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I can’t even begin to express how relieved I am that I wasn’t born in China during this timeline as a woman. Men treating women like objects, collecting concubines, and then turning around and saying, “Oh, I didn’t know you had feelings,” is just infuriating. And then the women are constantly fighting for the chance to live, only to be blamed for everything that goes wrong. The FL’s life is a mess—growing up as the child of a concubine, and what changed after getting married to a man most likely twice her age is NOTHING.. And nothing changes! After 45 episodes of pain, Old Lady Xu finally says, “Oh, what a good person she is,” but only because she’s about to be executed. The ML is also a walking red flag—he makes you question if men ever emotionally grow. This man ruins a woman’s life just because his wife and mother said so, and then after she dies, he just keeps on living like nothing happened. Also that abusive piece of trash who dies halfway through the show? Don’t even get me started.

Not gonna lie though, the second male lead? Hands down my favorite. He’s honest, smart, and probably written by a woman who knows what’s up.