Is this still being written?
This is such an interesting book to read.
I'm loving the story..
Are you going to update soon
anyone looking for an interesting story,please read this book
very good story
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Can we just take a moment for Mother Fu? Because this woman is the emotional backbone of this entire story and nobody is giving her enough credit. She stays up ALL NIGHT making steamed buns. Not just any buns — the kind her daughter-in-law will appreciate. She pickles vegetables with care, knowing Yang Tiehua's tastes. And what does she get in return? Dismissive glances, thrown-out food, a bowl of boiling porridge smashed at her hands. The scars are still there. STILL THERE. And Fu Ziheng knows this. He sits there eating the meat bun Yang Tiehua gave him, thinking about his mother's untouched buns in the corner, and the shame is so visceral I could feel it through the page. 'Marrying him truly had wronged her.' That line just — it wrecked me. This man loves his mother enough to hate himself for existing, and that love is the only pure thing in his life. Yang Tiehua knows it. That's why she uses it against him. But then there's the hospital scene, and suddenly Yang Tiehua's emotional arc shifts in a way I didn't expect. She's not just the cold calculator here. When she hears about Zheng Chao — when she recognizes his name and remembers his story — something clicks. This is a person who was wronged by the system, and she refuses to let it happen. 'Such a good person could not be made into a scapegoat. Absolutely not!' That's not strategy. That's not calculation. That's raw, unfiltered moral outrage. And it's beautiful because it comes from the same place that makes her invest in Liu Qing's restaurant — she sees injustice and she can't walk away. The emotional contrast between the two women in this story is killing me. Mother Fu, who gives everything and gets scars in return. Liu Qing, the boss lady, crying because her business is failing, betrayed by her own cousin. Both women doing their best in a world that seems determined to exploit them. And Yang Tiehua — who has every reason to be cold and self-interested — choosing to stand in the gap for both of them. I'm not crying, you're crying.
The stakes in this story are set up so efficiently it's almost scary. We get the entire tragic backstory in Chapter 1—Zhao Xiaomei's suicide, the male educated youth's execution, the third brother's death by wild boars, the whole family's destruction—and by the end of Chapter 2, Hehua has already prevented the inciting incident. But here's the thing: preventing the first domino doesn't mean the story is over. It means the REAL conflict is just starting. The female educated youth is still alive. The male educated youth is still unconscious in the river. The village gossip machine is still ticking. And now Hehua has physically assaulted a fellow educated youth in front of her brother, which creates a whole new set of problems. How does she explain the elbow strikes? The slaps? The fact that she clearly KNEW this woman was faking? In an era where "reputation was almost as important as life itself," this is a minefield. What makes the conflict so gripping is that Hehua is fighting on two fronts: the external plot (stopping the trap) and the internal battle against the story's predetermined fate. The System warned her that her awakened consciousness was excluded from the story, that she could only watch tragedies repeat. Now she's actively REWRITING the narrative, and every action she takes is a rebellion against the plot itself. The wild boar death of her brother—was that fate or was it something else? The text raises this question and never fully answers it, which means every subsequent tragedy might have been manipulated by forces beyond the obvious villains. And the suspense? Insane. We know what's supposed to happen. We're watching Hehua try to prevent it in real time. Every scene is charged with the question: will she succeed this time, or does the story fight back?
The one thing I look for in transmigration/reincarnation novels is how the main character (MC) remembers their past life. Sometimes it feels awkward, especially when they act like a completely different person without anyone noticing. Other times, it’s handled well, such as when the MC starts remembering their past life while they are still a baby.
In this novel, our MC begins to recall her past memories at a young age, which makes it feel less awkward and contributes to a smoother overall pacing.
Typically, in these stories, the original parents (OG parents) get a clear happy ending after the villain is defeated, often leading to the children living happily ever after. However, this story takes a unique turn. Even in her original world, the MC recognizes that her father in the new world was a scumbag. The villainess supposedly tried to kill the father's wife, but it still seems strange that the MC would completely abandon the fiancé of the person who helped raise her, especially after her father was labeled a traitor. This results in them living in the countryside, which just feels very suspicious to me.
I’ve only seen the beginning so far, but I can’t wait to see how it unfolds. Let’s go, translator!
If you want a constantly suffering protagonist, then ToCF might be for you, tho since it's one of the top ranking novels, you probably have read it already. If you haven't read it yet however, I suggest you read it, some find it boring in the early chapters but, around chapter 100+ the action people seek should slowly start, and from then onwards, most of the chapters would be about scheming and fighting.
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Someone else was translating it, then another team took it over and they couldn't translate anymore, and they started from the very start, the new one is on like chapter 110.