You Look Like You’re Made of Mone

Read this a while back. Looking at the summary, the first two lines are bit mistranslated. It should be something like this instead:

Basically MC was the emperor's one true love in her last life. He was about to make her the empress when she died. She knew she had his heart (at the time), but wasn't in love with him, because she knew better than to fall in love with someone in his position, who already had a harem besides. But she also knew how to keep his heart on her, because she knew that it was the only way for her to eke out a living in the emperor's inner court as someone who didn't have a powerful family behind her.

IIRC it wasn't just MC's family behind the arranged marriage. ML's grandparents were really good friends with MC's paternal grandparents, and they treated her like their own granddaughter from the beginning. In fact, the ML originally had zero intentions of marriage or starting a family (he was a workaholic who probably thought himself aromantic), but was also strong-armed into the marriage to MC by his grandparents.

In the same line, MC's family knew ML, or at least, knew the standards by which he'd been raised by his grandparents. And thus by their standards (and indeed, by most anyone's objective standards), ML is the best possible husband/son-in-law material in their eyes.

Also, the fact that MC's family never realized her soul was replaced is because MC intentionally avoided spending a lot of time with anyone who knew the original host well, in order to avoid suspicions on her big change in personality. It's also one of the major reasons she never planned on ever associating with original host's ex-BF to begin with. ML was already wierded out by her sudden change in personality, and he was someone who associated very little with original host during their brief marriage before MC transmigrated. MC is also very very very good at reading people and manipulating her words and silences, which also helped throw off suspicions when she was in the company of familiar people. 

MC's ex is an ass. He expects her to do everything. Take note, she's married. They did meet even after she got married but never crossed the line because she has strict, moral integrity. Refused to do anything sexual until she divorces ML. So, ex expects her to come to him, meet him when she goes out, waits for her to deal with her marriage, and makes excuses when she blatantly asks him not to spend time with his adoptive sister. Is it any wonder when original soul of MC's body actually gave him a call and said something along the lines of, "You know, I'm actually scared. I'm scared that I might cross the line and do something with you. Can you understand my situation? Can you comprehend what would happen to me if I crossed that line? I'm also afraid that I might actually fall out of love with you."

What was his response? He impatiently tells her he's tired and can they talk about this another day? Hangs up, goes back to sleep. ML actually later calls him on it. "When have you actually taken the effort to take her from me? You know her longer than I do so you must know her favorite places so why didn't you go to her then? You know where she lives, so why didn't you go to our house to have a talk with her? You've never even dared to walk around our neighborhood. Any relationship without hard work is not worth showing off."

Edit: Had to change a line because it was way off. 

Eh... yes, the original host's family was terribly flawed, but at least they weren't recurring villains like in a lot of stories with antagonistic families. Their flaws are also pretty realistic, and they didn't show up enough to make things over the top, which is why I have little impression of them in the general sense.

Now if you really want to feel sorry for the original host, you gotta ponder on the existential angst of whether she was meant to exist at all. I mean, considering that the host had the exact same name *and appearance* as MC, and was perfectly poised to marry the reincarnation of the emperor who loved MC in their last life... it's pretty obvious that this body was always intended to be MC's. My suspicion is that MC was supposed to reincarnate normally into this body and have a normal romance with ML, but then something went wrong with the reincarnation, which resulted in some other poor soul stuck getting married to ML who she didn't love, and then MC getting shoved in later on with her memories, before her destiny with ML could be wrecked by a divorce.

Anyway, I think the best part I like about this particular novel is the fact that both MC and ML are blessed with high EQ and it shows. After reading so many stories where the author excuses their dog blood plots with the "low EQ" excuse, it's refreshing to read something where forced misunderstandings don't happen because the main pairing actually work on maintain their relationship and communication. 

I get what you're saying now. It gets mighty boring. Also, sorry to the side characters but I just don't care about their issues. The repetitive explanations of why so and so are like this and why so and so did this is just so irritating to me. It's superfluous and contributes nothing to the story. Frankly, I also didn't care to see chapter after chapter about their kids. Author should have ended it WAAAAAY earlier. Right now, I'm just skimming chapters just to finish the novel in MTL. 

Note: I haven't finished reading this (only about 1/4 way), so my comment is based on what I have read.

As bad as the ex-boyfriend is, I actually dislike orig host's family more. They can say that they care for her and her future but in the end, they treated her as commodity, not caring a bit about her feeling. They knew from the beginning about the arranged marriage that might happened, so they gave orig host all the education needed for rich madam, but have they ever consider her feeling?

If the family was very poor, I might be able to understand them wanting orig host to marry for better future, but their family was at least middle to middle-upper. Now by sacrificing orig host, they can move to upper society and send all of their youngsters to study overseas, but what about orig host? They don't even realised the orig host (the soul) has gone, they only thought MC has now "understand their hard work" and became "sensible". By "hard work", I supposed their efforts of giving orig host the education needed for rich madam.

The author's statement of "These relatives might have their own selfishness but they really cared about Su Yan." was really contradicting. Su's mother and father was described as really loved Su Yan, yet why did they forced her? Was ML the only good man left in their world? 

If I'm presented with what SY is getting by her family, I will def say YES. Especially when the family alr knews the future son in law value is all good, and not fake.
However, that's because I doesnt have the live SY has. The pampered miss of wealthy family, with extra money to throw away with buying expensive and branded stuffs, can have good education and not to think of how expensive the school, not to mention she still get money every month even if she doesnt marry.
And SY is just a young girl without much awareness of outside world. As a pampered spoiled young miss, she only wants what she wants without knowing the right and bad.

People that dont have much, will try to get the most stable way to survive. Isnt that how most of transmigrated MC will act? They all are after all, me XD 

Reading up to the latest translated chapter 34 part 1.....

I'm dumbfoubded by the sheer amount of women trying to hook up with ML. I mean I know MC also has guys after her, but from my count I think it was that ex and I think most probably Lu Yang. But with ML....my gosh. We had that actress Huag Yuwei something, then Wang SiQi and a little one from another actress same company with Yuwei and then latest is when they went on a honeymoon and a short haired girl tried to pick up ML in front of MC. I know it's only a small part of the story because there was no name of that short haired girl....but the sheer amount of nasty scheming women in this novel is terrifying hahahaha I can't say it's not the same in real life, I do feel there are more scheming girls than men. (This novel is really a down to women.) I just wished though in this novel, he faceslapped them. But usually he just gives them a subtle warning and leaves. I would wish for him or MC to reprimand them. Cheating or getting involved in another couple's relationship is wrong. They should teach them that, instead of just leaving them aside and done. At least for Shen Peiyan, he got reprimanded by a lot. I hope this will happen for that Wang Siqi girl too.

Anyway, I hope that's the end of many rivals. I can't stomach more people getting in between them. Although, the leads did not get swayed but the repeated doings of that just lets you down on the morality of people, you know? Spoil me if you guys do know! 

Please. Can someone spoil ML's dream about his previous life ( emperor's life)