I read it a long time ago (MTL). The MC dream of hers and her family ending. And she believes in that dream so she starts hiding gold and jewelry in the mountain with her brother and is found by the ML. The ML robs one of the chests with treasures. Every time the MC is doing strange things because of that dream she gets caught by the ML. The ML is plotting against the royal family, it is related to ML's mother or that it's what I remember, so he sometimes feels conflicted when interacting with the MC. If I'm not remembering wrong, that time when the MC falls into the pond in winter when she was a child, was ML's mother's fault. The grandmother of the MC tells the truth to the ML later on when he asked her about his mother.
The engagement process (because it isn't really a single moment exactly that leads to the official engagement) begins when the MC's grandmother dies, getting stabbed in the process of saving the emperor's life. Naturally, given that she did just save the emperor's life, the emperor and empress, as well as a (female) doctor is also present. The MC (and separately, her family) rushes to the grandmother's side; while the grandma is fading in and out, there's one point where she looks at the MC and thinks she's married (the MC is wearing a red palace gown; presumably, grandma thinks its a wedding dress). The ML, who ran into the MC when she was rushing into the palace and brought her over, steps up and tells her he's the husband (before she began fading in and out, the grandma mentioned she was only upset that she wouldn't be able to see her grandchildren/granddaughter get married). Since there are others around, if word of what he says gets out, it could ruin the MC's reputation.
He goes to the emperor and requests the MC's hand in marriage, given the presence of others, including a palace doctor. The emperor tries to talk him out of it (sort of...the emperor is still processing things and at the same time, mourning his aunt (the grandmother) who literally just passed away) but also knows that it could be bad for the MC and her family (who he is feeling very sorry and indebted towards right now) if word gets out. Still, he tries to assure the ML it's not necessary as he won't let word of his lie leak out. The ML stubbornly insists and the emperor, who already likes him and the MC anyway, and thinks it speaks very well of the ML's character that he is willing to do the 'honorable' thing even when given an out, says that he would be happy to bless an engagement between the two provided the MC agrees to the engagement.
It takes some time, given that now the MC and her family are going into deep mourning and the country itself is going into mourning (the emperor has his aunt buried with all the rites of a dowager empress or queen mother (not so sure with MTL if there is a difference)); The ML does in time, go over and after speaking with the MC, finally ask her. She decides he's handsome and has good taste/a good eye. Afterwards, only their families/subordinates and the emperor (maybe his immediate family though I can't remember right now) knows as again, the MC is still in mourning. The funny thing is that in the end, the emperor is rushing the two to get married--they were planning on getting married in February after the New Year...because the emperor, who has suffered a stroke by this time and is bed bound, believes that his health and recovery depends on making the MC and ML happy, he calls someone in to look for the earliest auspicious day they can marry without interfering with the MC's mourning. He moves the wedding up to December and pretty much takes over the wedding planning, to the surprise (and jealousy) of many people.
The MC's father (and brother) are absolutely hilarious. During the dowry procession, there is a huge crowd gathered and a lot of talk because of how big the MC's dowry is (since no one in the family has a scholarly bent, all the scholastic stuff was sent out with the MC for the ML, in addition to things for her as well). Someone makes a somewhat snarky comment to the MC's mother that basically is saying she shouldn't have given the MC so much since the MC is marrying out of the family and that her (the mother's) husband won't be happy about it. The MC's mother, who is awesome, very calmly states something along the lines of "Yes, he isn't happy. If I hadn't stepped in, he would have emptied out the entire household for her dowry."
The mother is teary during the wedding but the father is outright loudly bawling his eyes out (despite the crowd, the MC is able to hear him crying). As the MC leave the estate for the wedding procession, he and her brother follow behind to the door, crying and drawing the attention of the crowd for who knows how long. The mother is there, teary-eyed but also probably pretending she had no idea who they were.
This is the Xie sister (XW). She marries the second prince and they immediately have trouble. On the wedding day, the second prince didn't go to pick her up (something royal males will do so long as their brides live in the capital) but instead, sent a representative. Instead, he goes to a bamboo forest where he comes across the girl he actually likes, Shi Fei Xue, and the two are found by the MC and her party (her, her brother and his friend, the ML...maybe one or two other people) who were on their way to see some peacocks. Word of this gets back to XW (the bride/sister of ex-fiance) and, already humiliated by the second prince's refusal to pick her up personally at her family home, she thinks some more about the MC and SFX. She grows to dislike SFX more and is mixed about the MC.
Later, as her hatred of the second prince grows, her action towards the MC is more gray. In truth, the only people she's shown to genuinely care about is her family, particularly her two brothers. She doesn't like the MC but her hatred towards others, specifically the second prince, is much greater. When she learns the second prince is planning on having the MC killed, she's torn between whether to warn her or ignore it since she kinda sorta hates her (so she claims...other than saying she doesn't like the MC and is wildly jealous of her, I'm not so sure I would say she actually hates her) but does eventually secretly give the MC a note warning that the second prince is targeting her side (quite a feat considering the second prince's people are watching her and reporting to him). She purposefully makes the note a bit ambiguous, saying it's up to the MC whether or not to believe her. The MC reads the note but thinks the target is the ML (by now her husband, I believe).
Anyway, XW is very obviously on the outs with the second prince after her family suffers some incidents (more specifically, her oldest brother; more on that later) and the second prince is very blase about it. When XW sends her people to investigate, she is told the whole thing was arranged by the second prince (I don't think this is actually true but MTL made it so I couldn't be positive; the second prince not only needs to rely on the Xie family to help him ascend the throne (at least he would need to, traditionally), but despite the result of the investigation, it was the Xie family, not Shi family, that were behind the attempted assassination of the MC's father). This pretty much causes her to stop trying to get along with her husband and by the time her oldest brother passes away (not having recovered from his injuries) some time later, the second prince is pretty much cemented as the person she hates the most.
While he's emperor, the empress dowager (his mother) brings XW to live with her in order to save her (XW's) life as the second prince (aka now the emperor) would have her killed otherwise. She pops up again when the ML and MC's side have breached the palace walls and gloats to him (the second prince/her husband/usurper emperor) has lost. Given the warning she gave the MC earlier (with the note) and the fact that she and the second prince absolutely hate each other so she had nothing to do with his usurping the throne (she never became empress even though her husband was emperor), she pretty much gets to go back to her family who, though no longer the powerful figures they once were, are alive and left alone for the most part. Oldest brother: After he lost his officialdom (the emperor takes it away, reasoning that under his watch, his governing territory suffered from a lot of corruption; really, he is just acting to make sure their family doesn't become too powerful) and was jailed for a while (while the investigation into said corruption was supposedly going on), he pretty much falls into depression and just spends his day drinking. He is involved in a couple of fights while out drinking and it's possible he's a belligerent drunk. In the last fight he was involved in, the other party stabbed him, specifically around the genital region. Though his family call all the doctors they can, including asking for doctors from the MC, the doctors agree that the best they can do is save his life but that it's impossible for him to ever have children. Initially, he seems to be recovering but once he learns that they can't fix his downstairs, he becomes furious and ends up getting sicker. Eventually, he passes away. It's his stabbing that really drives away any chance of reconciliation between his sister and her husband, the second prince, as the sister is upset with her husband's reaction (they were seemingly starting to get along before word of her brother's attack came; when they both went to visit, the second prince realizes where the oldest brother was stabbed, he panics, rushing out the Xie family home without telling his wife why). His sister has the entire incident investigated and is told everything was arranged by her husband, which cements the estrangement between the two. For all the ambition the Xie family may have had, they do genuinely seem to care about each other and they are genuinely sad when he passes away.
The former fiance (second brother, XQL)- He regrets running away from his engagement with the MC; At the beginning of the story, he is cut off from pursuing a path in officialdom due to falling off his horse and blinding himself in one eye (the physical appearance of officials was considered important). It's his being blinded that causes his father to call him older brother home from his original post, which then kicked off the emperor jailing the brother and stripping him of his officialdom. Anyway, XQL slowly grows to realize that he was an idiot for listening to rumors about the MC rather than trusting his own judgement/what he saw/knew about her. He became injured when he was riding to give SFX a poetry book (he liked her and they had been meeting regularly to discuss poetry, etc.. over tea). Eventually, he realizes SFX isn't who he thought she was (more specifically, he realizes this the day his sister gets married when he finds her and the second prince--aka his future brother-in-law--together alone in the bamboo forest) and seems to spend quite a bit of time reflecting on his past behavior. When the second prince seizes the throne, he doesn't really have any choice but to fight on the side of the second prince given that his family was in the capital and specifically, his sister was only alive because her husband was not currently willing to kill her while she was staying with his mother/the dowager empress.
He causes the archer to miss the MC with his arrow though he is captured afterwards by the rebels, led by the MC. However, because they know he saved the MC's lives, her soldiers/army treat him better than they would otherwise. He is imprisoned initially but is later freed (along with the archer, to be talked about later) by the ML, probably because he saved the MC's life. Having no idea where to go, he is surprised when he goes to his family's estate and sees that it still belongs to them. His family are happy/relieved to see him and hurry him in. Later, the ML, after some conflict, decides to allow him to enter government, sending him to a post far from the capital. It's mentioned that his parents both cried when he (and they) received the notice about his appointment. Years in the future, as he is preparing to make his way back to the capital in order to report on his progress in officialdom/work, he is surprised to see Shi Fei Xue, who looks very different name given she is now working hard labor. They talk and he realizes just how stupid he was (again) as she no longer hides her real self and he learns how he was taken in by her.
Xie parents: They are alive at the end of the story. The father stopped being a prime minister before the second prince usurped the throne due to earning the ire of the emperor. They remain low key (or as much as possible given they are the second prince's in-laws) the rest of the story and through the usurpation of the throne and then the rebellion. It's mentioned that though they aren't as powerful as they used to be, they are still living well, if more modestly, and the MC and ML leave them be. She was exiled before the second prince usurped the throne. She takes the blame for an assassination attempt on the MC's father. It was a group of local gangsters who made the attempt on the MC's father's life (he narrowly avoided their attempt by chance when he suddenly turned his horse around after noticing the MC and the ML nearby and deciding he will go talk to them) and the guy who recruited them, a worker from the Huiwang household (the emperor's brother and the one the former emperor wanted to place on the throne) which had pretty much been eliminated for plotting a rebellion/assassination attempt on the current emperor (the stabbing that ended up killing the MC's grandmother instead of the emperor), was found dead in a secluded/abandoned temple with a rare pearl in his mouth. The pearl was only sold to three households in the capital, and of the three (which included the MC's family...hilariously, the investigators are dumbfounded by their wealth because it was a rare pearl but the MC's family had it placed in their warehouse and promptly forgot all about it soon after purchasing it. The empress had sent them a better pearl not long after this pearl was bought.) Anyway, of the three families, the other two pearls were accounted for and when they (the investigators and not long after, the MC who literally barges into the Shi family's home and then SFX's courtyard) go to the Shi family home, its eventually discovered (the Shi family tried their damndest to prevent anyone from checking) that the pearl found on the dead man came from SFX's shoes, which she had decorated with the pearl.
SFX's brother does try to help her but is stopped by their father. She is brought to the jail where she is treated well but she knows her family, more specifically her father, has given up on her and will sacrifice her for the greater good (aka, for the rest of the family). Even though she wasn't responsible, she gives a false confession (so as to take all the blame herself and not implicate her family) and is exiled to hard labor far away (coincidentally, she is sent to the same region/place where the MC's former fiance will later be sent as an official to). Her family doesn't see her off as she is being sent away to begin her exile but the MC does have someone deliver a package with clothes and money anonymously (though she figures it out). In the future, she does meet the MC's ex-fiance again and amongst other things, tells him about the time she tried to kill the MC by shoving her into a lake when they were kids. He (ex fiance) has her moved to a job that is less difficult/harsh but has promised himself he won't allow her to return back to the capital. Meanwhile, she has him promise not to tell her brother he saw her and to let her brother think she is dead so that he can move on with his life without being burdened by his family, given that the Shi family has fallen. One of the things that I liked about this story is that people are gray. There's no purely good or purely bad people. Even the second prince is a bit sympathetic (very very mildly so) when he tells his father about how he used to admire him and sought his approval as a boy but realized his father would never allow him a chance at the throne. He also blames his father for engaging him to XW (his wife) instead of SFX, who he was known to love. The reason was that his brother (the crown prince) had married SFX's older sister and the father was unwilling to allow the Shi family to have two daughters married into the royal family.
Son/brother: When we meet him (he'll be referred to as SJ), he has just returned to the capital to take up a position as an imperial guard. Some years earlier, he requested to be sent to the border as he was in love with the MC and at the time, she had just become engaged (to the ex fiance from the Xie family). He is probably the most likeable person in the Shi family and cares very much about his family. Despite knowing their faults and being aware of what they may be capable of, he does his best to protect them (he's aware that SFX is capable of possibly killing/having someone killed but she's his sister and he still tries to prevent the investigators from entering her courtyard to search it). On the day his sister is sent away to begin her exile/hard labor, he is prevented by his father from seeing her off. His father had lied and told him his sister would be sent away two hours later than she actually was; therefore, he's unable to see her one final time or to give her the things he's packed for her. After the ML and MC rebel, he originally fights for the second prince because the second prince has taken his family (sans SFX who has been exiled by this point) hostage.
He's sent to lead the army with (but really, under) the Evergreen King who, by this time, is showing just how arrogant and conceited he is. Despite having no experience in the army, the Evergreen King refuses to listen to the advice of experienced military personnel because he is convinced he knows better than them. When SJ's predictions are proven correct and after SJ and his men are captured by the MC, the Evergreen King is able to escape while his men are roundly defeated by the ML (the ML's group and the MC's group had split into two; once this was discovered, SJ was sent with his men to the second location. Mind you, SJ had previously warned of this happening but was ignored by the Evergreen King) and the Evergreen King places the blame for the loss on SJ's shoulders, making him out to be a traitor to the emperor (aka second prince). The second prince, now crazed emperor, believes him and has his father executed. Once SJ learns of this, he joins the rebels/ML and MC (he previously rejected joining them, telling them it doesn't matter what he personally thinks or wants because his family are being held captive in the capital so his life is the second prince's).
He struggles(d?) with the burden of being the Shi heir/only son and often regrets that he has to take his position (prior to the rebellion, at least) into consideration
Father (aka one of the (former) prime ministers): Is beheaded by the second prince (by this time, emperor) who believes SJ has joined the rebels. This, ironically, pushes SJ to actually join the rebels.
Mother: Nothing is mentioned specifically but it can be assumed she suffered the same fate as her husband.
Sister (not SFX, but SFX's older sister): Married to the crown prince and dislikes the MC bc the crown prince is fond of her. Though her relationship with her husband was originally good, it becomes strained after she convinces him to plead to the emperor (his father) for the Shi family when the Shi family is in trouble; this causes the emperor to be disappointed in and admonish the crown prince and through him, her, for forgetting who they are and acting as if they are part of the Shi family. While this isn't the only reason for the strain, it is the catalyst as previously, the crown prince had pretended not to know when she acted out. When the second prince usurps the throne, she is placed under house arrest with the crown prince and both are grossly underfed. She is horrified when the crown prince refuses to become emperor. Despite knowing that she doesn't love him but rather, loves the position of empress, the crown prince stays with her until he learns she sent assassins (who had been loyal to him) after the MC and had them blame it on the second prince who was, by then, already in prison. At that point, he refuses to continue protecting her and left her fate up to the ML/now emperor. Her brother, SJ, appears at this point, learns what's going on and pleads for her to be released to his custody (there is no actual proof, iirc, that she was involved), swearing she won't be allowed to do anything against them again. The MC and ML agree. He takes her back to his place and has to go back to work. She is very sweet towards him and after he leaves, she kills herself, knowing that so long as she is alive, her brother will never be able to be really trusted by the emperor and empress, and thus, that he would never be able to have a successful career. Honestly, I think SJ may be the only person in their family that either Shi daughters genuinely care for. Certainly, he is the only one in the family who cares for them more than the family name. Empress/Dowager Empress: She is treated well by both the MC and ML after they ascend the throne. Though she does genuinely care for the MC, due to the fact that she and the ML became the rulers and ended her family's dynastic rule, their relationship does suffer and isn't as close/warm as it used to be. She pleads for the second prince even though she knows what he did was unforgivable. The MC believes she is the most pitiful/pitiable person in the entire royal family/situation because nothing was within her control and she is genuinely a good hearted person whose goodness is what leads her to suffer so much. Though she knows her youngest son imprisoned his father/her husband and his brother/her other son, and that the second son was responsible for the death of her husband (though they had been growing distant since his initial stroke), she is still his mother and can't help caring for him. She lowers herself to beg the MC for leniency when her daughter (I think? I can't remember the specific relation atm) colludes with others to assassinate the ML.
Princess Anniling (sp?)- She is friends with the MC from the beginning of the story; was in a miserable marriage before becoming widowed and has since developed a strong aversion to marriage in general. Though she is friends with the MC, after the ML becomes emperor, she conspires with members of the court to have him assassinated. Her intention is to "free" the MC from the ML (her aversion to marriage makes it so that she is unable to understand how anyone could actually like being married; she doesn't believe the MC truly loves the ML or he, her) while also taking revenge on the ML for the fall of her family (the change in dynasty). The court officials, however, want to bring down the MC and so change things up so that the assassin implicates the MC (the assassin was one of her maid servants). The MC is understandably furious since the ML was stabbed a couple of times and lost a lot of blood, losing consciousness and developing a fever. She punishes the princess by having her sent to be tortured (not officially; it's just that the place she is sending her to "learn" is known for its torture), breaking off their friendship.
The empress dowager pleads with the MC to retract her decree/punishment for something else but the MC refuses.
Crown Prince- Initially, he and his wife live well in the capital in their own palace/place following the ascension of the ML and MC as rulers. The ML pays him a lot of respect while he is constantly telling him not to be so respectful, as the ML is the emperor and he is not royalty anymore (despite the ML still leaving him a prince title). After learning his wife plotted to assassinate the MC, he withdraws his protection of her and also requests to be sent to guard the emperor's tomb. This essentially places him in exile and will prevent him from returning to the capital for the rest of his life. He is stunned when his family is implicated, again, in another assassination attempt of a royal family member (ML this time, I think). Though he is found to have nothing to do with the attempt, it does still pretty much put the kibosh on his relationship with the MC and the ML which is unfortunate as they all genuinely cared for each other (I think at this time, his mother also decides to move closer to him but will need to recheck)
Hui Princess- Please note I'm not sure what she is actually called. MTL called her a couple of different things, none of which is Hui (Hwa? I'm too tired to double check) Princess, including County (similar to the MC), etc. She is the emperor's niece in the beginning of the story, the daughter of his brother who the previous emperor intended to hand the throne to. Though she doesn't like the MC at first, after her parents pass away (the emperor had them killed as the father sent assassins after him; he disguised it as them dying in a fire that burned down their estate), she grows to think more kindly of her and sees the MC's family as being the only genuine people in the capital. After her parents pass, she and her brother are sent to live in the palace where she knows she and her brother will suffer due to her father's actions and having no real protection; on the way to the palace, none of her friends or their families, or anyone who professed friendship with her family previously, dared to send someone to ride alongside her or offer any comfort/sympathy. Only the MC's brother was willing to ride along the way and when the MC sees her when her cart was stopped, they exchange some words and she is touched by the MC's compassion towards her. She (somewhat bitterly) laughs at herself for ever thinking about the ML.
Second Prince: Kept in isolation in the dungeons. Is going insane due to the isolation (he is locked away from everyone else, in a separate cell within a room (or so it sounds like it) and there is no one there to talk to. The only time he sees other people is when the guards are dropping off his food. He is beginning to lose his grip on reality and thinks the warden (who has investigated a couple of cases for the MC and ML now, including the attempted assassination of the MC's father) is some genius when it comes to torture. The truth is just that the warden's "torture" of him is entirely unintentional.
Evergreen King: Jailed; in both timelines, he was secretly working with the second prince. In the first time line, he was jailed until the ML from the second timeline (story proper) wakes up and discovers himself in the first timeline and also learns the MC died long ago. He then sentences the Evergreen King to be executed; that night, after the ML falls asleep, he wakes up back in story proper (aka second timeline, aka our story's timeline). In this timeline, he is captured by the MC when he attempts to flee the capital, having used make up to disguise himself. Due to the ML's conjectures and knowledge of him, the MC is able to determine the disfigured man was actually him and reveals his identity to the people around him who are understandably angry and throw vegetables and fruit at him. While in prison, he still acts like a smart*ss. The ML calls the archer who the Evergreen King originally ordered to shoot the MC forward. He then tells the archer that if the archer shoots X amount of arrows through the Evergreen King without killing him, he will allow the archer to go free. While the archer is hesitating, the ML may or may not allude to the safety/well-being of the archer's mother. Thus, the Evergreen King becomes a (living) human pin cushion. The guards are told to release the archer (and XQL at the same time, who is in a nearby cell).
Read this a long time ago. It's by the same author as To Be A Virtuous Wife, Eight Treasures Trousseau, Ascending Do Not Disturb, etc. etc.
Setting is ancient China. The MC is not a transmigrator for once though. She is reborn...sort of...she wakes up one day with vague dreams of stuff that happened in the previous timeline, mainly situations that triggered strong emotion in her. But she doesn't know the details of what will happen when and how certain events will come to be. Like, she knows that her family will lose favor when the current emperor dies, and then afterwards, the throne will be usurped away from the current imperial family, and by that point her family was nearly out on the streets.
Her family is distantly related to the emperor, and they are a family of wastrels on purpose, because being too smart/capable in their situation would cause the emperor to suspect them and want to get rid of them. They are looked down upon by the other nobles who do achieve their positions by merit, and it's why MC was dumped several times, not that she cares.
MC's entire family is really really skilled at currying favor with the emperor though, and that's how they had kept their high noble position. But now with MC's premonitions, they gotta start planning for the future when the emperor who favors them won't be around, and that leads to some funny stuff. Especially later when she recognizes the guy who is going to somehow take over the throne in her dream future, and they somehow get engaged...
Novel Title : I am this type of woman Description : A stupid father with good luck, a kick-ass and protective mother, and a dandy younger brother all want a principal husband.
Her engagement has been broken off three times yet she does not panic.
Beautiful and magnificent clothes, golden beams in their house.
She has money, she has power, why would she need a husband?
This is a story about a garish woman who has had her engagement broken off three times and a hypocrite of a man.
One more thing that is still unclear to me, if you don't mind. Who was the one cause YQ's illness? Did ML was the one who cause YQ's illness and nightmare, or was it a pure illness and YQ's nightmare is purely his guilt?
The physical killer was a talented, but little known, archer. He initially gets mentioned/pops up during the Autumn hunting trip. The one behind him is one of the MC's cousins through the royal family. MTL has him called the Evergreen King and I can't remember his name off the top of my head. He seemingly has a friendly relationship with both the MC and ML, admiring the ML's art and calligraphy (iirc). I remember him more for the bird incident, where he brought the MC and ML over to his place to show them his new parrot, who ends up basically implying he (Evergreen King) has intentions of becoming emperor (he shouts out "Long Live" which is something that is said only to the emperor)...though it was initially believed someone was setting him up, it's discovered later he planned it out that way so that people would not suspect his ambitions.
I don't believe it's ever explicitly explained why he had the MC killed in the original timeline but it's worth noting that he is teamed up with the second prince who hates the MC. He has also suffered defeat/humiliation by being outsmarted by the MC and ML on the battlefield. The MC believes he teamed up with the second prince because he knows the second prince could easily be manipulated. In the present life, he takes the archer's mom hostage and uses her life to force the archer to shoot at the MC so it's possible that was the case in the previous life as well.
In one of the extras, the ML wakes up and finds himself in the original timeline, some 10-12 years after the MC's death which is also the length of time he's been emperor (the day the MC passed, she was out because he invited her to meet him at a tea house; according to his trusted aide/right hand man, he had already successfully led the rebellion at the time). Anyway, he's confused and immediately wants to know where the MC is, but is told she passed away ~10 years ago, and that he had her buried with the honors of her (by then former) status/title. He's upset that he didn't have her buried with the honors he feels she deserves--as his wife/the empress. A couple of days later, he hands out a death sentence to the Evergreen King, who had been imprisoned all this time and later that night, he is overheard by his right hand man crying over the MC. Afterwards, he wakes up back in his timeline.
ETA: Something I found amusing in the story was the shock to the system the ML and his people experienced when they first heard the language the MC used, cursing out the other side before battle (apparently, there is time honored tradition before battle where the two sides exchange insults in attempt to basically disturb the mindset of the other side so that they will hopefully make a mistake later in battle). It's hilarious how they go from "How dare [the opposite side's general] curse and cuss at our master's wife! She might be leading the army but she is still a lady who has been pampered all her life and never heard such language!" to "Who? What? What's happening? Whose that person cursing and cussing out the other's side, giving as good as she got?! What did she just say?! How did her family raise her?!!!" and then gradually shift to awe. Hilariously, when she notices they seem out of it, she mistakenly decides its because they were raised too delicately and tells them she will let someone in the army known for his ability to cuss out people teach them when there is free time.
