I know that title is mouthful.
Summary: Xu Qianling was a high rank concubine, but a supporting character in a sweet ancient romance novel. She turned the tables against two main character and won. Becoming the Empress Dowager she ruled the country to prosperity, but when she was quite old she suddenly transmigrated and became a "true heiress". Girl who was swapped by a jealous nanny and lived her life for 18 years in a countryside, but after returning for six years she was still a marginalized person, not loved and not cared for. But unlike kind and sensitive girl Xu Qianling is on a whole different level and it became her pastime to pay back everyone what they deserved.
# strong female character, wealthy families, fake / true heiress plot, secret plot
Partially okay, partially I thought - author, you're going out of bounds, this is too much.
But to exlain the dissatisfaction part I need to explain the plot a bit.
The short version of this explanation would be - author includes an important character at the very beginning, forgets about this character for a very long time and then suddenly remmbers about it, so the novel feels disjointed, as if the theme of the novel changed altogether, this character brings absolutey new plotline, which is partially important and partially doesn't matter. And the ending is just too much.
Now the longer version.
At the beginning we find out that Qianling can see comments under the novel, they appeared years before the finale of the book, she, being smart as she is, figured things out and realized that the Emperor who showers her with gifts but actually doesn't touch her loves her half-sister - Xu Yao, to protect her he sent her to a cold palace where she gave birth. With this she wanted to rise to prominence but Qianling was ready and killed them both. She adopted the little prince and raised him, she became the Empress Dowager and ruled the country fairly.
Then she transmigrated and was surrounded by a lot of braindead people (actually important, kinda).
There is an important note to make. Original Qianglin actually created our FMC, because it was her way to express her desire to be stronger or to make at least someone stronger. After that she disappeared, this is why FMC knows she cannot return to her own place and will live here.
Her initial idea of revenge stemmed from the desire to let herself become powerful so when OG returns she will have those things and to punish the evil.
Another important note - Xu Yao returned to the real world. She was a transmigrator who arrived in Qianling's world. But we don't hear from Xu Yao for the most of the novel, this is why I say that this important character and plotline that will become relevant later are not mentioned for the majority of the text and the feeling of the story becomes disjointed.
The first half of the book was actually okay at first, but then you can only hear how Qianling swindled all her relatives from money for this or that. He asked her eldest brother for money because it was either her or fake heiress Xu Mingyue who would stay at the house. Xu Mingyue fucked up big time at that moment (she insisted that after the change of personality Qianling went mad, so everyone agreed to send her to mental hospital for few days, but nobody knew Mingyue hired those people and they will be relevant later. Unlucky for them Qianling was live when it happened so everyone scrambled together to help) and Qianling got permission from their grandma who was in charge to let Mingyue leave the family tree and also the house. But because Mingyue acted pitifully like a green tea would and everyone went along Qianling asked for money to buy a house. She swindled her second brother who is an actor for money to play the script on the show, because at that time the trending topics about her family were all over the place and netizens couldn't believe he would treat his biological sister so bad. Her dad was swindled of money because he believed she has a master who is knowledgable about antiques behind her, but it was Qianling all along.
Maybe at first it was funny, but the joke went on for too long. But the four family members were notorious on the internet for the longest of times and that's it.
Character info (i'll try to be short, I promise):
Grandma Xu (matriarch) could relinquich her power because all of her three sons and a daughter were bad at business, so she eyed the grandchildren who were also not promising until Qianling appeared.
1st Xu son (not important)
2nd Xu son (not important)
3rd Xu son - Xu Chengren (FMC's biol. father) believes he's a big deal because he's more successful among the three, but actually also bad at business. His first wife died. Later he remarried, but this younger wife is irrelevant until the very last part, otherwise she is in the background and not mentioned almost all the time.
- 1st son - Xu Wangyun (I may fuck up their names because I already forgot them). Wants to be an heir, but is horrible at investments. Secrely in love with Mingyue. Wanted to plot against Qianling in the last part by colluding with Mingyue's bf at that time, Fu Cheng, but was too preoccupied with love and failed.
- 2nd son - Xu Wansheng, actor (talentless), cared for Mingyue as a brother, thus never gave his real sister an ounce of care. Because of Mingyue's actions though his reputation went down the drain (the whole sending to mental hospital by unknown thugs thing) and it never recovered since he has such a low IQ and EQ.
- Xu Qianling - returned at 18, now 24. Was almost sold off to old man by her adoptive parents. Was never loved at her true home. No one was on her side.
- Xu Mingyue - not really smart, her actions go unnoticed only among family (for a reason), otherwise she always acts like a green tea and a pitiful person gaining attention. Very insecure thus she always plots against Qianling. Her goal is a wealthy family marriage and living a life of luxury and power.
Qianling's adoptive parents (classic version of preferring boys over girls):
Wang Dajian, father, was involved with crimina gangs (relevant for the case of Qianling's kidnapping to mental hospital, she also reported him and police figured he was dealing with drugs and the last part of the novel also involves someone from this side).
Wang Zu just irrelevant character, used as a plot tool to make Mingyue feel his is so useless when she needed him for schemes and such. But he was a link to connect to those who were dealing with drugs.
Niu..smth, she exited early on because once she asked to come over to Qianling's place the very next moment the two triggered a trap and she was doused with hot boiling water, a payback for Qianling's burns on her back and her burns were so severe. Later because her husband was arrested she was apprehended too.
Fu family (ML):
Old man Fu
His grandson Fu Yi (ML) he was in the military and now retired and returned to the company. He met Qianling the very first night since the girl was intoxicated, later she encountered him when she was kidnapped during mental hospital incident and this is how they got to know each other, later became neighbors and thus the close proximity began. He got to know her more, found her interesting but also dangerous, eventually fell for her.
Note: He and his wheelchair. He actually did not hurt himself but he always used wheelchair, but actually in some scenes it was evident he didn't, so it was hard to tell when he was in it or not, author just doesn't emphasize on it at all. But if he didn't at times he was too nonchalant about it. He also said he was not afraid to be seen, but what was the point anyway.. I saw no point in him doing it except for lowering vigilance of Fu Cheng. But that dude was always on a look-out anyway.
Adopted Fu Cheng. The backstory is as follows (this is full of spoilers). His parents died due to accident, he was adopted into Fu family, they were not responsible for the accident but he always thought like that because he was instigated by his uncle Li Shu, who was actually behind the accident. He wanted to seize the power of the Fu family (actually could have lived a peaceful life, but nah). For this he started dating Xu Mingyue as the person of interest, thinking she was so loved in her family it will be useful. Colluded with Xu Wanyun. Colluded with everyone actually. So he kinda plays the villain role of this story among some other thugs. He connected to the criminal gang behind Wang Dajian. This is why it went from 0 to a 100 in the last part with them kidnapping Fu Yi, strapping him with bombs, then asking Qianling to come with ransom and she was the one who stepped on a mine (don't ask questions about the details, even typing it makes me feel my IQ dropping) and the last scene is how they managed to survive.
I'll be honest, I skipped a bit at the ending, but I don't feel I'll need to know the details because by the end of it it became evident that it's going off the rails with all this stuff of plotting.
Secret plot. Should have involved a system. So to explain shortly, in this modern world a system appeared, to grant a wish the person had to write stories (one of them is a version Qianling lived in, sweet romance story). But the gist is the system plagiarized from different sources (one of which is Qianling's original story where she is a strong character with no sweet romance, but it was a draft document on her device which no one saw). If the person does not follow the path they get a backlash.
Xu Mingyue also has a system apparently, this is included in the part I skipped, but I was not surprised and didn't care. In the end Mingyue had a backlash, by that time she wanted to escape since she realized Fu Cheng knew those criminals behind her back and also was feeding her something and plotting.. really whatever.
This should have mattered but if you think about it.. it doesn't, it really doesn't matter. This plotline appeared suddenly and a good chunk of the story passed. This is where Xu Yao reappeared, forgotten for most of the story.
And the conclusion is - unsatisfactory. Many of the characters kinda got what was coming to them, but they were left hanging just like that. Because the story ends abruptly after the scene where they survived diffusing the b***.
Mingyue asked for help to save her from Fu Cheng. Criminals behind Fu Cheng - unknown. Fu Cheng himself, forgot, did he escape? He killed his uncle though. The Xu family now have Qianling as the head. Her father was paralyzed after the accident. Mingyue wanted to swindle their company of everything through her clueless brother, but was stopped in time. So this proud former pretend CEO was chased out of the company by their grandma. Have no idea about Wansheng and don't care. Qianling helped her stepmom get the money for shares she got through Xu Chengren. Such a mumbojumbo plot.
I'm laying out the most of it because I don't see a point of anyone reading it. Sorry for the harsh words, but if I forget parts of it right after reading it to me it speaks volumes.
It tried too hard with too much.
RATE: 2/5.
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