The Princess Consort Changed Her Widow’s Fate with Fortune-Telling

It's good, but the male lead's character is really unlikable. His treatment of the female lead in the beginning, followed by his later insistence on being with her, is hard to accept. Even if he's angry and treats the female lead badly, I can understand, but the female lead is the only one who can heal his mother.

The male lead is practically inanimate by the end. As cannon fodder for Ling Luo, the biggest boss so far, both the male and female leads are incredibly weak. They seem like protagonists, but end up suffering the most. Although the author's concept is ingenious and the scope grand, the main plot is too drawn out and tedious, and the author lacks decisiveness.

The protagonist is a total show-off, always pretentious; all the supporting characters are idiots, their intelligence can't even compare to a minor extra. This book might have been worth reading 30 years ago, in the era of Qiong Yao, but now, even period dramas wouldn't dare to write something like this…

They caught up in two days. With so few people reading it, I think it's definitely because they were deterred by the title, the synopsis, and the first 60 chapters! Reading the first sixty chapters really gives you the feeling of reading an old-fashioned romance novel with the plot twist of "first torture, then love, she runs, he chases, she can't escape."

I'm going to try to explain this matter, but it's not really a forced binding. The male protagonist is on the 1st floor, the female protagonist is on the 2nd floor, and the master is on the 5th floor, but the female protagonist thinks she is on the 3rd floor. So what was actually released was the setting for the first and second layers.

Having read over two hundred chapters, I felt that while there were some ups and downs in the beginning, it turned into a purely narrative story later on. I got into this genre starting with Elbow's books, then Xiaolong's, and occasionally some sweet romance novels with domineering CEOs. Each of those books had a climax every few chapters, a satisfying and exhilarating part.

To put it simply, the female lead was a pawn from beginning to end, never holding the initiative in anything she did. From the King of Beiming Kingdom to Ling Luo, Ling Xiao, the secluded island, the Qiankun Palace, the lotus flower, Ling Hua, the old monk, and finally her choice, she was constantly caught in a cycle of confrontation, compromise, submission, and alliance. It was quite frustrating.

The male lead's pathetic behavior in the early stages was off-putting, and even later on, he remained the same, seemingly lacking in intelligence. The female lead, wrongly accused, believed everyone—it's truly baffling how she's so quick-witted. And yet, she's supposed to be a skilled military commander, which is contradictory.

Tens of thousands of people are petitioning the author to change the title and synopsis. It's truly a hardship for a good book. This will deter so many readers! (Facepalm)

I've been having a reading slump lately, and this book seems pretty good; the subject matter is fresh and interesting.