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So another rebirth-revenge plot (sigh).Personally I love them, but I understand that they require a bit more thought and effort than modern stories especially if you are going to involve court politics. It needs to find the right balance of romance and schemes/conspiracies to make it good. And this story doesn't do good too good of a job of either. I'm happy to say it's not bad, the translation is ok but gets wonky more often that I'd like but you can power through it if you are bored. What I really could not stand is the MCs lack of presence.This is the first time I've read a story where the protagonist is easily dwarfed by her side characters. I don't know if this is due to the author shifting perspectives too many times or bad translation but the moment the POV shifts? She disappears.In good stories, even if we are in someone else's POV, we never forget that this is the protagonists story, she's always lingering in the periphery of the plot. Here, even when she's in the background, in the thick of things, when the camera focuses on someone else, MC might as well be dead. It'd be ok if the novel was aiming for that GOT everyone's a protagonist of their own story kinda theme but that's not what's been done here. We know the is a MC but she just happens to lack presence especially when there's someone else with a bolder personality than hers.The ML is a letdown too. He's the stereotypical ML in every historical/Xianxia shoujo manhua. A powerful, aloof prince who takes one look at MC and says "interesting" and happens to suffer from cold poison or whatever version is in this story. He lacks fire and that "He just walked into a room and cancelled every other man there" thing and it feels forced when the author tries to make him so, like a kid wearing his dad's armour.
