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Tang Shishi was the number one beauty in the court. She was arrogant, domineering and aggressive. She accidentally picked up a book and learned that she was just a vicious female second lead in a palace struggle. Later, she would fight for favor with the female lead, and eventually she was ruined and died miserably.

Now, they have just entered the fief of Jing Wang, and the first meeting of the male and female leads has not happened yet. There are two paths before Tang Shishi. The first is to hold the heroine’s thighs tightly and join the female lead camp early; the second is to please the male lead and steal the favor of the female lead.

Tang Shishi chooses the third way.

Tang Shishi knew that the male lead’s adoptive father Jing Wang seemed to be low profile, but in fact he was overly ambitious. In the near future, he will invade the capital and proclaim the emperor before the imperial court, but it is a pity that he passed away before passing the throne to the male lead.

This year, Jing Wang is twenty-four years old, still young, and has yet to marry a wife.
Anyway, she already in the Forbidden City. Instead of being the concubine of the male lead, it is better to be his adopted mother, the empress dowager in one step.

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Zhao Chengjun had no intention to get married, so he adopted his subordinate son as his heir. He thought he would be with his army in his whole life.

Later, the imperial family sent a team of beauties to Prince Jing, and the leader was named Tang Shishi.

His young, adopted son and his subordinates also persuaded: Your Highness, this is a beauty trap.
Jing Wang: I know.

The so-called beauty trap was merely a bait for those who wish.

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Married To The Male Lead’s Father (1)
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Yumeru
Yumeru rated it
March 7, 2025
Status: Completed
I Missclick!!!! 5 stars for meee!! Leaving a review~ MC is resourceful and just makes her ways to survive. And yeah back room intrigues. There's a twist of fate of MC and ML like woahhh didn't see that coming! MC and ml?? They complement each other and finally have their happy endings huhu. Read it! It's a quick one.

ML really owes MC a life hahahah anyways MC is funny and ML is doting only for his wife.
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spygen0707
spygen0707 rated it
April 25, 2024
Status: --
I initially wanted to give 5 but what ML did to FL disappointed me so, meh 💀💀💀

FL is dumb dumb, childish, you want to smack brains to her, but relatable (well I prefer peaceful and laid back life and not ambitious). She's weak in authority, but of course ML backed her.

I enjoyed the story though, such refreshing read after continuous OP, perfect, and morally right FLs (and OP and ultra perfect MLs) stories I read lately.

Oh it gets quite boring after 60++ chapters.
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silentkira
silentkira rated it
March 6, 2024
Status: Completed
Loved this book. Really enjoyed the characters especially the female lead, she's so cute and hilarious. The male lead is mature and very doting on her. They make a great couple. Loved the extra stories too. Would read again tbh.

8.9/10
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Loganlock
Loganlock rated it
March 4, 2024
Status: Completed
So good, so sweet n full of fluff! Love it so much!! Great characters development. Really love the story buildup especially with the extra stories. Perfect plot wise! Thanks to the author and kudos to the translator for choosing this book. Recommend:)
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Myaar
Myaar
December 9, 2023
Status: --
I understand how this novel could get frustrating really fast. I mostly didn't feel it because I had started reading this a while back (chapter 40) and continued recently. And I could only basically remember the general plot, despite this I still felt fraustated. I genuinely don't think I could read the first 60 chapters of this book at once. I do however think the author did a good job (not the best).

Despite the fls selfishness, I found her endearing. She is basically someone who fears the strong and bullies... more>> the weak. She also thinks she was smart but in actuality not very bright, she just had incredible dumb luck (not in a mary sue way though). But I understood her motivations and tbh it was too comical to be taken seriously. However, right to the last chapter I didn't really feel any character development from her. It also doesn't help that for the first 60 chapters she spends it chasing after the ogML despite knowing him to be scum. I also didn't like the lack of communication, when she does something wrong and the ML confronts her about it, you would think they would actually talk and clear misunderstandings but nooo, she always avoids responsibility and the ML just lets her be.

I actually loved the ml, he was really the only character who was self reflective in this novel. He actually pondered on the things he had done and how they affected other people. In terms of the fl, he was incredibly indulgent and had no bottom line but at the same time it was easy to understand why he fell in love with the fl.

Now on to the plot/side characters. This novel had a lot of contradictions, it seemed like some thing were just happening to move the plot along. I felt this especially in regards to the ogml, ogFL and ogml's legitimate wife. The legal wife basically notices early on that something was going on between the leads (mind you ML is her biggest backer) but instead ignores it and goes to curry favor with a completely unrelated woman who for some reason they all thought ML would marry. And I am like fine, but why couldn't she play a double agent? Instead she completely falls out with the FL for the sake of the other lady.

The ogFL is basically a villian who thinks she is righteous and that the whole world owes her something. She wasn't originally a villain and I get how she got there but it doesn't justify anything she ends up doing. Also don't understand how she was able to get away with everything she did even after being found out. This are crimes that would normally cost her life but somehow she doesn't even get grounded? Mind you the only person protecting her was the ogML who had zero power to even do anything. Add that to the fact that he doesn't love her enough to not have 9 more concubines and lust after his father's wife but he loves her enough to go against moral principles and his "father"?

The ogML was just an ungrateful pe*vert with no brains whatsoever. Everything was literally handed to him. It is important to note that his adoptive father (ml) is only 5 - 6 years older than him. He doesn't find it weird to call him father but finds it weird he has an infant brother and a young mother 🙄. This was one character I just couldn't get or understand and it didn't even make sense how he was able to become the emperor in the ogbook. With how much imperial families valued their bloodline I don't see how he was allowed to ascend, I am very sure there would be tens of people with better claim to the throne than him. Even the ML had to defend the throne when he ascended as a direct imperial bloodline so how was it that the ogML ascended with zero claim. Just didn't make logical sense. He was all in all just a terrible excuse of a human with no sense of gratitude.

As for the plot, with the things we learn in the novel as the basic/common etiquette in that era, it doesn't make sense how anything in the ogbook could have actually happened and the author doesn't even find an excuse for this. It was also annoying how all the characters (except ml) literally lived in their delusions when the truth was right in front of them.

These are all things that irked me but I am just making a molehill out of an anthill. It was actually a good book and I appluade the author for taking a generic plot and making it a standout/something special. <<less
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midori_13
midori_13 rated it
October 26, 2023
Status: Completed
I read various romantic Chinese Novels with villains main characters. But I think this is the first time I read a novel with such a lowly villainess main character that didn't even have such good reasons to become a villain. I think seeing by the bright side, the main character was really original for being such despicable and this was supposed to add a humorous tone to the novel?

But maybe it was a little funny in the beginning when reading about the female lead trying to be schemy but backfiring... more>> all the time, but soon started to become very annoying, especially because all villains main characters normally have a redemption arc, that make them repent, regret and change for better. But reading until the end, I felt that the female lead didn't repent at all or turned into a good person, on the contrary, she continued to behave very badly and annoyingly until the end.

Warning ⛔️ Spoilers! Sorry it's too long...

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Plot

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The plot is like in the description of the novel. The female lead, Tang Shishi, was one of the ten maids sent as a tribute from the Empress to the prince male lead Jing Wang.

During their journey to the Prince's fiefdom, female lead of the novel had a magical book given by her mother. During their trip, that magical book awakened and ended up showing the future and the unfolded situation that the female lead was in.

Through the book, female lead discovered that actually in that Ancient World, she was just a secondary character, a cannon fodder that would become a concubine of the male lead of the story and would ended up dying by his hands in the end.

The real female lead Zhou Shunhua was one of the girls that was traveling with the female lead Tang Shishi, while the real male lead was Zhao Zixun, the adopted son of the male lead, Prince Jing Wang.

That original male lead, Zhao Zixun, in the future would become the Emperor and the original female lead, Zhou Shunhua would become his Empress. So the female and villainess main character Tang Shishi with the help of the magic book, decided to trample on the original female lead, Zhou Shunhua and steal her position as Empress.

But female lead was so s*upid that all of her schemes backfired. I think that was supposed to be the comedy in the novel, but in reality was only annoying in my opinion.

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But the biggest problem for me was...

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... how the main character Tang Shishi was shallow, selfish, despicable and worst of all, really dumb.

Argh, it was so uncomfortable and embarrassing seeing her trying over and over to bootlick the original male lead while trying to trample on the original female lead, and creating such s*upid schemes and failing all the time.

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The female lead was such a horrible person that through the whole novel didn't improve at all 😅.

For example...

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As described in the novel, her life motto was: "Bully the weak and fear the strong, dislike the poor and love the rich."

"For Tang Shishi didn't matter if she was uncomfortable as long others were also uncomfortable then she considered herself had won."

"Tang Shishi knew what she wanted... She preferred gorgeous clothes and gourmet food, and an honorable husband and wife compared with deep affection and a happy family. Tang Shishi did not care whether she had true love or even filial piety children. She only needed to live a dignified luxurious life."

The worst of all is that she didn't even have such a big tragic past that could absolve her of the horrible personality.

She came from a merchant family that was super rich, but despite being the daughter of the main wife, she and her mother didn't have the favor of her father. Instead her father would dote on his concubine and that daughter of that concubine, so she always received the leftovers of that concubine's daughter, which was humiliating to her pride. But her mother always spoiled her, besides she never starved or suffered physical ab*ses, so how she could turned out to be such a disgusting person?

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Another example of her despicableness...

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... the female lead Tang Shishi, contrary to her plans of being together with the original male lead Zhao Zixun, ended up getting together with the male lead Jing Wang, the Prince and adoptive father of Zhao Zixun. Since the situation ended up like that, she thought that she should try to make the best of it. Through the book, she knew that the Prince and male lead Jing Wang would die after seizing the power and become Emperor. But at that time, it never crossed her mind to try to change the future death of Jing Wang (aka her husband), instead she kept calculating and was thinking how to keep curry favor with Zhao Zixun, since as an adoptive son of Jing Wang, he would become the next Emperor.

And Tang Shishi never revealed the magic book to Jing Wang or that he would die in the battlefield and it didn't see for me that she did everything in her power to prevent his death. In the end, it was the Prince Jing Wang that discovered about the magic book and his death. But he didn't blame Tang Shishi, instead he got worried about her future after he die.

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I think the male lead...

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... was the one that had the biggest transformation and redemption arc in the end. He was cold, ruthless and schemy to everyone even to female lead. Also, he always stated that he would never marry and that he hated children. But after he got together with female lead, he wanted to marry her and treated her super well, pampering and spoiling her. He also fell in love with the son he had together with female lead, changing his mind about hating children. For example, after he discovered that fetuses could move and kick their mother's tummy, he started constantly asking female lead if their unborn son moved, but female lead started getting irritated with him asking her all the time about that. In the end he started taking notes of all the movements of the unborn baby so he could predict the next time. That way he could visit her at the time the unborn baby would move. What women wouldn't love to see their partner so interested in their pregnancy? But instead of being grateful, female lead became irritated 😒.

Also, she was so petty that during her pregnancy she started to be unable to sleep well and would constantly move in the bed. Male lead had problems to sleep for a long time and would always wake up with the slightest movement or sound. Female lead even though: "I should tell him to sleep in another room so he can rest properly. But forget about it, if I'm not happy, no one else could be happy around her, so since she was pregnant and uncomfortable, he had to suffer together with her."

The only romantic part was when, male lead admitted that he truly love female lead despite knowing all her ugliness and selfishness. Argh, she didn't deserve the guy at all! 😠

But of course, nothing is perfect...

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... since the male lead kinda r*ped female lead in the first time they slept together (she was drugged with an aphrodisiac and was not in her right mind) 😑

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Agreta1
Agreta1 rated it
July 11, 2023
Status: Completed
If Malicious Empress of Military Lineage is a 6 this is a 4. It doesnt deserve a 3 as it s still better than many other historical chinese romance. It s very remisnicent of Greetings Ninth Uncle.

First part is quite good. Middle part you just want to slap the MFL for being too obnoxious. And the ending was a little too rushed. The side stories on past lifes are very good.
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sweet_nothing
sweet_nothing rated it
June 4, 2023
Status: c143
The summary is misleading, if the novel was actually like the summary then it would have been a lot more enjoyable. Instead we get an MC who is incredibly arrogant whilst being completely s*upid, she wilfully keeps on making decisions that don’t make sense and even with foreknowledge goes after the wrong man🤦‍♀️

ML saved some of the novel for me, his actions beyond one when he leaves without a note, actually make sense and he’s practical, fair and compassionate without losing focus on the end goal.

His adopted son was actually... more>> the absolute worst, extremely ungrateful and never acknowledged the privilege he had of being ML’s son and how he was raised by ML to be an emperor but instead this dude thinks with his 🍆 and inherent greed.

Absolutely loathe the eldest daughter of the lead couple, I don’t know why author chose to write a character that nasty, when that’s the kind we root against in her novels.

I liked the extra about their previous life, the books origin and how they are destined to be together after one mishap because ML will make it happen.

If you’re here for a FL like the one in Greetings, Ninth Uncle or I Became The Stepmother of My Ex-husband, then you’re out of luck. And if you thought the FL in I’ll Be the Male Lead’s Sister-in-Law, was unsatisfactory in comparison to the above two, then you will definitely not like the MC in this novel. <<less
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Staringatastar
Staringatastar rated it
May 27, 2023
Status: Completed
I love this author - coming from "greetings, ninth uncle", you can see some common threads. The bonds of adoption vs birth, smart and deep husband who falls mindlessly in love, imperial conniving, legitimate vs illegitimate child, reversing the story.

However, the female lead in this story is much dumber, which in some ways feels more realistic. Many times, people are treated unreasonably well just because they're prettier, not because they're really intelligent.

Perhaps it's because I just finished a great story by this same author, but the mindless FL who needs... more>> to be indulged in every way didn't bother me at much as it should have. Honestly, this would be the ideal story for one of those plot-fixing-transmigrators. Neither the MC nor the FL really deserve their happy ending. The FL only has her beauty, but immediately steps on everyone when she is favored. She needs someone to rescue her in every situation, and is the standard helpless female dependant on her lover. The MC has awful double standards and no empathy. He keeps reprimanding and being disappointed in his adopted son because he can't control who he loves, but at the same time, whole-heartedly self-indulges in a woman he knows is vain and greedy and petty. It's not even that he is in a more stable situation than his adopted son - he manages more and is working on a rebellion that could mean life or death for all his followers. They're honestly very unsympathetic people.

However, they are written quite well, and I found myself enjoying the story even if I didn't really like the protagonists. The plot was interesting and the pampering / face slapping was satisfying.

I liked the extras - I feel like it revised and fleshed out the original story for the FL. <<less
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733ash
733ash rated it
May 16, 2023
Status: c1
First hetero romance I have read. It is sort of like the antithesis to what is assumed is the typical archetype that is favored in harem/palace intrigue stories. The main character actively strives for favor. She's petty, gets jealous, covets power, and acts spoiled. She is interesting to read, I usually do not like a character like this. I read the "cute children" tag, and it was enjoyable. Meets the doting love interest tag.
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JaNiluv
JaNiluv rated it
March 24, 2023
Status: c16
Honestly, this is not a bad read so far. The plot has potential, the ML is interesting/likeable, the translations are also well done...

The reason why I dropped it is because of the FL. Tang Shishi is your average young miss from a wealthy family - raised well, smart, pretty, observant and always knows when and where to say the right thing. She has ambitions too so she doesn't settle for anything less, especially after finding out about her fate. That's completely fine and the fact she's not OP like other... more>> FLs tend to be, makes her even seem relatable. The problem with her is that sometimes her character isn't very consistent. Logically when you pick up a book that foretells your bad ending, you're supposed to tread carefully and plan your moves ahead but Shishi continues to be way too impulsive and quick to achieve success which still somehow ends up in her favor.

And that leads me to another issue with her. Since she just does what she wants without thinking it through and just hopes for the best, it just makes her seem so undeserving of her situation and the book she's acquired. Like I don't see any effort put into changing her fate, she just does whatever and by the protagonist's law she gets away with it and her (bad) choices always put her in an advantageous position. She might as well not need the book anymore. It's like she doesn't even know how to utilize this cheat which is so OOC of her since in the beginning she seemed like a very clever individual. The way she gets away with everything makes her resemble a Mary Sue so so much - does whatever but somehow still gets what she wants.

Well I'm not into these Mary Sue characters, I just hoped to find another strong independant female protagonist but I guess not in this novel. <<less
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Mytrumpet143
Mytrumpet143
February 2, 2023
Status: Completed
5/5 I really enjoyed this!

You know the stories where the MC used is originally a side character but when you read it you doubt cuz everything goes her way? Well not this! MC is a true side character. Her personality, her actions, her role, the plot. Brilliant!
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custodiom
custodiom rated it
February 2, 2023
Status: Completed
I've realized I'm quite over Harem and Palace-related novels at the moment after finishing this. I'm actually a little disappointed after finishing this, which is rare for me (I drop it if it really gets bad but push through if there are redeeming aspects of the story). The summary is indeed misleading and may have been better if it was like what the summary was.

This novel teeters between good and frustrating, the same goes for the characters. Tang Shishi (TS) has got to be one of the more passive-aggressive, mercurial,... more>> s*upid-but-lucky main characters I've encountered and finished reading so far. Other characters have overestimated her countless time in the novel. Jing Wang (JW) is relatively better, but their relationship has been such a weird, complicated one ever since they got entangled with each other. It's like one misunderstanding after another, with no proper communication, and a whole lot of bantering. It's a miracle they were able to pull through against all the odds.

The "book" is actually a weird plot twist, and made me realize that TS is indeed s*upid. Why would you base your actions and decisions on a book called
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Memoirs of Shunhua (another character), expecting you'll come out on top and not be a mere supporting character?

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. I'm almost thankful there's the ever-reliable JW to the rescue every time.

I don't know why there's such a lot of characters that I found annoying on this one, I don''t know if it's because of how they were written, or because of how they continued to persist despite committing such despicable acts. It challenges logic, and I am even frustrated at TS and JW for a fair amount of time.

Translation is understandable, but there are some parts that are harder to understand than others. The story starts quite slow, I know they're trying to set things up and do some world-building but the first 30 chapters felt quite boring to me. Eventually I skipped a few parts that I felt were just fillers and didn't add a whole lot to the plot.

This has very faint similarities to Jin Wang Dotes on his concubine IMO, but I preferred that one more. The are 2 diff stories on the extra chapters, which I surprisingly didn't enjoy very much. I like reading about the characters'
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children when they grow up, but maybe because I didn't like TS and JW as much, I also didn't like that extra story?

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And the 2nd story really confused me. I thought it was a backstory, but it seemed to be an alternate universe kind of story. <<less
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Pennsterr21
Pennsterr21 rated it
January 21, 2023
Status: c143
Usually don’t like historical novels but this is an unexpected gem. FL goes from being a selected maid in the place to becoming the empress. She is a little clueless but not mary-sue and is just trying to make the best of her situation with the things she knows. Really like the ML. He understands the real meaning of her unpredictable behavior and hidden words. Although she was supposed to be a spy for the empress dowager, when FL sees someone planning to harm the ML she reacts quickly to... more>> stop it even though she didn’t realize she liked the ML at the time. Give this novel a try it’s oddly funny and satisfying too. <<less
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Hahayaya
Hahayaya rated it
December 26, 2022
Status: Completed
I really wish they would change the summary because it's SUPER misleading and makes you think MC is making the wise decision of avoiding the plot. But nope, she acts like a dumbass and only manages to not be in the plot because of her dumbass decision based on her knowledge from the book she acquires. That being said I am really enjoying the story and yes, MC is selfish and dumb but she has her lovable qualities; for example, she's extremely hardworking for her goals and believes in taking... more>> her fate into her own hands rather than letting it control her. It's very admirable even if she sucks at it. I just wish the summary was different because it made me go into the story with the wrong mindset and it made MC's actions more frustrating and annoying at times. But kudos to the book for giving us an unlikeable heroine but still makes me root for her and find her endearing at times

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Finished and I still loved the story. Yes the MC is s*upid and annoying the entire story but I can see why the ML dotes on her. And she only acts out because he spoils her and she feels safe enough to act out around him. I guess it makes me happy that she was able to be loved and feel safe despite not "deserving it." Everyone is deserving of love and we don't have to be perfect to be loved. Though, perhaps I sympathize with her because I feel guilty for acting spoiled and willful with my partner. <<less
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khunbam3 rated it
November 5, 2022
Status: Completed
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fantasyreader258
fantasyreader258
September 11, 2022
Status: --
If you enjoy reading about s*upid female leads who can't think logically then this is the book for you. Not only is the FL s*upid, her character is incredibly inconsistent as well. In the beginning she's made out to be this super smart person but then every decision she makes later on makes her out to be a bumbling idiot.

Overall, it's an okay story, if not I bit dull. I had high hopes for this because of the strong beginning but I was quickly disappointed.
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waterplease
waterplease rated it
September 7, 2022
Status: Completed
The novel description is kind of misleading because FL didn't have the intention of chasing after Jing Wang at all. The first half of the novel is kind of slow and some might even find the FL annoying because she keeps on making mistakes with her choices. Despite knowing the story, she doesn't actually know how things are gonna flow so most of the time she's guessing and unfortunately, makes a lot of mistakes but that's what actually got her closer to ML. He has a very clear understanding of... more>> FL's character early on and became close to her because he finds her actions s*upid and amusing.

The second half of the story is when things start to get serious and the scheming against FL became harsher and she had to defend against everyone by herself or with ML.

This as a good novel to read if you're interested. The first part of the story may be a drag but once you get through it, the FL and ML's story will melt your heart. The past life extra stories made me tear up.
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I'm so glad that the original ZCJ and TSS from the past was able to connect at some point and even have a 2nd chance by rebirth. It shocked me that the original ZCJ actually had feelings for her but she was already taken😢 good thing rebirth gave them another chance

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CrazyBaby
CrazyBaby rated it
August 27, 2022
Status: Completed
The summary is a scam. She did not aim to be the original ML's mother at all. In the beginning it started out fairly funny as her plans turned out completely different in reality. However, by the 10th chapter it gets super annoying because there's the entertaining kind of s*upid which makes you laugh and then there's another type of s*upid which makes you roll your eyes and get really annoyed because they are just plain dumb and sadly MC is the 2nd type.

The synopsis says that she aims to... more>> be the original ML's mother to become the Empress Dowager but
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even up until she got together with the original ML's father she was still continuously chasing after the original ML and making a fool of herself. Like, it's so obvious that the original ML hates her yet she keeps throwing herself at him and doing s*upid things which are really cringey. Even when she finally got together with the original ML's father it was purely by accident, not because she was chasing after him

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so the synopsis is completely wrong.

The new ML is quite good. The only thing that I hated about him was
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after he took her first time (which technically counted as r*pe cos she was drugged and not in her right mind) he just left her alone in the bed without any note, any proper instructions to his servants, left her completely defenseless in a place where he knew everyone was out to get her and went to war leaving her pregnant and alone for months. Just imagine your v*rginity being taken (raped) while you were drugged, and then the next morning you wake up to an empty bed and the person who r*ped you didn't even leave any message for you and let his children ab*se you. Yeah, very unbecoming of a ML.

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Other than that, most of the time he treated her very well after they got together.

The main story was overall just a 3.5 for me. Actually, the end story (parallel world) was much better than the main one.
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Her ghost from the future went back to his past and their interaction was very sweet and short. If it was fleshed out into a real story I bet it would've been much better than the main one where most of the time she's a fool. At least in the end story she had already went through life once so she was much wiser and more mature but sadly it's just a short side story.

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Foolish Mysteries
Foolish Mysteries
August 13, 2022
Status: c1
Currently in chapter 10 and decided to drop it. She wanted to be the ED but kept harassing the org FL and the org ML. What the hell is wrong with her brain that she always want to take the limelight? She snatch other people's opportunity, it's okay if she succeeded, but she didn't! She kept making a fool of herself and I'm tired of her s*upidity. Reading this is like watching that one annoying kid who wants to be the diva and be praised by others. Annoying.
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