through lifetimes

There are a number of scenes of the main character getting black-out drunk and in one scene, the ML does have s*x with the FL after initially saying he won't because she is intoxicated. The FL does not express discomfort with this behavior and it can be argued she indirectly consented beforehand, but take it as you will. On several occasions the ML uses physical force on the FL during an argument to make her stand still and look at him, and the novel does slightly lean into tropes about men being forceful in love toward women.

This novel has graphic depictions of mu*der, r*pe, torture, disfigurement, and emotional/physical/s*xual ab*se. The main character is herself never r*ped but at least one attempt is made. The main character has severe psychological trauma and some chapters will be emotionally trying. It is a HE but there is plenty of angst beforehand.

I'm sorry but HOW COULD YOU SAY YOU LOVE SOMEONE YET MANAGE TO DO NIGHTLY DUTY WITH OTHERS AND EVEN GET ONE PREGNANT? Like, I don't know if the author is aware but you need that thing to stand up to even begin the act and unless you have a very weird kink, I refuse to believe you can make it stand up for others yet claim they devotedly love another. Tho, yeah they are pitiful but hey that's the consequence of their action.

I forgot which household, the 3rd? the one who doesn't have any concubine and only have 1 child. As been numerous stated in the story, it's rare for a man to have no concubine, in that aspect I respect that villain guy and thus felt a bit sad upon being scheme for their love to break apart. Tho it's understandable since that guy's wife set that trap for MC's dad and thus deserve whatever trap she was planning. However, it just feel too rush and incoherent in my opinion to suddenly claim that they never love each other and it was merely a give and take. If the guy really wanted a son, why wait for more than 10 years? Why not mention it during those years? As mentioned, it's normal to have concubines and thus it would be easy for the guy to shove it to his wife during those times. It's not like wife's family is big, and since it's not love then... why? I might be forgetting details hence why, but if it's really this case then all I can say is how sad their life is.

Like that wife could easily be the next rebirth person of a foolish wife believing his husband and schemed for him and her child not realizing how little she was actually valued and thus given opportunity to redo and fix her mistakes. Then again almost everyone had this potential, can't help it when the story is about rebirth, okay. You couldn't help but think of the what ifs like if this character rebirthed after and what not.

ML "died" prior to the time skip or how Shen Miao fell in a coma towards the end and only woke up when the ML came back from war

that scheme against that s*um imperial family member was seriously delicious, the way she used others to eliminate her enemy was so well done tbh

Especially the story behind how the reincarnation happened and how our leads were connected by fate, because that quality was rare to find in other stories with this theme (trust me i've read tons). So that made me love this all the more.

MC and ML are so compatible. Both good at scheming, intelligent and they are so cute together. Especially when MC is drunk lol

I really like how our empress deal with her enemies, like she's so damn badass. She's far from those pathetic girls who only know how to spout revenge and just rely on their husband or whatever

She also told her husband about her rebirth though in a form of dream and our jing xing is just so cute when he's on teasing mode

And also that ye mei, she deserves what happened to her. So what if she was tortured to death, who told her to be a scheming bit*h and put our empress shen to a tough situation