the author likes to put almost everything in the pov of FL also. It's just so boring since all she does is worry. It would be better to put the story in pov of ML or the emperor for a while for a change, why does it always have to be in the pov of FL who does nothing ??

For example, someone pointed out that Jiang Mingwei despite being reincarnated, hasn't done much but I think that's because people forget that her experiences and knowledge of the original timeline are hazy at best given that she spent years away in Beirong. Unlike other transmigration stories, she is working with essentially no information besides bits of clues she overheard. All she knows is Xie Xuanji becomes the emperor and that Xie Xuanchen passes sometime before the war. As a foreign concubine, she would have little experience being the wife and how to manage the household, especially since she was pampered by her family prior. On top of all of that, she was remarked by her own mother to not be very sensible outright, and we can infer that she is pretty brainless with how she routinely needed to be coaxed by her own parents. I think, actually, the biggest clue of how s*upid she is was that she even eloped to begin with in the original timeline, as if she is unaware of how foreigners, or concubines are treated. I don't know why people feel dissatisfied with her character as if she failed her potential when she was explicitly written to be someone that shallow and insipid.

And that is okay, because in real life, people can be that s*upid. Not everyone is a complex, conniving human being. If anything, I enjoyed her being so useless because it plays with the transmigrator trope where one typically essentially manipulates everyone else for their own agenda.

The part I don't like is, there this one time the ML was drunk, and he doesn't recognise the MC and they had s*x. I don't like they had s*x that way, someday random girl can make ML drunk and slept with him idk. Or is it I read / translated wrong?

ML is supposed to be a mental patient. When the FL unlocked him, ML injured (but for sure I read killed) the soldiers guarding him. I felt disappointed that the FL didn't feel remorse or didn't think through her actions (that a lot of people got hurt). Yes, it's bad he's chained (current emperor chaining him for nefarious reasons) but as a mental patient that goes berserk it should have been a precaution. I hoped that the author could've somehow added a physician character to advise them when it's okay to unchain him. And not the FL feeling "oh poor you, let's unchain you and AFTER you injure everyone I'll be the one to stop you" Pssh!

Like how the Emperor just sits around doing nothing to our ML after the New Year Banquet, maybe this can be explained by the fact that they found 'assassins' previously and there were some border tensions, coupled with the fact that ML was much better than before and the Emperor couldn't really focus on him much. My only doubt was how ML proceeds to out and socialize with others and people don't bat an eye like dude was indeed famous for his 'crazy' episodes of killing and people would p*ss themselves if he was anywhere near them and then suddenly they all forget about his previous actions as of it was all a hoax

It's the troupe of ML saves young girl who is the FL and later on she decides to repay him with herself. Bleh. Don't be mistaken, the story gives a nice and cute charm to this overused plot and it's so adorable that it made my cheeks hurt from ginning. ML previously saved the FL when her hometown was attacked and she had always admired him so when she finds out that the infamous crazy guy she married was actually her saviour, she decides to wholeheartedly try to save him. ML saved her when she was at her lowest point and FL in turned dragged him away from the clutches of death and despair that he had subjected himself to. I love how the ML having fallen from his peak suffers from despair but slowly regains hope to live. The leads both support each other, trust each other and rely on each other and if that isn't the definition of wholesome then idk what is. It's very much understandable how and why the ML's obsession (in a really healthy way) for the FL began.

ML and FL also end up having a really cute son!

ML, Xie Xuanchen, Prince Qiyang later Prince An a. Ka. The War God, was the rightful heir to the throne. However, because of a recurring manic attack, his father, the late Emperor, left the throne to his uncle. He was predicted to only last for a couple of years. He was awarded a wife by his cousin.

MC, Mu Mingtang, lost her family and was adopted by the Jiang family. She was to replace the real Miss Jiang and when I said replace, she was to imitate everything about Miss Jiang. She was engaged to Xie Xuanji. She was then awarded to Xie Xuanchen upon the return of the real Miss Jiang.

Xie Xuanjie, Prince Jin son of the current Emperor and Xie Xuanchen's cousin. He was the protagonist in the previous life according to Miss Jiang.

Jiang Mingwei is the real miss of the Jiang family. She was also the childhood sweetheart of Xie Xuanjie. She ran away with a prince from a neighboring country. She was later reborn and decided to reclaim what she thought was hers from Mu Mingtang, her substitute.

One of the readers mentioned that the true protagonist was Mu Mintang. In Jiang Mingwei's previous life, Xie Xuanjie was the Emperor and Mu Mintang was the Empress. Even though Xie Xuanjie had lots of consorts and concubines, Mu Mintang was still number one in his heart; the reason Jiang Mingwei proclaimed that Mu Mintang stole what should have been hers.

In this life, Mu Mintang was married to Xie Xuanchen and her life was much better because she did not have to share. Jiang Mingwei took the mantle as Xie Xuanjie's wife and yet her life was not as she envisioned it to be. She did not have the virtue or knowledge of Mu Mintang; a true meaning of flower vase.

Honestly, one of the main reasons I started this book is because of the 'handsome husband-mediocre wife' sub-theme. In almost every chapter, without fail, the writer will iterate the beauty of Xie Xuanchen. Lol.

MC, Prince Jin, and ML's father reborned together with the first life memory (2nd life was when Jiang Mingwei reborned). Unlike, in the 2nd life, ML in this life was still that smart, prideful, and arrogant young master who never had any seatback in his life. MC and ML started from being childhood sweetheart who loved bickering with each other then slowly fell in love. Meanwhile, Prince Jin tried to latch himself early to ML's father so he could gather power early but unfortunately, ML's father reborned and hindered his progress.

I love how the author didn't make ML remember his 1st life because it would be too painful for him. He still could be that carefree and prideful young master and in this life, it's time for his father to protect him.

I could understand why she yearned power because she was bullied as a concubine in her last life but I don't like how she blamed MC for her every misfortune.

In her first life, eloping with the foreign prince was her choice. Okay, you could say that she was naive back then but how about in the 2nd life? She was no longer naive and she still chose to be with Prince Jin despite knowing that he would have numerous concubines in the future. She didn't care though since she thought power could solve everything. However, reality slapped her hard. She finally knew that having power was nothing if you didn't even have a favor and if the man you married to was unrealible.

Well, I hope if she ever reborned again, she could finally think it through and didn't end up with that s*um men again.

miss jiang

It's clear she is a dropped character. Mean that her only purpose in the story is to build the story without her being able to be portrayed as a real characters. Her personality so far is too monotone. There is a bad human, but even bad human had their clear reason to act that way and sometimes they could not always bad, there is a time where they'll be sad, kind, weak, angry, and such. Emotion is a complex way and so far I couldn't sense this from her character.

MC

Idk how to feel about her, she has a good foundation and setting too but with how I see the whole novel at early chapter, I truly doubt the author will be able to bring out her character. I love the basic complicated emotion she had when she is in that Jiang family, how she had to suppress her real characters for the sake survive in there, but the whole writing really couldn't bring that feeling out. Instead of able to felt the conflict, the author just send her back to her original characters in a no time. This is where I felt sad on how the author didn't detailed some part of the story, but then write to much narrative on the thing isn't really important.