Yikes 😱😅 it's now 12/7/24 ... this book took me a lot longer to read than expected - granted there were days I was doing other stuff. It was good not great, but TBH the communication and respect between our leads gives it a guaranteed 4 stars. Will DEFINITELY be reading more by the author [PLEASE TRANSLATE THEM, PEOPLE.] Even *sigh* more of these "edited" MTL messes. *sigh*
Anyway I really loved how this was a relationship where we REALLY see things develop, and guy is SUPER just ... so awesome. Way different from your "typical guy." Also most the characters were dynamic, even "the" villain. I can definitely see myself re-reading this book too.
Solid B+ maybe A- ~*~*~*~ Transmigrated as the Princess Consort of a Fallen Nation
1 FL is Qin Zheng
4 ok they’re kinda adorable - ML (crown prince) gave her the copper coins, fished for her, is embarrassed he only gave her so little… they’re both misunderstanding each other in rather sweet ways so this is fun so far/still
9 … my face when we find out FL in her modern day life was an engineer in Africa. Like she claims she was there providing aid but … oof it’s like my chest is in a blender. Hopefully we don’t get more of these mentions cuz the politics of it … have already spiked my migraine 🤦🏻♀️ translator put “sand pot”
12.1 that ML really sees all the work FL is doing is so lovely
20 lol FL & her blueprints have been found out. (I’m also enjoying people’s comments too 😹☠️💯)
26 ML is Wu JiaChi … maybe as comment said “Characters have talked about Emperor Wu Jiachi being the founding Emperor of Chu before, so it should be that Chu Chengji was his personal name, Wu Jiachi was another name that people called him when he became emperor, and he transmigrated into the crown prince who was named after him.” & lol to him offering her freedom but her thinking it’s a test
😹😅☠️ it’s bad but I dunno why I think it’s so funny FL accidentally punched ML in her sleep :x like she’s just got… terrible sleeping “etiquette.” (Omg she gave him a black eye 🙃)
30 Oh no 😞 FL’s dad was executed. And 🤷🏻♀️ I’m not mad he brother Qi Jian tried to murder Shen YanZi like ugh sad sack. (And I get he wasn’t incompetent as he was tricked trying to go after the carriage he thought FL was in the night of the coup but… 🫠) Man I love how her family has had her back & continues to
32.1 awww ML now wants her to stay ❤️
33 😱😱 FL gave herself up to save the village. Wu Ciao better die the most miserable death that piece of shit traitor. Glad ML is going after them
35 ok I love ML immediately knew the 2 women were decoys - his “idiots think I can’t recognize my own wife?” But UH OH for FL to run into Shen YanZi 😬😖
37 it’s translated as prince for Shen but I’m v curious what the actual word is Ahhhh I’m so frustrated FL didn’t wait for ML but I also don’t blame her because she had no way of knowing that he would come, argh.
40 😱 “After the Battle of Qinxiangguan, Shen Yanzhi was burdened with endless infamy. The first thing he did when he returned was to wildly swing his sword and kill his stepmother and her son. They had plotted against him, so he wanted to see them go to hell, and see who would benefit from their schemes. It was also from that moment on that Shen Yanzhi realized clearly that those who should be killed should be killed early, regardless of the consequences. Otherwise, one would never know when those despicable scum would strike at your life and take away everything you cherished. Having walked all this way bathed in the blood of his comrades, Shen Yanzhi knew that he was going to hell, but so what? As long as he was still alive, he had to pick up his two precious gems from the mud again.” … ok I do feel a bit bad for him now.
43.1 SYZ really is tragic (and oh his dad was a prince), but guy LET GO. I admire his devotion but if you really loved her you’d respect her. 43.2 🙊 SYZ has lost his damn mind, but at least he’s 🤞🤞 not out to kill FL (😬😅 yet?) Eee “For some reason, she remembered the question he asked on horseback, "Will you come with me?" She shook the hand held by him and whispered, "I'm following you, sir." Although it sounded like a response to "Watch your step," Chu Chengji's steps suddenly paused, and the grip on her wrist tightened. The gaze he cast down at her made Qin Zheng's heart tremble.”
44 😹☠️ I haven’t used this phrase in a while … dude caught pants feelings!
46 Awww “do you think I have multiple lives to risk for others?” - so yes ML will only have FL! 💯
48 😿 FL’s poor family (I’m also annoyed like as readers we seem to care more than she does - bitch you’re at least nominally attached to them!)
50 *squeals* oof lol I was like almost holding my breath ~at the end! When FL asked if she could kiss ML I was like 🥰 … BUT THEN (lol and I don’t even find Adam’s apples sexy - more gross 😅) but suddenly that scene was HOT just 🥵🥵🥵 lol like damn, author, how even! lol and again I’m so mad at censorship lol would LOVE a detailed exploration of hot & bothered ML’s POV 😹💯
51(.2?) man… I don’t want to hate on a girl especially a victim but in this case that Wang bitch REALLY just… skank this is on you & JFC the problems you’ve caused
53 Ooo he wants her to call him his courtesy name HuaiZhou (lol after confirming she never knew it before - so I’m assuming this is ML’s actual one not the CP’s) Although 🙄🙄🙄😒😒 FL adding “brother” like goddammit China you have so fucked up your people with this creepy ass shit 😹☠️ and him ~always ruining the moment
58 😹☠️💯 ML deciding to raid imperial tombs to pay for the troops. Didn’t know tomb raiding your own family is a trope I should be tracking “The great Chu Dynasty has stood for over three hundred years. There should be quite a few imperial tombs. Digging a few should be no problem.” 💯💯💯
59 ❤️❤️❤️ he’s so protective of her
60.1 😹☠️ her blurting out “wait aren’t you impotent” just after they talk & cuddle & she feels his reaction (which extra 😹☠️ cuz I def typed erection but phone changed it)
63.1 … is it really just the 63rd day from the start?
64 😒 that Wang Xiu better not become a fucking problem (but why write so much about her otherwise?)
😹💯❤️ our FL is a dunce in the matters of love
Oop 71 a birthday handy!! 😹💯 And ML being 🙄😒🫠 that he has to GJ worship himself. And it’s his birthday!
🙃☠️ 72 FL (understandably but 🤦🏻♀️) thinking ML is being an asshole about his ancestor 🫠
78 😄🥰 when he says “you” after she asks him if there’s anything in the world he *hasn’t* calculated. And “A slow smile crept across her lips. "That's strange." "What is?" "You claim not to have schemed against me, yet how did I fall into your trap?"” (Sigh to the messy translations/MTL ruining things though) 😱🙊 wait - DID HE EAT HER OUT?! … DAMMIT CENSORSHIP!!!
82.1 these stupid trash ass small little men only know how to target & blame women. Fuckers.
87 😹😹☠️ ML digging up his own tomb & blaming it on the new court
89 I mean I kinda love this “The accompanying items were meager, just enough to match the standards of an emperor's tomb. In contrast, the main tomb chambers of those tombs for the incompetent descendants were paved with gold bricks. The items taken from the tomb chambers were clearly recorded in this list. Lin Yao dared not let anyone touch the items in the main tomb chamber out of reverence. Chu Chengji said, "Later, have someone pry out all the gold bricks from the main tomb chamber." What was taken from the people should now be used for the people.”
90.1 yay all secrets revealed!
95 awwww *puppy noises* “In this eternal world I want to see it all with you.” His thought after she tells him about the modern world & he says he wants to reincarnate there & she agrees ❤️
Omg FINALLY Dong Cheng gets his shit together
97 😹☠️💯 the “ghost mountain” battle was A+
100 awww she tells him she loves him and more all but sex and he (finally) tells her why
113 oh man I was STRESSED when they had their little Cold War & took space - glad the author didn’t splash too much dog blood around and these two COMMUNICATED 💯💯💯❤️💪❤️
118 Shen Chan is a good little egg - pitiful and just 15 or so… I want her to be ok but her baby is a hot potato …
125 ahhh this is such a healthy lovely relationship!!! LET THEM BE TOGETHER AND SEXY DAMMIT
126 lol FINALLY they can have sex now that he’s taking BC! 💪💯 to the doctor who perfected it for him!
127 I love he prepared medicine for her 😅 intimate swelling. I do hate the stupid “girls can’t like sex” trope - I hope there isn’t any real or lasting misunderstanding between them
128 SYZ has turned 1000000% despicable, refusing to let the doctor treat the epidemic
🙊🙊🙊 132 😭😭😭 Lin Zhao oh no!!!! I never thought she’d die
133 it better not be her!
135 SYZ might be the most tragic villain that evokes actual sympathy. True example of 一步錯步步錯. And not his fault either, at least not that/those first steps
136 OH JESUS CHRIST thank god, I feel bad but the dead general was Wang Da Ma. Lin Zhao was injured to badly to travel - hopefully she’s okay/recovers
139 😖🤦🏻♀️ goddammit Wang Biao you pig teammate. Lin Yao better not be dead.
145 😿 goodbye Shen Cheng. And that emperor Li Xian or whatever deserved all his suffering & more. Same with SYZ’s dad
147.1 tbh this is wiping away most the sympathy I had for SYZ. Him being a giant dick & refusing to communicate means they couldn’t plan best & wasted a lot of time & effort & worse clearly thousands are dying awful deaths in battle ALSO?! It’s just stupid how unbelievably powerful this Kadan is. Do better, author. 147.2 finally. That better be the end of it. The “northern barbarians” might be the most cruel I’ve seen
148 I teared up at FL’s PTSD & ML realizing just how truly distraught she was (he obvs knew some considering how haggard she was) - and him saying never mind about her going away to recover, from now on he’s keeping her by him
150.2 this wonderful Qin family. I’m actually tearing up. Qin Sheng wanted to burn paper for Shen Chan and Qin Jian is commemorating Shen YanZi OOF. Thank god Xie Huan was a bit bold. I was about to be 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ At stupid Qin Sheng bitch WHY DID YOU TELL HIM YOU’RE ENGAGED WHEN YOU AREN’T
151 🙊 I dunno why but the end of that chapter with Chen DaoXi & Lin Zhao made me tear up. (And why did she when he said he’d marry her?! Does she think he said it out of obligation?)
153 I like that the author revisited Wang Xiu & she became a local official. And oh man CDX waited for LZ for 5+ years ❤️
154 aww Lin Yao and Lu JinYan
160 oh thank god real him came back - and I kinda like past ML got to experience at least a little of the future warmth
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