Beginning was okay. But rapidly derails.

The MC seems a bit of a saint/pushover and keeps helping shitty people (I mean to be fair she helps good people as well). At the beginning you can convince yourself that she's just bowing under pressure of people more powerful.

But I feel like at some point when the story gets to the point of

'this guy beats his wife' -> 'MC will help him and tell him that if he treats his wife better then he will get his property back' -> 'two days later,... more>> he's like haha my wife had my house deed thanks!'

It's a little bit like, what are you doing? Even if you want to play a saint and forgive people who have treated you poorly, there has to be some kind of limit right? Do you really think this kind of person will change? At no point should the wife be handing over this deed...

Same with the stories, in the beginning it's okay but later on it's seems like filler + drag along as many random side characters as possible.

The entire arc where she gets faked married to someone seems totally unnecessary. I mean like why? To help a senior brother find something? She didn't know what he was looking for, was explicitly told no help was necessary, and ended up.. not providing any help in the end anyway because he got it back by himself? It's like the author just went down some weird fever dream and came out with a useless 200 pages of junk. <<less

I MTL’d this novel, so keep that in mind while reading my review.

Overall, I’d rate this novel a 3.5/5. Enjoyability is definitely more like a 4/5, but the ending felt like a cop-out. Unfortunately, I’m pretty sure the site I used was missing the latter sections of several chapters, so I may have missed important information that makes the ending make sense, which is why I bumped up my official rating back to 4.0 instead.

Ignoring the ending, I actually liked how well the author tied everything together. Or, at the very least, resolved all the plot threads they opened up.

The characters all feel distinct from each other, though the large cast inevitably means that some characters fall to the wayside over time. They sometimes go missing for hundreds of chapters before popping up again, but the author tackles it pretty well. The characters themselves comment on it, and you don’t often get the sense that their lives paused because they were off-page.

The CP isn’t the only interesting couple in this story, either. I would actually argue that they’re the least interesting couple in the novel, lol. I appreciate the stability of their relationship once they do get together. The MC has good communication skills, thank god. And priorities. I dislike how she seems to value their relationship less because of those priorities—though it’s understandable because of the circumstances—but that could also be because the ending doesn’t really resolve it. At least as far as I’ve read. If there are any side stories, I haven’t read them.

That said, this is definitely more a cultivation novel than a romance novel. The romance features prominently in presence but not in plot focus. You won’t get chapters and chapters of the main CP being lovey-dovey with or pining for each other. You will get a lot of MC adopting kids, them all acting like a family, and ML flaunting it for all the world to see. But not in any way that overshadows the plot.