The FL is 14 when she meets the ML, then falls in love, then marries him and then gets pregnant. I know this was how it was in ancient China, but the FL could've been 16 at least, 14 was too young. Fortunately, she was a transmigrator so it was a bit less weird to read about a 14-year-old girl married with a child.

The mains love was very rushed, they met one day and three months later they loved each other, I mean, it's mentioned that they exchanged letters and they met a few times, hence their affection grew, understandable, but their romantic development was kinda tasteless. Don't get me wrong, the less angst, the better, but here was very fast for my liking.

The third sister (Ruan Niang) was a hell to read, my god, how can one be so s*upid?

The braised duck parts, they were boring.

The beginning was actually fine. I appreciate the author actually writing the MC to try and practice the skills from her original body and that it took time. But right after that, it was like riding a roller coaster on a downward sloping rail to the typical Mary Sue MC with her perfect ML (and a pinch of trauma regarding women... except towards MC, of course. coughs because the ML (the author) needs a legit reason to remain utterly pure for MC coughs)

Feels like the one who wrote this is utterly naive. All women need to be envious of the MC. Every woman that catches sight of the tip of ML's perfectly shaped nose needs to be captivated then burn with utter jealousy because how dare MC got such good luck! She should suffer a thousand deaths for having her claws anywhere near him, grr!

No, really. Half of the novel kinda felt like this.

We haven't even started talking about the main character of this novel: Ruan Ning.

Yes, the main character is actually Ruan Ning, not Ruan Xi. At least I won't forget about her in just a few hours. Why? Aside from 50% of the novel included her while the other half was both MC and ML, Ruan Ning is so... ludicrously, idiotically evil. There's no good point in terms of her characterization at all. She exists for the sole purpose of jumping around to make trouble that barely does anything at all to the MC because of the ML's constant protection. Thing is, it's like the author hates giving Ruan Ning just once to think about her actions. Honestly, it just feels like the author wants Ruan Ning to be a complete foil to MC's complete perfection. I cannot stress the number of times I read that Ruan Ning would argue or insult MC and then immediately afterward having her own face slapped fiercely.

But she's 1000% shameless and that's hilarious in its own right.

Let's just say aside from the MC/ML and Ruan Ning, other plots and characters aren't really worth mentioning. Sometimes they seem interesting but ditched right after. Nothing's really developed aside from Ruan Ning's reputation's constantly dramatic decline. Even the romance felt very typical.

The hell with that taoist nun selling the harmful rouge? What of it? What's the point? What's the conclusion?

And what of Mama Yang? Did she finally get her family recipe back or what?

Also that Miss Yang, is she the FL but from the previous reincarnation or a totally different person altogether? *Sigh*

He is so considerate. He make sure that the FL won't have to deal with difficult in-laws. There are so many MLs that I've seen that just marry the FLs and then left them alone to deal with difficult in-laws on their own.

The 3rd sister is a reborn transmigrator. When she first transmigate, she is equipped with many golden fingers and she do all the cliche things that a typical Mary Sue protagonist would do with them, she start inventing modern technologies, pretend to be a divine doctor and everyone went along with it and she got adoration and admiration from everyone.

But here's the twist, the mother of the og owner actually know that her daughter has been replaced and it's stranger occupying her daughter's body. She hates the transmigrator to the bone but pretend she doesn't know anything in order to gain benefits from the transmigrator's various outstanding deeds. The moment that the transmigrator start inventing thing, the emperor has already keeps an eye on her. The emperor allow her to live as she wants because he wants to continue milking her for her inventions. Then the emperor make the transmigrator his concubine in order to imprison her in the palace and force her to use her healing power to help him. The transmigrator was also exposed for being a fake healer because she couldn't read pulse accurately. In the end once the emperor died he order the transmigrator to die with him too. The transmigrator then spend 20 years as a ghost stuck in the palace.

Once she is reborn, she still committed the same and new mistakes. The og owner's mother still realize that her daughter has been replaced bc the transmigrator act to OOC. Here's the interesting part for me, the mother continue to find ways to torment the transmigrator and she even try to kill the transmigrator. God, how I wish for a novel with a plot like this.

Third sister is a transvers who knows the plot and has knowledge that helps the ancient as well as healing gold finger, causing the attention of men to swarm around her. However, she was miserable in the first life, so was reborn by merit in the second life. But she didn't treasure it and the more she tried to avoid fate while continuing to hold onto her grudges and vengeance, the more she walked into the same path. However, despite being so jealousy and practically brain-dead, she managed to live past 30 this time, though not as happily as she'd wished.

Novel FL was naïve and merely concerned with being able to live well and eat well in ancient time. She is a transverse, but has practically no gold finger except for the fate of being the heroin needing to be with the hero. Unlike other transmigration novel, this neglected concubine-born daughter became a concubine of the cold fourth prince who already had other women in the backyard and only cared for power, not harboring much feelings for novel FL. Because of the small-minded rebirth woman, FL ended up miscarrying all three sons and was forgotten in the palace, became a low ranked concubine who doesn't fight for favor and only concerned with filling her belly while novel ML favored the empress, who gave birth to his sons, and the other concubines who birthed his children. Despite this though, as the heroin, she has the fate of the heroin, so when this life of lonely old ended, she was reborn and tried to stay low only to enter novel ML's backyard again to correct her fate of becoming empress dowager. Her story really gives a more realistic view of transmigration into ancient world.

As for our FL, the originally orphaned she thought she was transverse, but she was actually reborn, then forgot her memories, later thought she was transvers, only to remember the truth after marriage. Unlike everyone else, her husband is the novel standard pampering husband who only loves her, and though not royalty, as blood ties and is extremely valued by the old and new emperors. And the reason why ML only loves FL is explained nicely (childhood trauma of seeing his aunt died giving birth and being haunted by the nurse (?) because he saw the abnormality of it). FL is loved and valued by her family and in-laws, has a danger-warning gold figure, and everyone is envious of her good fortune while all those who appose her have no good end. A standard transmigration novel, minus the dragged on face-slapping, pitfalls, and misunderstanding plots. However, her cautious and low-key character does reflect the more realistic version of the ancients, as she is not like other transmigration into ancient times novel FLs who does big things. Here, FL keeps a low profile at first and tries to keep with the original's character so as to not be exposed by the rebirth. She studies hard to learn the ways of the ancients and due to her low statue, had to endure a lot and cannot directly face-slap her stepmother and vicious sisters/women. Because she is a woman in ancient times, so she has to rely on her husband and it's not always so easy to get rid of some people and she knows that and is patient about it. Over all, though her life is like a fantasy, her temperament is more in line with the ancients.

As for the original, she was reborn as someone with a similar face to FL and has memories of her past life. In this life, fate is again corrected and she still married her pampering husband.

The only real problem I have was with Ruan Ning, the villain. She's the main reason why I rated 3 stars as she wasn't a very good villain and took up a lot of screen time in the novel.

She's like a c*ckroach and remained alive until the end of the novel. The author often wrote her jumping around like a clown and it was entertaining at the beginning and middle part of the novel. However, toward the end, you're just sick and tired that she's still there jumping around to be noticed. Her retribution was also lacking and you can't help but wish something more sinister to befall her...

Ruan Ning was written as a stwupwed villainess despite having experienced three lives already, I could close one eye.

I felt sad and reluctant to part with the novel :'< and I really wanted to see (read) Ruan Xi and Wen Tingzhou's children's growth cries in Chinese

Although Mu Qingci could've had a better ending but probably because of Ruan Ning's interruptions that the novel's (the one the three got transmigrated to [cackles in 132] plot was changed. And oh! I'm happy that the Ruan Xi in the novel (the original owner who married Qi Yue'an) was reborn as Miss Yang and ended up with Qi Yue'an. They're really meant for each other wipes tears. I think Ruan Xi (Wen Tingzhou's Ruan ruan) didn't transmigrate when she fell in the lake and. She didn't die from the cold, but it caused her to recall her past life's memories and the cost of this was forgetting her memories in her current life. At first, I was a little bothered. I thought that if she was the same Ruan Xi in the novel, then she and Qi Yue'an... but Wen Tingzhou... but when I saw that Ruan Xi in the novel was actually reborn as Miss Yang, I was happy and the rock weighting my heart was lifted.

And oh, Ruan Ning's ending...

It was fine for me.

And in the end with the last chapter where she had her dream, it's as though the author wanted to make it up to her with one chapter. It feels so meaningless, why does she have to live another life just for things to be better. Obviously the author has favorites and I like Ruan Xi too but does everyone's life have to pale in comparison to hers? Maybe I'm thinking too much, but I just felt that the fMC was very pitiful and deserved better. She deserved her own book and an author that cares about her.