Gave up at chapter 200++. The FL has no improvement and no self reliance. She was a chemist and is considered to be above all those but she did not play her cards well. Her son was lost but she was not even bothered nor looked for him. She simply idle and wasted all her time in her courtyard sleeping and watching all the drama of housewives and concubine instead of building her own support and pillar. Even after her entire clan was executed, she still did not learn her lesson and depended on her useless husband who indulges in debauchery. She is not a good mother nor a good person. She put all her eggs in the basket of her husband without thinking of a way out for herself. She never even thought of divorce considering she is a modern woman. How pathetic that she was reduced into a leech. Her husbands treachery caused directly caused the extermination of her maternal clan and her separation with her son. I do not understand how she can still cling and share bed with him. Her overestimation of herself and inability to act swiftly indirectly killed her father. Her hands are stained with the lives of 100 plus people. This is such an infuriating novel with no good ending. Well of course the 2 villains will still end up together for sure.
