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I stopped at C1043 because the story is still incomplete in the raws website that I'm reading from but I will get back to the story once its completed.This is the second novel I've read from the author. I must say that this author is really talented in writing very vivid, dynamic characters. All her characters shine in their own way. Because of her talent in writing very nuanced characters - from the leads to the side characters to the villains, the story becomes very engaging and interesting to read.The plot is nothing very complicated, to be honest. The story is interesting but what makes it better is how the characters progress in the story. This is a character-driven novel. In this 1000+ chapters novel, there are many characters that appear and disappear along the way. This is unavoidable because the author often brings up new people when the main cast gets thrown into a new plotline. Some background characters are then only mentioned but they no longer appear upfront after that. So if you like long novels that focus on people, minimal faceslapping, intricate political + drama storylines: you'll definitely enjoy this story.There is also cute kids in the story that often get into trouble, but bring a lot of joy in the story. Author doesn't make the young 2-4 year old kids too smart. They're appropriate for their age group which is good.So anyway:-OP female lead transmigrates into ancient times into a chubby girl. FL is powerful. She has a lot of gold fingers. She seems like a Mary-Sue but because of how everyone else around her also have their own respective powers/gold-finger, she doesn't become overly blown up in power. She's like a humble Mary-Sueish FL. She's a facecon, gossipy, and mischievous. A fun character. Sometimes she does feel like a side-character when the story focuses on her other cousins/brothers/family.ML is a black-bellied man who's really smart and cunning. He's very mensao. Along the story he continuously improves on his martial arts and becomes better-tempered. Initially he is quite hot-tempered with a strong desire for revenge but after things settled down, he's more calm now and his cunningness shows even more.MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD.The story begins with FL trying to make her family situation better. FL's family kidnapped ML and three kids and they begin staying together as a "happy family".In reality, ML is actually the son of a fallen General and his father and brothers were wiped out in a war. ML wants to take revenge and he's finding out ways to consolidate his power. The Emperor in the Capital is on guard against ML.Basically there are several villains in this story that pop up one after another but the main overlying plotline is that someone framed the ML's family and killed his father/brothers and then caused their Emperor to doubt their loyalty and guard against them. Who framed them? Wow, that's a longggg story. But yeah, every arc is basically another person who attempted to frame ML's family.Spoiler
White Lotus Sect, King Nanyang, Beiyan people, then Western Jin, Tianyi Clan, etc. One by one new villains pop up and they were all involved somehow lol.
[collapse]So the long story is how we find out who frames the ML's family and the underlying drama behind it all.I would say more but I'm afraid it'll spoil the story, so this is all I'll say for now.It is a good read, just really long.