I beg to disagree at some point on your evaluation. I hate the maid coz she id willful

I 150 percent agree. Unfortunately, I'm sure she has the cannon fodder fate awaiting her for daring to have what the protagonist should have had. But I'm going to play devil's advocate here. Imagine if it was the original MC that had not died in the river. It would have been her going insane from It all. It's one thing to know your life was tragic, what can you do? You can only blame fate. But then what if you found out that all the pain and suffering you went through was meant for someone else? While you starved she lived in luxury. While you were hated she was adored. While you were cursed at she was praised? And everyone would expect you to pretend all your suffering didn't happen, to pity her, to give way to this imposter who stole your life because "it wasn't her fault either." And remember this is a 15 year old with an admitted mental handicap and an inferiority complex borne from abuse and her "disfigurement". We do not know how well she can process all this; (a). she does not have the privilege of being taught magnanimity because her parents died when she was 5 and was scorned ever since. (b) She was never taught to hide her emotions because she wasn't raised in a big clan and doesn't know how to please others. How can she not feel like a cheap knock-off with her frost bitten hands, skeletal figure, sunburnt skin and course her? How can she not feel lesser when she can barely do a basic greeting, cannot read or play an instrument? With people comparing the two and finding her lacking how can she not lash out? Not knowing the more she lashes the more the people around her sympathize with the other person and despise her because none of them can possibly understand her suffering. How can she not hate?! Tell me honestly if this does not sound like a plot of a revenge reverse time novel? Read more

that's really unfortunate but between the real gu jiao and her who's really the one who lost out? at least the fake get to live her life until she can think with good environment and everything but gu jiao received none whether it's familial love or material things, there is no one to care for her even when she "died", her life who should have been as bright was snatched, it was not gu jiao who stole anything. to be honest i didn't want the mc to get involved in this family at first but it seems unavoidable, but i still felt a little injustice for the real gu jiao (even if she is a bit of bitch), especially that scene of the marchioness and the fake young miss, she was so loved and cared for than her original fate

you narrating the gu jinyu's side makes her really seem like the most pitiful but you kind of set aside gu jiao's side here, sad as it is, gu jiao's the real flesh and blood , what more is that she didn't even get the chance to know, she disappeared not knowing what is her place in the world, even her body got occupied but on the brighter side, she couldn't have live long with her helpless personality as a peasant (I don't really side with the og gu jiao because honestly she's not good base on the narration but lets give her the benefits of the doubt, her younger cousin wouldn't have been attached to her like that if she doesn't have even a little bit of kindness in her)

A) Life is inherently unfair this novel portrays that vividly. B) Jinyu let her maid verbally abuse someone and she didn't step in to prevent the maid from trying to hit her. C) Despite her words, Jinyu did not stop the maid tying the jade on her. She clearly had the intention to take it back. Read more D) Jinyu disdained the fact that Jiao approached her and touched her clothes. E) Yes Jinyu apologised and it *seemed* sincere but to me it felt fake. F) Although she reported truthfully the facts, she clearly didn't report truthfully on her attitude. She hid her disdain for Jiao from her mother, probably knowing her mother would disapprove. Look at how comforted she was by her mother's joke about the two of them. G) If Jiao hadn't taken over the originals body Jinyu's brother wouldn't have survived, so even if Jiao gets recognised it seems fair. H) Does a woman who prays so ardently for her son and teaches her daughter so well really seem like the kind of woman to chuck the daughter she raised back to a farming family? The most likely reaction is to just adopt her as her own, especially since she's orphaned. Show less

But she had to have at least 5 taels deducted for treatment fees just for hubby's first consultation and herbs for moxibustion. (I know she's the one treating him but she's getting them to act with her and she did use some of their resources in the diagnosis and presumably the room couldn't be used for a paying patient either). We don't know if she owes additional fees from the time she did surgery on him. Also Qin was 'extorted' by her previously so he probably used that as a scale to calculate the reward! Oh and he seems to be somewhat attracted to her now!