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Noble Wife Wants No Love 豪门女配不想拥有爱情
Xu Xinyi woke up and had obtained a system, the system told her that she was a female partner with a miserable/desolate end.
In order to prevent this ending, Xu Xinyi driven by the system worked diligently on what a female partner should do.
Yi Yang couldn’t tolerate it anymore/at the end of one's patience, and at last mentioned divorce.
Xu Xinyi’s heart felt ecstatic as she put the divorce agreement in front of her husband and with a sorrowful, heartbroken look on her face waited for her husband to sign.
—“Hurry up! Sign quickly! I can finally leave this darned place!”
Suddenly Yi Yang who could hear Xu Xinyi’s thoughts threw away the pen and said, “Not leaving.”
***
Ever since Yi Yang discovered that he could hear Xu Xingyi’s thoughts, he found that his wife kept kissing up to him and saying she loved him but in her heart, she would laugh at that.
She loved him on the surface.
“Husband, you are so nice, I love you very/so much ah!”
—“I won’t be spending the rest of my life with this arrogant man forever, will I? I am the most wretched woman in this world!”
She yelled at Yi Yang: where am I not good! Tell me! I can still change! Won't that work then?
In order to prevent this ending, Xu Xinyi driven by the system worked diligently on what a female partner should do.
Yi Yang couldn’t tolerate it anymore/at the end of one's patience, and at last mentioned divorce.
Xu Xinyi’s heart felt ecstatic as she put the divorce agreement in front of her husband and with a sorrowful, heartbroken look on her face waited for her husband to sign.
—“Hurry up! Sign quickly! I can finally leave this darned place!”
Suddenly Yi Yang who could hear Xu Xinyi’s thoughts threw away the pen and said, “Not leaving.”
***
Ever since Yi Yang discovered that he could hear Xu Xingyi’s thoughts, he found that his wife kept kissing up to him and saying she loved him but in her heart, she would laugh at that.
She loved him on the surface.
“Husband, you are so nice, I love you very/so much ah!”
—“I won’t be spending the rest of my life with this arrogant man forever, will I? I am the most wretched woman in this world!”
She yelled at Yi Yang: where am I not good! Tell me! I can still change! Won't that work then?
92 pages, Web Novel
First published October 2, 2019
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Gongzi Wenzheng
9 books2 followersAssociated Names:
* Gongzi Wenzheng (English)
* 公子闻筝 (Chinese)
* กงจื่อเหวินเจิง (Thai)
* Công tử Văn Tranh (Vietnamese)
* Gongzi Wenzheng (English)
* 公子闻筝 (Chinese)
* กงจื่อเหวินเจิง (Thai)
* Công tử Văn Tranh (Vietnamese)
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June 14, 2021
Well, this book was ok but i couldn't understand why people enjoyed it so much. I mean, the romance was practically not there and authord crammed in all the romantic bits into the last few chapters. The story was mostly exciting due to the supporting male characters and their interactions with our main lead. If it wasn't for them, I'm afraid the whole story would've plummeted to the bottom long ago and would be simply unreadable.
That probably sums up my impressions of the whole story.
That probably sums up my impressions of the whole story.
November 19, 2020
BEWARE of SPOILER
Xu Xinyi transmigrated into a body of the second female lead with a bad ending. She had two choices to change her destiny; one was to whitewash her image and obtain the love of the male lead or two, to carry on as the villain. Xu Xinyi chose the second option with the exception that she would never bother the male and female lead anymore like the previous owner of the body. On the outside, she have to remain as a love struck fool towards the male lead but, in the inside, she hated the male lead to the core. The system however, had another thinking as it gave Yi Yang, the male lead, the capability to read Xu Xinyi's mind. The story was tag as 'love interest falls in love first' because it was indeed the situation. Yi Yang fall in love with Xu Xinyi and it was hilarious that he had to listen to her trash talk about him in her mind.
Xu Xinyi transmigrated into a body of the second female lead with a bad ending. She had two choices to change her destiny; one was to whitewash her image and obtain the love of the male lead or two, to carry on as the villain. Xu Xinyi chose the second option with the exception that she would never bother the male and female lead anymore like the previous owner of the body. On the outside, she have to remain as a love struck fool towards the male lead but, in the inside, she hated the male lead to the core. The system however, had another thinking as it gave Yi Yang, the male lead, the capability to read Xu Xinyi's mind. The story was tag as 'love interest falls in love first' because it was indeed the situation. Yi Yang fall in love with Xu Xinyi and it was hilarious that he had to listen to her trash talk about him in her mind.
March 12, 2021
def a better chinese novel i've read!! quick, really fun and sweet. i felt like the romance kinda bloomed out of nowhere on xu xinyi's end, and wished it had been developed more, but all in all so cute. yi yang was thankfully better than most love interests, and i'm glad he respected xu xinyi's career more than a shit ton of other love interests do. pretty cliche at times, but the protagonists were interesting and different than most. xu xinyi was so likable, and the dynamic between the two mixed with the premise of the book worked so well. all in all funny, romantic, and good. nothing super special, but definitely recommend!
November 15, 2022
15 Nov 2022
1. Hello future me. I looked through this book again and the first few chapters were excellent so I thought I'd read the rest and oof- it's not worth it, future me. It goes on for too long and I know I say this in the longer review but you have no idea. Don't let the early chapters make you spend time on this again; it isn't worth it.
22 Nov 2021
1. Transmigrator is now a villainess in a modern-day upper class Chinese society soap opera. She's married to a guy who will soon divorce her in-canon, and is doing her best to speed up said divorce so she can be free of all this nonsense and live a life filled with money and handsome young men. Unfortunately, right as her husband decides to end things once and for all, he gains the ability to read her real thoughts. Since her thoughts are so different from her actions and what she's saying, he becomes intrigued and baffled enough to delay the divorce (the transmigrator screeches and curses him out in her head while being pathetically grateful outside it- it's fun), and they slowly develop a relationship over the course of the rest of the book.
2. I've not actually read many (or any) transmigrated to modern day novels before this, for a variety of reasons. They mostly have to do with tastes born from economic dissonance. Stories about nobility and royalty and absolute power set in a fantasy world are not the best, but they are removed enough from my current reality that I can just go with the flow. Not so much with modern day stuff. When the hero or heroine spend literal millions on a shopping spree for uh- bags? Belts? Watches? Idk man. They buy the weirdest shit. Why doesn't anyone buy a laptop with exceedingly good specs is what I'm asking.
3. ANYWAY. They buy all this stuff. They buy a lot of it. It makes me close my eyes, take a deep breath, and fervently wish for the French Revolution 2.0. It's also particularly bad in romances like this, since money and how people throw it around on superficial things is used to indicated (a) love or (b) happiness. It just really rubs me the wrong way.
4. It's a testament to how incredibly entertaining the heroine was in all her pretty, petty glory that I read two chapters worth of her casually scheming and being bitchy and decided immediately how I had to read more about her, guillotine fantasies notwithstanding. None of this long-suffering noble lady crap for our girl, nossir. She's here to be snide and cackle gleefully and I love her for it. Her fakeness combined with her internal voice (which is foul-mouthed and blunt) is BAFFLING to her husband. He's also totally here for it. It makes life way more interesting than it was before.
5. This could be a character flaw, but "assholes in love" is something I am really, really into.
6. Then we have all the usual tropes- scheming women who want the husband to be theirs, love interests who fall for the heroine and turn the husband into a gently simmering vinegar jar, secret babies, financial rivals, family drama and so forth. When I said soap opera, I was not exaggerating.
7. It was very enjoyable at first but I do think the story lost a little steam at White Lotus Bitch #3 and Love Interest #3- at that point, things felt a little recycled. Even the hilariously cute interactions between the two main characters wasn't enough to save it at that point. BUT I do want to draw special attention to that one scene where people are bitching about her online and she goes into a rage frenzy of using sock puppets to yell back at them while her husband just looks on in disbelief. It's great. I love her.
8. Also that system really faded out there towards the end, huh? Where are the OOC penalty points? Shen Yuan from The Scum Villain's Self Saving System would look at this easy-going system and cry tears of rage.
1. Hello future me. I looked through this book again and the first few chapters were excellent so I thought I'd read the rest and oof- it's not worth it, future me. It goes on for too long and I know I say this in the longer review but you have no idea. Don't let the early chapters make you spend time on this again; it isn't worth it.
22 Nov 2021
1. Transmigrator is now a villainess in a modern-day upper class Chinese society soap opera. She's married to a guy who will soon divorce her in-canon, and is doing her best to speed up said divorce so she can be free of all this nonsense and live a life filled with money and handsome young men. Unfortunately, right as her husband decides to end things once and for all, he gains the ability to read her real thoughts. Since her thoughts are so different from her actions and what she's saying, he becomes intrigued and baffled enough to delay the divorce (the transmigrator screeches and curses him out in her head while being pathetically grateful outside it- it's fun), and they slowly develop a relationship over the course of the rest of the book.
2. I've not actually read many (or any) transmigrated to modern day novels before this, for a variety of reasons. They mostly have to do with tastes born from economic dissonance. Stories about nobility and royalty and absolute power set in a fantasy world are not the best, but they are removed enough from my current reality that I can just go with the flow. Not so much with modern day stuff. When the hero or heroine spend literal millions on a shopping spree for uh- bags? Belts? Watches? Idk man. They buy the weirdest shit. Why doesn't anyone buy a laptop with exceedingly good specs is what I'm asking.
3. ANYWAY. They buy all this stuff. They buy a lot of it. It makes me close my eyes, take a deep breath, and fervently wish for the French Revolution 2.0. It's also particularly bad in romances like this, since money and how people throw it around on superficial things is used to indicated (a) love or (b) happiness. It just really rubs me the wrong way.
4. It's a testament to how incredibly entertaining the heroine was in all her pretty, petty glory that I read two chapters worth of her casually scheming and being bitchy and decided immediately how I had to read more about her, guillotine fantasies notwithstanding. None of this long-suffering noble lady crap for our girl, nossir. She's here to be snide and cackle gleefully and I love her for it. Her fakeness combined with her internal voice (which is foul-mouthed and blunt) is BAFFLING to her husband. He's also totally here for it. It makes life way more interesting than it was before.
5. This could be a character flaw, but "assholes in love" is something I am really, really into.
6. Then we have all the usual tropes- scheming women who want the husband to be theirs, love interests who fall for the heroine and turn the husband into a gently simmering vinegar jar, secret babies, financial rivals, family drama and so forth. When I said soap opera, I was not exaggerating.
7. It was very enjoyable at first but I do think the story lost a little steam at White Lotus Bitch #3 and Love Interest #3- at that point, things felt a little recycled. Even the hilariously cute interactions between the two main characters wasn't enough to save it at that point. BUT I do want to draw special attention to that one scene where people are bitching about her online and she goes into a rage frenzy of using sock puppets to yell back at them while her husband just looks on in disbelief. It's great. I love her.
8. Also that system really faded out there towards the end, huh? Where are the OOC penalty points? Shen Yuan from The Scum Villain's Self Saving System would look at this easy-going system and cry tears of rage.
February 3, 2021
Xu Xinyi ends up transported into a novel and was given two choices: clear her bad reputation and make her husband fall in love with her, or walk the path of a villainess and be cast aside. She chose option two.
Just as her husband was about to sign the divorce paper, he heard the thoughts of his inconsolably weeping wife urging him to hurry and sign so she could stop acting.
While the element of him hearing her thoughts was... a bit creepy and worrisome at times, there were quite a few hilarious moments and it wasn't so long that I grew frustrated with the pace of the story.
Just as her husband was about to sign the divorce paper, he heard the thoughts of his inconsolably weeping wife urging him to hurry and sign so she could stop acting.
While the element of him hearing her thoughts was... a bit creepy and worrisome at times, there were quite a few hilarious moments and it wasn't so long that I grew frustrated with the pace of the story.
August 8, 2021
A flawed, but fun potato chip novel.
This is an entertainment circle novel, which is a genre that I don’t like and generally don’t read, but the premise was too intriguing for me to pass up. (In fact, to be fully accurate, I actually didn’t realize it was an entertainment novel when I started—but it became obvious within the first three paragraphs, and I decided to keep reading anyways because, again, the premise was just too promising for me to miss out on.)
Since summary on GR is a mess, I’m going to take a few moments to sketch out the basic premise of this novel before continuing on with my review. There’s also a slightly less mangled summary over on NovelUpdates, if you want to check that out instead.
The Premise
Xu Xinyi is a transmigrator who ended up in the body of a standard jealous, domineering, love-stricken villainess from a novel she’d read. Upon transmigrating, she’s given two choices by her system:
1. She rehabilitate her character, with the win condition being her obtaining the love of her husband, Yi Yang.
2. She continues on with the villainess’ original characterization, with the win condition being driving him to divorce her. (She’s not allowed to bring it up herself, as that would be going against the original “madly in love with him” characterization.)
Xu Xinyi, being a delight, chooses the second option. After all, why should she work so hard to gain the affections of a man who never treated her well when there are so many other fish in the sea?
But that’s all backstory. The novel proper actually starts two years later, when she’s just on the verge of succeeding at getting Yi Yang to divorce her. Except then, unbeknownst to her, he suddenly starts being able to hear what she’s thinking—and discovers that, in the privacy of her thoughts, his ““jealous””, ““clingy””, & ““love-stricken”” wife is actually constantly trash-talking him and plotting how to best disgust him enough to want to divorce her!
My Thoughts
This story used the humorous potential of the mind-reading to its max. Within the privacy of her thoughts, Xu Xinyi is rude, crude, and utterly shameless, and seeing the contrast between how she speaks to Yi Yang and what she’s actually thinking is already a delight. But it’s Yi Yang’s reactions to her thoughts that really steal the show for me, and I really enjoyed the creative situations that come about because of this strange ability.
I wasn’t as satisfied with the handling of the transmigration elements. They played a larger role in the beginning of the novel (mostly with the System reminding Xu Xinyi not to stray from her character settings, e.g. reminding her when she should act more vicious/love-stricken), but at some point it all just… fades out of the narrative?
I interpreted the System’s no longer giving her reminders to be more vicious being due to her accidentally switching to the first goal path—rehabilitating her reputation, gaining her husband’s love, etc—but it’s never actually stated in the main story. The System, just… vanishes. It’s lampshaded a bit in its final main story appearance, where it grumbles about how Xu Xinyi only calls on it when she needs something, but all that served to do was highlight just how much that plot element had been wasted.
The final extra does attempt to explain some of this, in that it reveals , but its motivation doesn’t fully click together with some of its earlier actions.
The pacing of the romance was really well done. It’s a slow burn process, and there was never a moment where either of the characters turned to the narrative and suddenly declared, “oh, I’m in love with this person”. Rather, the reader sees the development of their feelings through the natural shifts that occur in the ways they think and act around each other. I never actively shipped it, but I bought it, and the slow burn was satisfying to read.
I also particularly liked how Xu Xinyi was handled. Although her vicious villainess act is an act, she’s not secretly some pure and gentle soul either. She can be genuinely shallow, domineering, and rude—but she also has a genuine thread of kindness within her which she tended to express in atypical ways, and that combination worked for me.
I have qualms when it comes to the novel’s treatment of gender/sexuality , but nothing that I didn’t expect from a het entertainment circle novel. Which is to say, I wish that there’d been more sympathetic/non-villainous female characters, but I’m glad that we at least got a steady friendship between Xu Xinyi and Anya*, and that the mother-in-law was treated fairly as well.
* The translation I read was a cleaned-up MTL, so I’m genuinely not sure if this is her actual name or not.
As for sexuality—this novel does do the
Relatedly, the Anya/Luo Jie romance really didn’t work for me, to the extent that it soured the novel a little for me, and I flat-out skipped their chapters in the extras. I’m also not wild about how drunken sex encounters were handled in this novel, particularly in the case of . Though her actions weren’t great, I feel like the novel never acknowledged just how awful her situation was, and that disturbed me.
I wavered on whether to give this two or three stars—overall, I enjoyed it, thought the romance was handled well, and might even read it again, but enough side elements from the second half of the novel bothered me enough for me to feel uneasy about rating it so highly. Hence, two stars, even though I did like it well enough.
finally, Team ‘Let Jiang Nian Get The Hell Away From That Family’, my God.
This is an entertainment circle novel, which is a genre that I don’t like and generally don’t read, but the premise was too intriguing for me to pass up. (In fact, to be fully accurate, I actually didn’t realize it was an entertainment novel when I started—but it became obvious within the first three paragraphs, and I decided to keep reading anyways because, again, the premise was just too promising for me to miss out on.)
Since summary on GR is a mess, I’m going to take a few moments to sketch out the basic premise of this novel before continuing on with my review. There’s also a slightly less mangled summary over on NovelUpdates, if you want to check that out instead.
The Premise
Xu Xinyi is a transmigrator who ended up in the body of a standard jealous, domineering, love-stricken villainess from a novel she’d read. Upon transmigrating, she’s given two choices by her system:
1. She rehabilitate her character, with the win condition being her obtaining the love of her husband, Yi Yang.
2. She continues on with the villainess’ original characterization, with the win condition being driving him to divorce her. (She’s not allowed to bring it up herself, as that would be going against the original “madly in love with him” characterization.)
Xu Xinyi, being a delight, chooses the second option. After all, why should she work so hard to gain the affections of a man who never treated her well when there are so many other fish in the sea?
But that’s all backstory. The novel proper actually starts two years later, when she’s just on the verge of succeeding at getting Yi Yang to divorce her. Except then, unbeknownst to her, he suddenly starts being able to hear what she’s thinking—and discovers that, in the privacy of her thoughts, his ““jealous””, ““clingy””, & ““love-stricken”” wife is actually constantly trash-talking him and plotting how to best disgust him enough to want to divorce her!
My Thoughts
This story used the humorous potential of the mind-reading to its max. Within the privacy of her thoughts, Xu Xinyi is rude, crude, and utterly shameless, and seeing the contrast between how she speaks to Yi Yang and what she’s actually thinking is already a delight. But it’s Yi Yang’s reactions to her thoughts that really steal the show for me, and I really enjoyed the creative situations that come about because of this strange ability.
I wasn’t as satisfied with the handling of the transmigration elements. They played a larger role in the beginning of the novel (mostly with the System reminding Xu Xinyi not to stray from her character settings, e.g. reminding her when she should act more vicious/love-stricken), but at some point it all just… fades out of the narrative?
I interpreted the System’s no longer giving her reminders to be more vicious being due to her accidentally switching to the first goal path—rehabilitating her reputation, gaining her husband’s love, etc—but it’s never actually stated in the main story. The System, just… vanishes. It’s lampshaded a bit in its final main story appearance, where it grumbles about how Xu Xinyi only calls on it when she needs something, but all that served to do was highlight just how much that plot element had been wasted.
The final extra does attempt to explain some of this, in that it reveals , but its motivation doesn’t fully click together with some of its earlier actions.
The pacing of the romance was really well done. It’s a slow burn process, and there was never a moment where either of the characters turned to the narrative and suddenly declared, “oh, I’m in love with this person”. Rather, the reader sees the development of their feelings through the natural shifts that occur in the ways they think and act around each other. I never actively shipped it, but I bought it, and the slow burn was satisfying to read.
I also particularly liked how Xu Xinyi was handled. Although her vicious villainess act is an act, she’s not secretly some pure and gentle soul either. She can be genuinely shallow, domineering, and rude—but she also has a genuine thread of kindness within her which she tended to express in atypical ways, and that combination worked for me.
I have qualms when it comes to the novel’s treatment of gender/sexuality , but nothing that I didn’t expect from a het entertainment circle novel. Which is to say, I wish that there’d been more sympathetic/non-villainous female characters, but I’m glad that we at least got a steady friendship between Xu Xinyi and Anya*, and that the mother-in-law was treated fairly as well.
* The translation I read was a cleaned-up MTL, so I’m genuinely not sure if this is her actual name or not.
As for sexuality—this novel does do the
Relatedly, the Anya/Luo Jie romance really didn’t work for me, to the extent that it soured the novel a little for me, and I flat-out skipped their chapters in the extras. I’m also not wild about how drunken sex encounters were handled in this novel, particularly in the case of . Though her actions weren’t great, I feel like the novel never acknowledged just how awful her situation was, and that disturbed me.
I wavered on whether to give this two or three stars—overall, I enjoyed it, thought the romance was handled well, and might even read it again, but enough side elements from the second half of the novel bothered me enough for me to feel uneasy about rating it so highly. Hence, two stars, even though I did like it well enough.
finally, Team ‘Let Jiang Nian Get The Hell Away From That Family’, my God.
February 25, 2021
This was hilarious! I laughed so hard in certain scenes! Xu Xinyi's scolding her husband in her mind was hilarious. The amount of times she insulted him or threatened divorce in her mind was too funny. But I was the most impressed by the way she analyzed all of the other women's scheming behaviors. Not only was it enlightening, it was also hilarious.
I also love the twist in the epilogue. A lot of the extras tied up the endings for most of the side characters, which was nice. I wish the author wrote an ending for Han Xiao because his character and backstory had a lot of potential.
I also love the twist in the epilogue. A lot of the extras tied up the endings for most of the side characters, which was nice. I wish the author wrote an ending for Han Xiao because his character and backstory had a lot of potential.
January 7, 2023
I liked this novel a lot better the second reading. If you read this with the presumption of it being a comedy rather a romance, ignore any minor, strange loopholes, and just don't overthink anything, you'll love this!
July 9, 2020
It was one of the most hilarious novel that I had ever read.
October 27, 2020
Light and amusing
March 13, 2021
Not bad but I drop this because i cannot stand the male lead’s character want to beat him into pit.
August 16, 2021
recommended
January 22, 2022
Muy divertido. Cada ocurrencia de los protagonista de la historia, no te dejara soltar la historia hasta el final.
March 26, 2023
I enjoyed it
November 27, 2023
so fucking hilarious and entertaining! wasn't bored for a second!
March 17, 2024
What started as a typical transmigration into a villain charcater story, quickly went into a different direction as the ML starts hearing the MC's thoughts.
It was hilarious in the beginning to see Yi Yang being confused over Xu Xinyi's actions as they were a complete opposite from what she was thinking. Then he begins to use it to gain a better world view of people as Xinyi loves to breakdown scenarios with a cynical outlook, which makes him realise just how duplicitous people can be.
This character development is what makes their relationship possible. Xu Xinyi had thought it was destined that he would leave her; that was the plot of the original novel after all. But his determination to do well by her is what makes her give them a chance.
All in all, a very sweet story with a beautiful cast and some truly good friendship dynamics. Especially between Anya and Xinyi!
A special thanks to the translator, who has done their very best to provide a comprehensive translation.
4🌟
It was hilarious in the beginning to see Yi Yang being confused over Xu Xinyi's actions as they were a complete opposite from what she was thinking. Then he begins to use it to gain a better world view of people as Xinyi loves to breakdown scenarios with a cynical outlook, which makes him realise just how duplicitous people can be.
This character development is what makes their relationship possible. Xu Xinyi had thought it was destined that he would leave her; that was the plot of the original novel after all. But his determination to do well by her is what makes her give them a chance.
All in all, a very sweet story with a beautiful cast and some truly good friendship dynamics. Especially between Anya and Xinyi!
A special thanks to the translator, who has done their very best to provide a comprehensive translation.
4🌟
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