5/26/25 I've read at least 4 books by "Mask Feast" now, and while I've enjoyed some more than others, each definitely has something that has stayed with me. Even with books/series I have no interest in continuing, there are more I want to read, and in fact have picked up another by her currently. ANYWAY, I really liked this one. I also read some NU comments before starting. Those are hit/miss, and this time I felt they were WAY too judgey [maybe also cuz the book I'd read prior had an ACTUAL useless FL in a super toxic relationship...] this one ... she wasn't useless. She did what she could, didn't try to do what she couldn't. She wasn't over powered, didn't try to take on too much, didn't over estimate herself and fuck shit up, and TBH that's an underrated and under appreciated skill.
It also worked for their relationship, and made them both happy, so there you go. I unfortunately am stuck kinda on the extra/the AWFUL not the book ended on - ugh WHY. This time it really was an unnecessary extra.
I've now read at least my third "changing fates"/big ceremony thing - though this didn't have a threat of mass murder. I did feel there were some big gaps - that whole tomb thing and then the ... wtf going back into the past [only not] and the questions left unanswered ...
FL truly is lucky in that she gets to be simple, and stay simple. But she's not STUPID. She definitely understands her relationship and what they both want and what works for them. She also changed basically every bad thing that had happened to her in the first life, and helps resolve a LOT of things - just it's not done with great fanfare.
I wish we got more about Wei/QianWu. I can definitely see myself re-reading this book [though I think Jin Wang edges this out slightly still so far]
B+ ~*~*~*~ Unparalleled Beauty
1 is FL Lady FengTian, Mei WuShuang? … yeah I mean I already expected it but I hate her empress sister even more than I thought. Cunt stole her marriage & she herself created this situation yet she resents FL for it? 😡 She better die miserably. Ugh. But why does she humiliate herself going through Duke Zhao’s doors? Self flagellation? “Etiquette” being most important? Ugh. 😈 I’m a mean bitch so I hope Zhao JianZhi eats his heart and liver out and dies with regrets. Him and his whole shitty stupid fucking family. You had the best & you treated her like shit. This wonderful girl. You fuckhead. Fucker. SHE WAS YOUR WIFE. You useless piece of shit. Girl. You don’t owe him. You’re too good. 😱🙊 OH SHIT SHE DIED?!
2 … yikes rebirthed as “third lady” … WHY AND HOW DID SHE DIE?!? What is going on?!?!?!?!?!?!?! 😒 I hope this “Master Qin” dies along with the female analects Fuck it’s been a long time since I read anything with the female analects much less a character that adheres to them. lol am stressed and PISSED. Although this is another one of those culture + time/difference issues. Saw some comments calling FL weak. But if this is what has been ingrained in her. Especially through abuse. And with no other options or way out. Like WTF is she supposed to do, and how is she supposed to know anything different?! She’s only 15-16 now. 😿 girl LIVE THIS LIFE DIFFERENT. Fuck being the third daughter of the Marquis ChangYang Yikes ML is 13 years older so he’s 28-29?
3 this eldest sister Mei WuXia deserved to live with master Qin together in misery
4 ok I’m confused about this family. Seems FL’s dad was the third son & he’s dead… who is this great aunt? Also the first(?) branch is evil Oh 🙄😒 shit translation. This great aunt is a great yi niang … FL’s biological grandmother. Bailu is a shit servant too. So confused. So her second uncle, Mei Zong, the current ChangYang Marquis adopted her. (Why and how did she lose her memory as a child?) yikes. She didn’t know this till she was 10. … ok these branches seem totally messed up? Maybe I should just ignore them. (If her dad was the third son how is he the second branch)
8 O.o ok so her dad was the oldest son…
9 those fuckers stealing her dowry and inheritance her first life. (AND HER MOM’S) I hope she manages to hide all the assets this life.
10 😿 I’m sad her grandma died. They only ever got to have that one conversation. Boss ass bitch though.
13 wait Ji Yang (the ML & future emperor) has seizures? Also interesting they meet here … and in the first life there was a missed (?) meeting?
14 WAIT WAIT WAIT WHAT?! “In this world, there were probably not many people who knew that Emperor Qianwu and Ji Yang were two different people.” (Or… split personality?)
15 ok so “prince Wei” is the “normal/original” and Ji Yang is the secondary
17 the bitch ass fake grandmother is a goddamn monster. Fucking exhuming a grave. THE COFFIN WAS CHECKED
19 like I’m not a stupid person but I can’t understand how the 1st & 3rd branches are fighting to care for the shit fake grandma & the orphaned 2nd branch daughter, FL, is being ignored. By which I mean, how is she the 2nd branch if her father was the oldest child? lol will we get lucky & the evil fake gma will die?
20 😹☠️ was it JY haunting the mansion? 💯
21.3 welp I hate commandary princess Minghui
22.2 lol FL has a natural nice fragrance?! … lucky bitch Ugh hopefully her “sisters” don’t factor in. Bitches. & I don’t want to have to bother learning names
24.1 FL is so insightful, and GOOD. Her first actions being self reflection. Figuring out why/how she was so easily instigated. Oh I like her so much
… 30 ohhhhhkay. I see the point of the comments now. She was INCREDIBLY fucking stupid just to follow that servant. JFC girl. You really are unparalleled - in stupidity.
31 PHEW
35 yay marriage edict! Bitch ass fake gma better not be able to do anything
😹😅 44 has he been carrying her skirt around with him this whole time?!
52 JFC her cousin (Mei WuXia; MWX) was already plotting to steal her marriage at age 7 - total evil So interesting she likes Ji Yang but not prince Wei despite them being in the same body/person
56 lol tbh I’m petty and want Zhao JianZhi to know about his past life & deeply regret missing out on FL Anyway, wedding! Yay! ML came himself!
60 ohhhh so both lives both of him liked her?! lol GIRL YOU LUCKY
62 O.o what is JY trying to learn about sex?! 😱😹
67 Wait so [now] he’s 28 & she’s 15?
72 oh no. I don’t like him being cold to her now that he knows of the 2 lives & the ~separation. COURT HER YOU DUMMY. She obviously isn’t indifferent to you… (COME ON AUTHOR, GIVE US THE GOODS)
75 wait what who discovered what so quickly?!
76 😒😡 it’s super annoying his shit brothers endlessly target him. Fucking assholes, focus on each other! Also annoying they just are allowed to be so rampant. Why isn’t the emperor doing anything. Any officials censoring or impeaching them.
83.1 <.< what’s with the bell on her anklet?! lol and what’s with the anklet? (And oops I forgot to note the chapter she started having sex with Wei 😜🤷🏻♀️💯) Very recently though 83.2 yikes a[nother] assassination attempt. Princess ChangHe really does like them. Hopefully 8th princess consort Wan Chun’er gets a clue
86 lol to Wei being the actually more naughty/ruthless one. Interesting he saved P8. Hopefully the good of the last life carries through.
87.1-2 random past life extra 🤷🏻♀️ (1st encounter with ML in pt2)
88 back to now! lol I’m actually disappointed! Oh no lol I don’t like her pet name ChouChou … and his ShengHeng is so much more stately Lolol a THIRD anklet?!
90 eek is she really pregnant?! (Also wtf why can everyone just always target ML without any actual repercussions?!) 😒 so now he’s grand commandant - had to relinquish his military power? And so no CP established.
92 ❤️❤️❤️ he’s so attentive - I love him! Both hims!
96 the lantern festival they were so cute
100 💪💪💪 yaaaas a son!!!
Fuuuck consort dowager Hu is going to cause problems - WHY AREN’T THEY GUARDED AGAINST HER
104 oh damn prince Jin is probably the son of Prince An, so he’s the current emperor’s nephew not son - I hope it’s all shown out in the open soon And WAIT WHAT?! ML is now the CP & the emperor is planning to abdicate?! Author you can’t be so nonchalant with such thunderous news!!!
108 lol yikes - even KNOWING he’s ML & this is a romance I’m nervous about this lantern festival rebellion where Qin etc are trying to take him down! (lol I even got nervous & checked how many more chapters - ahhh lots of stress to come!)
109 😹☠️ Qin utterly defeated
😡 110.1 if this shit ass prime minister Wu still supports p Zhao they both deserve even more miserable defeats than Qin.
111 he’s already emperor & she just got conferred empress!
Qianwu emperor reigns! Taihe era over!
112 I really like this grand empress dowager “The Grand Empress Dowager did not answer directly, but instead stood up and said, "When one grows old, one always likes to overthink. I hope my Commandery Princess Minghui can be well, and I also hope that others can be well, just like this, well and good, how wonderful."”
113.1 Whoa. Fourth month of the second year FL, empress Mei had a second son ❤️ O.o 10th month 4th year a daughter. AUTHOR WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!
114 whoa. They found their (first life) tomb - and themselves in it?! Then jump back to the first life meeting.
124 lol ML was so turned on he came in his pants while sleeping - still no sex!
127 😿😿😿 oh no MeiFang is dead
134 oof that summed up the past life. He really loved her so much. And … weird/what he chose to restart her at the estate, but then he went back to when he was a child?! What?! And now they’re back in the present…
135 lol they ended up cockblocking themselves on a special day. (Wait but why is she mad? Cuz the two can commune? Also WTF from last c on the 3 having telepathy)
139 ahhh end of main text
140 a (second?) daughter who is now 4 - YiNing. ShuNing is now 13 😱. This son Ji Yu is 8.
141 ew. What in the hell. What an unnecessary gross extra, just MWX’s miserable end. It’s what she deserved but a terrible note to end the book on
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