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What a legendary novel, I can't believe the day where I would outright place a female MC novel as my number 1 would come.I like The Rebirth of the Malicious Empress with Military Lineage quite a lot as well, it's at least in top 5, but that novel just had some stuff I am not really fond of. Not enough to hinder the reading experience, but still, it haunts me while reading it. And what exactly is that flaw? Welp, the male lead. The whole concept of female MC novels having the necessity of a guardian angel to look out for the MC has always annoyed me. Can't we just get a novel where the female MC gets to show off without having to rely on her bodyguard? Sadly, this novel doesn't have an independent MC commanding the 9 skies.... or whatever that idiom was supposed to be. In fact, the MC relies on the MLs A LOT. It makes me self-contradictory, but I love it. Why? It's like that saying where too much of anything is bad or something, except it's the opposite. It turned out real great. Well, basically after reading this, I learned that it wasn't about the MCs relying on MLs that I was annoyed at. It was just that every time they do it, they have this self-portrayal of weakness and incompetence. And the reason why I like Rebirth of the Malicious Empress, and even Doomed to be Canon Fodder to a certain extent, is because the MCs can handle themselves without having to rely on men. And the reason why I don't like them as much is because they will still end up relying on them anyway, with the author having to have to think of some way to make the MC fall in love with the ML. Now if we were to backtrack for a bit here, I did say that the MC in this novel still relies on them anyway. But why do I like it then? We that's because the MC doesn't take them seriously, she's only doing it because the System is forcing her to. And the fact that the Male Leads are okay with not having her makes them real likeable. Now you might've noticed by now that I've been using MLs, plural instead of singular. Well that's because after finishing a plot, she moves on to another one. She doesn't get too attached with the Male Leads, so she's fine with leaving them alone. I appreciate that a lot. Although I kinda am worried about the current arc and how it will turn out. I hope the author can maneuver her way out of it. Oh, and did I mention how cute the author is? Yeah, she's really cute. Don't ask me why, you'll know if you want to. Kinda a weird part to add this in, but the novel is that kind of novel that jabs on common tropes, and it is a very broad one for that. It's broadness is also the reason why it kept being fresh for so long (and probably for a long time to come, as long as the author doesn't go the route I fear of) as opposed to similar novels like My Disciple Died Yet Again and History's Strongest Senior Brother who abandoned their roots and ended up becoming what they were ridiculing at after their first few arcs.I like how the MC is OP and I didn't have to read half an arc's worth of stock marketing and cultivating. Author says it outright and she's just brushing it off as something that will be explained in the future, hmmmmm..... Well, I expect a lot from the novel, and what a happy coincidence to have just randomly clicked it in the NU homepage. Just a warning tho! It can get really grotesque sometimes, and I'm saying that as someone who's read the Rebirth of the Malicious Empress. You can just skim thru it if you want I guess, don't force yourself to read those small parts. They can get really disturbing (well, only that one time really, where it was too realistic, as in it could happen irl). All you need to know is that they happened. It doesn't really change the novel's tone, but it does give the novel more depth, and it makes you not underestimate the author as just what she acts like in the author notes.