Yes. Manhua. I know, shocking, right? (That title is wrong. FL did not reincarnate. She regressed back to 16 yrs old self in limbo/in-between world and then popped into the other world, it seems, in her own body.)


- Yin Moxiao talking about “promotion”. A pawn can be replaced by a queen, rook, bishop or knight of the same color once the pawn reaches the other side of the board. This move is unique to the pawn piece.

Action! Palace drama! Bloody politics! Literally!✅️

Women (and men and everyone in between) all have their own back stories, motivations and agendas? The women passed the [url=]Bechdel Test[/url]?!?✅️

High ranking women who are wholesomely best friends with other high ranking women? ✅️

An ML who is not physically, emotionally or psychologically abusive?✅️

An FL who is *strategically* action-oriented?! She is NOT Too Stupid To Live! Huzzah.✅️

“Other Woman” drama makes sense and enriches the story instead of being melodramatic nonsense. >!FL and “rival” are back to back badasses once they resolve to work together.!<✅️

Immediate, decisive and most importantly *effective* communication between ML and FL? Hell, yeah.✅️

Want morbidly inappropriate humor and unintentional comedic moments?✅️

All the deaths, even of the villains, have some emotional impact. It continues to affect the rest of the story.✅️

The same memories are revisited from different perspectives and characters. Characters that don't look important and appear in a few scenes in the background are often revisited poignantly later.✅️

Satisfying revenge? ✅️ Oddly enough, the villain gets this against their abuser, too.✅️

So, in Western romance there's a thing called Body Betrayal Syndrome where the FL and/ML gets dangerously, pointlessly distracted by the other's beauty and almost forgets what they're trying to do. It happens a lot in OI where FL will be looking at a weakened or situationally disadvantaged ML and *forgetting the assassins literally seconds behind her* will stop to wax poetic about the ML's looks.

It doesn't happen between the FL and ML here. FL, however, will cheerfully weaponize this when meeting others. Granted, seeing a very leggy woman in half a miniskirt over very tight bike shorts will make *anyone* in a historical setting stop and stare in shock.

Anyone who cannot do magic is subjected to extreme prejudice...which is everyone who is below nobility or the wealthiest merchants since it takes money to find a special magic stone to help activate one's magical potential. Once you're over a certain age magic can no longer be activated. This is INCREDIBLY important.

Women are publicly shamed for being women. They're possessions so FL's new main goal in life (besides helping the prince to become emperor and keep the vultures out of his bed) is to free all the slaves, reform society and force the government to legally recognize the rights of beast folks and women.

And on those notes! Romance? 😬Well, um...honestly, I think this manhua forgot it's supposed to be a romance. ML is still cold, and useless, enough to make Antarctica look tropical by comparison some 127 chapters in.

I don't mind that the romance is going nowhere fast.

MALE LEAD - The ML and 3rd Prince in line for the throne. Cold, brooding and aloof. Believes himself to be some kind of 5d chess master when it's actually his Mother, the Empress, and FL who's doing all the thinking, planning, strategizing and execution of any plan he thinks he came up with.

The only concrete action he took was to give FL the authority to gather ANY resources she wanted. Anything.


Bizarrely he keeps yelling that he'll NEVER love the FL no matter what!!! Even though FL has never done anything to even remotely indicate she sees him in a romantic light. She's trying to survive and he's the best bet for that.

Hell, there's like 100 chapters where they aren't even in the same location let alone FL "trying" to make him fall for her. Dude is egotistical to the extreme.

FEMALE LEAD - As much as I adore the FL I acknowledge that she has a VERY hardened streak of Not Like Other Girls. She hates makeup, dressing up and being girly/feminine. 🙄😒

Is an expert pugilist. Her fists do maximum damage. Anything drawn out will just be disadvantageous to her so she tries to knock full grown men out in 4 or less moves.

Which is actually how real street fights should go so her training is correct.

... Last updated on July 20th, 2024, 6:06pm

Boring.

... Last updated on March 23rd, 2024, 8:34am

It really exceeded my expectations in the quality of the translation and the storyline itself. Especially since in my experience Chinese manhua don't do well in English.

... Last updated on June 28th, 2022, 10:02pm

I honestly expected this to be the typical all women are oppressed by the social structures created by men and men are the devils reincarnate. I expected the FL to be OP and treated as unique and wonderful b.c of her modern feminism movement powers and all men would realize that a democracy under feminism is the only world government capable of bringing harmony to the world.

This book is kind of that, but it manages to dodge the overbearing preachy message of other books by making it "slaves" are oppressed and not just "women." The female lead doesn't start out OP, and at the beginning she has to heavily rely on plot armor to get the story rolling.

I appreciate that the author makes her train and practice instead of just handing over everything b.c plot, but she does fall into the "quick learner" territory and the author likes to pretend that the biological makeup of a 16 year old girl's untrained body can do damage to a full grown muscular and well trained man, I always feel it is a missed opportunity for females to show off their wits when the odds are not in their favor due to genetic makeup differences.

Fortunately the author doesn't drag the plot, the stuff happening is for a reason, people die for a reason, people get saved for a reason. The ML doesn't just do a 360 on his personality when he noticed her being different and I hope it stays that way honestly. I am 74 chapters in and there has been 0 romance and I am completely fine with it since characters are being flushed out and the groundwork for the plot is being laid.

Overall this makes for a decent read, I skimmed the first couple of chapters b.c they were exactly how I expected this story to be. I was planning to drop it if the plot continued down that path but it deviated enough and I'm glad to still be reading it.

This is another typical "I'm the strongest person in the world and can do no wrong so I'll go conquer the world" sort of story. Besides the plot holes that arise from it making no sense that the female lead's smarter and stronger than everyone else, all the other characters being amazed at the FL, and the FL's "I'm so cool" comments, this one's maybe alright for a light read. It was too cheesy for me so I dropped around chapter 25.

In the comment title I wrote that it's a revenge plot and while revenge isn't the main focus, her beating up everyone that does her or anybody wrong does have a similar vibe.

The art's just okay, not great but it's not jarring either. As a warning, it does get kind of gory at times.

... Last updated on February 20th, 2022, 10:57am