most of face slapping were done by him so¯_ (ツ) _/¯ he was kinda protective towards MC but his indecisiveness was in another level

Jingyi and Yumei are in incredibly privileged positions where they could unshackle themselves from their marriages, and still be able to live comfortably if maybe in less advantageous marriages status-wise but decide to stay with their unaccomplished, s*upid, weak willed, borderline abusive husbands without any real justification. Jingyi, I admit is the most pathetic. Her husband leaves her to gallivant with a prostitute, and she pines for him because when he lifted her veil when they were married, he was incredibly handsome. Makes me want to pull my hair out.

The mothers are all incredibly biased towards their sons to the point of being insane. They have no empathy at all for their daughters-in-law and it’s frustrating and sad to read.

Shi Fengju does not deserve Sang Wan, but since she’s too spineless to actually do anything about her situation, here they are. He showers her with gifts and things and pesters her for s*x, and thinks this is supposed to make up for constantly asking her to push aside her negative feelings from being humiliated by his cousin, sister, and mother, as well as himself. He nearly assaults her, and after a few days of her acting off HE is the one that gets mad that she’s still upset. I’m mad at myself because I kept reading this drivel.

Every man gets a free pass for being the most evil villain towards their spouse and it’s just brushed off or forgotten.

The gentleman who’s friends with Fengju actually seems like a reasonable, decent person, but he doesn’t appear nearly enough and does not play any major part up to 279. I was hoping he would be the guy Sang Wan ended up with but alas.

Not enough satisfying conclusion to drama, romance, interesting characters, interesting slice of life tidbits, or plot to bother reading.

The MC is great. The ML was a really bad lover. In the beginning, I even kinda felt bad for the antagonist. He was going around, saying, "You have to trust me. Blah blah" but he didn't even explain what's his plan. LIKE. WHY.

Anyway, he became pretty nice to the MC so i'll forgive him for being a bad lover to the antagonist.

Also, how did that mother-in-law survive the household before?? She's so s*upid and easily schemed. You'd think she doesn't have experience in the world. A decent concubine would've eaten her alive years ago. UGH.

Honestly, I'just want to know how this all ends.

Shi Yumei... She is my most hated character. She's arrogant, wilful, jealous, never-learn. She was well described but it's too much sometimes. When Sang Yufei and Shi Lian came back from marriage, after hurting her sister, after trying to slap MC,... So many times she has been disrespectful and too far but she got practically nothing. In my opinion if her mother can't be strict, her brother should do it in her place. It's irrealistic that at her age, they can pass her mistakes as cute tanthrums... Especially when honor and face are important.

And I say that because Gu Fangzi is smart and cover her track (Miss I-got-a-good-excuse-sob), it's hard to punish her but not Shi Yumei who shows her temper at every turn (inside and outside). That's why I can't understand that for 300 chapters she got no real punishment.

Gu Fangyi at the end. The moment she tried to kill MC and died was a bit too much. I feel like she's not obsessed at this point but dumb. Many times her obsession was weird. She knew he doesn't love her anymore, he proposed another way like 3 times and she just can't register and take the no return point. It's strange, the first time okay, but after? And she wants revenge, why not try by marrying someone more powerful?

This character is a bit useless.

She nearly drown, okay... That reinforced their love, destroyed mommy oposition and expulsed the sticky cousin, after more than 250 chapters I can say that's the best move Gu Fangzi did: three birds with one stone (should have done that earlier).

But the side story with Zhao Qi and her mother, or when he comes back to threaten and kidnaps to become later the godbrother, nope I don't like it. She could have simply been rescued in a bad shape so she couldn't come back earlier. Simple and efficient. If the man who rescued is in love with her, he could have yes come back to HELP in the lawsuit and ask for her to be part of his life by becoming the godfather of the child. That much more believable and less cheap drama I think.

I don't understand why the author wrote like that. Gu Fangzi can still create rumors if the child is conceived just after anyway. I would have prefered to have chapters on the child.

as an unmarried lady living in a relative's house, she's suddenly so OP that she can scheme so much, hiring and bribing so many people so as to harm MC from her residence!

with that General's son getting involved with MC... he was so crazy for her, wanting to marry her and adopt her child, and then ended up becoming her sworn brother!!