It was okay. ML was a bit disappointing in his ability to manage the situation. The court scenes were farcical.

I couldn't really get into it because all the plot was largely on the ML's side and the MC is oblivious, even until the end.

3.5🌟 it's okay. MC is kind and a biiit silly. Ml's past is tragic

Spoiler

his mom helped a family of refugees and his father helped them to start their own business. The head of the family got greedy and colluded with the county magistrate to massacre ml's entire family (ML was the only survivor). ML later worked as the prime minister and retired to his old home. ML took his revenge slooowwwly to torture them and the ones swallowing his family's assets psychologically instead of using his position as PM to clean them up.

their twin children are typical geniuses; understood MC completely when they were a bit more than 3 month-old.

Read for 'pretending to be poor and week' mysterious ML

Read for hardworking and optimistic Mc

Doing business, This time not living in the village setting but in the city so less gossipy villagers or annoying villagers here

Simple, slice of life, MC is not OP except for his great cooking skill

Will rewrite the review after finished all the chapters

I really like this genre (transmigration to ancient Chine, the fictional matter of three gender, making money, poor to rich and even the ever boring cooking or business or something etc.). So I more or less read almost every novel that features this genre. However, I can honestly say that among all of them, this one was probably the most boring and completely felt like a waste of time.

MC & ML both of their characterization left a disgusting taste in my mouth. The whole plot and overall writing bored me to tears.

Thus, my review is this: I regret reading this.

At first it started out really nice. MC seemed independent, though a bit foolish w/ low EQ for romance, it wasn't so bad. He kept trying his best to provide for ML & trying to save $ to buy back his s*ave contract from ML. ML also seemed kind & considerate of MC & lets MC work hard to buy back his s*ave deed & let him do whatever he wants while trying to protect him behind the scenes. However, I had to drop this at ch33. I can't stand how ML revealed how he forgot MC's s*ave deed & convinced MC to never try to bring up buying back the contract again. What I hate even more is that MC was actually convinced to be ML's s*ave for life. Ugh MC's just plain s*upid at this point. How can someone from the modern world not have enough self respect to fight for his own freedom & dignity? How can you willingly be ens*aved by law so you'll have to serve another's whims all your life & let him mu*der/sell u as he pleases whenever he wants?! Especially when that person never cared/or even thought of how you felt while being forced to be ens*aved and always be at a disadvantage/in a lower status of an unequal relationship, freely being oppressed by the one holding your s*ave contract at their whim in a world under dictatorship and where harems are the norm & human rights/protection only exists for the privileged.

NEW REVIEW (01/29/2023) : I didn't even make it past the 25th chapter this time. Not sure why, maybe I remember the details of the novel too well, and so I got bored more easily. It could also be because there doesn't seem to be any tension in the story. It's just a serious of accidents piling up together with nothing to tie them together. IDK, I'll come back to reread another day.

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OLD REVIEW:

MC transmigrates into a unwanted bastard-child of the Chen family with the same name as himself, Chen Xing. Almost immediately after transmigration, he ends up being handed over to the town's "star of misery" (the ML, Gu Lang) as a wife. It should be said that this is a fantasy Ancient China setting, where there are 'Gers' capable of giving birth to children, though that's not really the focus of the novel.

I was expecting this to be a farming-type novel -- you know, with the usual family drama and stuff. And while there is a little of the later involved, the main focus of the story is actually on cooking and business management. The MC was sold to the ML and he decides to pay the debt back by establishing a restaurant slowly. His background as a chef allows him to do this easily, and he's hard working enough that he manages to do make money in no time.

I would recommend this novel to those that are looking for something simple and semi-sweet. There's a bit of background drama cause the main CP keep a lot of secrets from each other. But the slice of life aspects are mainly on business, so! Yeah! If you like that poor-to-rich kinda of vibe, this is worth the read! The TL at Knoxt is still ongoing but the quality is good! I read some of the MTL, which is not the best, but it's not the worst either!

It's not too bad, it's pretty boring after a while though (ch50~ish) the routine gets repeated alot, plus the way the MC interacts with ML becomes boring after a while.

While there's progress in their romance, the way he would daze off and doesn't talk, gets flustered and then runs away just becomes kind of the pit of the novel. I don't mind a plain MC, I quite like his personality and his way of thinking actually - even if he's naive and a fool, I can see why the ML likes him.

What I don't like is lazy writing, it's fine to have plain characters (it's not a crime to me) but it's not fine to write boring scenes.

Boring scenes are on the writer's part. I don't even mind if the pace is as slow as a turtle, I think there was a lot of potential and I can see fondness and deep feelings in certain places (i.e. When ML finally got revenge on the Zhao family) -- but the execution might not be up to par, so it came off abit short. And some parts (between MC and ML) wasn't as touching, became a pit for the novel as well.

Other than that, it's still an alright novel to read to pass time. Very typical transmigrated to ancient times, got married to a 'weak' gong, restaurant building / face slapping for people in power who wants to hurt their business. Very routine, but it's fine.

NEW REVIEW (01/29/2023) : I didn't even make it past the 25th chapter this time. Not sure why, maybe I remember the details of the novel too well, and so I got bored more easily. It could also be because there doesn't seem to be any tension in the story. It's just a serious of accidents piling up together with nothing to tie them together. IDK, I'll come back to reread another day.

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OLD REVIEW:

MC transmigrates into a unwanted bastard-child of the Chen family with the same name as himself, Chen Xing. Almost immediately after transmigration, he ends up being handed over to the town's "star of misery" (the ML, Gu Lang) as a wife. It should be said that this is a fantasy Ancient China setting, where there are 'Gers' capable of giving birth to children, though that's not really the focus of the novel.

I was expecting this to be a farming-type novel -- you know, with the usual family drama and stuff. And while there is a little of the later involved, the main focus of the story is actually on cooking and business management. The MC was sold to the ML and he decides to pay the debt back by establishing a restaurant slowly. His background as a chef allows him to do this easily, and he's hard working enough that he manages to do make money in no time.

I would recommend this novel to those that are looking for something simple and semi-sweet. There's a bit of background drama cause the main CP keep a lot of secrets from each other. But the slice of life aspects are mainly on business, so! Yeah! If you like that poor-to-rich kinda of vibe, this is worth the read! The TL at Knoxt is still ongoing but the quality is good! I read some of the MTL, which is not the best, but it's not the worst either!

Someone (Dovah) mentioned that the ML forgot about the s*ave contract and tell MC to forget about it. What the ML meant is that he never thought about MC being a s*ave. In the end, he did return the s*ave deed to MC for free. So you can stop your bashing.

Aaaah, no wonder I felt I've read this.

This has potential but it doesnt support with detail and follow up friction to full blown problem and villains.