if it was so easy for him to ask the Nanyang people to imitate and wear human masks to disguise themselves identically as the Holy Maiden, he could have easily had a woman disguise themselves as Ying Yuyan for him rather than mol*st her son for all those years. I'm sure he could have found a willing woman who would do so. Even at the end he admitted he only wanted the son for that face... well he could have had someone just make a face mask like he did for the Holy Maiden. I just feel like that plot point failed a little in logic

ML has the standard dream, MC is desperately attempting to create discrete cover-ups for in-dream unco-operative ML.

Little lovers gave each other handkerchiefs, sachets, and jade pendants to hold in the hand or place in the sleeve with a shy and timid secret joy. Only His Royal Highness Xiao Wang was different. Before clarifying his intentions, he first exchanged the most intimate quilt, covering the whole person from head to toe with a kind of overbearing, arrogant romance that was like the northwest winds.

Such as MC persuading people left and right with a single paragraph

I'm a bit disappointed that there's not a single couple successfully created among them until the very end even though some pairing had potential

I'm bit disappointed with that cult leader's ending tho, that sun of a gun needs to suffer more

Regarding the fates of the Wumeng siblings and Feng Xiaojin, it really threw me into a moral brainstorming. They're a grey character and you don't see a lot of those.

Did they deserve the reassurance before death? Sometimes I'd think HELL NAH but I'd think about it again, and maybe they do... they've been programmed that way, but that doesn't mean the lives they ruined and took should be disregarded.

Even accomplices and enablers to crimes get judged by our modern judicial system right.

This is another thing I loved about the novel, it still makes me think while I'm writing my review hahaha

ML's brother, the emperor, wanted ML to marry MC's younger sister. However, both ML and MC's sister didn't want the marriage. MC ended up on a trip with ML, hoping to talk ML out of marrying his sis.

During the trip, they uncovered one conspiracy after another. They learn that a cult was instigating unrest among the common people, with the goal of overthrowing the government. The two grow closer and learn to appreciate each other.

I won't give anymore spoilers but they're cute, cuteness, and have a happy ending.

how the MC mentioned in the past how his older brother used to beat him with a ruler. Later on, while out with the ML, the MC was pretending to be his brother (to set up a trap for the Baifu sect) but was coincidentally caught by his elder brother. During their confrontation, his older brother just "casually brought out a ruler from his basket" making the MC go "..."

The story showed the cruel reality about believing in cults and the craziness people will go to because of their so-called beliefs. Although this story is just fictional, it can also be applied to real life too (not just in a cult setting but in general when someone is too infatuated with something and it causes them to lose their common sense and hurt the themselves and the people around them).

when all 3 of the Liu siblings were together. It was sweet to see the familal bond between them and to see that they were all very capable people.

. The 2 characters I'm talking about were the siblings raised in the cult sect. After reading their ending in the novel, I could only sigh.

no one in our CP's retinue dies and also they were almost always one step ahead of the antagonists, thwarting their evil plans left and right and never really getting too injured or setback ; I personally found this aspect a little boring to be honest