12/24/24 so this book took me quite a while to read - yikes. Granted there was A LOT OF [SERIOUSLY AWFUL] shit going on irl so I'll lowkey highkey hate it forever ...
I ... *sigh* I don't love me a dumb FL and I know that was "the joke" - like even the system calls her on it a lot ... but it's ... ugh it's annoying when a ... I mean ok who REALLY is like "ha ha yeah I'm not smart." So ... there's that. But FL is not even remotely close to the brightest crayon in the box. She's got like a billion gold fingers what with the "system" and her love brained husband.
As a "bad people get punished" book ... it's generally satisfying, but as a romance it sucks. This chick ... there's no relationship development. It could just be business partners/even business partners could have a closer relationship. Also ... while it was satisfying to see people punished it was a bit annoying to only focus on the most petty shit. Granted ... the emperor was probably/definitely doing a lot of work that we just don't see. She definitely cared more about the empress dowager and Qi than ML though. Can we even call him ML? *sigh* I know that was also "part of the joke" - how he's the afterthought ... but we were sold on this being a romance. There wasn't really any overarching thing ... Maybe the extras were better but 😅 at that point I was so fed up I scrolled. Maybe one day I'll revisit them. Maybe.
I'd say ... C. Not mad I read it, would not rec it. Definitely not as a romance - but if you want a silly stupid book where karma gets the baddies, this could be satisfying/an enjoyable read.
~*~*~*~*~ My Beloved Concubine Only Wants to Eat Melons
1 FL is Li YanShu? And her imperial harem rank is a beauty/mei ren
2 😒🫥 do not love (read: hate) that being gay is lumped by author/FL as “peculiar” and with all the other bad …
7 *sigh* it’s not funny when she’s just fucking stupid “Yanshu felt as if she had been struck by lightning, [Even if he's impotent, he can still like women?]” (lol and the system is only partially useful)
Sigh. MTL not human translating. Also the author is pretty stupid - as is FL. Bitch how do you think you’re going to leave the imperial harem 🙄😒
19 😹☠️ I don’t think I’ve ever been so excited a ML’s dick works especially for such an innocent/non-thing!
31 he’s figured out she likely has a power like his just different
42 plot hole - him being unable to discover the poison in his bedchamber. … isn’t the doctor he’s seeing an imperial physician? Like duh just sneak him in? 🙄😒 (Oh 😅 right - emperor doesn’t want him to know it’s him)
52 finally! Sex!
103 lol has she finally figured out her baby can read minds & she can read the emperor’s mind when he’s touching her belly?
116 yay the empress dowager can be with Qi! And FL had a baby boy!
Qi ShuGuang might be the best guy in cnovels ever. Very similar to ML in girl is beautiful but violent
128 rebirth of empress dowager & QSG!
133 them in modern world - skimming
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
this was interesting in that the concept was unique but disappointing in that it felt like it was focused so much on the wrong things. Spoiler warning probably
anyways so the whole concept right is that she is in the emperor's harem and has this gossiping system that tells her gossip or "melons" about other people. She finds out the reason the emperor hasn't been with any of the women is cause he can't get it up, rough. lol while shes losing her mind about this info, turns out he can read minds and hears everything she is thinking and thinks she's a spy so he decides to get to know her
its a wild concept
I enjoyed how she used her gossip to write books, yes it was repetitive but i do like a good fight. I enjoyed her love for food, it made me hungry
What i didn't enjoy was the lack of plot and relationship progression. Listen, realistically speaking, it is a big deal if an emperor has no kids, especially if he's had a harem for 3 years??? The fact that he couldn't have kids was serious. And yet when she is found to be pregnant it was so anticlimatic it was so incredibly disappointing in every way. Everything about her pregnancy was disappointing.
Also, in the main chapters HE NEVER TELLS HER HE'S TELEPATHIC????? WHAT???? she told him about the gossip thing and then he spends the rest of the book tryna make sure she isn't suspicious of him. DO YOU EVEN LOVE HER????? WHAT ARE YOU HIDING IT FOR????
speaking of love, she literally at no point in the book made any indication she liked the guy. She was constantly wanting money just in case he left her. There was literally no one else left in the harem because he got rid of them. He has only shown interest in her. He explicitly said he only cared for her several times to her face. She showed no indication she had feelings for him and then had his kids and still nothing. only cares about food and money which like i get but GIRL COME ON, AN EMPEROR JUST KILLED OFF HIS HAREM FOR YOU????HE KILLED OFF PEOPLE CAUSE THEY HURT YOUR FAMILY??? HE FEEDS YOU??? SUPPORTS YOUR BOOKS??? UR KILLING ME HERE
yeah i didn't read the extra chapters out of anger